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Governorship Election Petition

Tribunals in Delta and Plateau states on Monday upheld the elections of Governors Ifeanyi Okowa and Simon Lalong respec-

tively.

In Delta State, supporters in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday took

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FG files fresh charges against Dasuki Ï dƆƆƊ ƆƅƏƆƐ ƐƏƈ Ƌ Ï &ƔéMd ƊƈƅƊ Andrew Orolua, ƄƑƉ

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Federal Government on Monday filed five counts criminal

charges against former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki (rtd) for unlawful possession of firearms and

money laundering.

Dasuki was first arraigned before the Federal High Court in July with one count charge for being

possession of firearms.

At the resumed trial on Monday, the Federal Government amended the charge and expanded it to in-

clude money laundering and alleged retention of public funds Continued on page 2

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Grace Atinuke Oyelude (Miss Nigeria 1957)

Ezinne Akudo (Miss Nigeria 2013)

Nene Etule (Miss Nigeria 1959)

36 contestants to compete for 39th Miss Nigeria crown ÎÎÎThe race is now on to find that rare

combination of beauty and brains in one lucky contestant who will be crowned Miss Nigeria at the 39th edition of the pag-

eant taking place at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos on November 7, 2015.

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the country, vying to hold the title of Miss Nigeria, being the country’s oldest and most prestigious pageant.

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Politics Page Three Æ s Editorial Ending menace of Fulani herdsmen

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f any topic has dominated discussions in the country in the past two months, it is that to do with the increasing menace of itinerant Fulani herdsmen.

In fact, the issue has become so divisive that it is threatening to divide Nigerians along ethnic and religious lines. For long, the unwholesome activities of Fulani herdsmen, especially in the North Central and southern geopolitical zones have been reason for concern. Such concerns stem from the fact that these cattle herdsmen are not only a menace to their host communities, they are taking the law into their hands by destroying farmlands and crops, pillaging, raping and brutalising those opposed to their destructive tendencies.

No day passes without news of these cattle rearers causing mayhem in one part of the country or another. The conflict between cattle heredsmen and their hosts usually arise when the former invade the farmland with their animals and let them graze unrestricted both on cultivated and uncultivated land, thereby destroying valuable food and cash crops. In trying to resist them, and request their exit, the Fulani herdsmen become violent and attack any one standing in their way. It is unfortunate that this level of impunity is happening in a sovereign state with a constitution, which declares that the security and welfare of the citizens shall be a major responsibility of the state.

We condemn in its entirety the criminal activities of these herdsmen who constitute threats to lives and properties in the guise of grazing their animals.

The authorities must take immedi-

ate action to end the destructions of Fulani herdsmen. There is no doubt that if nothing is done to stem the menace, temptation is that some of the ethnic nationalities may be left with no option than to constitute militias to defend themselves and their land. We are aware that as pastoralists, Fulani herdsmen are always on the move, especially in search of fresh grazing fields for their flock.

However, their activities should not be at the detriment of other Nigerians who are entitled to protect their land and other means of livelihood.

We submit that the Federal Government consider the activities of cattle herdsmen as a threat to national security much the same way it views those of Boko Haram and kidnappers. Nevertheless, we cannot continue wringing our hands and looking helpless in the belief that nothing can be done to reform the ways of Fulani herdsman. By accepting the category of nomad, we are vicariously denying these citizens of the benefits of settled human civilisation, which include the right to a place to call home, the right to own land and other property as other Nigerians.

It is therefore otiose on the authorities to device more ingenious ways to help the cattle herders live a more settled life with their animals.

In doing so, the states and federal ministries of agriculture must come out with a deliberate policy to carve out ranches solely for foraging in different states of the federation.

We advice they study how other countries practice such animal husbandry with a view of implementing them here

LG caretaker committees: Are state governors listening?

Sam Nzeh

ÎÎÎThe

ruling by an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Friday which declared as illegal and unconstitutional the appointment of caretaker committees over local government councils in the state has once again brought to the fore the need for state governors to allow democratically elected officials run the affairs of the third tier of government.

The court presided over

by Justice Abdulfatai Lawal held that no governor is empowered by the constitution to take over the administration of local governments through sole administrators or caretak-

er committees.

Not a few had hoped that Lagos State government which claims to be at the forefront of promoting democracy and rule of law would swiftly comply with the judgement.

Curiously, however, and to the disappointment of many, the Lagos State government hours after the ruling said it would appeal the judgement, describing the ruling as faulty.

Granted that the Lagos State government is entitled to appeal the ruling, fact is the practice of appointing caretaker committees to run the affairs of local government councils by state governors is unknown to the 1999 constitution (as amended).

Many state governors, Lagos inclusive, in a bid to circumvent the constitu-

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tion, and with the active connivance of the House of Assembly in their domain, have enacted laws that sought to legitimise the appointment of caretaker committees to run the affairs of local government councils.

But such legislation, to the extent that they are at variance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), remain null and void and of no effect.

So, rather than continue in the path of illegality and unconstitutionality, state governors need to listen and comply to the latest by the Igbosere High court in Lagos. They should allow democracy to take root at the local government councils.

Only then will they prove that they love democracy.

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FG files fresh charges against Dasuki Continued from page 1 which formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act contrary to section 15 (2)(d) of Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011.

Dasuki, who was escorted to the court by three former civilian governors and a retinue of former ministers and top government functionaries, pleaded not guilty to the fresh five count charges.

Using his discretion, the trial judge, Justice Ademola Adeniyi, admitted the ac-

cused to bail and allowed his previous bail terms which has been met by the accused to apply.

However, the Federal Government on Monday applied to the high court to conduct the trial of the former NSA in secret and not in an open court.

In a motion on notice argued by the prosecution counsel, Mr. Shuaibu Labaran, the Federal Government explained that the secret trial if granted would guarantee the safety of its wit-

nesses who are billed to testify against the accused.

The application was brought pursuant to section 36(4) of the 1999 constitution and section 232 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015.

The prosecution also sought order directing that the names and addresses of all its witnesses should not be disclosed in any record or report of proceedings that may be accessible to the public.

That the witnesses be per-

mitted to use pseudo name in the course of proceedings and that prosecution witnesses be given access to a non-public route to and from the court premises and court rooms as well as to allow them use private witnesses’ room.

Apart from lawyers and accredited journalists, the prosecution asked the court not to allow any member of the public to witness the trial and that the witnesses be permitted to wear facial masks while giving evidence

against the ex-NSA. Labaran, who argued the motion, submitted that the trial will suffer setback as the witnesses were not willing to testify in the open court for fear of reprisal from undisclosed places.

However, counsel to the accused, Mr. Joseph Daudu, SAN, has asked the court to dismiss the application for lacking merit and for being frivolous.

He told justice Ademola that the names of the witnesses were already in the public domain at the instance of the prosecution, adding that the application was a mere academic exercise that should not be granted by the court.

Justice Ademola reserved ruling on the application till tomorrow (Wednesday).

The fresh charges are that the accused was on July 17, 2015 at his house, No. 13, John Khadiya Street, Asokoro, Abuja found in possession of various range of firearms without requisite licence, an offence punish-

able under section 27 (1)(a) of the Firearms Act Cap F28 LFN 2004.

He was also accused of retaining $40,000, N5 million and another $20,000 in the same house and same date contrary to section 15 (2) (d) of Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011.

Besides, the accused was said to have on July 16, 2015 at his residence at Sultan Abubakar Road and Sabon Birni Road, Sokoto retained another $150,000 and N37.6 million being part of proceedings of unlawful act contrary to Section 15 (3) of the Money Laundering Act 2011.

Meanwhile, the accused person through his counsel has filed an application for temporary release of his travelling documents from the court to enable him travel abroad for medical attention.

The medical check-up was said to have been over-due since July but that he could not travel due to seizure of his passport.

The application will be argued on Wednesday.

36 contestants to compete for 39th Miss Nigeria crown Continued from page 1

President Muhammadu Buhari (left) in a handshake with the National Chairman, Association of Polio Survivors of Nigeria, Mr. Misbahu Lawan-Didi after presentation of report on current polio situation in Nigeria at the Presidential Villa in Abuja… on Monday. With them are, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Linus Awute (2nd left); Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari (2nd right) and other officials.

Governorship polls: Tribunals okay Okowa, Lalong’s victories Continued from page 1 celebrating as the dismissal by the Election Petition Tribunal of the two petitions challenging the declaration of Okowa as winner of the Delta State Governorship Election held on April 11, 2015.

The petitions were dismissed by the three-man panel chaired by Justice Nasir Gunmi for failure the petitioners to prove the allegations of corruption and substantial breach of the Electoral Act and electoral guidelines beyond reasonable doubt.

The tribunal also awarded a cost of N150, 000.00 each to the petitioners. They are

to pay the three sets of respondents - INEC, PDP and Okowa.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Okowa of the PDP as winner having scored 724,680 votes to defeat Great Ogboru of Labour Party who polled 130,028 votes and O’tega Emerhor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 67,825 votes.

But Ogboru and Emerhor approached the three-man tribunal alleging that the election was conducted in substantial breach of the Electoral Act and guidelines for the election, as well as corrupt practices.

Delivering judgement in

petition number EPT/DT/ GOV/23/2015 between Ogboru and Okowa, Justice Gunmi averred that the petitioners failed to prove allegations of corrupt practices, breach of Electoral Act, over voting and manipulation of election result.

He said there was no credible evidence provided by the petitioners to support the allegations and held that the petition “is bound to fail, and has failed. It is hereby dismissed. The petitioners are to pay cost of N50, 00 each to the three set of respondents.”

In Emerhor’s petition marked EPT/DT/ GOV/32/2015, the tribunal also held that the petitioners

relied heavily on the use of card reader as basis for nullifying election result.

According to the tribunal, the petitioners were unable to prove that the first respondent (Okowa) was credited with votes in excess of accreditation during the election.

The tribunal held that the petitioners were also unable to discharge the burden of proof placed on their shoulders by the provisions of Sections 136 and 137 of the Evidence Act. “The petitioners having not proved the toxic votes credited to the first respondent, the issue of whether Continued on page 12

Having gone through a rigorous selection process, 36 finalists have been chosen to participate in the final leg of the competition. The contestants will move to Lagos where they will be filmed for a week as they go to book camp to engage in activities from entrepreneurial training, mentoring from business leaders and female leaders, as well as take time to prepare for the contest by learning choreography and being treated to health and beauty treatments in time for the grand finale.

The week’s activities will be broadcast on television and segments shown during the pageant at Oriental Hotel.

It seems just like yesterday when the light shined on Ezinne Akudo in 2013, the current title holder who will bow out after one of the most successful reigns as a beauty queen.

Along with the coveted

prize of the Miss Nigeria title, she won a cash prize of N3 million, a brand new car and a one year stay at luxury apartment, with an all-expenses paid trip to California.

Ezinne during her reign represented Nigeria so well, graduating from Law School immediately after completing her law degree and also finding time to launch her NGO, The Eight Foundation, dedicated to supporting female victims of sexual violence.

Miss Nigeria is a pageant which showcases the positive attributes of the Nigerian woman. Miss Nigeria promotes a wholesome girl-next-door image combining beauty with intelligence, compassion and elegance. It awards university scholarships and has a mandate to further the causes of poverty alleviation, youth empowerment, domestic violence, affordable healthcare and education for all through the pageant.

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rights activist, Daniel Richards, who hails from Adamawa State, on Monday berated some elites in the state for its underdevelopment.

“The elites who are the indigenes of the state are always trying to pull down the administration of Governor Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla as they have done to previous governments by fuelling and spreading falsehood against the administration in order to discredit it,” he alleged.

Richards who made the remark

Dan Richard slams Adamawa elite during a press conference in Yola noted that he was ashamed of some of the state’s elites who felt no compunction to lie against the government by implying that the governor’s performance was dismal.

He said that in response to gory stories of dismal performance he was constantly told by the elites, he deemed it fit to come to Adamawa on a fact finding mission, but was surprised by the developmental strides he saw.

Airspace closure threat: NCAA, unions meet in Abuja Ogunyemi Esther

ÏÏÏThe meeting between the Ni-

gerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and industry unions will hold today at the agency’s office in Abuja.

The meeting, which was called last Friday, at the instance of the agency was to resolve the crisis between the unions and the agency over its plan to shut operations at NCAA. This is as the Director-General, NCAA, Capt. Muhtar Usman, insisted that the country’s airspace would continually be opened to flights operations and called on all air travellers to disregard any notice of travel ban in Nigeria.

Statements from the spokesman of NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye, said that the postponement and shifting of the meeting to Abuja was to enable all parties be present at the meeting.

Adurogboye hinted that sepa-

Rivers tribunal judgment embarrassing – Mimiko ’Tosin Ajuwon Akure

ÏÏÏThe Chairman of the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP) Governor's Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on Monday, said the judgment of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which nullified the election of Nyesom Wike of Rivers State was an embarrassment and called for a great concern.

Mimiko, who spoke while addressing reporters in Akure, the state capital, wondered why the three-man tribunal was in a haste to deliver judgment He queried that a case challenging its jurisdiction was still pending at the Supreme Court which was less than 48 hours that both parties in the petition submitted written addresses.

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rate meetings were held at the NCAA conference room in Lagos last Friday with the sister union, the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), and later with the representatives of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), and National Association of Aircraft Pilot and Engineers (NAAPE).

Adurogboye noted that it was at the Lagos meeting that an agreement was reached with the NCAA management to suspend any form of industrial action and the circular to that effect was promptly circulated to all members.

He added that at the meeting, both parties unanimously decided that the union executives would go back to their members and engage in further consultations, while another meeting was scheduled for Monday, before it was postponed till Tuesday.

The Rivers Tribunal had, on Saturday, ordered Nyesom Wike to vacate the Governor’s seat and the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Mimiko observed that the judgment was suspicious and asked why the tribunal refused to wait for the decision of the Supreme Court over its jurisdiction before passing a verdict on the petition.

“Our mindset is that the tribunal judgment can go either way, but the Rivers own is particularly embarrassing. We all know the circumstances surrounding the Rivers State tribunal. You recall now that for unjustifiable course, that tribunal was not allowed to sit in Port Harcourt, it was taken to Abuja – and, somewhere along the line, the chairman of the Tribunal got changed.

“Now we challenge the jurisdiction of the Tribunal and it has gotten to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will give judgement in the next few days. The Abuja Tribunal continues to sit. On Thursday, nine written addresses were adopted,” Mimiko said

Former National Security Adviser, Col. Dasuki Sambo (middle) at the Federal High Court, Abuja for his trail... on Monday...Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN

Oyo guber: Tribunal decides Ladoja, Ajimobi fate today ÏÏÏExpectations are high in the

camp of both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Accord Party (AP) on the likely outcome of the tribunal’s judgment today on the winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Oyo State.

The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Ibadan, the state capital, after four months of legal fireworks, fixed today, to decide on who actually won the poll between former governor of the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja and the incumbent, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.

But dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, Ladoja, who contested on the platform of AP, challenged the validity of the victory of Ajimobi of the APC, before the tribunal, joining the APC, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner and INEC in the petition.

The Director General, Ladoja Campaign Organisation and former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, said, on Monday, that “We are expecting the declaration of Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja as the duly elected governor by the tribunal in April 11, 2015 governorship

election.”

The Director of Publicity and Strategy of the APC in the state, Mr. Wale Shadare, said Ajimobi and APC were sure of victory, though not pre-empting the judgment that would be delivered today.

He described Ladoja as a comedian, saying he raised so many issues, that he could not prove before the tribunal.

The tribunal was inaugurated in June, with Justice F.C. Obieze as chairman, and Justices I.M Muhammad Karaye and J.E. Ikede as members.

But the tribunal did not commence the pre-hearing session before Justice Obieze proceeded on retirement as a result of attaining 65 years.

The pre-hearing session commenced in July when new the chairman, Justice Mohammed Mayaki, who was appointed by the President of the Court of Appeal, resumed to lead the panel.

Ladoja, who claimed that he scored the highest number of votes with 25 per cent in 22 of the 33 local government areas of the state, asked the tribunal to declare him winner of the election or or-

der a rerun.

The lead counsel to Ladoja, Mr. Richard Ogunwole (SAN), in the petition marked EPT/IB/ GOV/22/2015, contended that election took place in 23 local government areas and in some units in the remaining 10 local governments, adding that the election was fraught with non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

He alleged that there were cases of non-accreditation of voters, deliberate refusal to use the smart card readers, over-voting, multiple thumb-printing of ballot papers, ballot-stuffing, snatching of ballot boxes and so on.

He tendered close to 200 exhibits and called many witnesses in support of his petition during the hearing session.

Ajimobi

'MTN in talks with NCC over N1.02tr fine' Friday Atufe

ÏÏÏMTN

Nigeria said it has opened talks with the Nigeria’s Communications Commission (NCC) over a record ban of $5.2 billion (N1.02 trillion) for noncompliance with deadline set by the commission to disconnect all non-registered sim cards.

A senior official of the company disclosed this last night, expressing the hope that they hoped to

resolve the matter soon.

MTN Nigeria, one of the largest phone providers in Nigeria also said it was studying the letter sent to it by the regulator and would respond soon.

NCC yesterday fined MTN Nigeria a record $5.2 billion for noncompliance with a deadline set by the commission to disconnect all non-registered sim cards.

The move follows accusations by mobile phone users that the

regulator had failed to bring operators to account for poor services to subscribers.

Subscribers in Nigeria have been clamouring for the regulator to address poor network signals provided by telecoms companies in the country.

They want more sanctions on telecommunications firms to encourage them to improve signals and the quality of service in the country.

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Politics Kogi: Reinstated chairmen threaten Wada’s re-election

Æs There were fears last night that the Appeal Court decision to reinstate 21 council chairmen sacked by Governor Idris Wada may pose a threat to his re-election in the November governorship election in the state.

Justice Mustpaha Mohammed of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Friday had reinstated the 21 Local Government Council Chairmen sacked

by Kogi State Governor Wada.

Justice Mohammed in his ruling held that the decision of the

Wada

lower court was a judicial error.

A Kogi State High Court sitting in Koton Karfe had on December 9, 2014, nullified the May 4, 2013 council elections that produced the chairmen and their councillors.

According to the Judge, the appeal brought by the appellants had merit and “It is hereby allowed.

“The Court has perused the substance of the matter and left without an option but to nullify the dissolution carried out by the governor.

“Having considered the appeal urging this court to reinstate the 21 Local Government Council Chairmen and their Councillors from Kogi State back to their offices, the penal is obliged to do so.

“The Kogi State Government is hereby ordered to immediately, without delay, reinstate the appellants back to their jobs”.

The Lower Court trial judge, Justice Alaba Omolaye- Ajileye, in his judgment, had held the CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Buhari not pro-north – Bashorun Asiwaju Olorunfunmi Bashorun, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was Secretary to the State Government (SSG) during the Lateef Jakande administration in Lagos State. In this interview with AKINJIDE AKINTOLA & ADEDEJI SULAIMAN spoke on national issues. Excerpts:

Funmi Bashorun

Buhari

Tinubu

Fashola

Ambode

It’s about five months that President Muhammadu Buhari has been on the saddle and opposition party is crying that his anti-corruption war is one sided. How do you see the corruption war?

I would say that is not true; the former governor of Zamfara State who is a member of APC has been arrested, and the corrupt people they are talking about are about 80 % of those controlling the resources are within the PDP and who used to be in governmental. We should like to know, how many of Maduekes we have in APC? How many of Oduahs do we have in APC? And Oduah is in the senate, and in a decent society Oduah should not be in the senate but is there. Kashamu is wanted in the US and he is in the senate. The tribunal has made it clear that there will be another contest for that position but that notwithstanding he should not have been there. So, there are several of them like that who have been shielded in the past so i believe those who are in charge are pursuing those whom they have information about, if they don’t

have information about anybody, they would not pick on you. They have information about Akpabio for instance ,and he was invited last week. If there are others like that and they have the opportunity, let those who are saying it mention names and send the EFCC to take care of him. Chief Adebanjo who was saying two days ago that the anti-corruption style of Buhari is the same as Obasanjo, that it is selective; I disagree with him.

For you, is it on course?

It is on course and he (Buhari) has sent a signal to the system unlike the time of Obasanjo, people are now cautious, like thinking deep about what they want to do.

We should not comment on the man that has died but I believe it is part of this action. The man who turned to be a woman and escaped from Britain and the British people were annoyed. Would they say it is Buhari that is after him? Buhari is

not helping him. The US that is asking for Kashamu, is it Buhari that is asking US to pick Kashamu? They have been asking for Kashamu all along but those who were there refused. I believe he is not going to let that happen and if he allows that, he has failed.

In terms of governance sir, it’s been five months that the new government has come on stream; people have been feeling that he is slow in decision making?

What actions do they want him to make? This government did not make the 2015 budget, the other government made the budget. Let us start with the budget and the other government that made the budget got the National Assembly to approve it. I don’t know whether they approved it or not I think they did and some issues in focus which are not captured. He has to settle CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Mixed reactions trail Wike’s sack Following last Saturday’s judgment of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which nullified the election of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, mixed reactions have continued to trail ruling.

While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Wike condemned the

judgment, saying they would go on appeal, the APC and Dagogo Peterside hailed the ruling saying they have been vindicated.

Why Labour Party governorship candidate in the election, Tonye Princewill said there was no need for any CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Princewill

Peterside

Wike

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down first, they cannot just rush into it and start doing what is in the budget particularly where it has been discovered that most of the budget are inflated and some of these are never touched; they just put it in the budget fritter away the money that is in terms of spending money and that is the major thing.

We have to drive a budget to implement programs and this budget is not Buhari budget, it is someone’s else budget. He has to study the budget particularly, his anticorruption stance. That is the budget in line with his own anti-corruption stance and this takes some time. He started governance in May. On the choice of cabinet. Cabinet is very important. By the constitution, they are advisers, they can even decide not to have them until they like but he is going to have them now, the advisers, when they are in place, some of the issues which may take advise from civil servant want to deal with.

They would first of all get the ministers to table it where there will be 30 something other people to hear it, probably richer and more useful when they have a full cabinet. But even then, there are many things you have to check, you have to check them gradually. I saw a picture in the paper this morning, they ought not to have touched that one but I won’t mention it. Somebody made a director general who is a politician to look after a very sensitive area, he ought to have removed him since but they claim that the man is removing

Kogi:

Reinstated chairmen threaten Wada’s re-election

Wada Buhari anybody from that area, he is waiting, so Buhari has to do it step by step. If he has taken from somebody who is running the country in the interest of the people it would have been in a different matter but the last government was not doing it in the interest of the people. Very few minority, about 5% of the country and I believe that this government of APC wants to do what I called reducing the gap. As it is now, 95% of the people are at the mercy of 5%; which this government is pursuing, a position where the wealth of the country will spread and there will be redistribution. The 5% at the top continue to get everything and until there is a redistribution

Saraki of wealth in the country, there will be no peace and everybody will not see a government we believe is our own. This government we believe is our government, he is going to do and is able to do it; what is in place and what do we change? How do we change it in the interest of the people. It has to be changed in the interest of the people.

See the INEC matter for instance, immediately the woman was put in acting capacity, he wouldn’t have planned to put another person in replacement of Jega and was searching for the right person particularly the way Jega performed, now he gotten another person, where the head of service was put, recently

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there has been change; that is how I believe he can run this government.

On the INEC boss, he had made a true search and the little I was reading about the man this morning showed that that YES, the man has actually searched for the right person.

Sir, people are also saying that Mahmood Yakubu is also from the north?

I don’t want to start defending that because Jega is from northwest while Yakubu is from northeast. The north has three zones which is the central, north-west and north-east and if anything CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

Chairmen and their Councillors were sacked strictly to promote the principle of fairness, independence and transparency as prescribed by the law.

He then ordered the appellants (Chairmen) to hand over to the most senior Directors in their councils.

With the new development, the chances of Wada in the forthcoming election might be threatened by the new council bosses and their councilors who would now be in charge of the councils when the election is holding.

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appeal a cross section of Rivers people expressed mixed feelings.

While some see the judgment as a welcome development, others view it as a bad omen.

Mr Ben Orlu, a resident of Port Harcourt, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the judgment was fair and unbiased.

He said that the tribunal’s judgment was an indication of a future with credible elections in the state.

He, however, said that honest residents of the state did not see the judgment of the tribunal as an unexpected one in view of what transpired during the governorship election.

Another resident, Mr Lawrence

Chinda, described the judgment as biased and unfair.

He said that his opinion was based on his conviction that the governorship election in the state actually held.

Chinda described Wike’s victory in the governorship election as a demonstration of Rivers state’s support for PDP. He expressed confidence that Wike would win the fresh governorship election that would be organised within the next 90 days as ordered by the tribunal.

According to him, Wike’s achievements in less than 100 days of his being in office, is a clear indication that he is the man of the people.

In her reaction, Mrs Joy Terry,

Wike

another resident of Port Harcourt, said that the judgment would offer some of the voters who missed out in the last election the opportunity to exercise their voting rights.

Terry, therefore, advised Rivers people to decide their future wisely by voting the right candidate in the fresh election.

She, however, acknowledged that Wike had the right to seek redress in the appeal court and the Supreme Court.

A school teacher, Mrs Comfort Brown, said that the nullification of Wike’s election by the tribunal was not in the interest of the state because “Wike has started on a positive note.

“We believe he should be given the chance to develop the state and

move it forward.

“The judgement will certainly distract his administration because he will spend time and energy fighting to reverse it at higher courts.“ It will be recalled that the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal for Rivers on Saturday nullified the election of the Rivers governor for non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act. The tribunal, sitting in Abuja, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct fresh governorship election in the state within 90 days.

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Ambursa, gave the orders in its judgment following a petition filed against the election of Wike by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the April 11 election in the state, Dr Dakuku Peterside. (NAN) Princewill who thanked the judges for upholding the law and the people of the state for surviving the period with civility said if he was the PDP, “I would not even bother to appeal this judgment. I’d rather head back to the court of public opinion. Ultimately that is where this matter will end”.

According to him, it is not the time for celebration or mourning. “It is the time for sober reflection. Perhaps this experience has allowed us all, including analog politicians, reflect on the need to let people vote.

“Do unto others as you wish they do unto you. What goes

Wike around does come around. This law has been around before us and will remain with us long after we have gone”, he added.

According to the APC: “We have been vindicated in our persistent claim that the election in

Rivers State was a sham and that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) erred in declaring Wike governor. We repeat that there is no way under the heavens that Chief Wike can beat our candidate, Dr. Dakuku Pe-

terside, in a free and fair election,” It lamented that “Wike’s tragic entry into the Brick House seat of power has only succeeded to bring back criminality in various forms in the once peaceful Rivers State as kidnapping, robbery and organised crimes have being on the increase since his evil arrival.

“For the first time in the history of our dear State, a government without any vision or blueprint assumed office, thereby collapsing all the systems of governance. On 22nd October, 2015, 19 students on the scholarship of the Rivers State Government through its agency, the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) were forced to abandon their studies and return to Nigeria because the State Government had not paid their fees and upkeep in the United Kingdom. Those in Canada and other locations are also expected to return soon for same reasons.

“Earlier this week, the RSUST

Chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) went on a protest march and warning strike due to the mindless hiking of fees of the university’s primary and secondary demonstration schools by the clueless Wike administration. Local Government Councils in the State have been unable to pay their staff salaries for August and September while some, such as Opobo/Nkoro, owe their personnel salaries from July 2015 to date.

“Rivers APC appeals to the relevant security agencies “to keep close watch on Chief Wike as we are reliably informed that he is planning to run away from facing the wrath of the law for his corrupt practices and for supervising the death of over 100 APC members just because of election.

Anything short of this will keep the souls of our people restless,” it stresed

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comes from those places and we have south-east, south-south and south-west. If it is from the south or north, let us identify which of them so i wish the man best of luck. On the situation of slow in governance, slow and steady wins the race. Yes, we are making hay slowly, but in some certain circumstances, it has to be slow, if you rush, you rush into trouble.

What about the accusations of nepotism against the president that he is appointing people from the north. Sir, how do you see this against the background of fairness and justice APC used in getting into power?

The issue of appointment whether from the north or south is a form of other several factors depending on the type of appointment. If as am here now, I want to appoint a private secretary, the constitution, it will be different from a governor that wants to appoint a commissioner. Those who are going to serve the president, secrecy would be given consideration from those who are constitutionally made to be part of the government. As it is, he has not changed the Governor of Central Bank, he is still there. The Governor of Central Bank is from Delta State not from the north so are others like that. The director general of NDLEA, he has not changed her and she is not from the north. There are some in place who are from this other zones which have not being

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changed, people should not just say anything because he is making certain appointments. When you look at totality of the appointments that are down and the new ones that are made, you will find out that this question of nepotism does not arise.

The APC government is controlling The National Assembly but since coming into power, there have been some sort of crises between the federal government and the senate particularly over the appointment of officers.

Do you think it is normal in this era where a government in power controls the majority of the National Assembly and yet, they are still having conflict in the National Assembly?

We are evolving a change in the country, many parties come together, the way they come together

is still making some of them to think about their party and some who were somewhere and used to certain people still believe that they own themselves certain obligations.

That notwithstanding, what worked against APC is I think they have 59 senators while the other people have 49, the gap is narrow. In the House of Representatives, the gap is a bit wider. In choosing principal officers, a lot of things take place and in the process, what I will call tactical error was committed. If you heard Ndume yesterday, you will find that he started realizing this. He said that never will he allow the Deputy Senate President to preside, he knew what will happen to the party so they are somehow coming back home from the different contribution everybody made to meet APC. They are now seeing

it that APC is their symbol because when they went to the polls in April, nobody thumbprinted Saraki and Ndume, they all thumbprinted the broom which is the symbol of APC so, they must see it as their cardinal issue all the time. If they have made that mistake, time will tell because they are human beings. If you are in charge of something and the thing is turn by turn, one issue may come and you will get some people getting it that you are on their side but some other time, the thing maybe you and that time it is going to be negative for you. That is when you will recall your senses that there is an error and commitment to the people are what they need in the senate. I saw a bit of no commitment in the part of some people who are elected who thought it was going to be Jonathan forever. When they were screening,

the type of questions they were asking. When Fashola was in the box as one of the nominees and Abarebe was asking him why they dispersed south easterners from Lagos; he knew that the case had been settled; why should he come and ask him at that occasion, what has that got to do performance of Fashola as a minister and the issue which his own party were making in Lagos, but the man explained that he doesn’t sign a cheque. Such are the types of things that will make our own senators to sit up, they will use a little opportunity they have to ridicule us unless we stand as a government. In the House of Representatives I think they are getting things right and in any setting, give and take is important. When they talk of Senate rules, does it supersede the constitution because most of the thing they are doing is rule of the senate. Can the rule of the senate be higher than the rule of the constitution?

The ongoing trial of the Senate President Saraki, do you think its a punishment for him for disobeying the directives of the party?

I don’t know what informs that case, i see it as a Pandora box.

When he finishes with his own allegations and goes whichever way, there are many others who have not made declaration, and they have to pounce on them if they don’t expose them. So, I don’t know whether it has to do with his being senate CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Corruption war: Why African nations should copy Nigeria, by Anyiam-Osigwe The Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation has declared that African nations will continue to be vulnerable to imperialist incursions and manipulations unless Nigeria’s experience at tackling corruption is embraced by co-African leaders.

This was the view of Coordinator-General of the foundation, Mr. Charles Anyiam-Osigwe at the colloquium on corruption held in Ibadan.

The paper was titled “A synergistic potential towards Africa’s Development -A reflection on Anyiam-Osigwe’s perspective.”

The conference with the theme: “The Predicament of Corruption and the Quest for Holistic Development in Africa” attracted several members of the academia within and outside Nigeria.

According to the foundation, “… we note that except the present government of President Muhammadu

Buhari is provided with appropriate rudder, it’s efforts at curtailing corruption might not achieve the appropriate depth. We acknowledge the resolve of some serving presidents in Africa to examine the records of their predecessors and ensure that corruptive indulgences are corrected and looted funds recovered. The ongoing process in Kenya in this regards conveys a new vista of hope for the African continent. With a sense of optimism, we hope that the present government in Nigeria will get it right, its efforts, we hope will reasonably situate the country on the path of development”.

Recalling that the topic on corruption was the discourse at the 15th session of the Emmanuel Onyechere Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe lecture series, the foundation said it was reloaded because Africa is still burdened by an alarming level of economic poverty in the life of its citizenry.

Buhari

“Governments in the continent have not been able to provide the necessary infrastructure that are catalytic to development initiatives and dynamics as well as benefit the wellbeing of the citizenry. In all aspects of life; the continent remains dependent. In all of this, the African narrative of itself has been lost as the continent has not generated the capacity to realise nor optimise its potentials.

“Its citizenry has not been able to generate the requisite capacity to rediscover their identity. The African continent has been characterised as one that feeds on handouts both at the level of knowledge and at the level of economic survival. In the face of the endowment of the African continent in natural resources, the contradictions in which the continent thrives is appalling.

“In the case of Nigeria, a country which is acknowledged to have the sixth largest of oil deposits in the

world lags behind as one of the poorest countries in the world.”

On the way forward, the foundation called on the Federal Government to implement the resolution of the United Nations (UN) on teaching Philosophy from secondary schools level in Nigeria as a major step in boosting anti-corruption efforts in the country.

He said the implementation would be a major step in institutionalizing the fight against corruption.

Anyiam-Osigwe added that such decision would also help sustain President Buhari administration’s anticorruption crusade.

Laying the foundation for the talk shop, the foundation’s coordinator emphasized that the late Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe’s philosophical thought on building a society free of corrupt practices is crucial to the current efforts of the current Federal Government to rid Nigeria of corruption.

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president or is a way by those who design it think they can use to caution him. Caution him is to draw his mind to the fact that on the day of election , the electorate did not vote for Saraki, they voted for APC, so behave like APC man, if i am to talk to him, that is what I will tell him. All this are distractions like 81 senators following him, that won’t stop the judge from doing his job even if the entire 109 goes to court with him and there is a case made against him, their presence will have nothing.

Are they not trying to intimidate the judge? If I were the judge, they cannot intimidate me. If they want to claim their solidarity with him, good luck to them. If anybody has done anything wrong in this country, the judge should do his duty if it is true, when are we going to stop this rubbish that is happening in this country? There are people of early 50s who want to own trillions.

Tafa Balogun former Inspector General of police had N1.2 billion in one account and houses in Abuja. What is he going to do with all these or did he acquire all these in his salary as inspector general of police? I don’t want to talk about Alameyeseigha case, that one was revealed, it’s not a question of rumour. Why should people be so avaricious, it should be stopped.

Sir, you mention Fashola,

There have been rumour that the former governor of Lagos State and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are quarrelling but eventually he was nominated as a minister and he has been cleared by the senate. Do you think that if there is a war between Fashola and Asiwaju, Buhari would have nominated him as a minister?

I don’t know who nominated him, Buhari said this before that he doesn’t need anybody to nominate for him that he picked those he think that are fit for each state; but that aside, the issue of quarrelling, Asiwaju had cleared what people are rumouring. The first one was when a book was launched, that book was not written by Fashola, I text him complaining why I was not there and asked for some copies because people around me were asking me for books and he replied that he didn’t write any book, that it was Akeem Bello who wrote the book and he invited those he wanted to invite that he will try to get me some copies. That was when they started; But Tinubu sent somebody there who extolled the virtues of Fashola. When accusations were made against Fashola, Tinubu supported him, saying half of the blame was his. So therefore, people should forget it, because he and Fashola are one and the same that he has nothing against him that they are not fighting. Then I went to him, we

were discussing other party matters then I said that I saw your statement and I was very happy, is there any quarrel, if there is, we can settle it.

He said there can never be any quarrel, the boy who did well in government, can we be quarrelling? That was his answer to me and I don’t think I want any other answer from him The new man in Lagos (Ambode) do you think he will perform well as Fashola did taking Lagos to a better place?

First, I want to say that the take off of Fashola is different from the take off of Ambode; Fashola was part of Asiwaju government as Chief of Staff, he was the member of the executive council. He had a lot of things in his head when he was nominated, you know that time it was not real primary at all, it was the question of Asiwaju wanting him to succeed him and eventually he convinced all the party leaders and they agreed. So Fashola had that advantage of knowing what they were doing and how to improve on it. In the case of Ambode, it has to take months now to study the situation, to fashion out what method he will use and I believe that’s why some people think he is not fas. what he would use to be able to do as much and possibly than Fashola did and I think he is on it.

Yes Fashola handed over to him, it is on paper, to me, he is laying his

own foundation and from the look of things, I believe he is going to do very well. The budget he met is still the budget of Fashola not his own, so the people will allege that he is slow, he is not doing anything, some roads are not being handled, some projects have being abandon.

No, I have made enquiries and i am aware that he is not abandoning any project, he is going to start on many them, he had already started in some areas and by the time he positions himself with executive council he choose two days ago, I believe he is going to do well but you know we cannot start predicting if he will do better or not which is our hope that he does more than Fashola has done.

In view of disaster that PDP led Nigeria into, no payment of salaries and others like that.

How do you want to advise Nigerians with the new government that have been into place?

There is one governor for instance, Taraba State who appointed 112 aids, and what is he going to do with them? Lagos is generating about 30 billion per month, it is only River state that talks of 34 billion per annum, some other states are praying to get 1 billion per annum and yet, they want to do what Lagos, River and Akwa-ibom are doing, it is not possible. They want to have a long list of convoy made up of jeeps, bulletproof jeeps. Some of them re-

alize that some of these states are using helicopters; they don’t even know that some of them hire it they don’t buy. Many of them are over trading, the fedral agency that fixes salaries should stop fixing uniform salaries. what the California governor get is not what the governor in Maryland takes, even in Texas that is very big not to talk of New York and their tax rates are different even in Maryland. Like Lagos Island LG and the Ibeju Lekki LG chairman having the same salaries with all the service pressures on Lagos. What is the service pressure in Ibeju Lekki and the IGR of Lagos Island is able to meet whatever salaries and allowances to pay to who are serving them where as the Ibeju Lekki, I just pick Ibeju Lekki not that anything is wrong there, they would wait for Abuja, Badagry LG is far inside there and there is nothing like IGR but the executive chairman is going to have the same salary with the man in Eti-Osa. The same thing goes to states, they should stop giving same recognition in terms of salaries and allowances to those who run the affairs of the state. That will be the first step of running down the government if they continue like this. So Nigeria can only hope to continue running all the governments successfully if this approach is examined critically not to start making salary the same, allowance the same.

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Senate in order on screening of Amaechi – Presidency Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÎÎÎThe chances of

former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, of being cleared by the Senate for a ministerial appointment brightened on Monday as the Presidency said his screening by the Senate without debating a report on petition filed against him was in order.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, disclosed this in Abuja during an interactive session with correspondents.

Controversy has been trailing last week’s screening of Amaechi by the Senate even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senators faulted the process with insistence that the Senate should have debated the report on Amaechi before screening him.

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition which should have laid the report during plenary mid last week had said it could not probe the petition against Amaechi because a case against him is still pending in court.

However, Ita Enang said

the step the Senate took on Amaechi was in order, stressing that Senators acted within their constitutional right and in line with their own proceedings.

He said: “The constitution authorises the Senate and the House of Representatives and every legislative House to regulate its own proceedings including managing matters that are brought before them.

“Therefore, what the Senate did is domestic to the Senate and I am not in a position to speak about it but they are within their constitutional right.

“They are within their

constitutional right to regulate their own proceedings”.

Ita Enang, however, commended the manner the Senate handled the screening of ministerial nominees so far, stating that the Senators deployed maturity, experience and understanding while handling the screening exercise.

He added: “Senators have shown in the handling of the matter on the floor of the Senate, their personal experiences, interaction and maturity. They have shown the candour and the real characteristics nature of matured Senate.

“I want to really appreci-

ate them because Nigerians thought that the process will be very tumultuous, the process will be very rancorous, and that the questions to the nominees would be very personal and attacking.

“But the Senators during the screening process showed their intellect, their candour, their appreciation of national issues, the issues that relate to governance, the international perspective to the quality of candidates”.

Ita Enang also commend-

Governorship polls: Tribunals okay Okowa, Lalong’s victories Continued from page 6

Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (left) and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka at a church service for the formal opening of the 2015/2016 Legal Week, organised by the Enugu State Judiciary, at the Christ the King Parish, G.R.A., Enugu...on Monday

ed the personal qualities and attributes demonstrated by the nominees so far screened, adding that each of them gave good account of themselves during the question and answers sessions.

He said he was sure that those so far cleared to be ministers among the nominees are the people Nigerians have been waiting for, as according to him, they will constitute a good team of the President.

the first respondent was returned by valid votes becomes a non-issue.

“The concomitance of the conclusion by the tribunal is that this petition is without merit, it is bound to fail, and it failed. It is hereby dismissed.

“It follows that the election and return of the first respondent as the duly elected governor of Delta State is affirmed. The three sets of respondent are entitled to N50, 000.00 each as cost of prosecuting the petition,” the tribunal held.

In Plateau State, the Governorship Election Petition

Tribunal sitting in Jos, the state capital, on Monday, also upheld the election of Governor Lalong of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Senator GNS Pwajok, had gone to court challenging the election of Lalong, who was elected under the platform of the All Progressive Congress on April 11, 2015.

The candidate of the PDP, Sen. Pwajok, filed the petition against Lalong, the candidate of the APC, on the ground that the election was marred by over voting and intimation.

Taiwo Olaiya, said all political office- holders in Ile-Ife and the kingmakers arrived at his choice after considering some qualities that stand him out among the 43 princes that vied for the vacant stool.

Olaiya said the new Ooni’s impressive records in the field of business endeared him to all the people involved in the selection process, adding that the need to quickly industrialise the ancient city of Ife and provide jobs for many youths was considered in his choice.

He added that Ogunwusi’s understanding of the Yoruba culture, despite being widely travelled and generosity, even when he had not shown interest in becoming Ooni also worked in his favour.

According to him, Enitan

Ogunwusi also displayed unmatched humility and calmness that was hard to come by among all the contestants, saying the fact that the business tycoon made his money without being linked to any party or government also counted in his favour.

In his remarks, the father of the Ooni-designate, Pa Ropo John Ogunwusi, said before his birth, a man of God had predicted that Enitan will be great in life and achieve unprecedented success.

Ogunwusi, who retired at Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, OSBC, added that he started noticing pointers to the coming into fruition of the prophesies when Enitan started making headway in business.

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cess that led to the emergence of a 40-year-old Prince Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi as the new Ooni of Ife, on Monday shed light on some the factors considered before his choice was arrived at.

This is even as the Ooni designate is expected to arrive Ile-Ife today (Tuesday) after which he will procees to Ilofi for 21-day rites.

The Osun State government had in the early hours of Monday announced the choice of Prince Enitan Ogunwusi of Ojaja fam-

ily unit from Giesi Ruling House as the Ooni designate.

Before Prince Ogunwusi’s appointment, the last descendant of the Giesi ruling house that occupied the position was Ooni Derin Ologbenla and that was between 1880 and 1894.

When our correspondent visited Ile-Ife environs after the announcement, soldiers and policemen dominated the streets.

The soldiers were seen on routes that led to the Ooni’s palace and houses of some of the kingmakers, including Lowa.

Some youths were also

seen celebrating the emergence of Ogunwusi in Mayfair area of the ancient city.

When our correspondent conducted an opinion poll, 21 of the 23 respondents welcomed the emergence of Ogunwusi while the remaining two were neutral.

It, however, came as a shock to many when one of the contenders for the post, Omo Oba Sikiru Adetona Ayedun, conceded defeat and congratulated Ogunwusi.

Ayedun said: “I hereby congratulate the Kabiyesi, the new Ooni of Ife Omo Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi on his emergence as the 51st

Ooni.

“I equally wish you a memorable and eventful coronation in advance. Igba re atuwa lara.

“The efforts of the Governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, cannot but be commended for his leadership role in making the process crisis free. Sir, you remain cautious and steadfast. ”The Ife kingmaker also deserves commendation for their unity of purpose. Ile Ife is greater than all of us and we must all work together for his greater upliftment.

Speaking to newsmen at the residence of Pa Ropo Ogunwusi, the father of the new monarch, the chairman of Ife Central Local Government Area of the state, Dr.

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Over 150 dead as earthquake rocks Afghanistan, Pakistan

13 Africa S’Sudan makes progress on ceasefire

ÏÏÏSouth Sudan’s rebels signed

Earthquake-stricken Kashmiris gather outside their offices in Muzaffarabad after a 7.5-magnitude temblor rattled Pakistan and Kashmir, Oct. 26, 2015.

ÏÏÏA major earthquake struck

northern Afghanistan Monday, killing more than 100 people there as well as in neighboring Pakistan.

Centered 82 kilometers southeast of Feyzabad in a remote area of the Hindu Kush mountain range, the quake registered at a magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The hardest hit area was Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhaw province, where officials

have confirmed at least 123 people killed and more than 950 injured.

Pakistan's military chief, General Raheel Sharif, mobilized troops and helicopters to immediately distribute rescue equipment to the region. Twenty-eight people are reported dead in Afghanistan, but that number could rise dramatically, according to the country's CEO Abdullah Abdullah.

"There are reports of heavy casualties caused by the quake but,

exact numbers are yet to be release by relevant government entities," his office posted on social media.

The death toll in Afghanistan includes 12 schoolchildren who were killed in a stampede as they rushed out of shaking buildings in Takhar, in Kunduz province.

An eyewitness in Jalalabad tells VOA the quake sent people scrambling for cover. "We have not seen an earthquake this powerful. I was sleeping when I felt earth shaking.

I ran out for safety," he said.

The massive earthquake also triggered landslides in mountainous northern and northwestern Pakistan. The army says rubble has blocked the road in five places along the Karakoram Highway (KKH), the only road link between Pakistan and China.

An aerial assessment of damage in the quake zone may not be available until Tuesday morning, military officials noted.

100,000 places for migrants in reception centers - EU ÏÏÏ The European Union -- in an

effort to ease the burden on Greece and eastern European countries caused by the influx of migrants --says it will set up 100,000 places in reception centers in Greece and along the migrants' route through the Balkans.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said early Monday after an emergency summit Sunday in Brussels with several leaders of EU nations, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of nonEU eastern European countries, that 50,000 places would be created in Greece and another 50,000 throughout the Balkans.

Juncker said the reception places will be vital in providing shelter, registering the migrants and help-

ing better manage the flow of the migrants.

"This is one of the greatest litmus tests Europe has ever faced," Merkel said Monday about the continent's migrant crisis, which some see as a border security problem and others view as a humanitarian challenge.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz (L) and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) chat after a family photo at a meeting over the Balkan refugee crisis with leaders from central and eastern Europe at the European Parliament President Martin Schulz (L) and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) chat after a family

photo at a meeting over the Balkan refugee crisis with leaders from central and eastern Europe at the Juncker issued a statement Monday with nearly 20 proposals, including a plan for the speedy exchange of information to coordinate efforts on processing the migrants through the various countries.

The mini gathering of central and eastern European leaders Sunday was sought by Chancellor Merkel, who has voiced concern for migrants as winter sets in.

The meeting was the latest in a series of top-level EU meetings to find a unified approach on how to best deal with the thousands of migrants streaming into the EU every day.

On Sunday, Croatia Interior

Ministry spokesman Domagoj Dzigulovic said a record 11,500 migrants entered the country Saturday -- the most in a single day since the flow of migrants began in midSeptember. Police said the country has seen nearly 250,000 enter the country since then.

Migrants turned to Croatia after Hungary erected a barbed-wire fence along its border with Serbia.

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Tanzanian opposition fears arrests of election volunteers ÏÏÏ

Tanzania's opposition Chadema party said on Monday police had detained 40 of its volunteers after a combined presidential and parliamentary election at the weekend, in an incident marring an otherwise broadly peaceful voting process.

Another opposition party, the Civic United Front, said police fired teargas at a crowd of support-

ers celebrating what the party said was its victory in Sunday's race on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. Official results are not expected out until later this week.

Partial results on Monday could show the direction of voting following the most hotly contested race after more than five decades of rule by the CCM party.

Tanzania has been one of Af-

rica's most stable democracies, although Zanzibar has often been a hotspot for tensions because of strong local opposition and loud Islamist and separatist voices.

The race for president has pitted the ruling CCM's Works Minister John Magufuli against a coalition of opposition parties led by former prime minister Edward Lowassa, who defected from the CCM just

three months ago.

The Chadema party, part of the Ukawa coalition Lowassa heads, said the arrest of 40 of its volunteers was part of a government bid to intimidate the opposition.

"Police also confiscated computers and mobile phones of our volunteers who were tallying results of the presidential election," John Malya, a Chadema lawyer, said.

an agreement Monday to finalize the implementation of the security arrangements that were part of an August peace accord. Fighting has continued despite that ceasefire, but this latest development has all parties hopeful.

The government delegation and a group of former political leaders and detainees signed the agreement in September, but the rebels had refused.

General Taban Deng Gai said the rebels delayed because they were concerned about the volume of troops in the capital city, Juba.

“The government had the understanding that the 5000 mentioned in the minutes were just only for them, but now they understand that we are going to share them," he explained. "They’re going to be shared between the two parties. This will be the first unit of the army to be unified.”

Talks will continue to decide on the details on the shared forces.

IGAD, the East African bloc mediating, is hopeful for more progress after the signing Monday morning.

Refugees pile pressure on Cameroon communities

ÏÏÏEscalating violence in north-

ern Cameroon combined with an influx of refugees from Nigeria and Central African Republic is placing immense strain on local communities already struggling to survive, the United Nations' aid chief said on Monday.

Cross-border raids and suicide bombings by suspected Boko Haram forces have uprooted more than 80,000 people in Cameroon's Far North region over the last year, the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.

The region is also home to 60 000 Nigerian refugees who have fled attacks by the militant group since the start of 2013.

Boko Haram, which has waged a brutal six-year campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate, used Cameroon's north to stockpile supplies and recruits until a government crackdown last year, but the militants have ramped up attacks this year.

"Entire communities have been uprooted from their homes... daily livelihood activities such as farming, trade, pastoralism and even movement are hampered by insecurity and increasingly frequent attacks and suicide bombings," UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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Saraki, PDP greet Ooni-elect, task him on national unity Lateef Ibrahim & Olufemi Samuel Abuja

ÏÏÏ Senate President, Dr.

Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday, sent a congratulatory message to the Ooni of Ife-designate, Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and members of his family.

The Senate President advised the new Ooni to con-

centrate on further solidifying the role of the Yoruba people in national unity.

In the same vein, the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Adewale Oladipo, has hailed the choice of Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as the new Ooni of Ife, Ile-Ife, Osun state.

Ogunwusi succeeds the late Oba Okunade Sijuade,

Olubuse 11, who joined his ancestors on July 28th this year.

Speaking in Abuja on Monday after the approval of Prince Ogunwusi as the new monarch of the ancient town by the state government as presented by the king makers, Prof Oladipo commended the king makers for making a right choice for the people of Ife and for not mortgag-

Ogun State Governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun (left) in handshake with new Head of Service, Elder Abraham Olusola Adeyemi after taking oaths of office at Governor’s office, Oke Mosan ,Abeokuta… on Monday

Ogun, UPN bicker over removal of HID Awolowo’s memorial billboard ÏÏÏ Ogun State govern-

ment, on Monday, received a thumb down from the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) over the removal of the giant memorial billboard of Yeye Oodua and late matriarch of Awolowo dynasty, Mama HID Awolowo by the Ogun state Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA).

While the leadership of the Ogun state chapter of UPN is accusing the Ibikunle Amosun-led government of political vendetta, the state government maintained that it removed the billboard because it constituted an environmental and health hazard to the public.

Ogun UPN had on Monday in Abeokuta, the state capital, staged a protest over the

removal of the HID Awolowo’s memorial billboard, located along Sagamu-Benin expressway by the state Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA).

The UPN deputy governorship candidate in the April 11th election, Alhaja Aminat Olatunbosun, who led the protest, accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of masterminding the removal of the billboard on political ground.

Olatunbosun, who spoke with journalists in Abeokuta, explained that her political party paid all the charges levied by OGSAA before the billboard was erected in honour of the late HID Awolowo, who died on September 19th.

ing their consciences as being speculated in some quarters prior to the pronouncement.

Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, wished the Ooni-elect a long and peaceful reign, sound health and many years of service to his people.

According to the Senate President, the Ooni-elect has so many things in common with the immediate past Ooni, which include, but not limited to being widely travelled, exposed, versatile, well-informed and somebody devoted to community service.

He noted that the appointment of Prince Ogunwusi could not have come at a better time.

Saraki said: “I am particularly delighted that the approval of your appointment by the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, came at a time when the youthful zest, experience, and knowledge of global best practices, which you possess in abundance are needed to move the traditional institution and most especially, the revered throne of the Ife Kingdom, to the next level.

Flanked by other protesting-banner carrying members of UPN, Olatubosun alleged that shortly after the installation of the billboard, operatives of OGSAA, backed by armed policemen, removed the billboard “for no just rea-

son.”

She added that when UPN officials enquired about the billboard removal, they were told that it was based on “order from above.”

UPN’s deputy governorship candidate at the April 11th election further accused the state government of breach of contract and demanded the immediate re-installation of the billboard.

Amosun

Awolowo

WHO removes Nigeria from polio-endemic list Lara Adejoro

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The World Health Organization (WHO), on Monday, formally removes Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries.

The announcement comes after the historic achievement of the country in interrupting the transmission of wild poliovirus for a period of 15 months, which exceeds WHO’s target for interruption. Only two countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan) remain polio-endemic, down from more than 125 in 1988.

To recognise this landmark achievement, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, attended an official ceremony at the State House to formally announce to

President Muhammadu Buhari, WHO’s decision to remove Nigeria from the polio-endemic list.

“It is my pleasure to congratulate the people and the Government of Nigeria on the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission and to inform that Nigeria has been officially removed from the list of polio-endemic countries,” said Dr. Moeti, who is representing the WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan.

“The remarkable achievement is a true testament of what political will, government leadership, community ownership, and the collective efforts of partners can achieve when united behind a global public health good.

NSITF urges FG to raise social security policy

Akor Ejumene Abuja

ÏÏÏ As part of

its mandate to ensure adequate social security for workers, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) yesterday called on the Federal Government to raise a policy on social security to serve as an anchor for the implementation of various social security programmes in the country.

Speaking in Abuja on the challenges confronting the implementation of social

security initiatives in Nigeria, a general manager and head of social security of the NSITF, Ismail Agaka, explained that though the federal ministry of labour and productivity is charged with regulating implementation of social security in the country, it has not been empowered to carry out the function.

He explained that: “The Federal Ministry of labour is uniquely positioned to be the coordinating agency for all social protection initiatives in the country.

Again, Tribunal upholds Dankwambo’s election victory Monday Agu, Jnr

ÏÏÏ For the second time

in two weeks, the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Gombe, under Justice A.A. Nwobodo, has again thrown out the petition filed by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) against the election of Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State on Monday.

The tribunal, under Justice Mohammed Sirajo, last week dismissed similar petition filed by the All Pro-

gressives Congress (APC) for lacking in merit making it the second time that the petitions against the governor are being thrown out within two weeks.

However, in yesterday’s judgment, Justice A.A. Nwobodo, who chaired the tribunal, dismissed the petition for lack of merit and the inability of the petitioner, Abubakar Ja’afar of the ADC to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the election conducted did not conform substantially with the electoral act 2010.

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Buhari’s healthy jab for civil service

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Salisu Na’inna Dambatta

s the Senate concludes the screening of Ministerial nominees, those interacting with Federal civil servants would have noticed that their morale has been boosted by the pronouncements and actions of President Muhammadu Buhari, which gave credence to the relevance and importance of the civil service as a key instrument in public sector governance.

It may be recalled that the President had told a French television station in an interview on September 16, 2015, that Nigerian civil servants are there, working to ensure continuity in governance despite the delay in appointing ministers, the political heads and Chief Executives of government ministries.

The context was that the television anchor wanted to know whether the delay in appointing ministers had negative impact on governance. The President explained that: “… The civil service provides the continuity; the technocrats are the ones that do most of the work. They are there to provide the continuity, dig into the records and then guide us.

They have been there, some for 15 years, some 20 years,” the Presi-

dent said.

The morale-boosting Presidential comments came at a crucial time when civil servants were inundated with chilling, but unfounded, rumours of a possible retrenchment or rationalisation of the service in line with the envisaged reduction in the number of federal ministries.

A newspaper report had claimed that the administration has directed the retirement of officers who have less than two years to have spent 35 years in the service or to attain the fixed retirement age of 60. The story was false and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation issued a statement debunking it.

Soon after the strong moraleboosting presidential remarks during the television interview in France and the dismissal of the early-retirement rumours, President Buhari issued a directive for the payment of all outstanding salary arrears and allowances to federal civil servants immediately.

This measure further lifted the spirit of the civil servants, who for once jubilated loudly in public.

It can be recalled that some weeks earlier, millions of civil servants in 27 states of the Federation who were owed salaries and allowances, in some cases running into many months, celebrated the

announcement of a financial bailout by the Federal Government for paying them. Through the arrangement, the states concerned are accessing a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) facility worth N388 -13824 for offsetting the backlog of workers’ salaries and allowances.

The bailout was key to ending unhappy periods of pro-longed strikes by teachers, health workers and other government employees, thus causing public discomfort, as services rendered by the workers were no longer available to meet the needs of the populace.

The pronouncement and action of the President had equally resulted in less number of staff reporting to work late or closing early. This was reinforced by the just-concluded early-morning surprise visits to ministries by the immediate former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Danladi Kifasi.

It is also evident that staff confidence and self-esteem have risen; they are highly motivated to work harder, the gain being improvement in commitment and service delivery by the Ministries, ExtraMinisterial Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

As for other institutions such as the Military, Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the praises

and clear guidance and directives the President issued to them have served as a jab that reinvigorated them.

Nigerian military in particular, which is getting the highest-level political support and the requisite logistics backing from the administration, are doing what is expected of them – the repelling insurgents that in the past seemed hard to defeat.

It is also certain that the government’s desire to attain some measure of self-reliance in the acquisition of weapons and other hardware for the armed forces by proposing to establish a modest domestic military industrial complex, has renewed and deepened the sense of pride in our uniformed compatriots.

Similarly, the steps taken by the administration to ensure the welfare of officers and soldiers in the theatres of battle against Boko Haram and other armed groups, have contributed in the battlefield successes.

There is no doubt that the presidential expression of confidence in the civil service of the federation and other institutions such as the Military and the Nigerian Customs Service among others, has the positive impact of rekindling the inherent patriotism of the staff of those institutions.

Nigeria: Summits are not the answer

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Abdullahi Musa

overnments in Nigeria operate under motor park atmosphere.

The motor park is not the best place to choose for meditation. Hindus choose real isolated places at top of Himalayas, where they will be able to have clarity of thought and vision. Individual Nigerians thrive in chaos. Go to our markets and see. It is not a place for serenity. It is not a place for contemplation. Every available space has an occupant wanting to sell something. The pedestrian walks leading to our markets are all occupied by ‘tenants’,seeking to sell something.

Somebody thought there was need for loading bay in one of the Kano markets. For where, the loading bay became a ‘market’ itself. On the road passing by the frontage of an old hospital in Kano is a partition, separating the lanes. Pedestrians could wait on it in order to cross the lanes safely. Who will allow them? It was converted to a ‘market’.

Life generally is not serene, but to get certain results, you must create serenity. To really develop, you must be able to put a screen between governance and politics. Here they

are always in a bear hug, politics smothering governance. How many summits, seminars, round tables, has Nigeria conducted, all seeking to find solutions to our problems?

The doors of political office holders are always being knocked, incessantly, demonic ally, each with right to be heard. Someone will come and advice to plant rice. They will give directives to get it planted.

Then someone says, no, plant yams.

Meanwhile rice is forgotten. Then someone will say phased importation of rice is the answer. Someone then says, conduct a summit on agriculture, to find a way how best to boost it.

Before any digestion takes place, it is time for summit on industries, on small and medium enterprises, on commercial agriculture, on Boko Haram, on Chibok girls, on gender equality, on MDGs, on climate change. Don’t forget the UN will come with its day of washing hands, day for gays, till it exhausts all the three hundred and sixty five days.

The reader may sense some absurdity in the examples, but that is the intention precisely. A political office holder’s day will be choked up with all these daily, such that he

or she cannot really be focused to remember all the commitments, all agreements, talk less of outcomes.

The civil service ought to be trusted to follow any initiative to its logical conclusion.

Nothing retards us more like our inability to chart our destiny. Whoever comes calling, particularly light – skinned people, they set an agenda for us. In addition, there are so many of them. The head of an executive will be revolving, nearly 360° trying to keep track. Nevertheless, it is precisely for this reason that others waste time to develop periodic plans, most frequent being five – year plans. Since we have four-year executive term, ideally, a political party seeking office should have prepared it’s plan before elections. If it wins, it starts implementation immediately. Some will say it has to wait for handover notes.

But a political party should have kept eyes on what it’s opponent was doing in office. That is why the parliamentary system is better for governance. While in opposition you are still in Parliament, you have shadow cabinet. Nobody will come to grill you for being suitable for Cabinet position or not.

So, if you really know where you

are going you do not wait for others to show you the way. Then you have no executive time to spare to listen to expert on yams or maize, unless they are all part of the plan.

Protocols should not burden an executive without consulting the Planning Ministry. What is the visitor coming for? If what they are coming for is not within this year’s plan, then let them save their ticket cost. Sometimes, they come with counterpart funding proposal.

We still apply the same criteria. Is it part of what I already planned?

Say someone comes to you with a packet of cigarettes. He asks you to shoulder 50 percent of the cost while he shoulders the balance.

Worse, you are to do the smoking! Is the loser difficult to identify?

Is it not same with NGOs, particularly those funded from outside? You think you are getting cheap, free funds and service. You are not. What they have done is to recruit agents within your nation, pay them well, and instruct them to work against you.

A people are best to determine their destiny. Where you shirk such responsibility, where you think others are there to develop you, then you really qualify to be their slave.

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Business Times Æ s FRC suspends Atedo Peterside, David-Borha over financial ‘misstatements’ Friday Atufe Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has requested that the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) investigate Stanbic IBTC and KPMG Professional Services for

“financial misstatements.”

In a report released by the FRC yesterday, the council suspended four directors of Stanbic IBTC and KPMG Professional Services, its audit engagement partner, until their innocence is ascertained.

The four directors suspended are Atedo Peterside, Sola David-

Borha, Arthur Oginga and Dare Owei. The bank is alleged to have misstated its financial reports for the 2013-2014 fiscal year and ceded its banking application rights to Standard Bank of South Africa against the directives of National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).

According to FRC, the schedules supplied to the council by Stanbic IBTC said the total fee paid to KPMG Professional Services for non-audit services was inconsistent with what was disclosed in the financial statements for the years under review.”

The bank was also alleged to have flouted a number of financial regulation, including a regular flouting of CBN regulations.

“In 2014 for instance, a total penalty of N28,000,000 was imposed on the group. Among the contraventions was improper disclosure of public sector deposits in 2014,” FRC said in the report.

“Stanbic IBTC seems to have a penchant for poor disclosures which further corroborates the

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findings in this report.” In view of all the allegations established by the FRC, the council decided that the CBN assist by taking regulatory disciplinary actions against those expected to guarantee the integrity of the aforementioned financial statements in order to safeguard the interest of stakeholders of Stanbic IBTC. “We are convinced that once the monies are properly accounted for and used to shore up their Tier 1 capital, the institution shall become stronger,” FRC ssid.

“The Federal Inland Revenue Service is requested to ensure that the related taxes are paid and the government is not unduly short changed.“ The EFCC is requested to assist in this effort by questioning those involved in the concealment and sale of the banking application software that was developed in Nigeria which, other than the financial implication, has also robbed Nigerians of national pride.

L-R: Council Member, Chartered Institute of Public Management of Nigeria (CIPMN) Prof. Nwokolo Michael, Presenting the Certificate, President/Chairman of Council, Archbishop Prof Magnus Atilade, Special Guest of Honor Dr. Nwanze Ezoem and Consultant to Mushin LGA, receiving the Certificate, Hon. Owoeye Adedeji, during the Induction and Investiture Ceremony of CIPMN, in Lagos recently.

Charles Okonji Total deposit of one of the oldest banks in the country, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, has dropped by a whooping sum of N1billion, which represents a decline of about 1.7 per cent of the corresponding period in 2014.

This is contained in the FBN Holdings Plc unaudited results announced yesterday for the nine months ended 30 September 2015.

The report showed the bank’s operating expenses also increased by 4.4 per cent y-o-y (-18.5 per cent q-o-q) to N169.2 billion

First Bank’s total deposit drops by N1billion (Sept 2014: N162.2 billion), which is not healthy for the bank.

The implication is that investors’ capital is at risk since the economic depression facing the country’s economy is yet to record a positive healthy movement.

According to the report, other drivers of cost include operational and other losses and outsourced cost21, which increased

by N3.8 billion and N4.1 billion respectively in Q3 2015.

However, the report revealed a an upwards shift (increment) in the interest expense, which grew by 35.6 per cent y-o-y (-8.0 per cent q-o-q) to N107.5 billion. The increase in interest expense y-o-y has been primarily driven by the high interest rate environment following increased cash reserve requirements (CRR) and heightened competition for deposits among financial institutions.

At the September MPC meet-

ing, the harmonised CRR was reduced to 25 per cent from 31 per cent. Interest expense on customers’ deposit, constituting 85.6 per cent of total interest and similar expense, grew by 31.5 per cent yo-y (-8.1 per cent q-o-q) to N92.0 billion. In addition, interest on borrowings closed at N12.8 billion (57.5% y-o-y, -41.8% q-o-q) on reduced utilisation of borrowings from corresponding banks to finance letters of credit for international trade.

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Dangote Cement African projects drive revenue to N366bn in 3qtr Adeesola Akindele Aggressive African expansion projects by Dangote Cements have started yielding positive fruits as the company for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 recorded a turnover of N365.5 billion, a 17.8 per cent increase over its corresponding year’s figure.

The company, in the same period exported 3.7 million metric tonnes of cement to neighboring countries. The export underscores the fact that Nigeria is now self-sufficient in cement production.

The Chief Executive of the company, Onne Van der Weijde said: “I am pleased to report that sales from outside Nigeria have contributed nearly 29 per cent of volumes so far this year and 39 per cent in the third quarter, which demonstrates that we are diversifying successfully and quickly gaining market shares in new countries.”

He said the company has just acquired 2,000 new trucks to help improve its logistics capabilities and enable it enhance its export of cement to neighbouring countries, adding that: “Our key target will be Ghana, where we already have an import terminal that is at present supplied from outside the ECOWAS region.”

The nine months unaudited results released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) recently showed that the cement giant’s earnings per share rose by 18.6 percent to N9.80.

Profit before tax at N166.9 billion for the nine months ended 30th September 2015 represents an increase of 8.4 percent compared to N154 billion in the 2014 corresponding period.

A breakdown of the results indicated that the cement group posted an operating profit of N173.5 billion, 6.8 percent higher than N162.5 billion generated in 2014. Nigerian operations accounted for N162.7 billion, West & Central Africa N2.9 billion, while South & East Africa did N7.4 billion.

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Boeing seeks to establish plant in Nigeria The United States of America, USA, Boeing Aircraft Manufacturing Company has unveiled plans to expand its business activities in Africa.

Boeing through its President, Boeing International, Marc Allen recently wrote the past Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Dr. Harold Demuren and seek an audience with him on how its business could be propelled forward in the continent.

The letter dated 19th October, 2015, and signed by its Managing Director, Africa, Miguel Santos declared that Boeing has decided to undertake a fact finding mission to Africa with stops in four major Sub-Sahara Africa cities including Lagos, Nigeria.

Allen stated that the company intended to in each city meet with political, business leaders and hear, first hand, their views on the political and economic prospects of the continent in which it felt the former helmsman of the regulatory agency would be useful to it to achieve its set goals not just in the country, but in the continent as a whole.

The letter added, “I believe that your views are critical for us to have an objective and clear understanding of where Africa is today and where it is heading.

“Allen will be accompanied

by Mr. Stanley Roth, Vice President Boeing International, Ms. Heather Pederson, Senior Director, Government Affairs, both based in Washington DC and myself.”

Santos said that Boeing aircraft manufacturing company has had a presence throughout the African continent for several years, through its commercial airplanes and the African airlines that operate them, stressing that Africa was undergoing a geo-political and economic transformation that would position the continent for the rest of the 21st century.

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L-R Chairman,League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents,Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo.Permanent Secretary Mins of Aviation Hajia Binta Bello. MD of NAMA Ibrahim Abdulsalam. Director, Training and operation NCAA, Capt Sidi Abdullahi and former Chairman House Committee on Aviation Hon Awaal Tukur.

Ethiopian Airlines make profit than all African carriers combined Stories by Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

Ethiopian Airlines’ $175 million profit for the 2014/15 fiscal year it announced at the end of last week is more than what the rest of Africa’s airline industry posted over the same period.

Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian Airlines chief executive, said the airline, which has been

the most profitable in Africa for a couple of years now, exceeded its revenue and profit targets for the fiscal year.

“We had planned for 43 billion birr by 2015, but in the last fiscal year closed at about 49.4 billion birr in revenue. The same with profitability’ The state-owned carrier said it plans to increased it fleet to 140 planes by 2025 when it expects to be generating over $10

billion on annual revenue. At the moment it has 76 planes and recently announced plans to increase this by 60 percent by buying 44 new aircrafts.

While other major African airlines, including Kenya Airways and South African Airways, fall deeper into loses, Ethiopian Airlines has grown its revenue and expanded its routes to become the most networked carrier on the con-

tinent.

Collectively, Other African Airlines are expected to post a profit of barely $100 million the lowest of all regions, according to the International Air Transport Industry Association (Iata). They are also expected to see the slowest growth among developing markets with capacity and demand expansion of 3.3 percent and 3.2 percent respectively.

Foreign, domestic airlines generate N10bn in 6 months As haven for air transport investment, a total of 15 countries have so far indicated their preparedness to sign Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) with Nigeria. When concluded, these carriers can begin reciprocal air transport services between Nigeria and these nations.

Also, 13 others are on the threshold waiting for renegotiation of their existing air pacts. The disclosure was made by the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Muhtar Usman at a media seminar.

Usman put the amount of tickets sold on the domestic route from January to July this year at

N2, 352, 011,595.17, with international airlines raking N8, 176, 919, 415.10 within the same period.

He revealed that the total volume of passengers airlifted from January to July 2015 by domestic operators stand at 6, 061, 740 passengers while their foreign counterpart freighted 2, 341, 748 in similar period.

He noted that this result would have been better but for the transition period and elections which always restricts wide scale travel, adding that the aviation regulatory body is putting finishing touches to the process leading to the registration of all aviation marketers.

To him, the existing one would

have to regularize their operations while new entrants he said are expected to file fresh application with the same requirements. Meanwhile, Nigeria is preparing for another Universal Safety Audit Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), March 2016. In the last International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) safety audit, Nigeria scored 96.45 per cent. Besides, the American Transport Security Administration (TSA) and European Union (EU) security experts have at various times scrutinized the nation’s security systems and have excelled with minimal open items.

His words, “As a matter of fact,

NCAA is the only civil aviation authority in the world that has four ICAO certified auditors on its staff list. These auditors are now being invited by ICAO to join other experts to carry out audits on other countries. One of them has just returned from an audit exercise in Tanzania and Mali”.

“The country is at the concluding phase of our Corrective Action Plan (CAP) from the last security audit. Infractions and security breaches have become farfetched, as the synergy and commitment among our security agents at our airports is very encouraging. This has led to a stabilized industry”.

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19 Maritime

Ex-destination inspectors lobby Ali over scanners at seaports

Ali

Stories Funmi Coker Former Destination Inspection Agencies (DIAs) at the port are currently seeking to take over maintenance and provision of scanning services at the port, two years after their contracts expired and functions transferred to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

This is coming against the backdrop of increasing concerns over the poor state of the scanning machines at the nation’s seaports.

Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) who dropped the hint when he visited the scanning site at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa during his familiarization visit to the various Customs formations in Lagos recently said one of the former DIAs made its intentions known when its officials visited him in at the Customs headquarters in Abuja recently.

“I met with officials of Cotecna and they told me that they want to take over the scanners and I had wanted to ask when I came here to know if they were managing the scanners well when they were in charge,” he said.

Ali who was taken through the rudiments of operations of the scanners had expressed satisfaction at the speed the scanners could examine containers but expressed concern over the poor state of the scanners which have since been grounded.

Some stakeholders have however kicked against the proposed plan by the former service providers to take over scanning operations at the ports noting that the scanners have all packed up because the service providers handed over obsolete scanners to Customs.

Others blamed customs officials for poor maintenance of the scanners.

President, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Eugene Nweke said that the DIAs deliberately handed over obsolete scanners to Customs.

“The whole handover process was geared towards them coming back because prior to the handing over of destination inspection to Customs, the management of NCS consulted the manufacturers of those scanners and they undertook an audit to evaluate the scanners and the report they came out with

was that most of the scanners were obsolete and they are in a terrible shape when they were handed over to Customs,” he said.

Nweke advised that Customs to acquire new and sophisticated scanners with the revenue it generated from the collection of the one per cent Comprehensive Import Supervision Scheme (CISS) stressing that Customs has all it takes to manage the scanners.

“Why should they come back?

Can’t Nigeria manage and implement its own ICT tool? They should get away and let Customs do it. Customs has what it takes to manage the scanners. They should go and acquire new scanners and have the old ones refurbished or throw them away.

“We know how much Customs has saved Nigerians for the one per cent CISS they were collecting in the past one year. That should be enough for Customs to acquire scanners. Let us accept our own and believe we can do it better than engaging people making money from the ports,” he added.

Factional President, National Council of Managing Directors of Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) Lucky Amiwero, had in a letter he recently addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari also noted that the scanners had all collapsed.

He said that in effect, the risk assessment system of the Customs under destination inspection regime has also collapsed due to non-functioning of the scanners.

Amiwero argued that apart from the delay as a result of the lack of scanners, there was also the security risk involved.

He called on the Federal Government to investigate the Nigeria Customs Service on the state of the destination inspection scheme.

He said, “The scanners handed over to Nigeria Customs Service have all collapsed, as all process relating to scanning in the ports are now done physically, bringing us back to complete manual era with lengthy, cumbersome and costly process in the ports.”

Poultry product

NOA warns Nigerians against imported poultry products National Orientation Agency (NOA) has advised Nigerians against consumption of imported poultry products.

The advice was contained in a statement signed by the agency’s Director in Lagos State, Waheed Ishola.

“These products are not matured for consumption. A recent study showed that the products are often injected with special chemicals to boost their sizes.

“Sometimes too, they are sprayed with formaldehyde (formalin), a very dangerous chemical used to embalm dead bodies.’’

“In view of the high risk in the consumption of the prod-

ucts, the country has unfortunately been rated as having the highest rate of cancer and kidney diseases in Africa.’’

“This is revealed in a recent study which showed that Nigeria has the highest poultry consumer market in Africa because of our population,” he said.

He said the agency would embark on series of advocacy visit to traditional rulers, market leaders, Churches and Mosques to sensitise people on dangers of consuming such products.

Ishola said the agency would also organise town-hall meetings with community leaders, students and other groups to sensitise people on the issue.

Customs alerts Nigerians on cyber crimes Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has again warned members of the public to beware of criminal elements that open fake Facebook accounts of the Comptroller General, Col. Hameed Ali with the intent of defrauding unsuspecting job seekers and those looking for overtime cargoes and contracts.

Customs spokesman, Wale Adeniyi who gave the warning at a recent media interactive session with the Customs boss said that the Col. Ali does not have a Facebook account and anyone dealing with him on that platform is dealing with a fake Customs CG. He said both recruitment and auction of overtime cargoes have remained suspended till further notice, adding that the clarification became necessary as many people have called to get clarification on the auction of cars, containers and recruitment into the service.

“Customs is not presently recruiting and again auction of seized or overtime cargo remain suspended till further notice. This reminder is necessary to prevent people from being defrauded by

criminal element who open fake Facebook account in the name of the Comptroller General, Col. Hameed Ali advertising job vacancies, auction and contract.

The Customs CG does not have a Facebook account,” he said.

Meanwhile, Adeniyi has said that the CG has been documented and has been given Service number as the number one officer in the Service.

This is even despite the fact the Ali is not wearing a Customs uniform.

Ali had while addressing reporters in Lagos as part of events to rap –up his one week tour of customs formations and meetings with stakeholders in Lagos said that he does not need a uniform to perform his job.

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RGU to outline energy career pathways in Nigeria, Ghana

Oil and gas field

MIGA, World Bank, Seven Energy back Nigeria’s gas sector Stories Opeoluwani Akintayo In a bid to develop Nigeria’s gas sector, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group, alongside Seven Energy International Limited (Seven Energy), yesterday announced their involvement in delivering gas to three power stations and two manufacturing plants in the country.

MIGA is providing a guarantee of $200 million against the risk of expropriation to Seven Energy’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Accugas Ltd. The investment has a strong environmental profile, as Seven Energy’s operations will reduce gas flaring and displace more-polluting fuels such as diesel and biomass.

The collaborators are expected to have a significant development impact in a country such as Nigeria as it suffers from a severe energy shortage due to the lack of infrastructure to bring gas to the domestic market.

As widely known, most international oil and gas companies in Nigeria focused on offshore oil, seeing gas as a byproduct and re-injected, liquified for export, or flared. Yet, despite the country’s enormous natural gas reserves, only one third of power is supplied from the national grid. Those connected to the grid face multiple daily power cuts and 55 percent of the population has no energy

access. In response, the Nigerian government created the Gas Master Plan in 2009 to increase the gas supply and jumpstart investments in gas infrastructure through market-based pricing, strengthened regulation, increased contract enforceability, and better-aligned incentives.

MIGA’s backing of Seven Energy forms part of new generation of jointly developed World Bank Group solutions. In addition to MIGA’s insurance, the World Bank supports the country’s sector reforms while the IFC itself and an IFC-managed fund have jointly invested in Seven Energy in Nigeria.

Speaking on the development, Chief Executive Officer of Seven Energy, Phillip Ihenacho said MIGA’s goal is not only to boost business in Nigeria and to also improve the economy.

“MIGA’s involvement is an important part of the financial security package that enables us to invest for the long term in Nigeria’s gas sector—a decision that we expect will be good not only for our business, but also for Nigerian citizens, companies, and the economy as a whole,” said Phillip Ihenacho, Chief Executive Officer of Seven Energy.

“On energy, Nigeria is at a crossroad,” said the agency’s Executive Vice President and CEO, Keiko Honda. “MIGA is very pleased to be part of the country’s efforts to reduce its negative impact on climate change by moving toward cleaner energy and reducing gas flaring.”

Robert Gordon University (RGU) will host a series of energy and engineering focused seminars in Ghana and Nigeria for prospective students keen to develop their careers or make a start in the oil and gas industry.

The free sessions which will be held in October and November, will feature presentations from four of the university’s lecturers and focus on the breath of energy related courses on offer at RGU, and the career opportunities they can lead to.

Ibiye Iyalla, course leader for MSc Subsea Engineering at the School of Engineering and Dr David Lonie, course leader for MSc IT for the Oil and Gas Industry at the School of Computering Science and Digital Media, will both

give presentations.

They will be joined by Dr Charles Maddisson, course leader for MSc Energy Management Aberdeen Business School, and Dr Bassam Bijeremi, Associate Head of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment who will also outline what students will learn on their courses, including Construction and Project Management.

Regional Manager at RGU, Jamie Hastings said: “We’re looking forward to meeting with prospective students in Nigeria and Ghana to outline how RGU can help them secure the skills needed to develop their career or make a start in the oil and gas industry.

“West Africa is our largest international market and it’s

important that we build on the work we have done in the region to enable our students to gain the skills they need to be successful in their chosen careers.

“We expect that the seminars will be very popular and I would advise those who want to attend to register early to guarantee a space on the day.

“From engineering and oil and gas economics to project management and IT for the oil and gas industry, RGU maintains close relationships with a wide range of energy companies to ensure its courses are relevant and that graduates come out with the skills that employers need. This is borne out in the university’s impressive track record for graduate employment.”

L-R: Dr. Tunde Ladele; National Secretary, Guild of Medical Directors (GMD), Dr. Festus Oshoba; TPL. Queen Philips; wife of the Governor of Lagos State (middle), Mrs. Bolanle Ambode; Mrs. Mary Ogunmola; Mrs. Lantana Ladele; another member of the Guild and National Treasurer, Dr. Ebenezer Ogunmola, at the courtesy visit of the Guild of Medical Directors to Mrs. Bolanle Ambode in Lagos.

TANESCO’s MD to address Tanzania’s leading investors As Tanzania’s leaders are praised for its peaceful handling of elections, an increasing number of projects are appearing which showcase a country that is maturing, growing in confidence and cooperating with the right kind of partners to help it achieve its long term goal of becoming a regional hub.

The Powering Africa: Tanzania investment briefing will take place from 3-4 December at the Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam hotel.

The meeting designed for professionals active in Tanzania’s power and infrastructure sectors, is set to meet with government decision makers and stakeholders to address the opportunities for investment and project development.

Tanzania’s first ‘mega infrastructure project,’ the Bagamoyo Port, will reportedly provide

Tanzania with an increased role in the global economy. In addition, the rail network currently being developed will link its neighbours to the west and south, increasing efficient export and regional trade. These projects combined with an increasingly mutually benefitting relationship with Kenya [who itself is building transformative infrastructure for the region to the north of Tanzania] will act as anchor programmes to significantly increase industrial output.

The country’s electricity strategy includes captive power, off-grid and major electricity projects which are all currently in development. TANESCO is readying the procurement process for 25 power projects and the REA is driving decentralised and distributed power strategies for smaller scale so-

lutions. A couple of projects are due to be announced in December, with TANESCO detailing the procurement process.

Simon Gosling, Managing Director at EnergyNet commented – “We’re extremely excited that TANESCO’s Managing Director Mr. Mramba and his team are once again sponsoring this meeting - but what’s really exciting is how the service sector has grown in the last two years.

That level of interest is a clear indicator that bottlenecks we have addressed in the past three years at Powering Africa: Tanzania are easing. As in previous years, Tanzania’s decision makers and the region’s leading investors such as Songas, Symbion Power, GE and Stanbic Bank will gather to update each other on project tenders and address bottlenecks within the project pipeline.”

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Bamaiyi vs Ajudua: Court fixes Dec. 21 for judgment Titilope Joseph

ÏÏÏDecember

21st has been fix by a Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja for judgement of an alleged fraud of$330,000, against the ex- court registrar, Mrs Rosulu Idowu Oluronke.

After the adoption of the final written address by

both parties, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo who has been presiding over the matter fixed the judgement date.

Counsel to the defendant, Mr. Bamidele Ogundele, to the court in his final address that the constitutional power of prosecution to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt was not satis-

RELATE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTHS AND WOMEN The General Public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 Trustees 1. Mrs. Ebuk Ekpo.

- President 2. Uko Paul Ekpo.

- Vice President 3. Mfon Obong Ekpo.

- Secretary Aim and objectives 1. To engage in women and youth empowerment programmers 2. To develop entrepreneurial skill in women and youths etc Signed: Olutunde Femi Abegunde. Aciarb. Pp. ; Olutunde Abegunde $ Associates Legal Practitioners, Arbitrators $ Notary Public Suite B10 Jabi Plaza , Jabi District Abuja.

G5O FRIENDS CLUB The General Public is hereby notified that the above named club has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 Trustees 1. Agbakoba Chukwuemeka 2. Mmadu Destiny 3. Ozoemena Ikenna Jude Aim and objectives 1. To assist its members who has needs for welfare ( social, events, burial, traditional wedding, child dedication, etc ) 2. To enhance cultural, social values among 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, P.M.B. 198, Garki, Abuja within Twenty-Eight (28) days from the date of this publication.

Signed: Emeka Amadi. $ Co Barrister $ Solicitors. 08030866444

DEVINE HARMONY FRIENDS ASSOCIATION The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 Trustees 1. Owolabi Olalekan Peter 2. Lawani Oladipo David 3. Boyin Olumuyiwa Bode Aim and Objective 1. To maintain unity, understanding, co-operation, tolerance, peace and harmony among members.

2. To assist the less privilege acquire skills that enable them earn a reasonable living and be properly placed in destiny.

3. To promote the welfare of members.

4. To render positive assistance to members.

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

Signed: Akinyele Olaide A. 08068067603, 08096659747

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to notify the general public of the loss of original Certificate of Occupancy of Plot 936B Victoria Island Scheme in Eti-Osa Area of Lagos.

Registered as No 100 page 100 in Volume 2002 P at Lagos Land Registry belonging to Mr. Shehu Musa.

fied, adding that there was no fact that the defendant visited the prison to collect the alleged sum.

The defendant counsel, further told the court that there was no dollars collected in prison, adding that the prosecution was unable to prove with any documentary evidence that the

defendant met Fred Ajudua and other for the purpose of obtaining money by false pretence from retired Major-General Bamaiyi.

Ogundele also said that, prosecution did not produce record of the defendant’s visit to prison to the court, as well as documentation of $330,000.

YESHUA GRACE HERITAGE ASSEMBLY The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Assembly has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 The Trustees Are: 1. Okotcha Kenneth Chukwuma – Chairman 2. Ngozi Okotcha - Secretary 3. Ozomah Sunday Nkemakonam –Member 4. Ken – Okotcha Joshua – Member Aims and Objectives 1. To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ 2. To raise an End-time Army by the teaching of the Gospel of Grace.

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

Signed: Secretary

SEGGYOJO CARE FOUNDATION FOR HOMELESS AND PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES

ASSOCIATION OF OYIGBO/IRIEBE INDUSTRIAL BLOCK MOULDERS

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 1 of 1990

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990

Trustees 1. Comrade Darlington Oluwasegun Ojo 2. Mrs Anuoluwapo Olufunmilayo Davies 3. Engineer. Adewale Akabi Oyelese

The Trustees Are: 1. Mr. Christopher Anyanwu - Chairman 2. Hon Emmanuel Akason Akaegbu - Secretary 3. Mrs. Okereke Angela - Financial Secretary

Aim and objectives 1 To provide rehabilitation to millions of people in ower society who are homeless and Vulnerable.

Aims and Objectives: 1. To Promote Peace And Progress Amongst Members 2. Tom Foster Love & Unity Amongst Members.

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

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

Signed: MRS ANUOLUWAPO OLUFUNMILAYO DAVIES

Signed: Mr Christopher Anyanwu (Chairman)

LET THERE BE LIGHT CHRISTIAN BIBLE CHURCH

FLORENCE TITILAYO ASUBIARO 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 1 of 1990 Trustees: 1. Prophet Adebayo Olaoluwa Atobaba-General Overseer 2. Mr. Itunu Ojo-Member 3. Pastor Napolen Micheal-Member 4. Mr. Abodun Beniath- Secretary 5. Mrs. Olajide Abosede 6. Pastor Mrs.mary Kikelomo Adebayo .

Aim and Objective: 1.To bring the light of God to all nations the world through the preaching of the gospel of christ.

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

Signed: Barr.(Mrs) Jane Aliemeke.08066219842

The general public is hereby notified that the above named FOUNDATION has applied to the corporate Affairs commission Abuja for registration under the part C of the companies and allied matters act NO1 of 1990.

The Trustees are: 1. Olatunde Olufunke Stella 2. Asubiaro Joke 3. Ogunsan Olawumi Esther 4. Ijomah Omolola Arike 5. Asubiaro Olajide 6. Adekunle oladayo lydia

HADHARA CHARITY SOCIETY

IMAADUD-DEEN CENTRAL MOSQUE

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Society has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 The Trustees Are: 1. Soliu Abdul Wasiu Ajao – President 2 Bello Saheed Olawale – Vice President 3. Umar Soliu Ajadi – Secretary Aim & Objective: 1. To carry out voluntary and charity programs for the benefit of widows, destitute, refugees, motherless babies, orphans and underprivileged members of the society Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the registrar general corporate affairs commission plot 420 tigris crescent of aguiyi ironsi street maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed: Abdulkareem & Abdulkareem ( Legal Practitioners & Property Consultants)

IFAKO-LJAIYE LEADERS OF THOUGHTS ASSOCIATION The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990 The Trustees Are: 1Ashimiyu Adegoke Onifade President, 2Olukunle Hezekiah Fadeyi- Secretary, 3Otunba David Osude- Treasurer , 4Jude Ndoh Esq, 5Prince Olusegun Adedoja, 6Yissa Atanda Akinwande 7Titilola Abdulmalik

Aim and Objective: 1. To cater for the less privileged in the society.

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

Signed: Trustees

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

The Trustees Are: 1. Adedokun Murtala Alade 2. Abdulakeem Abdulraheem 3. Ibn Sulaiman Najeem 4. Abdussalaam Abdurraheem Aim And Objective: 1. To promote and propagate the teachings of Islam so as to inculcate the tenets of Islam into the minds of its members and protect the interests of Islam and the muslims in general Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the registrar general corporate affairs commission plot 420 tigris crescent of aguiyi ironsi street maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed: Abdulkareem & Abdulkareem ( Legal Practitioners & Property Consultants)

UPGRADING LIVES EMPOWERMENT The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the corporate Affairs commission Abuja for registration under the part C of the companies and Allied Matters Act No1 of 1990.

The Trustees Are: 1. Stephen Nwokocha lkwuagwu 2. Clement Ukumakube 3. Stephen Vincent Onu 4. Sylvester Ekesi 5. Job Emeka Umungwor

Aim and Objective: To Foster Unity And Development Of The Community

Aims And Objectives: 1. To initiate action against poverty through workshop and skill acquisition 2. To empower men and women who are into small scale businesses financially 3. Capacity building to empower people to live a better life

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

Signed: Trustee

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

Signed: Stephen Nwokocha lkwuagwu (Chairman)

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Ugwuanyi, a prayer answered – Fr. Mbaka

R-L: Principal, Olashore International School (OIS), Mr. Derek Smith; Police AIG zone 11 Oshogbo, Osun State, Kalafite Helen Adeyemi and Chairman, Board of Governors, Prince Bimbo Olashore, during AIG's visit to OIS… on Monday

Polio eradication: We'll sustain momentum, says Buhari

Egena Egena

Abuja ÏÏÏPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared that his administration would sustain the current momentum aimed at eradicating polio virus from the country.

He said government would, to that extent, provide the needed funding for operations and vaccine procurement, as well as reintroduce the Presidential taskforce, in order to provide the political direction.

The President spoke at a brief ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he received an official report on the delisting of Nigeria as a polio endemic country by the Worlh Health Organisation (WHO).

The status report was handed to him by officials of the WHO led by the body’s Regional Director for Africa. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti who represented the Director-General of the organisation, Dr. Margaret Chan, in company of Federal Min-

istry of Health officials.

The delisting of Nigeria from the wild polio virus endemic nations, following one year none discovery of any fresh case, is a precursor to the final eradication and certification of the country as polio-free in 2017.

Buhari said: “I want to assure you that there will be no complacency, as we will maintain and improve on our surveillance system as well as raise the childhood population immunity against the polio virus to avoid any spread of the disease.

“The federal government will sustain the current momentum and we shall continue to regard this campaign as an emergency until we are declared polio-free in the next two years.

"I would like to re-interate the federal government’s commitment towards the achievement of a polio-free Nigeria in 2017.

“The Government will sustain the needed funding for operations and vaccine procurement for the

programme. Also, the Presidential Taskforce on Polio Eradication will be reconstituted under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health to provide political direction and oversight in order to avoid complacency and relapse.”

He said, it was important that the fight against polio and other communicable and non-communicable diseases, was anchored on a strong health system for sustainability.

"The National Health Act has made provision for a universal access to basic healthcare with a focus on the poor and the vulnerable, as well as the basic healthcare provision funds to support its implementation. I have already instructed the Federal Ministry of Finance to provide for the basic healthcare provision fund under the 2016 Budget. We are also working on a revised National Health Policy which would have the achievement of Universal Health Coverage as its main ultimate goal,” President Buhari added.

Police boss warns officers against extra-judicial killings Joy Anyim

ÏÏÏThe Assistant Inspector Gen-

eral of Police in charge of zone Two, Onikan, Lagos, AIG Bala Hassan, has warned police officers in the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), including those on Safer Highway Patrol (SHP) and others, who are dealing with suspects that committed felonious offences, to desist from carrying out extrajudicial killings, and warned that the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Solomon Arase had banned extra-judicial killing in all police formations.

He warned that any police of-

ficer caught would not be spared and cited what happened to the police officer who allegedly killed an innocent citizen at Idimu area of Lagos without provocation. He said the officer was instantly tried, dismissed and charged to court.

Hassan emphasised this during a visit to the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, in Ikeja.

He said, “Extra-judicial killing must stop. You don’t have to catch a thief and leave him like that; if you charge him to court, you must follow it up to reduce the rate at which we lose cases. If you kill an armed robber, we will recommend

your promotion, but if you kill an innocent citizen, you will be dealt with. We are not happy arraigning our men in court.

We are happy if it does not happen at all. The human right is sacred. The human right commission is there, so if you do anything wrong, the officer in charge of legal affairs will not follow you to Abuja. So, be careful about extrajudicial killing. The IGP is highly against it.” Speaking on distress calls, the AIG Hassan said the response time to any distress call should be within five minutes latest.

Moses Oyediran

he said.

Delivering a sermon during the mass that kick-started the Enugu State Judiciary 2015/2016 Legal Year, Mbaka enjoined Ugwuanyi to follow the plans of God in order to execute his mandate for the state successfully. Addressing members of the judiciary on the occasion, the priest warned the judicial officers to shun all acts of occultic groups as involving themselves in such activities would mean risking their lives.

In his words, “speak the truth, some people suffer because of legal lies.” Mbaka enjoined judges to remember God when they speak in the court knowing that whatever they give in the court would come to their families in keeping with law of spiritual justice.

Niger lawmakers walk Gov. Bello’s CPS out

The reaction of Dooba was said to have infuriated the lawmakers who then asked him to leave the premises immediately.

Marafa told journalists after the session that “we asked him to tell us the source of his information, but because of his usual stubbornness he refused and we asked to leave; we walked him out”.

Asked what would be the next line of action to be taken by the Assembly, Marafa said “we will meet and come out with our decision on the CPS.” Dooba who spoke to the Hausa service of the BBC in Minna after leaving the conference room confirmed that he was invited by the lawmakers.

He also confirmed that he made a mistake in the story he released to the media.

Enugu ÏÏÏCharismatic Catholic priest and Director of the popular Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has said that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State was a prayer answered for the people of the state.

Speaking in Enugu, on Monday, to a crowd of his congregation during a mass attended by Ugwuanyi and top government functionaries, Mbaka told the governor that, “you need the protection of God to execute the good plans you have for the people of Enugu.

“Enugu made a lot of noise when you won your governorship election. You are a prayer answered for the people of Enugu”,

Pita Chikwem Minna

ÏÏÏNiger

State lawmakers, on Monday, walked out Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Ibrahim Dooba from the conference hall of the House of Assembly over unconfirmed story of commissioner nominees allegedly sent to the House.

The legislators had invited the Governor’s spokesman to appear before them to explain where he got the information he confirmed to the media from.

The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Ahmed Marafa had asked Dooba to tell the legislators where he got the information from, but according to insiders the governor’s spokesman declined to do so saying that “it is against the ethics of my profession to divulge the source of my information,”

Bello

NANNM boss warns of shortage of nurses in FG owned health facilities

Gbenga Sodeinde

Ado Ekiti ÏÏÏThe National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwifery (NANNM) has warned that there was a strong likelihood of a shortage, very soon, of qualified nurses in Federal Governmentowned healthcare facilities if urgent steps are not taken to recruit trained nurses to fill the apparent existing vacancies in the sector.

Speaking when he led the National Executive of the association on a courtesy visit to the office of the Chief of Staff to the Ekiti State Governor, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, the president of the Association, Alhaji Alani Adeniji, noted that the Federal Government has

less than 20,000 nurses in its payroll, adding that over 25% of the figure would attain the mandatory retirement age within the next two years and, therefore, disengage from active service.

Describing the situation as critical, Adeniji said that there was a need for government’s urgent intervention to ameliorate the bad situation.

He emphasised a need to emulate the Ekiti State Government, saying that the recent appointment of 50 nurses into the services of the State Government was laudable and a step in the right direction to boost healthcare service delivery in the state.

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Lagos to procure three choppers to battle crime, traffic Oyetubo Olabimpe

ÏÏÏLagos State Governor,

Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sundaym said that his administration had concluded plans to procure three helicopters next month to enable security agencies tackle criminal activities from the air as well assist in monitoring traffic gridlock to ease movement across the metropolis.

Ambode, who spoke as guest on a popular radio

programme – Soni Irabor Live (SIL) on Inspiration FM, said he was deeply concerned about pockets of robberies in some areas of the state in recent times, expressing optimism that the helicopters would go a long way to aid security and traffic surveillance.

He said that the government would also boost the operation of Marine Police and the Nigerian Navy on the waterways in the state, and that various equipment

and platforms would soon be presented to them.

He said that at least 220 roads across the state has been rehabilitated in the last four months just as he has mandated and empowered all the Local Government Areas and the Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to construct a total of 114 roads.

He assured the people of the state that his administration was working hard to build a safer, cleaner and

more prosperous state for all irrespective of creed or colour.

He pleaded with Lagosians to work with his administration and support him to take Lagos to the next level where there would be prosperity for all.

According to him, “We are in this together; all Lagosians. It is your government; you put me there. I’m your servant and I’m ready for criticism. I’m listening and I believe strongly

L-R: Special Apostle Pastor Timothy Odedele; General Manager, Lagos State Television, Deji Balogun and His Grace, Baba Aladura Samuel Abidoye during a courtesy call on the television house at Agidimgbi, Ikeja, on Monday. PHOTO: Olawale Rotimi

Enugu: Rights group petitions Ugwuanyi, NHRC over ESWAMA's brutality Moses Oyediran Enugu

ÏÏÏThe

Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has called on Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and the National Human Rights Commission, (NHRC), to urgently end the impunity being perpetrated by the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA).

The President of the group, Barr. Olu Omotayo, told newsmen, on Monday, in Enugu, that “the continuous deterioration of human rights situation in Enugu

reached its’ peak last Friday on October 23, 2015, when the dreaded environmental fees collection outfit of the Enugu State Government caught up with two citizens in the course of their revenue drive and in broad daylight used shovel and heavy iron rods to break and shatter the ankles and knee cap bones of the duo in a manner reminiscent of the precivilization era of barbarity.

“This is the worst human right abuse we ever recorded in modern day Nigerian history. Two citizens of this great country were caught like animal in a trap and the agents of the state used

heavy metal to pieces their legs and rendered them incapacitated.

“We have written severally to the Governor of the state that the mode of operations of this agency was not only barbaric, but dangerous to healthy survival of any decent democratic society – and yet, the government looked the other way just because it believes in the revenue collection for the state irrespective of the mode of collection overriding the entrenched fundamental rights of the citizens of the state.”

Giving details on the incident, Omatoyo disclosed

that the officials went on revenue drive to No. 23, Mbaukwu Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, where they met Mohammed Koma and Haruna Koma, who are gateman at the estate.

“They asked for evidence of payment of sanitation fees but the two gatemen told them that their boss, the owner of the estate was not around but they could enter the estate and ask any question they might want to ask the occupants.

“They then asked Mohammed Koma to give them his boss’s phone number; as he came out of the security house going to where he plugged his phone, they attempted to forcefully carry him into their waiting bus, but he resisted and they left.

Ilorin Emir condoles Katsina over Dogarai’s death Kehinde Akinpelu Ilorin

ÏÏÏThe Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has commiserated with the entire people of Katsina Emirate Council over the death of its Sarkin Dogarai,

Alhaji Hamisu Mamman, in an auto crash.

Mamman, who died on Saturday, was among the entourage of the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, returning to Katsina from Ilorin where the monarch was installed

as the 5th Chancellor by the University of Ilorin during its just concluded 31st convocation and 40th anniversary ceremonies.

He expressed sadness and described the death of the Emir of Katsina’s Chief Guard as a colossal

loss to the entire Emirate and humanity at large. He described it as painful at a time his principal needed his support in coordinating the palace guards to further assist him in discharging more responsibilities to the nation

that you have a say in this government, because it is an inclusive government.

No matter where you come from, no matter your creed or colour, this is your government.

“I appeal that Lagosians should join hands with me; tolerate whatever it is that you are seeing and make sure that you also carry out your own civic obligations.

Pay your taxes, because it is the only way that Lagos can grow and you know, the bot-

tom line is this: we all need to work together to achieve a safer Lagos; a cleaner Lagos; and a more prosperous Lagos and that is what all of us are going to do,” he said.

Ambode

Ex-Adamawa gov lauds Bindow for addressing workers plight Tom Garba Yola

ÏÏÏFormer governor Boni

Haruna of Adamawa, on Sunday, urged Governor Jibrilla Bindow, to accord priority to the plight of civil servants in the state.

This was contained in a statement signed by Mr. Martins Dickson, Special Assistant to the Adamawa State Governor on Press and Media Affairs and made available to the newsmen in Yola.

“Governance is not only about providing infrastructure but also about taking care of the welfare of the people including the workers who are key to implementing programmes and policies of the government,” Haruna said

Haruna, who is also the immediate past Minister of Youth Development, decried injustice meted against civil servants by the immediate past administrations in the state.

According to him, the state had more earnings from the Federation Account in the past than the present government, and still could not pay the workers their basic entitlement for all these years.

The ex-governor advised the present administration to equally pay attention to workers’ yearly salary increment as, well as to implement their promotions.

He also urged the governor to upgrade and ensure the payment and the gratuity of retired civil servants.

Enugu partners Gowon Centre to eliminate tropical diseases in Nigeria Moses Oyediran

Enugu ÏÏÏGovernor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has pledged to support the Yakubu Gowon Centre and its partners to control malaria and other neglected tropical diseases in the state.

The former military head of state and initiator of the centre, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), visited the Government House, Enugu, on Monday, in furtherance of the pet programme of his centre in the coal city state.

Ugwuanyi commended Gowon and his partners for the vision to embark on a mobilisation campaign to control malaria and other neglected tropical diseases in the country.

Ugwuanyi, in a speech through his deputy, Hon.

Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, expressed happiness over the remarkable successes recorded by the centre and its partners in the fight against health scourges in the country.

In his words, notable among these achievements was the eradication of such deadly diseases as guinea worm and polio a feat which has made the country of safer place to live as far as health was concerned.

He noted that it was heart-warming to note that many concerned organisations, like Yakubu Gowon Centre, had formed clusters and partners to help countries prevent and mitigate the health impact of these diseases, which were the major factor affecting development.

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Okeowo Babajide

ÏÏÏLeading

A section of jubilant crowd carrying a large portrait of Prince Adeyeye at NTA Road, Mukoro area of Ife… on Monday.

Tribunal upholds Gov Lalong’s election Chijioke Kingsley Jos

ÏÏÏThe

governorship election petition Tribunal sitting in Jos the Plateau State Capital yesterday upheld the election of Governor Simon Bako Lalong of the All Progressive Congress (APC), as the authentic winner of the April 11 governorship election.

Delivering the judgement, Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Johnson Candida said that the petitioner has failed to prove its case beyond reasonable

doubt.

The Tribunal held that only two of the polling agents were able to prove their case as the other 10 witnesses presented by the People Democratic Party (PDP), spoke mostly in Hausa language, saying that Hausa is not an admissible language in court.

The Tribunal Chairman reaffirmed that the governorship election in seven LGA of Plateau State which includes, Mangu ,Pankshin, Jos North, Shendam, Wase, Jos East and Kanam, with a total votes different

of 44,646 votes cannot be void by the petitioner.

The Tribunal also said the issue of over voting and intimidation brought before him by the petitioner cannot be substantiated.

Responding the PDP Chairman said that they would have expected the tribunal to deliver composite judgment in view of the suit still before the supreme court.

He however congratulated governor Simon Lalong for his victory explaining that the party had not greeted him earlier in view

KNCPC warns the public to beware of expired and substandard products Yakubu Salisu Kano

ÏÏÏThe

Kano state consumer protection council (KNCPC) under the leadership of Pharmacists Gali Sule has called on the general public to be mindful of buying products from traffics and road side sellers to avoid buying expired, fake and substandard products.

According to Gali, investigations has revealed that most products sold on the roads are either expired or substandard and that the general public ignorantly

Delta Speaker hails Okowa’s tribunal victory

of the case before the tribunal.

Consequently, the APC Chairman Hon. Latep Daban express gratitude to the judges for delivering unbiased judgement. He said the victory at the tribunal will enable the APC to settle down for governance.

However, the Tribunal ordered the PDP to pay a fine of 50,000 thousand naira to the Respondent.

It will be recalled that the petitioners (PDP) had asked the tribunal to nullify the April 11 governorship election in Plateau state.

patronises such products which could cause a great harm to their health. He said people who engage in such act choose to sell on the road knowing fully well that people on the road hardly have time to check for expiry date and NAFDAC approved number on a product.

He further stated that his council has succeeded in confiscating such products and shuting down companies who are in the harbit of producing fake, expured and substandard goods and that they have been saddled with the responsibilty of

making sure that the rid the state of such products In his words, "the porous nature of our boarder is one of the major factor that contribute to the increase been recorded in the cases of fake, expired and substandard products in the country" He therefore called on the Federal Government under the leadership of president Muhammadu Buhari to take necessary measures to secure the boarders in order to put a final stop to the importation of such products.

Finally he advised the

general public to be mindful and more observant when buying any product be it on the road, from a shop or super market as some bad elements in the state who doesn't care about others health have found a way of re- validating expired products by covering up the initial expirying date with a new one and some times they go up to the extent of changing the product's container hence the need for people to be more inquisitive and careful. He said the general public should not hesitate to assist the commission by reporting and providing useful informations that could lead to the arrest of people who engage in this business.

Oyetubo Olabimpe

In a statement issued in Asaba by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Henry Ebireri, the speaker described the April 11 governorship election as the fairest and freest in the history of the state.

“Your victory at the Tribunal shows that the people

of Delta State clearly authorized your candidature. “It also shows that the judiciary is the last hope of the common man’’ he said.

He commended Okowa for running a transparent and accountable government and also placing the state

ÏÏÏThe Speaker, Delta State

House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Ovwigho Igbuya on Monday congratulated Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for his victory at the Tribunal. He also praised the judiciary for remaining the protector of the oppressed.

a high-powered delegation of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, Ayo Ni O on a courtesy visit to the new General Manager (GM) of Lagos Television, (LTV) Mr. Deji Balogun, Most Reverend Dr. Samuel Adefila Abidoye, spiritual father and chairman of the church has urged the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to focus on security of lives and properties in the city of excellence.

“I want to commend the developmental strides of the Lagos State government from the inception of the current democratic dispensation till date while also encouraging the regime of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to focus more attention on security, creation of wealth and rehabilitation of roads,” he said.

While congratulating Mr. Balogun on his appointment, Abidoye used the occasion to pray and ask for wisdom to succeed in the new assignment.

“On behalf of my staff

Abidoye tasks Ambode on security and I, and the entire Church, I wish to congratulate you on your appointment as the General Manager of this organization which is a testimony of your salient quality as a leader of people, as well as appreciation of your service to LTV and dedication to duties” “We pray that God will grant you wisdom to succeed in this new assignment, may your tenure be peaceful and bring positive turnaround to this organization” he prayed. While showing appreciation for the support the church had received from the management of the Lagos state owned television station, he used the occasion to further request publicity for the church’s upcoming Convention/Conference at Galilee Land, Orile Igbon, along Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway which will come up on the 1st to 8th of November, 2015.

Mimiko names APC chieftain's wife commissioner 'Tosin Ajuwon

Akure ÏÏÏThe Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko,on Monday forwarded the name of Mrs. Olasinmi Akindele-Odunmbaku, to the State House of Assembly for ratification as a Commissioner.

Mrs. Akindele-Odunmbaku, wife to a Lagos based Chieftain of the All Progressives Congresss (APC), Mr. James Odunmbaku, is expected to be screen by members of the parliament today (Tuesday). James Odunmbaku, husband to the commissioner designate, it was gathered, is a close ally of Senator Bola Tinubu, and strong member of the APC in Lagos State while herself is prominent grassroots politician in Ondo State PDP. A statement signed by the

on the world map for good, growth and development.

Igbuya who also praised the governor for the pragmatic steps taken to address the problems in the various sectors, the development of democratic culture and stable polity, the creation of

Secretary to the Ondo State Government, Dr. Adelola Aderotimi, said the nomination of Mrs. Olasinmi Akindele-Odunmbaku, into the cabinet shows the Governor's constitutional power as entailed in section 192 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

State Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, described Mrs. Akindele-Odunmbaku as a strong supporter and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in her country-home of Akoko North East Local Government Area of the state.

Mimiko

jobs for the people and the elevation of politics beyond the mundane levels of wrangling, greed and selfishness, said the governor in the last six months focused on administering the State, with the fear of God and for the good of the people.

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Justice delayed doesn’t support lawyers to write petition against Judges -Etiaba Emeka Etiaba SAN, read law at the University of Jos, Plateau state and was called to the Nigerian Bar over two decades ago. Emeka, whose late father, wife and two siblings are also lawyers was admitted to the Inner Bar in September, 2015. In this interview, he told PETER FOWOYO, that although he is not in support of capital punishment against corrupt politicians, government must put in place measures that would deter public office holder from looting the treasury.

‘‘There are some proven cases of corruption and the National Judicial Council dealt with such cases, sacked those Judges involved or in other cases suspended but that is not enough to criticize the judiciary as being corrupt, one case, two cases, even ten cases is not enough to say the judiciary is corrupt.’’

Etiaba

At a time when the world is trying to put a stop to capital punishment, the Nigerian Labor Congress seems to be calling for it against corrupt politicians. Do you support capital punishment?

No I don’t. I think it is a call that goes to the extreme but that again can only be blamed on the desperate desire of the citizens of Nigeria to bring in measures that will dissuade people from continuing to loot the public funds. That may not at the end of the day be the innermost desire of those calling for capital punishment but that is just an expression, the desires of Nigerians for the government to take extreme measures against corruption because for too long we hear that those who embezzled our money are arrested, investigated, charged to court and that is the last you hear of such cases.

Although I am not in support of capital punishment, I am in support of serious measures being put in place which include the jail term even when plea bargaining comes in like in the case of James Ibori who still went to jail in London after plea bargaining.

What do you mean by plea bargaining and is it known to our jurisprudence?

Plea bargaining is actually a situation where a suspects concedes to judgment on the understanding that rather than go to jail, he or she will bring out the loot instead of being jailed. But in civilized world, plea bargaining goes beyond returning what you have stolen, for example in the case of James Ibori in England, plea bargaining was employed but after he volunteered to return what he had stolen, he was still sentenced, the only difference was that the sentence was a bit light, it wasn’t as it would have

been.

In the case of Nigeria, somebody steals N1billion, you tell him to pay N700, 000.00 and then the person walks home. A lot of criticism has gone through it when the situation arose in FCT Abuja. Now, with the new Criminal Justice Act, plea bargaining is known to our jurisprudence and that is why everybody is shouting we don’t stop at the exchange of money as a place for sentencing, you collect the loot but, go ahead and sentence the person. It is known to our jurisprudence now but it shouldn’t stop at that. It does not mean the person should not go to jail.

One of the reasons why corruption has continued to thrive is because the laws are weak and the judiciary being a product of the society is also corrupt. Do you share this view?

Everybody says the judiciary

is corrupt but nobody comes up with the evidence of corruption.

Everybody keep shouting the judiciary is corrupt but nobody has come up with evidence, even the Chief Justice of the Federation has called that if you see any corrupt Judge do a petition against that Judge.

Are you saying the judiciary is not corrupt?

I cannot sit here and tell you the judiciary is corrupt, if there are particulars of corruption then I can come up with it. There are times judgments are analyzed by people who never read the whole judgments and they will say this Judge must have taken bribe that is not enough evidence. There are some proven cases of corruption and the National Judicial Council dealt with such cases, sacked those Judges involved or in other cases suspended but that is not enough to criticize the judiciary as being corrupt, one case, two cases, even ten cases is not enough to say the judiciary is cor-

rupt. So, don’t make a blanket labelling of the entire judiciary, one or two people may be bad eggs but not all that is the truth, you really have to search for those bad eggs and deal with them. Nobody is saying there are no bad eggs.

Then you talked about the laws yes, the system is bad, the laws are not too good that is why the new Act came into being and with the introduction of the new Act, criminal trials are supposed to go on day to day like the election petition tribunal, it is not like come today and take an adjournment for another three months no, it is now day to day, the interlocutory appeals cannot stop trials, there is nothing like stay of proceedings anymore, those are the things that delayed trials.

But also remember that Nigeria is a place where people shout you stole, you now called them as witnesses that they should come and testify, the same people will go and collect money and will not come to court to testify, in some of the cases they will not come to testify because they are afraid. It is not only the failing of the lawyers or the Judges, lawyers will not go into the witness box to testify, it is the people who witnessed the act complained against that will stand in the box and testify, sometimes they will not come for some reasons.

Again, another problem we have is that because we don’t have enough Judges to sit over these matters, you now find out that in one day a Judge sits over 30 cases, sometimes it is up to 45 in some courts, how does a Judge, one man cope with 30 cases from 9am? So we need more Judges to deal with cases. Some people said we also need Judges who are specialized in criminal matters that is the theory propagated by some people but, the truth about it is that I believe they don’t need special training to handle cases of crime.

Do you think that the National Judicial Council is doing enough in the discipline of Judges compared to the Gha-

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Lawmakers don’t deserve immunity-Etiaba Continued from page 26 naian judiciary where about 22 Judges were sacked at a time from the Bench because of corruption?

The case of Ghana is different from the case that you have in Nigeria. Like I said before, where are the witnesses? In Ghana they have the CCTV camera showing where the Judges were taking bribe, who has ever produced such in Nigeria? The NJC meets, they look at the petitions, if it has merits they would call on the Judge to respond and call on the petitioners to come and establish their claims but unfortunately, the Ghanaian experience you just mentioned, they brought CCTV to show their claims, who can do that in Nigeria? What Nigerians do and I must tell you especially lawyers, is to now convert cases that should go on appeal to a petition issue.

I go to a court, the court makes pronouncement that I am not satisfied with, rather than going on appeal, I now write a petition or asked my client to write a petition that the Judge is biased, he takes bribe, in some cases, they would tell you he accepted $50,000. Were they the ones that brought the money? How did they know that the money is $50,000? Most times, the people who writes petition don’t have evidence but they just write to frustrate the case because the Judge will say: “a petition has been written against me, I will withdraw, I will not handle the matter anymore”, some petitions are targeted at achieving that. NJC is doing the most it can in the circumstance, they are human beings, they are not machines and human beings work based on evidence availed them, evidence has to be made available. For the much they have done, they were able to achieve it because evidence came at the appropriate time.

Don’t you think lawyers or their clients writing petitions are justified because the system does not encourage them go on appeal?

I mean would you subscribe to an appeal that stays in court for 10 years and beyond before it is determined?

Will the fact that you are hungry justify going to steal? It can never justify going to steal, the fact that your appeal may be delayed will not justify putting pen to paper that somebody acted in an unprofessional way.

But are you not aware that justice delayed is justice denied?

The delay of justice, if there is anything like that does not support any human being writing a petition against a Judge. You

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have to draw a distinction between a Judge acting corruptly and a Judge making mistake or being unable to appreciate the circumstances of the law. The fact that you make mistakes justify the establishment of the appellate courts, Court of Appeal will not exist if all judgments from the High Courts are proper and correct that is why that court exists so that you can go and have a second verdict. But when a Judge corruptly transgresses the law and justice then you can now write a petition, the petition you’re writing cannot be factored into the appeal because the ingredients of bias, the ingredients of corrupt practices is not what you put in the appeal. That has its own channel.

The National Assembly is in process of enacting a law that gives immunity to its principal officers. How do you see this?

I don’t think that is the proper thing to do, I don’t think they are entitled to that because the whole essence of immunity goes to the reasoning that somebody who enjoys executive powers should not be distracted by unreasonable petitions, court matters because the stake is very high, they should focus on governance and not on frivolous things. If you allowed people in executive power such as the President, Vice-President, Governors and Deputy-Governors, if you remove that immuni-

ty you will find out that every God given day, they will be in court to answer one question or the other and that means they cannot function well in that office.

For the legislators, theirs is different because you have 10 people who can function at the same time, if the Senate President is sued; his deputy can go on in that position. Any day you don’t see Bukola Saraki preside, his deputy will preside, it is well known and nothing is wrong with that, we have quite a lot of people in the National Assembly but for governorship and presidency, they are limited and don’t forget that the work of the legislator is not an everyday work unlike the Governor or the President, legislator work is part time work, the Governor does not work and go, he sits permanently for the period of four years.

What is your take about a Senator who said the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, cannot take over from Bukola Saraki during the screening of ministerial nominees because the deputy Senate President is from the opposition party?

Anybody can say anything but, the constitution remains sacrosanct. The constitution provides that in the absence of the Senate President, the deputy takes over, it does not behooves or align in the mouth of anybody to say this

deputy Senate President is not qualified. The constitution does not recognize which party the deputy must belong, once you’re voted into the office of a Senate; the function of that office does not recognize a political party.

There are calls for the lawmakers’ job to be on part time basis. Would you subscribe to that?

The call is just a call stating the obvious, they are doing part time. How many times have they sat this legislative year? It is all part time, we are the ones that are cheated because they are paid monthly and that virtually take care of their everyday sitting, the call is just stating the obvious, it should be part time and payment should be made on those specific days they sat, not like they are civil servants. You will realize that the cost is enormous on the people. There was a radio programme that was discussing House of Representative that they have 96 standing committees that is what is called cost of governance, why will they have such a number of committees? Is it not part of the wastage that we are complaining about?

The cost is enormous and in these austere times one should be more inclined to cut the cost.

Lawmakers who are lawyers in the Senate and the House of Representatives said they should be considered for

the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). What is your take?

Senior Advocate of Nigeria that name does not suggest that lawmakers should be considered. Nigerians are funny people, you want to be Senior Advocate why going to become legislator?

You cannot be in the National assembly, far away from litigation and you want to become senior advocate.

A large percentage of students failed the 2015 final Bar examination. What do you think is responsible and what is the way out?

It didn’t come as a surprise because last year was the same, quite a lot of them failed and what it means is that the quality of education in the universities keep dropping by the day because Law School is an institution that has standards, it has never gone on strike, its standard remains good but, if the people who come in as students are unable to cope with the standard then you find what is going on. It still boils down to the university system being repaired so that the people they send to the Law School will be able to cope with the course.

In most times if you listen to a lawyer talking or write, you will be shocked at what they write or speak and you will wonder if it is the same institution that you went through.

How can the war on corruption be fought and won?

The war on corruption can be fought and won if proper system of accountability is put in place, if laws are put in place so that people will not abuse it because like a lot of people say, all you need in Nigeria is to steal enough to be able to compromise the system with the best of lawyers there for you but, if the legal system is tightened I am very sure that people will think twice before committing atrocities.

We also need to regenerates our hearts, growing up, I remember we had moral instructions in school, I don’t know how much of that goes on and with the advent of the internet today it is bad, tomorrow it is likely to be worse because there are no boundaries anymore, your parents cannot to actually determine what you hear, what you watch. In our own days, it was easy but these days, not even my little boy can be under 100 per cent control because of the influence of internet so, things are likely to grow worst rather than go better because of the internet and the moral standard. We really have to tighten our belt and live right.

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ose Mourinho has been charged by the Football Association (FA) for misconduct during Chelsea’s Premier League clash with West Ham, while Coach Silvino Louro has also been charged with the same offence. Both clubs equally face accusations of failing to control their players.

“Jose Mourinho has been charged with misconduct in relation to his language and/or behaviour towards the match officials in or around the dressing room

area at half-time,” read an FA statement.

“Chelsea coach Silvino Louro has also been charged with misconduct in relation to his behaviour which led to his 45th minute dismissal from the technical area.

“West Ham have been charged for failing to control their players in the 44th minute of the game and Chelsea have also been charged with the same offence for an alleged breach in the 45th minute of the game.

“All parties have until 6pm on

Thursday, October 29, 2015 to reply.”

Chelsea boss Mourinho remains subject to a suspended stadium ban following comments relating to the match officials made after the 3-1 loss to Southampton at Stamford Bridge earlier this month.

However, that related to post-match media comments where he “alleged and/or implied bias” on the part of the officials, meaning this latest charge is unlikely to trigger the ban.

im Sherwood has spoken of his disappointment at being sacked by Aston Villa after Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Swansea City in the Premier League.

The former Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham midfielder replaced Paul Lambert at Villa Park in February, and led the side away from the relegation zone while also taking them to the FA Cup final.

A bad start to the 2015-16 campaign put Sherwood’s position under threat, and after the Swansea defeat - a sixth in a row in the Premier League which left them bottom of the table - he was relieved of his duties.

“I am very disappointed that I will not be able to carry on in my role as manager of Aston Villa,” Sherwood said in a statement released through the League Managers’ Association.

“I knew when I took on the role that it would be a big challenge, but it proved to be one I greatly enjoyed and I know I have learned a lot from this experience.

“Obviously, the initial priority was to stay in the Premier League, but beating Liverpool in the FA Cup semi at Wembley and then leading the team out for the final was an achievement and experience that I will treasure for the rest of my career.

“I’d like to thank my coaching staff

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and the staff throughout the club for their dedication, the Villa fans for their passionate support and the players, who gave everything during my time at the club. I wish the club all the best for the rest of the season and indeed for the future.”

Captain Micah Richards, meanwhile, took to Twitter to offer a message of support for Sherwood, who brought the defender to the club.

A Arsenal fined over

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rsenal have been fined £60,000 for breaching Football Association (FA) regulations in relation to the transfer of Calum Chambers from Southampton.

The FA has imposed the sanctions, and issued a warning over the club’s future conduct, for breaching “The FA’s Football Agent Regulations”.

Chambers completed his switch from Southampton to the Emirates Stadium in July 2014 as a 19-yearold.

Authorised agent Alan Middleton has also been fined £30,000 and banned from all agency/ intermediary activity for a period of three months although that sanction is suspended for 18 months.

Middleton denied the initial charges, which have since been proven.

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anchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi was pleased after keeping a clean sheet in Sunday’s stalemate against rivals Manchester United.

The 0-0 draw was the first scoreless game between the two Manchester sides since November 2010.

Otamendi was taking part in his first Manchester derby since his £28.5million

move from Valencia in the off-season.

The Argentina international said he was happy to be involved in such a big game and to contribute to City’s clean sheet.

“I am happy. This is one of the games that I always want to play,” he said. “I was happy to be on the field. We couldn’t get the victory but I am still happy.

“We weren’t just great in defence but

we were organised in all aspects of the team. We secured an important point and it’s important as well that we didn’t lose.

“The point keeps us at the top of the table. We have to keep working to make sure we can stay up at the top for as long as we can.”

City will now turn their attention to Wednesday’s League Cup fixture against Crystal Palace.

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ep Guardiola insists there is no rush to enter contract talks with Bayern Munich despite his current deal with the Bundesliga champions coming to an end at the conclusion of the season.

Guardiola has lifted five trophies since arriving at the Allianz Arena in 2013 and his side look on course to clinch the league title again in 201516 having already built up a sevenpoint lead over Borussia Dortmund at the top.

The Spaniard’s name has been linked with a host of jobs once his time

with Bayern comes to a close – with Premier League rivals Manchester City and Chelsea both reported to be interested.

But Guardiola says he is committed to Bayern and there is ample time for him to discuss a new deal with the club.

“I like my job,” he said. “I am here to help the club and the players. That’s my job.

“Everything else is not important.

“We are in October at the moment, so there is still plenty of time to discuss contracts.”

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arlo Ancelotti has appeared to rule himself out of contention for the Bayern Munich job, saying the lack of competition they face for the Bundesliga title makes it difficult for him to enjoy watching them.

The Italian has been without a club since departing Real Madrid at the end of the 2014-15 season, and has been linked to the Bayern post with no renewal for incumbent coach Pep Guardiola - whose contract is due to expire next June - in sight.

Nevertheless, the German champions won their 1000th Bundesliga game on Saturday, defeating Cologne 4-0 to keep both their challenge for a record fourth Bundesliga crown and a 100 per cent record from 10 league games this season intact.

But Ancelotti suggested it is precisely the Bavarians’ absolute superiority at domestic level that could deter him from taking up the coaching role at Allianz Arena.

“Bayern will win the Bundesliga without even taking their hands out

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their pockets,” Ancelotti said.

“I must confess that I cannot enjoy Bayern’s games.

“There is simply too little real competition.”

Ancelotti previously confirmed he will be looking to return to coaching soon, but admitted he would prefer it to be a club level rather than with a national team.

arcelona have claimed it is the club’s “legal and moral duty” to appeal the red card shown to Javier Mascherano during their 3-1 victory over Eibar at Camp Nou on Saturday.

Mascherano was shown a straight red card with seven minutes to go in the Liga clash following a rant directed at a linesman, in which the former Liverpool man reportedly used the phrase “the

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aris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc has praised Edinson Cavani and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the wake of their 4-1 Ligue 1 win over SaintEtienne.

Ibrahimovic and Cavani got a goal and an assist in Sunday’s encounter at the Parc des Princes, each taking their tallies in Ligue 1 for this season to seven goals.

Blanc feels the win was further proof that the duo can play together and was delighted with their performances.

“Everybody has now seen that our attackers are complementary when they have the desire to play together,” Blanc said at a news conference.

“They have different characteristics and qualities, but what matters most is their presence on the pitch, regardless of their statistics. They did very well.”

Angel di Maria did not add his name to the scoresheet in Paris, but was involved in many of PSG’s dangerous moments and Blanc had words of encouragement for the Argentine, too.

“Di Maria put in a great performance in the second half as well,” he said.

c*** of your mother”.

The Argentina international was defended by Coach Luis Enrique following the game, and Barcelona vice president Jordi Mestre confirmed the Catalan giants will now appeal against any impending ban.

“We have not received the official sanction,” he said at a media conference on Monday.

“But we have asked the player what

happened and he says that it was no more than an act of frustration and that he never had any intention of insulting anyone.

“It is our legal and moral duty to present an appeal in order to defend the player.”

Should Barcelona’s appeal fail – and depending on the severity of a potential ban – Mascherano could miss El Clasico against Real Madrid on November 21.

Blanc hails IBRAHIMOVIC, CAVANI partnership Ibrahimovic

“We have some great players and he is one of them. We have to be patient with him.”

PSG are seven points clear atop the table after their ninth win in 11 league games this season.

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INTERVIEW Gennaro Gattuso has never been known to shy from a battle. Whenever the going got tough, this famously combative midfielder would invariably get going, with few in world football able to match his tigerish tenacity. He ended a glittering playing career having won the UEFA Champions League on two occasions, earned 73 caps and conquered the world with both club and country.

Now, this scrapper supreme faces a different kind of battle in trying to establish his credentials as a top-level coach. Spells in charge of Sion, Palermo and OFI Crete have been short and less than sweet, and there were some who wondered whether Gattuso would ever return to the dugout after resigning his post in Greece last December. Before long, the same determination that marked Gattuso’s playing career resulted in him grasping a post in Italy’s third tier, committing himself to reviving Pisa while proving himself as a coach of substance. That objective is discussed in this exclusive interview with FIFA. com, in which Gattuso also reflects on his playing style, the midfielders he admires most and memories of Germany 2006. Excerpts:

WORK, PROFESSIONALISM KEY TO PLAYER’S SUCCESS

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ennaro, how are you enjoying life at Pisa?

I’m getting on very well.

I work for an illustrious club that had some fantastic times for so many years. The city is beautiful, and it lives and breathes football.

You’re unbeaten so far this season and sit third in the league. Are you happy with the way the team is taking shape?

Well, we started late. We’ve been working together for barely a couple of months, but we hope to continue the way we’ve started. Ten players arrived in the final days before the transfer window closed: some weren’t regular starters, others had little or no preseason under their belts. But I’m very pleased with the business we did.

We can remember Pisa, prior to its financial problems, featuring frequently in Serie A during the 80s and 90s. Do you believe those heights can be reached again?

I think we have everything it takes to do that. A lot of money has been spent in recent years, but to do well in football requires not just money, but also the right expertise - people who know how to crunch the numbers, who know how to spend wisely and especially how to buy the best players. With Fabrizio Lucchesi as chairman I think all of this is achievable.

The main objective is to grow and get as high up the league pyramid as possible. First and foremost, we have to become a group and I’d say that we’re on the right track. But we have to keep working.

How have you found the experience of overseeing a match from the dugout as coach, rather than being at the heart of it all as a midfield general?

They’re two completely different jobs. Having been a good player can help you, but a coach’s job is much more complex. I’m no longer a student now; it’s my turn to teach football.

You were a famously passionate, hard-working and determined player. Do those same characteristics mark you out as a coach? How would you describe your style of dealing with players?

I demand a lot from myself, I’m picky and, above all, I’m someone who goes about things with a lot of professionalism and wants to do them properly. I’m a tough nut too and this flaw, if you want to call it that, has stayed with me as a coach. But in recent years I’ve changed my attitude with the players. I used to be tough on them too, whereas now my priority is to prepare the team in the best way possible. Once all the work is done I let the players have their own space; I’m not breathing down their necks all day.

You played under some truly great coaches. Is there any in particular you feel you learned most from? Any closest to you in terms of style?

With my personality it’s difficult to copy someone or adopt certain approaches. I have my own way of doing things and I have to convey that to my players. As a footballer I was lucky enough to play for big clubs and,

when I got there, I knew exactly how to behave and what to do. As a coach I’m now working with a lot of young people, some of whom are coming straight out of the youth ranks: with them I can’t behave in the same way that my coaches behaved with me. I have to make them understand the importance of the work and professionalism it takes to get to the top.

Many Italian players and coaches stay in Italy their whole careers, but you have moved abroad on several occasions – starting when you were just 19, signing for Rangers. Do you feel you’ve benefited from your experiences in Scotland, Switzerland and Greece?

Those experiences had a big and very positive influence on me. Whoever watches me working on the pitch immediately notices that my methods are slightly different from the Italian way - they’re closer to the English style. For example, I like to work at a very high tempo and on the day after a match I prefer to get straight back into training. Going abroad enriched me as a player, but also as a coach.

Please tell us about the 2006 World Cup. What do you remember most, and what was the key to Italy’s success?

I have so many memories of that experience. I mean, for me, wearing the national shirt was always something special. When I was there in the middle of the pitch and I heard the national anthem, I got goose-bumps and thought back to my beautiful childhood. But perhaps my biggest

impression of that World Cup was on our arrival at the training camp in Duisburg. In my 12 years in the national side, that was the only time that our training camp hotel didn’t have five stars and maybe that was one of the most important factors. But the key to our success was definitely Marcello Lippi: he was our leader, we relied on him, he had charisma and made us feel valued and protected.

The chief architect of that World Cup victory was him.

As part of an AC Milan team that won two Champions Leagues, do you see Rossoneri and Italian teams in general winning this prize again in the near future?

To win major trophies like the Champions League you have to have champions in your team. At Milan in those years, we could afford to have the likes of Alessandro Costacurta, Jaap Stam, Rivaldo, Rui Costa and Filippo Inzaghi on the bench. We had a squad consisting of 22 to 23 top-level athletes. In order for Milan - and Italian football as a whole - to get back into contention, we have to start investing again. We need the economy to recover, new stadiums to be built and big personalities in the mould of Silvio Berlusconi, Massimo Moratti or Andrea Agnelli to make major new investments.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic said of you: “He gives everyone the motivation they need. On the field he is an animal - without him we cannot do it.”

Do you feel Milan and Italy could do with such an animal these days?

I think that Daniele De Rossi can play this type of role in the national team. He’s a player who’s been in the frame for years, a champion who always puts his heart and soul into things and demands respect. At Milan, I like Nigel De Jong: he’s a silent leader, unlike me, but has all the qualities to become a key man.

You were seen as one of the greatest defensive midfielders of your era. Who do you admire playing your position these days?

I really like Radja Nainggolan. Although we aren’t that similar, because he’s definitely better than me technically, I consider him to be one of the strongest players in that role. He knows how to link up the defensive and attacking phases of the game in a balanced way.

Was there one central midfield partner in particular you feel you linked up with and complemented especially well?

I’d have to say Andrea Pirlo. I played with him for ten years at Milan, I went through the whole national set-up with him, from youth level to the senior side. We must have played more than 500 games together. In the last few years we only needed to look at each other to know what the other was thinking. He started out as an attacking playmaker, then Carlo Mazzone and later Carlo Ancelotti had the foresight to stick him deeper in midfield. I think I was important to him; in the same way, he made my own job in midfield that much easier.

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Why can’t Delta pay salary? (3)

ÏÏÏIn Parts 1 and 2, we x-

rayed the financial spine of Delta State. We found it unjustifiably diseased.

The summary of our findings and submissions is that Delta State should not be so financially handicapped that it cannot pay her workers. Delta’s inability to pay salary is not justifiable. Specifically, any good business, whether private or public that can deploy 1.5 trillion naira in 48 months, as Delta State did, should not be begging to pay staff salaries. Something is fundamentally wrong. Delta has no single reason to be poor nor have unemployed youths. We concluded by examining what could be done to reverse the decadence: prudence and diversification of revenue sources.

In this closing part, having come hard on past leadership of Delta State, it is only fair to let the immediate past governor, amiable Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, have the last word in this discussion. We represent here a statement from his administration’s site.

Dr. Uduaghan: “The entrenched and endemic abuse of basic rights and freedom under the military culminated in bottled up agitations, tension and pent-up emotions... Having

identified the root causes, my administration concluded that massive government investment in infrastructure, eliminating corruption at all levels and a sustainable improvement in the general standard of living of the electorate would significantly help to arrest and ultimately eliminate the spate of insecurity.... I quickly empowered the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC)... to go down to the rural, oil-producing communities to create jobs, stem the growing army of unemployed youths and provide the much-needed infrastructure in designated host communities. 50% of the 13% derivation accruing to the state or about approximately $222.5 million annually is passed on to the commission...

We...rehabilitated 42 high schools... we began...‘Delta Beyond Oil’.... the need to understand that oil and gas are finite assets and exhaustible resources...

Correspondingly, we conceived and designed a new comprehensive economic development framework with investment strategies and approaches that ensured that other sectors of the economy in the state are brought on stream.... the

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completion of an international airport in Asaba... expansion of an existing airport at Osubi, near Warri... my administration launched an outreach programme in 2009 in New York under the chairmanship of Ambassador Walter Carrington, a former United States (US) Envoy to Nigeria.. We believe that there are eminent Deltans in the diaspora who have both the technical expertise and the web of contacts to bring to the table for the overall development of Delta State. ...in partnership with private investors... completing an Independent Power Project (IPP) to produce power that will be transmitted and distributed throughout the state. ... Invested over N15 billion in the Federal Government IPP Project ... to

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step up power generation and distribution in the state. Delta State has embarked on several projects to modernise and upgrade agricultural production in the state. Other strategies and programmes include the promotion of commercial and industrial entrepreneurship through the funding of micro-level entrepreneurs to grow into small and medium scale commercial and manufacturing enterprises. In total, over 100,000 people have benefitted from the microcredit scheme. Also important is the development of the tourism sector. Because of our drive, a lot of tourism and hospitality industries are now springing up in the state. The biggest is the $240 million Delta Leisure Park by a private investor in partnership with the state government. We

are also encouraging medical tourism by improving on the quality of secondary and tertiary hospitals and encouraging private investment in healthcare. ... Pursuit of local and foreign investors and expertise was implemented and we recorded encouraging results. The most recent example of large scale investments being attracted to the state is the plan by Transcorp Hilton Hotels to establish two five-star hotels in Delta State – Asaba and Warri respectively. In addition, Heirs Holding, a big private sector firm in Nigeria, plans to establish a $1.4 billion dollar fertiliser plant in Burutu, one of the riverine communities in the state. The Federal Government of Nigeria working closely with the Delta State Government is also building a multi-million dollar landing jetty in Okwagbe... the state has targeted two constituencies. These are Deltans in the diaspora who are given special incentives to bring investments in their areas of expertise and other foreign investors that are invited to invest in critical sectors of the state economy that will generate broad economic activities and employment opportunities while securing high returns. ... to attract and retain domestic and foreign investors to the state, the state decided to establish... the Warri Industrial and Business Park, the Koko and Ogidigben Industrial Park/Export Free Trade Zone and the Asaba Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Park.”

That was Dr. Uduaghan.

Finally, having weighed

both sides, the reader can make an informed opinion on Delta State. More importantly, the new Delta administration can shape even better policy. Incredibly beautiful Delta State deserves the very best. We must not let her down.

This is the concluding part of this study of Delta State. Having looked at Kogi, Lagos and Delta, we would pause for a while and return later to examine the financial spines of other states. In the mean time, we want to focus for a while, beginning next week, on a related albeit more national topic – Nigerian Vision 20_2020, Nigerian federal government’s economic roadmap for the next five years. The two focal analysis, states and federal governments, are of course related. As things are presently, the federal government would appear to be doing what ought to be left to states. There are of course strong reasons, albeit negative ones, for this bowlegged approach to the economy in Nigeria.

But that discussion can await our fuller analysis of both state and federal financial situations and economic projections respectively.

Next week, I will begin in this column a series titled Nigeria Vision 20-2020 Mirage? It is five years to go to achieve our dream of being in the league of the twenty (20) most developed nations in the world.

What would make it not happen? What would make it a dream come true? After that series, I will resume the analysis of the economic spines of individual states in Nigeria.

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ianni Infantino will stand in the FIFA presidential election with the unanimous backing of UEFA’s Executive Committee.

A statement from European football’s governing body confirmed Infantino’s candidacy, but that does not mean the end of Michel Platini’s continued participation in the contest to succeed Sepp Blatter.

Platini is currently banned from football, and an investigation into an allegedly “disloyal payment” he received from FIFA remains ongoing, but sources close to the Frenchman say he will “absolutely not withdraw” from the race and has vowed to clear his name.

It now seems likely that if Platini is cleared, he will be UEFA’s candidate and Infantino will drop out of the race. If however Platini is not cleared, then Infantino can stay in.

There are now eight candidates in the election and there could yet be a ninth entry to the contest before Monday night’s 11pm deadline - Brazilian great Zico. All candidates need five letters of support from FIFA member nations, and he currently has four. He is now desperately seeking one more so he can enter the race.

A UEFA statement on Infantino read: “The forthcoming election for a new FIFA President represents a crucial moment in the governance of the game and the future of FIFA itself.

“We believe that Gianni Infantino has all of the qualities required to tackle the major challenges ahead and to lead the organisation on a path of reform to restore FIFA’s integrity and credibility.

“Gianni has done a great job at UEFA, has a proven track record as a top class administrator and built positive relations with football stakeholders around the globe.

“He has been a long-time advocate of the need for change and renewed development at FIFA and would bring a refreshing and informed voice to the top table of football’s world governing body.

“We are delighted that Gianni has agreed to stand and he knows that he has our full support in his campaign to become FIFA President. He is in the process of submitting the required nominations and will issue a statement on his candidacy later today.”

Liberian FA boss Musa Bility and the president of the Asian Football Confederation, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, also announced their candidacies on Monday.

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Winning MAMA award is like icing on the cake

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Mutiat Alli

Kiernan Jarryd Forbes better known by his stage name AKA, is a South African hip hop recording artist originally from Cape Town, AKA has showed consistency in the music scene releasing back to back song as well as clinching several laurels including the much talked about MAMA awards. AKA is generally considered as one of the most talented and influential rappers in South Africa and the African continent, praised by fans for evolving Hip-Hop in Africa. In this chat, the South African music act disclosed expectation towards the LoudNLive event coming up this Thursday Having studied sound engineer; what lead you to going into music as an artist in front of the camera?

I went into sound engineering because really, all I wanted to do was be close to or inside a studio. It was what made most sense to me at the time in terms of getting a qualification, but also staying on track for my dream of eventually pursuing a career as a musician. Being an artist was always the goal, but I needed to show my parents that I had some sort of plan. ‎ Do you ever think you will be this as successful as musician compared to being an engineer?

Yes. For the first ever you will be

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performing with your live band in Nigeria, how do you feel/ what’s the difference between playback VS Live band performances?

I perform with a band when I tour all the time. Even when I do shows in South Africa, you are more likely to catch me with my band than without it. I used

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to perform with just myself and my DJ a few years ago, but made the decision to form a band for my live performances about two years ago. Performing with my band just gives me way more freedom to improvise throughout my set. When you play with a backtrack you are confined by the length of however long the track is. With a band i can turn a 3minute song into a 5 minute song and so forth. The way my band plays the music just makes the show so much more dynamic and enjoyable for the crowd. It’s an experience. We are WORLD CLASS.

What should your Nigerian fan base expect from you at the loud and live event - will you perform with any of your Nigerian artist friend?

My fans can expect one of the best shows they’ve ever seen. We take so much pride and preparation into our performances and we have a lot of fun up on stage. I don’t want to name any names but i will definitely have some of my friends there with me.

What is your perspective about the Nigerian music market?

I have always been a huge fan of the Nigerian scene? Not only do i love the culture and the music but I also love the people and the city of Lagos. There is such a great and inspiring energy going on in your country right now. I am very blessed to have such a loyal fan base in Nigeria.

Your recent winning at MAMA awards.

Did you see it coming - how was the experience?

All Eyes On Me was a huge song at the time so I’m not going to say I didn’t see it coming, but overtime I win an award it’s always a humbling experience. The Mamas are always an awesome celebration of African talent. To be a performer and to win is always the icing on the cake.

What can you say about the xenophobia happening in SA? It’s important to remember two things and that is one is long over and done with and also is that what happened in our country a while back is not a true reflection of our attitude towards our brothers and sisters on the continent because it was committed by a very small minority of people. Unfortunately the bad apples will make it look like it is the country as a whole when in fact it is a small group of people with the wrong attitude. Ask any Nigerian, Kenyan, Zambian, Tanzanian or wherever else Artist … South Africa is a beautiful, friendly, welcoming country.

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Infidelity

Patience Ekanem

the greatest challenge in a relationship

Emotional infidelity occurs when you or your partner become emotionally connected with someone outside of your relationship. But how is emotional infidelity hazardous to a marriage or committed relationship?

One way of looking at emotional infidelity is that it is very dangerous, because it not only takes away time and energy from the marriage or relationship, it also leads to sexual infidelity and possibly to the end of marriage or relationship.

Another way of looking at it is that it is a symptom of problems that already exist within a relationship, when the primary relationship is not emotionally and physically intimate, each person may be vulnerable to a form of infidelity-either emotional or physical. Rather than blaming the affair on the problems, why not address the real problem?

Emotional affairs are compelling, because it is so easy to be close to someone with whom you have no shared responsibility like money issues, chores. It is easy to share your deepest feelings with someone with whom you have no conflict. It is easy to get the good feelings you get when someone who doesn’t live with you and doesn’t see all your issues thinks you are wonderful.

The relationship system that develops when neither partner takes responsibility for his or her own feelings, grinds down the love until each person feels disconnected from their partner and lonely in the relationship. This is when they are susceptible to emotional infidelity.

Why waste what might turn out to be a wonderful relationship, why not deal with your fears in your current relationship? Instead of looking for someone else to fill up your emptiness and help take away your loneliness, why not learn to do this for yourself so that you can break your dysfunctional patterns and become the loving human being you are capable of being?

Imagine the wonderful relationship you and your partner might have if both of you were to learn how to take responsibility for your own feelings and your own ability to love!

There are signs to alert you to take action to protect yourself and your relationship from emotional infidelity as listed below:1. Treating them as a confidant, sharing intimate issues Sharing thoughts and deepest concerns, hopes and fears, passions and problems is what deepens intimacy; it builds an emotional bond between two people, time better used in marriage relationship. Giving this away to another person, regardless of the justification, is infidelity, a betrayal of trust. This is especially true when you consider that emotional intimacy is the most powerful bond in human relationships, much stronger than a sexual one.

2. Discussing troubling aspects of your marriage/relationship and partner Talking to a person of the opposite sex about what your marriage/relationship lacks, what your partner lacks, or what you’re not getting to make you happy sends a loud message that you’re available for someone else to ‘love and care’ for your needs, you’re opening the way for another relationship. It’s also a breach of trust.

3. Obsessively thinking or daydreaming about the person If you find yourself looking forward to seeing the person, thinking about what you’re going to tell them when you’re apart, and imagining their

excitement, you’re in for trouble. This sense of expectation, excitement, and anticipation creates room for a mutual affair which could be very dangerous to your relationship. Obsessively thinking about the person is an obvious signal that something is wrong, because if they were to be just a friend, you wouldn’t be so obsessed about them.

4. Pulling out of regular activities with your partner, family, work Being absorbed with desire to spend more and more time talking, sharing, being with the person, it’s only natural to begin to resent time you spend on responsibilities and activities at home and work. As a result, you begin to pull away, turn down, or make excuses for not joining regular activities with your partner, and this could make them suspicious of you, that you’re cheating on them or probably having an affair with someone else.

5. Keeping what you do secret and covering up your trail Secrecy itself is a warning sign. It creates a distinct closeness between two people, and at the same time grows the distance between them and others.

Secrets create a special bond, most often an unhealthy one. For example,

there may be a false sense of emotional safety and trust with the person, and an unwarranted mistrust and suspicion of the partner, or those who try to interfere with the ‘friendship.

6. Giving or receiving personal gifts from the person Another sign is when the obsession affects your buying behaviour, so that you begin to think about this person when you are shopping, wondering what they would like or if they would show appreciation.

The gift choices are something intimate, items that you would not give ‘just’ a friend. Gifts send clear messages that the two of you are close and that the relationship is ‘special.’

7. Planning to spend time alone together or letting it happen This is the warning sign that, when not heeded, most often pushes partners to cross the line from a platonic to a sexual relationship. Despite good intentions and promises to one another that they would not let ‘anything’ happen, they still flirt with the availability of time alone, because no opposite sex would stay together alone without something transpiring between them, especially when they have something up their cleaves(when they have feelings for each

other).

If you are entangled in emotional infidelity, and are seeking for a way of freeing yourself, you can try out these steps:1. Tell the truth: Full disclosure is very important if you want to regain your partner’s trust. Talk about your thoughts and feelings and explain how everything happened. Don’t hold back details of what happened, when it happened or how many times it happened. Just tell them the truth and pray things go back to normal.

2. Do things you both like: In order to grow closer as a couple, start doing things you both enjoy(ed) a lot. By doing things together you understand again how much fun you guys had and why you are together in the first place 3. Focus on the present and future: Make plans for the near future and the far away future. Planning for the future is fun and brings back the smile. Try to set up some goals to achieve those long term plans.

If you stick and apply to this rules you’ll have a wonderful relationship.

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Fashion designers and their iconic looks Eyola Unlike us mere mortals, fashion masters are not slaves to fashion or trends. In fact, these veterans, who dictate what we should wear season after season and who sign off the set of trends for each fashion cycle, actually dismiss their own rules altogether when it comes to dressing themselves. Perhaps this is the reason why so many style icons focus on style, not trends, sticking to a tried and tested uniform, which in time has earned them the ‘style icon’ crown.

Carolina Herrera commands power and authority in her crisp white shirt and pencil skirt uniform, always in neutral colours.

Fashion duo Dean and Dan, the identical twins behind Canadian brand DSquared2, are often spotted wearing matching outfits consisting of a blazer jacket, crisp white shirt and tie (or bow tie).

A very formal top half almost often paired with very informal bottoms, usually denim jeans.

Karl Lagerfeld, one of fashion’s heavyweights and the creative mastermind behind Chanel, Fendi and his eponymous label, has a very distinctive and precise method of dressing that consists of a blazer jacket, high collared shirt, embellished belt, black tie, fingerless gloves, a long silver necklace and black sunglasses.

Fashion royalty Ralph Lauren, who shares the same signature style with my dad, sticks to a denimon-denim look. This relaxed look is simply put together by pairing a demin shirt with denim jeans, which Lauren often accessorizes with a brown leather belt and hiker boots. On the rare occasion he gives his denim shirts a well-deserved day off, Lauren has a plaid shirt on standby.

Gabrielle Chanel, like her successor Karl Lagerfeld, has an iconic style that is dominated by a colour palette limited to white and black. Chanel committed to a strict uniform of a tweed skirt suit, hat, gloves and pearl necklaces towards the latter part of her life.

Israeli designer Alber Elbaz has been Creative Director of Lanvin for over ten years. While he’s been praised for reinventing the French label, his style - a black suit always worn with a collection of stylish bow ties - has remained unchanged.

Still stylish in her seventies, Dame Vivienne Westwood is unmistakable with her shoulder-length yellow-orange trademark hairstyle, but all that changed last year when she shaved off her locks revealing her natural silver hair. She is a walking advert of her punkchic style comprised of stiletto high heels- yes she still rocks heels at her age- and brightly coloured loose-fitting dresses, jumpers and emblazoned T-Shirts. An outspoken activist in her own right, Westwood uses fashion to voice her opinionated views of the world. In the last few years she has been quoted for sharing her distaste for modern fashion saying: ‘people today had never looked so ugly...everyone looks like clones...we are all conformist...[the rise of] disposable fashion [is making everyone look the same and I blame] the rise of celebrity culture...I’m a fashion designer and people think, what do I know...what I want people to be able to do is to buy well, by first choosing well and then making it last. And I also believe that if everyone wore just a few beautiful things, there would not be such a climate change problem.’

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Helping your

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tough times Patience Ekanem What makes some teenagers display angry and aggressive behaviour, while others are calm and in control? Too much stress and too little support can lead to increased depression. Teens can inherit a tendency toward anger and aggression through aggressive genes. This predisposes a teen to anger, violence, and depression.

Some parents finds it pretty hard in controlling their teenagers especially those with hot temper. The teens of today has grown to be more adamant and gets flared up at the slightest provocation, and parents are finding it difficult to control them.

Parenting a teen is not an easy task. They seem hard to appease, especially those with hot temper.

But what really makes them get flared up easily? Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why they gets annoyed so easily: Oppression: During teenage years, a child is becoming more independent and views most authority as oppressive—yes, cruel control of their individuality and expression. They are trying on a variety of personalities to see which actually works and fits for them and are faced with a lot of opposition from authority. They are more interested in what their peers are doing, they want to feel among, thinking and choosing during this time because they are going through the same things and can relate.

Socialized confusion: We are all born as who we are. As children we get to

discover the world around us in the way of our natural instinct and true personality directs. Once a child begins school, and becomes exposed to difference and socialization, they are taught in various ways to become stifled. As teens, they are now expected to be more responsible and are evaluating the way things are differently. This leaves them to consider the mixed messages of self, parental guidance, society and peer groups.

Awkwardness: Teens are making that transition between being a child and becoming an adult. They’re still attracted to childish amusements, and yet feel they feel they can act like adults. They now are surrounded by physical and emotional attractions by their peers and may feel some themselves. They don’t know what to do, they become miserable and embarrassed at times.

Responsibility and accountability: At this stage lots of things are expected from the teenagers, lots of responsibilities are being placed on them like house chores, getting good grades, acting appropriately, not giving in to temptation and social pressures, making the right decisions, being cooperative, showing initiative, getting a job etc.

Teenagers have a mind-set of their own now: This is when your child is becoming an adult. They form their own thoughts and opinions. Teenagers have individual desires and aspirations because they are their own person, just like you are. They don’t understand why you just won’t let

them be who they are, and they get angry about it.

not forget about yourself. Thank God, be grateful to Him for giving your life.

Are you having problem controlling your teen’s aggressive behaviour?

Why not try this:

Prayer: Ask God to be with you during this angry moment and lead you.

Do some physical exercises: When you are angry- your body is very tensed and tough. If you stretch your muscles it will relax your body, as you will spill out all your negative energy into action. Your brains will get more oxygen and it assists to clear your thoughts.

Write down all your thoughts: Write on paper all you are feeling at that moment.

Try to write all in details. The function of this technique is to shift all your anger out of your head on paper.

Be grateful: Find someone to thank. Do

Meditation: Close your eyes, and communicate to God, He is always there to listen to you when you call on Him. Go back to your childhood memories: Recollect state when you were angry.

Hug this child and say: “All is ok. I am here. You are a good child. I love you and I will not leave you.

Your values: What is the most significant thing in your life? Who are the most important people in your life? What kind of person do you want to be? Think and accept that point that you are living your life, and you are living your values.

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AMOF. A Casanova receives a rather interesting birthday surprise when his three girlfriends show up at his house at the same time - uninvited. Felix Omokhodion, Chukwudi Oji. (2014) Ehizojie Ojesebholo.

In this quirky and fun romance Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen stars as a depressed mom whose family is healed by her son’s new love interest. Virginia Madsen, Graham Rogers.

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00:35 Hellion 02:20 Grassroots 04:00 Britain’s Got Talent 05:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:00 The Big Bang Theory 06:30 Proof 07:30 Idols SA 09:30 Resurrection 10:30 The McCarthys 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 12:00 Britain’s Got Talent 13:00 State Of Affairs 14:00 Revenge 15:00 Madam Secretary 16:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 17:00 Playing House 17:30 America’s Got Talent 18:30 Chicago PD 19:30 Mr. Robot 20:30 Battle Creek 21:30 State Of Affairs 22:30 Secrets & Lies

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118 Telemundo 00:30 Elena’s Ghost 01:20 Cruel Love 02:10 For Love And Justice 03:00 Part Of Me 03:50 Queen Of Hearts 05:20 Elena’s Ghost 06:10 Husband For Hire 07:00 Part Of Me 07:50 Queen Of Hearts 08:40 For Love And Justice 09:30 Cruel Love 10:20 Husband For Hire 11:10 Part Of Me 12:00 Queen Of Hearts 12:50 For Love And Justice 13:40 Cruel Love 14:30 Husband For Hire 15:20 Part Of Me 16:10 Queen Of Hearts 17:00 For Love And Justice 17:50 Cruel Love 18:40 Husband For Hire 19:30 Part Of Me 20:20 Queen Of Hearts 21:10 For Love And Justice 22:00 Cruel Love 22:50 Husband For Hire

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05:30 QI 06:00 My Family: Christmas 2008

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14:00 Nowhere To Be Found 14:30 Rolling With Faith History 15:00 Lies That Bind 15:30 Lies That Bind 16:00 At Home With Michelle Attoh 17:00 Kumwesu 17:30 Mashariki Mix 18:00 Katemba Mu Kkooti 18:30 Kakibe Ki 19:00 Tinsel 19:30 Star Gist 20:00 Karma 20:30 The 5 Brides 21:00 Jara 21:30 Break In

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IT industry doubles GDP contribution to 10% – Jack Stories by Tony Nwakaegho The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Peter Jack said that the contributions of the Information Technology (IT) industry into the Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has double over the last five years from 4.5 per cent to 10 per cent, thereby accounting for about N50 billion of the N500 billion of the Nigerian economy.

Jack while responding to question on the sideline at the just concluded GITEX in Dubai, adding that this statistics was invariably after the rebasing of the country’s economy.

He said that he was elated by the performance of the Nige-

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rian university that emerged finalist in the GITEX Student Lab competition and urge them to ensure they win top prize and encouraging other universities in the country to leverage technologies by equipping their students adequately.

“Our concern is to expose the young talents in Nigeria to opportunities that abound in the technology space,” he added.

DG NITDA explained that starting from last year, Nigeria became the official country partner of GITEX and that year, NITDA showcased five Nigerian technology startups to share their solutions to the rest of the world, adding that “This year, we brought 14 technology startups and other established companies from

Nigeria to showcase their solutions to the world”.

According to him, the Nigerian Pavilion is advantageously located in such a way that it catches the attention of every investor that attended this year’s GITEX in Dubai, stressing that “We are giving opportunities to the technology start-ups to tell the world about their solutions and how these solutions could address country specific and organisational challenges.”

He revealed that NITDA and the Federal Government is using the occasion of Nigeria Day in GITEX to sell the Nigerian brand and to encourage potential investors to venture in the Nigerian technology market.

NITDA, NEPC partner to propel export of Nigerian content National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) are set to form a synergy that will propel the export of Nigerian content, promote the development the nation’s products and services to the world.

Director General NITDA, Mr. Peter Jack, made this remark when he received the Executive Director of NEPC, Mr.Olusegun Awolowo, and his team, recently at the NITDA headquarters in Abuja.

Jack said, two components of NITDA’s mandate are IT development and standards, guidelines and regulations therefore we are willing to partner with NEPC for the capacity development of its staff and development of a portal for effective management of export procedures.

He added that it is in adherence to the pursuit of its mandate that NITDA now set up the Office of Nigerian Content Development in ICT to promote local content in the IT sector.

Head of Public Affairs at

NITDA, Mrs Hadiza Umar in a statement quoted the DG, stressing that a multi stakeholder partnership should be encourage to driving the sector forward.

He said that the e-commerce platform can be enforced with partnership with the private sectors like Jumia and Konga who are e-commerce based.

He said Nigeria has to learn from India and South Korea to get it right and know how IT developed their country to where it is today.

Awolowo said, collaboration is needed with NITDA to network and make available more goods for export and looking beyond oil which has been the major export the country has depended on for so long.

Executive Director of NEPC stated that Information and Communication Technology (ICT), agriculture and entertainment are some of the sectors that Nigeria has so much to export to the world and thereby creating job opportunity for the population.

He added that, the Nigeria Industrial Regulation Plan (NIRP) and the National Enter-

Awolowo prise Development Programmes (NEDP) are some of the working plan initiatives they are working with to revamp the export sector of the country.

According to Awolowo, Nigeria has 17 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) providing over 35 million jobs in the coun-

try, and listed rice, cocoa, palm and cashew nuts as some of the products in the agro-industrial sector they are going to concentrate on for exports.

Speaking on the mining sector, he said Nigeria has 44 solid minerals in commercial quantity for export that is untapped.

He listed some of the challenges being faced to include capacity development of his staff on e-commerce, CISCO and development of a portal to serve as an online market place, packaging, labeling and nutritional information and urged NITDA to assist in its collaborative effort.

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Low capacity utilization of bandwidth worrisome- Stakeholders Stories by Tony Nwakaeho

Stakeholders in the telecom industry are worried that in spite of huge bandwidth capacity brought into the country by the various undersea cable infrastructure providers only 10 per cent of the capacity is been demanded by subscribers of the commodity.

Daily Times findings shows that the entire capacity undersea cable infrastructure brought into the country stood at 8.0 terabyte per second bandwidth, while the breakdown indicated that Glo has 1 2.5Tb/s; Mainone 1.28Tb/s; WACS 3.84Tb/s; and SAT-3 340Gbit/s.

Consequently, only about 10 per cent of these bandwidth are in demand, while the rest are inactive.

President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Engr. Lanre Ajayi, said that “we are using less than 10 per cent of capacity of the bandwidth that lands at our shores. Investors in the undersea cables are lamenting over low level of capacity utilization”.

General Counsel, MainOne Cable, Kazeem Oladepo, said:

“Today in Nigeria, we see latent demand rise slowly but steadily.

Currently, I doubt if there is any operator in Nigeria exhausting up to 10 per cent of the capacity they have on their submarine cable, meaning that the investment is at least 90 per cent underutilized, a constraint, of course, on their ability to generate revenue to recover not only its cost; but also earn margin on the investment.

“When compared with developed markets such as the United Kingdom, operators that are largely tier I operators these include, AT&T, TATA, Interoute, PCCW, among others, their wholesale prices in Europe are far lower as these operators do not have the constraints that are peculiar to our market. The transmission cost of moving traffic from location to location is almost nothing, since you do not need to move the capacity 7,000 kilometers away from the tele-house”.

According to him, the biggest issue is infrastructure to support the delivery of the services in reality, stressing that “Availability of this infrastructure and the price of access to it, are still

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not competitive. Connecting a customer in Abuja remains far more expensive than the cost of connecting Lagos to London as we have maintained and this will remain so until we have the

appropriate regime to force anticompetitive pricing of terrestrial infrastructure down and compel open access to the infrastructure”.

Commenting on the low utiliza-

tion of bandwidth, chief executive officer, Spectranet, a 4G LTE internet service provider, David Venn, identified factors responsible for low bandwidth capacity utilization thus: “pricing has a big role to play. There are two factors, pricing and accessibility.

Although price is dropping on the international market but it is still expensive to deliver service to end users which in turn result to increased broadband penetration. The most challenging of the cost is on the national circuit that has hindered operators like us from expanding to other cities of the country. For instance, 20 gigabyte of internet cost N7, 000, this is affordable to some people and not affordable to everybody”.

He urged Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to come out with regulation on the pricing of national circuit required to deliver internet on national network.

“Although they are doing work on this with the help of a consultant, but there is no result yet, when this is done, it will encourage competition in this area and drive down price. We the internet service providers are expecting this, but it has not been delivered yet. For undersea cable side from where ISPs buy from, there is competition and market forces are driving down prices though it is still high,” Venn added.

FibreCo, Teraco partner to host third open access ICT networking November 18

L-R, Commercial Controller, Airtel Nigeria, Toyin Aralepo; MD of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation and facilitator at the programme, Dr. Femi Olaleye; Human Resources Director, Airtel Nigeria, Gbemiga Owolabi; Nollywood star and fitness instructor, Kate Henshaw; Nutrition Consultants and facilitators at the seminar, Sherese Ijewere and Dr. Patrick Ijewere during Airtel Nigeria’s Breast Cancer Awareness Seminar tagged *Pink October*, organised for staff under the Employee Knowledge Series for October, held at Airtel Headquarters, Banana Island, Lagos recently.

Teraco, Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre and independent fibre network operator, FibreCo said that Cape Town will host the third Open Access ICT networking event at the Two Oceans Aquarium on Wednesday

18th November.

According to the organisers the event which is “by invitation only” will pull together the industry’s C-level executives from across Africa to discuss open access and the future of subSaharan Africa in the global ICT

landscape.

Chief Executive Officer, Teraco, Lex van Wyk, said the open access conversation is critical: “Since the mid 2000’s ICT organisations have been discussing the importance and the determinant role of infrastructure sharing in

the development of ICT markets in Africa. Unfortunately it has not been enough and while it led to many organisations working on the concept, reality is that the open access approach has not been fully embraced, nor is it completely understood.”

Van Wyk explained that the reality is that shared infrastructure is a significant enabling mechanism to stimulate broadband access in South Africa: “If sub-Saharan Africa wants to ensure its competitiveness, we need to be decisive and have a clear-cut plan to fully embrace and utilise an open access approach.”

The Open Access event will take place in Cape Town during the annual ICT gathering alongside the Global Carrier Community Meeting (16-17 November) and AfricaCom (17-19 November), and aims to literally open the door to key ICT delegates and create a neutral platform for dialogue and discussion.

According to the CEO, FibreCo, Arif Hussain, “the open access model allows all enterprises and service providers to benefit from the cost efficiencies and bespoke service levels previously available

only to incumbent operators. This aggregation of demand provides the incentive for FibreCo and Teraco to invest further in extending their infrastructure” Hussain insisted that if ICT players want to keep up with rapidly growing demand, open access is a key consideration and also makes sense when trying to deploy next generation fibre networks quickly and affordably in rural and underserved parts of the country.

Daily Times gathered that the Open Access event is a great opportunity for ICT players to meet and collaborate in a relaxed and informal environment, providing an excellent opportunity to foster and hopefully grow the open access movement.

2014 Open Access event was a huge success with over 840 delegates attending from 32 different countries representing over 350 organisations.

FibreCo and Teraco look forward to another successful networking event this year and more importantly, hope that the open access movement will gain momentum and become more of a reality in 2016.

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Broadband penetration, opportunity to establish public private partnerships-Chetty Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Krishna Chetty, General Manager of Radio Planning and Quality at MTN South Africa said that the current broadband penetration presents an opportunity for the industry and its stakeholders, including government, to establish a public private partnership (PPP) that will seek to bridge the digital divide inorganically by taking a proactive approach to investment.

He said that significant infrastructure investment is necessary in South Africa in order to meet government’s national broadband targets of extending universal access to broadband services by 2030.

Availability, he said defines consumer’s access to the device ecosystem across the spectrum of network technologies such as 2G, 3G and LTE. He explained that at the heart of government’s broadband blueprint is universal access to high speed broadband services by 2030, which is widely expected to be the catalyst for growth and development.

According to him, a narrower definition of broadband penetration should comprise of a trimvirate of three variables, namely affordability, availability and ac-

Buhari appoints DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim as DG NOTAP President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim as the director general, National Office for Technological Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), an agency under the Ministry of Science Technology.

A statement signed and released by NOTAP’s head of Media, Mr. Solomon Nshem, said the appointment was contained in an official correspondence from Engineer Babachir Lawal, secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

He said: “President Muham-

cessibility.

Using the affordability criteria, the industry can ascertain household affordability of a basket of service using average household per capita income, and the consumer’s awareness of the benefits of available services. The key here is to ensure that services are relevant and add value to the lives of the consumer.

Accessibility determines the number of consumers who have access to quality network coverage that meets the quality of service (QoS) standards. This entails massive amount of investment to realise the quality levels.

In particular, we need to connect fibre highways to rural areas so true high speed broadband can be realised; must be done under the PPP banner.

Availability, he affirmed defines consumer’s access to the device ecosystem across the spectrum of network technologies such as 2G, 3G and LTE. It guages consumer access to devices such as feature phones, smartphones and tablets that will enable them to access a range of services that are available in the market. Here we need to partner with device and chip set manufacturers to drive the cost down so as to lower the barrier to entry for rural consumers.

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this can also add traction to this initiative.

“Having pervasive 3G and LTE coverage means little, if the majority of consumers do not have the platform to access the benefits that are brought about by these technologies. Therefore broadband penetration cannot be solely determined by the availability of these services, but should be defined by the number of people who have access to coverage, devices and the means to access these services. Using this narrower definition to define broadband penetration would present a significantly lower level of broadband penetration.

“Operators and government should create an open work group that will pool resources, identify areas of investment and channel resources to areas where they are needed in order to bridge the digital divide and ensure that broadband services are available to all in line with government’s broadband targets. We need to have a high level investment plan as a country that will cearly spell out what needs to be done, and allocate responsibilities and timelines if we are to meet the broadband targets by 2030.

“Government-driven capital expenditure in rural areas is a civic undertaking that will stimulate

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the local economies, create muchneeded jobs and create a new ecosystem that is underpinned by availability of high speed broadband services,” Chetty added.

He disclosed that MTN has made significant progress since the beginning of the year in deploying its fiber network. In June 2015, MTN connected a significant number of customers to its fiber to the home network (FTTH) network in Gauteng, and is currently trenching in more areas in the province.

MTN plans to connect over 1 000 homes in the Western Cape to its FTTH network by the end of this year, and the operator has

invested R1.2 billion for network upgrades in Kwa-Zulu Natal which will fund the expansion of its FTTH network, with the first set of homes expected to go live at the end of October 2015 in La Lucia.

“We are now building for the future. Currently there is no industry other that the ICT sector collectively that invests approximately R30 billion per annum, if we are to build for the future we need to aggressively explore partnerships with the public and private sector so that we can positively contribute to building the economy and generating muchneeded jobs,” Chetty concluded.

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madu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim as Director General/Chief Executive of the National office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).”

Ibrahim, the statement added, is a graduate of Agriculture from the University of Maiduguri, holds a Master of Science degree in Soil Microbiology from the University of Newcastle Upontyne, United Kingdom in 1987 and a Doctorate degree in Soil Fertility from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi in 2004.

Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has called on the federal government to embark on a sensitization campaign with the public on the Cyber Crime Law, with a view to creating an enabling environment for business to thrive.

The Cybercrime Act which was signed by former President Goodluck Jonathan states that “any crime or injury on critical national information infrastructure, unlawful access to computer systems, cyber-terrorism, among others will be punishable by law.”

While security agencies work to contend with cyber-offenders, stakeholders in the travel and tourism industry noted that successfully protecting consumers online will aid in the development of the local economy.

Speaking on this issue, Managing Director of Jovago Nigeria, Marek Zmyslowski, said that, “One of the biggest challenges e-commerce companies face is e-

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fraud. Although there is a consistent rise in internet penetration, we have found that many of businesses around the world are yet to invest in applications that adequately secure the data of clients.

If we as a continent, are going to have the ‘first-mover’ advantage,

then we will need to pay closer attention to ICT security.”

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million people connected to the internet, less than 27 per cent of travellers use online payments while 73 per cent choose to pay at the hotel due to fraud.

In 2014 alone, financial institutions across the country lost over N159 billion to e-crime.

As oil prices struggle to make a comeback following strategic moves by OPEC to protect mar-

ket share against further drop in prices, the tourism and hospitality sector is yet to take advantage of the abundant opportunities for expansion.

“Tourism is a powerful catalyst for economic and social development. More than one billion tourists travel to destinations around the world every year. The economic activity they generate supports jobs, reduces poverty

and creates mutual understanding among people from different cultures” and this why Nigeria government should pay attention to the industry,” Chairman of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) working group, Derek Hanekom, said.

While in 2015 alone, the sector has contributed more than 3.1per cent to GDP as published in the national income accounts of the

Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria still ranks at the bottom of the World Economic Forum 131st out of 141 countries.

The country’s slow development of the tourism industry appears to be a missed opportunity towards diversifying the economy and creating employment opportunities given the nation’s cultural resources and natural assets.

Gwandu, global telecom experts chart 5G development course

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ITU approves standards for advanced audio broadcasting technology Stories by Tony Nwakaegho ITU membership have unanimously approved open standards, Recommendation ITUR BS.2088-0, for advanced audio broadcasting technology with the aim at delivering advanced sound for broadcasting services that will create a listening experience that is closer to real life.

The new global standards will facilitate the production and exchange of advanced audio files by allowing a single file to carry a complete audio programme containing audio samples as well as metadata for any combination of object, channel and scene-based audio.

The new file format was developed based on the existing and widely used RIFF/WAV file format in order to facilitate its application and implementation.

Sound is an indispensable part of television and radio. In

real life, we hear sound from all around us like a bird above us, a car behind us, and a voice ahead of us. Emulating this same experience in the media will be ‘immersive audio’.

Coupled with new high quality Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV), which offers enhanced image rendition, immersive audio will lift the television experience to an entirely new level, further blurring the line between physical reality and virtual or digital simulation.

Future technical capabilities for audio will also allow viewers to select their own menu of services. They will be able to decide on and adjust the level of immersive sound in their living rooms, creating dynamic sound imaging.

These features become possible with ‘object based coding’, which will allow viewers to personalize their viewing and lis-

tening experience ‘at the point of consumption’.

This could include setting language and dialogue levels and selecting different aspects or sections of programming, which could also bring added benefits for people with disabilities.

“The ITU global standard for immersive audio sets an important step for an exciting new age of ‘sound’ for broadcasting,” ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao said.

“The advanced audio systems will provide additional features and performance well beyond those available today.

“The role that sound plays in the media is under-estimated.

The work of ITU, along with other standards bodies, is creating a very exciting future for audio production, delivery and programming,” Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau, François Rancy, said.

Dr Bashir Gwandu, the former NCC acting chief and a number of industry leaders and expert held a 2-day conference organised by Wireless World Research Forum to discuss challenges and implementation in the new generation of communication technology, the 5G, which proposes a total connected day-to-day life.

The conference which held from October 13-14 October, provided a platform to discuss global standardisation, global co-operation and interoperability, looking at how a user-centric approach can be used to identify and overcome the obstacles and challenges connected to a 5G future.

Presentations was made by a number of industry leaders and experts, and specific sessions for this year’s event included: Building a Globally Agreed Vision for 5G Development and Deployment, Creating the 5G Architecture, Overcoming the Obstacles to 5G Deployment, Revolutionary New Use Cases and Implications for Industry, New Business Models and Commercial Opportunities Across Different Sectors (using the Automotive Industry as a

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sector case study).

Some of the features expected of the 5G as raised in the conference includes very low sub-millisecond round-trip latency (delay) of 5G signal, Better security to avoid hacking, better location identification, ultra-broadband speed of over 10Gbps, distributed content and processing, much better coverage and availability, low power consumption, high-order Mimo antenna systems, use of sub-6GHz or the spectrum between 6GHz and 100GHz, and whether or not the network should evolve from the 4G-LTE or simply new type of network, etc. Projected applications include machine to machine to people communications, autonomous cars and robots, and super wireless cloud computing etc.

Today, it is said that 5G has already been tested in Japan

by Huawei and NTT DOCOMO using sub-6GHz bands and in a public place, unlike previous experiments, which are usually conducted in a lab. The carrier managed to reach peak speeds of 3.6 Gbps where as the fastest average 4G LTE speeds come from Spain at 18 Mbps.

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ead Coach of the U-23 National Team, Samson Siasia, has invited FC Barcelona B team defender Godwin Elohor Ekpolo and Nathan Oduwa of Glasgow Rangers to camp for the second Africa U-23 Nations Cup taking place in Senegal from November 28 - December 12 this year.

Coach Siasia explained he is inviting both players to come and fight for jerseys in the team as he intends to build a strong team that will do the nation proud, not only in Senegal but at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year.

“After the All Africa Games in Congo, I noticed some departments of the team that needed to be worked on, so I decided to extend my dragnet in search of players who have shown interest in playing for Nigeria in a bid to building a solid team that will be the pride of all Nigerians,” Siasia said.

Siasia however appealed to Nigerians to be patient with him and his technical team as they go about building a solid U-23 squad for Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Siasia has directed all clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League requesting for the release of their players for league games to send their request to the General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, as he has no power to release any player.

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l Ain of UAE striker Emmanuel Emenike has maintained his decision to quit international football had nothing to do with Coach Sunday Oliseh.

Emenike has announced he will no longer be available for selection by Nigeria to join Lille goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, who has also called time on his Eagles career.

Oliseh recalled the striker shocked him even after he had declared after taking over the team he would only call up players who are playing regularly in the top leagues in the world.

“I have absolutely nothing against the coach (Oliseh),” said the 28-year-old Emenike, who has gone more than two years without scoring a goal for Nigeria.

“As for me, I still remain loyal to Coach Sunday Oliseh and I want to believe he understands my decision.

“My decision has nothing to do with the coach, who is a brave man, a technically sound person, my decision has nothing to go against his vision for the Super Eagles.

“I out of the team will equally ease pressure on the coach and it will enable the younger players to fight harder for the team.”

The 2013 AFCON top scorer has equally thrown his weight behind the Eagles to qualify for both the 2017 AFCON and 2018 World Cup. “Nigeria have produced lots of talented goal poachers like Julius

I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST OLISEH

— EMENIKE Aghahowa, Victor Agali, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Samuel Okwaraji, Obafemi Martins, Ike Uche, Rashidi Yekini just to mention a few. I believe with God on our side, the team will fly higher

without Emenike,” he predicted.

“I will be glad to see them qualify for both the AFCON and World Cup in 2018.

“We have lots of good players in

the team and more are still coming in to contribute, so I believe the team will get better and stronger as time goes on. The team will be great under Oliseh.”

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he National President of the Nigeria Schools Sports Federation (NSSF), Mallam Ibrahim Muhammed has commended Coca-Cola Nigeria for its Copa Coca-Cola tournament.

Muhammed lauded the beverage giant for the initiative that supports development of the Nigerian youth through grassroots football during the coaching clinic segment of the program, chaired by ex-international and former Assistant Coach of the Super Eagles, Daniel Amokachi, at Jabbi Junior Secondary School, Jabbi, Abuja.

Tagged “Everything for Football”, Amokachi fondly called ‘The Bull’ trained the Under-15 students from the various schools ahead of the Abuja Copa Coca-Cola tournament.

Muhammed used the occasion to highlight his belief in the youth and urged Coca-Cola to continuously give its support to initiatives geared towards youth development in the country.

“These children have hidden talent and despite their various backgrounds, they need to nurture their talent. The investment made in

Daniel Amokachi (middle) in action during the COPA Coca-Cola coaching clinic at Jabbi Junior Secondary School, Jabbi, Abuja.

NSSF LAUDS COPA COCA-COLA TOURNEY the training of these children would go a long way in aiding them in terms of discipline, education, and their overall development,” Muhammed said.

Speaking on behalf of the company, Marketing Director, Coca-Cola Nigeria, Patricia Jemibewon expressed her excitement at the fervor and turnout portrayed by the students at the coaching clinics.

Jemibewon added that, “Coca-

Cola is a firm believer in the holistic development of all Nigerian children and the best way to build the Nigerian teens is to encourage them, hone their skills and help fulfil their aspirations.

“Copa Coca-Cola is a great platform for this, as it gives hope to these teens, builds their confidence and innate abilities to succeed.”

The Copa Coca-Cola Coaching Clinic would be followed by the Copa Coca-

Cola Tournament for Under -15 billed to commence in Abuja soon and already taking place in selected secondary schools in other parts of the country.

The initiative currently attracting 1.3 million teens, competing in over 60 countries, will climax with a six-day international camp in Berlin, Germany, featuring over 100 footballing teens from around the world, including players from Nigeria.

CHAN 2016: OMONIWARI HAILS NPFL STARS

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eartland striker, Fortune Omoniwari, has praised the home-based Super Eagles who braved the odds to qualify for the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) at the expense of Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou.

The Stallions’ head coach, Idrissa Traore had revealed that his boys would overturn the 0-2 deficit from the first leg within 30 minutes but the hosts laboured throughout and were unable to get a single goal even missing a penalty kick in the first half.

It was in the light of this that the Naze Millionaires’ forward thumbed up the achievement of the NPFL players who have been made to play second fiddle to overseas-based player for a long time.

“The performance of the homebased Eagles in Ouagadougou has

shown further that we have enough talent in the Nigeria Professional Football League and that if given the necessary encouragement we can go places,” Omoniwari said. “I want to thank them for shutting the mouth of Burkina Faso who had boasted that they would

qualify at the expense of Nigeria.

“I have not lost hope to play in this team because I am aware that if I keep on doing my best for my club, I may be given a call up to come and fight for shirt during the preparation for the CHAN proper. I won’t give up.”

Name: Warren Abery Born: June 28, 1973 Place of birth: Durban, South Africa Height: 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Weight: 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) Nationality: South Africa

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Warren Abery is a South African professional golfer. He currently plays on the Sunshine Tour where he won seven times between 1998 and 2010.

Abery was born in Durban, and currently resides in Umhlanga Rocks. He won the South African Amateur Tournament in 1995 and turned professional in 1997 the same year he joined the Sunshine Tour, where he found immediate success.

He gained a place on the European Tour in 2006 via qualifying school, but was unable to retain his

About

Residence: Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa Career Turned professional: 1997 Current tour(s): Sunshine Tour Former tour(s): European Tour Professional wins: 8 Number of wins by tour Sunshine Tour: 7 Other: 1 Best results in major championships Masters Tournament: DNP U.S. Open: DNP The Open Championship CUT: 2006 PGA Championship: DNP

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NFF APPROVES EAGLES’ QUALIFICATION BONUS ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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he Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has approved extra amount of money as performance/qualification bonus for the victorious home-based Eagles and their officials.

The reward came following the superlative performance of the team in their drawn game against Burkina Faso’s Etalons at the Stade August 4 on Sunday, which sent Nigeria into the draw for the Rwanda 2016 African Nations Championship.

Each player was entitled to the sum of $1,000 with each of the coaches earning more.

However, NFF 2nd Vice President/ LMC chairman, Shehu Dikko, who led the Nigeria delegation to

Ouagadougou, announced to the group that NFF President Amaju Pinnick had directed that players and officials be paid the full bonus, with the other half serving as qualification bonus.

The joyous delegation returned to Nigeria at 1.15am on Monday, aboard the same ARIK Air Bombardier Jet that flew them from Port Harcourt to Ouagadougou on Friday night.

The Super Eagles B join hosts Rwanda, Morocco, Tunisia, Angola, Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mali, Guinea, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger Republic and Zimbabwe.

Host of the inaugural edition of the competition in 2009, Cote d’Ivoire will host Ghana on Friday, while Cameroun will tackle Congo in Pointe Noire on Saturday, for the remaining two spots.

Chile 2015: Mali, Korea DPR battle in Round of 16

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ali Under-17 national team will battle Korea DPR in the round of 16 of the 2015 U-17 FIFA World Cup in Chile.

The North Koreans secured their spot in the knockout stage of the showpiece event with a third-place finish in Group E, following their dramatic 2-1 win over Costa Rica in Puerto Montt on Sunday night.

One goal up after 14 minutes with a Yong Gwan’s opener, they conceded an

84th minute equaliser before grabbing a stoppage-time winner through Chang Bom. Top of Group D on seven points, the Malians were held to a goalless draw by Belgium before claiming back-to-back victories over Ecuador and Honduras.

And the ‘Aiglonnets’ will be eager to extend their unbeaten run against North Korea, when the two sides face each other for a spot in the quarterfinals in Talca on Thursday.

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olden Eaglets Head Coach Emmanuel Amuneke has admitted that their FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 Round of 16 opponent, Australia would be a hard nut to crack on Wednesday at the Estadio Sausalito in Vina Del Mar. The Aussies showed some remarkably tenacity to advance from the tournament’s supposed group of death (Group D) where they lost 4-1 to Germany, drew goalless with Mexico and edged Argentina 2-1.

“We have been looking forward to the team we are going to play and on Sunday, we realized it would be Australia. At this stage, everybody

that has qualified must be respected,” explained Amuneke. “They (Australia) are a very good side because we saw their match against Argentina; they are a very good side and we have to respect them.”

While Nigeria have not lost a second round match in the championship’s history, Australia were beaten 4-0

by Uzbekistan in their last Round of 16 appearance at Mexico 2011. Yet, Amuneke insisted the Golden Eaglets must be at their best as Chile 2015 enters the knockout stages.

“We have to keep working hard and prepare our players physically and psychologically for the match against

Australia especially after losing our last group match to Croatia. We have to let the players realize that the stage we are in now is crucial and it needs high level of concentration from them.

“It is a welcome development that we will battle Australia and before Wednesday, we would evaluate our players and see their state of mind, but hopefully, all of them would be ready to play on Wednesday,” Amuneke assured.

The Eaglets have, in the meantime, been training in Vina del Mar since arriving there on Saturday ahead of their date against the Aussies.