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Supreme Court Judge, Justice Kudirat KekereEkun; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Rahmon Ade-Bello, during the 1st National Judicial Roundtable on the intersection between law and religion, at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja… on Monday.

Nigeria’s impending food shortage

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ecently, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a shocking prediction of impending food shortage in Nigeria if urgent interventions are not put in place to enhance food production.

Giving this warning in Abuja, Lead Consultant, UNDP project on “Targeting Interventions to Foster Sustainable and Resilient Food Security in Nigeria,” Prof. Emmanuel Oladipo, said that many parts of the country would suffer from severe food insecurity, as not much attention is being paid to agriculture by the three tiers of government. He lamented that the current tomato crisis in the country could have been avoided if adequate proactive measures had been taken, even as he called for an integrated approach in proffering solutions rather than waiting for a crisis to develop before struggling to address it. Incidentally, what Prof. Oladipo said is not new to Nigerians, even though there is a sense of urgency to it.

For long, there has been growing alarm at the decreasing food production in Nigeria brought about by variety of reasons that includes lack of official support for large scale mechanised agriculture, decreasing rural farming population due to old age and migration, desertification, and droughts.

It is increasingly evident that Nigeria has become one of the largest importers of food in the world. The volumes of imported food items will give anyone cause to worry about the future of agriculture in the country.

It is a fact that all kinds of food from all over the world find their way into Nigeria. These range from wheat, sugar, fish, milk, vegetables, fruits, rice and other food items that could be produced locally.

Ironically, it is on record that successive administrations promised to

reduce the importation of rice into the country. However, rather than reduce, Nigeria has become the dumping ground of all types of rice from different parts of the world. It is sad that despite all that have been said about efforts towards improving agriculture, the country still cannot feed its citizens.

This is a clear departure from what obtained before and immediately after independence in the 1960s. At that time, agriculture was the main source of employment, income and foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria. Many Nigerians will admit that until the discovery of oil in 1958, agriculture was the mainstay of the country’s economy with the regions boasting of different cash crops like groundnut, cocoa, rubber, palm oil and many more.

Commentators and other stakeholders have argued that with more than 79 million hectares of arable land, diversified ecological conditions, abundant water resources and adequate rainfall, it beats the imagination as to why Nigerians should go hungry or be jobless. They posit that the increasing social vices, rising crimes and security challenges are traceable to poor attention to agriculture.

It is therefore imperative that government at all levels should put in place pragmatic plans to make agriculture more appealing, particularly to the youth in order to boost food production. Moreover, farmers should be supported with government guaranteed loans to expand production.

Provision of power, accessible roads and good transport system are also paramount. Many farm products perish in the farms due to lack of access roads and transport system to bring them to the consumers in urban centres. Until these problems are solved, the hope of Nigeria feeding her citizens will remain a mirage.

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Plateau NSCDC to synergise with private guard coys to boost security Chijioke Kingsley Jos

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Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has said as part of its efforts to boost security in Plateau State, it has taken urgent steps to partner with private security guards.

It said the synergy with take the form of a Joint Task Force with the Association of Private Guard practitioners to rid the state from crime and also to stamp out unregistered private guard.

According to a statement signed by NSCDC Naomi Cishak, the Public Relations Office (PRO) of the state command, and made available to newsmen on Monday reads in part, “the commandant of the corps, Mr. Solomon Olasupo in Plateau

State while playing host to the Association of Private Security Operatives who paid him a courtesy call in Jos, said that, the commander General, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammdau has already given a marching order that the nation must be rid of unregistered private Guard Companies without delay.

“It is now our responsibility to work with stakeholders to sanitise the industry.”

The statement also said Olasupo assured the private guard companies association of full cooperation of the corps.

Speaking earlier the President of the Association, Mr Edinen Usoh, lamented the influx of fake and unregistered outfits in the industry, saying they were frustrating the efforts of the genuine one.

He urged the corps to assist in fishing out the culprits.

Justice Niki Tobi is dead Ï CM ƅ ƋƆ Ƈ ƌƈƋƕ Andrew Orolua Abuja

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the erudite retired justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Justice Niki Tobi has died.

Justice Niki Tobi died last week’s Thursday, 16 June, 2016 at about 5.30 pm at the National Hospital Abuja, after a brief illness, members of the deceased’s family said.

The late jurist joined the Supreme Court bench in 2002 and retired on July 14, 2010 on attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.

Justice Niki Tobi was born on July 14, 1940. He hailed from Esanma, Bomadi local Government Area of Delta State.

He was before his appointment as a justice, the Dean of Faculty of Law and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Acedemic Services), University of Maiduguri.

In a reaction to the death on Monday, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed said “it is with a deep sense of shock but gratitude to the Almighty God that he learnt of the death of Justice Niki Tobi on Monday, 20 June, 2016.

“According to the information received from members of the deceased’s family, Justice Niki Tobi died by 5.30 pm on Thursday, 16 June, 2016 at the National Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness,” he stated in a statement signed by

his aide, Ahuraka Isah.

The CJN, on behalf of himself, the Justices, staff of the Supreme Court and indeed the entire Judiciary of the country commiserates with the immediate family, relations as well as friends and associates of the respected late jurist, who joined the Supreme Court Bench in 2002 and retired on 14 July, 2010.

The deceased Justice indelibly contributed to the development of jurisprudence in Nigeria and will be greatly remembered for his assiduousness in reviewing the draft 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the Military administration of General Abdulsalam Abubakar.

CJN urges members of the deceased’s family to be comforted by the knowledge that the departed jurist served his country with commitment, dedication and honesty.

Justice Mohammed prays that Almighty God will receive his soul and grant them eternal rest.

Dogara, Fashola disagree over legality of constituency projects Henry Omunu & Emmanuel Iriogbe, Abuja

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resentatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Monday, disagreed over the legality of National Assembly members insisting on constituency projects been included in the federal budget.

While the Speaker argued in favour of constituency projects forming part of the national budget as it promotes fairness and equitable distribution of federal projects across the country, the minister challenged lawmakers at all levels to design a legislative framework that would guarantee that their insistence on constituency projects does not overlap with state and local government

He added that the concept of federal character has already been enshrined in the constitution and “it was felt that lopsided distribution of government amenities would offend the federal character principle and lead to concentration of resources in the hands of a few states or groups in Nigeria.

“Undoubtedly, one of the major avenues for upholding these constitutional precepts which every legislator swore to uphold and defend is the annual Appropriation Bill. It is thus, a significant constitutional duty and responsibility of a legislator to ensure that projects are evenly distributed to all federal constituencies in Nigeria.”

The Speaker debunked insinuations that the processing of constituency projects especially at the federal level do not involve cash payments or any other form of payment to a legislator.

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responsibilities.

To guard against this and combat corruption, wastages and embezzlement in the execution of such projects, he canvassed that the legislative framework must ensure the sustainability of approved constituency projects even after the lawmakers that proposed them have left office.

Both men spoke at a one-day national summit on Political Representation and Constituency and Zonal Intervention Services, organised by the House of Representatives and the Conference of Speakers and facilitated by the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), held in Abuja.

According to Dogara, the idea of constituency intervention projects arose as a result of the demand by Nigerians for equitable and even distribution of infrastructural development projects.

Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral Fergusson Bobai, on Monday, said the wellbeing of naval personnel was germane to national security.

Bobai made the assertion in Lagos while inaugurating a Sick Bay at the naval base in Apapa.

According to the FOC, the welfare of the personnel is germane to effective performance of officers in securing the country’s territorial waters.

According to Bobai, ``If you don’t have a healthy manpower, their efficiency may be hampered.

As for me, I am very delighted to be party to what I am seeing today,’’ he said.

Adm. Bobai said the Nigerian Navy was leaving no stone unturned in guaranteeing maximum health services for its personnel.

He advised the personnel to use the opportunity to always come for checkups as often as possible; adding that checking their health was vital to carrying out their du-

ties.

He also said that the command would ensure proper maintenance of the sick bay, noting that the infirmary was open to civilians and navy personnel.

The sick bay has a consulting room, theatre, wards, radiology, laboratory office, pharmacy and waiting rooms for patients.

The inauguration was attended by the Commanding Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Abraham Adaji and other senior officers at the command.

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Civil servants SOT illegal – FG Continued from page 1 (SOT) allowance for which workers in the Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, took to the streets in protest, on Monday, illegal.

Activities at the Finance ministry were paralysed on Monday as the workers protested over unpaid SOT allowances amounting to N2.1 billion. They had called for the removal of the minister through the various placards they displayed at the gate of the ministry.

The minister, in a swift reaction, through the Director of Press in the ministry, Salisu Na’inna Dambatta, said in a statement made available to the Daily Times, that the payment of the SOT was stopped by the last administration in 2014 on

the grounds that it was not listed in any extant government Circular, Financial Regulations or the Public Service Rules.

According to the ministry, the sum of N1.2 billion computed by the staff union for payment could not have been budgeted for in 2016 in the first place, not only because of the paucity of funds, but also the fact that the SOT allowance was not part of the remuneration in the Federal Public Service.

The statement says: “The Federal Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, do not individually or collectively, owe any of their personnel their salaries.

“In view of the foregone, the Management of the Federal Ministry of Finance wishes to categorically

state that the protests have no justifiable grounds,” the statement read.

Also, Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mahmud Isa-Dutse, reacting to the claim by the protesting staff, said the N1.2 billion was an illegal payment that the workers have been receiving at the beginning of the year before now.

He said the only salary yet to be paid was that of June, which is not yet due for payment adding “the demand for the N1.2 billion is illegal as it was not captured in the 2016 Budget.”

Earlier, workers of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, had declared war on Finance Minister, over unpaid allowances amounting to N1.2 billion.

The workers, during the protest

within the Federal Ministry of Finance offices complex, also called for the removal of Adeosun as the Minister of Finance.

They accused the Minister of collecting N30 million as her own house allowance, while refusing to pay their own Special Overtime (SOT) allowance which has amounted to N1.2 billion.

A senior official in the Ministry who pleaded anonymity explained to Daily Times that they had been collecting the SOT since the regime of General Sani Abacha, and just like the staffers of Nigerian Customs Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) which are revenue bodies of the Federal Government.

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Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi (right), and Director-General, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, at the submission of the report of the ministerial committee on modality for the establishment of the National Fleet Shipping Line in Abuja… on Monday.

Senate begins probe of N120b Aviation Intervention Fund Continued from page 1 edly released by the Federal Government in 2011 for the rehabilitation of airlines and development of infrastructure in the aviation industry was misappropriated.

At a joint public hearing of the Senate Committees on Aviation and Anti-Corruption, the Central Bank of Nigeria revealed that a total of N 300 billion was originally meant to be released as loan to about 10 airlines operating in the country . The Apex Bank however stated that of the N300b only N120 b was eventually disbursed.

The Senate hearing unraveled the roots of the crises bedeviling the Nigeria’s aviation sector

as stakeholders recounted how airline owners mismanaged or rather diverted the intervention.

Some of the Airline owners were said to have diverted the funds released to them into private pockets and never used it any bit of it to revive their ailing airline, a factor said to be responsible for the near collapse of the aviation sector in Nigeria today.

The Senate frowned at the way the N120 billion allocated to the Aviation sector as bailout, from the entire N500 billion intervention fund, was mismanaged or diverted.

However, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi , told the committee that his ministry

and the agencies under it , based on available records, were not aware of the fund.

The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, represented by a Director, Mudashiru Olaitan, was then asked to shed light on the release of the fund and the beneficiaries, more so as the problems in the aviation sector was yet to abate.

The CBN affirmed that the sum of N120 billion intervention fund was injected into the Aviation sector, recalling that only N39.5 billion had so far been recovered while the remaining N81.2 billion is still outstanding.

He affirmed also that some of the ten Airlines that benefited from the fund, are now moribund

or had folded up outright.

He said the fund released by the Federal Governmet was meant to prevent the ailing airlines from folding up in the first instance.

According to him, the moribund airlines include, Air Nigeria and Chanchangi Airlines while Arik Air, Dana, Aero, Kabo, Overland, First Nation, Odenegene are still in operation on with proper use of the fund.

The CBN representatives, however failed to offer tangible reason on why the two airlines folded up, as he referred to the monitoring authority; the Bank of Industry ( BOI ) being the facilitator of the loans to them to offer cogent explanations.

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FG now to arraign Saraki, Ekweremadu for forgery today Continued from page 1 before the high court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi district of Abuja for alleged forgery of the ‘Senate Standing Orders’ said to have been used for their election last year.

The two principal officers of the Senate are to be arraigned along with the former Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa and his deputy, Mr. Benedict Efeturi on two-count charge of alleged criminal conspiracy and forgery of the Senate Standing Rules, 2015.

However, the Senate had at the weekend described the plan by the executive to arraign Saraki and Ekweremadu as a ‘Coup’ against the legislature, aimed towards undermining its independence while subjecting the law making institution to the whims and caprices of the executive.

Reacting to the plan to arraign Saraki and Ekweremadu, the Senate had in a statement signed by its Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi warned that the Presidency should not take the maturity and hands of cooperation by the Upper Chamber to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari as a sign of weakness, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Attorney General of the Federation to order.

The suspects are appearing before Justice Yusuf Haliru who has been assigned the case file marked suit No. CR/219/16. It was filed by the Federal Government through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.

In the affidavit attached to the case file, which was filed on June 10, 2016, the investigative police officer swore that the investigations in the case have been concluded.

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I’m Governor of Abia, not Ukwa/ Ngwa, Ikpeazu tells Abia South Lateef Ibrahim Abuja

ÎÎÎAbia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has advised the people of Ukwa/Ngwa to be fair minded in their demands on him as the governor and consider people from other parts of the state.

Governor Ikpeazu, according to a statement on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Enyinnaya Appolos, stated this during the concluding phase of his ongoing Abia State town hall meeting in Abia South.

Governor Ikpeazu, who hails from Ukwa/Ngwa axis of the state that has not produced the governor of the state until 2015 when he emerged as the 4th

democratically elected governor of the state, also assured the people that everything due to them will be given to them.

Speaking at the Obehie venue of the meeting, Governor Ikpeazu said: “I’m here to fulfill the promise I made to you during the campaigns. I promised that I will always return to you as the owners of the mandate I’m holding in trust, to report to you on what we’ve done, what we are doing and what we want to do.

“I’m not your ruler, but your servant, therefore, I’m here to tell you what we’ve done in the first one year of our government and what we plan to do in the next one year, or our second year of our four years tenure. I

will also give you the opportunity to ask me questions, and I will answer all your questions here, that’s why we are here in this town hall meeting.

“I will not lie to you because I don’t have any reason to do so. You elected me as your governor to tell you the truth always, and not to lie to you.

“All I am asking from you is your continuous prayers. Be rest assured that Abia is in God’s safe hands”, the governor said.

Speaking on the plans of his administration to develop the state, the governor said: “My dear brothers and sisters from Ukwa/Ngwa, it is true that I am one of you, it is also true that we’ve not been governor until now, but I am the governor of Abia State,

and not just the governor of Ukwa/ Ngwa people.

“So, when I want to take decisions about our state, I will think of Abia as a state and not Abia South or Ukwa/ Ngwa. This is one truth that I must tell you. “I know where I come from, and our brothers and sisters from Old Bende know that I come from somewhere. We must be fair to every Abian and visitors in our land.

“Another truth I must tell our young people is; we are serious about our plans to develop our land. Very soon multinational companies will be coming to you asking you to sell your lands to them, please do not sell your lands, but go into partnership with investors coming into your area.

7 News Four UNILAG students arraigned in court for cultism Rachel Akomolafe

ÎÎÎFour men, identified as students

of the University of Lagos have been arraigned before a Lagos State Magistrate court, presided over by Magistrate Aje Afunwa, for their involvement in unlawful fraternity society.

The defendants, identified as Afaku Daniel (22), Ebube Okereke (20), Chinonso Duru (23) and Ugochukwu Ebere (22), we’re said to have conspired to commit felony to wit: unlawful society known as Vikings fraternity, on 3rd October, 2015, thereby committing an offense punishable under section 409, of the criminal law of Lagos state, 2011.

Counsels to the defendants, Yinka Oyekunle and Uma Omai, both pleaded the Magistrate to grant the defendants bail, considering the fact that they are students.

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Ekiti varsity bans smoking, campus ‘marriage’ Gbenga Sodeinde Ado Ekiti

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of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, on Monday, announced that it has banned smoking within the campus vicinity among both students and staff.

The university also banned the practice whereby both students of opposite sex live together, cook together and perform other roles as if to suggest that they are married couples or those engaged in trial marriage.

The university Vice Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Bandele, who made the announcement at a media conference for the 21st convocation ceremony of the institution coming up on this Friday, stated that the ban on smoking in open campus glare was aimed at domes-

ticating the state government’s law against public smoking in any part of the state, as well as instil discipline and decent living among students and staff.

Bandele, however, clarified that the trend, which he said was common to most universities, was not only being discouraged at EKSU but that the university was also following up with actions that would soon put a final stop to the practice.

He said his administration was making frantic efforts to build 20,000 hostel capacity that would keep female students away from their male counterparts, pointing out that the institution was on the path of being ranked among the few best in the country, with the declaration of state of emergency in critical areas such as examination and records department and

EKSU ventures, among others.

Bandele, who said the institution was also making efforts to widen the scope of internally generated revenue tempo as well as encourage people’s enrollment in its part-time programmes, declared that “There is no institution that can survive without part-time programmes and other extra academic activities, especially at a time like this”, he said.

The Vice Chancellor who thumbed-up the federal government’s decision to ban further conduct of post-UTME tests and its approval that universities were free to still conduct screening for their new intakes, added that, such screening would enable the universities to determine candidates with intention to gain admission with fake results.

ZISN implores LASG return missionary school

ÎÎÎA call has gone to the govern-

ment of Lagos State to return missionary schools back to their original owners.

The call was made by the guest speaker of the Zumratul Islamiyat Society Nigeria (ZISN), Fadilat Tajudeen Alashela, at the 2016 edition of its annual Ramadan lecture titled: ‘Rebalancing the Nigerian Dwindling Economy, the Youths and the Future’ held last weekend in Lagos.

Alashela, who is also the Kwara State Chief Imam and Missioner of ZISN, attributed the nation’s ailing economy, to the selfish and reckless tendencies of political leaders as regards management of the abundant economic potentials in the land, adding that they also play politics with the future of the youth.

Said he: “We need to change our taught and mindset because our Ideology has been jeopardized and corrupted before we can retrieve our lost glory, Nigerians need to change their mindset because every sector in the country is corrupt including the religious leaders.”

city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Monday, became the cynosure of all eyes as traders, artisans, Students’ Union body and other professional bodies converged at the ancient Mapo Hall, Ibadan, to stage a peaceful solidarity rally in support of Senator Abiola Ajimobiled administration in the state.

The solidarity train which comprised of over hundred groups, took off from Mapo Hall, through Beere, Oje, Gate and finally ended the peaceful rally at the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Ibadan.

While addressing the mammoth crowd, Governor Ajimobi lauded the commitment and maturity with which the rally was organised, pointing out that the leaders various groups displayed sincerity of purpose and high sense of maturity.

Ajimobi said that the rally reflected government’s honesty and sincerity on various issues that came up for discussion at the recently held stakeholders’ meeting.

He said, “I want to appreciate the commitment and maturity of each of the groups present here as displayed today during this rally. In fact, it was a reflection of honesty and sincerity of purpose, openness and transparency.

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Anxiety as Ajimobi to conduct LG poll 9 years after

Stories by Akinjide Akintola There is palpable fear and anxiety in Oyo State following the declaration of the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to conduct the local government election in the state in September nine years after the last one held in the state.

This followed last week’s peaceful protest in the state by the state branch of the National Union of Transport Workers (NURTW) and the warm reception accorded

them by the governor.

A lot of people are worried how a governor who had not had the courage to conduct the council polls in the last five years of his administration suddenly announced the date for the election few days after hosting the NURTW members led by their chairman, Alhaji Taofeek Oyerinde aka Fele.

According to Ajimobi, the newly-inaugurated Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission will conduct local government in September, this year, almost nine

Akeredolu calls for restructuring of Nigeria

Remi Oladoye

A legal luminary and former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu has called for structural reforms of the Nigeria in order to have a country that will be the pride of every Nigerian.

Akeredolu, former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, said this while delivering the 6th June 12 lecture of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Oyo State council.

Akeredolu regretted that the country at present was floating without direction which could be catastrophic.

“We all knew the result of the June 12, 1993 election that was annulled. Hell was let loose. One of the wives of the winner was murdered in cold blood. The winner, Basorun MKO Abiola was arrested, incarcerated and later died in detention. Most Nigerians were detained, many just disappeared and many were killed.

ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA

‘‘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

12 We all knew the result of the June 12, 1993 election that was annulled. Hell was let loose. One of the wives of the winner was murdered in cold blood. The winner, Basorun MKO Abiola was arrested, incarcerated and later died in detention.

Akeredolu

NNAMDI AZIKIWE

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

NELSON MANDELA

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

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

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

years after such election took place in the state.

The Governor gave the assurance while inaugurating the OYSIEC members at the Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Ibadan, on Friday, few days after NURTW members called on him after a protest round the state.

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“The first major victim of the problem he created was the then president Ibrahim Babangida.

He was forced to step aside”, he added.

According to him, the fact that Nigerians have not reneged on the revalidation of the election 23years after was a clear indication that Nigerians still felt the pains of the annulment.

Akeredolu regretted that the major direct beneficiaries of the struggle for the actualization of June 12 ironically did not recognize June 12 as a milestone till today. He lauded Oyo NUJ for being one of the bodies keeping the June 12 struggle alive.

He stated that June 12 had clearly erased the era of religious dichotomy in politics as Nigerians now voted regardless of differences in races, dialect and regions.

Earlier, the NUJ chairman, Comrade Gbenga Opadotun, had decried the annulment of the election which he said was the major cause of the social, political and economic problems bedeviling the nation today.

He also called for the official recognition of the symbol of the election, Chief MKO Abiola by renaming the official residence of the president in Abuja after him.

Opadotun said if the acclaimed winner of the election never lived there, his spirit will and family be compensated with the honour.

CHINUA ACHEBE

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

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Oil well for N’Deltans, Rep doubts Kachikwu

Henry Omunu & Emmanuel Iriogbe, Abuja

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plans of the state government to sell government schools to private investors.

During the demonstration which was joined by students in the state, many properties including Ajimobi buses and private office of the governor at Oke Ado were damaged.

As a result, schools in the state were shut down on the orders of the state government.

However, while inaugurating the commission, the governor said that the election would be conducted three months after the electoral umpire was put in place in line with the provision of the Constitution.

Ajimobi also pledged to support the commission to ensure that they conducted transparent, free, fair and credible election in order to build the confidence of the people in the sanctity of balloting.

The new OYSIEC Chairman Mr. Ajeigbe Olajide, a native of Itesiwaju, Oke-Ogun Area of the state, was a former Head of Department Operations and later Training at the Oyo State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Other members are Mr. Adedeji Raheem, Mr. Abdul-Hamid Akuru, Mrs. Omolola Odekunbi, Mr. Rasheed Oyekanmi; a lawyer, Mr. Sunday Aborisade, Mr. David Adeagbo and Alhaji Bello Alabi.

Ajimobi said, “Today is a very remarkable day. This occasion is significant because we are taking a giant step today towards providing good governance at the grass-

roots.

“We are ready with all sincerity to conduct the local government election and I assure members of OYSIEC that the task before them is surmountable.

“Our government has not been able to conduct LG election due to some legal entanglement that has stalled our desire to fulfill the aspirations and yearnings of the people to elect their choice of chairmen.

“Today’s event is therefore consequent upon the thorough screening of members of the commission by the State House of Assembly and I make bold to say that they were appointed based on their pedigree.”

Local government election was last conducted in the state on December 15, 2007, during the regime of a former Governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala.

The ex-governor had shortly on assumption of office sacked the LG chairmen produced during the election conducted by his predecessor, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, on the eve of his departure from office in 2007.

Both elections had been trailed by controversies following the landslide victory of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party, which won all the 33 chairmanship seats at the expense of 13 other political parties that participated in the elections.

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Member representing Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Rep. Emma Oghene Egoh has said that he doubts the federal government’s sincerity in its vow to allocate oil wells to people of the Niger Delta.

Speaking to journalists in his office in Abuja, the Delta State born lawmaker said he premised his fears on actions by past administrations that have treated the people of the region with so much ignominy.

“Kachikwu has stated that government wants to give oil wells to people from the South South, I don’t believe him. If it took such a long time, Obasanjo and Jonathan were there but they never gave these wells to the people from the region, so if somebody tells me now that he is going to give, I won’t believe him”.

Oghene Egoh however want government to be transparent when they finally decide to fulfill their promise.

“However, my take is to wait and see if they can keep their promise. Let there be transparency about it, how many people from Niger Delta were given before, now is the turn of the region to have their oil wells back.

“The question is; why were

Kachikwu

Kachikwu has stated that government wants to give oil wells to people from the South South, I don’t believe him.

the oil wells given out to Nigerians and people from the Niger Delta left out. The region is the goose that lays the golden egg, is it that they are not educated enough, not qualified or that they are not business men. These are the things that fuel agitations. It is clear that they were unfair to people of the Niger Delta Region.

However, if they now decide to do

restitution, it is alright. After all, we belong to the same country and I do not think there is anybody that wants Nigeria to break up, but to remain as brothers, that union should not be based on deceit, cheating. The case of allocating oil wells found in the Niger Delta to people outside the region is pure fraud and a very sad thing at that” Oghene said.

Ize-Iyamu wins Edo PDP primary, to face Obaseki in Sept polls Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged winner of the governorship primary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, conducted on Monday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the state capital.

With this development, IzeIyamu will now face Mr. Godwin Obaseki of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 10 governorship election in the state. Obaseki had picked the party’s ticket with a landslide victory at the APC’s primary held in Benin on Saturday.

According to figures announced by the election committee, Ize-Iyamu polled 584 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, who

polled 91 votes. The third candidate, Mr. Solomon Edebiri scored 38 votes.

Accreditation of 740 delegates of the party, had began at about 9.30 a.m. simultaneously at three centres, with Okada House on Urubi Street hosting delegates from Edo South.

Delegates from Edo North were accredited at JBS Estate, while accreditation for those from Edo Central was conducted at the party’s secretariat at First East Circular Road.

Three aspirants for the primaries, who purchased their nomination forms at the party’s secretariat in Benin at N16 million included Chief Solomon Edebiri, Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Mr Mathew Uduoeyekemwen, all

from Edo South.

Chairman of the committee, Gov David Umahi of Ebonyi State assured the aspirants, delegates and other members of the party that the exercise would be credible, free and fair.

One of the aspirants, IzeIyamu, was the Secretary to the State Government in former governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion’s administration, while Uduoeyekemwen was majority leader in the House of Assembly at the time.

Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr Chris Enehikhare, told NAN that the primary election was conducted on the directive of the National Caretaker Committee of the party.

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Ajimobi

Ajimobi promised to adhere strictly to constitutional provision that stipulates that election to LGs should take place three months after inauguration of the state electoral commission.

The governor stressed that the new OYSIEC members were nonpoliticians, God-fearing, well-educated and eminently capable of the task ahead of them.

Ajimobi promised to adhere strictly to constitutional provision that stipulates that election to LGs should take place three months after inauguration of the state electoral commission.

He assured the people that the September election would have all the tenets of transparency and credibility, which, he said, the state was known for.

The governor charged the new members of the commission to write their names in gold and make history with the proposed election by ensuring that the exercise was successful.

But a chairmanship aspirant, Mr Akinyemi Akinlabi has commended Gov. Ajimobi on the inauguration of Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) committee.

Akinlabi, who expressed his intention to contest the chairmanship position in Ibarapa Central Local Government area of the state, said the action of the governor was a demonstration of re-

sponsiveness to people’s demand.

He appreciated the governor for appointing reputable and trust worthy people, adding that he has proven again that his administration would conduct a transparent, free and credible election.

“The constitution of the OYSIEC is a demonstration of the governors responsiveness to the people’ request for a democratic local government, which has been made impossible by litigations by the opposition,’’ he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had during the inauguration of OYSIEC said that the council poll would be held in September.

The choice of September was in line with the constitutional provision, which stipulated that election must take place within 90 days from the date of inauguration of the committee.

The governor had hinged the non-conduction of council since assumption of office in 2011 to litigations bothering on the formation of the past OYSIEC committees.

Akinlabi said that such would avail the people the opportunity of electing their representatives, which had been barred by the ac-

tions of the opposition.

He expressed intention to run for the chairmanship seat in the forthcoming council poll in the state, saying the people deserved better governance in the grassroots, to replicate the developmental strides in the state. Akinlabi, an economist said that the state government deserved better complements at the grassroots level, adding that such complement required was from creative minds. ``The economic crisis experienced in the country today is a great hindrance to the transformational strides of the Ajimobi-led administration. ``This situation has spurred the administration to come up with revenue generating initiatives and a total re-engineering of potentials to shore up for the required revenue to continue with its developmental projects. ``Therefore, it behoves on public office seekers with creative ideas to come up, with intentions geared towards complementing the efforts of the governor at boosting the state’s economy,’’ he said. ``I used the opportunity to express my intention to contest and contribute to the building of the nation and the state’s economy,’’ he said.

Edo APC Primary: Masari submits report as Ogiemwonyin, Imansuagbon reject results Akinjide Akintola & Titus Akhigbe The Chairman of the sevenmember Committee for the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Primary Election, Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari on Monday submitted the Committee’s report of June 18, 2016 governorship primaries held in the Edo State Capital, Benin City.

This is coming as some of the aspirants who lost out in the primary election have kicked against it and calling for a repeat of the exercise APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who received the Committee’s report at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja thanked the Masari-led sevenmember Election Committee for successfully conducting the governorship primaries in Edo State.

The Masari-led seven-member

Masari

Election Committee included: Hon. Andrew Uchendu (Secretary), Hon. Yusuf Maianguwa, Dr. Tunde Esan, Alh. Shuaibu Musa, Alh. Ibrahim Soja and Mr. Amara Iwuanyanwu.

The Committee’s five-page report recommended that the party’s leadership convenes a reconciliatory meeting with aspirants and other stakeholders. The report also commended the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the security outfits in the state for their support during the governorship primaries.

According to the committee, “There is an urgent need for the party to set up a high-powered reconciliation team to meet with the state governor, all aspirants and other critical stakeholders in order to strengthen the party and restore harmony for a successful [governorship] election.

“The committee commends the

efforts of the Commissioner of Police, the Director State Security Service, the Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and their men for the remarkable way they handled the entire exercise.

“The committee hereby expresses its appreciation to the Party for finding its members worthy of such important assignment, and pledge the loyalty and commitment of all its members to the Party and the Nation.

“The committee also appreciates the support of the Government of Edo State which aided it in the discharge of this assignment.”

Meanwhile, Chief Chris Ogiemwonyi and Barrister Kenneth Imansuangbon, APC aspirants in the Primary have rejected the results declared and the candidate that emerged, Godwin Obaseki.

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day at the campaign Secretariat of Ogiemwonyi, they called on the National leadership of the party and APC Edo State Primaries Appeal Panel to order the repeat and resorting of all the ballots papers, used for the primaries.

They also called for the Forensic Analysis of the ballot papers and the finger print on the ballot papers.

Chief Ogiemwonyi who spoke said a criminal investigation has become necessary because the party members hold the view that no one individual or group should be allowed to destroy the good image of APC and its leadership that is committed to free and fair primaries. Ogiemwonyi said that the announcement of the final result immediately provoked a general condemnation and rejection of the results by delegates of the primary.

“The delegates are unanimous that the figures that were allocated to the various aspirants were electronically manipulated and in clear contradiction of the pattern of their votes for their preferred aspirants. “The smuggling of non delegates into the venue of the primary to vote was a sign of desperate measures by the governor and its agent. They were successful in this bid because Edo State government was in full control of the venue of the primary “The open and direct interference into the voting process by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on several occasions took the protest of some of is aspirants and the intervention of the Chairman of the Primaries committee, Alhaji Aminu Masari to persuade the Edo State Governor to stay away from the table that was meant for the thumb printing of ballot papers by the delegates. The governor did not pretend over his desire to intimidate the voters”, he said.

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Oyegun, Lai Mohammed, Atiku, others mourn former NUJ Chairman Tom Okpe, Abuja National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John OdigieOyegun has joined in condoling with the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) over the death of Mr. Chuks Ehirim, the immediate past chairman of the Abuja chapter of the NUJ. Others who have condoled with the family NUJ included Information Minister, Lai Mohammed and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

Odigie-Oyegun in a condolence letter to the National President of the NUJ, Mr. Abdulwaheed Odusile prayed that the Almighty God gives the soul of the late Ehirim, who died on the day he turned 50 eternal rest and the family the strength to bear the great pain.

His words: “On behalf of our great Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may I express my heartfelt condolences on the shocking death of the immediate past chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abuja chapter, Mr. Chuks Ehirim who passed away on his 50th birthday,

Thursday, June 16, 2016 in Abuja.

“It is terrible to hear about the sudden death when we thought he was recovering from his ailment. May the Almighty God give the soul of the late Chuks Ehirim eternal rest and the family the strength to bear the great pain.

“The late Chuks Ehirim was one of the first persons I interacted with soon after I became National Chairman of the APC and I found him most knowledgeable, professional and a man who believed in the unity and potentials for greatness of our nation.

“I also recall, with satisfaction, the late Chuks Ehirim years of meritorious and unblemished record of service in the media profession. He went on to lead the Abuja Chapter of the NUJ between 2012 and 2015 from where he passionately advocated for the rights, welfare and security of journalists in Nigeria.

“Indeed, the journalism profession has lost an illustrious son.

Nationally, the late Chuks Ehirim used the journalism profession and activism to propagate progressive and democratic ideals in the country.

“As we mourn the loss of the

Ehirim

“The late Chuks Ehirim was one of the first persons I interacted with soon after I became National Chairman of the APC and I found him most knowledgeable, professional and a man who believed in the unity and potentials for greatness of our nation.’’

late Chuks, I am with you in thoughts and prayers. May his soul rest in peace. Adieu Chuks Ehirim”, it added.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also condoled with the Nigeria NUJ. In a statement in Abuja, the Minister said he received the news of Ehirim’s demise with shock and sadness, describing him as a patriot and quintessential journalist who committed himself to the pursuance of improved welfare and security for journalists in Nigeria.

He called Ehirim’s death a huge loss to the journalism profession, and prayed that God will grant repose to the soul of the deceased and grant his family and the NUJ the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

Also, the APC Press Corps on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family to condole with his widow, Mrs Easther Chuks Erihim at his Kuje Residence in Abuja.

Chairman of the Press Corp who led the delegation, Mr. Onyebuchi Ezigbo while speaking during the condolence described the death of the erudite journalist as shocking, but told the wife to take solace in God as she is not alone in the lost.

He described the demise of Comrade Erihim as a national loss, which was indicated in the caliber of people paying tribute to him with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and National Chairman of the ruling party APC among others.

Fears over Senate bid to strip Buhari of powers

Buhari

There is anxiety in the polity over plans by the Nigerian Senate, through the ongoing constitution amendment to strip President Muhammadu Buhari of powers of assent.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu had revealed plans by the Senate committee on constitution review to strip President of powers of assent at its recent retreat in Lagos at the weekend.

Political observers believe that

the move is an indication that there is no unity of purpose between the executive and the legislature.

Ekweremadu said the former President Goodluck Jonathan did not sign the Fourth Alteration Bill into law, which would strip the president of powers to veto any bill before the expiration of his tenure hence it would be reconsidered with fresh inputs.

He also said: “A bill to amend any portion of the constitution is

not an ordinary bill. It is the only bill that requires the two-thirds majority of each Chamber of the National Assembly to pass in the first instance.

It is also the only bill that requires the approval of two-thirds of the States Assembly to pass.

He said that Presidential veto of any bill is a mockery of sovereignty which is the power of the people to exhibit their power through their representatives in the parliaments.

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L-R: Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Sola David-Borha; Director-General, Securities & Exchange Commission, Mounir Gwarzo and Managing Partner, Olaniwun Ajayi & Co. Prof. Koyinsola Ajayi (SAN), at a National Assembly Stakeholders’ Forum in Abuja… recently.

FG to revoke road contracts sealed in dollars

Civil servants SOT illegal – FG

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ÏÏÏThe Federal Government is to

revoke road contracts awarded in United States dollars and re-award them in Naira.

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, made the disclosure in Uyo, Akwa Ibo State capital during the Town Hall Meeting of the Governors of South-South Geopolitical zone recently.

Usani disclosed that the contract for the construction of Section Five of the East West Road (Oron to Calabar) will be reviewed soon before the contractor commences of work on the project.

According to a press statement made available to the Daily Times

in Abuja through its Director of Communications, Mr. Mashal H. Gundu, the contract which was initially awarded in dollar currency, would have to be re-awarded in Naira.

The statement explained that the review was necessitated due to Federal Government’s move to rescue the naira and give it a purchasing power. The contract was earlier awarded in dollars.

He explained that the Federal Government was doing something on the award of the contract on that section of the road that would be acceptable to all stakeholders at the end of the day.

The minister also disclosed that work on the construction of section four of the East West Road (Eket to Oron) was not

abandoned, adding that the project was on course.

Usani reiterated that the mandate and vision of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs was being reviewed to fast-tract well-coordinated projects and programmes in the Niger Delta region.

He added that a development strategy that involves participation of benefiting communities, local government areas, state governments, other government agencies, development partners and other stakeholders on project conception, implementation and completion in the Niger Delta region was being put in place.

In order to address the security challenge in the Niger Delta region, the minister also brought to fore the need for an inter-agency

security committee which had been inaugurated and comprised of the Ministries of Niger Delta Affairs, Information and Culture, Interior, Niger Delta Development Commission, the Amnesty Office, Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

Usani stressed that 130 Niger Delta youths trained in various aspects of Agriculture in Israel by the ministry had been empowered each with a loan of NI million this year through the Bank of Agriculture.

He also said that 100 Niger Delta youths would be trained in Ibadan, Oyo state within the next two weeks on rearing of snail.

N5.1b fraud: Dudafa gets N500m bail Peter Fowoyo

ÏÏÏRespite, on Monday, came the way of former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Warpamo Owei Emmanuel Dudafa, as a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos admitted him to bail in the sum of N500 million, with three sureties in the like sum.

Justice Mohammed Idris also admitted bail to his co-accused, Iwejo Joseph Nna, who is also known as Taiwo Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah, in the sum of N250 million with two sureties in the like sum.

The Judge ordered that the sureties must have landed properties within the jurisdiction of the court,

while the accused persons must deposit their international travel passports with the court’s Deputy Chief Registrar (DCR).

Justice Idris however ordered that the accused persons be remanded in Prisons Custody pending the perfection of the bail conditions while he adjourned their trial till July 4 and 5.

The two accused persons were arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 23 countcharge bordering on alleged N5.1 billion fraud, and they had pleaded not guilty to all the counts charge.

In the charge signed by Rotimi Oyedepo, the EFCC alleged that Dudafa, and Joseph Nna, who also

claimed to be Taiwo Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah, had between June 11, 2013, and June 2015, used different companies to fraudulently steal and thereby committed the alleged offences.

Some of the companies alleged used in committing the alleged offences includes Seagate Property Development & Investment Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited; Iwejuo Joseph Nna and Pluto LUTO Property and Investment Company Limited; Iwejuo Joseph Nna and Rotate Interlink Services Limited.

Others includes Ibejige Services Limited; DE Jakes Fast Food & Restaurant Nigeria Limited; and Ebiwise Resources.

The count one of the charge read in parts: “that you,Warpamo Owei Emmanuel Dudafa, and Iwejuo Joseph Nna (a.k.a. Taiwo Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah), on or about the 11th day of June, 2013 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court conspired amongst yourselves to commit an offence, to wit: Concealing the proceeds of crime in the sum of N 1, 667,162,800.00 (One Billion, Six Hundred and Sixty Seven Million, One Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Eight Hundred Naira), and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012 and punishable under Section 17(a) of the same Act.”

ers annually as a performance incentive once they are able to meet revenue targets set by the federal government, adding the workers of the Finance Ministry were also paid a lesser percentage of what their counterparts in the two revenue agencies normally get, because of the key role they play in ensuing that the targets are met.

The Minister, the official said, has also stopped the welfare packages – such as bags of rice and gallons of vegetable oil – that they usually enjoy during festive periods, such as Christmas and Eid-al-adha (Sallah).

The SOT which Adeosun has refused to pay, according to the official, is what many of the workers rely on to settle their house rents and/or pay their children’s school fees.

During the protest on Monday, the protesters displayed placards with inscriptions such as: “Kemi Adeosun must go”; “You are destroying Federal Ministry of Finance”; “Inflation is 15% courtesy of Adeosun”; “PMB agent of positive change, Adeosun agent of negative change”; “Adeosun score card is zero”; and “Adeosun collects N30m house rent.”

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Aregbesola and the murder of innocence

T Yinka Odumakin

hese are not the best of times in my state of origin, Osun; where we are currently observing funeral ceremonies of innocence as the extremes tendencies of the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola have put a knife to the very thing that made us one people.

I met Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in 1998 when on Sunday Adigun Street in Ikeja, Lagos, the then campaign headquarters for the governorship bid of Lagos State

by Senator Bola Tinubu.

Myself and Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi gravitated towards him as he was the most ideological person in the campaign. Added to that was his pious disposition which marked him out as one of the very few men I have seen on campaign grounds not crazy about cornering resources.

That was why I approached him that a particular item being done by the campaign could be done at half of what the vendors were taking and he endured we got it done.

The gentlemen who were handling it whom I thought were friends to the candidate later came to fight me for spoiling their market.

He was not overtly ambitious then. I recall as myself, Omoseyindemi and him stood in Abiola’s compound during the June 12 celebration after Tinubu won the election and he said he was not after any position but would not object if the new governor ask him to be his personal assistant.

But by some stroke of fate he was named the Commissioner for Works.

If I had any reservation about him, it was only about his overt religiosity. He would come to the campaign office most times in his Islamic gown with his goatee to match. When he wore normal dress, his tebliq trouser stood him

out always.

When he became commissioner, I was with him in his office one night during the America-Afghanistan war and was surprised at his almost child-like excitement when news came on CNN that the Talibans inflicted some damage on the American forces.

It is those manifestations of his that have turned Osun into a sorry case today and leading to the death of innocence among our young people along religious lines.

I had my primary education in Ondo town and returned to Osun State for my secondary education in the late 70’s. We never cared who was a Christian or a Muslim as we mingled freely.

Some of my classmates who were Muslims have remained best friends till date because they were not veiled and I could put faces to their names. We were in the old Oyo State then with a Christian, Chief Bola Ige becoming our governor in 1979 and his deputy Sunday Afolabi also of the same faith. It was not an issue as everybody focused on the cardinal programmers of the Unity Party of Nigeria which they faithfully implemented. In Lagos, Lateef Jakande and Rafiu Jafofo were the men UPN picked to implement the plan. Michael Ajasin and Akin Omoboriowo in Ondo were both Christians just like there was no issue in Ogun that Bisi Onabanjo and another Christian named Sesan Soluade were giving free education.

That liberal disposition in Yorubaland would see a Ganiyu Fawehinmi being married to a Christian wife, an example which a Wale Oshun has replicated without rancour.

That was the spirit of our fathers who stood at the gates as

warriors when Jihadists were going to inflict strange doctrine on Yoruba psyche.

But the Aregbesolas of the Yoruba nation are changing all that stoking religious war in our syncretic space. Aregbesola, on assumption of office in 2011, constituted the Professor Wole Soyinka-led education summit to look into the state of education in Osun. The summit gave birth to the re-classification of schools in the state including merger, school feeding programme, and provision of same school uniform for students in the state. It is the merging of schools which became mega schools that gave birth to the current disharmony between Christians and Muslims in Osun as each of them wants to protect its faith.

The reforms from the Soyinka summit were to later have the interpretation of conditions precedent to access the Sukuk bond as the Islamic bank had to be convinced they were investing their money in Islamic schools.

The governor in his first time surreptitiously introduced Hijab in Osun School but backed off when it was going to boomerang and a second term project still lay ahead. They stylishly moved the battle to the courtroom where after three years a Justice SAKA has ruled that Muslims can wear hijab to school and even granted

some prayers that were not put before him.

The resistance to the move have seen children of other faiths coming to school in choir robes and egungun attires. The symbolism of these forms of protest should not be missed. That is the irresistible spirit of Yoruba people which Islamists (the political Muslims) should reckon with in their quest to bring strange doctrine into a space where religious extremism has always been a stranger.

After he booted Oyinlola out of office, Aregbesola made a commitment that he was going to outdo Awolowo in Osun. We didn’t know what he meant was that he was going to do what Awo did not do. Baba Layinka was not going about dividing Yoruba along religious lines rather he brought higher ideals for people of all faiths to rally around.

Aregbesola is a Yoruba patriot and he should pause and ask himself how he wants to be remembered 20 years down the line.

Would he be happy to be recorded in history as a destabilizer of an existing social order? A jihadist from within who reawakened the Jihad of yore defeated in the battle front by our ancestors?

After him Osun must never again go for an extremist -Christian or Muslim-as a governor. We will do well with a moderate and unifier.

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Buhari: Retrospect of one year in office

P Olu Ogundoro

resident Muhammadu Buhari is yet to make any significant impact on the lives and livelihoods of Nigerians in the past 12 months. The policies of his government as well as pronouncements of senior cabinet members are simply incongruent with the change, which they promised.

Meanwhile, the so-called ‘government of change’ is almost turning out to be that of pains.

Admittedly, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) laid the foundations for misery which Nigerians are now experiencing. It is therefore suffice to say that the rot will take time to be cleared. As such, our patience, as a nation, is what Muhammadu Buhari desperately needs. He also needs our understanding. Nevertheless, the buck stops on his table. Hence, whatever blames there are now shift to his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). No matter what, they are liable.

Nonetheless, some people will have us believe the administration is still learning on the job. However, if the government cannot initiate economic growth in one year, does it expect us to not admit it? What is more, it appears the government’s stance on main issues of the day is rather medieval. The impression is that it lacks the capacity to rise to the challenges of Nigeria. Nigerians need qualitative

education, mechanised agriculture, healthcare delivery, and sustainable power to attain their potentials.

With education, the government ought to reduce its direct participation in operating schools and allow schools to be adopted by communities but not downsizing the teaching workforce. That is in order to

recover costs, which can be invested in upgrading out-dated facilities. The universities are over regulated and centralized,,thus making it uncompetitive to fit or, meet world-class status. We should employ digital and off-campus national academic award resources to develop new models of access to higher education. This will

encourage innovation at our universities, institutes and laboratories. We know that our institutions especially the public universities have been crippled by the lack of organised administration. Hence, private initiatives such as the Adopt-A-School programme should be supported, as should the semi-autonomous management of academic institutions.

Agriculture presents the country with opportunity to mobilise the enormous potentials of the people, especially the unemployed youths.

However, smallholder farming cannot help the country much to achieve food security. We must therefore develop Farm Settlements with homegrown technology relevant to peculiarities of our environment.

Healthcare is another sector that has always been faced with challenges because the government equates health with medicine. The destructive rivalry among health workers has bedeviled the system in the past four decades. What the country needs is quality management and service delivery. Healthcare delivery will have to be strictly health administration practices worldwide specifies and guaranteed to be so administered to last, a la carte i.e. per ability to pay, per complication of care and ailment, and per sophistication of consulting clinic/personnel amongst other factors.

Ogundoro, Olu is a management practitioner at Productivity Academy, Ibadan.

Bitter truth on power supply

I Adisa Gbadamosi

t has been said that the truth is bitter. In terms of the cause of poor electricity supply ravaging the nation nowadays that fact was brought home vividly in a statement issued by office of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing , Mr Raji Fashola . Issued by one of his aides, the Minister said it was immoral to expect the Federal government to blame electricity distribution companies called discos for the poor electricity supply in the country .

Ostensibly, Fashola was responding to the news that the House of Representatives had invited him and stakeholders in the electricity industry to explain the cause of power failure in Nigeria . The statement was therefore meant to apprise the legislators before hand until he eventually showed up in the House on the subject . In effect, the Minister killed the proverbial two birds with one stone . He answered the question of the legislators from afar as it were . He also allayed their fears also on the mistaken notion that the discos

were the culprits of the poor power supply in the country . Let me state clearly as a keen observer of the power sector and its development in the right direction in Nigeria I find the pronouncements and statement of the Minister candid , informed and most patriotic . In particular, I urge our lawmakers to emulate these virtues even as they grandstand to nail perceived culprits for the poor supply. .

The Minister’s statement pointed out some facts .The first was that pipeline vandalism had disrupted and decreased electricity supply massively nation wide and power generation , and transmission had suffered and such distribution had been scanty all over the nation . The second is that many government parastatals and institutions owe the distribution companies a lot of money predating his recent appointment as Minister of Power thus tying his hands to stop the discos from demanding immediate payment from such agencies or have them face massive disconnection. Which ipso facto is the legal resort for such breach of payment

in the face of continuous enjoyment without payment of electricity supply by these government facilities and corporations ?

The third was the fact that the Federal government before the advent of this administration had sold its ownership in the power companies and had no control over them in terms of generation and distribution of electricity . The Minister admitted that aside from the violation of the law inherent in assuming false ownership and giving futile orders, there was the dangerous risk of creating a potential rash of litigation to stop the discos from realising revenue for sold services both now and in the past. Especially from government institutions, which have become brazen debtors to discos , which are privately owned by equally patriotic and hard working Nigerian businessmen and investors ? In addition, the Minister harped on the fact that the discos charged cost reflective tariffs approved by law and it would be immoral for government to ask the discos not to take money for services rendered .

Indeed to support the Minister on

this stance was the advice he offered Nigerians when the Senate summoned him earlier in the year to explain the new electricity tariffs approved for the discos by the Electricity Regulation Commission of Nigeria.

Unfortunately, the Nigeran Senate stopped the new tariff increase rather wrongly. The Minister said then that the increased electricity tariffs were like bitter quinine, which ultimately will make life better for any patient or victim of Malaria. That example was very apt and instructive but the Senate ignored it then and electricity generation and distribution took a nosedive even before the vandalisation reached the present uncontrollable situation. If you add to that the fact that the union leaders asked Nigerians to strike on the new tariffs in electricity along side the fuel price hike of N145 then you must admit that it was indeed honorable of the Minister to say publicly that it would be immoral to blame the discos for poor electricity supply as the unions had done so unpatriotically.

Gbadamosi, an engineer, wrote from Iseyin, Oyo State

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NFF frees Giwa FC players for other clubs Victor Thompson

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he Nigeria Football Federation has given provisional clearance to all players of erstwhile NPFL club, Giwa FC of Jos to join other clubs.

In a letter to the Chairman of League Management Company,

Giwa FC team

signed by NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi on Monday, the NFF wrote: “Based on the LMC’s expulsion of the club from the Premier League and the NFF ratification of the same measure and with special reference to article 14 & 23 of the FIFA regulations on the status and transfer of players, all players

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of Giwa FC as pronounced by the LMC and the NFF Disciplinary Committee are free to provisionally register for any club of their choice till the end of the 2015/2016 football season.

“Note also that, all the players are to return to the management of Giwa FC after the last match of the 2015/2016 League season.”

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Oduah tasks Ubah on football development in Anambra

Enyimba

will bounce back against Sundowns —Udoh

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nyimba have put behind them a CAF Champions League home loss to Zamalek of Egypt and they now hope to get a result in their next game at Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa, according to star striker Mfon Udoh.

The Nigeria champions fell 1-0 to Zamalek in Port Harcourt and now face a daunting task at Group B leaders Sundowns, who won 2-0 at Entente Setif of Algeria, also at the weekend.

Sundowns welcome Enyimba on June 29

and Udoh said they hope to make up for the defeat in front of their fans with a result in South Africa.

“We hope to pick up the pieces in our next game against Sundowns. We hope to get a point or even win in South Africa. It’s a race and we are not out of this race yet,” he said.

He further said ill luck in front of goal denied them a victory against Zamalek at the weekend.

“We got everything right, we played a good game, we were just unlucky not to put

the ball in the net,” he recalled with a tinge of regret.

Udoh is the leading scorer in this year’s Champions League with seven goals, but he has insisted team glory is top priority.

Meanwhile, President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, has charged players and officials of Enyimba FC not to drop their heads or lose focus following Sunday’s CAF Champions League defeat by visiting Egyptian side, Zamalek FC. Nigeria’s flag –bearers in Africa’s most

Ubah

ANDREW EKEJIUBA

F Udoh prestigious club competition fell by a lone goal against the Egyptians, who scored through Bassem Morsy in the first half at a waterlogged Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt.

Teams playing in the group stage know every match counts not only for the money but also for the points. Defeat in the very first game of the lucrative pool stage could have the tendency of demoralizing the group, but Pinnick told the team on Monday that they could still go all the way.

Keshi,Amodu funeral rites receive backing ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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he Daar Communications Group, owners of Africa Independent Television and Raypower Radio, has pledged support for all programs around the funeral rites and immortalization of departed Nigerian and African coaching legends Shuaibu Amodu and Stephen Keshi.

This pledge was made during a Keshi

condolence visit on the NFF leadership by top officials of Daar Communications, led by the Group Managing Director, Mr. Tony Akiotu, at the Glass House on Monday.

“The two gentlemen that we lost were among the most successful, capable and patriotic coaches in the annals of African football. They did their job to the best of their ability and in their different ways, projected Nigeria

football in a commendable way.

“For these and other reasons, Daar Communications, official media partner of the NFF, will be happy to broadcast all programs around the funeral rites of late Stephen Keshi, as well as any event meant to immortalize both Keshi and Amodu, since the remains of late Amodu have already been committed to mother earth.”

ormer member of the Nigeria Football Association {NFA}, Prince Isidore Oduah has welcomed the election of Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah as the Chairman of Anambra State Football Association and advised him to hold tight to humility as he embarks on the enormous task of reviving and bringing the state to her former pacesetting role in football.

The former Vice Chairman of Anambra State Football Association made the assertion during an exclusive interview with Extra Time in his country home, Ogbaru, Anambra State, adding, it is by so doing that Ubah can realise the confidence the government and the people of the state reposed in him.

“I will advise him to work with his board and foremost listen to them so as to run an all-inclusive football body that would meet the aspirations of the people. Once he brings himself to the level of learning and also allowing other people to contribute their quota on how football would be moved forward in the state, his job is half done,” Oduah said.

He further implored Ubah to go down memory lane as a business mogul and follow the footprints left by the likes of Alhaji Isiaku Ibrahim who did a lot to grow Mighty Jets FC of Jos; Israel Adebajo’s enduring handiwork in Stationary Stores FC of Lagos and MKO Abiola’s tone setting strides in the defunct Abiola Babes of Abeokuta.

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Pogba

in Real Madrid talks

Pogba

Vardy ‘may still

P

aul Pogba’s agent has confirmed that he has begun talks with Real Madrid about a potential world record summer transfer.

The Juventus star - who is contracted to the Italian club until the summer of 2019 - is in his homeland playing for France at Euro 2016.

But his agent Mino Raiola says he is in contact with three clubs interested in signing the midfielder - and confirmed European champions Real are one of them.

“We are talking but nothing is decided. Real coach Zinedine Zidane’s wish is important. The club’s wish

go to

is important.

“We are in the initial phase. It’s not a negotiation.

Both sides know what it wants and we shall see if we complete a deal or it ends in divorce.

“Paul dreams of winning the Ballon d’Or...Real Madrid is a fantastic club to achieve that.

“He admires Zidane. He has always told me that.

This is going to be very important in his decision.

“However, he needs to choose a project, not a coach, as coaches come and go. Pogba’s interest is not in being the most expensive signing and neither is it mine.

Arsenal’ Pedro backtracks J

amie Vardy is yet to make up his mind about a summer move to Arsenal, and could still go to the Emirates, according to reliable sources.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger told Chinese television that he believes Vardy is staying at Leicester.

Wenger said: “Jamie Vardy is, at the moment, at Leicester and from what I know, he will stay at Leicester.”

Arsenal told Leicester three weeks ago they are prepared to meet the £20m buy-out clause in Vardy’s contract, and Leicester responded by offering the striker improved terms.

A source revealed that Vardy wants to focus entirely on England while they are in Euro 2016, and will delay making a decision about his domestic future until he returns home.

On Saturday, speaking at England’s 2016 training base at Chantilly, Vardy insisted he was not thinking about his club future.

“I’m just here completely focusing on England and that’s all I want to do at the moment,” said the 29-year-old.

on Barca return P

edro has backtracked on claims that he could leave Chelsea and return to Barcelona, claiming a Camp Nou comeback is “almost impossible”.

The Spain winger spoke last week about his desire to retire at Barca labelling his former employers “the club of my dreams”.

After scoring on his Chelsea debut last

season, Pedro flitted in and out of the first team as their Premier League title defence wilted.

And, though still keen to return to Catalonia in the future, Pedro says he remains committed to Stamford Bridge.

“If you ask me if I’d go back, the answer is clear because they’re a great club with great players and fans who appreciate me,” the Spain attacker told reporters.

Pedro

No Saints approach for Zenga!

S

Vardy

outhampton have not made a move for ex-Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga as they look to replace Ronald Koeman as manager, according to sources.

Koeman’s departure for Everton left Saints in need of a new man at the helm and Frank de Boer and Eddie Howe lead bookmakers’ lists for the role at St Mary’s.

But it was reported on Monday in some

newspapers that owner Katherine Liebherr had given the green light for the approach to Zenga.

However, it is understood that this is not the case and the reports should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Zenga picked up 58 caps for Italy between 1987 and 1992, but his managerial career has not been quite so successful.

The 56-year-old has had 15 jobs in the USA, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

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Ozil unconcerned

by Scholl’s criticism M

esut Ozil is unconcerned by criticism from former Germany playmaker Mehmet Scholl of his performance against Poland at Euro 2016.

Germany and Poland played out the tournament’s first 0-0 draw at the Stade de France, leaving Joachim Low’s side

Ozil

needing a win over Northern Ireland today to guarantee top spot in Group C. Former Bayern Munich man turned TV pundit Scholl pinpointed Ozil’s “indifferent” body language during the game - a criticism often levelled at the Arsenal man by followers of the Premier League.

But Ozil - who after the game insisted he always gives 100 per cent - is paying no attention to his critics as he looks to add European glory to the World Cup title secured two years ago.

“I’m sorry but quite honestly I don’t care what others say,” he said.

Spain, Croatia training

hit by pitch concerns S pain and Croatia’s training plans ahead of their Euro 2016 Group D clash have been thrown up in the air due to concerns over the pitch at the Stade de Bordeaux.

Both sides had been due to train at the Euro 2016 venue on Monday ahead of today’s fixture, but will have to travel around 30 minutes to the Stade Chaban Delmas, before

O’Neill vows to upset Italy

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epublic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill remains confident his side can snatch a place in the second round of Euro 2016 by beating Italy on Wednesday.

Having drawn 1-1 with Sweden on matchday one, Ireland were dispatched 3-0 by Belgium in Bordeaux to leave them bottom of Group E on goal difference, meaning they require a win and the Swedes to drop points if they are to have a realistic shot at the last 16.

The omens do not favour O’Neill: Ireland are now seven games without a win in European Championship finals, a run stretching back to 1988, and they have never managed to score more than O’Neill once in a single match at the

returning to the match stadium for news conferences.

A statement from Croatia’s football association confirmed that the switch was brought on “due to a poor pitch condition in Bordeaux”.

Romania and Albania saw their training sessions in Lyon switched this week with UEFA attempting to preserve the Parc Olympique Lyonnais pitch after a hailstorm.

Spain not moved by

Nawalka

wary of Ukraine

P

oland coach Adam Nawalka remains wary of Ukraine despite today’s opponents having been eliminated from Euro 2016.

Nawalka’s side have taken four points from matches against Northern Ireland and Germany and go into the game in Marseille knowing a draw will guarantee them a spot in the last 16.

Ukraine cannot progress following two successive defeats but that makes them no less dangerous, according to Nawalka.

He said: “We want to win, we will fight until the final whistle but we respect our opponents.

“Ukraine are a tough rival, they have good individual players who play for big clubs and appear regularly in the Champions League.

“They showed their quality in the first match against Germany.

There were periods where Ukraine were creating great chances to equalise.

They are good at set-pieces and they played well.

favourites tag – Silva D

avid Silva has called on his Spain team-mates to remain focused as the newly-tagged favourites look to secure a third straight European Championship.

Spain headed into the tournament as double defending champions but a less-than-impressive performance at the 2014 World Cup meant Vicente del Bosque’s side were not the clear favourites.

But after solid showings in their opening two group games - 1-0 and 3-0 wins over the Czech

Republic and Turkey respectively - Spain have staked their claim at Euro 2016.

Silva believes the side can cope with being favourites, but insists they must stay focused if they are to secure Euro glory once again.

“At this stage it is normal that they make you favourites. We have won the last two European Championships and also for the games in the past few days,” the Manchester City attacker said.

“But we need to keep our feet on the ground. We are calm and we need to continue that way.

“We have had a very good start. We have

a

Silva

won two games and now we have very difficult g a m e against

Croatia. “ W e need to win o r draw to stay top of the group. We need to maintain our level and if it remains so high, we can win the tournament.”

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Two-way quote inter-bank FX market begins Motolani Oseni

ÎÎÎFollowing the release of

Traders, artisans and activists converge at the Oyo State Governor’s Office, Senator Abiola Ajimobi at Government House, Agodi Ibadan... on Monday

the revised Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Guidelines for the Operation of the Nigerian Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange (FX) Market, the two-way quote (2-WQ) inter-bank FX Market commenced on the platform of FMDQ OTC Securities on Monday.

Interbank foreign exchange trading began on Monday after the CBN ended a 16 month currency peg but deals were thin due to concerns about U.S. dollar liquidity.

This was as the apex bank sold $500 million at N280 naira to a dollar at the interbank market on Monday after a “managed float” of

the naira failed to attract trading between banks due to liquidity concerns, and was exchanged at N345 per dollar at the parallel market, traders said.

Forex traders in Lagos on Monday said that the interbank trading was extended until 5 p.m, with the CBN’s Authorised Dealers (ADs) setting the pace for the market-driven trading window through the FMDQ Thomson Reuters Foreign Exchange Trading System (the System).

The Guidelines, which set out a single and autonomous inter-bank FX market structure for the nation, supports the CBN’s desire to enhance efficiency and facilitate a liquid and transparent Nigerian FX market.

EFCC freezes Fayose’s personal account Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

ÎÎÎThe

personal account of Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, was allegedly frozen on Monday on the orders of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Governor Fayose is a holder of an account at a branch of the state capital’s Zenith Bank Plc. The governor, who spoke to reporters in Ado-Ekiti, at the premises of the bank, said he had information that the accounts of some of his associates were also affected.

According to a press release by the Chief Press

Andrew Orolua Abuja

ÎÎÎThe

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, shifted the arraignment of an oil magnate and owner of Atlantic Energy Limited, Jide Omokore, Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and five others for fraud and money laundering to July 4, 2016.

The defendants who were to be arraigned included Victor Briggs, Abiye Memnere, David Mbanefo, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited.

They were to appear before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday but their arraign-

Secretary to the Governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the governor accused some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a prominent lawyer from the state of being the brains behind the action.

While condemning the action, Fayose said under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially the provisions contained in Section 308, he enjoys immunity and wondered why his personal properties should become the targets of Federal Government and it’s agencies under the guise of fighting corruption.

The release states: “Sec-

tion 308 of the 1999 Constitution gives me immunity just like the President. I wouldn’t know why these people are intolerant of others and in a haste. Let them wait till 2018 when I will end my tenure for them to do their investigation. The other time the EFCC accused me of embezzling N1.2 billion poultry project fund, I was the one

I came myself. I was denied access to the account as I was told the EFCC has placed restriction on it. That is executive rascality taken too far.

Even when I had case with EFCC my properties were not affected.

“If they say they are investigating money spent on election, does it mean it is only Peoples Democratic Party

Gov. Fayose who voluntarily reported myself to the EFCC. “It was when I got a hint of their move that I wrote a cheque to withdraw some money from the account and

(PDP) that spent money on election? A lot of people and groups supported my campaign then. Where did APC and their leaders get the money they spent on 2015 general

EFCC to arraign Omokore, Ex-NNPC boss and others for fraud July 4 ment did not hold because all the suspects were not present in court.

The prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) told journalists that the prosecution team would not want to arraign them in piecemeal.

“The accused persons are scattered across the country and we are trying to avoid a situation whereby the accused persons will be arraigned separately.

“What we are trying to do now is to gather all the accused persons together and I believe we should be able to arraign them on July 4” Jacobs added.

He said that the detail of the charges will be amended be-

fore the arraign date.

Atlantic Energy Limited was one of the companies that allegedly received multibillion dollar worth of public assets without due process by the Jonathan administration in 2011.

The company, which was created less than a year earlier and had not produced a drop of oil, was awarded controlling stakes in two lucrative oil blocks – OML 30 and 34 – for just over $50 million each.

The deal, which was signed by the immediate past minister of petroleum, Diezani AlisonMadueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling 55 percent stake in the oil block.

Curiously, Shell, which

owned the remaining 45 per cent stake, fetched $1.3 billion for a single field after an open and competitive bidding process.

The company was also accused of lifting crude oil, but only remitted a fraction of its worth to the government.

In 2012, Atlantic Energy paid $168m into the government’s account, but lifted about three million barrels – valued at over $350 million.

In 2013, it also lifted about 2 million barrels of crude valued at about $240million, but paid only $68million.

Similarly, in 2014, Atlantic Energy paid zero cash-call, but lifted about 500,000 barrels of crude oil, valued at $54 million.

elections from? Now it is only in PDP that they find thieves, to them there are no theieves in the APC. “A lot of petitions were written against former Governor Kayode Fayemi and the EFCC has not asked him a question up till now. The diversion of N850 million fund meant for Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board is there and nobody is asking Fayemi questions.

“Even the President cannot claim to be an angel.

The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal. When that American, Jefferson, was being

sentenced, the President’s wife was mentioned as having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson. We can serialize the judgment for people to see and read.

“We will not allow this and we will defend our rights within the law of the land. Those who think they can silence me are mistaken.

I am a person who is not perturbed by things like this.

Spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, later told reporters that he could not comment on the development as he was yet to be briefed.

Osun Resident doctors declares indefinite strike Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo

ÎÎÎThe

National Association of Resident Doctors, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Chapter, has declared an indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries.

The president of the association, Dr. Wole Ayegbusi, made the announcement during a press briefing in Osogbo on Monday.

Ayegbusi alleged that some of their members in the State Teaching Hospitals have not been paid for about 10 months.

He explained that residents doctors in the Federal Teaching Hospitals last had their

salaries in December 2015.

He said, “Efforts have been made by the Association to dialogue with the federal ministry of health on several occasions but all were abortive due to some instinct defect on the part of the government.

“The most saddening part of it is that our members in the state teaching hospital have not been paid for 10 months and their are some of the members that are rendering essential services.

“We need to realise that we cannot be comparing doctors to other civil servants because if they(civil servants) fall sick and doctors are not well paid, they will never be well attended to.

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.MR. ABDUL MUTALIB ODESOLA 2.MR. OSAIGBOVO IDEMUDIA 3.MR. MONDAY EBUEHI 4. MR. WILLIAMS UCHE. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO EMPOWER THE NEEDY. 2.TO CREATE AND DEVELOP EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVES FOR THE INDIGENT MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. CHIDI EZIHE (SOLICITOR) SUITE 13, ESTATE OFFICE, NNPC. QUARTERS, AREA 11, GARKIn, ABUJA. +234 805538 1384

UBA-UNITY BUTCHERS ASSOCIATION AGEGE

MRS. NONYE SYLVIA STEPHANIE FINECOUNTRY I, formerly known and addressed as MISS. NONYE SYLVIA STEPHANIE UKAGA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. NONYE SYLVIA STEPHANIE FINECOUNTRY . All former documents remain valid. General public should take note .

MRS IBE NWAMAKA ONYINYECHI I, Formerly known, called and addressed as Miss UGORJI NWAMAKA ONYINYECHI, wish to be known, called and addressed as Mrs IBE NWAMAKA ONYINYECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note

ASSOCIATION OF SEWING MACHINE DEALERS OF OYO STATE

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Ministry has Applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for Registration Under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. RAJI TIRIMISIYU GBOLAGADE - Chairman 2. MR. BUSARI AYOBAMI TAJUDEEN - Secretary 3. MR. LAWAL KEHINDE 4. ALH. ABDULFATAI AZEEZ 5. MR. AKINPELU RASAQ AKANNI AIMS: 1. To promote unity and progress among members.

2. To promote moral discipline among the members.

87, 88 AND 89 SET OF ST. JOSEPH SECONDARY SCHOOL IDIMANGORO AGEGE OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION The general public is hereby notified that the above Named ASSOCIATION has applied to the corporate Affairs commission, Abuja for registration under part’ ‘C’ of the companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990.

The Trustees Are: (1) MR. ADENIJI ABEL OLUGBENGA -PRESIDENT (2) MR. ORJI BENARD (3) MR. OMOTUNDE TEMITOPE - SECRETARY (4)MR. ADEWOLE SUNDAY (5)MR. ASHADE OLANIYI (6)MR. OGUNJOBI ADEBOLA (7)MR. ADEPOJU KOLA (8)MRS. ALADE OMOTOLA (9)MR. BELLO SARAFA (10)MR. KAYODE OLANREWAJU. Aim & Objective: To foster unity and harmony among members.

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

SIGNED by Secretary.

ARAROMI IWO IFESOWAPO SOCIETY OF NIGERIA This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for registration in the Corporate Affairs Commission under Part C of the Companies And Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.

1. David Olu Afolabi 2. Akinyode Oluwatooyin Apinke 3. Lasisi Saidat Idowu 4. Alh Dauda Adisa Aims: 1. To provide goods and services to its members for profit.

2. To enable member to attain increased income and savings.

3. To provide maximum economic benefits to its members..

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

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

Signed: Trustees

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

NOBLE IN CHRIST MINISTRY-GOD’S TREASURE HOUSE

THE LORD’S VINEYARD DELIVERANCE MINISTRY

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Ministry is seeking for registration under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Part C., 2004.

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

TRUSTEES: 1) PASTOR AUSTIN WONDER EGBERUARE 2) PASTOR GOD’STIME EHIOZODE ALFEDIGHI 3) PASTOR ISAAC ISRAEL NOBLE 4) PASTOR MICHAEL ADEBAYO 5) PASTOR PETER OHIKE GOD’SWEALTH

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1.

PROPHET OBADIAH KUNLE EGBAELO – GENERAL OVERSEER 2.

PASTOR (MRS) OBADIAH JULIET NGOZI 3.

BRO. IWALOKUN ABIODUN ADELEYE 4 PASTOR GABRIEL DAVID KAYODE 5 PASTOR AKINYELE KUNLE KAZEEM

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To promote unity among members..

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the Gospel of Christ Jesus all over the world.

2. To render humanitarian services.

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

Any objection to this Registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, P.M.B. 198, Maitama, Abuja within 28th days from the date of publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aims and objectives of the Church are: 1.

To propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

2.

To foster love, peace and unity amongst brethren.

3.

To proclaim the good works of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Signed Secretary

Signed: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Salihu Owotutu 2, Anifowoshe Rafiu Ajao 3, Garuba Jimoh Owonifari

MURITALA ABIBU OKUNNU EDUCATION TRUST. CAC/IT/NO: 59546 The general public is hereby notified that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Alteration of aims and the Constitution under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE OLD AIMS ARE: To assist in the education of Muslim youths and promote excellence in Muslim international schools in Nigeria and beyond. Provided that in order to benefit from the foundation, such as a student/youth must: 1. Have successfully Completed his first year in one of the schools 2. Be of impeccable behavior and character 3. Be honest in his dealings with others 4. Posses the ability to learn and reach the heights and 5. Be or show good signs of being all round student in the classroom and on the sports field including extracurricular activities The New Aims are : 1. To assist deserving muslim students who have the intellectual ability to pursue and to benefit from university or post Secondary education but who otherwise are indigent and have little or no hope at all of pursuing university or post Secondary education without financial assistance, PROVIDED that only the income derived from the TRUST FUND shall be used for the award of bursaries or scholarships in furtherance of the object of Trust.

Signed TRUSTEES

INITIATIVE FOR SKILLS ACQUISITION AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT The general public is hereby notified that the above named Initiative has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The Trustees are : 1. Prof. Benson Osadolor -Chairman 2. Otabor Enoyoze Ahanor - Secretary 3. Benson Osarobo Uwadiae 4. Jolly Osarumwense 5. Efosa Celestine Igudia 6. Felix Osarhiemen 7. Adetunji Abdulmalik Taj-Liad 8. Festus Alenkhe 9. Onyema Kizito Nnaemeka THE AIMS: 1. To empower the youths with a high quality practical training programme on technical and cultural Integration

Any objection to this Alteration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 daysof this publication.

Signed: Secretary

Signed ; Otabor Enoyoze Ahanor – Secretary

DAVID BRIAN MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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

Trustees 1 David Brian..... President 2. Seun Brian...... Member 3. Collins abumere....member 4. Enofe Fred..... menber 5. David obiora general sectary Aims 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ 2. To build glorious saint for the kingdom 3. To prepare the saint for rapture

ESAN UNITED & BLESSED LORRY DRIVERS ASSOCIATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Change of Name and appointment of New Trustees under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

FROM: ESAN UNITED & BLESSED LORRY DRIVERS ASSOCIATION TO: ESAN UNITED AND PROGRESSIVE YOUTHS SOCIAL CLUB The Old Trustees are : 1. Ojeobulu Victor 3. Ebhohimen Julius 5. Ehikhuemen Raphael The New Trustees : 1. Omokhegbele Henry 3. Muktar Obhakhoboh

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

2. Unuabor Daniel 4. Ighalo Matthew 6. Okosun Lucky 2. Akhue Monday 4. Orunuebholo Oseiwe

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 daysof this publication.

Any objection to this Application must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 daysof this publication.

Signed David Brian.. President

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

The Trustees are : 1) PRINCE CHISA UBAH - Chairman 2) LUCY NGOZI UBAH PRINCEMANUEL - Secretary 3) GLADYS CHIKEZIRIM- Member 4) JOHNBULL AKWARA OKEZIE 5) ERIC UGOCHUKWU OFILI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1) To Preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 2) To carry out Evangelical mission around the World Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed : Princewill O. Nengi, ESQ.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JOEL AKPEBE EMEAKPOR 2. JOHNSON OSA 3. PRINCESS JOAN EMEAKPOR 4. PATRICK OLUBE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO TEACH AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL MANKIND. Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 daysof this publication Signed: Enigheno Guy Ogbe

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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TUC slams NASS leadership over pensions, immunity plans ÎÎÎThe

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has condemned the proposed life pension for presiding officers of the National Assembly after their tenure in office, even at a time that the economy had almost collapsed and brought about massive job losses and soaring poverty.

The TUC said: “Sometimes we wonder if our politicians are truly abreast with the groaning of the poor masses and the opinion of the international community about

them. Is it not laughable and ridiculous that if our lawmakers are not acquiring 108 Toyota Land Cruiser Jeeps for every member and increasing salaries/allowances they are talking about awarding contracts to themselves and their cronies? Is it not unfortunate that while we are yet to recover from the shock caused by some lawmakers who molested some white ladies in a hotel in the US another drama is unfolding with the latest proposal of life

pension for Senate president, deputy, Speaker of House of Representative and deputy?”

It demanded: “Where lies the conscience of our senators? How come they are not perturbed by the prevailing realities? Why are they bent on frustrating the effort of the president at revamping the economy and recovering our looted treasury? We want to assure them that they will not have their way this time, not anymore.”

It said that the benefit of the

office of the Senate President and other principal officers was juicy enough, adding that “the benefit accruable to politicians is immeasurable, which of course, is why they can do anything to remain there. The Congress is against the excessive privileges and calls for a drastic downward review. It is regrettable that in our clime a senator will not initiate a bill in a whole four year term yet earns higher than the President of the United States.”

The TUC expressed disap-

pointment on the development, in that it had thought that “the two day retreat on constitution review organised by the Senate Ad-hoc Committee in Lagos, would have been used to address some grey areas in our constitution, little did we know that such unglodly and disgraceful proposal will be made.”

The senators, it said had posited that it was important the amendment was made in order not to make the Senate appear cheapened.

“And our argument is: what about the poor masses that have been raped, cheapened, abused and preyed upon since 1960? Enough is enough to the insensitivity of our lawmakers and politicians because we may be left with no option than to hit the street if they fail to listen to the voice of reason.” The position of the TUC was signed by Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, Comrade Simeso Amachree, President, TUC Ag. Secretary General, TUC respectively.

Osun standardised measure’ll Cop gets soup bath in Ekiti improve economy –Assembly Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo

ÎÎÎOsun State House of Assembly, under the leadership of Hon Najeem Salaam, has said that the recently launched Standardised Weight and Measure by the state government, would restore consumer confidence and boost commercial activities.

In a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the Assembly lauded the initiative as a right step in a right direction.

According to the parliament, the measure would guarantee fairness and honesty in business transactions in the state and would, in turn, encourage people from all other neighbouring states to want to come to Osun for commercial ventures.

It stressed that there was

no transaction that could be conducted to the mutual satisfaction of the parties involved, unless it was fair and honest.

The Assembly added that the traditional modes of measurements that market operators were used to had encouraged cheating, and so dragging the improvement of the economy, not only in Osun, but also in other parts of the country.

It added that the compliance

with the Standardised Weight and Measure would, by extension, boost the internally generated revenue of the state government.

The Assembly said it would assist the government in its efforts towards making the state a regional hub for trade and commerce. The parliament also noted that there must be an effective sensitisation of the people on the use of the standardised measure.

Gov. Aregbesola

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policeman corporal, Mr. Kayode Akingbade, was bathed with soup in Ado-Ekiti, recently, over what an eyewitness described as a minor misunderstanding between the victim and the suspect, Mr. Emmanuel Imole, a drycleaner, based in Ado-Ekiti Already, an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court has remanded Imole in prison custody for assaulting a policeman and conducting himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of public peace.

Emmanuel, who was slammed with a three-count charge on June 13, at about 5.30 p.m. poured hot soup on Akingbade’s face and his uniform and also attempted to snatch his service rifle.

The charge sheet read: “That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on 13/06/2016 at about 5 .30 p.m. at Baptist junction, Ilawe Road, Ado-Ekiti in the AdoEkiti Magisterial District did threaten with violence one Cpl Akingbade Kayode attached to New Iyin Road Police Station,

Ado-Ekiti by pouring hot stew on his face and police uniform before trying to struggle with his rifle and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 86(1) of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State of Nigeria 2012.

“That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by pouring hot stew on the face and his police uniform and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable

under Section 249(d) of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State Nigeria 2012.

“That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did assault one Cpl Akingbade Kayode while eating at Nike Food Canteen located at Baptist junction, Ilawe Road, Ado Ekiti by pouring hot stew on his face and on his uniform and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 356(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State Nigeria 2012.”

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

NAMES OF TRUSTEES: (1) OLANREWAJA WILTON - WADDELL (2) MR. OGUNMOLA AFOLABI MOFUNOLORUNSHO (3) MR. AJAYI ADEYEMI ABRAHAM (4) DR. SANYAOLU ADEBOBUN (5) EVINEMI HEMMANS EBUNOLUWA (6) MRS. AJALA OLABISI (7) EVINEMI - OBI VICTORIA. AIM To create peace and unity among members.

Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 daysof this publication Signed by secretary

SHOTAYO AKANJI SULAIMON I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOTAYO AKANJI LAMIDI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOTAYO AKANJI SULAIMON DATE OF BIRT 26/ JUNE/1962 ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

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OBIAGELI-AKU AKWUNWA

MRS. DIKE VIVAN CHINWOKE

I formerly known and addressed MISS . Uchendu Vivian Chinwoke. Now wished to be known and addressed as Mrs. Dike Vivan Chinwoke.

All former documents remain valid general public take note.

FADEYI OMOYEME OMOWUMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIMBOLA OBHAGELI JAIYESIMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIAGELI-AKU AKWUNWA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

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IYANOYE MEFI MELKISEDEC

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EMEM OBOT PEACE

OSUJI-MIKE GLORY UCHE

This is to Certify/Confirm that CHINOYEREM CHIDINMA TREASURE and CHINOYEREM CHIDINMA AHUNNA refer to one and the same person, Now wish to be known and addressed as CHINOYEREM CHIDINMA TREASURE . All former documents remain valid. General public should note.

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ESSIENENKAK IDARA FRIDAY

OLADELE WARIS ABIODUN

AGBOH HAPPINESS ANURIKA JACENTA

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I formerly known and addressed as Agboh Anurika now wish to be known and addressed as Agboh Happiness Anurika Jacenta.

All former documents remain valid. The the general public should take note.

TAIWO SULAIMON KUNLE

OMONIYI VIVIAN OLAYINKA

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Embassy and the general public should take note

News 24 Hijab crisis: MURIC urges CAN to appeal verdict Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

ÏÏÏWorried

by the crisis generated over the use of hijab by female Muslim students in public secondary schools in Osun State, a non-governmental organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has challenged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to go to court and appeal the earlier judgement which granted the use of hijab in the state.

The Director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, specifically advised the CAN to approach the court rather than inciting minors to misdemeanors and encouraging disorderliness in the state.

He threw the challenge while speaking at the 10th annual Ramadan lecture organised by the Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) Abuja chapter in response to a statement credited to the newly elected President of CAN, Reverend Supo Ayokunle that the body was waiting for Governor Rauf Aregbesola of State of Osun to expel Christian students for wearing church uniforms to schools.

In the words of the MURIC Director, “I want to repeat that if CAN has gone to the Court of Appeal, we are waiting for them.

The Supreme Court is there. We would all go to the highest court in the land. But they should not think that the Muslims would withdraw for them”.

He noted with regrets that the Christian body that used to accuse Muslims in the country of being lawless is now encouraging and inciting minors to disturb the peace of the society.

CNPP threatens legal action against A’Ibom gov over LG tenure

By Paulinus NTA

ÏÏÏThe conference of

political parties in Akwa Ibom State has vowed to drag Governor Udom Emmanuel to court if he went ahead and extend the tenure of the local government transition committees for another six

Gov. Udom

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, June 21, 2016

IPOB: Fresh motion, new counsel stall Kanu’s trial Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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fresh motion filed by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafria (IPOB), seeking to disqualify Justice John Tsoho from presiding over his trial and an abrupt change of counsel by the second defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, on Monday, stalled Kanu’s treason and felony trial.

When the matter came up before Justice Tsoho, the prosecution counsel, Shuaibu Labaran, informed the court that he was “confronted this morning with the motion clearly framed

by the defendants to frustrate the proceeding of this court.” He said he needed time to respond to it.

Although, the motion was not moved,the document in court prayed for “an order disqualifying itself from further proceeding in this matter” on the ground of bias against the defendants.

It stated that a formal complaint letter had been sent to the National Judicial Council with an exhibits marked NJ1 and NJ2 illustrating manifest case of bias in the conduct of the case and other issues that were inappropriate to be mentioned

in an affidavit.

The motion also stated that the court had in the course of its ruling delivered on the 26 April, 2016 openly expressed serious prejudice against a member of the defence team.

But before justice Tsoho on Monday, Chuks Muoma (SAN), the lead defence counsel, announced a conditional appearance for Kanu and David Nwawuisi. He said his protest was on the ground that he had a contrary instruction on his arrival in court, different from his earlier brief on the matter.

He complained that he needed a confirmation on the extraction

of the second defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, from the list of his clients.

“My conscience will make it impossible for me to pretend I did not take the instruction.

I am the only counsel in this matter. I would like to clarify this embarrassment until that is done my further appearances will be conditional.”

The second defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, confirmed before the court that Amobi Nzelu, who announced appearance, was his counsel.

Even as that resolve the issue of representation, counsel in the matter agreed that Nzelu also needed time to study the case file and arrive at a decision whether or not to align with the motion seeking to disqualify the judge.

With the consent of the parties the matter was adjourned to 26 September, 2016 for hearing of the motion and trial.

Workers of the Ministry of Finance embarked on a protest demanding the removal of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun over alleged non-payment their allowances in Abuja… on Monday.

months.

Emmanuel inaugurated transition committees to run the 31 local government areas in June 2015 and when their tenures expired in December, he extended it by another six months to expire in June 2016. Contrary to expectation, the Governor has sent an executive bill to the State House of Assembly, seeking a further extension for another six months – a development that has ignited widespread criticism and condemnation from the opposition parties .

A CNPP officer who gave his name as John Akpan,described the Governors cation as inimical to the objectives of the local government system and a negation of promise to run an all inclusive government as the committees were all ade up of the PDP.

INEC, CSOs task NASS on electoral reforms Augustine Okezie Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a conglomerate of civil society groups have called on the National Assembly and other stakeholders to expedite action on constitutional and electoral reforms to address the growing cases of inconclusive elections in the country.

A strong constitutional and electoral reform, they maintain, would not only strengthen the electoral institution, but guarantee the necessary political muzzle needed to contain the excesses of politicians, check electoral violence, and ensure that electoral offenders were

promptly punished as a deterrent.

The calls were made in Abuja at a round table titled: “Inconclusive Elections: The Facts and the Myth”, involving the civil society groups, led by the Independent Service Monitoring Group (ISMG) and the INEC chairman, Professor Mahmud Yakubu.

The INEC boss, who was represented at the event by his Director of Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze Uzzy, observed that certain conditions necessitated the declaration of any election as inconclusive – including natural disasters, incidence of electoral violence and over-voting, the compromise of the electoral process through bribery and corruption.

He noted that presently,

elections in Nigeria were becoming competitive, where every vote counted and the successful candidates likely to only win marginally, and encouraging agitations by those who failed to win.

He said: “For this reason, disruptions by way of violence, intimidation and bribery of poll officials and voters, will always encourage the spectre of inconclusive elections that are likely to hang over our process.

“Where there are no such disruptions or distortions by the political class, inconclusive elections will all but be eliminated, save for elections into the office of Governor or President where no candidate meets the constitutional criteria or in some cases.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, June 21, 2016

25 News Kidnap suspect rejects prison van

By Moses Oyediran, Enugu

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L-R: Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Ferdi Moolman; Publisher/CEO, Business Day, Mr. Frank Aigbogun; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelemah; Corporate Services Executive, MTN Nigeria, Ms. Amina Oyagbola and President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, Mr. Olusola Teniola at the opening session of the BusinessDay Technology Conference in Lagos…on Monday.

Photo: OLAWALE ROTIMI.

Lagos govt warns residents against Ogun River vegetation ÏÏÏThe

Lagos State Government on Monday warned residents to keep off the Ogun River, near the Kara Cattle Market which was recently blocked by vegetation, saying that the river could open up at any time with dire consequences.

Last weekend, the river was taken over by vegetation, caused by a heavy storm, which created a compacted layer over it.

Residents in the area were stunned by the incident and turned the area to a tourist site of some sort, with some residents

seen walking on the blocked river and taking pictures.

But the State Government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Engr. Adebowale Akinsanya, said it was dangerous for residents to besiege the dry area as the flow of the river was still active beneath.

He said, “It is important to notify the public that have been worried about the environmental consequence of a dried up river to note that the flow of the

river is still active beneath the vegetation and the situation is been evaluated.

“However, because of the compacted nature of the vegetation residents and onlookers are of the erroneous belief that the river has suddenly dried up and can walk across the vegetation.

“A lot of people that have turned the place to a tourist destination are unaware of the danger lying ahead. It’s important for the public to be aware that the vegetation can give away at any

time and can lead to a disastrous situation,” he said.

He also advised residents to go about their lawful business and as well desist from the habit of parking on the bridge to take pictures, which according to him, was causing serious traffic, hardship and loss of business time to other commuters on the road.

“Carrying out any activities on the blockage of this river is unsafe, dangerous and disastrous. Please keep off,” Akinsanya warned.

SCOAN didn’t provide necessary documents – Witness Titilope Joseph

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ongoing trial of two engineers charged with negligence and manslaughter in the collapsed building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Dr. Olusegun Oyenuga, on Monday, told an Ikeja High Court that the church did not respond to requests for documents at the start of investigations into the building collapse.

The witness, who is a civil engineer, made this known while under cross-examination by the lead counsel for the defence, Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN).

According to Oyenuga, the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria

(COREN), sent a letter to the Synagogue Church to furnish some documents which would help in the investigations of the collapsed building, but none were received during the investigations.

At the trial on Monday, Oyenuga listed his educational qualifications as an HND in Civil Engineering from the Yaba College of Technology in 1978, a first class BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Lagos in 1981.

He listed his professional qualifications as; A fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Structural Engineers, a past President of the institution, who served from 2009 to 2011 and a current registered engineer of COREN. Oyenuga further told the court

that the nine-man investigative committee that visited the site of the collapse building was created

by COREN in conjunction with the Nigerian Buildings and Roads Research Institute (NBRRI).

“The investigative committee consisted of nine people, there was no geophysist on it, he said.”

However, Oyenuga admitted he had no knowledge of who delivered the letter of request from COREN to SCOAN neither did he have an acknowledgment copy of the letter.

Mrs. Titi Akinlawon (SAN) a counsel for the defence questioned Oyenuga’s claim that he received no documents from SCOAN. “You had alleged in your evidence that you got exhibits P2

and P3 from the church, in what circumstances did you get those documents? Akinlawon asked.”

“I did not get those documents from the church but rather from the office of the Coroner which was set up to investigate the building collapse”, Oyenuga said.

Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji alongside their companies – Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Limited – and the trustees of SCOAN are facing a 111-count charge of gross negligence and manslaughter brought against them by the state.

According to DPP, the offences were committed between August 20 and September 2013.

kidnap suspect, Martin Ugwuagbo, who allegedly defrauded one Uche Ugwuja of N180, 000 from the Nsukka Prison was reported to have rejected a prison van made available for him and the three other suspects to appear at Igboetiti Magistrate Court in Enugu State.

It was gathered that Ugwuagbo who had earlier declined to enter the prison van, known as Black Maria, appeared alone in a private vehicle driven by a prison official 30 minutes after the other three arrived in a prison van.

Ugwuagbo is standing trial –alongside Awele Ogbonna, Fabian Ezugwu and Ozor Uwakwe for an alleged kidnap of one Mrs. Precious Agbo, at Ekwegbe in Igboetiti Local Government Area.

It was also gathered that when Ugwuagbo eventually appeared in a Toyota car with registration number DJ 363 ENU at the court premises, he caused a stir, as people looked aghast and wondered how prison officials should accord someone in prison custody such respect.

FRSC to pay lawyer N200, 000 fine Jacob Ogodo, Abakaliki

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A state high court sitting in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, has ordered the state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to pay the sum of N200, 000 to a legal practitioner in the state, Chinedu Ngele, for trampling upon his fundamental human right.

Ngele was on November 9, 2014 stopped by special marshals of the corps in front of the corps’ office along the Abakaliki/Enugu Expressway who were on duty in the area.

He was accused of using expired tyre which they said attracted N2, 000 fine and immediately impounded the vehicle. But he insisted that his vehicle tyre was okay and must go with it, a situation that made the marshals to cease his driving license and two law books pending when he brought a bank teller as evidence that he had paid the N2, 000 fine so as to reclaim his vehicle.

He was said to have paid the fine and returned to the marshals with bank teller as evidence and was told that it was some minutes past the hour of 4pm and as a result should come back the next day.

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As the National Assembly is proposing an amendment of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), Emeka Etiaba, a Senior Advocate has called on the legislature to also revisit the issue of 180 days deadline for election petition tribunal to be concluded in order to forestall any miscarriage of justice. Besides, the fiery lawyer also spoke on the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) elections, the judiciary and other sundry issues. PETER FOWOYO, met him.

“The Senate has to look into the 180 days rule. Every elections contested must be determined within 180 days counting from when it was filed until when judgment is given that is a major problem”

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The card reader has not been used in general elections before, they were only used during this 2015 general elections so the Electoral Act couldn’t have anticipated...

Emeka Etiaba, a Senior Advocate

Election petition tribunal-Interlocutory appeal should be discounted from 180 days - Etiaba What is your take on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) national election coming up next month and the modality for e-voting?

Well, my take on it is that the Nigerian Bar Association is always leading the way in positive ways that is a very good one at least for the first time, every lawyer is entitled to vote in the election, it is no longer a delegates type of election where a few people determine the future of the entire people so I see it as a welcome development and beyond the issue of e-voting comes with the achievements of the present administration with the reasonable innovations which hitherto were thought is impossible.

For example the use of stamp and seal which has actually gone a long way in weeding out fake lawyers. Before now fake lawyers were able to pay practicing fees, come to court, carry on while some of us never knew they were non –lawyers until the issue of stamp and seal came. The NBA

administration has done well, the ID cards are out for the first time a lawyer has ID card given to him by the Bar Association, the branch where he practice. The regime has done well, the plan for succession is also going on well by the introduction of this mode of election.

What is your assessment of two presidential candidates contesting the election?

The problems we have with Nigerians and the electoral process most times is that people are appealed to run for an election. You see people who are reluctant candidates contest an election and most times when people appealed to them to run for the election they win because some interest, power blocs feel that such characters can be manipulated so they will go and convince them to come out and run for election.

But what we are seeing in the NBA election is that you have two people who are desirous on their own to contest for the election, the two people who have mani-

fested their interest. The two people who have come out have the capacity to lead the Bar so I am impressed.

How do you see the move by the Senate to commence the process of amending the 2010 Electoral Act in order to pave way for early primaries and also strengthen the electoral process?

The move is welcome and it is not new. Normally, after every election, the problems in the electoral process are articulated and that informs the amendment that comes unfortunately this amendment coming is a bit late in coming, amendment should have come before the last election though the electoral Act 2010 as amended if we have amended the 2010 and continued with amendment, we would have had a better 2015 general elections but if that has also happened by now, there would be clamor for move for another amendment because you could see certain realities that played out at the election tribu-

nals, it could not have been taken care of because they were innovations that came in 2015 general elections.

For example, the card reader, the card reader has not been used in general elections before, they were only used during this 2015 general elections so the Electoral Act couldn’t have anticipated and that is why most judgments including that of the Supreme Court stated clearly that card reader is not part of our Electoral Laws, until it is inscribed into our electoral law that elections cannot be adjudged to be fair or unfair, what the court rely on before now, is the manual voters’ register and that also bring me to the point where people who are not ceased of electoral matters will sit in the comfort of their homes and offices and begin to pass judgments over judgments passed by election petition tribunals, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court even when they do not know what the laws curtailed.

Now that we are doing the amendment I expect that the issue of card reader will be brought into the electoral act and every court will now use it. All card reader is needed for is accreditation. Card reader is the one that will show that a voter was accredited or not accredited and the reports will also find the details. It is a welcome development.

What are your expectations from this amendment? Are there any other amendments that you envisaged the Senate would look into?

The Senate has to look into the 180 days rule. Every elections contested must be determined within 180 days counting from when it was filed until when judgment is given that is a major problem. It is a major problem because once there is an interlocutory challenge you can tell that that particular petition will suffer a set- back, it can never be concluded within 180 days. If it CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

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goes to the Court of Appeal and probably it comes back to the tribunal for retrial what you find is that you can hardly go a step further within the 180 days so if they can look at it let us amplify the 180 days rule by saying the period of interlocutory appeal will be discounted from the 180 days.

That will be good. I hope they will look into it. There are other issues like objections that are not really taken that should come within first schedule, there can now be a definite pronouncement by the first schedule that all interlocutory applications should be taken at the end of trial so those are issues that can be taken care of and also look at the positions of the parties.

In view of most elections being conducted by this administration declared inconclusive, do you think the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can conduct a free and fair elections in 2019?

It is too early to judge them but, I must tell you, going by the inconclusive nature of the isolated elections that they have conducted so far, I have my fears; they really will have to work hard to give us credible elections in 2019. It is too early to say they cannot but there is work to be done.

Could you assess the nation’s judiciary and what you think is responsible for its perceived rots?

The judiciary in Nigeria has not done badly, I always say it, the judicial system is a system within the larger system called Nigeria and the Judges are Nigerians, they are not from the moon, going by the rot you find in Nigeria I can tell you the judiciary has done well, extremely well and if you ask me whether there is need for improvement I will say yes, there is need for improvement and when people talk, they talk as if the judiciary has not been self -cleansing. In the past six months I can tell you how many Judges they have disciplined, quite a lot of Judges but people don’t look at this, people judge the judiciary base on how judgment that comes from there affects them.

I will give you an example.

When the Supreme Court in the governorship election in Nige-

‘The Supreme Court can reverse itself because...’

“Until Nigeria is restructured, we would continue to have problems because we have not come to terms that there should be respect for every region” ria, certain people from certain persuasion felt that the judiciary has not done well, they felt the Supreme Court has not been fair to all but what they failed to look at are the principles with which Supreme Court founded its judgments.

The Supreme Court founded its judgments on certain principle and nobody has accused them of deviating from those principles rather they will say in AkwaIbom state, they gave it to PDP, in Rivers state, they gave it to PDP, in Abia state they gave it to PDP, they have not said whether they deviated from those principles that they as court has settled.

People will always comment on the judiciary based on where they stand and I don’t waste my time with such people. And at times you also find people who assess the judiciary out of bad faith, some out of ignorance. A lawyer who has not gone to court in over 20 years now have the idea which judgment is correct or not correct, from which knowledge of law? Basically we have to

see beyond the smokescreen, the judiciary has done well, even where there are lapses they have been cleansing themselves.

Many lawyers’ have described Nigeria’s system of government as unitary federalism and that the country should be restructured. Do you agree with this?

It is not an issue of whether I agree or not, until Nigeria is restructured, we would continue to have problems because we have not come to terms that there should be respect for every region. Now, we toil around when it suits us to six regions in the country but I tell you until there is mutual respect for all the ethnicity and all the regions there will always be problem. It is just not right that you have 54 federal appointments and the Ibo tribe get only one slot out of 54.

We have six regions; divide 54 by six that is what the South-East should get. We are talking about fairness and until the country is restructured on the realities of the state of our union, we will al-

ways have problems. We have to be careful. That call will always continue no matter how long.

Apathy was there for a long time until one day, it was pulled down so this is a mountain that must be pulled down.

Are you saying the SouthEast is marginalized in federal appointments?

Am I speaking in tongues? The South-East is marginalized and nobody has challenged it rather, what they say is that the SouthEast did not vote for the party in power at the center which to me is a very, very unfortunate assumption.

What is your view on the Kogi state election petition tribunal which dismissed the petition of Honorable James Abiodun Faleke’s petition for lack of merit?

There you go again, that is where Nigerians go wrong, I did not see the petition, I am not in full grip of the facts, I don’t know what the laws that the tribunal applied says and you want me to comment obviously, I will be talk-

“Aregbesola’s decision and the court’s decisions are decisions that will take the people of Osun State back to the dark-age”

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ing like an idiot and I don’t want to sound like an idiot.

Controversy has continued to trail the wearing of hijab in Osun state.

What is your take on the court’s decision that allows Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s policy to stand?

Aregbesola’s decision and the court’s decisions are decisions that will take the people of Osun State back to the dark-age. We are talking about looking for money to pay salaries, every state is talking about how to go back to agriculture, how to encourage young entrepreneur, how to industrialized the states and in a state where salaries are owed the focus is no longer how to pay salaries and improve on the IGR of the state, they are talking about hijab and that is the legacy he has decided to bequeath as his tenure runs to an end. It is very sad.

The other day I saw in the newspapers the Christians, some wore their worship choir clothes, others wore white gowns. That is what we called a state of anomy, a state where nobody is in control that is what he has foisted on the state. I hope he will look beyond party lines. I know the state worked before he took over, I know how hard the former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola worked hard to position the state and I know how bad the state has gone back now.

Has there been a situation where the Supreme Court reverses itself ? Can the apex court do so?

Of course, the Supreme Court can reverse itself because they are made up of human beings who are also fallible but there are conditions that must exist before they overrule themselves.

What are these conditions?

You must prove that the judgment was delivered per incuria, that is to say, that the judgment was delivered without considerations of the state of law. You must show that the decision of the Supreme Court runs contrary to their previous decisions which are sound. You must show that if they have averted their minds to certain principles of law and judgment they have delivered that that judgment wouldn’t have gone the way it went. You can isolate a Supreme Court judgment and challenge it. It is done.

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Why only four organisations in Nigeria are partially using IPV6 —Investigation Tony Nwakaegho The world is transiting from the use of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPV4) to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) based on the fact that the keeper of the free address pool, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, (IANA) in February, 2011 fully allocated and exhausted all of the IPv4 Addresses.

However, investigation has shown that 35 organisations in Nigeria have so far acquired these IPV6 addresses, while only four of the organisations are partially making use of the IPV6 on the internet.

The enquiry also revealed that in Nigeria many of these organizations are using the Network translation system in their operation; hence Tony Nwakaegho has to undertake an investigation to unearth why these organisations are reluctant to migrate to IPV6.

A NAT (Network Address Translation or Network Address Translator) is the virtualization of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. NAT helps improve security and decrease the number of IP addresses an organization needs.

Network address translation (NAT) is a method of remapping one IP address space into another by modifying network address information in Internet Protocol (IP) datagram packet headers while they are in transit across a traffic routing device. The technique was originally used for ease of rerouting traffic in IP networks without renumbering every host. It has become a popular and essential tool in conserving global address space allocations in face of IPv4 address exhaustion by sharing one Internet-routable IP address of a NAT gateway for an entire private

network.

Mr Yemi Adedoyin of Broadband and Converged Solution Phase 3 Telecom in an interview with Daily Times explained that translation will still be in effect because there are challenges to migrate to IPV6, so people in IPV4 are using the translation so that they can put the limited IPV4 public IP address into multipurpose use in their offices and still be able to connect to the internet.

“But as people migrate from IPV4 to IPV6 there will be no need for that translation. The reason why they are doing that translation is because there is not enough IP addresses to go round, but once people migrate to IPV6 there will be enough IP address system to go round so you don’t need to do translation. Translation is just using few numbers to map to one IP address system,” he said.

Commenting on the reason why those organizations don’t want to migrate immediately to IPV6, he said that all over the world there is some traction from migrating for IPV4 to IPV6 because they are two different networks that cannot operate together, adding that most people already have the IPV4 may not find it necessary to migrate to IPV6 particularly for instance if there is no commercial advantage to migrating into IPV6.

“So if I am in IPV4 and I see that I don’t have too many customers or clients I can still stay there,” he noted.

He emphasized that Nigerians from now on should ensure that the appliances and equipment they buy are IPV6 compatible so that if Nigeria migrate from now till the next 20 years from IPV4 to IPV6 with the equipment you have now, you don’t need to buy new equipment.

“So you will have equipment that is IPV4 compatible and equipment that is IPV6 compatible at the same

time. So if you are working in an IPV4 network your equipment works and if you are operating in IPV6 network your equipment also works. The IPV4 equipment will not be discarded they will work side by side with IPV6 equipment,” he explained.

Adedoyin disclosed that there are 35 organisations in Nigeria that have acquired IPV6 but only four are partially using them, stressing that it is so because even globally apart from T Mobile of the UK that has such equipment, completely IPV6 network and a few Universities in China that have complete IPV6 networks we don’t have networks that are entirely IPV6.

“So if I have a website that is IPV4 and I have an IPV6 address it cannot be accessed except that person does a translation to IPV4 address. It is due to the fact that you have a lot of tractions that people are not working on IPV6. But they can still work together, as all I need to do is that if in my company I have a website that is IPV4 enabled then we will have website that IPV6 enabled. The true is most networks are IPV6 enabled and the two networks are separate and there are a lot of investments. In US for example for 20 years they needed $25billion to migrate to IPV6. Now, you will are seeing people saying that they want to invest in IPV6 in all networks. Most people don’t want to invest; they want to run with what they have. The same time you have in Nigeria, there are still many networks that are 3G whereas we have 4G and LTE. How many people are working on that? Many people have invested in 2G, 3G and so until they recoup their investment, they may not go to that,” he emphasized.

According to him, government is trying its best and there is a lot of awareness on the part of the Nigerian Communications

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Broadband and Converged Solution Phase 3 Telecom

Commission (NCC) that is spearheading most of them like sponsoring the recent DigitalSense Forum that has just ended in Lagos, but as you know we tend to be the last in many good things.

Hopefully, he said our government will be able to do maybe mobilization and awareness to help people migrate to IPV6.

“It will take time and that is the truth. It will take a lot of efforts, collaboration and it will take people determining to tap into the resources of IPV6 but government still have a lot to do in terms of sponsoring people and companies that want to go to IPV6.

“One of the things that the government does to encourage companiestoexpandtheirnetworks is from some facilities from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in form of the money given to government agencies, so while the companies are spending their money to expand their infrastructure the government also comes in to subsidy it. So if government comes with such avenue or mechanism where you can give discount in form of tax rebate to companies that invest in IPV6, then people would want to migrate to IPV6,” he stated.

Commenting on the way forward, he said that it relies on the government which drives many things including policies and cited an instance on May 18 this year in the UK, where the government of UK made it mandatory that every telecom service provider in the country will need to provide

every citizen of that country with 10megabyte per second service.

“Since it is the government that came out with that policy every company has to comply. That can also drive the IPV6 in this country,” he buttressed.

When asked whether the companies will not also resist the compliance with IPV6 migration as they are doing on listing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, he pointed out that when you want to achieve something you have to use carrot and also use stick. “You have to approach people, lobby and inquire from the stakeholders, adding that the truth of the matter is that government doesn’t have money to give to anybody.

“They can only encourage you by creating the enabling environment. So what is going to happen is that there will be tractions, and reluctance by the private organization, but government has to find a creative way of persuading them to be able to buy into IPV6,” he stated further.

When probed on how feasible it is for this IPV4 transition to end by 2020, Adedoyin declared: “What I mean is not the transition, but about the available IP addresses to Africa. It could by 2020, but it doesn’t mean that we will stop communicating.

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Ogunbanjo proffers blueprint for declaring ICT infrastructure critical national assets

By Tony Nwakaegho

Stakeholders in the Nigeria Telecommunications Industry have been canvassing that the federal government declare telecom infrastructure in the country as critical national and security assets.

The latest clarion call emerged from Mr Deolu Ogunbanjo National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) President who noted that recent move by the federal government to declare telecom infrastructure in the country as critical national and security assets is a move in the right direction, but it needed to be accompanied with immediate actions.

He stated that the growing targeted attacks on telecom equipment, infrastructure and telecom workers are causing headaches for everybody including the regulator, operators and subscribers.

He stated that persistent vandalism of telecom infrastructure is a mirror of the country as whole from north to south and from east to west and present danger hampering the provision of quality services to

Analyst Gartner has disclosed that it is expecting a big drop in smartphone sales growth, projecting the market will shrink from 14.4 per cent growth in 2015 to just 7 per cent in 2016 with only 1.5 billion smartphone units being shipped globally this year.

The high watermark for smartphone sales was back in 2010, when Gartner notes the market grew 73 per cent. The signs of a slowdown in the global smartphone market have been clear for more than a year, with mature Western markets saturated and China’s growth engine also slowing as demand has topped out. Incentives for consumers to upgrade their devices yearly have also softened, with Gartner noting that new devices offer only incremental upgrades over existing hardware and carriers have been moving away from subsidizing upgrades.

In emerging markets it says the average lifetime of premium phone is between 2.2 and 2.5 years, while basic mobiles have an average lifetime of three years and up.

Gartner sees the biggest remaining opportunity for smartphone growth in India, noting that sales of feature phones — aka dumbphones — accounted for a majority (61 per cent) of total

According to him, this trend also has ripple effects on the economy, including; reduced investment, job losses, reduced taxable income and in absence of official figures is believed to be costing the industry billions of naira annually.

Ogunbanjo lamented that the country is simply under the siege of growing army of criminals and the numbers of people who are dying in their hands are higher than some countries hit by natural disasters or civil wars.

He lauded Barr. Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications plans to set up an ad-hoc committee to x-ray the challenges facing the industry and urge his ministry to include operators, the regulators, security agencies and indeed ordinary Nigerians in the committee to find enduring solutions to the problems.

He disclosed that it is imperative that these vandals who do not have clear motives for their acts are giving proper orientation on the importance, the critical nature of these infrastructure and begin to change Nigerians mind-sets.

The aim is to make Nigerians see ICT infrastructure as a national resource, he said which must be protected just like railway and electricity infrastructure.

He charged the industry players to rally behind NATCOMS efforts to get government to declare ICT equipment, president critical national infrastructure that must be protected by law. the over 140 million subscribers in the country.

Consequently, he added that government should He added that such disruptions not only disconnect also beef up security around telecommunication subscribers, but also cause embarrassment to businesses infrastructure nationwide to prevent vandals from and national security. destroying critical economic infrastructure.

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NITDA, Agric Ministry partner on eAgriculture portal to aid farmers In the quest at making Nigeria to attain self-sufficient in food production, the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) has developed an agricultural portal project.

The management of the Agency and the project consultant were commended by Chief Audu Ogbe, minister of Agriculture and Rural Development when they paid him a visit to demonstrate the working of the portal to him in Abuja.

The minster expressed his optimism on the project, adding that with a portal like this, the level patronage on Nigerian agricultural produce would increase in foreign countries while maintaining that “our produce will also enjoy quality control and provide necessary information to importers of our farm product.

“We will collaborate with your Agency on this laudable initiative and we are starting right now by constituting a working team that will work further on the contents of the portal because it is very key for the effectiveness of the project.”

He urged the team that will be put together to ensure elimination of inaccurate information and data on the portal, stressing that the team should make provision for source of agricultural finances in the portal to enable farmers know how to source for credit facilities for their business.

Gartner predicts drop in smartphone sales in 2016 mobile device sales last year, leaving plenty of scope for upgrades as smartphones continue to become more affordable.

It is estimating 139 million smartphones will be sold in India this year, growing 29.5 per cent year-over-year. It notes the average selling price of mobiles in the country remains below $70, and it expects smartphones priced under $120 to continue to contribute around half of overall smartphones sales there this year. So little to cheer Apple there in terms of growth opportunity for premium priced devices, but potentially there is good news for alternative smartphone OS maker Jolla which last year inked a deal with Indian OEM Intex to get devices running its Sailfish platform into the market.

The first Sailfish device for India, the Intex Aqua Fish, is priced below $120 and due to arrive this year, although its launch has been delayed — and last month was being slated as arriving “in the coming months”.

Turning to China, the story last year was flat smartphone sales, and Gartner is expecting “little growth” in the region in the next five years — couching it as a “saturated yet highly competitive” market — and noting that sales of smartphones represented 95 per cent of total mobile phones sales last year. So bad news for

ambitious homegrown player Xiaomi, which has been gunning for high growth just as the local market is saturating. Last month it signed a deal with Microsoft on patents — paving the way to hunt elusive smartphone growth overseas.

Gartner does say it sees opportunity for “non-traditional” vendors in China, projecting that by 2018 at least one such phone maker will be among the top five smartphone brands in the country. “Chinese internet companies are increasingly investing in mobile device hardware development, platforms and distribution as they aim to grow their user bases and increase user loyalty and engagement,” notes Gartner analyst Annette Zimmerman in a statement.

The Sub-Saharan African region is also couched as an attractive region for smartphone vendors, with smartphone sales only overtaking mobile phones sales there for the first time last year. Nokia

brand licensee and newly formed smartphone OEM HMD will want to take note, given it has paid for the right to build featurephones (and smartphones) bearing the previously iconic Nokia brand name.

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Telecom operators seek better policy on spectrum licensing DANBATTA

Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission

Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Telecommunications operators in the country have urged federal government and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to focus more on creating investment friendly environment alongside spectrum auctioning as a way to achieving the 30 percent broadband penetration target by 2018.

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Samuel Adeleke, immediate past president, Internet Services Providers Association of Nigeria (ISPAN) said that licensing of spectrum as a way to increase broadband penetration is not enough to achieve the target.

He explained that the just concluded spectrum auction where only one bidder bided for the spectrum is a sign for

NCC that either the licensing fee is expensive or the objectives of the licensing are unachievable.

“NCC should take a look at the success rate of its auctioned spectrum licenses, for me, it is only the GSM spectrum auction that was successful, others were faced with issues of winners after paying for the license find it difficult to roll out services. NCC needs to look at the proper use of its licenses moving forward. For instance, Globacom has invested in intra-city and inter-city fibre network, which are presently not in use. This infrastructure is required to increase broadband penetration in the country, the regulator should ensure the effective utilization of licensed spectrum,” he said.

Adeleke also blamed the current economic situation in the country which is not

conducive for people to make investment.

“The situation in the country does not support investment, if an investor spends money in rolling out service, EFCC will come after him to query how he made money he is spending or return on investment is not guarantee because of fear that there won’t be demand for the service as people’s purchasing power is low.”

“Any regulation that will make businesses to grow or create right environment for success of business and not making money for government should be the focus of NCC and other government agencies,” he noted.

Engr. Lanre Ajayi, immediate past president, Association Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), said that making spectrum available is certainly a good idea. It will help in addressing the last mile challenges. But the question is, are the investors confident about our investment climate?

I think we need to make our

environment more investment friendly in addition to making spectrum available to ensure that we do repeat a situation where we will end up with just one bidder.

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Gbenga Adebayo, chairman, association Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) said that spectrum licensing will help to achieve the 30 percent broadband penetration target, but policy will do more towards the targeted 30 percent penetration by 2018.

He said that granting multiple operational licenses to operators does not guarantee investment in that regard, but implementation of well -articulated policies that will encourage operators to invest their money.

He said Government must go beyond granting of licenses to eliminating those barriers such as bottlenecks in securing ‘right of way’, impediments to smooth network operationswhere operators are forced to pay levies that are not legalized, and vandalisation.

HIS acquires HTN’s 1,211 diversified tower sites throughout Nigeria IHS Holding Limited (IHS), the largest mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, has completed the acquisition of Helios Towers Nigeria Limited’s (HTN) 1,211 diversified tower sites throughout Nigeria.

HTN and IHS established the mobile telecommunications infrastructure industry in Nigeria in the early 2000s and this transaction is the first in-market consolidation in Africa.

Under the terms of the transaction, IHS acquired the Telecom Mast entire issued share capital underlying business.

Business will continue as of HTN and now has full operational control of the usual for HTN’s towers which

will be seamlessly integrated into the IHS network and connected to IHS’s state of the art network operating centre which monitors each tower 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The transaction allows for the continued delivery of bestin-class solutions to customers and additional investment in infrastructure upgrades.

IHS is committed to maintaining HTN’s existing relationship and position with its bondholders and a meeting of bondholders held on 22 April 2016 agreed to waive any redemption rights which may have arisen in respect to the change of control.

IHS believes the benefits of the transaction extend to

all stakeholders as there are meaningful synergies that will be derived from the transaction given a considerable part of the IHS portfolio is located in Nigeria.

IHS will work to roll out its renewable energy solutions and diesel reduction initiatives whilst maintaining unparalleled network uptime.

Inder Bajaj, chief executive officer of HTN, said: “IHS has a proven track record in telecoms infrastructure services and is the natural buyer of our business. We strongly believe their deep knowledge and extensive experience in the sector will help to continue the strong level of customer service achieved by HTN.”

FIP President-elect, Mike Hinchey to speak at NCS Abuja 2016 Mike Hinchey, the President Elect, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), will be speaking at the 26th National Conference of Nigeria Computer Society tagged “Information Technology for National Safety and Security”.

This was made known to Daily Times in a statement from NCS that Mike Hinchey will deliver the Goodwill Message during the Opening Ceremony and serve as Keynote Speaker during a Plenary Session on “Innovation in National Safety and Security”.

He will also give a technical presentation on the topic “Enhancing National Security using Software Systems at the National Conference that will take place at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja-FCT, Nigeria from July 19th to 21st, 2016.

Daily Times gathered that Mike Hinchey is an Outstanding Academic, Thought Leader and Global Authority, so the conference will benefit from his knowledge and insights.

The President Elect of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) is also Vice President of the Irish Computer Society and Vice Chair of IEEE UK and Ireland.Established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, IFIP is the leading global organization in Information and Communications Technologies and Sciences. IFIP is recognized by the UN, as the body representing IT societies from all over the world. The Nigeria Computer Society is a member of IFIP. Security as one of the most critical issues in Nigeria will form topical issues for discussion at the conference. In the 21st century, nations invest in Information Technology as the key enabler for National Security.

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Nigerians urged to use tracking technology to stop car theft, others Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Nigerians have been called upon to embrace the use of car tracking technology to stop the incessant car theft and to monitor the use of their vehicles by their drivers and other unauthorized persons.

This appeal was made by Miss Susan Adinoyi, Market Analyst with Concept Nova, based in Lagos while speaking with Daily Times in an exclusive interview during the just ended first Nigerian Drivers Conference held in Lagos, adding that her company, Concept Nova is dealing in the car trackers which the Nigerian market is beginning to key into to stop theft and other anti-car vices.

According to her, Concept Nova is into IT solutions that are creating IT solutions to solve technological problems, stressing that kind of solution is to prevent people from stealing your car or help you to recover your vehicle if it is stolen.

“We have the car tracker which the Nigerian market is beginning to warm up to it. The car tracker is installed in your car and you can monitor the location of your car real time on your mobile phone, by sending a text message in your phone and you get a reply on your mobile phone or you click into our app and it will show you exactly where your vehicle is.

“We also have a recovery team which is a value added service in that if your car is stolen we used our tracker to know where your vehicle is and our recovery team goes and recover the vehicle from that particular location.

“We also have fuel immobilizer that you need to use by logging into your application when you know that your car has been stolen and with the click on button the fuel gets cut off the fuel supply from moving into your vehicle and the vehicle will stop on its own.

She added that the solution is very accessible together with another product that prevents anyone being able to break your vehicle glass to gain

Business Development Concept Nova NJOKU Head access into it.

Also speaking with Daily Times, Mr Collins Njoku, Head-Independent Sales said that Concept Nova partnership is at different levels- the franchises that represent the firm in bigger geographical areas and vendors, adding that franchise can buy in large quantity while the retailers buy in small quantity to sell to vendor and to consumers.

He listed Axa, Mansard Insurance, Banker’s Warehouse, MTN, Etisalat, Gurtam and Custodian among others as the company’s partners, while, Harmony Crest MGO Associates, Agritech Holding in Lagos among others as the company’s vendors and Joemark Technical services in Warri as the company’s franchise.

“We have over 50 vendors outside Lagos. This is to

expand our reach because we cannot sell our product ourselves. We have to take advantage of the connections that other people have for our partners to make money and we also make money from that partnership.

“An average car user must have heard about car tracking but there are different levels of car tracking. There is the old version technology of car tracking that can be used on the mobile phone, but ours is real time done on the web which will show you exactly where your car is and they will send for us.

That is what makes our own more advanced than others.

Beyond theft, the car track solution is to aid in the monitoring of your car’s location with your driver who might want to disobey you, not necessarily to steal the car or even your kid who may want

to drive your car without your permission. The car tracking gives you the control to immobilize the vehicle so that he will not be able to go to where he wants to go to.

He explained that the solution makes the person who is going to drive your car know that there is a car tracker in it and so reduces the rate of misuse which would have resulted from not monitoring your car and improves the life span of your car.

“All you need is to install the app on the move through your mobile phone and through it you can view the car on your mobile phone or any internet enabled PC,” he said.

Commenting on challenges on the use of the device, Njoku highlighted thus: “there is no business without challenges.

Our car tracking technology depends on telecommunications and telematics solution is a combination of computer and telecommunication technology and since we don’t manage telecommunications we have to depend on a second party for instance MTN, Etisalat and other networks. The efficiency of their own service affects our own service so if their network is failing it hampers our own delivery so from time to time we try to partner with the most effective network in the area where we are tracking. It depends on the network which the client suggest is stronger in his or her area then we use that for the client to make such that the client will not cease to have network on the tracking.

“In a case the stolen vehicle is driven out of the boarder we have connections with the telcos to roam the SIM immediately. If the vehicle has crossed Seme broader once we roam the SIM we continue our tracking.”

Lagos to invest in human capacity development Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde has disclosed that one of the cardinal direction of Governor Akinwumi Ambode led administration is to invest in capacity development of government officials who are major stakeholders in articulating his plans, programmes and policies for the development of the State.

Ayorinde made this known while declaring open the second stream of the retreat programme organized for Public Affairs Officers in the employ of the government held at Golden Tulip Hotel, Amuwo Odofin.

The Commissioner said that Governor Ambode is specifically interested in the way and manner activities of the government is communicated to Lagosians including people at the grassroots and would continue to support the Public Affairs Officers in improving their skills to help in achieving the objective for better service delivery.

Commenting on the rationale behind the change in nomenclature from Public Relations Officers to Public Affairs Officers, the Commissioner said the government expects public involvement in information management in line with the pledge made by the Governor during his inaugural address to run a government of inclusion.

He urged the officers to improve in their duty by going extra miles in gathering information that would project the state government better and also benefit members of the public.

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serious that I need IPV6 then I don’t have a choice than to do the IPV6.”

He affirmed that Nigerians are very industrious, brilliant and determined people; all we need is to create the enabling environment.

“If you give access to Nigerian students to have broadband access to internet you will be amazed as to what they can do. People, who are jobless, idle and becoming miscreants if they can have access to internet, they can find out information, they can think, process data, come up with solutions for the economy and the

country. If the government can provide enough resources I know that the youth can do more for this country.

“IPV6 gives opportunity to process information faster. You can give your equipment an IP address and you can microwave it,” he concluded.

On his part, Mr Mohammed Rudman, Chairman IPV6 Council in Nigeria, said that commercial interest is the bane as to why only four organizations out of 35 that have acquired the IPV6 are partially using it on the internet.

He stated that three Internet Service Providers (ISPs) namely MainOne, Internet Solution and IpNX Nigeria are the ones using it,

while the fourth which was acquired by the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN) has not been put to use for now.

He listed the challenges of IPV6 in Nigeria to include: “ ISPs need a business case- Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) routers temporarily solving the problem; lack of technical knowhow; Core, Metro and Edge equipment compatibility issues; lack of IPV6 upstream service providers and nonrequest from end users.”

Mohammed explained that the way forward is to create IPV6 awareness and capacity building by organizing seminar, training and incorporating IPV6 into university curriculum.

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he Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung was at the head of a long list of administrators, friends, family members, journalists and concerned persons who thronged the residence of late Coach Shuaibu Amodu in Surulere, Lagos on Saturday for the eighth day prayer for the departed NFF Technical Director.

A solemn atmosphere prevailed as the one –hour ceremony at the late tactician’s Adegoke Street, off Alhaji Masha residence was witnessed by the Minister, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme (NFF Deputy General Secretary), Mr. David Atabo (NFF Director of Finance and Admin), Mr. Abdulrafiu Yusuf (NFF assistant director, technical), Mr. Siji Lagunju (NFF assistant director, technical) and other important personalities in Nigeria

football.

Writing in the condolence register, Barr. Dalung noted: “Coach, is this life? You came and we discussed about the future of football in Nigeria but you suddenly disappeared.

Why are the mighty falling?

“I will only ask God to reward you because humanity was not too kind to you. We didn’t know you but your work surpass everything. A great tree has fallen. There is darkness all over the place. Amodu, please give football in Nigeria light. Adieu.”

Amodu, 58, coached the Nigeria senior team on four occasions, during which he qualified the team for the FIFA World Cup on two occasions and led them to third place finish at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2002 and 2010.

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Liverpool and France defend er Mamadou Sakho’s hearing over a failed drugs test has been scheduled for next mo nth.

The French internation al, initially suspended by UEFA for 30 days when the offence came to light, tes ted positive for a fat-burning substance afte r the Europa League tie against Manch ester United in March.

UEFA subsequently did not extend the ban once it had expired at the end of May as the governing body lau nched its own investigation into whether the substance the centre-back took should even be on the banned list.

It is now understood that Sakho’s case will be heard in July, althoug h no exact date has been set.

The 26-year-old submitted his defence to UEFA’s disciplinary committee last month and as part of that process his legal team questioned whether the substance in the supplement should even be on the prohibited list given some apparent scientific evidence concernin g its effects.

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elechi Iheanacho’s participation at the forthcoming Olympic Games has been cast in a mist of doubt after it emerged he is expected to resume pre-season with Manchester City rather than join the Nigeria Olympic team.

Iheanacho, 19, is in the Nigeria provisional squad for the Games, but his participation is now in doubt, as he will return to England to team up with City for pre-season.

“We’re really not sure if he will go to the Olympic Games or not because he is scheduled to return to England for preseason,” a top source in the player’s circle said.

“It will depend on the arrangement the NFF will have with Manchester City which I’m not sure of, but I’m sure he will start the pre-season with City,” the source added further.

Iheanacho had a breakout season at the Etihad last term, with former manager Manuel Pellegrini having given him opportunities.

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FG pledges to fully implement Automotive policy Joy Ekeke

The Federal Government has pledged to ensure full implementation of the Nigerian Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP).

Mr Ikechukwu Enelamah, the

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, made this known at a stakeholders’ forum on the policy, tagged “Setting an Implementation Agenda for the NAIDP” in Lagos on Monday.

Enelamah said that all that was needed to implement the

plan was an enabling environment and a partnership between the government and stakeholders.

“Value addition is very important in implementing the automotive plan and the government needs to create an enabling envi-

ronment for the plan to work “The whole essence of the plan is to foster backward integration and local content utilisation in vehicle assembling, which will in turn create jobs for our productive youths.

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L-R: Yvonne Isichei, ED Operations & Technology, Keystone Bank; Philip Ikeazor, MD, Keystone Bank; Doyin Odunfa, MD, Digital Jewel; Hafiz Bakare, ED, Corporate Bank & Treasury, Keystone Bank; Innocent Ike, ED, Lagos & West Keystone Bank, at the project closure & presentation dinner of certification in Business Continuity Management-ISO 22301 in Lagos… at the weekend.

Investigation: How NNPC paid $6.5b subsidy to itself in 3 yrs Opeoluwani Akintayo The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) sells around one million barrels of oil a day, or almost half of the country’s total production. In 2013 alone, its oil was worth an estimated $41 billion, constituting the government’s largest revenue stream.

However, investigations show that the Domestic Crude Allocation, DCA, revenues spent

by NNPC delivers poor value for money. A large portion of NNPC’s withholdings are spent on fuel subsidy payments, which are vulnerable to misappropriation and excessive spending.

According to a document obtained by Business Times, KPMG

for example, revealed how NNPC paid itself roughly $6.5 billion in three years to fund the subsidy on 15.6 billion liters of products that “apparently were not available to the Nigerian market.” NNPC has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars in DCA revenues on pipeline protection, but levels of theft from crude oil pipelines have risen—in some cases by

over 500 percent in a year.

Early in 2014, Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi raised an alarm that $20 billion in NNPC oil sales revenue had gone missing, after which he offered recommendations for their reform.

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Despite the tripartite agreement between the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, employers, and the two trade unions in the oil industry – Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), some employers still went ahead to sack its members and the irked unions have threatened to down tools.

PENGASSAN over the weekend vowed to shut down operations and activities in the nation’s oil and gas industry if some employers in the industry do not reverse their anti-labour practices.

The senior staff trade union in a statement on Saturday gave a seven-day ultimatum within which employers should end all anti-labour practices in their companies or risk an industrial action that would totally ground the oil and gas industry.

The union is accusing some organisations in the industry of sacking some of its members without the relevant terms of agreement.

The spokesperson of union, Emmanuel Ojugbana, said despite the tripartite agreement between the

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“It is against the international civil aviation regulations for you to see refuse dumps all over the airport. You know this can attract dangerous animals. Apart from birds, other dangerous reptiles like snake can creep into the

aircraft over night and you can imagine what will happen on air” Airline Operators have in recent times raised concern on the dangers of bird strike done

Refuse dumps: Danger looms in Aviation Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Airline Operators may be in for a difficult time arising from bird strike should the authority’s in charge of clearing refuse dump at the Nigerian Civil Avia-

tion Authority NAFIS unit fail to evacuate the refuse Pockets of refuse heaps are presently pilling up at the NAFIS calibration office which has been attracting various types of birds and reptiles portending great

danger to airport users.

A worker who pleaded anonymity told Daily Times that that there was possibility of snake creeping over night into aircraft as a result of the heap of refuse dump.

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source Governance Institute, NRGI, said NNPC’s approach to oil sales suffers from high corruption risks which explained why it failed to maximize returns for the nation. These shortcomings also characterise NNPC as a whole.

For over 38 years, the Corporation has neither developed its own commercial or operational capacities, nor facilitated the growth of the sector through external investment. Instead, it has spun a legacy of inefficiency and mismanagement. Its faults have been described by a number of scathing reports, many commissioned by government itself.

Despite NNPC’s debilitating consumption of public revenue and performance failures, successive governments have done little to reform the company.

Rather management of NNPC’s oil sales has worsened in recent years—and particularly since 2010.

The largest problems stem from the rising number of ad hoc, makeshift practices the corporation has introduced to work around its deeper structural problems. For instance, NNPC entered into poorly designed oilfor-product swap deals when it could no longer meet the country’s fuel needs.

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Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, employers, and the two trade unions in the industry – PENGASSAN and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), some employers still went ahead to sack its members, including some national officers.

Mr. Ojugbana said despite the agreement that employers should put on hold redundancy in the industry, the managements of some service companies, namely Fugro, Universal Energy, Frontier Services and Petrostuff, went ahead to sack their workers.’

“I want to reiterate our demands that the Federal Government and the concern organisations including H15, IEME Chevron, Universal Energy, Chevron Contracts Tecon and Avion Oil and Fugro should resolve the critical industrial relation issues in their companies, particularly in the recent retrenchment in Fugro and Petrostuff should be reversed.

L-R: Mr. Ike Oraekwuotu, Coordinator, Commercial, Globacom; Mrs. Dorothy Udeme Ufot (SAN), Chairman, Planning Committee, 1st ICC Africa Regional Conference; Mr. Alexis Mourre, President, International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, and Mrs. Gladys Talabi, Executive Director, Legal Services, Globacom, at the 1st ICC Africa Regional Conference on Arbitration sponsored by Globacom at Eko Hotel... on Monday.

the industry using local content.

“The government recognises the contributions of the automotive industry to the implementation of the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) and we believe it is better to build on the policy than creating another,” the minister said.

He said the forum was the first in the series of engagements the government was planning with stakeholders.

Mr Tokunbo Aromolaran, Managing Director, VON Automobile Nigeria, while speaking during a panel session, said that there was a need to put a stop to the importation of cars through land borders.

Managed float fails to Minister pledges assistance to SEC in publicizing Master Plan lift naira, trading As the managed float of the naira was put to the test yesterday by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, it resulted in a further depreciation of the naira and failed to attract trading between banks due to liquidity concerns. The currency plummeted by more than 40 percent of its value, and slumped 23 percent against the dollar.

The naira started Monday at 255 to the dollar but ended with $530 million being traded at 280 to the dollar among 21 banks, according to traders who insisted on anonymity because the Central Bank has not published the figures.

The naira had crashed to 370 to the dollar on the parallel market before last Wednesday’s announcement that market forces will prevail amid a backlog of demand estimated at $4 billion

by Nigerian economic analyst SBM Intelligence.

According to economy watchers, the float of the naira was necessitated by spiraling economic crises and massive short-

age of foreign exchange created by the slump in oil prices and aggravated by a presidential order and the CBN’s 16-month-long insistence that the naira should remain at a fixed rate of 197 to the dollar.

Although the CBN put its official exchange rate at N280 per dollar yesterday, the national currency was exchanged at N345 per dollar at the parallel market, Analysts however express the optimism that the market would pick up very soon.

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has pledged the support of his ministry for the efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publicize the Commission’s Master Plan, which it is currently implementing.

Speaking when the SEC Director-General, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja on Friday, the Minister advised the Commission to approach the broad spectrum of the media to enlist their support in the advocacy.

“I will also advise you to please meet other stakeholders in the media and here, I am going to recommend in particular the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria and the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria, I will also want you to meet with the Financial and Business Editors. ‘’In addition, I will advise you

to take advantage of the various platforms we have...NTA, FRCN, NAN, VON and the National Orientation Agency,” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed commended SEC for its drive to promote transparency in the Capital Market, saying that the Federal Government is currently extending the transparency drive to the state governments to ensure good governance and accountability.

“We have now said for any state to qualify for any sort of bailout or help, that state must meet 22 objectives and all are about transparency. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, we are now asking states to publish their audited accounts, budgets and they should let us know their internally generated revenues. This idea of transparency is the only thing that can drive the economy,’’ he said.

In his speech, the SEC Director-General said the Commission has started implementing its Master Plan.

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to its aircraft engines running into millions of naira to get them fixed abroad.

Executive Chairman of Airline Operators of Nigeria , Captain Nogie Meggison, said indigenous airlines lose over 30 aircraft engines yearly to attacks by migratory birds.

He said the birds were making operators lose between $120 mil-

lion and $210 million yearly.

He lamented that it costs a minimum of $4 million to change a small aircraft engine damaged by birds during flight.

Middle range aircraft and large size aircraft engines, Meggison said, cost between $60 million and $70 million to replace if damaged through bird strike.

Meggison said domestic operators have been grappling with

this challenge for years without compensation from any government authorities or insurance firms.

He wondered how an airline could make profit in the face of these challenges, noting that operators should be lauded for putting their investments in air transport given its attendant risks.

He said the losses caused by the

birds could be reduced if aviation agencies stepped up control measures at the airports.

This, Meggison said, is important because bird strikes could contribute to air disasters if not checked.

Bird strikes, he said, could damage the aircraft engine blades, leading to possible malfunction, which is a threat to airline operations.

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Two-way quote inter-bank FX market begins Ï M ƄƉƉ ƾƞƞƊ Ǝ MƼƢƞƁ Ɵ Ǝ Ɔ ƎƄƍƂ ƈè MƠƽƾ Ƌ ƍ ƉƉƄƉ Ɗ ƍƈƄƎ Stories by Motolani Oseni Following the release of the revised Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Guidelines for the Operation of the Nigerian Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange (FX) Market, the two-way quote (2WQ) inter-bank FX Market commenced on the platform of FMDQ OTC Securities on Monday.

Interbank foreign exchange trading began on Monday after the CBN ended a 16 month currency peg but deals were thin due to concerns about U.S. dollar liquidity.

This was as the apex bank sold $500 million at N280 naira to a dollar at the interbank market on Monday after a “managed float” of the naira failed to attract trading between banks due to liquidity concerns, and was exchanged at N345 per dollar at the parallel market, traders said.

Forex traders in Lagos yesterday said that the interbank trading was extended until 5pm, with the CBN’s Authorised Dealers (ADs) setting the pace for the market-driven trading window through the FMDQ Thomson Reuters Foreign Exchange Trading System (the System).

The Guidelines, which set out a single and autonomous interbank FX market structure for the nation, supports the CBN’s desire to enhance efficiency and facilitate a liquid and transparent Nigerian FX market.

The CBN will perform its role as a market intervention par-

ticipant, in line with global standards, while market forces are left to determine demand and supply dynamics of the market. CBN FX Primary Dealers have also been introduced to help facilitate the CBN’s market interventionist role.

The Vice President & Divisional Head, Marketing & Business Development, Tumi Sekoni, said: “The inter-bank 2-WQ FX market will, through the concerted efforts of the over-the-counter

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(OTC) Exchange and all market participants, serve to endear an even greater investor confidence in the Nigerian FX market. With its potential to drive transparency and liquidity, FMDQ, through the System, is adequately equipped to provide a complete and consolidated marketplace for FX trading and reporting, offering market participants and regulators a robust and flexible set of tools to support the full trade workflow.”

According to her, the reforming

of the 2-WQ inter-bank FX market brings about a lot of promise for the resuscitation of the Nigerian FX market and by extension the development of the nation’s economy.

However, the local currency, naira slumped 23 percent against the dollar on Monday after the central bank removed its currency peg to alleviate chronic foreign currency shortages choking growth in Africa’s biggest economy.

The local currency, naira slumped 23 percent against the dollar on Monday after the central bank removed its currency peg to alleviate chronic foreign currency

ƍƆƄƅ dƎ ƂƆƃ 9 j Ǝ ƅƅ ƊƄ Ǝ ƍ G ƎƏƕƄ Ǝ The management and staff of Stanbic IBTC, a member of Standard Bank Group, last week devoted a day to mentor students of Lagos Progressive Schools, Surulere, on career choices and leadership.

The mentorship class provided an opportunity for the students to have a one-on-one interaction with the staff members in a lively and stimulating class session.

The classroom sessions examined five steps to helping a child develop leadership skills. The classes were practical and engaging to gain and retain the students’ attention as well as ensure their full participation. Head, Marketing and Communications, Stanbic IBTC, Mrs Nkiru Olumide-Ojo, who led the staff to the school, said the bank’s staff volunteerism CSI activities are meant to create shared value with communities where Stanbic IBTC operates.

She said the mentorship initiative was in recognition of the need to instill the right values and skills in school children, as leaders of tomorrow, during their formative years.

“As leaders in our various spheres of operation within the Stanbic IBTC family, we understand that leadership qualities are best imbibed and nurtured early.

As our future leaders, we know it is essential that these children understand these qualities early enough and start to make them a part of their everyday lives,” Olumide-Ojo said, adding, “Our desire is to equip them with these skills that will help them aspire for greatness and make smarter career choices.”

FG introduces new debt management approach As part of efforts to recover and diversify the Nigerian economy, the Federal Government has introduced a new debt management strategy to run from 2016 – 2019 with a marginal increase in external borrowing, increased commitment to capital projects execution and long as against short term borrowing.

Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, revealed the three year debt management strategy at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja.

According to Nwankwo, the new Debt Management Strategy

approved by the Federal Executive Council last Wednesday, is aimed at economy recovery and diversification.

The DMO boss explained that the focus of the new initiative is to develop a debt management strategy that would ensure that in the face of macroeconomic and other financial constraints, the cost and risk profile of the public debt portfolio remains within acceptable limit over time.

He reiterated that the new Debt Management Strategy is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s vision to generate maximum employment, reduce

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poverty and increase the living standard of Nigerians.

Dr. Nwankwo further stated that for this to be effectively achieved, the government is making positive efforts in diversifying the economy as against the backdrop of structural collapse in oil prices and oil revenue.

“The Debt Management Strategy we are going to pursue over the next four years, takes into account the fact that for now Nigeria’s public debt portfolio is dominated by domestic debt.

“After the Paris and London Club exits between 2004 and 2006, the country took a deliberate decision to develop its domestic

bond market and to do most of the public borrowing from domestic sources so as to develop the domestic bond market, that objective has been sufficiently achieved.

“And therefore taking into account that external financing sources are on the average cheaper than domestic sources, it becomes more necessary to slant more of the borrowing in favour of external sources.

“Therefore one of the major elements of this strategy is that over the medium, term we will strive to remix the public debt portfolio from 84% domestic and 16% external to 60% domestic and 40% external.

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NECA urges legislators enact competition law Stories by Joy Ekeke The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has called on members of the House of Representatives to ensure that the motion on competition law which has passed second reading in the house ends up passed into law before the end of this year.

Speaking at a ‘Walk for Competition Bill’ in Lagos, NECA Director-General Mr. Segun Oshinowo said there was nothing to cheer despite the bill passing second reading in the House of Representatives, because previous attempts to pass the bill even passed this stage before being abandoned.

“We, therefore, urge the lawmakers to match words with action and give Nigeria a competition law before the end of this year. We also call on the Federal Government to revisit the Draft Competition and Consumer Protection Policy Document and approve it as a matter of urgency.

“It is this policy that sets out the goal of promoting competition in the economy. We further call on the Federal Government to mainstream competition in broader areas of economic development such as trade and

Oshinowo: industrial policy, investment policy, privatisation and deregulation policy, among others” he said.

Oshinowo noted that with the

Director-General, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA)

ongoing reforms in the economy and the privatisation and liberalisation programmes that have been pursued over the past few years, it is important that these

programmes are supported with the appropriate regulatory measures and laws to ensure that they deliver real benefits to the citizens.

NEPC plans capacity building for youths to boost non–oil exports The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has disclosed plans to train 80 youths for free to equip them with the knowledge of export procedures to boost nonoil exports.

NEPC’s Regional Coordinator, Mr. Babatunde Faleke, made this known in Lagos recently. Faleke, who said the programme was targeted at youths in Lagos, explained that the lack of knowledge of export procedures had greatly limited the volume of non-oil exports from Nigeria.

He told journalists that the programme was the fifth in the series being organised by the council, but the first to be held in the South-West beginning with Lagos.

According to him, the

training programme is a practical mentorship programme that would handhold them from day one to the end and is aptly tagged: ‘’Zero to Export’’.

“Zero to Export programme is a capacity programme that is a practical mentorship programme, designed for those who have passion and funds to export but don’t know how to go about it.

“It is an eight week programme where people would be taught on the regiments of export. The processes will involve the documentation, procedure, sourcing of products and everything that has to do with export.

“If you don’t know anything about export; we take you

through until you export.

The problem we are trying to address is that most people come to our office and register as exporters.

“We discovered that the level of registration is high; people just register for the sake of registration without having the deep knowledge. So we now developed this programme to make sure we take them through, using people that have exported and sharing experiences on how to go about it.

“We are partnering with Fidelity Bank, our targets are those who registered with us and they are not exporting. We already have 80 participants registered with us; it will be a quarterly programme,” he said.

Brief Over 2000 ex-PHCN staff owed severance package for three years Three years after the Federal Government’s privatisation of the power assets, over 2000 disengaged workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are yet to receive their severance pay.

This was disclosed by the President-General of Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), Comrade Chris Okonkwo at a briefing in Lagos.

Okonkwo, bemoaned the development, saying it does not show determination on the part of the government to settle the outstanding payment of the ex-workers.

He urged the Federal Government to ensure that all outstanding and related payments on severance of PHCN workers were settled.

“Government is also advised to urgently conclude severance payments and others involving past and present workers in the sector to close that chapter.

“The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Minister of Labour and Employment and Director-General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), should take specific note to avoid another threat to industrial peace in the sector in connection with this matter,” he said.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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Shell Nigeria introduces community health insurance scheme ÏdƍƆ Ɨ ơÖǀêǀƌ ƅƈ Ƌ ƈ ƒƆ ƐƌƆ Ɛ ƈ ƾƠơǀ Stories by Opeoluwani Akintayo Shell Nigeria and its Joint Venture partners, NNPC, Total and Agip, have launched a Community Health Insurance Scheme in the Niger Delta for men, women, pregnant women and nursing mothers and for children.

The scheme which was launched with Port-Harcourt being its first beneficiary, cost N10, 000 per annum, after which subscribers would have access to health care worth 1300 Euro yearly.

According to Shell, the scheme was launched as part of its continuous social corporate responsibility to Nigeria and its host community.

The Managing Director of SPDC and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbo, said the company’s dedication to providing essential amenities to the Nigeria is “not by accident”.

According to him, “Shell and its partners believe they can make a real difference in the lives of Nigerians, and

we targeted our investments at community and enterprise development, education and health. Of course, we cannot take the place of government but we are keen tom play our part in the development of a country we’ve been part of for more 50 years,” he said.

Shell Companies in Nigeria have spent a total of $195.5 million on social investments in Nigeria in 2015, making Nigeria the largest concentration of social investment spending in the Shell Group. Of the amount, some $145.1 million was paid to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC as required by the law while another $50.4 million was directly expended in social investment projects by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC Limited operated Joint Venture and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo. Speaking on Shell’s contribution to developing human capital in the country, Okunbor said it spent some $0.9 billion on local contracting

and procurement. “Ownership of key assets such as rigs, helicopters and marine vessels was a key focus of these efforts to support Nigerian and community contractors,” he added.

Okunbor also said Shell Companies in Nigeria are actively involved in the development and utilization of natural gas, pioneering its production and delivery to domestic consumers and export markets.

He said “although the SPDC JV’s market share of domestic gas has reduced through a series of divestment since 2010, which enables Nigerian companies to play a more strategic role, Shell companies still remain a crucial part of the national gas energy mix.

For example, our Afam VI power plant alone contributed 14 percent of Nigeria’s grid connected electricity in 2015, consolidating its achievements since first power in August 2008.

Another entity, Shell Nigeria Gas, SNG supplies natural gas to 87 industrial customers,” he said.

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NDPHC staff pledges support for new management

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Excel boys of Port Harcourt lift 18th NNPC/Shell Cup…Kelvin Amadi & Joseph Ejeh for Netherlands.

Contrary to media reports in the Sun newspaper of 16th June 2016 that staff of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) are set to resist management changes in the organization, the workforce in the organization has pledged their loyalty and support to the new Ag. Managing Director.

The workers at a Town Hall meeting held to welcome the Ag. Managing Director Mr.Chiedu Ugbo pledged their total support for the effective delivery of NIPP projects thereby boosting power supply stability in the country.

The workers also believed that NIPP has played a vital role in the power infrastructure development across the country and assured the new Managing Director that they are ready to raise the bar so that all on-going NIPP projects will be delivered within the schedule and look

forward to kick start the phase II projects of the company.

Acting Executive Directors and Senior Managers who spoke on behalf of the workers told the new Managing Director that NDPHC relates like a family and urged him to sustain the family ties in the company.

‘We are like family, these young men and women are ready to work with you and support you’ In his introductory address, Mr. Ugbo requested staff to cooperate with him to sustain and increase the momentum of project delivery for the benefit of all Nigerians. ‘I know that it may be difficult to adjust to this change considering the fact that everybody is used to previous management but we have work to do and need everyone’s cooperation to deliver projects to Nigerians’ Ugbo stated.

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Sell pressure pulls stocks back by 1.63% Afolabi Adesola The Nigerian Equities market ended on a negative note on Monday following investor sell pressure as the All Share Index (ASI) ebbed by 477.37 points or 1.63 percent to close at 28,769.90 basis points against 2.66 percent gained last Friday to close at 29,247.27 points.

Market capitalization also

SEC lifts Falcon Securities suspension The Securities and Exchange Commission has relieved Falcon Securities from a three year suspension.

The information was conveyed by the apex regulator in an announcement notifying the investing public that the “suspension placed on Falcon Securities Ltd and its sponsored individuals has been lifted.

Falcon Securities Limited and its sponsored individuals had been suspended from all capital market activities since

lost N163.952 billion to close at N9.881 trillion against the gain of N260.1 billion recorded previously to close at N10.044 trillion.

The day’s top three traders were FBNH which traded 88.3 million shares worth N382.7 million, UBA which exchanged 59.5 million shares valued at N286.9 million and Diamond Bank which sold 55.3 million shares worth N122.0 billion.

June 2013.

The suspension was as a result of the company’s failure to respond to issues regarding the filing of its quarterly reports with the Commission such as Failure to attach the company’s schedule of investments marked to market and failure to report its investments in quoted securities at market value; Reporting a false and misleading financial status of the company in its 2012 annual report and Complete erosion of the company’s shareholders’ funds as shown in its returns for the period ended December 31, 2012.

The SEC has however removed the aforementioned suspension followin the firm’s resolving of all issues that led to its suspension as well as compliance with the Commission’s directives. The SEC has also said that the lifting of suspension takes effect from June 10, 2016.

NEIMETH Plc led the days 17 gainers as it appreciated by 8.89 percent or 8 kobo to close at 98 kobo per share, LAWUNION Plc increased by 8 percent or 4 kobo to close at 54 kobo per share, Champion Breweries Plc followed with a gain of 7.25 percent or 25 kobo to close at N3.70 per share, while Glaxosmithkline Plc added 5.49 percent or 78 kobo to close at N15 per share. Honeywell Flour

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State governments to raise funds from capital market The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has reiterated the Federal Government’s plan to enable state governments raise long-term funds from the capital market to finance capital projects.

She stated this at a meeting with stakeholders in the market, led by the Chairman, Capital Market Master Plan Council, Mr. Olutola Mobolurin. Adeosun said rather than the states looking at the banking sector to raise funds, the capital market would be assisted to play its role in economic development, adding that the assistance to be given to the state governments

in raising funds from the capital market had been captured in the Fiscal Restructuring Plan, which was already approved by the National Economic Council.

“There is a very aggressive plan to develop housing; the capital market is sitting at the root of financing the sector and we have to find a way to unlock it “We need to create the instruments; we need to de-risk certain sectors; we need to look at procedures. At the moment, we are working on the fiscal sustainability plan and one of the things that we are saying to the state governments is that we want to take you away from the

Plc advanced by 5 percent or 9 kobo to close at N1.89 per share.

Conversely, Eco Transnational Incorporated Plc topped the days 33 losers as it depreciated by 5 percent or 85 kobo to close at N16.15 per share, Nigerian Breweries Plc lost 5 percent also or N7.44 to close at N141.42 per share while Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc dropped 4.96 percent or 21 kobo to close at N4.02 per share. PZ Cussons

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Plc and Dangote Sugar Plc fell by 4.91 and 4.86 percent or N1.09 and 34 kobo each to close at N21.11 and N6.66 per share respectively.

At the end of the day’s transactions, investors in 4,684 deals had traded 416.7 million shares worth N2. 3 billion compared to 628.8 million shares worth N6.8 billion compared traded in 5,965 deals previously.

Nigerian Equities market ended on a negative note on Monday following investor sell pressure as the All Share Index (ASI) ebbed by 477.37 points or 1.63 percent to close at 28,769.90

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To this end, the Capital Market Master Plan Implementation Council also met with the Minister of State, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, who said it was critical to mainstream the capital market opportunities into the national economic planning policy framework so as to maximise the benefits for

the nation.

The minister said that the capital market can provide long term funding to build infrastructure, create jobs and reduce poverty. She said that the government would develop a 25-year economic development plan and float $25 billion infrastructure fund, adding that the capital market would be reached for partnership.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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Lessons from NCC sanction on MTN, other infractions The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is the regulatory authority in the telecommunications industry in Nigeria that believes in net neutrality regulations since the inception of the industry in 2001. There were times when pundits and stakeholders in the industry accused the regulator of being only able to bark without biting, writes TONY NWAKAEGHO.

“The latest fine on MTN Nigeria is an indication to the fact that the era of impunities are over as the change mantra of the present administration has snowballed into the telecom sector”

Prof. Danbatta: Nigerians would never forget in a hurry the slamming of a gargantuan N1.04 trillion ($5.2 billion) fine on MTN Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, for failure of the operator which controls 43 percent of the country’s telecommunications market to fully deactivate subscribers with unregistered and incomplete Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) cards details within the stipulated time.

Daily Times recounts that in 2012, NCC fined the four GSM operators, MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Globacom Nigeria and Etisalat Nigeria N1.7 billion for poor quality of service on their networks.

Although the operators protested the fine, they eventually paid after months of argument.

The tales of infractions by the telcos in Nigeria which includes MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Globacom Nigeria and Etisalat Nigeria have been a recurring decimal as the sanction only came after the Commission was inundated with several complaints from consum-

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ers and stakeholders.

Accordingly, NCC again fined Glo, MTN, Etisalat and Airtel N22million for contravening the ban on promotions and lotteries in their respective networks in March 2013, which is a direct contravention of guidelines on Adverts and Promotions, as well as the Nigerian Communications Enforcement Processes, and Regulations of 2005.

The Head, Media and Public Relations for NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka said MTN Nigeria would pay N10million on account of five promotions at N2 million for each promotion while Etisalat would pay N6million for three promotions running on its network. Airtel, he said, would pay N4 million for running two promotions against the ban while Globacom would pay N2 million for one promotion.

Again, the four Nigeria’s leading telecom operators were sanctioned

by NCC in 2015 for having pre-registered SIM cards in their systems.

They were sanctioned and asked to variously pay N120.4 million for failing to fully comply with the di-

rective of the Commission to deactivate pre-registered and defective customer SIM cards.

While MTN, which controls over 62 million subscribers on its network, was asked to Pay N102.2 million; Globacom was slammed with N7.4 million; Etisalat N7 million and Airtel N3.8 million.

The communications industry regulator noted in the letters to the operators that the monitoring exercise had revealed that the operators were still harbouring activated preregistered and defective SIMs on their networks.

The latest fine on MTN Nigeria is an indication to the fact that the era of impunities are over as the change mantra of the present administration has snowballed into the telecom sector.

Observers from around the world got curious on the latest fine on MTN Nigeria and expressed eagerness to see the end game of that huge sanction on MTN due to the fact that it is a South African company.

For the benefit of hindsight, the

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) once declared its intent to fine multinational telecommunication giant AT&T $100 for violating a provision of the agency’s Net neutrality regulations in 2015 and many subscribers commended the move, describing it as a peoplefriendly action as the FCC’s fine was the largest the agency has ever proposed at the time.

Similarly, Nigeria became the focus of Africa and indeed the world when a gargantuan fine of N780 billion was imposed on leading Telecoms Company MTN Nigeria by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) leaving the company in an uncertain state of what seemed to be its worst regulatory encounter in Nigeria.

Like the fine on AT&T, the local, international observers followed every related detail through the varying phases, the twists and turns and the public hearing rigmaroles surrounding the MTN/ NCC regulatory imbroglio.

It will be recalled that for about a period of six months intense consultations, negotiations, and renegotiations were ongoing, with the historic visit made by South African President Jacob Zuma, MTN’s acquisition of a foreign lawyer, the withdrawal of the case from court and even the N50billion good faith payment were all momentous scenes in the protracted debacle.

The House of Representative Committee on Communications began public hearing into the whole episode without coming out with a tangible answer in further-

ance of their over sight function.

When the NCC announced its decision to review the fine to 300 Billion Naira, the news did more than provide an amicable solution but also created an all-round way forward for virtually all involved.

Indeed it marked a fruitful end of that enduring regulatory crisis.

Commenting on the decision the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta said “Our decision was taken based on professionalism and global best practices and in line with the NCC values to be fair, firm and forthright”.

According to the EVC, the Commission has always carried industry and stakeholders along in taking transparent regulatory actions, adding that at no point will the regulator do anything to jeopardise the business health of the entire sector.

Although not many would have predicted a conclusion in this matter as the disposition of Nigerian lawmakers did little to convince observers that the debacle was headed for a conclusion this calm in a storm that saw the exit of top executive officers, Sifiso Dabengwa, the Group CEO; Mike Ikpoki, CEO of MTN Nigeria; and Akinwale Goodluck, Director, Regulatory and Corporate.

The lesson in this imbroglio and reduction of the fine meant more than just a passive compromise to an obvious entanglement as it carried implications that cushioned the effect for those involved.

Apart from the reduction, the flexible payment plan also gives MTN enough payment span and breathing space, as it provides that the balance of N280 billion would be made in six tranches within a period of three years.

Interestingly and in spite of the odd, the company made significant strides within the period under consideration some of which includes the acquisition of the Visafone CDMA technology platform, securing a license to stream TV contents and the launch of digital TV channels, and being granted the operating licence to continue its extensive provision of service as an opportunity to demonstrate the company’s commitment to sustaining a beneficial relationship and increase it contribution to the development of the Nation’s economy through ICT.

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I went into Jazz because I fell in love with it -Mike Mike Aremu is Nigeria’s Saxophonist who enjoys what he does best. His contributions to the entertainment industry is immense as he is proud founder of the largest jazz concert in Nigeria ‘ Sax Appeal’ which has gathered momentum since its inception in 2010.

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Why do you find the saxophone so appealing?

From the time I was a trumpet player, people said that I sound like a saxophonist. The sound of the saxophone itself is something that appealed to me. I listened to a few jazz saxophone players back then and that influenced my saxophone playing.

Some people believe that there are some health hazards associated with playing the saxophone, is that true?

There isn’t really any health hazard that comes with blowing the saxophone. The only thing is that blowing the saxophone affected my front tooth because of the way my teeth griped the embouchure of the saxophone so it made my tooth very brown. I just fixed the tooth recently, the tooth was very discoloured. Other than that to be honest there is no health hazards associated with blowing the saxophone.

Thinking back, how do you feel losing your father a year before you shot into limelight?

It felt terrible because he never saw me become successful. He never saw me become a star, he only saw me as his late child who he called to always entertain his friends with the guitar that I made by myself. That is all he knew about me. He knew me as a trumpet player but he did not see me as the person other people have come to love his songs. He was more into my academic and never had a problem with it but he always knew that I am gifted. He wanted me to be in a profession like medicine, law, or engineering.

He never saw me rise into stardom and up till today I always imagine how he would feel if he was alive. I remember the way he used to be very proud of my sister who was a lawyer and he always called her, ‘omo mi lawyer’, meaning my child who is a lawyer.

I wonder if he would have given me a nickname as well.

It seems you are more popular abroad than in Nigeria, why is that?

The truth is that I actually do a lot of things in Nigeria.

I am flown in a lot of times to do gigs in Nigeria.

The scenario is more like, is my music being played or is it as popular as it used to be? The honest truth is that the industry has changed.

When I released my first three albums, you did not have to chase after people to play your music, if your music was good, they would play it, unlike what we have now.

They don’t care how good or big you are, you will still have to grease palms to get your music played.

That is an issue we need to address; that style of greasing palms

Entertainment Correspondent Mutiat Alli

Society Correspondent Abimbola Obatayo

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Aremu

to get your music played does not sit well with me. I am not ready to compromise before my music is played on the radio. I believe my music is good enough. When I give my album to some On Air Personalities, I tell them to enjoy my music. I don’t beg them to play it but if you love it then feel free to play it. Of course a lot of stations play my songs and those are the ones that love good music. They play the songs not because of who I am but because they love good music. Everything has changed about the industry. I have chosen a genre of music that I know would appeal to people who love good music. When it comes to giving people money to play my songs, I don’t think I can do it. I get award nominations a lot but I feel somehow when I have to campaign for votes. I did it the last time and I cleared a lot of awards but in my heart I asked myself why I had to campaign for vote. That is just my school of thought.

Is it true that you are into jazz because it is lucrative?

I went into jazz because I fell in love with it. When I started out there was no incentive. I began to play jazz because I love it and I want to be a blessing to people. It was not because of any financial gain or for award considerations; it was solely because I have a passion for it. Everything I have done, even Sax Appeal is because of passion and not because of what I can get from it. When I began Sax Appeal people questioned my reasoning because there was no money to be made in the venture, I had to even sell some of my property but I have no regrets. I like the fact that I am able to create something for a certain people who care about good music. When we started Sax Appeal for instance, I wanted to do the kind of music that would be on the mainstream and not in the background.

That is why the kind of publicity we did for it was similar to that of a normal hip-pop concert. As it is, jazz is not a very popular genre of music and it is more difficult for a jazz artiste to be recognised. I did not choose this genre of music because it appeals to ‘big boys’. I did it because of the passion I have for it. It just happened that it appeals to that set of people. Someone once met me at and event and asked how much I was paid and when I replied, he was shocked. Those that value the music really appreciate it.

When you started out as a musician you just had sideburns but now you rock a full beard. What inspired this look?

I feel that a person’s sense of fashion is an inward part of who the person is. At different times, I try to see what suits me especially because I play an unpopular genre of music. I like my beards.

What is your wife’s opinion about your beards?

She loves it and she is crazy about it in a good way. She will always refer to the way I looked in Sax Appeal 3, where I kept a full beard. She likes it, different women with different opinions. She tells me that I don’t have to shave it off because it suits me a lot. She does not mind and I think it is her thing.

Is it right to say that you are keeping the beards because of your wife?

Yes, and I think it is a good enough reason; anything to keep your wife happy.

Most times you are always seen wearing native attire, is there any reason behind that?

I have always loved our culture and fashion is what makes Africa unique. I love associating my brand with Africa. I also wear the western outfits but when I am at events, I love wearing natives. It is part of me representing Africa and showing the uniqueness of our fashion.

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Daily Times Nigeria

Tuesday June 21, 2016

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Mutiat Alli

Annoyance or liberation?

Love is as complicated as a web and a relationship is prone to love problems. But the question is: Is it annoyance or a sort of liberation when you deal with it?

When we are in love, we might face endless love issues and problems. How to deal with it? You might be too busy to spend time, you feel that your partner is cheating on you or he didn’t pick up your call, not replying to SMS or he/she is online on What App but not replying to your messages. It might be a little annoying but you can’t leave love behind for these petty issues.

Figure out what you want in life and deal with love problems wisely.

Love problems mess When we are into a relationship, it is evident that we will face certain love problems. Love is a complicated phenomenon, something that we cannot really put into words even after experiencing it. When you are in love, you will face many love problems as a relationship is prone to it. It so happens when a couple get married, the honeymoon, shopping phase lasts for a year and then things start changing. Some people are way too excited about the whole concept of marriage but have you thought about the amount of responsibility that you would have once you get into the social institution of marriage? Marriage is certainly not a child’s game and so isn’t love.

You are waiting for his call as his phone is switched off. An idle mind is a devil’s workshop, we all have heard about that, haven’t we? You are waiting and your idle mind is thinking that he might be with some other woman sharing his bedroom secrets. When the reality is that he is busy with work and has forgotten his charger at home. Another instance could be that he promised to take you out on a date on a specific date but due to work issues he had to change the dates. To you, it might be disappointing. But for him, he might want you to extend your understanding and support.

Your friend told you that your girl was spotted with some random guy in a café. Whom to believe? Your friend who might be lying or your girl whom you are dating for years? There shouldn’t be any confusion here as trust is the base of any relationship. If it is making you think then you are in for serious trouble. There are lots of love problems in this world it would probably take a decade to jot down all of them.

How to gain your partner’s trust When you are in love, you will have little tiffs which might

lead to a war but is it worth it? Sometimes it can be very stressful to be able to spend 15 out of 24 hours in a day with your partner. The key here is to wait for your partner and extend your support. Nobody likes a nagging partner who is constantly revolving around you like satellites. There might be endless hardships in a relationship but we should always remember to show our love to our partner as that is the best way to connect. Showing love doesn’t really have to be buying an Audi or diamond necklace for your partner on every birthday but some small things like just being there for them can make a huge difference. You can always make an effort. Even if you are running short of money, flowers can do the trick! Flowers are not too expensive and also have the power to brighten up someone’s day. Send some nicely scented flowers to his office or bring home red roses for your lovely lady it might just make their day. Never ever forget an important day. Many women complain that men forget important days. Show her that you remember she will appreciate it.

Romantic ideas to express your love

Giving time has become a big issue. Many couples are not able to spend time with each other as they are constantly in a rat race, working hard and trying to make it big. To be honest, love problems can be many, but giving time is the biggest problem in a relationship. It can make or break a relationship. You might be a super-busy person but never ever make your partner feel that they are lonely because that leads to cheating on you.

When our partners start finding happiness somewhere else, we assassinate their character without thinking that we are the sole reason for the same. If you give time to your partner, shower endless love maybe your partner wouldn’t even think of going to someone else to find happiness. It doesn’t matter if you do not have time, a short call in a day or ‘I miss you’ can actually make a big difference. Why do people cheat on their partners?

It is because they are not finding the happiness that they should get from you. Before pointing fingers, you might just want to reflect that you might be at fault too.

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Do you find that, more often than not, after a shopping trip, whether planned or impromptu, you return home with items that you regret buying? Then perhaps you need to shop a little wiser.

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Before you go shopping, check your wardrobe. Either have a quick browse of what you have or a deeper investigation to find out what items are lacking in your closet.

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If you find yourself procrastinating over an item, do not buy it. If the item keeps popping up in your mind days or even weeks afterwards, go back to the shop, the item is destined to be yours.

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Shopping don’ts: don’t shop on an empty stomach or when you’re in a hurry.

Hunger influences your decision-making process and triggers impulse buying.

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Throw seasonal trends out the window and only buy clothes that accentuate your unique figure, style and shape.

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Never go anywhere near final reduction aisles during the sale season. There’s a reason why no one wants them.

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Do you have something similar in your closet? Then don’t buy it.

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Daily Times Nigeria

Tuesday June 21, 2016

Showing on

Showing on

Movies ACTION+ Channel 106

Movies Comedy Channel 104

11:20

18:00

Tue, 21 June |PG

Tue, 21 June | PG 13

Gru, the world’s most lovable villian, and his minions are back in this Oscar-nominated adventure.

This time Gru is recruited to help bring down a bad guy. Benjamin Bratt, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand, Steve Carell. (2013) Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud.

Andrew Garfield returns for a second round of web-slinging action. Dangerous new enemies and family secrets weigh heavily on young Peter Parker as he struggles with his destiny. Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone.(2014) Marc Webb

101 M-Net West

23:30 Chicago PD 00:30 The Real Housewives Of Atlanta 01:30 The Longest Week 03:00 Other Plans 04:25 Away And Back 06:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:00 MasterChef Australia 08:00 The Big Bang Theory 08:30 The Last Ship 09:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:30 Begin Again 12:30 The Middle 13:00 MasterChef Australia 14:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 15:00 Code Black 16:00 Blue Bloods 17:00 Made In Hollywood 18:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 19:00 Mom 19:30 MasterChef Australia 20:30 Chicago Med 21:30 Chicago Fire 22:30 Chicago PD

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

152 AfricaMagic Epic

23:17 Mary And Martha 01:01 Behind The Scenes: The Place

01:10 Royal Guard 03:13 Forest King 05:10 Twins Of The Rainforest 05:38 Behind The Scenes: Secret Room 06:03 Secret Adventure 08:43 Behind The Scenes: October 1st

09:11 Behind The Scenes: The Place

120 BBC Brit Entertainment

118 Telemundo

09:20 Igbotic Love 11:19 Igbotic Love 13:13 Healthy Snacking 13:25 Implication 15:29 Above Implication 17:50 Behind The Scenes: Next Dean 18:00 Africa Rising: Behind The Scenes 19:00 The King Is Coming 21:21 The King Is Coming

23:22 Moone Boy

11:10 Would I Lie To You?

23:47 Moone Boy

11:45 QI

00:12 An Idiot Abroad

12:15 The Cube

00:58 The Cube

13:05 Top Gear

01:46 Police Interceptors

14:15 Police Interceptors

02:33 Ben And James Versus The Arabian...

15:05 Undercover Boss USA

03:25 Undercover Boss USA

16:30 QI

04:12 Pointless

17:05 Pointless

05:00 The Cube

18:00 Top Gear

05:45 Would I Lie To You?

19:00 Youngers

06:20 QI

19:30 QI

06:55 Police Interceptors 07:40 Top Gear

20:00 Travel ManThe Graham Norton Show

08:45 Pointless

21:05 Top Gear

09:35 Undercover Boss USA

22:05 Very British Problems

15:55 Would I Lie To You?

10:25 Ducks Quacks Don't Echo

155 AfricaMagicWorld 23:15 Music On Africa Magic 00:15 Behind The Scenes: The Place 01:15 Good Morning Africa 02:15 53 Extra 02:45 Star Gist 03:15 Star Gist 03:45 Jara 04:20 Jara 05:00 Goodmorning Africa 06:00 Deal Or No Deal SA 07:00 53 Extra 07:30 Star Gist 08:00 Jara 09:00 Good Morning Africa 10:00 Lies That Bind

10:28 Lies That Bind 10:53 Lies That Bind

11:20 Lies That Bind 11:41 Behind The Scenes: Broken 12:00 Deal Or No Deal SA 13:00 Music On Africa Magic 14:05 Music On Africa Magic 15:00 Music On Africa Magic 16:00 Star Gist 16:35 Deal Or No Deal Sa 17:25 53 Extra 18:00 Jara 18:30 Tinsel 19:00 Lies That Bind 19:30 Lies That Bind 20:00 Princess Tyra 18:00 Star Gist

128 SONY MAX

23:00 Most Shocking 23:45 World's Wildest Police Videos 00:35 World's Wildest Police Videos 01:25 Enemy Territory 02:55 Sexy Car Wash 03:20 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 07:50 South Beach Tow 08:15 South Beach Tow 08:40 Most Shocking 09:35 World's Wildest Police Videos 10:30 World's Wildest Police Videos 11:30 Baywatch 12:30 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking 13:30 South Beach Tow 14:00 World's Wildest Police Videos 15:00 World's Wildest Police Videos 16:00 Most Shocking 17:00 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking 18:00 South Beach Tow 18:30 South Beach Tow 19:00 Baywatch 20:00 Extreme Reality Clips 20:30 Rude Tube 21:00 Rude Tube 21:30 Freakshow 22:00 Sexy Car Wash 22:30 Sexy Car Wash