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High interest rate dangerous for economy —el-Rufai —P4

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Recession shouldn't stop govs paying minimum wage —Oshiomhole —P4

UK launches 24-hour visa service in Nigeria —P5

From left, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye; Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Dr Adeyemi Dipeolu; Special Adviser on Planning, Alhaji Tijjani Abdullahi; Special Adviser on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojodu and the Special Adviser on Social Investment, Mrs Maryam Uwais, during their swearing-in by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Council Chambers, Abuja, on Wednesday.

South Africa overtakes Nigeria as Africa's biggest economy —P4

Kogi sets up judicial commission over failed contracts since 2003 —P37

Army court-martials 20 soldiers for illicit arms sales, rights abuses —P8

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Recession shouldn’t stop govs paying minimum wage —Oshiomhole Payment of salary crucial for economic sustenance —Ex-Gov Aliyu

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DO State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, said state governors who have failed to pay the national minimum wage are committing criminal offence.

This was as former governor of Niger State, Babangide Aliyu, said payment of salary was crucial to sustain the economy.

This was disclosed at a programme, “The Podium,” organised by the Kukah Centre for Faith, Leadership and Public Policy, with the theme: “From activism to political power: The challenges of democratic governance in Nigeria.”

Oshiomhole said it was wrong for governors who enjoyed a fixed national emolument same way it was fixed for National Assembly lawmakers, to now turn around that the national minimum wage should not be applicable to the states of the federation.

According to him, “nonpayment of wages is a criminal breach of the law of contract, whether in recession or in prosperity.

“What I questioned and which I don’t accept is that if we have a national compensation, how can the governors turn around and question the wisdom of a national wage structures for workers?

“We have a centralised system of compensation for executives, governors, commissioners and local government chairmen. Their pay is centrally determined and the economy can afford that.

“What Lagos State governor is receiving is what Edo State governor is receiving.

It is that selective application of fiscal federalism that I found extremely offensive and unacceptable. “Even today, I remain firm that we must maintain a national minimum wage and we must find ways to imple-

ment and adjust it to reflect the cost of living.

“It is the duty of government and employers to find the revenue to pay those they hired, whether in private or government employed.

At the programme, moderated by founder of the

centre and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Reverend Father Mathew Hassan Kukah, Oshiomhole condemned also condemned the previous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government.

He said crass corruption and looting, which charac-

terised the PDP 16 years in power, were responsible for Nigeria’s current economic crisis.

“There is always a time between decisions and consequences. What politicians did in the past, that is the consequences we are facing now,” he said.

From left, founder, The Kukah Centre, Bishop Matthew Kukah; Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo and a former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, at the programme held in Abuja, on Wednesday. PHOTO: NAN

Duke also questioned the sincerity of Oshiomhole as a labour leader during his days as president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).

Former governor of Niger State, Aliyu, warned that the economic policies of the Federal Government had increased the suffering of Nigerians.

“During my time, we paid salaries. In the North, apart from Kano State, the rest 18 states are civil service states.

Payment of salary is very crucial in sustaining the economy.

“Go to the market, go to the streets, you will hear cry.

I don’t understand this silence when some people are messing up,” Aliyu said.

Director of the Kukah Centre, Dr Arthur-Martins Aginam, said the forum among others was to elevate the quality of political discourse in the country by generating ideas through robust and informed engagement between public officials and citizens and in the processes deepen the nation’s democracy.

Army dismisses documents stating Boko Haram’s plot to attack Lagos, Imo, Abuja, Kano Chris Agbambu - Abuja THE Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, dismissed the document in circulation over the planned attack on major cities schools and religious houses in the country

by Boko Haram terrorists.

Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel S.K. Usman, in a telephone conversation with the Nigerian Tribune, said the army hierarchy was investigating the source of the purported document.

He allayed the fears of Nigerians over the purported attack and urged everyone to go about normal business

without fear.

According to an online report, information at the disposal of the army headquarters strongly pointed to plans by Boko Haram terrorists to attack various locations in different parts of the country.

In the online circular dated August 5, 2016 and signed by one Colonel B. Sulaiman, it stated that the targeted areas included, but not limited to police stations, prison facilities, schools and market places.

Details in the purported document showed that the terrorists group intended to target police stations and

formations in Abuja, Kano, Kebbi and Sokoto states, while prison facilities would be attacked in Adamawa State.

The document further

the rand has gained more than 16 per cent against the United States (US) currency since the start of 2016, while, in contrast, Nigeria’s naira had lost more than a third of its value.

In afternoon trade on Wednesday, the rand firmed by more than one percent against the dollar, to R13.29.

The media agency pointed out that both Nigeria and South Africa were facing the risk of recession, hav-

ing contracted in the first quarter of the year. Nigeria’s economy shrank by 0.4 per cent, while South Africa’s GDP contracted by 0.2 per cent.

Nigeria has suffered amid low oil prices, while South Africa is sensitive to shifts in the commodity cycle.

“More than the growth outlook, in the short term the ranking of these economies is likely to be determined by exchange rate movements,” Alan Camer-

revealed that the terrorists were reported to have deployed foot soldiers to carry out attacks on markets in Bauchi, Katsina and Imo states.

But the army, speaking through Colonel Usman, allayed the fears of Nigerians, saying it was investigating the source of the purported document.

High interest rate dangerous for economy —el-Rufai Sanya Adejokun - Abuja KADUNA State governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on Wednesday, said prevailing interest rate regime has led to massive job losses in the country.

According to him, with benchmark interest rate at

South Africa overtakes Nigeria as Africa’s biggest economy SOUTH Africa is, once again, the biggest economy on the African continent, a position it reclaims from Nigeria.

Using the gross domestic product at the end of 2015 published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bloomberg reported that the size of South Africa’s economy is $301 billion at the rand’s current exchange rate, while Nigeria’s GDP is $296 billion.

Bloomberg noted that

Former governor of Cross River State, who was the chairman on the occasion, had earlier criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government and its change mantra, lamenting that the change campaign was fake propaganda.

on, an economist at Exotix Partners LLP, told Bloomberg.

He said although Nigeria was unlikely to be unseated as Africa’s largest economy in the long run, “the momentum that took it there in the first place is now long gone.”

In July, South Africa stepped past Egypt as the continents’ second largest economy in dollar terms, having dropped behind the North African country earlier in the year.

14 per cent, only illegal businesses could thrive in the country.

Speaking in a keynote address at a special edition of roundtable organised

by Women in Business, in Abuja, el-Rufai threatened that CBN risked losing its power to set lending rates for commercial banks unless it immediately addressed the situation, adding that only unscrupulous elements could successfully operate under the current fiscal policy atmosphere.

“We have a Central Bank that has an MPR at 14 per cent and banks lending at 20 per cent. Only traders and drug dealers can make money at this interest rate.

“I have said it before and I will repeat it again, unless the Central Bank and the banking system make a conscious decision to bring interest rate down, one day, we would legislate it,” el-

Rufai said.

He debunked the notion that high interest rate was panacea for high inflation.

“The rate of inflation in the United Kingdom is not two per cent or one per cent.

It is seven to eight per cent.

But lending rate is at what one per cent. I think they cut the interest rate last week.

“All these theories that the rate of interest must be above the rate of inflation is economic [expletive],” elRufai said.

“We must decide that businesses should be able to borrow at the rate interest that makes sense and politically lower rates to that level,” he added.

The Women in Business roundtable attracted professionals from all walks of life and the participants used the platform to share viable ideas and express challenges faced in running a successful enterprise.

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HE United Kingdom (UK) has launched Super Priority Visa Service in Nigeria to allow customers to process their applications within 24 hours.

The British High Commission, on its website, said the new service was to particu-

larly meet the needs of those who required urgent service to travel.

The High Commission quoted the British High Commissioner, Paul Arkwright, as welcoming the introduction of the Super Priority Visa service in Nigeria.

“I am pleased to see the Super Priority Visa service being launched in Nigeria.

“This comes with an additional cost, but it is designed to give greater flexibility to our customers and to make improvements to the visa services we offer.

“We expect this new service

to be particularly useful for business. We understand that business opportunities and urgent requirements can arise at very short notice.

“We recognise this and want to facilitate such travel to the UK with this new super-fast service,” Arkwright said.

The High Commission said the introduction of the service allowed customers greater flexibility to choose from a number of visa products to meet their needs.

“It is offered alongside our current Priority Visa (front of queue processing five to seven-day) and standard (15-day) services.

“The UK is the only European country to offer a visa decision in 24 hours.

“The Super Priority Visa service is aimed largely at key business customers and those needing to travel urgently by providing a visa decision for collection at the Visa Application Centre the working day following submission.”

It said the service costs 750 pounds, in addition to

the visa fee and would be available to eligible customers applying in the Abuja and Lagos Visa Application Centres.

The High Commission said those applying in the “Visitors” or “Points Based System Tier 4” are eligible to use the Super Priority Service.

It said appointments are available from Mondays to Thursday from 8.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and Fridays from 8.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Abuja and Lagos centres only.

“Extending the Super Priority Visa service to Nigeria is another example of how the UK is leading the world in the provision of premium visa services for those coming to the UK to visit, do business or study.”

Buhari swears in economic adviser, 4 others Leon Usigbe -Abuja From left, Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi; USAID Foreign Disaster Assistant Director, Mr Jeremy Konyndyk and the Deputy Director, Office of Food for Peace, Mr Matthew Nims, during a visit of USAID officers to NEMA headquarters, in Abuja, on Wednesday. PHOTO: NAN

US okays fresh $37m for Lake Chad Basin region Christian Okeke -Abuja THE United States government, through its Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday, announced that it would be providing more than $37 million additional humanitarian assistance to people affected by the ongoing conflict and severe food insecurity in Nigeria and throughout the Lake Chad Basin.

Activities of Boko Haram had triggered humanitarian crisis in the country and surrounding countries in the Lake Chad Basin region.

While families have been driven from their homes, millions were left without enough to eat, as humanitarian situation remained dire.

Approximately five million people needed emergency food assistance, with 2.5 million people displaced.

The new funding is targeted to help tens of thousands of people receive criticallyneeded humanitarian assistance, including food, water, shelter, and services to address acute hygiene, protection, and nutritional needs.

The food assistance will be delivered to conflict-affected communities in the Diffa Region of Niger, including populations who fled their homes following the recent attacks in Bosso.

Nigeria Mission Director of USAID, Michael Harvey; US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance Director, Jeremy Konyndyk and Office of Food for Peace Deputy

Director, Matt Nims confirmed the new assistance after a trip to the northeast where the humanitarian needs were the most acute.

They noted that the US, by providing more than $318 million in humanitarian as-

sistance since 2015 to the Lake Chad Basin Region, remained the single largest humanitarian donor to the region.

In addition to humanitarian funding, they hinted that the USAID provided target-

ed assistance that sought to reduce extreme poverty and improve the quality of life for Nigeria’s most vulnerable communities through improved governance and civic participation at the federal, state, and local levels.

MORE than 14 months into his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, swore into office his Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Dr Adeyemi Dipeolu and four others.

Apart from Dipeolu, others who had oath of office administered on them before the commencement of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) ,were the Special Adviser on Social

Investment, Mrs Maryam Uwais; Special Adviser on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu; Special Adviser on Planning, Tijani Abdullahi and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Rafiu Enikanolaye.

Dipeolu, Uwais and Ojudu are, however, to continue their work under the Office of the Vice President while Abdullahi has been deployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

Flood: There’s an alarming increase in water level —Agency 11 LGAs under flood threat in Jigawa—NiMET Adamu Amadu -Dutse, with Agency Report MR Moses Beckley, the Director-General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), has warned that increase in water levels in major rivers could cause flooding of the 2012 magnitude in some parts of the country.

Beckley gave the warning in Abuja, on Wednesday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

“At our monitoring station in Wuro-Boki, Adamawa State, the first monitoring station as River Benue enters Nigeria, the water level has risen to 5.36m as at August 8, 2016 (as against 4.88m recorded on August 8, 2012).

“Though presently there is no water release from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon, the heavy rainfall being witnessed within the catchment of River Benue has caused the water level to be on the increase, “ he said.

The Director-General stated that at the confluence in

Lokoja, the water level as of August 8 was 7.74m, which had exceeded the 7.72m recorded value on August 8, 2012.

He said in line with the prediction made by the agency in 2016, there was the possibility of flooding in many parts of the country.

Beckley stated further that the localised urban flooding incidents being experienced in parts of the country

would continue due to heavy rainfall and blockage of the drainage system.

He added that poor urban planning, as well as coastal flooding, resulting from sea rise and storm flow would also contribute to flooding in the flood-prone areas.

The official, therefore, urged government at all levels, especially state and local governments, to endeavour to clear blocked drains, cul-

verts and other waterways.

Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary of the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Yusuf Sani Babura, has said 11 local government areas in the state were likely to experience flood disaster this year.

Speaking to newsmen in Dutse, the state capital, the executive secretary said this was based on the focus by the Nigerian Meteorological

Agency (NiMet) in the alert earlier issued.

According to him, the flood alert indicated that most of the riverine communities along Rivers Hadejia and Jama’are would be the likely victims of the disaster, adding that his agency had since embarked on enlightenment campaign for all the vulnerable communities, in order to be aware of the looming danger.

Flood ravages 3 council areas in Plateau, displaces many Isaac Shobayo -Jos FOLLOWING torrential rain in some parts of Plateau State, no fewer than 1,500 people have been displaced and property worth millions naira destroyed in three local government areas of the state.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, the state chairman, State Emergency Relief Management Agency, Alhassan Barde, said assessments carried out by his agency revealed that Jos North, Jos South and Jos East Local Governments were affected by flood.

According to him, 700 people were displaced in Jos

North Local Government, 400 in Jos South, adding that the agency only got wind of the flood in Jos East, but were yet to ascertain the level of destructions.

“As a result of the flood in this council areas, those displaced are presently in IDP camps, but from our assessments so far, there is no loss of life. We are appealing to residents of Plateau to take all precautionary measures against flood,” he advised.

Nigerian Tribune learnt that the rain, which lasted for more than three hours in these council areas on Tuesday, also washed away farmlands,

buildings, including culverts and bridges, linking the communities with one another.

Meanwhile, a member of Plateau State House of Assembly representing Jos East Constituency, Honourable Joshua Madaki, has disclosed that over 29 cows were drowned by a heavy downpour in Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau State, following heavy downpour on Tuesday evening.

Honourable Madaki told newsmen on Wednesday that the heavy downpour, which lasted several hours, wreaked havoc by disconnecting the council secretariat from the

people, forcing residents to go through Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State before they could reach the council headquarters.

Madaki solicited the intervention of the Plateau State government and other spirited individuals to rescue the affected communities by providing relief materials and to reconstruct the damaged bridges to enable the farmers to move their harvest to the markets.“The main roads connecting Fobur-FedereAngwari at Keven are badly washed away by the flood, including crops such as rice, yam,” he lamented.

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N156bn govt debt: 6 Power firms threaten to shut down electricity nationwide

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IGERIA’S largest electricity companies will shut down power supplies unless the government pays longstanding bills it owes them and improves gas supplies, a joint statement said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

In 2013, Nigeria -- famous for blackouts -- started selling parts of its moribund state electricity firm, in a privatization that was meant to improve power supplies and attract billions of dollars in new investments neither of which happened.

If the companies make good their threat, most industries and residential homes will be in darkness except for those that rely on expensive diesel generators.

According to Reuters, six power generating companies, known as Gencos, which had bought parts of the state firm, said they would shutdown electricity generation imminently if a debt of 156 billion naira ($485 million) owed from a government agency was not paid. They also said banks were recalling loans made to them.

Nigeria has paid arrears of 186.7 billion naira. The central bank has stepped in with a 213 billion naira loan to keep the system afloat and allow the power firms to access credit, but more

is needed as the oil price slump pressures Nigeria’s currency.

The companies, which include Transcorp’s power subsidiary and Forte Oil’s

GROUP Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru has enumerated a 12 point agenda that will be the goal of the corporation under his watch.

Addressing staff during his maiden Town Hall meeting with staff of the corporation in Abuja on Wednesday, Baru said the theme of the agenda is “Moving NNPC Forward…

Together.”

According to him, “in the race to change the fortunes of our dear Corporation for the better, I cannot do it all alone. Therefore, we are all in this together.”

The GMD outlined details of the agenda to include security, new business models, Joint Venture cash calls, production and reserve growth, NPDC growth, gas development, oil and gas infrastructure, refinery upgrade and expansion.

He explained that under his watch, NNPC will continue with the previous initiatives to further grow

parts had become too expensive due to naira devaluation.

From left: Sade Morgan, Legal, Public Affairs and Communications Director, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC); Daniele Sechi, Managing Director, Cummings Power Generation Nigeria Limited; Anthony Njenga, Country Manufacturing Director, NBC; John Howell MP, UK Trade Envoy to Nigeria and Ahmed Bashir, acting British Deputy High Commissioner and Director, UK Trade and Investment, during the UK envoy’s visit to NBC office.

Naira firms at parallel market, dips at interbank Chima Nwokoji-Lagos THE Naira strengthened

by N1 at the parallel market on Wednesday, August 10. The local currency which had remained unchanged for two days at the parallel market now trades at N394/$1, as against the former rate of N395/$1.

On Tuesday, the central bank took some steps which it hoped would help narrow the gulf between the official and black market rates and boost dollar liquidity.

It pegged the dollar transactions which banks can carry out with Bureau De Change (BDCs) at $30,000

Baru declares 12-point agenda for NNPC Sanya Adejokun-Abuja

power unit, said they struggled to repair their networks because imports of spare

the business and increase profitability as envisioned by the founders of the Corporation.

“The NNPC is today in transition for positive reform. A transition to autonomy, profitability and growth. This transition is not only inevitable but imperative in the light of current business realities and the onus on NNPC to deliver on its statutory mandate,” Dr. Baru declared.

“We have a collective responsibility to ensure the success of this ongoing reform in NNPC. The task of doing so begins with you and me, by changing our attitude; particularly, the way we work and do business.

“We are all required to develop mindsets that emphasize diligence, commitment and sacrifice. Therefore, it is indeed not going to be business as usual’’, the GMD stressed.

Baru noted that in line with the NNPC’s mission statement of being an integrated oil and gas company engaged in adding value to the nations hydrocarbon for the benefit of Nigeri-

ans, the Corporation under him would focus on a 12 point agenda to support and drive the actualization of the mission.

Responding on behalf of the staff, the NNPC Group Chairman of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG), Comrade Mathew Duru expressed the readiness of the unions to support Baru and his management team to succeed in their onerous task to reposition the corporation for growth and profitability.

per week and set a margin for the banks to sell dollar to currency outlets at not more than 1.5 percent over the rate at which they bought.

Also, the Naira spot rate at the interbank market closed at N317 as against N312.50 to the dollar which it exchanged for on Tuesday.

The British pounds at the interbank market exchanged for N402.9359, while the Naira was sold at N344.0651 to one Euro on Tuesday, while the British pounds at the parallel market exchanged for N505, while the Naira was sold for N426 to one Euro same day.

The Central Bank of Nigeria intervened on Tuesday with a total of $6.86 million on the interbank foreign exchange market to help support the naira after it hit N350 to the dollar in thin volume, traders said.

Henceforth, Bureau De Change (BDC) operators is allowed to nominate its preferred Authorized Dealer and can only buy the said amount from only that bank of its choice in a week.

Subject to maximum disbursement of $5,000 per transaction, funds purchased by Authorized Dealers (ADs) are be disbursed for Business Travel Allowance/Personal Travel Allowance; Overseas School fees and Overseas Medical fees.

According to the apex bank, forex cash purchased by BDCs from Authorized Dealers shall be sold to foreign exchange end users at a rate not exceeding two (2) per cent margin above the buying rate. The two per cent margin it said shall be applicable to all funds to be retailed by BDCs regardless of sources of fund.

Employees (NUBIFIE) and the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSIBIFI).

The crucial talk began with a warning from the government that banks and their employees must be ready to operate within the provisions of the Nigerian laws.

According to the minister, the meeting was the first of the three-stage meetings with the stakeholders in the sector. He said: “Today, our journey

towards the resolution of the industrial disputes in the banking and financial sector begins in earnest.

You may recall the series of petitions from the organized unions in the banks and financial institutions , and individuals complaining of unfair labour practices which include illegal termination of appointments, forced resignations, unpaid exit emoluments and entitlements, non remittance of union check-off dues, prolonged

“In 2013, exchange rate was 150 naira per dollar.

Today it is 310. How can we repair, equip, acquire new turbines at this rate of 310 naira per dollar and yet still operate with an old tariff?,” said the companies. “(A) shutdown is indeed imminent,” they said in a statement.

The naira has lost 40 percent of its value since Nigeria ditched its 16-month-old peg of 197 naira to the dollar in June in a bid to lure back foreign investors who fled both the equities and bond markets after the plunge in crude prices.

After the privatisation, the government pledged to review tariffs as more power is generated and upgrade the transmission network to give more people access to the grid.

But tariff reviews have not kept pace with rising cost, worsened now by the naira devaluation, analysts say.

In February, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) increased tariffs by 45 percent, triggering protest from consumers, already under pressure from rising inflation, which hit a 10-year high in June. But the tariff increase was not enough to cover their cost, generating companies say.

As of July, the generating firms have received only 28.6 percent of their April invoices, they said.

Chronic power shortages are one of the biggest constraints on investment and growth in Africa’s largest economy. Producing less than 4,000 megawatts, Nigeria’s requires ten times the amount it currently produces to guarantee power to its 170 million people.

However, the generating firms are holding off on expansion. Generating companies have around 5,000 megawatts of spare capacity which has no access to gas, they say.

FG moves to stop mass retrenchment in financial sector Soji-Eze Fagbemi-Abuja

THE Federal Government on Wednesday took a decisive step to avert lingering mass retrenchment and resolve other major labour issues in the banking and financial institutions.

Led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, the government began a crucial negotiation with the organized labour unions in the sector - the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution

casualization, contract staffing and redundancy.”

Ngige reassured that his intervention was to resolve the disputes in the overall interest of all Nigerians, while expressing displeasure with the skewed observance of the laws of the land by the financial institutions and warned that the provisions of the Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) cannot be the only law banks will comply with, to the exclusion of the laws of the country.

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BRT buses resume operations after drivers’ one-day strike •Company records N50m loss

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RIVERS driving the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses resumed work on Wednesday after Tuesday’s protest over delay in payment of their salaries, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

This came just as Primero Transport Services Ltd., the operators of the scheme, said that it lost no less than N50 million during the one day protest.

The management, led by Mr Fola Tinubu, however, expressed its apologies to its

teeming commuters for the pains the strike brought on them.

NAN reports that the drivers had also protested against alleged unfavourable working conditions of service.

A correspondent of NAN that visited the Majidun De-

pot of the company in Ikorodu on Wednesday morning saw some of the drivers preparing their buses for the day’s operations.

He, however, saw some of them loitering outside the depot.

He noted that the atmo-

sphere changed positively when Mr Fola Tinubu, the company’s Managing Director, rode in the first bus from the depot to its Ikorodu Terminal.

NAN reports that at the terminal, Tinubu reassured commuters that the buses

The newly completed pedestrian bridge at Berger Bus Stop, on Wednesday.

Bricklayer accused of defiling neighbour’s 18-month-old daughter •I was only playing with her —Suspect Olalekan Olabulo A 47-year-old bricklayer has been accused of defiling an 18-months-old baby of his neighbour.

Lagos Metro gathered that the little baby had gone to play with the bricklayer’s children, when the bricklayer allegedly inserted his fingers into her private part.

The accused person, Emmanuel (surname withheld), however denied the accusation, insisting that he was only playing with the baby.

Residents of Owutu area of Ikorodu, where the incident took place were thrown into disbelief, when the mother of the baby raised the alarm, that her daughter had been defiled.

A resident, Tokunbo told Lagos Metro that “It was on August 3rd, when we heard noises on Adebayo Street and we were told that the man had defiled a girl of less than two years of age. We tried to settle the matter but the man insisted that he did

not commit the offence while the mother kept claiming that the child had been defiled.”

The accused person speaking with Lagos Metro said, “They used to come and play in my apartment but on that day she was the only one that

came and my children were not at home. We were in my room, when the mother shouted her name and I told her that her baby was with me and they both went away.

“After about 30 minutes, the woman came back and

accused me of inserting my fingers in the little girl’s private part and I denied it.”

Emmanuel also said, “Look at my fingers. How can these fingers enter the private part of that small girl? I don’t know what I have done to the

woman.”

The state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni stated that the man was arrested after the little girl was examined by the police at Owutu police station, where the case was first reported.

Olalekan Olabulo

Two other persons Opeyemi and Jeremiah (surnames withheld), who were used by the driver to withdraw money from the account and to buy goods have also been arrested by the police.

Mayowa told Lagos Metro that, “I took the card from him when he misplaced it and I hacked into his bank account with software application.”

The suspect, who insisted that he was not maltreated by the victim, also stated that he used credit card revealers to get the necessary information that helped his gang to perpetuate the crime.

He added that they col-

lected only about N200, 000 cash from the account and that he used a large chunk of the money for shopping.

Unknown to the driver, his boss had reported the incident with the police at RRS and he drove the Professor to the police office, when he was arrested.

Opeyemi, a teenager, who was arrested alongside the driver, confessed to Lagos Metro that he participated in the spending of the money but claimed that he thought the money belonged to Mayowa.

Opeyemi said “He told me that the card belonged to him. I used to see him as an area brother. I thought that

he was a ‘yahoo boy’. I did not know that he stole professor’s ATM. The 15-year-old boy also added that “he gave the card and the PIN to me and asked me to go to different places to be buying many things like iphone, iPad, computer systems, mobile phones and other things.”

Jeremiah insisted that he only took Opeyemi to the different places, where the card was used, because he claimed not to know the places.

The Lagos Police boss confirmed the arrest of the trio and warned employers of domestic staff to always be careful with the kind of sensitive items and information that they allow them access to.

How I cloned Prof’s ATM card to steal N3m —Driver

A driver, 25-year-old Mayowa (surname withheld), who works for a Professor in Magodo area of Lagos State, has narrated how he stole and cloned his employer’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Card to steal about N3 million from his account.

Mayowa also stated that he used his mastery of Information Technology (IT) to prevent his boss from receiving alerts on the withdrawals from his account.

The suspect was arrested few days ago by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS). He however blamed the act on ignorance.

had resumed their regular services.

After then, the first set of buses rolled out of the depot at 7.15 a.m.

NAN reports that the scheme, being operated by Primero Transport Services Ltd., provides bus services along dedicated lanes in the metropolis with Lagos Island to Ikorodu and viceversa enjoying a great boost.

NAN also observed that policemen from the BRT Monitoring and Enforcement Task Force were seen manning the main entrance to the premises.

Tinubu, after the ride told NAN that the buses had resumed operations.

“As you can see, the buses are back on the road, we have rolled out over 100 buses and we are pushing more out.

“So all I can do is to appeal to residents of Lagos to bear with us, it was circumstances beyond our control; it is over now, our buses are back on the road.”

He said that drivers who were yet to report for work could do so, saying “the terms of employment have been spelt out; if you are comfortable with it you can come and work.

“If you are not, you can look for employment somewhere else; it is not by force for us that somebody has to work for Primero.

“So if they are happy let them come in, I don’t have grudges against anybody.

“As you can see, all the ones (drivers) that were out yesterday are back at work now, so if the few that are outside want to come they can do so.

“I am not putting a deadline on it right now, he said.”

Tinubu said that the company lost no less than N50 million when commenting on the financial loss from the strike.

“Though, a minimum of N50 million was lost by the company, residents of Lagos bore the pain the most during the one-day strike embarked upon by the drivers.

“We’ve not even quantified it yet; but we are looking at least N50 million.

“But more importantly, what about all the people (commuters) that wanted to go to work and couldn’t do so, or were late for work, contract.

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Army court-martials 20 soldiers over illicit arms sales, rights abuses Kayode Bodunrin with agency report

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HE Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, inaugurated a General Court Martial (GCM) to try four officers and 16 soldiers found wanting within the Operation Lafiya Dole theater command in Maiduguri, Borno State Brigadier-General Victor Ezugwu, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, inaugurated the GCM, at a ceremony in Maiduguri.

General Ezugwu said that the action followed an order from the Nigerian Army Headquarters in Abuja.

“Following the directives from Army Headquarters that a standing GCM be set up for the Operation Lafiya Dole to try offence committed by personnel within the theater of operation.

“I issued a convening order for the GCM on August 5, and members were directed to assemble today for formal inauguration.

“As you are aware, discipline is the bedrock of the military profession and to have a disciplined body of officers and men, there must be justice, because it is when there is justice that discipline can be achieved,” he said.

General Ezugwu said that four officers and 16 soldiers would face trial at the GCM. “Justice implies that infractions of the law must be promptly reported, investigated and the accused persons prosecuted within a reasonable time through the laid down rules regulations and procedures.

“The GCM is, therefore, convened to try a total of 4 officers and 16 other ranks of the Nigerian Army, who have committed various of-

15 inmates escape Nsukka Prison NO fewer than 15 inmates were believed to have escaped from Nsukka Prison in Enugu State in a jailbreak that occurred on Tuesday night.

A reliable source at the prison, who pleaded anonymity told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Nsukka ,on Wednesday that the inmates broke their cells and scaled over the perimeter fence.

“The inmates carefully opened their cells and scaled the perimeter fence of the prisons.

“Before prison officials on night duty knew what was happening, about 15 inmates had escaped,” the source said.

The Controller of the Prison, Mr Lawrence Okonkwo, confirmed the jail break but declined to give the number of inmates that escaped.

“Yes, there was a jail break last night in Nsukka prison but I am not in a position to say how many prisoners escaped.

“We are expecting the Enugu State Prisons Controller, Mr Isaiah Amariri, in Nsukka prison, so that we brief him on what happened last night.

“He will be the one to tell the public the number of inmates that escaped, rearrested ones and efforts put in place to arrest those still on the run”, the source added.

However, unconfirmed reports said that two escapees had been re-arrested.

NAN gathered that offi-

cials of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS),were seen in parts of Nsukka and its environs searching for fleeing inmates on Wednesday.

fences within the theater,” he said.

Ezugwu also said that the aim of a GCM was to ensure quick dispensation of justice to the accused persons.

“It must be stated at this juncture that one of the aims of a court martial is to achieve timely and quick dispensation of justice within the framework provided in relation to statue books.

“Therefore, it is important that both the prosecutors and the accused persons or their counsels are mindful of this fact and strive to shun all forms of antics such as request for frivolous adjournments which could lead to unnecessary delays in the trials processes.

“It is often said in the legal parlance that justice de-

layed is justice denied,” he said.

“And ensure that your opinions and decisions on all the cases brought before you is not in any way beclouded with bias, external pressure by extraneous factors.

“The outcome of the GCM must, therefore, be based on careful appreciation of the whole facts of each and evidence placed before you in the course of trial of these accused persons.

“Finally, you are to ensure that the judgment you pass on the accused persons will stand the test of appellate court, public opinion and above all that of the almighty creator.

The president of the GCM, Brigadier.-General Segun Adeniyi, also addressed the court shortly after taking

oath of administration with a promise to be fair and just to the accused in the conduct of the trial.

“For the accused, be assured that you are all presumed innocent until this

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Party Primaries for 2016 Ondo State Gubernatorial Election: Adjusted Time-Table For reasons of logistics, the National Caretaker Committee of our Great Party has approved adjustment to the Time-Table for Primaries to nominate the PDP Candidate in the forthcoming Ondo State Gubernatorial Election scheduled to hold on November 26, 2016. The activities are as follows: S/N0 1

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Nigerian Tribune

FG and unreturned diplomatic passports

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BOUT a year ago, the Federal Government directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to retrieve all valid diplomatic and official passports from all persons not entitled to hold such documents. Part of the reasons adduced then was the need to protect the integrity of the country, and to ensure law and order. Going by the official records, 21 former governors, 42 ex-ministers and at least 309 members of the Seventh National Assembly were required to surrender their diplomatic passports by May 29, 2015. The list also includes former members of state Houses of Assembly, ex-commissioners, ex-special advisers and former local government chairmen. However, concerned with the indifference of some former public officials to comply with the directive, the government recently issued subtle threats to invoke extant laws on them.

Surprisingly, a lot of them still turned deaf ears, even though the return of the diplomatic passports was tied to the payment of their severance allowances and, in addition, the government had vowed to hand them over to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for prosecution.

Indeed, a two-year jail term awaits anyone who possesses a diplomatic passport without authorization, as outlined in Section 10 of the extant Immigration Act, 2015.

In normal climes, public service is regarded as a call to service. Those privileged to hold public office, either appointive or elective, make enormous human and personal sacrifices in the service of their country. In return, the system confers on such individuals, certain rare privileges. More often than not, however, the beneficiaries of appointive and elective offices in Nigeria have a weird perception of such opportunities. Their actions and inactions are clearly in conflict with the real essence of public service.

They regard appointments as, in the common parlance, an opportunity to ‘arrive’, climbing up the ladder of opulence and influence. Key appointments are seen as a passport to success and fame, and the occupiers gloat as if tomorrow will never come. And when it does, they are reluctant to adjust to their new status.

A diplomatic passport remains the property of the Nigerian state, and all categories of officials must see it as conferring a privilege extended to them because of their

status. Unfortunately, most Nigerian leaders have never seen public office as a call to duty, so they cannot distinguish between service to the nation in their official capacity and living as private citizens. Otherwise, the pressure on them to surrender the passports in question would not have arisen at all. At the moment, though, there is too much privilege attached to governance in the country, making the few that are privileged to hold public office to become fastidious about the pecuniary benefits, and to hold on to those privileges even after office.

It amounts to impersonation for former public officials to hold on to their diplomatic passports after office. This is not just a crime and an embarrassment to them but also to the country, which graciously offered them a rare platform to serve. It is sheer irresponsibility and indiscipline for any ex-public official to hold on to the document even a second after leaving office, without genuine reasons.

Such an individual will be considered to intend to use the documents for purposes other than those contemplated by the enabling act.

Diplomatic passports are a symbol of authority and authorization, which confer on the holders a burden of responsibility, integrity and discipline. Courtesies are extended by host countries to the holders to pave the way for their smooth passage and transaction of government business. For instance, the immunity associated with passports is evident in the free passage at international airports, where the rules of engagement normally require a search of luggage by security operatives. Since former public officials are duty-bound to surrender their diplomatic passports at the expiration of their tenure with the exception of former presidents, the conduct of those under reference only attests to the culture of impunity in the land.

A diplomatic passport only confers a privilege on the holder for a certain period of time. Given that serving and former public officers should set good examples as men and women of impeccable character and conduct whose actions should buoy the integrity and name of the country at all times, appropriate sanctions need to be meted out to those that violated extant laws on the diplomatic passport issue.

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FG, complete Ilorin-Ibadan Road I want to call on the Federal Government to complete the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway; the first leg of the project from Ibadan to Oyo had been completed by the past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and the second leg is just from Oyo to Ilorin. This road needs to be completed fast because of the high rate of accidents happening on the Oyo-Ogbomoso road.

Before the completion of the Ibadan-Oyo part, a lot of innocent people had died on the old road to Oyo, but the expressway has brought about a drastic reduction in road accidents.

It is, therefore, important that the Federal Goverment also takes the second part of the project seriously so that innocent people will not be losing their lives on the Ogbomoso-Oyo road.

•Bamidele Akindele, 08022982373

Govs should conduct LG elections

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TATE governors have almost ruined the functions of the third tier of government, which is the local government. They have extended their power to the local government level, thereby denying citizens the opportunity to elect their representatives at the grassroot level.

Today, governors determine what goes to the local governments despite the fact that the council areas have their allocations from the Federation Account. It is undemocratic for state governors to be usurping the functions of local government chairmen through their proxies who they appoint to the lo-

cal government areas. In some local governments today, the appointed council chairmen cannot undertake any meaningful project without the approval of the state government, and this is a great disservice to the tenets of democracy.

If we are, therefore, to sustain democracy in the country, a thriving local

Why govt should sell our refineries ALTHOUGH the Federal Government has gone ahead with the deregulation of the oil sector, we will not achieve anything if we don’t sell our refineries to investors who will be able to turn them around in a short period of time.

As long as government continues to run the refineries, they will never work optimally. After the sale of the refineries, the government should also give tax considerations to other investors to come and establish their refineries in the country.

Also, the funds being saved from the subsidy payments should be used to provide social amenities

and infrastructures for Nigerians.

I want the funds being saved to be diverted to the power sector. Nigeria needs constant power supply for it to develop. It is unfortunate that over the years, we have not been

able to get the power situation right in the country.

I also want special attention to be given to our terrible road networks.

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government system must be functioning; that is, one where democratic principles are followed.

Consequently, it is necessary that the Independent

National Electoral Commission (INEC) take over the conduct of elections into local governments.

•Lawson Iyayi, 08059412659

Attention, Gov Okowa I want to use this opportunity to call on the Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyin Okowa, to come to our aid on Chief Joseph Ndudi Ozah Street in Ogwuashi-Uku. The road on this street is just so terrible that it has affected economic activities in the area.

With the bad road, the area is also prone to flooding, and with the rainy season, many residents

are always scared whenever t rains. I am, therefore, calling on the governor to order the immediate reconstruction of the road, while also fitting it with drainages.

I know Senator Okowa is an action governor and he will come to our aid immediately.

•Onyeajunwa Amoku, 08052212361

Why are Nigerian youths divided?

FOR some time now, I have been noticing a trend on social media about how divided Nigerians are along ethnic and religious lines. To be sure of what I am saying, Nigerians should visit news websites and click on important national news; then after

reading, they should take time to read the comments of contributors, and they will notice how divided Nigerians are.

When a story reports the negative activities of group of people who belong to a particular tribe, commentators who belong to

another tribe will not even address what the report is talking about, but they will descend on the whole tribe, describing them in unprintable names. The same also happens when somebody of a certain religious inclination commits an offence.

It is, therefore, necessary that our youths unite if we are to truly develop. Attacking one another based on religion or tribe will not help us.

•Jimoh Mumin, 08034435211

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Thursday, 11 August, 2016

Of state sponsorship of pilgrimages

By Leo Igwe

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HE reactions that have trailed the decision by the Muhammadu Buhari government to subsidise this year’s Hajj, despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is in recession, underscores the necessity of separating religion and state. Last year, the Federal Government announced the discontinuation of state sponsorship of both Muslim and Christian pilgrimages as a cost cutting measure. Government made it clear that stopping state funding of pilgrimages would save some money that could be devoted to development programmes.

Unfortunately, government has refused to make good this pledge and it has continued to subsidise pilgrimages and engage in these wasteful schemes. Now, instead of seeing how state subsidisation of pilgrimages, whether Christian or Muslim, is impoverishing the country and further destroying an economy that is already in doldrums, many segments of the Nigerian population, particularly those who feel that their religion is favoured by this current decision of government, are tendering flimsy reasons and excuses to justify what is clearly a policy blunder, and a mark of governmental ineptitude.

From their comments and reactions, Nigerians who are in support of state subsidisation of Hajj have made it seem as if those who are opposed to this decision are Christians who did not protest when such subsidy was extended to them last year by the same government. In fact, many Nigerians who are pro-Hajj subsidy think that those who are protesting are pro-Jonathans who could not speak out against such measures when Dr Goodluck Jonathan was in power and who have yet to get over the pain of defeat at last year’s election.

Unfortunately, these misplaced and mistaken persuasions continue to re-echo in the discussions of both illiterate and semi-illiterate Nigerians, as well as in the debates by so-called educated and apparently enlightened persons in the country whom one thinks should know better. Many people across the country are still trapped in their ethnic and religious cocoons, and find it difficult to rise and rea-

son beyond their parochial, tribal, clannish and sectarian interests, and begin to appreciate and embrace collective and common supra-ethnic and supra-religious decencies by rallying against divisive, authoritarian, oppressive, dogmatic and exploitative religious policies, as in this case.

Hence, I would like to reiterate that this author is not a Christian or a Muslim, and one needs not be before speaking out for, or against a policy that negatively affects us all.

Again, it is not all Nigerians who are Christians or Muslims who support state subsidisation of religious pilgrimages.

There are millions of Nigerians who are traditional religious worshippers and adherents of other faiths, religions or philosophies. In fact, a proper census would actually reveal the millions of Nigerians who are non-religious – including atheists, agnostics and freethinkers.

Having said that, the issue remains: Why do some Nigerians think that the government is justified by subsidising religious pilgrimages, in this case, I mean both Christian and Muslim pilgrimages?

Theologically, pilgrimage makes no sense, because after all God or Allah is supposed to be everywhere. So why travel to the holy land? Why? To go and do what? In that case, pilgrimage is just like travelling to ‘meet’ in Mecca or Jerusalem somebody who is already in Nigeria. Is that not absurd? Why embark on this patently futile venture? Why engage in such a self-ridiculing undertaking that, going by recent events, exposes you to the risk of losing your life?

That leads me to the penultimate point, state sponsorship of pilgrims makes no economic sense for a poor

country with distressed economy such as Nigeria. Going to pilgrimage to Mecca or Jerusalem does not contribute to the economy of the country. In fact, state funding of pilgrimages depletes the nation’s resources and to see a government that blames the prevalent economic hardship in the country to reckless spending by the former regime embark on the luxury of subsidising pilgrimages is shocking. Worse is seeing many Nigerians laud such a scheme as a mark of sterling leadership.

First, the economies of the destination countries of these pilgrimages – Saudi Arabia and Israel – are far better than that of Nigeria, and pilgrimages benefit them and their economies because these religious tours bring in foreign exchange earnings. Without state subsidy, many Nigerian religious tourists would definitely travel for pilgrimages and contribute to these economies. So giving state subsidy is making additional contributions to the economies of the destinations countries at the expense of our own distressed economy. Is that not a shame? Which reasonable government does that?

Those who govern Nigeria at this point in time should be utterly ashamed of themselves for making this country a laughing stock. Look at the situation throughout the country. There is hyperinflation, scarcity of food, lack of jobs, violent crimes, limited power supply, decaying infrastructure, among others. And here we are talking about subsidising Hajj and Christian pilgrims. Why can’t Nigerians read in between the lines? Why can’t Nigerians understand that state sponsorship of pilgrimages is impoverishing and under developing their economy?

Is subsidising pilgrimages a way of tackling poverty and addressing economic marginalisation in Northern Nigeria?

Unfortunately, people who think that this recent decision favours their religion are of the view that those protesting the decision are doing so because they are angry that the subsidy benefits Muslims. Pro-subsidy Nigerians, whether they are Muslims or Christians, should bear in mind that if the Nigerian economy is good, it is good for everyone, whether one is a Christian, Muslim or non-religious.

•Igwe lives in Ibadan.

Protecting Nigeria’s indigenous population

By Bayo Olupohunda

AUGUST 9, every year is celebrated as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Every year since 1994, the United Nations set aside August 9 to mark this special day of the world’s most endangered species. The day is also observed each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population.

The event is also used to recognise the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection. The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was first pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994, to be celebrated every year during the first International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004).

In 2004, the Assembly proclaimed a Second International Decade, from 2005-2015, with the theme, “A Decade for Action and Dignity.” People from different nations are encouraged to participate in observing the day to spread the UN’s message on indigenous peoples.

As the world observed the day last Tuesday, my thoughts were centred on the indigenous peoples of Nigeria. In the last two decades, questions about our country’s nationhood and the plight of the minority population have dominated national discourses. There is a consensus among Nigerians that indigenous minority populations have not been fairly treated. Questions about equity, justice and fair distribution of resources have been raised.

Since the amalgamation of 1914, that forged a country out of existing disparate entities, the mostly indigenous peoples who were railroaded into the forced union have been asking questions about their future in the Nigerian federation.

With this year’s indigenous peoples’ day, it must be noted that Nigeria is one of the countries where the indigenous populations form the bulk of the national population. But it is also an irony that the minority population has been at

the centre of every conflict about nationhood.

At the heart of this is the need to guarantee equity and justice for the minorities in the larger Nigerian federation.

The debate about restructuring the country is also to ensure that the rights of minorities are protected. Unfortunately, the agitations by the indigenous peoples of Nigeria have often led to conflicts, when the Nigerian establishment resorts to strong hand tactics to silence its indigenous peoples.

The agitations that readily come to mind have been the age-long and ongoing struggle by the indigenous Biafra population, Niger Delta peoples, comprising the Ogoni, Ijaw and other minority population that seek for an equitable place in the Nigerian state. These agitations have led to violent struggles beginning with the Adaka Boro uprising, the Nigeria-Biafra civil war and recently the Niger Delta agitation for resource control, which reached an anti-climax with the killing of the Ogoni activist and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa and other agitators had been fighting for the rights of the indigenous people of Ogoni. The Ogoni people, like other indigenous population in the country, have been victims of human rights violations for many years. In 1956, four years before Nigerian Independence, Royal Dutch/Shell, in collaboration with the British government, found a commercially viable oil field on the Niger Delta and began oil production in 1958. In a 15-year period from 1976 to 1991, there were reportedly 2,976 oil spills of about 2.1 million barrels of oil in Ogoniland, accounting for about 40 per cent of the total oil spills of the Royal Dutch/Shell Company worldwide.

Yet, when Ogoni people began to question the injustice, their agitations were suppressed violently by the Nige-

rian state. The recent protests by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the response of national government reflect a global concern for the fate of indigenous peoples worldwide.

While in Nigeria, indigenous peoples are struggling to find their place in the Nigerian federation, all over the world, indigenous peoples are facing other issues relating to survival in a world dominated by big government and large corporations. According to Cultural Survival, a publication of Indigenous Culture,“the world’s 350 million indigenous peoples have been forcibly expelled from their ancestral lands to make way for ill-conceived development schemes, colonisation programmes, and military occupation. Dispossessed of their lands — and hence their economic livelihoods — many indigenous peoples have been forced to migrate to cities and towns in search of work. Historically offered the least amount of schooling and access to basic social welfare services, displaced indigenous peoples have been marginalised.

As indigenous peoples are deprived of their territorial, economic, and political autonomy, their customary beliefs and values, which once unified them and their communities, begin to waver. The result is invariably the loss of a community’s cultural identity, particularly as the sense of pride in language, traditional practices, and respect for elders give way under pressures to conform to the dominant national society and the ‘modernising’ and seductively alluring impulses of global popular culture.

Indeed, the story of indigenous education is intimately tied to the introduction to Western concepts of progress and to the global marketplace, The Nigerian government, therefore, owes a duty to guarantee the rights of its minority and indigenous populations and provide them access to their basic rights. Most importantly is the urgency to restructure the country to reflect the aspirations of minority groups to have a say in the way they are governed.

•Olupohunda is a public affairs analyst.

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Forex: 3 million maritime workers may lose jobs —Shippers

Representative of the Director General and Head Corporate Communications, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Hajia Lami Tumaka, being inducted as matron of Women in ANLCA by Governor of Women, Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Hajia Bola Muse, recently at NIMASA Headquarters in Lagos.

PRESIDENT, Shippers Association of Lagos State, Mr Jonathan Nicol, has raised the alarm that the floating exchange rate might shed three million staff strength in the maritime sector. Nicol said that the new forex regime had distorted import projections which had now been on decline.

According to him, “the recent increase in exchange rate of N313 to the dollar conveys the ignorance of port administrators including the Central Bank of Nigeria.”

He noted that with the new forex regime, shippers are paying more duty and costs of consumer goods were going up.

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Panic grips importers as agent’s ultimatum to shut seaports looms Stories by Tola Adenubi - Lagos

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OLLOWING the decision by clearing agents under the aegis of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) to withdraw its services from the ports at a yet to be mentioned date following the hike in import duty rate which currently stands at N331 to a dollar, importers who own many of the cargoes have resorted to panic cargo clearance to avoid paying millions of naira in demurrages if their cargoes get trapped inside the port in the aftermath of a port shutdown.

The National President of ANLCA, Olayiwola Shittu, had stated over the weekend that with the hike in the import duty rate to N331 to a dollar, the National Executive Council of ANLCA will be meeting very soon to decide on a date when total withdrawal of the association’s services will be announced.

Speaking with Nigerian Tribune in an exclusive chat, an importer, Nwogbu Akaeze, explained that the directive by the ANLCA to shut down the seaports has forced him and some of his colleagues into panic cargo clearance.

“You know ANLCA has the largest members of agents clearing cargoes at the seaports for us importers. For somebody like me that doesn’t bring in too many containers, it is important I clear all my cargoes remaining in the ports since I patronise some of these agents.

“It will be foolhardy for me to relax when I read in the papers that they are set to meet to decide when to embark on strike.”

When asked why the panic cargo clearance since their cargoes are safe in the ports, he explained that, “yes they are safe in the ports, but demurrage will rise if they spend longer days in the ports.

“That is the situation we always find ourselves in this part of the world. Once there is a reason for those containers to stay longer in the ports than usual, the terminal operators collect demurrages even when

they know the fault is not of our making.

“Therefore to avoid paying demurrages that could run into millions of naira, it is very important that I look for how my cargoes will exit the ports before the close of next week.”

The ANLCA President had said that the association condemned in totality the monetary policy that led to the collapse of the maritime industry. He frowned at the import regime of fixing the

foreign exchange rate at N331 to the dollar.

“There should have been a deliberate effort to save Nigerian importers from the debilitating effect of fixing the foreign exchange in calculating the import duty,” Shittu explained.

He noted that it was condemnable to force Nigerians to open form ‘M’ for imports at N197 to the dollar and now force them to pay N331 after the goods had been shipped into the country.

Sifax Group witnesses slump in 2016 H1 performance MANAGING Director of Sifax Group, John Jenkins, met with journalists recently in Lagos and revealed that the conglomerate witnessed a slump in its business; projections in the first half of 2016.

According to Jenkins, the sharp drop in the price of crude oil in the international market which affected the nation’s economy visa-vis the issue of foreign exchange eroded Sifax Groups performance in the first half of 2016 “Port & Cargo Handling Services Limited (P&CHS) is the flagship subsidiary in our group due to its strategic importance in terms of its size and business volumes.

“All the measuring indices for the company in the first half of the year recorded a negative return when benchmarked against the same period in 2015, which in itself didn’t return any encouraging statistics.

“From vessel operations, throughput figures to gate activities, all recorded a sharp decline in volumes and activities. While the percentage of volume decline varies from one measuring indices to another, but on the average, Ports

& Cargo recorded approximately a 10 per cent drop in container business operations.

“Being a multi-purpose terminal, Ports & Cargo Handling Services limited, aside containers operations, also handles general/ project cargoes, which ended up the most badly-affected arm of the business during the period under review.

“There was approximately a 50 per cent drop in volumes for general cargo goods between January and June, 2016 when compared with the first half of 2015.

“Sifax Offdock Nigeria Limited is the inland container depot subsidiary Group. With three terminals at Okota, one at Trinity and one at ljora, the company use these off docks to ease the congestion at the Ports & Cargo terminal.

“Sifax Offdock recorded an improved business performance for the period under review as shown in the mid-year statistics. The throughput volume for January to June, 2016, compared with that of 201S shows approximately a 54.11 per cent increase for the containers received into the facilities whilst deliveries improved also by

50.23 per cent.

“Though the business performance in this subsidiary has been encouraging, its overall impact in the Group has been minimal due to its small size and limited financial contributions to the whole Group.

“With over 50 new trucks, Sifax Haulage & Logistics Limited is one of the biggest players in the industry. With a fleet of well-maintained and NPA certified trucks, the company continues to forge ahead despite the challenging economy.

“Compared to 201S mid-year performance, the company recorded approximately a 20 per cent decline in volume between January and June 2016, despite signing new business deals with some new clients like Fatoum Logistics, Lilypond Containers and APMT, Kano.

“Taking into considerations the subsidiaries business performances mid-year, it is safe to conclude that Sifax Group has recorded between 20 per cent and 25 per cent volume decline in the first half of the year 2016. This decline also had a telling effect on the revenue.

istry of Finance on this issue without an official guideline is worrisome.

“The Minister of Finance should explain why this is so,” he stated.

Customs loses N14.84bn in 7 months at Tin Can Command

THE Tin Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated N130.76 billion revenue in the first seven months of the year. This represents a yearon-year revenue shortfall of 10.2 per cent or N14.84 billion since the Command generated N145.60 billion in the corresponding period of 2015.

A statement by the command said that the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Yusuf Bashar, made the disclosure while exchanging views with some stakeholders in his office.

The controller said that the statutory function of the command remained revenue generation and facilitation of legitimate trade. He said that the operations, processes and procedures of Customs were fully automated so that trade facilitation could be guaranteed.

The controller, however, said that trade facilitation could only work when importers and their agents were transparent in their declarations.

The controller also reacted to the current hike in the exchange rate for calculating import duty, which is generating concern in the maritime sector.

He said that the NCS, as an agency of the Federal Government, was charged with the implementation of the Federal Government’s fiscal policies.

“It is instructive to note that the Nigeria Customs Service by its statutory role does not determine exchange rate but only relies on the Central Bank of Nigeria to update us with information in accordance with its establishing Act. “It is, therefore, pertinent to note that the current situation is beyond the Customs,” Bashar said.

The controller said that the command’s operational methodology was in sync with the change ideology of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, which encompassed discipline, integrity, transparency and due diligence.

He said, “There is a paradigm shift in the operational system of the command geared towards strengthening the drive in ensuring that the time of cargo delivery is reduced to the barest minimum.”

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Thursday, 11 August, 2016 With Adewale Oshodi tribunearts@yahoo.com 08054005323

‘The glamour of home video is over’

Oba Olusegun Ayodele Akinbola, the Aladeokun of AladeIdanre, Ondo State, used to be a journalist with the Nigeria Television Service (NTS), as well as a lecturer of Dramatic Arts at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. In this interview with ADEWALE OSHODI, the royal father speaks on his time at the NTS, as well as the dwindling fortune of theatre in the country. EXCERPTS:

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OU used to be with the Nigeria Television Service (NTS), which later changed to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), how did you find yourself in television?

I started my life as a store-keeper at the Medical Stores in Ikeja, Lagos. We used to have just only four regions then in the country — we had Eastern region, Western region, Northern region and MidWest region. It was in my presence that the Mid-West was created. I was then a store keeper at that time. So I went to the university and graduated in 1967; after my graduation, I got employed with the Nigeria Television Service (NTS) as a producer. I was with the NTS until 1972, when I joined the teaching staff of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I was at the Institute of African Studies. During my time at NTS, I travelled far and wide, and I then knew what journalism was all about. I directed news, I worked with news people, and I was the second producer of The Village Headmaster, while Sanya Dosunmu, the Olowu of Owu, was the first producer.

You ascended the throne of your forefathers in 1995, so how has it been coming from the academia to becoming a king?

The transition has been as it can be; the world does not like change, and if you had undergone any operation, then you would know that change can be hard. A good example is tooth removal; when a new tooth is fixed for you, you don’t like it, but after some time, you get used to it. However, despite the fact that the world does not like change, when you know that becoming a

However, we need to return to the theatre culture; I am sure that artistes are now tired of the screen limitation. An artiste can shoot a whole two-hour movie in a small room, and the audience will not know. The theatre also makes the audience know how sound an artiste is. In home video, any person can play any role, as the director will only be cutting until the actor gets the interpretation perfectly. This is not possible in live theatre.

Some theatre experts believe the security situation in the country is responsible for the fate that theatre has suffered, as some people prefer to stay indoors at night than go to the theatre to watch performances, what do you have to say to this?

I don’t want to support those who are saying this; people still go to watch football matches at night; they don’t stay away because of the security situation in the country. In fact, football stadia are likely to attract hooligans than theatres. So I won’t accept that the security situation is responsible for the fortune of theatre in Nigeria today.

Oba Olusegun Ayodele Akinbola king is your last bus stop — you don’t get transferred; you don’t resign; they don’t get sacked unless you do sacrilegious things — and you are just there until eternity, so you just have to accept where you find yourself.

However, there are changes that come over you after sometime, like social changes, religious changes, general changes, among others. When I started, I started low, but I am not where I was. It was not a surprise, and being somebody who was into theatre, and somebody who taught theatre, I found it interesting to come from the academics.

I’ve never had any crisis since I became king because I have been using the experiences garnered over the years to manage the affairs of my people; however, I must say everything has been God? While you were in theatre, what did you find most irritating about the set-up?

What the audience wants to know are the actors on stage; nobody wants to know who directed the play. It is unfortunate that other people who work for the success of the play don’t mean anything to the audience.

I did theatre technology, and my work on stage was as important as the work of any other person in any production, including the lead actor.

How was live theatre in the years gone by, and how is it now?

This is my surprise, theatre has changed from what it was when I was still practicing. All of a sudden, home videos took over from live theatre, but I am sure we are going back to live theatre, and that will be very soon. This is because home video is just only money-minded. In home videos, you find an actor in a play, and after that,

he begins to look financially buoyant. Maybe after the production, the actor is paid N500,000, and he goes to buy a Jeep, and he begins to use that as a bait to negotiate for another movie. The glamour of home video is over because intelligent ideas are no longer forthcoming. When you watch home videos today, what you find will be violence, money rituals, gun violence, promiscuity, among other negative things.

Also, home video has made our artistes to be lazy; after doing a production, the work is seen all over the world, and that is the end for the actor. However, for a live production, the work is taken around, and this will give the actors the opportunity to feel the mood of the audience. If they are doing well, the actors will know immediately, and vice versa.

In 1985, I organised students of the Dramatic Arts of the University of Ife, and we toured the whole of Osun State, staging The Gods are not to Blame. We had 25 performances, and although money was not there, we nevertheless performed to the satisfaction of the audience. The audience was able to feel the artistes live, and they spoke with them after each performance; this is not possible in home videos.

The glamour of home videos has spoilt the beauty and legacy of theatre, and I hope that very soon, Nigerians will return to live performances.

How soon do you think Nigerians will return to watching live performances on stage?

We all have a lot to do; people now find it hard to go to the theatre to watch live performances because satellite television has brought theatre to every home. In a single day, one can watch tens of home videos.

You recently celebrated your 21st year on the throne; what difference have you made in the lives of your subjects?

This is a very common question among journalists. In actual fact, I am not in a position to say this is what I have been able to do for my people. I can only say that Alade people themselves should be able to highlight how I have positively impacted their lives. One thing I want to say, however, is that this was not how the town was when I ascended the throne. So I believe we have experienced tremendous development, but to be telling you what I have done or influenced is what I don’t do; my people are in the best position to talk about that.

POEM

Thou fluid I grasp wholeheartedly And my land smile for it to sink It pleases my body and soul After a decade of endless stress in all spheres Now I need to snore, a bit This is no doubt my compensation Nap: a mini sleep It came to me gently in my creep So I stopped to have a sip I felt helplessly dizzy afterwards Then my busy body was scold to rest Suddenly! Something slapped my ribs So hard that I nearly excreted my heart An abstract being It resurrected my gone soul It halts my sweet voyage and...

Though I was mad like the latest widow in town But it claimed to have stopped me From sleeping wrongly on the unwanted It said it restored my consciousness Please, cant you stay put?

I felt like roasting its liver for dinner Nap: A sugary sleep in the attainment tomb Maybe this is not my place Maybe those times are a waste If I truly need a faster pace Yes! I need to pick a race •Adetoyese Yusuf Adewale

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‘Ebedi’s contribution to literature in Nigeria is immense’

By Adewale Oshodi

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UST like other past Ebedi International Writers’ residents, Ayobami Adebayo and Temitope Shadiat Jimoh’s six weeks stay in Iseyin, Oyo State was interesting, as they used the opportunity to focus on their writings. It was also a great opportunity for the students who are being mentored by the residents to learn something new.

While Ayobami taught them Yoruba proverbs and meanings, Temitope put her creative skill to work by teaching them how to make beads and other female accessories.

On how they got to know about the residency, Ayobami said a friend of hers was also a resident last year, and she told her how to go about applying. However, for Temitope, being a member of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW), under the leadership of Mr Wole Adedoyin, made it possible for her to know about the residency.

“The SYNW is also a literary organisation, so we come about opportunities often, and I felt coming for the Ebedi residency will help me in my literary career. ‘’Since I came, I have been able to teach the students how to make jewelleries with beads; they have also learnt how to write words with beads.

“I was also able to teach the students how to dance, as well as how to sing in Yewa language; this is apart from the fact that I was able to complete my short stories,” Temitope said.

For Ayobami, whose first novel, Stay With Me, will soon be published in Kenya, United Kingdom and the United States, the residency was a great opportunity to start work on another novel.

“Apart from the novel I worked on, I also had a great time with the students, and despite the fact that they were on strike while our residency lasted, they still showed commitment by coming for the lectures.

“I really enjoyed my stay at Ebedi; the environment was so conducive, and all I can say is that my stay was productive.

“The residency was a great opportunity for me to focus on my writings in a serene environment different from what I was used to,” Ayobami, who will soon be starting her doctoral degree, said.

Both residents were, however, full of gratitude and commendation for the founder of the residency, Dr Wale Okediran, for the good work he is doing for literature in the country.

“It’s been long I heard about Ebedi, and those who had attended had spoken glowingly about the place, and I can say that I was not disappointed when I also came for my residency,” Temitope said.

For Ayobami, the fact that a single individual can be doing this for literature in the country should be commended.

“I hope that more corporate organisations can partner with the founder of Ebedi to take literature to greater heights in the country,” Ayobami said.

Ayobami Adebayo

Temitope Jimoh

Macdell Joshua Sackey

In his brief remarks, the administrative officer of the resi-

dency, Mr Joshua Koffi Sackey, revealed that two more sets of

residents will be attending Ebedi before the end of the year.

“We are continuing with our vision of providing writers with the environment needed to work on their books, while also contributing to the intellectual development of Iseyin school children.

“We have discovered that their relationships with the students have been productive over the years, and as a result, we have noticed that these writers have been able to influence a couple of the students towards deciding on wanting to become writers in the nearest future.

“One thing about writing is that one can come from any background entirely, just like the founder of the residency, Dr Okediran, who is, first and foremost, a medical doctor,” Mr Sackey said.

That the railway may thrive again A review of Oladele Osunbote’s Railway in Nigeria (Part II) by Abiodun Awolaja.

IN a clime where road traffic accidents, particularly by heavy-duty vehicles deployed by Nigeria’s narrow-minded moneybags, are routine, it is perhaps not fortuitous that calls for the return of rail transportation have been less than strident, even muted. If anything, as Oladele Osubote notes in Railway in Nigeria (Part II) (Pentagon Books Limited, Ibadan, 2016), the larger socio-cultural issues impeding Nigeria’s march to greatness, including ethnic rivalry and what Chinweizu has tagged Caliphate Colonialism elsewhere; corruption and nepotism, military adventurism and perverse political leadership, disturbingly overwhelm the structural issues that the rail transportation system in Nigeria has had to contend with: narrow gauge, abandoned workshops, obsolete infrastructure and plunder of rail infra-

structure, among others. In other words, the 430-page epochal material combines both the structural and functional problems of the rail transportation system in a mesmerising dialectic.

Right from the early pages the reader confronts the disturbing details of the of the perverse politics that turned an otherwise profitable industry employing over 45,000 Nigerians into a moribund industry that continues to drain the public purse by way of, for instance, retirement and severance packages for workers disengaged from the system in the their productive prime; the wan-

ton and to date unprecedented looting of the treasury by the Sani Abacha (1993-1998) junta; and, before then, the callous termination of the Lagos metro line initiative of the Lateef Jakande administration by the Mohammadu Buhari military junta, a dark phase in Nigeria’s history which also put a break on the genuine initiatives of the Shehu Shagari administration to consolidate on the landmarks recorded under the Olusegun Obasanjo military administration (1976-1999) through partnership with Indian technocrats (the RITES team).

In this way, although focusing

•Ms Olapeju Olayemi (left), with the winners

Nigerian students win creative arts carving prizes THE United States Transparency International Standards Incorporation has presented its own strategy for the promotion of African arts and fashion by extending its prizes to support the National Education Innovation in the arts and fashion sectors of the Nigerian economy.

The organisation has been collaborating with tertiary institutions across the country to coordinate environmental-friendly arts and fashion exhibition in Nigerian schools.

The South-South zone of the competition recently took place at the University of Benin Hall, and students from various institutions in the region participated in the exhibition.

While presenting prizes to Horsfall Bright Jeinbarimiema, Omorodion Egberanmwen, Akinbayode Oluwatosin and Omoregie Samson Oghomwen, students of Rivers State University, who carved the ‘Say No To

Breast Cancer’ handbags, Mr Michael Adewumi, representative of US Transparency International Standards, commended the students for their creativities.

Mr Adewumi admitted that carving wood handbags to define breast cancer requires a great expertise, which the students exhibited.

“I am happy that participants are using their knowledge to create something from nothing; these students have been able to use wood to make handbags.

“What is surprising is that some of these students are not studying arts, as most of them are studying law and engineering, but they have not limited themselves to their disciplines alone,” Mr Adewumi said.

In her remarks after the exhibition, Ms Olayemi Olapeju, who has been at the forefront of projecting the creativity in Nigerian youths said, “arts and fashion is a way of expression.

“Having revisited the creation

of the bespoke elephant-theme unisex briefcase, which was unveiled on the World Environment Day, we felt inspired to extend this heritage to other United Nations global campaigns.

“For the ‘Say No To Breast Cancer’ bag, we hand-crafted replica images of women with breast cancer as motifs on wood handbags. It is sad to say that over one million new cases of breast cancer are recorded globally every year, and about 400,000 women die of the disease yearly.

“So far, there is no sufficient knowledge on the cause of breast cancer, but early detention of the disease remains the cornerstone of breast cancer control. So we will unveil the ‘Say No To Breast Cancer’ ladies’ handbag officially in October, which is the month set aside by the United Nations to create global awareness of early detention, treatment and palliative care for breast cancer,” Ms Olapeju said.

on woes of the railway in Nigeria and how to reinvent the wheel, Railway in Nigeria (Part II) offers fresh insights into the vagaries of Nigeria’s political economy, and is a must read for anyone desirous of realistic change in the fortunes of Nigeria’s neglected gold mine. The text suggests that even though the abundantly blessed railway transportation system in Nigeria suffered the misfortune of being criminally managed, in the author’s one words, “one rulerhero of Nigeria will one day do something about the railway.”

In an interaction with one of the Chinese saboteurs brought into the nation by Abacha under a $528 million contract/scam, the author learns a shocking fact.

“About five of the seven men I interviewed said,’ for China, I no be railway worker.’ (In China, I’m no rail worker).” These were the people imported into Nigeria by that junta to revive the railway. Osunbote in fact presents startling contrasts: “The re-railing of coaches which occurred at Olodo-Ibadan in 1982 was done within twentyfour hours. Tracks of two kilometres were then totally destroyed.

Eight passengers died. When the train services resumed the second day, people did not believe.” By contrast, “On the one which occurred on 7 May 2005, the railway at Ibadan or Western District has no crane. They planned to go to the Eastern District, Enugu, to bring a crane. They would spend more than one week before the crane would arrive at the accident site.”

Indeed, the book is an insider’s account of the ups and downs of railway transportation in Nigeria, the author having served in the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) for 10 years before pulling out in frustration. He had received promotion on a yearly basis, but could not continue with a system he believed had become a ruse since the termination of the contract of the Indian team which gave the railway a massive turn around between the Obasanjo military years and the Shagari years, and the deadly ethnic struggle by its Nigerian successors.

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education

Editor: Laolu Harolds 08111845016 tribune.education@yahoo.com

Over 20,000 jostle for 4,000 slots as FUTA commences 2016 admission exercise

By Laolu Harolds

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N accordance with extant practice, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, on Tuesday August 9 began its 2016/2017 admission process into its various undergraduate degree programmes with the screening of candidates.

The four day screening exercise began with over 20,000 candidates jostling for 4,000 admission slots.

The exercise, which started as early as 7a.m., saw candidates trooping in in batches allocated to them. Officials of the university, including the Security Unit, were on hand to check the documents of the candidates for eligibility.

A team of the university management, led by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, (Academics), Professor Olatunde Arayela, who is the Chairman, Admission Committee, went round to observe the conduct of the exercise.

According to Professor Arayela, in accordance with the policy of the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja, FUTA is conducting the exercise checking the UTME and Ordinary Level results of candidates who chose the institution with a score of 180 and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

He said there would not be any test whatsoever.

Assessing the conduct of the exercise, Arayela described it as “very impressive and well conducted.”

Former Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr Suleiman Dikko (left), handing over to the incoming executive secretary, Dr. Hameed Bobboyi, at the UBEC headquarters, Abuja.

“We have both the representatives of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on ground to witness the conduct of the exercise. This is to ensure transparency and due process in the

exercise,” he added.

He confirmed that about 4000 candidates would eventually scale the huddle, out of over 20000 who registered for the exercise.

Some applicants said they were delighted at the smooth operations at FUTA, saying

Kwara stops tertiary institutions’ subventions Biola Azeez-Ilorin

THE Kwara State government has stopped the annual subventions to some of its institutions of higher learning, as it has discovered that the internal revenue generated by these institutions is enough to meet their financial obligations.

According to a statement made available to newsmen in Ilorin by the Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, this development followed the deployment of mechanisms in the state-owned institutions to block loopholes and wastages in the system.

Alhaji Banu said that after the review, it became obvious that these institutions can survive and run their operations on their internally generated revenue.

He asserted that this necessitated the need for the state government to cut or stop the annual subventions that were hitherto being collected by the institutions.

The commissioner disclosed that the government had stopped subventions to the Kwara State Polytechnic and the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, as their IGR is enough to guarantee smooth running of the schools.

Meanwhile, the state government says it has so far disbursed the sum of N430,388,359.24 as subventions to seven

of its tertiary institutions in 2016, and that an outstanding balance of N86,996,421.7 will be released this month.

The institutions include the Kwara State University (KWASU); Kwara State Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi; Kwara State College of Arabic & Islamic Legal Studies; Kwara State College of Nursing, Oke-Ode; and the Kwara

State School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ilorin.

Banu called on the management of all the state-owned institutions to be more innovative and resourceful in generating revenue for their schools, adding that the situation where government’s subventions are spent only on recurrent expenditure is not sustainable.

the exercise was orderly.

A candidate, Shadow Solomon, intending to study Computer Science, said “I am really satisfied with the conduct of the screening. Everything went on smoothly from the start to the end. I was thrilled about the university anthem played to us in one of the halls. It teaches self-reliance and academic excellence. The reception given to candidates and our parents is super. The officials at the screening venue were friendly and I love the Sport Centre, especially the track field. I look forward to becoming a part of this great citadel of learning.”

The chairman, Technical Sub-Committee, Professor Boniface Alese, said, “there is a significant improvement in the conduct.

This is less time-consuming, less stressful and cost-effective.”

Germany partners UNIBEN for research Banji Aluko-Benin city

THE German government through relevant institutions is partnering the University of Benin (UNIBEN) to create awareness and showcase opportunities that will enhance academic growth.

In line with the goals, a three-day capacity-building and development training workshop for academic staff, researchers and scholars at the University of Benin has been held in the institution.

The workshop was a partnership between the German Academy Exchange Service, Alexander Von Humboldt and Deutsche Forschungsgemeischaft.

The Consul-General of the German Embassy in Nigeria, Ingo Herbert, listed areas of interest as special programmes, scholarships for prospective scholars, lecturers and academic researches.

Ingo, who was the special guest of honour at the occasion, said the German Embassy in Nigeria has the highest number of applicants seeking German scholarship to study in Germany, while, India and China have the largest number of foreign students in German universities.

He said, “We are very grateful for the initiative of the University of Benin to organise such a workshop together with the relevant institutions in Germany, which are responsible for special programmes and scholarships for academic researches.

We hope to strengthen that relationship”.

The vice chancellor of the university, Professor Faraday Orumwense, said the workshop was meant to improve the capacity and interest of lecturers in the University of Benin to scholarly works research.

Orumwense, whose welcome address

was delivered by the deputy vice chancellor (Academics), Professor Abiodun Falodun, assured that the programme would strengthen prospective scholars/fellowships and applicants on how to write proposals that would skyrocket their academic research activities.

A professor of Agronomy/Plant Physiology, Clem Adeboye, said beneficiaries of international exchange academic programmes must be able to prove their mettle in the field of research that would earn international awards and reputation in their field of study.

The Head of Information and Library, Goethe-Institute, Nigeria Cultural Centre, Sufarat Balogun, gave tips on visa requirements for scholars who want to study in Germany, stressing the need for Nigeria students seeking to study abroad to have the drive and right information.

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How tertiary institutions can attract grants, endowments —Semenitari, NDDC chief

By Laolu Harolds

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NIVERSITIES and other tertiary institutions have been advised to set up non-profit, whollyowned subsidiaries to manage their endowment, and seek potential donors and possible areas of interest that could attract research funding.

The advice was given last Thursday August 4, 2016 by the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, at the Registry 8th Annual Lecture of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA. She spoke on the title, ‘Endowments, Grants and Corporate Social Responsibility as Funding Options for Tertiary and Research Institutions in Nigeria’.

Semenitari admonished Nigerian universities to collaborate with other institutions to help grow the pool of endowments and grant funds available to them.

While emphasizing the fact that government cannot shoulder education funding alone, she said Nigerian universities can attract funds through endowment, partnership with the private sector, and wealthy individuals

who have integrity, among others.

She also encouraged Universities to engage in critical alumni relations that will attract “give back” from their products. Alumni of universities, she said, have important roles to play in funding their alma mater if given the opportunity.

Speaking on the importance of endowment to universities and how Nigerian universities compare with their peers globally, Semenitari said that Nigerian higher institutions have not ex-

plored the huge potential in the sector like their foreign counterparts, and urged universities to expand their research and educational frontiers in order to raise interest of potential donors.

Speaking on the role of the NDDC in developing manpower and infrastructure in universities, she said “the NDDC runs a robust educational directorate that focuses on appropriate and sustainable manpower development.

“Currently, the commission is constructing stu-

dents’ hostels as part of its regional projects across the nine mandate states. We don’t only build but also equip and handover to beneficiary institutions. The objective is to save the schools from that burden, thereby freeing scarce resources for other pressing needs while as the same time creating an enabling scholarly environment for students.”

On the hostel accommodation under construction as FUTA, the NDDC chief promised a speedy completion, saying “let me assure

you that the commission is earnestly taking steps to address the issue of abandonment of the project with the contractor, and we will get on with it without further delay.”

On funding of higher education in Nigeria, the chairman at the occasion and vice chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, who was represented by the deputy vice chancellor (academics), Professor Olatunde Arayela, said “the economic reality staring us in the face in our dear country has shown

EKSU appoints new DVCs

Chairman of the occasion Dr Onaolapo.O. Soleye (left) presenting gift to Best overall Female student in S.S. 3, Miss Mowaninuoluwa Otun, while from right is chairlady of the occasion Hon. (Mrs) Inna Hohdo, Mrs Omolara Fashola, proprietress Bola Immaculate Group of School Chief (Mrs) Bola Doherty and Chief Taiye Ayorinde during the graduating & Annual Awards ceremony of Bola Immaculate group of school, Fodacis, Ibadan recently.

Chevron, FRSC launch child safety campaign in Ondo Hakeem Gbadamosi Akure AS part of efforts to promote child passenger safety on the highways and Nigerian roads in general, no fewer than 100 pupils from 10 schools in Ondo State benefitted from an advocacy training for children, known as ‘Road Safety Champions’, put together by Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Speaking about the programme, the General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs of Chevron, Mr. Deji Haastrup, said the programme was put together to serve as enlightenment agents among peers and older road users.

Haastrup lamented that children are often times susceptible to road accidents, and unguided; but that the programme would equip young children with necessary information on safety tips during the 2016 edition of the ‘Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiative’ (AARSI).

He said the programme, which has spread to Abuja, Lagos, Delta, Rivers, Ondo and Imo states, was initiated in 2011 to forestall the

that stakeholders in education sector need to devise creative ways of finding alternative funding for education.

“The survival of this sector is a challenge to all of us”.

“Higher educational institutions can only impact positively on the society when its tripod functions of teaching, research and community service are properly funded. Therefore, the call for increasing contribution through grants, endowment and corporate social responsibilities by public spirited individuals, corporate organisations and members of the alumni association has become inevitable to ensure quality education and production of globally competitive graduates in Nigeria.”

recurrence of a fatal, multiple accidents along the Lekki-Epe road in Lagos State involving seven vehicles and 19 persons, and which resulted in the death of four schoolchildren in a bus.

“This campaign is to promote road safety best practices, train children on pedestrian safety, Zebra Crossing; explain the importance of the use of car seats, booster seats and seat belt; and ultimately to reduce road safety fatalities, especially as it affects children,” he explained.

He said records made available by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) indicated that there are three major causes of road accidents, namely: human factor (road users), road defects and vehicle defects.

Haastrup said, “Human factor, which includes human error, over-speeding, perilous overtaking, alcohol and drug abuse, driver distraction such as speaking on cell phones and poor driving standard are said to account for as much as 92 per cent of road accidents in African and Asian countries.

The Executive Secretary of AARSI, Mr. Ike Okonkwo, lectured the pupils on the whole gamut of road safety guidelines and precautionary measures, urging them not to sit at the front seat if they are below 12 years.

The Sector Commander of the state command of the

Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Edward Zamber, said that the campaign hinges on community partnership which also gives the parents and guardians germane roles to play in the society. He pledged to always “commit more efforts to ensuring that our roads

are safe in this state.”

The Commissioner for Transport, Nicholas Tofowomo, lauded the initiative, saying the free bus initiative of the state government was designed to reduce road accident among Ondo State students.

I’m fulfilled investing in education —ex-gov Adelowo Oladipo - Minna A former military governor of the Old Kano State and proprietor, Mustafa Comprehensive Schools, Kontagora, Niger State, Col. Sani Bello (rtd), says his desire for a better future for younger generations informed the establishment of the school 35 years ago.

Bello, who is also the President, Sani Bello Foundation, made the remarks last weekend at the 35th anniversary and 21st graduation ceremony of the school.

He said he felt fulfilled that products of the school have distinguished themselves in their chosen careers, and urged the graduating students to be good ambassadors of the school.

At the occasion, about 200 students graduated from both Junior and Senior Secondary School sections of the schools.

The highlight of the event was the donation of N15 million by the president of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, for the construction of a new block of classrooms and elibrary in the school.

The billionaire businessman man was represented at the occasion by Dr. Abdul Mukhtar.

Also in his remarks, the state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, reaffirmed that education remains the only solution to the socio-economic and political development in any society, saying that his ad-

ministration has given priority attention to the sector.

The governor, who is the first son of Col. Sani Bello (rtd), said that his government was conscious of the fact that for the state and even the country to develop, deliberate effort must be made to address and improve the quality and standard of the public schools.

This, according to him, is why his administration has embarked on school rehabilitation project in Niger State; and that his administration has started with six schools and with the determination to continue until it is able to restore the schools to their past glorious era of conducive environment for learning.

PROFESSOR (Mrs.) Olubunmi Bolanle Ajayi and Professor Olusola Iyiola Oluwaleye have been appointed as deputy vice chancellors of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.

Professor Ajayi is deputy vice chancellor (academics), while Professor Oluwaleye becomes deputy vice chancellor (development).

Their appointments, which took effect from Monday, 25th of July, 2016, followed the senate and the governing council’s approval.

Professor Ajayi and Professor Oluwaleye replaced Professor (Mrs.) Ibiyinka Ogunlade and Professor Victor Adeoluwa whose tenures expired on Saturday, 23rd of July, 2016.

Professor Ajayi of the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science of the university, was at various times a sub-dean, head of department as well as assistant director, Pre-degree Science, among other notable positions.

An alumnus of the University of Benin, University of Ibadan and University of Ilorin, Kwara State, where she obtained a doctorate.

Professor Oluwaleye is an alumnus of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, where he obtained his bachelor and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering; and the University of AdoEkiti (now Ekiti State University), for his doctorate.

He has held several positions in the university, including as sub-dean, acting head of department, and departmental project coordinator, among others.

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Alumni seek end to exchange programmes among schools in the North Biola Azeez- Ilorin

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LD students of the Government Secondary School (GSS), Ilorin, Kwara State, have called for an end to operation of exchange programme among schools in the 19 northern states of Nigeria.

The exchange programme is organised by the northern states, where certain students of the region are interchanged to attend secondary school in another state within the region other than their states of origin or residence as a way of promoting unity in the region.

The GSS, a frontline secondary school in the state, is a centre for the programme in Kwara State..

The pational president of the Old Boys Association, Mr. Olanrewaju Sagaya, made the position of the body on the matter known at the weekend at a reception organized to honour members of the association who recently gained public appointment or elevation in their professions.

Sagaya noted that the association had met with the state government on the issue, and that students of the programme were by their conduct and standard a threat to development of the school.

He urged the state government to relocate them

from the school.

He said the students have constituted themselves into a menace; they have lowered the standard of the school because many of them did not pass entrance examination. They were

brought in on quota basis.

“We hereby appeal strongly to the Kwara State government to please relocate the exchange students from GSS, Ilorin. We have had our own fair share of this calamity,” he stated.

Sagaya commended the old boys for their contributions to the development of the school and urged them not to relent in their efforts to restore the glory of the school.

The state Commissioner

for Education, Mr. Yisa Yeketi, who represented the state government at the occasion, said the government was already addressing the demand for relocation of the students of the exchange programme.

From left, Emeritus Professor Michael Omolewa; Professor Deborah Egunyomi; Professor Andy. O. Fadoju; Deputy Governor of Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Moses Alake Adeyemo, and Mr Hassan Keyan from UNESCO Institute for Life Long Learning, during the 2016 World Conference on Adult Education held at International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan on Monday. PHOTO: YEMI FUNSO-OKE.

Teachers and students of Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College, Saki, during their excursion to Tribune House, Imalefalafia, Ibadan, recently.

Buhari tasks heads of education agencies on service delivery Adelowo Oladipo - Minna PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has tasked heads of the 17 education agencies recently appointed to improve the standard of education in the country.

His charge was contained in the brief to the appointees before their nominations were announced last week by the Minister of Education Alhaji Adamu Adamu.

This came to the fore on Monday in Minna when the registrar and chief executive officer of the National Examination Council (NECO), Professor Charles Uwakwe, took resumed office in the Niger State capital.

“The president has challenged all of us to put in our best to transform the education sector as part of the change agenda of his administration,” Uwakwe said as he took over from

Professor Garba Abdulrashid at the NECO headquarters.

Accordingly, he said he would work with the mandate given him and would ensure that he improves on the standard already laid by previous chief executive officers of the council.

“I am proud of the cali-

bre of staff in this organisation. I believe with the cooperation of all, we will take NECO to the Promised Land,” he maintained.

Uwakwe praised his predecessor in office, Professor Abdulrashid, saying that within the short period he was in charge, NECO’s image in the society

improved tremendously.

He also assured the management and staff that the new leadership would carry them along; but solicited for their support and cooperation, while also warning that indolence and indiscipline would not be tolerated.

Handing over the lead-

ership of the examination body to the new registrar, Professor Abdulrashid listed the achievements

by NECO over the years, which he said included prompt release of examination results, reduction in examination malpractices and good relationship with the host community.

LAUTECH ASUU sends SOS to Oyo, Osun govts over accumulated subvention THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology chapter, has called on the governments of the two owner-states to wake up to their financial responsibilities to the university.

In a statemen by the chairman of LAUTECH branch of the union, Dr Oladele Olaniran; and acting secretary, Dr. T. P. Abegunrin, the union called on the governments of Oyo

and Osun states to release LAUTECH’s subvention of about 21 months (Oyo State: eight months, May and June, 2015 and January to June 2016; Osun State: 13 months, July to December, 2014; July to December, 2015; July, 2016).”

The statement reads: “In recent time, the two states (Oyo and Osun) have failed in releasing subventions to the university. This has forced the university’s man-

agement to pay staff salaries with internally generated revenue (IGR), which in the first instance, is not meant for that purpose.”

According to the statement, “a university adjudged the best state university in the country some time ago, is now moving in the opposite direction of the glory. These conditions are due to poor funding by the owner-states.

“What can we say of the social responsibilities of

these states as far as education of their younger generation, who are to be leaders of tomorrow, is concerned?

Some staff unions are on strike; students’ unrest prevails.”

The union recalled that the last time it could be said the university enjoyed good funding was during the era of the duo of Chief Bisi Akande and the late Alhaji Lam Adesina as governor of Osun and Oyo states respectively.”

UI Adult Education Department first in Nigeria, Africa —VC

By Modupe George THE vice chancellor, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka, says the Department of Adult Education of the University of Ibadan is the first in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

Professor Olayinka made the declaration on Monday at the opening of a World Conference on Adult Education, organised by the Department of Adult Education, Faculty of Education, UI, which took place at the International Conference Centre.

In his address, the vice chancellor said the theme of the conference, ‘Repositioning Adult Education for Greater Relevance in the Contemporary World’ was not only timely, but also instructive and appropriate.

Represented by Professor Andy Fadoju of the Human Kinetics and Physical Education Department, noted further that there is a need for intense and comparative discussion on how to reposition the discipline of adult education in concept, scope, objectives and value assumptions, for it to actually live by the Hamburg Declaration.

He charged participants at the conference to deliberate extensively on the task and come up with resolutions to further enhance and enlighten all about the correct and true nature of Adult Education.

“I expect powerful and concrete declaration from the proceedings of this conference, which we will call the ‘Ibadan Declaration,’ just as that of Hamburg’s.

Professor M. K. Akinsola, Dean, Faculty of Education of the university, who was also represented by Professor Fadoju, congratulated the Faculty of Education for coming up with the idea of hosting the world, stressing that “this is the first time this type of conference would be hosted in this part of the world and at a university setting.”

He also noted that Adult Education as a profession needs repositioning for it to play a greater role and responsibility towards meeting the needs of mankind in this contemporary age.

In her welcome address, the Head of the Department of Adult Education, Professor Deborah Egunyomi, described Adult Education as the key to the 21th century country.

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Godwin Agwam, Lafia

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URSARS of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in Nigeria (BURCON) has called on its members to embark on waste reduction as a way of boosting the internally generated revenue of their institutions, given the reduction in government subventions.

The national president of the body, Mr Adepoju Omotayo, made the call on Tuesday at the 28th National Conference of the association at the Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia.

Omotayo explained that if wastes are reduced in tertiary institutions, more money will be saved to run the affairs of the various institutions.

He commended the federal government for introducing the Treasury Single Account (TSA), saying that it has helped a great deal in blocking leakages and curbing corruption in the activities of all government ministries, departments, and agencies.

He also noted that TSA has encouraged prudence and proper management of resources, thereby reducing financial leakages even in tertiary institutions across the country.

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sar of Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdullahi Akyo, said the conference would afford the participants the opportunity

to shift from traditional ways of doing things to embrace modern techniques.

He added that despite

THE Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, said he would have loved to attend Ibadan City Polytechnic, but for his age.

He made the remark during his courtesy visit to the polytechnic, located at Alakia, Isebo Road, Ibadan, recently.

“If I had been a little younger, Ibadan City Polytechnic would have been my choice of institution.

If I were as young as you reporters, I would enroll in Ibadan City Polytechnic today,” he said.

The Olubadan added that he was impressed by the school’s facilities, level of organisation and maturity displayed by its students.

He further stated that he was elated with the turnout of people, despite coming behind schedule.

Artisans, traders and residents of Iyana Church,

tion would bring into play their technical knowhow in addressing such problems within their places of work.

Students of the Selected Preparatory Career College, Toll Gate, Ibadan making pomade and pipe-fitting in plumbing (inset) at their end of session programme/prize-giving day recently. PHOTO: MODUPE GEORGE

At TSPC, Western, Islamic education are inseparable – Proprietress

By Modupe George THE Proprietress of The Selected Preparatory Career College (TSPC), Toll Gate, Ibadan, Mrs Taiwo Adeyinka Asamu, has charged Muslim parents to ensure that their children do not only have access to

qualitative Western education but also Islamic education for proper grooming.

She gave this charge last Tuesday during the 2016 prize-giving day of the school.

The reason behind setting up an Islamic-based school in Nigeria at such a time like

I would have attended Ibadan City Polytechnic – Olubadan

By Olaide Sokoya

the continuous decline in the revenue accruing to tertiary institutions owing to the current economic challenges, the associa-

Isebo, Alakia and suburbs trooped out to give the monarch a befitting welcome right from IwoRoad and Monatan axis of Ibadan city.

Oba Adetunji later commended the proprietor of the polytechnic, Mr Amos Ajanaku, and urged him to make it the best in Africa.

The monarch also advised the students to be serious in their studies and to work towards self-reliance, rather than looking for white-colar jobs.

He said, “If you are educated, you can reach your peak. My two oloris (wives) are graduates of the University of Ibadan, and are excelling because they are knowledgeable. Please, be serious in your studies and look for how to create jobs rather than looking for unavailable jobs.”

The Olubadan described the institution as a very conducive environment for learning. He recom-

mended the institution to Nigerians who are seeking admission.

Oba Adetunji later poured royal blessings on the proprietor, staff and students of the institution.

Earlier, in his welcome speech at the occasion, the chairman governing council of the polytechnic, Mr Amos Ajanaku, noted that the school was established to support the federal government’s efforts on tertiary education.

He also stated that the school runs free and compulsory hostel accommodation for all students, while the physically-challenged students also enjoy free education.

Mr Ajanaku then disclosed that plans are in place to move the polytechnic to Campus I on Eruwa/ Ibadan Road in nearest future, while he promised that the Olubadan would be among the special dignitaries to declare it open.

this is to create a conducive atmosphere where our students can combine Western and Islamic education, so as to equip them at a very tender age with the knowledge that Islam is not for violence, killing, disturbances and wickedness, among other vices it is associated with today,” she noted.

According to her, any child brought up with such moral discipline would be adequately equipped about the religion and would grow up to become Godfearing, loyal, responsible, and in turn make his or her parents happy and fulfilled.

While giving the school progress report on the just concluded academic session, she stated that the year has been financially challenging, but that God has seen them through and different laudable projects have been executed in the school to create a better environment for learning.

“Our students really performed brilliantly this year.

They went for many competitions and they won different awards for the school.

Initially, we had just one borehole in the school, but we were able to dig another one. We have also installed solar system to support the means of generating electricity, with an additional standby generator.

“We now have our own transformer and have all

the classrooms tiled. We also have invitations from certain schools abroad. All of these took place within this year.

She appreciated the staff of the school for their commitment, while she advised parents to encourage their children to practicalise all that they had learnt in school on household chores and to also encourage them in reading.

The principal of the school, Mr Shefiu Oyebisi, while explaining why the science-oriented school is giving priority to vocational training, he said, “We are following the vision of the school in raising selfreliant teenagers. That is why we invest more in our vocational unit, where we equip our students with vocational skill such as pomade making, pipe-fitting in plumbing, shoe making, weed show, among others.”

Speaking at the event, the chairman of the occasion, Mr Dawud Amoo Alaga, enjoined the students to embrace excellence and to always strive to be first in everything.

At the event, prizes were given to outstanding students. There were other presentations such as recitation of Holy Qur’an and Arabic poems, pomade making, pipe-fitting in plumbing, news-casting, among others.

Senator advocates scrapping of JAMB Johnson Babajide - Makurdi SENATOR David Iornem has advocated the scrapping of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), saying the board is not an admission requirement for admission into Nigerian universities.

Iornem, who spoke to the Tribune Education at the weekend in Makurdi, Benue State capital, decried the situation whereby several students on a yearly basis could not gain admission into universities or other tertiary institutions, urging federal government to adopt other countries’ mode of admission to tertiary institutions.

He argued that advanced countries like the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan and neighboring nations such as Ghana, Republic of Benin and a host of others have streamlined the admission process in a manner that every eligible admission seeker gains admission without stress.

Iornem said: “JAMB is an elimination body which conducts examination because of few vacancies available in the nation’s tertiary institutions. Incidentally, many countries like Japan, UK, Spain also neighboring countries like Ghana and Republic of Benin have jettisoned such an idea, and have made admission process easy for eligible admission seekers.

“In those countries, as long as you have your required subjects, you only log on to their website and upload your result, and you are offered admission without stress. All these countries have regulatory bodies that do not joke with set down standard for their universities; that is why you see some Nigerians in those universities. At least, about 300,000 Nigerians are schooling in Ghana and even Republic of Benin here.”

Senator Iornem has just secured approval by the government of the Republic of Benin to start a private university named ‘EcoleSupericured Universitaire. The university is to run two programmes for a start – Marketing and Business Administration, and is one of the 16 universities recently approved in that country.

He commended the scrapping of the post-UTME test by the federal government, saying the programme was only meant to defraud admission seekers.

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Sade Oguntola sadeboguntola@yahoo.com 0805 506 9260

Agony as cost of drugs skyrockets The issue of cost of medications and indeed healthcare expenditure is especially germane in Nigeria, where the majority of patients pay out of pocket. This report by SADE OGUNTOLA X-rays challenges people with chronic illnesses face due to poor access to foreign exchange.

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F you think medicines have become too pricey, you are not alone. Many Nigerians, especially old persons and retired people living with chronic illnesses also think that the cost of medications is unbearable, given the economic situation of the country.

Although the increase in drug prices is obvious, having to search many pharmacies in their various neighbourhoods before getting these drugs have also been a challenge.

Mr Henry Akintola, a civil servant, developed problem urinating and his doctor prescribed a drug to help ensure he could urinate without much difficult. Back in January, a blister pack of the drug was N1, 400 but by June, the only pharmacy selling the medicine charged N3, 400.

Akintola, whose salary has not been paid for six months, declared: “The prices have gone up significantly and it is difficult buying the medicine. But, I really do not have a choice because the other alternative is a surgical operation.”

Chief Emmanuel Adeyinka, President, Diabetes Association of Nigeria, Oyo State Branch, corroborated that cost of medicines for diabetes has also risen. He said: “A particular one that was sold for N3, 000 was changed to N3, 500. We had to invite the drug company to our meeting to explain to members the increase in cost because most of the medicines are imported. In fact, reducing the cost of our medicines is the association’s mandate to our new president.

“Assess to free and subsidised drugs given to persons with HIV, needs to be extended to other persons with diseases like diabetes,” he said.

Although the price of imported medicine is more affected than those manufactured in Nigeria, he stated that access to these medicines for diabetes was not a challenge. because the association buys drugs in bulk.

Meanwhile, Mr Samuel Adegoke, who has been living with hypertension since

2005, complained that the cost of each of his prescribed drugs for the treatment of high blood pressure had increased by 35 per cent.

He, however, changed to a cheaper brand of his medication after the prices were increased early in the year based on the advice of a pharmacist.

“When I started experiencing strange symptoms, I requested to go back to my previous medication. Unfortunately, two of them are no longer available. They said I should wait till next month to get them, even as I started reacting to the new medication,” he stated.

Is access to affordable drug getting worse? The finding of a survey that was undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health, Organisation and Health Action International in 2004, is disturbing.

According to the survey, Nigeria is one of the eight countries in the world with exceptionally exorbitant drug prices. Patients also pay between two to 64 times the international reference prices for medicines in various facilities in the public and private sectors of Nigeria.

Private health clinics were shown to charge up to 184 per cent more than the public health facilities and 193 per cent more than private retail pharmacies.

Medicines are unaffordable to the majority of Nigerians (90.2 per cent) who live below the income level of US$ 2 a day, as well as the government worker that earns a minimum wage of US$1.4 per day.

Certainly, medicine prices are important because most Nigerians purchase their medicines out of pocket and it is one of the reasons for poor attendance in hospital for medical care.

The depreciation in the value of Naira, Professor Ayodele Arowojolu, a consultant obstetrics and gynaecologists at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, said, has left many patients struggling to buy their medications and

possibly affect hospital attendance.

“I wouldn’t know what had led to the drop in clientele; whether it is the attitude of health workers, money, availability of facilities, or the fact that many private hospitals are able to satisfy their needs.

But I know that the number of the people coming to my clinic had dropped by almost 40 per cent.”

Arowojolu, however, suggested that government should come up with alternative means of ensuring that the cost of medicines is subsidised, as well as encourage and patronise local pharmaceutical companies.

Moreover, the superintendent pharmacist and Managing director, Myriads Pharmaceutical, Eleyele, Ibadan, Mr Lanre Tiamiyu, stated that patients now pay more for their drugs and treatment due to the challenges of accessing funds to stock them.

“For antihypertensives, there has been up to 25 per cent increase in price over a year ago. This increase in prices also cuts across all classes of medicines “Certainly, the purchasing power of the people is reducing while the cost of medi-

Certainly, medicine prices are important because most Nigerians purchase their medicines out of pocket, and it is one of the reasons for poor attendance in hospital for medical care.

cines is increasing. The situation is unlike abroad, where people have health insurance and as such the cost of their medicines end up being subsidised,” he said.

Professor Akande Tanimola, President, Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, said aside the increase in monies spent on health care, the high cost of drugs could further worsen Nigeria’s health index. Where there is poor adherence to medications because of cost, he said more treatment failure and deaths due to ill health are likely to occur.

“Of course, a major challenge is that people will now go for alternative medicine, which oftentimes, may be dangerous,” he added.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Archy Pharmaceuticals Limited, Lagos, Dr Tony Ihenatu, urged Nigerians to prepare for a looming scarcity of drugs in the country.

He said “I do not know where the country is heading to in the next six months. Be it manufactured or imported ones, the cost of finished pharmaceuticals is not moving at par with the increase in the naira exchange rate.

For example, paracetamol used to sell for N500 per cup. Its cost of production has increased by 200 per cent, meanwhile the cost of its finished product has only increased by 20 per cent. So, a lot of people have stopped its manufacture because the market has not accepted the new price.

“So instead of manufacturing or importing at a loss, everybody wants to keep their money to see the way the country is drifting. Of course, what this means is that there will be scarcity of drugs. The situation is also creating a very big opportunity for fakers to jump into the market. People will accept their products because they will be cheaper.

“The fact that people cannot afford to buy common drugs they need for their health is a danger. Availability of drugs is a national security issue; it should be treated that way,” he warned.

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A car is for a season, the eye is for a lifetime SUNKAY, related his experience during our period of reminiscences. It is a story that I can never forget in a hurry. “Many years ago before the coming of the expressways, nearly all the roads in the country were single carriageways with one lane running in each direction and often with no demarcation between one side and the other.

The bridges were narrow and could take only one vehicle at a time. The first vehicle to get onto the bridge would pass through while that coming from the opposite direction had to wait at the foot of the bridge on the other side until the crossing was completed before taking its turn.

There weren’t many cars in those days and articulated vehicles were few and far between. A journey of about 400km could take about eight hours.

“I set out from Ibadan for Enugu at 6am on that memorable day. Just before getting to Ore, about 200km from Ibadan, the rain started to fall. To my utter dismay, my windshield wipers failed to work.

After a short distance, I had to pull off the road because of poor visibility. I was at the same spot for over one hour before the rain abated and I was able to continue my journey.

“Just about a few kilometres from Benin City, one of the rear tyres burst; the car wobbled for a few seconds; I slowed down and gradually came to a stop without ap-

plying the brakes. I got out of the car to open the trunk to take out the spare tyre and jack. I almost fainted when I discovered that, not only was the car jack missing, the spare tire was flat! I spent the next one hour trying to flag down other cars to come to my rescue.

Fortunately, I met a compassionate driver who loaned me his spare tyre and took me to the next village where I inflated my spare tyre and returned his.

“I looked at the time, it was about 2pm; eight hours after I set out on this journey and still had about 150km to cover. I was tired, thirsty and famished but I had to go on. The remaining stretch of road was tortuous, treacherous and dangerous at night.

Only systematic inspection, early detection and correction of incipient problems either before they occur or before they cause blindness can ensure that you keep your sight

I hadn’t gone more than 15km when the yellow oil pressure light on the dashboard came up. I had been warned by my auto mechanic. It meant trouble for the engine and if one didn’t stop, one stood the risk of an irreparable engine damage. I pulled over and opened the bonnet to allow the engine to cool down. Thereafter, using the oil dip-stick, I checked the engine oil level. The dip-stick was dry meaning there was no circulating engine oil! And worse still, I had no spare oil in the trunk! Once again I became a roadside beggar.

“It took me over two hours to get a Good Samaritan to give me some oil to put in my engine. I set out for the last leg of the journey arriving in Enugu at about 9.00pm – about 10 hours after setting out from Ibadan,” Sunkay concluded ruefully.

If he expected any pity from me, I had none!

He made it even worse, when I asked him when he last serviced his car. “I can’t remember,” he said, nonchalantly. “Have you ever heard about Preventive Maintenance?,” I inquired. I was alarmed when he retorted, “Why spend money unnecessarily when the car was giving no trouble?” This got me very irritated and fuming, I responded, “You deserved what you got.” I thereafter set out to educate him about Preventive maintenance.

“Preventive maintenance is a regular or routine care and servicing of a car or any equipment, in order to avoid its breakdown or malfunction. It involves systematic inspection, detection and correction

of incipient failures, either before they occur or before they develop into major defects. It often follows planned guidelines from time-to-time to prevent equipment and machinery breakdown.

“If he could be so carefree with his car, he could well be with his life, so I asked him a seemingly simple question. “When last did you have an eye examination?” I enquired.

“My eyes are fine, I see things far away that my colleagues cannot see. I can thread a needle without much effort and read the smallest prints without glasses.”

I shook my head in utter disbelief. “Sunkay, despite all my effort in explaining the concept of Preventive Maintenance for your car, you cannot appreciate that it relates to your eyes – your whole body as well!” I said and followed with a very nasty statement just to drive the point home.

“When you can no longer see things far away; you can neither thread a needle nor read large prints, even with glasses, you will come running to your ophthalmologist. Do you know what he would tell you? He will say, “Sorry, Chief Sunkay, it’s too late. I can’t help you.”

Remember, a car is for a season, your eyes are for a lifetime, only systematic inspection, early detection and correction of incipient problems either before they occur or before they cause blindness can ensure that you keep your sight until the very end. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Why health insurance must be made compulsory now—Expert

BY SADE OGUNTOLA FOR qualitative healthcare to be available to Nigerians in the face of the current economic challenges, an expert in medicine, Professor Abiodun Ilesanmi has adviced the Federal Government to make enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme compulsory.

Ilesanmi, a former Chief Medical Director, University College Hospitals (UCH), Ibadan spoke at the opening of 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Oyo state Branch.

The expert said that not much progress would be made in the financing of health care and in achieving universal free healthcare until health insurance becomes mandatory.

According to him, “That only four per cent coverage has been achieved so far speaks volume about the lack of seriousness in achieving universal healthcare in Nigeria. Even in universities and other higher institutions owned by government, NHIS enrolment is still laughable.

“One of the reasons for this when you interact with people is that they are lacking confidence in the NHIS.” The expert, noting that Nigerians must be convinced that health is important as housing, clothing and food, added that the National budget should also provide 15 per cent for health at Federal and State levels in keeping with the Abuja recommendation of 2001 to ensure there is no underfunding.

According to him, “if implemented, the revenue injected into health will increase nearly three-fold which will make a big dif-

ference.”

The expert said that fragmented governance and lack of transparency, coupled with a big financing gap, has led to weak infrastructure in service delivery and information systems, an insufficient skilled workforce and a lack of medical products/ logistics.

These challenges, he declared, had resulted in a high and growing burden of disease, including a shift of disease profile towards non communicable diseases like hypertension as well as neglect of primary health care and specialised medical care, among others.

As parts of strategies to improve access to qualitative healthcare, Ilesanmi suggested that government should fund some natural payment schemes like the community health insurance and introduction of

privatisation into healthcare in select institutions.

Also of importance is to streamline bureaucratic processes that limit access to money to establish health facilities, especially private health facilities.

According to him, “the will to improve healthcare is abundant, but what is in short supply is the financial strength to actualises those lofty plans.”

Ilesanmi also suggested the use of private sector to boost healthcare as well as increased research into traditional medicines /traditional health care and the incorporation of the efficacious ones.

Dr Kayode Obembe, former NMA National president and chairman at the occasion said the meeting was aimed at reflecting on the ever increasing economic challenges in Nigeria given that health is

crucial to people’s existence.

Although the National Health Act made some provisions for funding health and as such can support achievement of universal health coverage, Obembe said asking state governments for counterpart funds will make the act unable to achieve this.

Also, the fact that such funds must first pass through the state government’s treasury, he said will prevent getting to the local government where health problems abound the most.

To ensure that Nigeria achieves universal health coverage and Sustainable Development Goals, he suggested that the Federal government should establish a health tax fund.

The monies for the health tax fund, he said, could come from charging phone, cigarette and alcohol users among others.

FG commends NIQS ,seeks partnership on PHCs project THE Honourable Minister of Health, Prof.

Isaac Adewole has commended members of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) for their readiness to partner with Federal Government to reduce cost of construction and ensuring compliance with best practices The Minister who made the commendation while meeting with a delegation from the Institute led by their President, Mrs. Mercy Iyortyer, in Abuja, reaffirms that Federal Government was not planning to build new Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) but to rehabilitate the existing ones.

The Minister said it would not be in the interest of the country to start building new PHCs while there were adequate number of

PHCs across the country, what was important according to the Minister, was to rehabilitate the existing ones, make them functional, providing care 24hours daily with all the necessary facilities in place.

He maintained tha it would save cost and time to rehabilitate the existing ones rather than constructing new ones. “The rehabilitation work is on-going in phases and the first phase is the rehabilitation of a total of 109 PHCs covering each Senatorial District in the country”.

Speaking earlier, Mrs. Mercy Iyortyer said that the essence of their visit was to partner with the Federal Ministry of Health on the 10,000 PHCs project recently announced.

“We wish to request for collaboration or

partnership between your ministry and our Institute in the realisation of your objectives, particularly in the area of efficient cost management to achieve realistic costing, project cost monitoring and evaluation, and overall project management of construction projects in your ministry including its parastatals and agencies.”

Mrs. Iyortyer said that engaging the surveying practicing firm registered with the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) and Quantity Surveyors Board of Nigeria would help the Ministry to address the issues of quacks and non- conformity to ethical standard and would also save the Ministry money for further infrastructural development.

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FG releases N15.12bn to refurbish PHCs across Nigeria

By Sade Oguntola

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HE Federal Government has released the sum of N15.12 billion to states across the country to refurbish the Primary Healthcare Centres(PHCs), as part of its pro-poor health policy.

Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole made this disclosure in Ibadan,

the Oyo State capital, after he paid a working visit to University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, including the Kola Daisi Foundation Centre for Primary and Community Health, Ibadan.

Adewole said each state government had received N420 million to refurbish their PHCs, adding that at the expiration of a year,

state government that appropriately used the money would receive another one.

The minister, who said this was not indicative that the Federal Government had taken over PHCs in the country, stated “we do not want state governments to abrogate their responsibilities, so we have given them money to take care of their people and fa-

cilities.”

Adewole said it was in support of its programme to reach at least 100 million Nigerians through pro-poor health policy of the government.

The minister maintained that the money to revitalise the primary healthcare was also aimed at decongesting tertiary hospitals while ensuring that people could access healthcare

From left, Chris U. Mmeje; Executive Director, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE),Adeolu Bajomo; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Neimeth, Dr. Ebere Igboko Ekpunobi; Florence Onyenekwe; Okoro Eni Nwaka at the ‘Closing Gong’ Ceremony at the Nigerian Stock Exchange Lagos.

‘Why women, farmers are more prone to osteoarthritis than others’ Newton-Ray Ukwuoma -Lagos WOMEN and farmers have been identified to be at higher risk of osteoarthritis according to a World Health Organisation scientific group on the assessment of osteoporosis at primary health care level.

Dr Abraham Oluwadamilare, a physiotherapist at the Ageless Physiotherapy Clinic, who spoke to Nigerian Tribune on the high risk of osteoarthritis in relation to a recently held Pain Free Day campaign organised by Dexa Medica in Mile 12, Lagos State, on Tuesday,made the statement.

He disclosed that “9.6 per cent of men and 18.0 per cent of women aged over 60 years are estimated to have symptomatic osteoarthritis in their life time, while farming between one and nine years increases the risk of osteoarthritis 4.5 times and farming 10 or more years increases the risk 9.3 times.”

“According to the statistics, 80 per cent of those with osteoarthritis will have limitations in movement, and 25per cent cannot perform their major daily ac-

tivities of life. It is also estimated that hip fracture is fatal 20 per cent of the time and permanently disables a further 50 per cent; only 30 per cent fully recover.

1.7 million hip fractures occurred worldwide in 1990; this figure is expected to rise to 6 million in 2050”.

He also said that the prevalence of the disease in women is as a result of the sequence of “hormonal changes”, which strain their bone muscles.

Explaining, he said, “Osteoporosis is common to the female gender because of hormonal changes in their system which strains the muscles and bone ligament. This is why they are more prone to pain and by extension osteoporosis than men. The pain rate increases as one advances in age. This is because the bones are at reduced density”.

He also said that farmers and labourers are in high risk of frequent and recurring osteoporosis more than any other groups due to the muscular demand of their jobs.

“The jobs that require a lot of physical energy such as farming and other man-

ual jobs also increase the level of pain in the body.

The manual farmer is subjected to a lot of muscle straining and calcium demanding tasks,” he said.

Also speaking at the fifth round of the Pain Free Day

initiative held in Mile 12 main market, the Boska Brand Executive, Tunde Ojedokun said that the initiative was organised to raise awareness on the risks associated with pain and strenuous activities.

closer to their homes.

On his working visit, the minister announced that the Federal Government has picked the hospital as one of the seven health facilities to be upgraded this year.

He explained that the UCH was capable of handling any medical case as well as supporting the reversal of medical tourism with the available manpower and facilities.

According to him, “UCH can handle virtually any case in this country and I believe that when the right partnership is in place, we can actually stop medical tourism. Not only that we can reverse it, even nonNigerians can come in to have their treatment.”

Adewole also used the occasion to commission the Total Quality Management unit in the hospital, which is to help to capture patients’ complaints in all departments and effect measures to address them.

He also pledged the commitment of the Federal Government to adopt the Kola Daisi Foundation Centre for Primary and Community Health Centre as well as the expansion and upgrading of the hospital’s accident and emergency unit that recently got burnt.

In his reaction to the visit, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Temitope Alonge, described it as timely and highly profitable in terms of the on-the-spot assessment the minister was able to make, through which some of the challenges of the hospital would be met.

Chevron builds surgical theatre in Delta hospital Ebenezer Adurokiya - Warri

IN spite of the hard times international oil companies (IOCs) are going through in the hands of militants in the Niger Delta region, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has kicked off the construction of a Surgical Theatre and Consultation Rooms at Ekpan General Hospital, in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State.

The project is coming on the heels of the inauguration of the N75 million Women Development Centre in the community in 2015.

General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr Deji Haastrup, while speaking at the event, explained that the project was in consonance with the

company’s efforts to raise the bar in quality health delivery in the country.

Mr Haastrup said the project also included the provision of a 60KVA sound proof generator.

He added that the company had also carried out a deworming exercise in some schools in the community, as well as building and handing over a fullyequipped and computerised library to Ekpan Primary School.

These, he said, were part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to Ekpan community, in spite of economic downturn orchestrated by the activities of militants against the company.

“The Delta State government and Ekpan Development Committee (EDC) deserve commendation for

their support in making the ground breaking of the project a reality,” Haastrup noted.

The CNL boss also assured that the NNPC/ Chevron Joint Venture would continue to extend the frontiers of partnership with the Delta State government and institutions in the state to support projects, as well as programmes in its immediate environment, in order to improve the standard of living of the people.

However, the Delta State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Azinge, who represented the state governor, has appealed to youths in Ekpan community to embrace the attitude of peace and progress.

He enjoined them to eschew habits that will hamper the progress of work in the project.

Why sexually active women are at risk of cervical cancer – Expert Newton-Ray Ukwuoma-Lagos

DR Omolola Salako, the Executive Director of Sebaccly Cancer Care and Support Centre, has raised the alarm on the growing rate of breast and cervical cancer in Nigeria.

Speaking during the launch of the Sebeccly 1K Cervix Campaign in partnership with the American Cancer Society and the Health Writers Association of Nigeria (HEWAN), Salako described cervical cancer as the second most dangerous cancers among women in Nigeria after breast cancer.

According to her, cervical cancer is caused by a virus known as the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and can be transmitted only through sexual intercourse to women, causing an infection in the cervix (the neck of the womb) which culminates to renal failure, hemorrhage and an eventual loss of life.

She disclosed that three out of every four sexually active women are exposed to the deadly virus, while over 9,000 out of 14,000 women, diagnosed of the disease, die annually.

She, however, stated that the disease could both be prevented and cured with early diagnoses as it takes about 10 to 15 years for the cells of the cervix to grow abnormal and become cancerous, a period within which screening could be done to detect the abnormality in the cervix and prevent the disease.

While enjoining reproductive women to go for regular HPV screening and tests for cervical cancer, she advised young girls from the age of nine as well as sexually naïve women to seek vaccination against the disease.

She said, “the girl-child should be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine from the age of nine. The vaccine is also beneficial to women who have not been sexually exposed to the virus, while sexually active women should go for regular screening. Cervical cancer is the easiest female cancer to prevent and the death rate is unacceptable.”

She also said that a woman could reduce the risk of cervical cancer by delaying the age of first sexual experience, avoid multiple sexual partners, alcohol and smoking.

Also speaking, Dr Kehinde Okunade, a Consultant Oncologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) called on authorities to improve on the awareness and treatment of the “silent killer” amongst women.

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Dana Air rewards winners of national travel essay competition Dana Air recently rewarded students with free tickets for their brilliant performance at the seventh edition of the National Travel Essay Competition and sixth Air Transport Youth Empowerment Seminar, which was held at the training hall of the Nigerian Civil Aviation (NCAA) Headquarters Annex, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Themed: ‘Choosing An Exciting Career, Why Aviation,’ the National Travel Essay Competition and Youth Empowerment Seminar was designed to create greater awareness for the air transport sector and raise future aviation professionals.

The spokesman of Dana Air, Mr Kingsley Ezenwa, while congratulating the winners said, apart from the support that the airline has been giving to the organisers of the National Travel Essay Competition since 2009, Dana Air also partners Bicourtney Aviation Services Limited, by providing aircraft for students to access, when students of various institutions come for facility tour of the Murtala Mohammed Airport 2.

He encouraged the students to consider a career in aviation, stating that Dana Air’s kids fly program is also part of the airlines’ commitment to giving students and children alike, their first flight experience while exposing them to the exciting world of aviation.

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Nigeria’s aviation sector is gasping for air

From left: Arik Airline Deputy Managing Director, Captain Ado Sanusi; Chief of Staff to Chairman, Arik Air, Lanre Bamgbose; Arik Air Chairman, Sir Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide; Acting Managing Director, NAMA MD, Mr Emma Anasi and former NAMA Managing Director, Engineer Nnamdi Udo, during the negotiation of Arik Air’s debt to NAMA, at the government agency’s headquarters in Lagos.

Scarcity of aviation fuel: Domestic airlines accuse FG of negligence Stories by Shola Adekola

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he Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency address the acute shortage of Jet Fuel that the country has been experiencing in recent times.

The call was made by the Chairman of AON, Captain Nogie Meggison on the heels of a consistent unavailability of the product in the past week for airlines to conduct their operations, thereby leading to 50 per cent delays or cancellation of flights.

The airlines said they were forced to cry out about the perennial problem because “it continues to put us in a difficult situation to go an extra mile to fulfil our obligations to our esteemed customers in spite of the inconveniences that go with it.

“However, we are at the

mercy of the oil marketers and many times our hands are tied such that we are left with no other option than to cancel flights.”

Speaking further, the AON Chairman noted that with the shortage of Jet A-1, the marketers have been increasing the price consistently to an unbearable point.

“Till April this year, I bought Jet A1 Fuel for N105 a litre. About a month ago, the price jumped to N145.

Two weeks later it rose to about N200 per litre. Today the price has skyrocketed above N200 per litre. This has greatly increased our operational cost.

“For instance, considering that the cost of fuel accounts for about 40 per cent of the operational cost of most airlines, the colossal rise in price of the product by over 100 per cent has equally increased the operational cost astronomically. In the light

Medview set to commence operations to Dubai Nigeria’s domestic airline, Medview Airline is set to commence flight operations to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and also expend operations to Freetown and Monrovia via Accra.

Making the announcement was the Executive Director (Technical) for the airlines, Alhaji Lookman Animashaun, while taking delivery of a Boeing 777-200 one week after the carrier had earlier acquired a Boeing 747 aircraft which it deployed on its Lagos-London Gatwick.

The triple 7 airplane that arrived from Lisbon, Por-

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tugal has been deployed to airlift pilgrims for the 2016 Hajj exercise which commenced on Monday.

The airline is expected to airlift over 22,000 Muslim pilgrims to the holy land with the newly acquired Boeing 777 and its 747 aircraft.

Medview is one of the carriers approved by the Federal Government for this year’s Hajj operations and the carrier has consistently done so for the past 10 years.

“Medview is known for its pro-activeness for Hajj operations 2016. We plan to use the airplane for Dubai

after Hajj. The B747 we use for Gatwick will be here with us for two years,” he said.

On its route expansion programme, Animashaun stated that aside London and Jeddah operation, that immediately after Hajj, they will begin service to Dubai as it expands to Freetown and Monrovia via Accra.

“We are expanding beyond Accra to Sierra Leone and Monrovia.”

He assured that the pilgrims allocated to the airline to be airlifted to Saudi Arabia this year would enjoy good services devoid of any hitch.

of this, our feasibility studies and financial projections are greatly threatened thereby putting the airlines in a dangerous and difficult financial position.

“In spite of all this, we can’t increase ticket prices in order not to discourage our dear customers that have been seriously stretched due to the economic hard time facing them and their disposable income seriously reduced or erased.

“For most of them now the alternative means of travel is going by road; our major competitor. It should be put on record, howeve, that road transport uses Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as Petrol, which is highly supported or assisted by the Federal Government with exchange rate of N285 and available to marketers. Airlines on the other hand don’t have such foreign exchange support or availability from our government with regards to helping to make Jet Fuel available to airlines or at an affordable price.

“PMS forex allocation is being given regularly to importers at N285 to the dollar, and the road transporters don’t pay five per cent VAT or the Regulatory five per cent Ticket Sales Tax or any of the other multiple taxes being charged to the airlines today, where as much as 35 per cent of a total ticket price are taxes and levies.”

The AON leadership while lamenting that apart from the question of no support in fixed rate of jet fuel, accused the government of not making dollar available for the airlines to carry out their operations.

There is no doubt that the country’s aviation sector is currently in a bad predicament that requires urgent attention. In other words, the sector is ‘gasping for breath’ just like former President Olusegun Obasanjo described the former ruling People’s Democratic Party.

To pretend that all is well with the aviation sector is just denying the fact that the situation the sector is in presently, if not urgently tackled by the government, may spell doom for the principle of air link between Nigeria and other parts of the world.

Obviously, the sector had never had it this bad for a long time with the near total neglect of it by the government.

It is no more news that domestic airlines are operating in a tight situation brought about by many reasons, ranging from scarcity and expensive price of aviation fuel, multiple taxation from government organisations, multiple entry points to foreign carriers, alarming foreign exchange rate, lopsided Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASAs), preferential treatment of foreign airlines over local airlines to many other unfriendly policies of government which are speedily killing the domestic carriers.

Besides the sorry state of the domestic airlines, the various aviation parastatals are now mere glorifying ‘museums of antiquities’ with little or nothing going on there due to the inability of the government to provide a new roadmap or allow the one on ground to be used.

Some of the parastatals are in disarray with no direction, courtesy of the instability and uncertainty that have hit their managements with everyone not sure of what the government is up to.

Many of the organisations are struggling to pay their workers while the morale of the workers has never been this low due to the neglect of their welfare.

To add insult upon injury, while the organisations are battling to even pay the workers, the government seems to be compounding the situation as its officials in charge of the sector are illegally increasing the overhead cost of the organisations by imposing new employees on them through the back door.

Only few months ago, the news filtered into the sector of how the Ministry of Aviation under Senator Hadi Sirika was said to have forcefully employed and imposed over 50 new personnel on the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) under the guise of engaging them as ‘supportive staff’ even when those on ground are yet to be properly engaged and cared for.

Again, the transformation project of the airports which was started by the former administration has been abandoned leaving the huge job for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) alone to worry about.

Every day, the whole world keeps on hearing about many ‘dirty’ concession agreements entered into by the various government agencies in the sector with private individuals which are killing the principles of partnership and subsequently creating tension and yet no help is coming from the government to address them.

Infrastructural decadence at the various airports which has not exempted the runways has been left to FAAN alone to manage.

In the recent weeks, many foreign airlines have had their aircraft damaged due to the poor state of the runway at the Abuja airport. South African Airways had in the past weeks suffered economic loss and damage to four of its planes just as Emirates at the Abuja Airport.

It is obvious that the ongoing economic hardship being witnessed by Nigerians is also affecting the revenue generation and performances of the aviation agencies which has made it too difficult to embark on urgent execution of critical projects like runway repairs.

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Thursday, 11 August, 2016 Group Politics Editor Taiwo adisa 08072000046 tai_adis@yahoo.com

The battle of titans in Ondo APC With two weeks to the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, HAKEEM GBADAMOSI, gives an insight into the ongoing permutations in the various caucuses in the party.

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HE preparation for 2016 governorship election in Ondo State has started gathering momentum already. But as the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary approaches, many indigenes – both at home and abroad – are indeed apprehensive about having “the right candidate” flag the party’s banner.

This apprehension is not unfounded considering that more than 50 aspirants, including one female, are jostling for the party’s ticket – even though not all have obtained the nomination forms. And the need to effectively harmonise and manage these diverse interests is key to the party’s success in the next race.

The array of political gladiators jostling for delegates’ votes remain perhaps the biggest hurdle for the APC in the state because many indigenes, indeed party loyalists, share the view that the November 26, 2016 election could be won or lost majorly based on who eventually would bear the party’s flag at last. A public affair analyst from the state, Olusola Akinkunmi argued that the process through the APC candidate “emerges is critical to the party’s victory.” He thus referred to the politics of 2012 election. He said: “ACN could have done better in the 2012 elections but for the poor management of the candidate selection process and the electoral campaign which got the candidate fighting on several fronts.

In 2012, there were more than 20 aspirants and it was difficult selecting one since the party at the time decided against conducting primary election. Akinkunmi opined that “selecting a candidate should have been the headache of the delegates but party leaders decided it was their headache. Therefore, the process and factors that led to the emergence of the candidate did not reflect the pulse of the people and it made the election a bit easier for the incumbent whose popularity was already ebbing towards the red zone.”

“If those two mistakes are corrected – that is ensure emergence of candidate in a rancour free manner and a well managed campaign process – the party can coast home to victory,” said Akinkunmi who believes that both Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and Dr Olusegun Abraham, two foremost aspirants in 2012, still ticked all the boxes as the “right candidate.”

According to a preponderance of opinions across the state, there are perhaps five leading aspirants at the moment, including Akeredolu and Abraham. The three others are Professor Ajayi Borroface and Senator Tayo Alasoadura, the

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senators representing Ondo North and Central senatorial districts respectively and Olusola Oke, a frontline politician in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose defection to the APC was forced by the incumbent Governor Mimiko’s defection to the PDP. The political exposures of the two senators and Oke however appear to be their albatross in the public opinion. A range of views said the APC should go for a technocrat instead of a typical politician because the incumbent, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has been a typical representative of traditional politicians “promise and fail” campaign. “If you look at states where technocrats are in charge as governors in Nigeria, you will see the marked difference compared to states where typical politicians are in charge.

Despite the huge resources in the state, it is one of the least developed in Nigeria, it is therefore a no no for another traditional politician to take over” said a civil servant, Akeem Adekunle.

This view may likely be a detrimental factor to the APC should either of Boroffice or Alasoadura emerge as its candidate. The former is a long term ally of President Obasanjo and many consider him culpable in the scandal that trailed the two space satellites launched during Obasanjo’s tenure. The later was fingered as the prime suspect for ACN’s loss in 2012, for failing to properly utilize mobilization fund.

Some party loyalists believe it would be more honourable for Mr. Akeredolu to reciprocate Mr. Abraham’s gesture in 2012 by “stepping down” for him. Mr. Abraham was one of the three final aspirants considered for the party’s candidacy in 2012 and he agreed to step down for the renowned lawyer.

Others called for support for the only female candidate among them, Jumoke Anifowoshe, the daughter of Chief Ajasin. But apart from the gender factor,

there is little else that Anifowoshe has going for her. Having served as a commissioner and party chairperson in the state, opinions favoured Abraham who has always sacrificed personal ambition for the overall interest of the party. Indeed, a recount Mr Abraham’s politics in Ondo State reveals a narrative of a disciplined life “propelled by a heart to serve.” These two combinations are currently hot on the lips of many residents of the state who are eagerly weighing in on the next governor of the state among many aspirants. Many politicians in the state still refer to the 1999 episode when he opted not to serve in an administration that he helped to establish. Former Governor of Ondo State, late Chief Adebayo Adefarati considered him for a commissioner appointment in his administration between 1999 and 2003.

Such was Abraham’s contribution to the campaign of the Alliance for Democracy’s candidate that he was deservingly offered the appointment.

However, Abraham preferred to return to his businesses after the election and declined the offer. He would later accept Adefarati’s offer as the chairman of the then moribund Owena Ho-

tel. Within months, the hotel went from being indebted to being profitable and while Abraham served in that position, he never collected a kobo as salary. This quintessential record of voluntary service in government is rare now but it was commonplace at a time, particularly in Southwest Nigeria, the bastion of progressive politics. It was commonplace for politicians to leave office only with the title of office, still retaining the same social status before their appointments. Some, like the second republic governor of Ondo State, Chief Adekunle Ajasin, even left office poorer than they went in. For voluntarily serving to turn around the fortune of Owena Hotel, Abraham is seen as the archetypal progressive politician that Southwest Nigeria was known for – perhaps he represents the last generation of that political philosophy, many opined.

For all of his active partisan political experience, his activities have always been geared towards building the common good, against the dictate of modern day politicians’ proclivity for feathering personal nest.

In deciding the election of principal officers of the National Assembly, the APC jettisoned zoning principle, even though it was stridently canvassed by different quarters as the best factor for apportioning legislative offices. Since the zoning principle is not as cardinal as it is in the PDP, therefore, there is no hope that the party will consider it as a factor in deciding the Ondo gubernatorial race.

However, majority of Ondo residents and even some aspirants are of the view that zoning is already an “unspoken rule” in the political history of the state, with each senatorial district taking turn to produce the governor since 1999.

Some are therefore of the view that the party may burn its finger, as it did during the National Assembly election, if it goes against zoning principle.

If you look at states where technocrats are in charge as governors in Nigeria, you will see the marked difference compared to states where typical politicians are in charge

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Adekunle Fajuyi and the politics of remembrance

By Niyi Osundare continued from yesterday

At work here is what Wale Adebanwi has aptly delineated as the ‘political and cultural uses of memory’ (p.433); that is, the power of collective memory, through the instrumentality of remembrance, to bolster the communal psyche, salve and restore a wounded pride.

Yes, indeed, we know a country by the kind of people it chooses to remember; we also know it by the kind of people it fails, or chooses, not to remember. If Nigeria were a country with a sense of history, Col. AdekunleFajuyi would be a prominent member of those ‘heroes past’ it crows so lustily about in its national anthem.

But this ‘gathering of the tribes’ (Soyinka’s phenomenally prophetic phrasing in A Dance of the Forests, a play that was intended, most ironically, as a celebration of the country’s independence in 1960, but which ended up as a chilling disquisition on its imperfect union!)still totters on from error to error, with the possibility of genuine nationhood as a distant hope.

The virus of this pathology of being has compromised the necessary health of becoming, as tribal (I am using that epithet in full cognizance of its pejorative anthropological accretions!) considerations continue to trump national imperatives, and a dreadful vice on the national stage may be an enviable virtue at the triballevel.The likes of AdekunleFajuyi are not recognized as national heroes because there is as yet no ‘nation’ to be a hero in or of.

This is why the National Questionin Nigeria is perennially in search of a National Answer as ethno-regional loyalties ossify into deafening walls, and each group is fixated on its own survival most times at the risk of the national collective. No country can ever achieve nationhood when its component parts are as incorrigibly heterogeneous and somutually antagonistic as Nigeria now is and has always been. This is why those who blissfully aver that ‘Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable’ should quickly reconsider the dangerously complacent certitude in their avowal. This was one of the cheesy sloganswhich propelled the rhetoric of the Nigerian civil war, and it rode to victory in a crass, largely un-interrogated cavalry.

But that was in another century, another millennium,another ideological ferment, long before Benedict Anderson’s idea of the Nation as an ‘imagined’ community, and the nation itself as a shiftable, shifting arrangement/artifice with its own unfair share of the profound indeterminacy that is so indigenous to the postmodernist/poststructuralist condition. Besides, those who talk so glibly about ‘Nigeria’s unity’ are under the perilous impression that there is a ‘unity’ to ‘negotiate’, in the first place. But a closer look tells us that we are still a thousand miles and a thousand moons from that unity, and that we need to work really hard and honestly for it to come within our grasp.General Alani Akinrinade said this (and much more) when he declared with authoritative candour in last Sunday’s Guardian:’There is nothing like unity in this country’ (p.15).

Closely related to this viewpoint are Professor BanjiAkintoye’s numerous writings about the National Question, particularly his recent interventions in The Nation (July 14, July21).Let’s tilt our ears in the learned griot’s direction: There is no country on earth that is beyond being dismembered or dissolved.

President Buhari Throughout human history, countries have arisen, flourished, and then lost some parts, or broken apart. (The Nation, p. 19) Some of the eminent scholar’sviews on this matter are decidedly controversial, and many readers might be constrained to see Professor Akintoye’s statements from the prism of his passionate Yoruba nationalism, but the intellectual sagacity andsheer un-ignorable force behind the historical antecedents which inform his submissions make them so compelling for those interested in a genuine discussion of Nigeria’s National Question.Time to hold the bull by the horns; you do not solve a problem by wishing it away, or by denying its conspicuous existence.

As yet, Nigeria has no ‘unity’ to negotiate or not to negotiate. Which is why President Muhammadu Buhari must not only read the reports of the 2015 National Confab; he owes himself and the country acritical duty to read, digest, deliberate on, and identify its implementable parts- beyond

The Yoruba strand of the National Question narrative deserves a thorough, hard-nosed, and visionary appraisal. Those who call for a relative autonomy that would allow Nigeria’s federating units appreciable room to develop their own way have their fingers right on top of the problem

all partisan and ethno-regional considerations. To wave off the lingering call for a re-structuring of this country is to risk the possibility of suicide through denial.

Fredrick Lugard’s expedient contraption has been aching in every joint since 1914.

If the house has not fallen according to Karl Maeier’s apocalyptic prognostication, it is simply because Nigeria has been extraordinarily lucky. The Avenging Angels of the Niger Delta, the resurgent Biafra agitators, the increasingly violent clashes between nomadic herdsmen and native populations, and other ethno-regional and religious eruptions in different parts of Nigeria are all pointers to the cracks in the walls of the house that Lugard builtfor the glory of the British Empire. The component parts have never met on any genuinely democratic platform to negotiate the terms of their co-existence. We cannot afford not to do something about this imperfect union. To refuse to re-structure is to prepare to de-structure.

But there is a vital need to scrutinize the word ‘restructure’ and interrogate its promiscuous connotations in our current political lexicon. For that term has become a mantra, a miracle code, and sound bite in the mouths of political opportunists, and some vengeful incantation in the arsenal of those temporarily out of power – but trying to scheme their way back to it. In other words, the Nigerian union is perfect if you are in the saddle,and out of joint only when you are out of control.Besides, the ‘re-structuring’ we need must go beyond the surface structure of the polity and reach far into the deep structure of the economy. For it is absolutely impossible to establish any political stability on the foundation of the present consumptive, prebendal, and pathologically unproductive economy with its suicidal dependency on oil. Is anyone talking about the moral

structure of a country with a few bloated billionaires and millions of impoverished, disarticulated people? The way things stand today, every corner of Nigeria is a potential den of hungry Avengers.

The Yoruba strand of the National Question narrative deserves a thorough, hardnosed, and visionary appraisal. Those who call for a relative autonomy that would allow Nigeria’s federating units appreciable room to develop their own way have their fingers right on top of the problem. For that, indeed, is the substance, soul and spirit of true federalism. But we need to find a way of doing this without allowing it to degenerate into a good-we vs badthey; civilized-we vs primitive-they; advanced-we vs backward-they Manichaeism that ends up trumpeting the false superiority of one ethnic group and the assumed inferiority of the other(s).

In other words, we must make sure that our ‘Yoruba Agenda’ does not bottom out as ‘Yoruba Exceptionalism’ with its attendanttriumphalist provincialism and hubristic extremisms. For the separate ‘Yoruba Nation’ that is being canvased in certain quarterscan never hope to be a nation of Angels. In other words, there is hardly any virtue or vice in the larger Nigerian body politic that is not in the Yoruba part of it. Much like other ethnic ‘nations’ in Nigeria’s ‘multi-national’ arrangement, the Yoruba have their own fair share of virtuous nation-builders and vicious nation-wreckers, consummate democrats and unrepentant ballot-riggers, conscientious citizens and conscienceless cesspools of corruption.

Furthermore, we must never underestimate the inevitable perils of homogeneity, the debilitating sameness in the cultural and socio-political gene pool that often breeds one-party states and their attendant despotic life presidencies, the kind of sameness that precipitated Somalia’s implosion prior to its eventual explosion. Forgive my skepticism as you consider this poser: if we cannot make Nigeria work together, is there any guarantee that we could make it work apart/ in parts? The poet who sings an ode to diversity and difference couldn’t have chosen her/ his Muse more judiciously. The avid Snooper TataloAlamu sums it all up so cogently with this characteristically brilliant remarks: President Buhari needs not to be afraid of restructuring, but he should be wary of those who use the slogan of restructuring to preach hate and the summary dismemberment of the country. He should also bemindful of those who scream against restructuring as a strategy of keeping the nation in fossilized underdevelopment and Stone Age depredations simply to perpetuate an unjust system and its entrenched privileges. (The Nation, p.3) Without a shred of doubt, there is so much in the life and legacy of AdekunleFajuyi, the great man whose memory we celebrate, that speaks to the inward-rooted, outward-looking philosophy, the plural, tolerant, accommodating Omoluabism that is the core and guiding principle of Yoruba culture and science of being; that amplitude of spirit, that unstinting magnanimity that has always lifted our gaze beyond the parapets of jingoism and ethnic chauvinism.

Continues tomorrow

•Being Professor Osundare’s Guest Lecture at the 50 years after Fajuyi celebration, organised by the Yoruba Think-Tank, July 29, 2016; International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Thursday, 11 August, 2016 PHOTOS: SYLVESTER OKORUWA

Public presentation of the book, entitled: “Strategy, Risk, Governance and Ethics,” held at NIIA, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday.

From left, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Deacon Titus Soetan; author, Mr Rafiu Abiola Olaoye; former Managing Director, GTBank Plc, Mr Fola Adeola, and the Chairman, ACTS Professionals Limited, Mr Ignatius Adegunle.

Chairman, ACTS Professionals Limited, Mr. Ignatius Adegunle ( seventh from left); the author, Rafiu Abiola Olaoye (sixth from left) and others.

Mr Rafiu Abiola Olaoye (fourth right) with friends.

The author, Rafiu Abiola Olaoye, flanked by staff of 1698 Events and Parties Limited.

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Thursday, 11 August, 2016 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OSUN STATE OF NIGERIA (PROBATE DIVISION)

WHEREAS the persons whose names are set out in the Column of the schedule hereto died intestate on the dates and the places mentioned therein.

AND WHEREAS the persons whose names and address are set out in the second Column of the said schedule along (Wherever found necessary or expedient) with the particular of their relationship to the said deceased have applied to the High Court of Justice, Osun State of Nigeria, for the grant unto them of Letters of Administration in respect of the real and or personal property of the said deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the said Letters of Administration will be granted to the said Applicants unless a notice to prohibit such grant is filed in the Registry of the High Court of Justice, Osogbo, Osun State of Nigeria within twenty-one(21) days from today.

SCHEDULE DECEASED APPLICANTS FOR GRANT 1.

MRS. ADEFUNKE ESTHER IBIDAPO Mr. Olatunde Solomon Ibidapo and Mr. Oluwakayode

late of Off Hammed Olayemi Street, Ofatedo , Emmanuel Ibidapo both C/o Their Solicitors,

who died on the 26th day of January, 2016 at Ogbomoso. Ayo Laogun Esq, M.A. Laogun &Co. Opp. Osun State

Government House Annex, Oke-Fia, Osogbo, Widower and Son of the said deceased.

2.

SAMUEL KAYODE BABALOLA late of 28, Sunday Babalola and Tunde Babalola both of

Owode –Ilesa, Osogbo, who died on the 21st day C/o Their Solicitors, Tajudeen O. Shitti Esq,

Of January, 2016 at Osogbo.

Taju Shittu &Co. 54A, Alekuwodo Road, Opp.

Islahudeen Mosque, Osogbo Brothers of the said Deceased.

3.

PA DAVID AKINBOLA IWINLADE late Oluwo Mrs. Olatundun Onikepe Iwinlade and Nathaniel

Oluwo Compound, Gbongan Road, Ileogbo, who Akinwale Iwinlade both of Oluwo Compound,

Died on the 4th day of February, 2016 at Ile- Ogbo.

Gbongan Road, Ileogbo, Widow and Son of the

said Deceased.

4.

MR. OLANIYAN SARAFADEEN AJISEKOLA Olaniyan Adesoji and Olaniyan Ademola both of

Baralola’s Compound, Ikire, who died on the 26th both of Baralola’s Compound, Ikire, Children day of May, 2013 at Ikire. of the said Deceased.

5.

OYEJUMOBI AKANFE BABATUNDE late of Babatunde Timothy Oyewal and Babatunde

Idi-Ape’s Compound, Ile-Ogbo, Osun State, who Joshua Oyekunl both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Died on the 18th day of May, 2015 at Ile- Ife. Yemi Ibraheem Abolusodun Esq, No.20,

Ajegunle Street, Beside Ore-Meji Welder, Olonkoro,

Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

6.

MRS. OLUFUNKE SUSANA ODEGBILE late Olajide Rufus Odegbile and Mr. Odegbile

of Adewumi Close, Oke-Gada Osogbo Road, Ede, Stephen Kayode both of C/o Their Solicitors, who died on the 15th day

of February, 2016 at Olateju Kolawole(Mrs.) Grace Chambers, KM2,

Ile- Ife. Iwo-Osogbo Road, Nearly Opp. Leisure Spring Hotel, Osogbo,

Widower and Son of the said Deceased 7.

STEPHEN DEJI OMOSEBI late of 30, Ilupeju Victoria Omosebi and Ademiju Taiwo Omosebi

Line 1, Oke –Ogbo, Ile- Ife, who died on the 14th both of C/o Their Solicitors, Adedokun

Day of February, 2014 at Ile- Ife. Oluwafunsito Esq of Adedokun Adeyeba &

Associate, Osun State, Widow and Son of the said Deceased.

8.

MRS. OLAREWAJU OGUNNUBI late of A60, Bolanle Owoso and Adebowale Ogunnubi both

Itakogun Street, Ilesha, Osun State, who died on of C/o Their Solicitors, Adedokun Oluwafunsito

the 19th day of March, 2016 at Ile- Ife. Esq of Adedokun Adeyeba & Associate, Osun

State, Children of the said Deceased.

9.

MR. ADEGBITE RASHEED ADEKUNLE late Mrs. Adegbite Adebukola Hafusat and Mr.

Of 2, Ayomide Close, off Zion Street, Olambe, Adegbite Morufu Ademola both of C/o Their

Akute, Ogun State. Who died on the 19th day of Solicitors, Mrs. O.O. Ojo-Johnson of Olaniyi

December, 2015 at Ilorin.

Anthony Olagunju & Co. 24, Mode Street, Yaba,

Ondo, Ondo State, Widow and Brother of the said Deceased.

10.

LASISI ALAMU OYERINDE late of Alagbala’s Dauda Oyerinde, Wasiu Oyerinde and Simiyu

Compound, No. 17, Laro Lane, Isale-Osun, Osogbo, Oyerinde all of C/o Their Solicitors, Tajudeen O.

Who died on the 3rd day of July, 2010 at Osogbo.

Shittu Esq, 54A, Alekuwodo Road, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

11.

ANTHONY ADEJUBE late of The Nigeria Police Adejube Samson and Adejube Mary both of No.

Who died on the 11th day of February, 2008 at 23, Fowotade Street, papa-Asafa, Lagos State,

Ile- Ife. Son and Widow of the said Deceased.

12.

REV. CENON EMMANUEL OLATUNDE Mrs. Janet Olufunmilayo Akindele and Mrs.

AKINDELE late of Off Tunde Azeez Street, Olanike Olubunmi Olawale both of C/o their

Halleluyah Estate, Osogbo, who died on the 2nd Solicitors, Ayodele Laogun Esq, M.A. Laogun

day of August, 2015 at Osogbo. &Co., Opp. Osun State Government House,

Annex, Okefia, Osogbo, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

13.

CHIEF DAVID OLAGUNJU ABIRI late of No. Abiri Akinyemi Victor and Owoyomi Olabisi

5, Femi Ogunbanjo Street, Elefo, Abijoh Ajah, Ibukun both of C/o Their Solicitors, Niyi

Lagos, who died on the 28th day of January, 2016 Akinsola Esq of Abiye House Behind Gazal

At Ile- Ife. Hotel, Dada Estate, Oshogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

14.

RACHAEL OYELAMI late of Temidire Estate, Rufus Olaboye Oyelami and Rebecca Abosede

Owode-Ede, Osun State, who died on the 16th day Oyerinde both of C/o Their Solicitors, Bayo

Of April, 2016 at Ile- Ife. Odetunde of Soji Oyetayo &Co. No. 37,

Gbongan Road, Osogbo, Widower and Daughter of the said Deceased.

15.

ELIZABETH OLUWAYEMISI ADEWUSI late Adeyinka Adewusi and Timothy Adeyemi

of CC31, Omo Olupe Street, Ilesa, who died on the Adewusi both of CC31, Omo Olupe Street, Ilesa,

27th day of September, 2013 at Ilesa.

Son and Widower of the said Deceased.

16.

MR. EZEKIEL RANTI OLOWOOKERE late Mr. Michael Sogo Olowookere and Mrs.

of No. 2, Alabiye, Owode-Ede, Osun State, who Olubunmi Olowookere both of No. 2, Alabiye,

died on the 11th day of December, 2015 at Osogbo.

Owode-Ede, Osun State, Son and Widow of the Said Deceased.

17.

MR. TOPE MICHAEL MEDAYEDUPIN late Mrs. B.O. Medayedupin (Nee Aremu) of Akile

Of Akile Compound, Eleweran, Ile- Ife, who died Compound, Eleweran, Ile- Ife, Widow of the

On the 23rd day of September, 2015 at Ile- Ife. Said Deceased.

18.

VICTOR MONDAY OLUGESIN late of Flat 4, Lydia Ibukun Olugbsin(Mrs.) and Temitope

Cooperative Estate, Arigidi Road, Ikare, Akoko, Kayode Olugesin(Mr.) both of Flat 4,

Who died on the 18th day of December, 2014 at Cooperative Estate, Arigidi Road, Ikare, Akoko,

Abuja.

Widow and Son of the said Deceased.

19.

MISS JANET ADEWALE late of Ajegunle Miss Oladodun Omolara, Miss Oladodun

Street, Alagbado, Ifetedo, who died on the Folasade and Miss Oladodun Oluwanifemi all of

2nd day of September, 2015 at Ile-Ife. C/o Their Solicitors, Barr. Bamikole Lucas

Ayodele of Ayobami Chambers, Suit 47/48, Mobus Shopping Complex,

Gbagi, 2nd gate, Ibadan, Children of the said Deceased.

20.

MRS. OWOFADE FUNMILOLA OMOTAYO Mr. David Olabode Owofade and Helen Modupe

Late of Opp. School of Health Technology, Imelu, Owofade both of Opp. School of Health

Ilesa, who died on the 25th day of January, 2016 Technology, Imelu, Ilesa, Widower and

At Ilesa.

Daughter of the said Deceased.

21.

RASHIDAT IYABO ADEGBITE late of sawmill Adegbite Sofiat of C/o Her Solicitors, M.M.

Area, Oke-Gada, Ede, who died on the 7th day of Nworie & Co. Grace Land Chambers, Opp. Timi

June, 2016 at Ede. Palace, Timi Market, Ede, Osun State, Daughter of the said Deceased.

22.

ADEYEMO NURUDEEN late of No. 1, Nurudeen Yusuff and Nurudeen Musa both of

Eboolobi Street, Osogbo, Osun State, who died C/o Their Solicitors, Badmus Kazim Esq, of

on the 14th Day of January, 2013 at Osogbo.

Beside Las-Palmas Filling Station, Ayetoro,

Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

23.

SHEIK MOUSTAPHA OLAYIWOLA Alh. Nuraen Ajisafe, Alh Busharah Ajisafe and

AJISAFE late of 14, Arikalam Street, Alh Kamil Olayinka Ajisafe all of C/o Their

Oluode Area, Osogbo who died on the 9th day Solicitors, Badmus Kazim Esq, of Beside

of September, 2014 at Osogbo.

Las-Palmas Filling Station, Ayetoro, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

24.

KEHINDE OLURANTI OLAOPA late of Akinlolu Olaoluwa Thomas and Akinlolu

Zone 4, No. 6, Ayoolorun Estate, Omobolanle Ebunoluwa both of Zone 4, No. 6, Ayoolorun

Area, Osogbo, who died on the 20th day of Estate, Omobolanle Area, Osogbo, Widower and

May, 2016 at Ibadan.

Daughter of the said Deceased.

25.

MR. OLALEKAN JAMES OLONADE late of Olonade Rebecca Eniola and Olonade Ayobola

Oke C.A.C Grammar School, Polytechnic Road, Alice both of C/o Their Solicitors, Ojo Omolola

Ede, Osun State, who died on the 23rd day of E. of No. 6, Olonade Area, Off Road 7, Ile- Ife,

March 2013 at Osogbo.

Daughter and Widow of the said Deceased.

26.

JOHN ABIMBOLA AJETUNMOBI late of Isaiah Olufunminiyi Ajetunmobi of C/o His

Immigration Office, Osogbo, who died on the Solicitors, Banjo Adesanmi No. 1, Oluwasanmi

10th Day of June, 2013 at Osogbo.

Road, OAU Rd 7, Sabo, Ile- Ife, Brother of the said Deceased.

27.

ESTHER MODUPE OLADIPO late of No. 8, John Olusegun Oladipo and Rebecca

Ibijuwon Area, Odo-Amo, Ikirun, who died on Oluwabunmi Oladipo both of No. 8, Ibijuwon

the 4th day of January, 2016 at Ikirun.

Area, Odo-Amo, Ikirun, Widower and Daughter of the said Deceased.

28.

TITUS AYODELE AROYEHUN late of No. 1, Mrs. Olubunmi Tella E. and Mr. Kayode

Titus Aroyehun Street, Olofa Estate, Ofatedo, who Aroyehun both of C/o Their Solicitors, Araoye

Died on the 25th day of April, 2016 at Ofatedo.

Oyeyemi Olofa Opp. First Bank Station Road,

Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

29.

MICHAEL ALABI late of Railway Line, Oke Adeoye Alabi Oluwaseyi of C/o His Solicitors,

Gada, Ede, Osun State, who died on the 1st day Adefunmilola Fajemisin-Adedigba Esq, of No.

of November, 2015 at Ede. 37, Gbongan Road, Osogbo, Son of the said Deceased.

30.

REBECCA TAIWO AKINYELE late of Miss Mercy Oluwabukola Akinbobola and Mr.

ZQ 41, Bolorunduro Street, Ilesa, Osun State, Isaac Idowu Omidiji both of ZQ 41, Bolorunduro

who died on the 6th day of November, 2011 at Ilesa.

Street, Ilesa, Osun State, Daughter and Brother of the said Deceased.

31.

EBENEZER AYODELE ALADESUYI late of Mrs. Foluke Elizabeth Aladesuyi and Mrs.

Akintola Obaloran Street, Omitoto Area, Ilode Olubunmi Ojuade(Nee Aladesuyi) both of C/o

Ile- Ife, who died on the 28th day of November, Their Solicitors, Adewole Ishola Adewoyin,

2015 at Ile- Ife. Candid Chambers, 124, Fajuyi Road, Ile- Ife,

Osun State, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

32.

REGINA IYABO OKERE(MRS.) late of Mrs. Joana Adedayo Igbosanu, Okediya

Okediya Close, Kobongbogboe Area, Osogbo, Anthonia Boluwatife and Chief Michael Akano

who died on the 16th day of February, 2016 Okediya all of C/o Their Solicitors, M.O.

at Ogbomoso.

Okediya &Co. 20C, Oloyede Street, Agowande, Igbona, Osogbo, Osun

State, Sister, Aunt and Father of the said Deceased.

33.

MR. PAUL OBANIYI ADEBOWALE late of Mr. Adewale Obaniyi and Mr. Akinwale Obaniyi

84, Ayedun Street, Para, Alakia Area, Ibadan, Oyo both of C/o Their Solicitors, E. Bolarinwa &Co,

State, who died on the 31st day of March, 2016 at Legal Practitioners, Ultimate Chambers,

Ibadan.

Ogunniwe Shopping Complex, Gbongan Road,

Osogbo, Brothers of the said Deceased.

34.

OLUWATUNMININU FLORENCE OMOLE Adekunle Adesanya Lawrence and Omole

AFA 7, Oke Ese Street, Ilesa, Osun State, who Christopher Olaniran both of AFA 7, Oke Ese

died on the 3rd day of July, 2014 at Ilesa.

Street, Ilesa, Osun State, Children of the said

Deceased.

35.

MR. MICHAEL OLUFEMI AJALA late of 16, Mrs. Beatrice Jolade Ajala, Mr. Morenikeji

Basil Community Area, Offa Tedo, Osogbo, who Olubukola Ajala and Miss Temitope Sarah Ajala

Died on the 25th day of November, 2015 at Ilorin, all of C/o Their Solicitors, I.O. Olaniyi Kwara State.

Familusi(Mrs.) of Right’s Law Firm, 38, Odi Olowo Street, Osogbo, Osun State, Widow and Children of the said Deceased.

36.

ADESOLA OYELADUN OYEMADE late of Folasade Adejuwon, Akinsola Oyemade and

8, Oyemade Street, Modakeke, Osun State, who Olufemi Oyemade all of C/o Their Solicitors,

Died on the 26th day of January, 2014 at Ibadan, Diran Ayoola &Co. Olaiya Area, Alekuwodo

Oyo State.

Road, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

37.

NIMOTA IKEOLA AKEWUSOLA late of Mr. Rasaq Adewale Akewusola and Master

B135, Ilesa Road, Osu, Osun State, who died on Sodiq Adebayo Akewusola both of B 135, Ilesa

the 29th day of January, 2016 at Osu. Road, Osu, Osun State, Widower and Son of the said Deceased.

38.

MR. MATHEW ADENLE ADEJUMO late of Owolabi Elizabeth Oluwabunmi (Nee Adejumo)

of 3/11 Ogo-Oluwa Quarters, Off Apata II, Ondo and Adebiyi Opeyemi Mary both of 3/11 Ogo Road, Ile- Ife, who died on the 8th day of July, Oluwa Quarters, Off Apata II, Ondo Road,

2016, at Ibadan, Oyo State.

Ile-Ife, Children of the said Deceased.

39.

SAMURAT BANKE AMUSAT late of 23, Naheem Aderoju Amusat and Ridwan Kayode

Kolawole Street, Osogbo, Osun State, who died Amusat both of 23, Kolawole Street, Osogbo,

on the 15th day of June, 2015 at Ile- Ife. Osun State, Brothers of the said Deceased 40.

ADENIRAN OGEDENGBE late of No. 5, Mrs. Funmilayo Jegede and Victoria Alaba

Alejolowo Lane, Imo, Ilesa, who died on the 21st Adeniran both of C/o Their Solicitors, S.F.

Day of February, 2016 at Ilesa.

Gimba & Co. F. 141, Ayeso Street, Ilesa, Osun

State, Daughter and Widow of the said Deceased.

41.

NAJEEM AKANFE OLALERE late of Irewole Bolanle Mariam Olalere and Olalere Quadri

Local Government Education, Authority, Ikire, Adesile both of Ferebiekun’s Compound,

who on the 20th day of November, 2012 at Ikire.

Omoda, Ikire, Osun State, Children of the said Deceased.

42.

KEMI ABIGAIL OYEGBAMI late of Alanamo Akinleye Isaac Oyegbami and Rotimi Williams

Area, Ofatedo, Osogbo, who died on the 6th day Oyegbami and both of Alanamo Area, Ofatedo,

July, 2016 at Osogbo.

Osogbo, Widower and Son of the said Deceased.

43.

ADEBARE BABALOLAlate of the Nigeria Police Babalola Adeola of Oba’s Compound, Okuku,

Force, who died on the 20th day of November, 2015 Osun State, Son of the said Deceased.

At Okuku.

44.

MR. KEHINDE ADEBAYO ADEWEMIMO late Adewemimo Rasheeda .A. and Adewemimo

Of 2/1 Alusekere Compound, Ede, who died on the Nafisat. T. both of 2/1 Alusekere Compound,

1st day of January, 2016 at Osogbo.

Ede, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

45.

OLUDARE MESILEYA(A.K.A. OLUSOJI) late Temilola Adejoke Oludare and Ayomide Esther

of Zone 5, Ayekale, Ota- Efun, Osogbo, Osun State, Oludare both of Zone 5, Ayekale, Ota- Efun,

who died on the 7th day of February, 2014 at Osogbo.

Osogbo, Osun State, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

46.

KUJEMBOLA SAMUEL OBAOLUWASOLA Stella Olubunmi Oyefesobi of C/o Her

Late of 27, Abuja Road, Silver Point Estate, Badore, Solicitors, M.M. Nworie & Co. Grace Chambers,

Ajah, Lagos, who died on the 18th day of March, Opp. Timi Palace, Timi Mkt, Ede, Osun State,

2014 at Bariga, Lagos.

Daughter of the said Deceased.

47.

MR. JIMOH OGUNSOLA late of Eesa’s Comp.

Serif Ogunsola and Bilikisu Iyabo Jimoh both of

Eko-Ende, who died on the 3rd day of July, 2014 at Eesa’s Compound, Eko-Ende, Son and Widow Eko-Ende. of the said Deceased.

48.

MR. HAMEED ADENIYI late of Elejika’s Comp.

Basirat Adeniyi and Azeez Adeniyi both of

Eyindi, Ila-Orangun, who died on the 22nd day of Elejika’s Compound, Eyindi, Ila-Orangun,

December, 2013 at Ila- Orangun.

Daughter and Brother of the said Deceased.

49.

RAPHAEL IWALOYE BAMIGBADE late of Mr. Sunday Simeon Iwaloye and Mr. Kayode

Oba’s Compound, Iree, who died on the 23rd day of Iwaloye both of Oba’s Compound, Iree, Children

July, 2016 at Osogbo. of the said Deceased.

50.

ALHAJI MUKADAM NUHU late of Imam’s Najeem Kayode Nuhu and Saheed Kolawole

Compound, Oke- Iroko, Ikirun, who died on the Nuhu both of Imam’s Compound, Oke- Iroko,

18th day of May, 2013 at Lagos.

Ikirun, Children of the said Deceased.

51.

MR. RASAK AFOLABI OMOTAYO late of Mr. Salami Akeem and Mr. Salami

53, Ajiriemu’s Compound, Erin-Osun who died on Abdulwaheed both of 53, Ajiriemu’s Compound,

The 9th day of January, 2016 at Osogbo.

Erin-Osun, Children of the said Deceased.

52.

JAMES AKANBI AJAYI late of Dabon’s Comp.

Miss Ekundayo Ajayi, Mr. Timileyin Ajayi and

Ejigbo, who died on the 2nd day of November, 2014, Mr. Fikayo Ajayi all of C/o Their Solicitors,

At Ejigbo.

Olusegun Durotola &Co. No. 39, Old PZ

Building off Station Road, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

53.

DAVID OLUBISI AINA late of No. 40, Ilupeju Mrs. Grace Omotayo Aina and Mrs. Olajumoke

Estate, Ofatedo, Osun State, who died on the 20th Opaleye (Nee Aina) both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Day of December, 2015 at Ofatedo.

Olusegun Durotola &Co. No. 39, Old PZ Building off Station Road,

Osogbo, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

54.

EZEKIEL AKINNIYI OGUNWOLE late of Ogunwole Ayodeji Adeyemi and Ogunwole

Ogunwole Villa Ibikunle Community, Ojuta Area, Moses Akinjide both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Okinni, who died on the 27th day of November, Jones Promise Jimmy, 21, Ajegunle Street,

2015 at Ilobu.

Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

55.

EMMANUEL BABATUNDE DUROSOMO late Mrs. Adebanke Omotara Durosomo of Block B,

Of Block B, Plot 1, GRA, Ilobu Road, Osogbo, who Plot 1, GRA, Ilobu Road, Osogbo, Widow of the

Died on the 8th day of February, 2016 at Ogbomoso. said Deceased.

56.

JIMOH SIKIRU GEORGE late of Alagbayoka’s Jimoh Rasheedat Oluwatoyin and Esther Sikiru

Compound, Isale-Osun, Osogbo, who died on the Jimoh both of C/o Their Solicitors, E. Bolarinwa

10th day of June, 2015 at Osogbo.

Esq, Ogunniwe Shopping Complex, Ultimate Chambers, Gbongan

Road, Osogbo, Daughter and Widow of the said Deceased.

57.

ABDULRASAQ RAJI late of 12, Alhaji Ganiyu Miss Bolanle Abdulrasaq Raji, Miss Omolola

Street, Iju-Ishaga, Lagos State, who died on the Abdulrasaq Raji and Mr. Adesina Abdulrasaq

14th day of January, 2013 at Lagos.

Raji all of C/o Their Solicitors, Sikiru A.

Adewale Holy Executive Star Chambers, Shop 13, Abolade Al

Amanah Shopping Complex, Ede, Children and Brother of the said Deceased.

58.

TAJUDEEN KOLAWOLE AJETOMOBI late Hammed Ajetomobi, Fatai Ajetomobi and

Of 135, Sabo road, Osogbo, who died on the 18th Kazeem Olapade Ajetomobi all of C/o Their

Day of May, 2016 at Osogbo. solicitors, Chief A. O. Adedeji, 141, Station

Road, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

59.

MRS. JOANAH ABIADE BAMIGBOYE late of Mrs. Grace Bola Akinleye (Nee Bamigboye) and

Alatise’s Compound, Ejigbo, who died on the 4th Mrs. Bello Feyisola Jumoke (Nee Bamigboye)

Day of February, 2013 at Ejigbo. both of C/o Their Solicitors, A.A Mustapha Esq, of No. 107, Oba

Akinjole way, Ejigbo, Osun State, Children of the said Deceased.

60.

OLASUJI OLALEYE KAYODE-ADEDEJI late Oladimeji Kayode-Adedeji and Olufemi

Of A5, Isida Street, Ilesa, who died on the 8th day Kayode-Adedeji both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Of April, 2003 at Ilesa.

Awoniyi Alabi & Co. No. 1, Alhaji B.A, Ajao House, Opp. Ejigbo

Motor Park, Dada Estate, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

61.

SAMUEL OLUWOLE AGBOLA late of Mrs. Florence Yomi Agbola and Mr. Milton

Itesiwaju Community, Power line, Ijebu-Jesa Road, Oladipo Agbola both of Itesiwaju Community,

Ilesa, who died on the 19th day of July, 2016 at Power line, Ijebu-Jesa Road, Ilesa, Widow and Ilesa.

Brother of the said Deceased.

62.

TEJUMOLA GANIYU OSUNTOGUN late of Osuntogun Lukman and Osuntogun saheed both

1, Tanisi Street, Gbonmi, Osogbo, who died on the of C/o Their Solicitors, J.O. Babalola & Co. 60,

28th day of May, 2016 at Osogbo.

Alekuwodo Road, Osogbo, Brother and Son of the said Deceased.

63.

MRS. TAOFEEQAT ADERAYO ADEYEMO Mr. Wakili Adeyemo and Mr. Basit Fatai both of

Late of No. 12, Ibokun Road, Osogbo, who died C/o Their Solicitors, S.B. Ajibade Esq, G.A.

on the 24th day of September, 2015 at Osogbo.

Adesina & Co., 51, Kolabalogun Street, Osogbo,

Widower and Brother of the said Deceased.

64.

SAIDAT ABIDEMI SAHEED late of No. 7, Morufu Adekunle Tijani and Titilayo

Kegbe Street, Gidado Compound, Osogbo, who Risikat Tijani both of C/o Their Solicitors, S.B.

Died on the 10th day of July, 2014 at Osogbo.

Ajibade Esq, G.A. Adesina & Co., 51, Kolabalogun Street, Osogbo,

Brother and Sister of the said Deceased.

65.

DR. THOMAS OLAIYA ADELEKE late of Mrs. Jumoke Seyi Obembe(Nee Adeleke), Miss

Crowe Estate, KM 3, Ejigbo Road, Iwara, Iwo, Romoke Oluwaseun Olaiya Adeleke, Miss

who died on the 15th day of April, 2016 at Iwo. Pelumi Peace Adeleke and Mr. Emmanuel Mololuwa Adeleke all of

C/o Their Solicitors, S.B. Ajibade Esq, G.A. Adesina & Co., 51, Kola

balogun Street, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

66.

DR. MRS. ADEOLA ELIZABETH ADELEKE Mrs. Jumoke Seyi Obembe(Nee Adeleke), Miss

Late of Crowe Estate, KM 3, Ejigbo Road, Iwara, Romoke Oluwaseun Olaiya Adeleke, Miss

Iwo, who died on the 13th day of March, 2016 at Pelumi Peace Adeleke and Mr. Emmanuel

Iwo. Mololuwa Adeleke all of C/o Their Solicitors, S.B. Ajibade Esq, G.A.

Adesina & Co., 51, Kolabalogun Street, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

67.

ESTHER ADEMIDUN ORIMOGUNJE late of Funmilayo Grace Orimogunje and Folorunso

G15, Ido-Ijesa, Ilesa, who died on the 1st day of Orimogunje both of G15, Ido-Ijesa, Ilesa,

September, 2014 at Ilesa.

Daughter and Widower of the said Deceased.

68.

MICHEAL ALABA ARIYO late of E118, Ijamo Folorunso Taiwo Ariyo and Elizabeth Oluwasike

Street, Ilesa who died on the 27th day of July, 2015 Ilesanmi (Nee Ariyo) both of E118, Ijamo

At Ilesa.

Street, Ilesa, Widow and Daughter of the said Deceased.

69.

EMMANUEL ADEMOLA ADEMIJU late of Ebunoluwa Ademiju and Modupe Esther

244A, Ijofi Street, Ilesa, who died on the 31st day Ademiju both of 244A, Ijofi Street, Ilesa,

Of December, 2014 at Ilesa.

Daughter and Widow of the said Deceased.

70.

ELIZABETH OYEBIMPE JIMOH late of No. 5 Adenike Jimoh and Adeola Fayemi both of C/o

&7 Jimson Crescent, Oke-fia Area, Osogbo, who Their Solicitors, Chief Abdulrahman. O. Olodo

Died on the 24th day of May, 2015 at Osogbo.

Esq, No. 32, Ajegunle Street, Osogbo, Children of the said Deceased.

71.

MRS. MEDINAT IDOWU TIJANI (A.K.A - Mrs. Victoria Adejoke Olukotun and Mr. Mutiu

IDOWU MODINAT ASAOLU) late of INEC Adeniyi Asaolu both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Office, Ede North Local Government, Ede, who G.A. Adesina & Co. Lere Chambers’ No. 51,

Died on the 27th day of December, 2014 at Sango, Kolabalogun Street, Osogbo, Sister and Brother Ota. of the said Deceased.

72.

OMOLOLA YETUNDE SONAIKE late of No. Mr. Adeyinka Adegoke and Opeyemi Adegoke

53, Iloro Street, Ile- Ife, who died on the 8th day of both of No. 53, Iloro Street, Ile- Ife, Children of

May, 2015 at Ile- Ife. the said Deceased.

73.

MUKILA ADEKUNLE RAJI late of Mafikuyomi Sadia Yewande Raji, Samuel Boluwatife Raji

Village, Obe Area, Wakajaye, Ibadan, Oyo State, and Mutiyat Iyabo Raji all of Mafikuyomi

Who died on the 21st day of February, 2016 at Village, Obe Area, Wakajaye, Ibadan, Oyo State,

Ibadan.

Widow and Children of the said Deceased.

74.

OLAJIDE SAMUEL ABORISADE late of Mrs. Sarah Abiola Aborisade and Oluwaseyi

Salotun’s Compound, Igbajo, who died on the 28th Temitope Aborisade both of Salotun’s

Day of July, 2015 at Igbajo.

Compound, Igbajo, Widow and Son of the said Deceased.

75.

SUNDAY ALANI OYEKUNLE late of No. 28B, Mrs. Oyekunle Funmike Dorcas and Mr. Adisa

Asipa’s Compound, Gidigbo Quarters, Iwo, who Joshua Oyeade both of C/o Their Solicitors,

Died on the 20th day of June, 2016 at Ipetumodu.

Tona Akande Esq, Tona Akande & Co. Grace & Mercy Chambers, No.

104, Ibadan Road, Iwo, Widow and brother of the said Deceased.

76.

ADUBIOBI JOSHUA OGUNLELA late of John Olasehinde Ogunlela, Ogunlela Segun and

H106, Iroye Street, Ilesa, who died on the Adunola Ogunlela all of H106, Iroye Street,

17th day of August, 2007 at Ilesa.

Ilesa, Children of the said Deceased.

77.

ASIMIYU ADEYEMI OMOTOSHO late of Omotoso Wasiu Adesola and Omotoso Sheriff

No.53, Adisa Basua Off Adelabu Street, Surulere, Olalekan both of C/o Their Solicitors, Kayode

Lagos, who died on the 22nd day of March,2013 Azeez, Are Musulumi Shopping Complex, Oke At Ikire.

Gada, Ede, Brothers of the said Deceased.

78.

OYAWOLE FRANCIS OLAYIOYE late of Mrs. Oyawole Morenike Nike and Oyawole

No. 33, Aladanla, Line 1, Ile- Ife, who died on Gabriel Oladiran both of C/o Their Solicitors,

the 13th day of December, 2014 at Ile- Ife. Alaba Awosemo of Back 77 Mokuro, Ile- Ife,

Widow and Son of the said deceased.

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FRSC begins enforcement of speed limiters October 1 Clement Idoko - Abuja

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HE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has set October 1, for full enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles operating in the country.

Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of FRSC, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, who disclosed this on Wednesday, during the stakeholders’ meeting held at the corps national headquarters, Abuja, vowed that enforcement would be total and non-compromis-

ing.

Oyeyemi, in his address at the event attended by relevant government agencies and road transport unions, commended all the stakeholders for the consistent support they had given to the policy of speed limiter usage in the country.

He particularly commended the leadership of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) for their technical inputs into the

policy, saying it was such collaboration that enhanced the decision of other stakeholders to adopt the policy.

Oyeyemi recalled that the initial date set for the commencement of enforcement of the law was June 1, 2015, stating that the date had to be extended to allow for further consultation and more public enlightenment programmes, especially that the period fell within the same week the present administration was inaugurated.

He added that when the corps made presentation to President Muhamadu Buhari and suggested September 1, 2015 as the new commencement date, the president, in his magnanimity, extended the date till April 1, 2016.

He further noted that in the process of commencing the enforcement on the set date by Mr President, a motion was passed on the floors of the two chambers of the National Assembly suspending the enforcement pending when a public

hearing was conducted by the House Committee on the FRSC to determine the desirability of the policy.

The Corps Marshal announced that with the House’s approval of the policy, based on public acceptance during the public hearing and its consideration of the relevance of the device in the campaign against speed-related road carnages in the country, it unanimously lifted the suspension order, upon which the president gave a new enforcement date of October 1,

God is a Nigerian —Obasanjo FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that with the prayers of Nigerians and God’s love, the country was bound to overcome the current hardship in the country.

He said “God is a Nigerian.”

Obasanjo made these remarks at the event to mark the 77th birthday of a former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Chief Olayiwola Olakojo, in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday.

While recognising the economic recession and current challenges that Nigerians experienced, Obasanjo called for patience with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

He noted that despite all odds and problems, the current tough times was a passing phase, because God was with the country.

The celebrant, Olakojo, appreciated the visit of Obasanjo, praying that the nation would scale through its current challenges.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (middle); former Secretary to Oyo State Government, Chief Olayiwola Olakojo (second left); former Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH), Professor A. O. Ilesanmi (second right); Dr Oladiti Solomon (right) and others, during the 77th birthday anniversary of Chief Olakojo at his residence, Oluwo Kekere, Bashorun, Ibadan, on Wednesday. PHOTO: YEMI FUNSO-OKE

FEC backs effort to beat digitisation deadline Leon Usigbe - Abuja

THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given its nod to the process of migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting in Nigeria, to ensure that the country meets the 2017 deadline

set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

A memorandum to this effect was the only one tabled for deliberation at Wednesday’s meeting of the council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the

Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who presented the memorandum, the pilot project set up in Jos, Plateau State, was working well and people with set-up boxes were al-

Ugborodo residents besiege Chevron facilities in Delta Protesters are rebels —EPZ committee Ebenezer Adurokiya - Warri RESIDENTS of Ugborodo, on Wednesday, besieged Chevron facilities at Escravos, demanding that the company should recognise the Interim Management Committee (IMC) instituted to manage the affairs of the people.

The protesters had laid siege on the facilities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, since Tuesday, distrupting operations of the company in the process.

They said they would not leave the facilities until their demands were met by the

2016.

He called on stakeholders to take the new date with all seriousness and ensure that their members, especially commercial operators, abide by the regulations by ensuring that their vehicles are installed with the devices before the commencement of enforcement to avoid sanctions.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, which has oversight powers over the FRSC, Senator Tijani Kaura, applauded the FRSC for introducing the speed limiters device in the country.

Senator Kaura commended President Buhari for approving the policy, noting that with its effective implementation, the rate of crashes would go down to barest level.

He expressed the willingness of the National Assembly to support the corps in its implementation efforts and other polices that could enhance safety and security of people of Nigeria.

Also speaking on the occasion, the chairman of the House Committee on FRSC, Honourable Abubakar Ahmed Yunusa, represented by his deputy, Honourable Gideon Bulus, pledged the support of the House of Representatives, especially the Committee on the FRSC, for the success of the policy.

oil giant.

IMC was instituted to manage the community’s affair in the absence of constitutionally appointed community trust.

The protesters, including men, women were chanting protests songs and accusing the company of neglect and refusal to recognise IMC. Speaking on the development, former chairman of the Ugborodu Community Trust, Mr Sandys Omadeli, said IMC was the collective decision of the community put in place in March, adding that the oil giant had been dealing with factional leaders, whose tenure had

since expired.

He said IMC did not need government’s approval for recognition as being demanded by Chevron, noting that the state government had no business in community affairs.

“This issue has been on for six months and nobody had been concerned about resolving it. The old leaders have the backing of the state government and Chevron is stressing that the IMC must have government backing before it can accord it recognition. I don’t know where government has started appointing leaders for communities,” Omadeli opined.

One of the protesters decried the level of infrastructural non-availability and decay in the area, adding that indigenes of the area were being enslaved.

Meanwhile, spokesperson for Ogidigben EPZ Interface Committee, Alex Eyengho, said the protest ongoing was illegal and spearheaded by a handful of rebels in Ugborodo community against the wish of majority of the indigenes.

Chevron’s General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Deji Hastrupp and Chevrons General Manager, Policy, could not be reached for comments on the development.

ready able to view up to 15 channels of digital broadcast.

Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting, he said: “Already, the pilot scheme in Jos, which was successfully deployed at the end of April is working very well and today, those who are in possession of our set up boxes can view 15 channels with clarity in Jos. “And the highlights of today’s council meeting is that council reaffirmed its support for us to meet the deadline of 2017 June and directed that the relevant ministries work together to achieve these deadline.”

On the possibility of meeting the deadline in the face of tough economic situation faced by Nigerians, Mohammed said government would subsidise the set up boxes which he believed would help to create more jobs in the country.

The minister added: “Again, the government would assist to subsidise in getting the boxes.

“But look at the job cre-

ation that digital migration is going to bring to Nigerians. Look at the opportunities it offers our young men, who are very talented to provide content to television stations.

“So, it’s going to impact very largely on the broadcast industry. Even piracy which has been a menace to us today, with digitisation, it means that musicians and film makers can release their films or records direct on digital broadcast such as video on demand and we are now going to cut off the entire pirate network which has been a bane to our creative industry.

“If we look at the advantages of digitisation in terms of changing the entire economy of providing more jobs for the people, even the 13 manufacturers of set up boxes that have been licensed, two of them already are producing, are also going to employ.

“But I think that the fact that we have a temporary setback does not mean we are going to be cut off from the entire world.”

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Obas are closer to people than govt —Ooni, Emir of Ilorin Biola Azeez - Ilorin

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HE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Wednesday, in Offa, Kwara State, restated his commitment to the unity and peaceful co-existence among Yoruba people.

Ogunwusi gave the assurance at a special prayer to mark the 54th birthday of the Olofa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi.

The monarch also urged Yoruba leaders, irrespective of their religion and political affiliations, to close ranks for the socio-economic development of their areas.

He urged traditional rulers in Yorubaland to strive towards upholding and promoting the cherished heritage of the people.

Ogunwusi, while congratulating Gbadamosi on the milestone, described the recent affirmation of his appointment as the Olofa by the Supreme Court as well deserved.

In her remarks, Mrs Wosilat Micarthy, the SecretaryGeneral, Offa Descendants Union, said the community

Those asking Aregbesola to resign over WAEC results ignorant —Osun govt Oluwole Ige - Osogbo THE Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor of Osun State, on Wednesday, described those calling for the resignation of Governor Rauf Aregbesola over the last ranking of the state in the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) as naive and ignorant of statistics.

It said the call stemmed from the usual lack of knowledge of performance charts and attention to details that the opposition elements are notorious for.

In a statement signed by the Director of the bureau, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, the government stated that records and statistics of students put forward by the state in the past years have shown improvement in the percentage of overall results.

It noted that Aregbesola’s administration’s efforts and intervention in education had been massive and that there had been qualitative and quantitative improvement in the performance of pupils and general education of youths.

had recorded some unprecedented achievements since the Olofa ascended the throne.

“Offa is passing through one of its notable developmental periods courtesy of our amiable monarch, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi.

“So, when the Supreme Court judgment was delivered and it was positive, it was a thing of immense joy and happiness to the people, who cherish the growth, progress and development of the town,” she said.

In a sermon, Alhaji Muideen Salman, the Chief Imam of Offa, urged leaders to imbibe transparency and accountability in the discharge of their duties.

Meanwhile, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi and the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu Gambari, have emphasised the roles of traditional rulers in the country, saying they are closer to people than government.

Speaking when the two monarchs met at the

emir’s palace, in Ilorin, on Wednesday, Oba Ogunwusi said that “royal fathers are divine,” adding that they are born and not a creation of human beings.

The Ooni, who said that people first come to traditional rulers when problem arises, added that they should be honoured and accorded roles to encourage peaceful coexistence.

He called on all kingdoms in the country to come together, saying that they should concentrate on is-

sues that unite people than what could divide them.

Also speaking, the Emir of Ilorin commended the hands of fellowship being extended by the Ooni across Nigeria and beyond, saying that “In Islamic parlance, kings are moulded in the shadow of Almighty God.” The Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi, encouraged Nigerians to believe and work towards success of the nation’s democracy.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi (left), receiving a portrait from the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu Gambari, at the emir’s palace in Ilorin, on Wednesday.

By-election: INEC chairman, zonal commissioners visit Oyo next week

By Wale Akinselure AHEAD of the August 20 by-election in Oorelope Local Government Area of Oyo State, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, alongside some zonal commissioners, will be in the state next week.

Administrative Secretary, INEC, Oyo State, Mr Ebenezer Fakorede, made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting on the upcoming election, held at the commission’s office in Ibadan, on Wednesday.

Fakorede said that the two-day visit of INEC chairman to the state was partly with regards to the upcoming by-election and other issues concerning the commission.

Addressing notions that the Mahmood-led commission was renowned for inconclusive elections, Fakorede urged political actors to shun violence and disruption of polls at the

polling units.

According to him, 10 political parties had so far obtained nomination forms to participate in the exercise which will involve 330 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to serve as Presiding Officers and Assistant

Presiding Officers across 84 voting points.

Furthermore, he intimated of a modification in the voting procedure whereby ballot paper will be issued to every registered voter with Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC), for actual voting, immediately after ac-

creditation.

Fakorede added that the distribution of PVCs not collected before the last general election was ongoing in all INEC local government area offices, but would be halted on August 17 in Oorelope Local Government Area.

Our conditions becoming worrisome, Ogun workers tell Amosun Olayinka Olukoya - Abeokuta

THE Trade Union Congress (TUC), Ogun State Council, has made a passionate appeal to the state government under the leadership of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to save its members from untimely death over the non-payment of their 11 months deductions.

The leadership of the union said that the conditions of workers in the state had assumed a worrisome dimension.

The state chairman, Comrade Olubunmi Fajobi, read a press statement entitled ‘Travails of the Ogun

workers and retirees, the situation required critical appraisal,’ during a press briefing on Wednesday.

He also spoke on the nonpayment of gratuities of retirees which had been suspended since October 2012.

Fajobi said “The TUC state executive-council-insession in its meeting on Wednesday, observed that the prevailing abject conditions of public workers in the state have assumed a worrisome dimension.

“It neither requires critical appraisal nor scientific academic research to discern the stark reality of extreme poverty majority

of active Ogun State workers have found themselves in one part, and quite disheartening, the retired senior citizens of the state in another part.”

He said that workers in the two categories are dying on a daily basis.

“With the increasing harvests of deaths and untold miseries being daily experienced in the two camps mentioned above, the Council-in-session therefore passionately appeals to the state government to, without delay, resume the payment of gratuities suspended since October 2012,” he said.

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Akure NBA visits Ondo CJ IN a bid to strengthen the existing relationship between the bar and the bench in Ondo State, the newly elected executives of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Akure branch, paid a courtesy visit to the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Olasehinde Kumuyi, on Wednesday.

The entourage was led by the Chairman, Adetunji Osho.

While introducing the entourage, the NBA chairman said the new leadership was determined to chart a new course for the cordial relationship between the bar and the bench.

He appreciated the giant efforts of the chief judge in the area of infrastructural and human transformation/development.

An elder and a senior member of the bar, Senator Tony Adeniyi, recalled the efforts of elders in bringing together the bar and the bench.

In his response, the chief judge appreciated the team for the visit and expressed his willingness to leave a legacy of mutual cordial relationship between the bar and the bench.

Iwajowa LG boss solicits support for revenue drive THE people of lwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State have been urged to pay their taxes and support the public private partnership initiative of the state government to fast-track development of the council and the state, in view of the prevailing economic downturn.

Chairman of the council, Honourable Modupeola Egunjobi, who spoke at a meeting with trade unions in lwere-Ile, headquarters of the council area, urged the people to make tax payment a priority.

Egunjobi explained that following the drastic reduction in oil revenue, the council decided to look beyond federal allocation by harnessing all its economic potential to generate fund internally.

He also disclosed that the local government has embarked on large scale farming involving planting of cotton, cassava, maize and cattle rearing and concluded plans to go into cashew plantation as part of alternative sources of revenue to the council.

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PDP reconciliation: Sheriff insists on sack of Makarfi-led committee Demands fresh convention, neutral venue Jacob Segun Olatunji and Leon Usigbe - Abuja

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HE factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, has said the rule of law must prevail for the party’s crisis

to be resolved.

Sheriff made the statement when he received some members of PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) reconciliation committee, led by Professor Jerry Gana, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

According to him, the cri-

sis lingered because leaders in the party were not alive to their responsibilities and keep perpetuating it.

“I am ready to listen at anytime to the committee but for the crisis to be fully resolved, the rule of law must be followed.

“The moment we want to use impunity to address another, it will not work.

“If our leaders had taken up their responsibilities, we would never have had most of the problems we are facing today,” he said.

It was gathered that Sheriff reportedly told the Professor Gana-led committee that the only way peace could be achieved in the party was the immediate sack of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi -led national caretaker com-

Sheriff can’t stop PDP convention in Port Harcourt —Ihedioha Dapo Falade-Port Harcourt

FORMER Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, has declared that the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold in Port Harcourt, as scheduled.

Ihedioha made the declaration in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, while speaking in his capacity as the chairman, Rivers State ad hoc ward/national delegate congress saddled with the responsibility to elect delegates from the 319 wards in the state, ahead the PDP national conven-

tion.

He also pointed out that Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff reneged on his pledge to be the acting chairman of the party for only three months.

Ihedioha further said no amount of distraction would stop the party from holding the convention, adding that Sheriff and other members of the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) were duly removed from office via a motion raised at the national convention of the party, held in Port Harcourt, last May. He said the Port Har-

court convention, held on May 21, 2016 and which removed Sheriff as the national chairman, was in line with the PDP constitution, adding that the Justice Muhammad Li-

man judgment that upheld the removal of Sheriff as the PDP chairman, had not been vacated by any higher court.

He said the PDP leadership would not be dis-

Lagos PDP stakeholders back Bode George’s chairmanship aspiration Bola Badmus - Lagos A group within the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos PDP Stakeholders’ Forum, on Tuesday, declared their support for the chairmanship ambition of Chief Olabode George, describing him

as a consensus candidate whose “total focus is to rebuild, renew and resuscitate the PDP.” The group, in its address read to newsmen by Mr Phillip Avodji, former Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Tourism, urged members

S/West PDP reconciliation committee at crossroads over consensus chairmanship candidate

By Kunle Oderemi

THE six-man Reconciliation Committee set up, on Monday, by South-West Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders over the chairmanship zoned to the South-West, may have met a brick wall.

Some members of the body, which has a former national vice chairman of the party, Alhaji Yekinni Adeojo, as chairman, met in Ibadan on Tuesday, but could not prevail on any of the four contenders to step down.

The contestants are Chief Olabode George, Professor Tunde Adeniran, Professor Taoheed Adedoja and Mr Jimi Agbaje. Each of them has obtained nomination forms for the position zoned to the South-West.

The decision of the zonal leaders to rezone the position to Lagos and Ogun states is eliciting ripples within the party.

Part of the mandate of the Reconciliation Committee, which comprises other members like Senator Kofo AkereleBucknor and Dr Olu Alabi was to collaborate with the contestants to produce a consensus candidate of the zone ahead of the rescheduled national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, next Wednesday.

It was learnt that the members of the committee were individually assigned to speak with the contestants on the possibility of a mutual agreement to have one of them as sole candidate.

For instance, Senator Bucknor Akerele was reportedly

asked to talk to Agbaje to reconsider his stand to contest, but he was said to have declared that such decision was beyond him but that of all the PDP forces that put pressure on him to contest.

Professor Adeniran could not be convinced by Senator Alabi, to back down, claiming to have obtained nomination form to prove he was serious about his aspiration.

Ironically, the committee is

expected to submit its report today, based on the 72-hour deadline given to it by the South-West leaders on Monday.

Insiders said it was apparent that the prospective of a consensus candidate is remote, as according to a source close to the committee, the ‘work of the committee has reached a dead end.”

Similarly, a frantic effort

by the PDP to reconcile the two factions in Osun State suffered a setback as they refused to shift grounds.

Nigerian Tribune learnt that a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, was in the state to broker peace between the factions, but they could not reach a compromise after about six-hour meeting held at a popular hotel in Osogbo, the state capital.

on Wednesday, the Kwara State -born politician said he would bring his experience in public relations and advertising to bear on his responsibilities.

“As a party man, I will not just be bringing professionalism to bear, I will be bringing passion because PDP is actually the only viable vehicle for taking Nigeria to the next level.

“Unfortunately, the leadership in the recent past had become presumptuous.

They took party members for granted, they took the electorate for granted and mismanaged our success.

“The consequence is that we have been thought a lesson that in democracy, the people matter. And that’s the original philosophy of PDP.

I’ll transform PDP’s image —Darah Leon Usigbe and Jacob Segun Olatunji - Abuja

AN aspirant for the office of the national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr John Darah, has vowed to transform the image of the party when he becomes the new party spokesman.

Speaking to reporters at the temporary national secretariat of the party in Abuja,

Fijabi facilitates N300m digital classrooms to UCH

By Olawale Olaniyan

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ibadan South West/North West Federal Constituency, Oyo State, Honourable Saheed Akinade-Fijabi, last Friday commissioned a project worth N300million at the University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

Fijabi, who is the Chairman, House Committee on

tracted by the antics of Sheriff, assuring that the party remained focused, and was working towards repositioning it as the voice of opposition in the country.

mittee and the cancellation of national convention slated for August 17 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Nigerian Tribune gathered from sources that he also insisted that the date and the venue of the fresh convention must be set by all the party’s stakeholders and approved by its National Executive Committee, while the Rivers State governor, Nyeson Wike, must not chair the convention planning committee.

Telecommunication, commissioned the five digital classrooms, a project facilitated by him through the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), to boost the training of medical students across the country.

The classrooms, which have touch screens, can link other teaching hospitals simultaneously.

Speaking at the commissioning, Fijabi said that he

facilitated the project as his own way of contributing to the development of UCH. “UCH is not part of my constituency but I believe this gesture has nothing to do with constituency.

I am a native of Ibadan and I will always project anything that has to do with the development of Ibadan in particular and Oyo State and the country in general,” he said.

of the party in the zone to abide by the decision of the leadership reached at Akure, the Ondo State capital, in the normal tradition of Yoruba obeying and respecting decision of elders.

The group also enjoined the members to shun indiscipline and work in unity for the glory of the South-West, recalling the sad incidence that led to the loss of the House of Representatives speakership by the South-West to the North-West in 2011, when Honourable Aminu Tambuwal finally emerged the speaker instead of Honourable Mulikat

Akande-Adeola, who was the South-West candidate.

Speaking at the press conference attended by some party leaders, including Chief Segun Sowole, Evangelist Jumoke Akinade, Chief Niyi Fashasi, Harry Abiola, Anita Coker, among others, Avodji, while lauding the decision of the South-West leaders and the PDP governors to zone the chairmanship to Lagos and Ogun states, however, urged the stakeholders to present and back a consensus candidate with proven integrity and strong capability to run the office in the interest of South-West.

Jigawa govt sacks commissioner Adamu Amodu - Dutse GOVERNOR Muhammadu Abubakar of Jigawa State, on Wednesday, sacked the state Commissioner for Land, Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Adamu Sarki Miga.

The governor also directed the state Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, Alhaji Ahamed Muhammed Babura, to oversee the affairs of the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development.

Confirming the removal of the commissioner, the Secretary to the Jigawa State Government (SSG), Alhaji Abdulkadir Fanini said, “yes, the state Commissioner for Land, Housing and Urban Development, has been relieved of his duty ”.

Fanini, who refused to disclose the former commissioner’s offence, said “the governor relieved him of his duty. The governor has the power to appoint and relieve anybody ”.

2 die in Ogun autocrash Olayinka Olukoya Abeokuta

TWO lives were lost on Tuesday night in SangoOta area of Ogun State, in an autocrash that occurred at the old Abeokuta/Lagos toll gate.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Unit Commander, Mr Leye Adegboyega, confirmed the accident, saying that it involved a Mack Truck with registration number MUS 338 XS and a Toyota Corrolla marked BC 947 FKJ at

about 11:35 p.m.

He explained that the truck, which was heading to Sango-Ota from Lagos, lost control due to brake failure and rammed into the car at the NNPC filling station.

Adegboyega added that six persons, four males and two females, were involved in the accident.

He said that the two females died.

He, however, advised those hawking goods on the roads to desist from such act in the interest of safety.

37 news Alleged B’Haram recruitment in IDP camps: Saraki calls for probe Thursday, 11 August, 2016

Ayodele Adesanmi -Abuja

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HE Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, urged security agencies in the country not to treat the rumours that Boko Haram terrorists were recruiting members from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the North-East with levity, but to urgently investigate the issue to unravel those behind the menace, if any.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, Saraki said it had become necessary for the nation’s intelligence outfits to take such rumours seriously with the aim of curtailing the untoward development.

“Seeing that ISIS has been recruiting members from European refugee camps and the Kenyan government recently had to shut down the world’s largest refugee camp, because Al-Shaabab was using the place to train and recruit young people as extremists, it is important that we take the rumours about Boko Haram recruiting from IDP camps seriously,” he said.

The Senate President further reiterated his call for a more holistic investigation of alleged diversion of materials meant for the IDPs last week.

He commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigating and arresting a contractor who allegedly diverted 60 trucks of grains that were allocated to IDPs in Borno State by the Federal Government.

He said in order to secure aid and funding from international partners, there was a need for a better coordinated response by the Federal Government to the situation in the North-East.

“What is clear right now is that we cannot do this alone,” he added, “This is why we need to ensure that we put everything that we can in place to ensure that the international commu-

nity is involved at maximum capacity.”

On the arrest of the contractor, the Senate President denounced the actions of individuals who were attempting to enrich themselves off

the plight of the IDPs, stating that it was unconscionable for anyone to attempt to defraud millions of displaced Nigerians in the North East that are on the verge of becoming malnourished.

“I have been to the zone twice in the past 14 months and I have experienced firsthand that the IDPs need as much food and health supplies as they can get. It is utterly immoral for someone to

Board member, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), Mrs Olufunke Adenusi (left), presenting an award of excellence to the Deputy Commissioner, Finance and Administration, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), George Onekhena, on behalf of the Lagos State Commissioner for Insurance, while the chairman, NCRIB, Lagos Area Committee, Mr Ayo Akande watches, during the mid-year workshop of NCRIB, Lagos Area Committee, at the Insurance Broker’s House, Yaba, Lagos, on Wednesday. PHOTO: OVADJE ELLIOT.

FOLLOWING reports that the Shi’ite sect, also known as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), plans to trek from Kaduna to Abuja to demand the release of their leader, Ibraheem ElZakzakky, who has been in detention after a clash with the army last December, the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, has assured that the police will take adequate measures to ensure that there is no breach of secu-

call a Senate public hearing to deliberate on the government’s response to the IDP crisis, which many observers had called a looming humanitarian crisis- if not properly addressed.

“If we all have to sit down with the various stakeholders at the Senate to find out what the institutional and logistical hindrances are, that’s what we are going to do,” the Senate President stated, “It is not enough for us to say that there is a problem, we need to push out solutions quickly; hunger will not wait for anyone.”

Saraki also expressed optimism over the passage of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) Bill, as he said the Senate was using the period of the recess to iron out the creases needed to ensure a smooth passage of the Bill.

“I am confident that we are at the last stretch on the NEDC Bill- at least as far as the Senate is concerned,” he said, “When we return from the recess, it will be very high on our list of priority legislative interventions.”

Refuse to send your child to school, face the law —el-Rufai Muhammad Sabiu -Kaduna GOVERNOR Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has said when the executive bill that gives access to nine years of free and compulsory education in Kaduna, which has been sent to the state house of Assembly, becomes fully operational in September, parents who refuse to send their children to school will be jailed.

The governor, who said the state government had invested massively in educating its children, emphasised that: “by doing this, we are ensuring that all children, the teenage girl inclusive, will have the right to a proper academic foundation to develop their potential fully, thereby empowering her to live a fulfilled life.”

The governor, represented by his deputy, Yusuf

Bala Bantex, at the event commemorating the 2016 World Population Day, under the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) seventh programme assistance, held in Kaduna, noted that the day had been set aside

by UNFPA to draw the attention of governments and developmental agencies on population issues affecting developing societies . el-Rufai disclosed that just a couple of months ago, the state received $21 million as grant from the World Bank.

He added that the state government was working tirelessly to increase access to healthcare services to all children through comprehensive healthcare programmes.

“Through this intervention, we are equipping primary healthcare facilities in all the 255 wards in the state and stocking them

with drugs and medical equipment to increase access to quality healthcare.

We are also rehabilitating and equipping 23 secondary healthcare facilities in 23 local government areas for a better referral system and improved healthcare services for all residents of Kaduna State.”

El-Rufai said: “ The theme of this year’s World Popu-

rity by the members of sect.

The IGP gave the assurance when a religious interfaith group, the Northern Inter-Faith and Religious Organisation for Peace (NIFROP), led a peaceful protest to the Force headquarters to draw attention of the police to the intention of the Shi’ite sect.

The police boss, who was represented by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Habila Joshack, said the laws of the country respected the religious rights of every citizen, but empha-

sised that such rights should not be abused.

Joshack, while addressing the protesters in front of the Force headquarters, said the police would apply the law appropriately, saying the laws of the country had made provision for sanctions.

He said: “I thank you for finding the police an institution that you think stands for peace and security of the nation. I also thank you for recognising the time and resources that have been invested in the search of peace

lation Day is ‘Investing in Teenage Girls,’ an issue that this government is especially passionate about, because we firmly believe that every teenage girl should be given the opportunity to grow into a productive adult contributing to the growth and development of her community.

“We cannot deny that young and teenage girls in

Nigeria, especially in the North, are facing issues detrimental to their well-being.

“Issues ranging from forced marriages, early motherhood, sexual abuse, gender discrimination and lack of access to basic social services like reproductive healthcare services, education and prompt justice in cases where these girls have been sexually abused.”

Kogi sets up judicial commission over failed contracts since 2003 Yinka Oladoyinbo -Lokoja THE Kogi State government, on Wednesday, said it would set up a judicial commission of inquiry to probe failed contracts awarded by previous administrations in the state.

Zakzakky: Police will take adequate measures to ensure security —IGP Collins Nnabuife -Abuja

withhold food - in an attempt to enrich himself - while women and children are starving”, Saraki said.

Saraki added that he was already making consultations on whether or not to

in this country under President Muhammadu Buhari.

“I am also happy that you are part of those who watch your environment and gather information that is translated into intelligence by putting us on the alert that some group of people are likely to march from Kaduna to the FCT. And that is likely to impede on the existing security. We are going to provide a lot of robust security. We are going to do lot of analysis of this information that we will turn into intelligence.”

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo, said this was part of the resolutions of the state executive council meeting.

He said after the deliberations, the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, approved that contracts handled by the CGC Construction Company and many others from 2003 to 2016 would investigated.

He said: “The council resolved that a judicial panel of inquiry be set up to probe into allegations of failed contracts in the state. Contracts by CGC Construction Company and many others will be probed from 2003 to 2016. This is aimed at ensuring the state is not defrauded through contracts that are capable of damaging the economic future of the state.

“Council also approved the School Farm Scheme Initiative to boost food pro-

duction and impress the importance of agriculture on pupils and students. It is believed that the programme will boost the financial viability of schools across the state.”

According to him, the programme, when fully implemented, would lead to agricultural revolution in the state.

Apart from this, Fanwo said, “Council made a bold decision to harmonise taxes, levies, rates, fees and charges collectable by ministries, departments and agencies to help boost the internallygenerated revenue of the state, curb multiple taxation and enthrone transparency and accountability.”

He quoted the governor to have said his government would be decisive in tackling corruption and waste, urging all council members to drive the new direction agenda.

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08056390550 / 07040478677 PERM:- 5 . 6. 16. 17. 26. 36. For 5/6 against 2016, wk7. Special release cost N15,000 = cash each. See more details in my advert next week Goodluck.

MADAM EMILIA – 08068523407

THE WINNERS CHOICE OF POOLS STAKERS SPECIAL RELEASE FOR WEEK 05 BANKER 36 PLUS (2) OTHER HOT PAIR 13 PAIR 15 !!!

So join us in week 06, 07 and 08 with (3) NAP – DRAWS and a PAIR cost N50,000.00 EACH WEEK… IT IS YOUR TURN TO WIN NOW!!!

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL. Address:- No 110 Oke-Ado, Ibadan, Oyo State. Wishing you all best of luck throughout this season…

LEKE INTER NAPS 0909178611 BET 15,18.

Wk.4 = 2x,11x,47x, pair 16F,18X. Our four weeks colour by colour Nap started last wek with 2x, 11x, 47x.

The remaining 3 colours in weeks 5,6,7 will make you snile to the bank.

Cost N30,000 cash per week. Phone for account details.

AUSTINE CHUKWU

08054462577 NAP:- 6,11,17,24,46.

You are welcome to this year English season with above bankers so use it well and call for information.

EXPERT JOSHUA – 08070464033 01X 13X 34XXX

And a free pair Change your life style with the above 3 games and make you call for the pair. Next week cost= N10, 000= 08070464033. Goodluck.

LABAEKA NAP – 32XX 34

open way nap - 08124257898 Our last week game played 3/3 with ROACHDALE vs PETERBORO. SWINDON to set away No 26, add digit of Swindon = 8, go back to away No 8, alphabet count your answer up from RoachDALE in week 4 for X, and game on top and No 34.

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2014 = 18x 19x 34xxx 2015 = 28x 29x 34xxx 2016 = 17x 18x 34xxx

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Week 5 nap cost N30,000 and week 6 cost N50,000 with current prove.

call: 08124257898.

maito is back

08030785634/09081226091 PERM & WIN - 03X 19X 20X 28X 43.

ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! ATTENTION Your evergreen/ace Compiler Maito is back to enrich all Nigerian Tribune readers, also to promote the great paper to greater heights.

Congrtulations weeks, 6 to 10 are joyous weeks to all Nigeria stakers. Week 6 - 10 Naps cost N25,000 cash each week. Good luck.

CALL: 08030785634/09081226091.

saturday result two BANKERS N3,000

WK 04 x17x x27x pair x31x f32f

WK 05 NAP NAP pair NAP NAP

WK 06 nap nap pair nap nap

sunday result two BANKERS N3,000

WK 04 x14x x34x pair x17x x18x

WK 05 NAP NAP pair NAP NAP

WK 06 nap nap pair nap nap

send mtn card to 08139714848.

mr. andrew - 08093055874 Pair (21 and 24) and (29 and 33) Attention! Attention!! Attention!!!

SAM AYO – 08109152433

This is to call on all the stakers to win pool this week and smile to bank. Don’t wait until the result is being published.

Pair (21 and 24) and Pair (29 and 33). Call for your three fixed draws.

Cost price: N20,000 (Twenty thousand naira only).

(21 x 24) CALL: 08093055874 (29 x 33)

WEEK 5. FREE= 13, 25, 38 WEEK 6.= N30, 000 CASH Call for payment details. Goodluck

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH text message OF write up without advert is regarded VOID . PLACE YOUR ADVERT FOR EFFECTIVE PUBLICATION OF YOUR FORECAST. THANKS POOLS EDITOR

Congrats our welcome Nap is set again and other 3 fixed draws.

Call for details on – 08053303522.

07X 08X31XX = 2DRS. The above 3 games is registered for 2 draws. Call now for your welcome 2016/2017 UK winning season. Call WINNERS HOPE 08134496635 (13X 25X 38X)

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ISREAL BAIL OUT = 09085712800 (09XX34.)

CONGRATULATIONS.

Your bail out pay master is back as ever, our Aussie trip was memorable, All thanks to God our 2 weeeks break is now over.

We are now fully back on our success/winning track.

You dont have to change a winning team. Lets celebrates in weeks 5,6,7 as a starting point.

Call & win N25,000 free for all.

INNOCENT NAP 22 NAP 21 = 08095602590

ENGLISH SYSTEM BOOKLET COST = N30,000 CASH WINNER MEMBERSHIP COST: N50,000.O0 CASH 4 Special Draws cost N6,000, Wk 4 2x 5x 28x 34x 4 Special Draws cost N6,000 Wk 5 Nap! Nap! Nap! Nap! 4 Special Draws cost 6,OOO, Wk 6 Nap! Nap] Nap! Nap! 2 Special Draws cost 4,0O0 Wk 4 2x 28x pair 5x 12f 4 Special Draws cost 4,OOO, Wi 5 Nap! Nap ! Nap! Nap! 4 Special Draws cost N4,000 Wk 6 Nap! Nap! Nap! Nap!.

1 Special Draw cost 2,O0O with Pair.

Wk 04 No 5x wk 5 No Nap Wk 6 No Nap KEY: Every Week 5 brown. bank game on top of second Bar to draw wk 05 no 22x 22x plus 4 others cost N6,000 cash. Following Wk 06 to control 4 Special Draws cost 6,00O, send MTN cards to 08095602590 the games will be forwarded tp you via text message. 08095602590.

It’s time to get your own copy of our release and the Current English Booklet which is now on sale. One Banker Wk 4 got No. Nap. There is no need for much advertisement or boasting, just get your copy now without further delay. For your bookings, kindly send MTN/GLO recharges and send to 08095602590, goodluck.

PATRICK THE ENGLISH MAN. 08154836338 (28XX29) PRESTON ON ANNUAL WEEK’5’ CONATANT WIN. 2013-2014-2015 and 2016 Gillingham at home in 2014 and 2015 to draw and game on top, colchester and Brentford= Nap 4/4 Nap= WIN. Gillingham at away in 2013 and 2016week 4 In week ‘5’ 2014 Preston was on No 28 away to draw and in week ‘5’ 2016 on No 29 away. A formidable pair on its 2014 position and 2016= 28xx29 and other scheduled teams and Nos xxxx.

WIN! SURE!! NAP!! with the English Man. Read & Win Promo = N25,000. Good luck.

NEW – ERA AUTHENTIC 07088103080(05 MUST 34) 18X 28X 31X 34XX 21F.

Another sure win again in week 5 eith 2014/2015 and 2016 Annual week 5 cutting of – 10 on westhan, wesathan and Watford.

In 2014 - Westhan, and Wall.

In 2015 westhan ,wolves and wigan on bar in 2016-Wolves and Wycombe on bar.

Week 5 ’2014-09x 13x 49xx - 05x 34x Week 5 ’2015 - 12x 15x 11xxx-05x 34x Week 5 ’2016 – x x x - 34xx 05.

HINT = NO34xxx a muat draw in wek 4 beforew week 5 SURE WIN Another freshly served winning for new clients this week at New Era winning foundation Naps. N35,000.

GOODMORNING WIN- 09099968585

ANNUAL WEEK 5 FREE WIN 07X 13X 22X 09X 34X 49 Records has it that in every week 5 stakers must not complain of not winning on permutation. The nap from the above free win cost N10,000. Good luck.

AKIN MR AKIN – 07067202291 32X MUST 34 NAP X WIN

Peterborobo home 32 and Sheff Utd that fall in a week. Whao!

Never compromise your winning this week. Our new 2016/2017 source of information is unequal – N25, 000.

WINNER CODE 505= 08135637650= 31XX 34XXX NAP 31

U.K. SYSTEM TWO BANKERS N2000 WK 4 NO 2X 5X WK 5 NO NAP NAP WK 6 NO NAP NAP WK 07 NO NAP NAP wk 08 NAP NAP Wk 09 No Nap Nap Power x power two bankers N2000 wk 4 No 18X 28X wk 5 No NAP NAP Wk 06 No NAP NAP wk 07 NO NAP NAP wk 08 No NAP NAP Winner code 505 two Bankers N2000 Wk 04 No 17X 27X wk 05 No Nap Nap ADESURE Nap two Bankers N2,000 wk 4 No.17X 18X wk 05 No NAP NAP Wk 06 No NAP NAP wk 07 No NAP NAP wk 08 No Nap Nap. Stkers try to get winner code 505 Two Bankers this wk 05 BROWN cost N2, 000 cash winner code 505. Group 4. Special draws this wk 05 cost N25,000 wk 04 No 5X 17X 18X 27X= 4/4 wk 05 No Nap Nap Nap Nap we set for 5 wks operations wk 04 05 04 06 07.

Send M.T.N. Card 08135637650.

EDITOR’S PLACE 32XX 33XX

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE POOLS PAGE

THE WINNERS CHOICE WISE STAKERS DELIGHT GET A COPY AND WIN.

M. B. A EXPERT (08104694618) PAIR – 27XX 45

Thursday, 11 - 17 August, 2016 MODFRAN - 08055441813 07 MUST 07CBK FIXED BANKER AGAIN

Congratulations to all my callers/ customers for their last week success on 3/3 (Nap) result.

Modfran Key is set again to do it as usual to week 7 RED. Call now & Book for yours. Goodluck

Week 05 draws are being selected from Dates/Week of play this 2nd week of the 2016/2017 UK Football Season Saturday 13th to Monday 15th of Marathon Soccer duels! Not unusual as it happened in wk.49 of the immediate past Aussie which ran for 4 days with no single Australian match in all 49 computation favours the 3 dates of play with science of numbers formula Alphabets Versus Alphabets in Barclays Premiership point to 2 pairs in partnership with Dates and Week Scottish Premiership presents intriguing setting with at least a draw at Aberdeen and Kilmarhock. Play back of wk. 05 of 2015 – 2016 Good luck. Although week 04 draws not all that encouraging as from draws refused to click. Consolation was 3 Nap free to regular at 11X 28X 34X. Week 5 Super Nap is sure call 08104694618 for details.

MAITO .VS. PROMOTERS

The Ibadan based indigenous promoter NAZAR master pools company has declared that the company remains resolute and optimistic in giving its teeming customers the best of service that will contribute to their welfare in this UK/Scottish 2016/2017 season.

A spokeman of the company while speaking with the TRIBUNE POOLS correspondent at the Uncle Joe building mokola, Ibadan. Head office reiterated to render positive and good services to stakers in all states.

The top manager therefore appealed to all stakers in the pools betting industry to continue alligning with NAZAR master pools company for assured bigger dividends. He also welcome all stakers to prosperous New seasons (He declared).

JACOBSON – 07065292905 (21XX 34)

NAZAR POOLS OPTIMISTIC

IKECHUKWU NAP- 08168157259 (21X22).

WEEK 4 – 02X 34X 40XXX – 21F CONGRATULATIONS – OLDHAM HOME 31 Directed 3 weeks in a season assured Nap on Oldham home 31 in 2015/2016/2017 3 Years winning Programe.

In 2015 weeks 5, 26 and 42= 3 times, Now 2016 weeks 5, 26 and 42= 3 times, In 2017 weeks 5, 26 and 42= again Week 5’ 2015 – 03x 13x 22xx – 21x 22= 7drs Week 26’ 2015 – 14x 22x 22xx – 21x 22= 10drs Week 42’ 2015 – 17x 35x 44xx – 21x 22= 10drs Watch the additional draws formation in weeks 5 and 26 addition in week 42.

Thw above illustration shown the previous weeks performances and number of draws.(FULLPAYMENT) NOTE= Cutting of coupon must be Nos – 10, 22, 34 and 46. Call & win N50, 000= Refuge win.

SUNDERLAND SYSTEM= 09038460009= 28X NAP 34

WINNER MEMBERSHIP N50, 000. ENGLISH SYSTEM BOOKLET N30, 000 4 Bankers N6, 000 Wk 04 No 5X 17X 27X 47X WITH 18X 24F 4. Bankers N6, 000 Wk 05 No Nap Nap Nap Nap Two Bankers N6, 000 Wk 04 No 17X 27X PAIR 18X 24F Two Bankers N6, 000 Wk 05 No Nap Nap Nap Pair Nap Nap Two Bankers N6, 000 Wk 06 No Nap Nap Pair Nap Nap FIRST ENGLAND season release Sunderland system 4 special draws this week 3 PURPLE cost N6, 000 two Bankers cost N3000 winner membership group A N100, 000 Hurry up to get your copy today. Send MTN Card= 09038460009

AKANDE IT’S STAKERS SEASON AS YOU INVEST (08025572554) PAIR 16 OR 17 This season would be the best of its kind for the stakers who can invest properly for the return of the past looses. Akande emphasized.

My 3 Draws release week will coming up soon and all my loved one should get prepared for the first attempt for good returns of their investment as you must all be happy the cost of my 3 Draws remain N10, 000 cash payable to Akande Asatokun Bola Mustapha keystone Bank Account No. 6017037192 as 16 pair 17 will justify your winning on Saturday.

HOPE NAPS & CO 08107128449

Welcome to English season.

Bank on 49 pair 32. Must for one X you are welcome with 3 draws and pair this week 05 to restructure your financial capability this season.

Call Hope Naps & co and pay to First Bank plc in person of Mr. Gbadebo Stephen A. on Account No 3088328923. Wk 05 cost just. N20, 000 Bank on No 49 & 32 or No 32 Pair 49 must on Saturday. God Bless you bye.

ZENITH WELCOME NAPS – 08146879314.

05X 14X 27XXX = 02X .

BIRMINGHAM- BRANDFORD.C at H = 02x 14x.

BRIGHTON – BARNET at A = 05x 27x.

Congratulations and to God be the glory for his mercy back to Nigeria. We are back with lots of goodies to enrich our darling stakers. Congrats our new draws formation from an outstanding Bookmarker/Expert with P.P.A assistance made our last week 5 NAP – NAP – NAP is also assured as our WELCOME Nap. Join the winners to the Zenith freeland win. Zenith is now managed by 2 foreign Experts of reputation. Congrats once again call & win N50,000 , good luck.

COMFORTABLE – HERITAGE INTER 08065833138 (28XX 29) WK ‘04’ RESULT:- 05X, 17X, 18X, & 43F ¾

The compiler of Comfortable Heritage Inter is therefore on ground to welcome the U.K Soccer Season with special release in week 05, 06, & 07 the company is how you based with a Nigerian Representative – OLUWAFEMI JOHNSON, with phone no:(+23408065833138) Our record is there to prove us right (OR) wrong as we made it of rean good for Pools stakers, with our good PERFORMANCE OF 3 over 3 correct draws eight out of the Ten weeks we released in the previous season Heritage International, the requirement is a Registration Fees (N100,00) one hundred Thousand Naira Only with a deposit OR (N20,000) cash per wk. flash back wk ‘04’ congratulation for our customers in wk ‘04’ RESULT, nos 05XX 17XX, 18XX & 43F, phy ‘3 over 4’ Call, OLUWAFEMI – JOHNSON – 08065833138 For detail. This week:- 28XX 29XX plus 3 others cost N20,000 CASH.

MAGIC KINGDOM – 08056753098/07085060512.

NAP - 32X33X34XPAIR 30X36.

(B) NAP - 01X03X16XX19X24.

The Managing DIrector of Maqgic KIngdom Nap – 32,33,34 pair 30 and 36 and 1x 3x16xx19x24 last week our game cut one. But I promised you before week 10 all our clients/customers will be millionaire if you follow our games winning trend in weeks 6, 7 and 8. Cost N25,000 each week. Payment to Balogun Adesina Kamoru at FCM Bank no 0279550016, Wema Bank no. 0206965116 or G.T Bank No. 0115505082.

Call 08056753098/07085060512.

You can register as a club member with N50,000 into the account. You can pay twice.

JOSEPH INITIATIVE (07 must 34) 08167278061

LIVERPOOL AWAY NUMBER ONE (1) in weeks 5 and 6. Congratulations to all African stakers.

Called from 2016 and 2017 draw gazette winning booklet.

Another Historic 2 week win at Joseph the only initiative winning place as it was in 2013/2014 season in weeks 03 and 04 with WIGAN. A. Away No 1= 2 weeks of 12 drs Week 03’ 2013 – 4x 16x 43xxx – 7x 34x Week 04’ 2013 – 09x 21x 33xxx – 34x 07x.

History has it, and to repeat it…

Week 5’ 2016 – X X X – 7xx 34.

Week 6’ 2016 – X X X – 34xx 07.

Welcome to the initiative winning sport where everyone is a winner= N50, 000.

NEW CURRENT INFORMATION KEY 09038633666 = 08166222529= NAP 36XX 37XX

WK 4 Purple No 2X 5X 18X 28X PAIR 44X 47X= N8, 000

Wk 05 No Nap Nap Nap Nap= N8000 PAIR 36. 37.

4. special draws N8,000 wk 06 No NAP NAP NAP NAP with. X X 4 SPECIAL DRAWS N8,000 with X X wk 09 No NAP NAP NAP NAP with X X wk 10 No NAP NAP NAP NAP. Two Bankers N4,000 wk 04 No 2X 5X 2X 5X Pair44X 47X Two Bankers N4,000 wk 05 No NAP NAP Pair. NAP NAP. N4000 Wk 06 NAP NAP pair NAP NAP wk 07 No NAP NAP Pair xx Wk 08 No NAP NAP. Stakers try key Letter B. B at HOME No 2.3.

Letter CC at Home No 45 to control 4 special draws this Wk 05 BROWN cost N8, 000 and two bankers cost N4, 000 following wk 05 BROWN to control 4. Special draws cost N8, 000 two bankers cost N4000 send MTN. card Card.

ATTENTION PLEASE! ALL ADVERTS ARE TO BE FULLY PAID

08030785634/09081226091

03XX28XX43XX- 2drs.

The draw manager is back on stage again to enrich stakers. Our long silence is to give stakers our BEST services on fixed draws. Congratulations our week 5-10 win is a must for all winning desired stakers. A week miss is regrettable. Call for details.

Good luck.

ANNUAL WIN WITH SHEFF UTD VS ROACHDALE = XX The two teams that controls our 3 weeks 5, 6, 7 Nap to welcome our clients back to England (2016/2017 UK Season) on Annual winning instruction = 2014/2015/2016.

BROWN – BROWN = BROWN = WIN!!!

Wk 9-2014=03X 20X 47XXX – 30X = 12drs Wk 13-2015=02X 16X 40XXX-32X = 8drs Wk 5-2016=X X X - 21X 34 = 10drs Week 5, 9 and 13 fixed brown colored coupon position of Sheff Utd in week 9 ‘2014 to draw in week 13 ‘2015 = 32XX and Sheff Utd position in 2015 to draw in 2016 = 21XX pair Sheff Utd. And other fixed matches. Welcome back = N25, 000.

PAIR 20 AND 29- PAIR 20 AND 29 Mrs. Henry 08170779623 & 08071554934 With the power confirmed on me as the Chief Representative of PPA in Africa, I am calling on all stakers to win pool in Wk 5 and 6. The President of PPA (Mr. Robbison) has vowed to shake all promoters for this two weeks key:- LIVERPOOL at No 1 away in wk 5 and wk 6.

Another powerful KEY:- Arsenal at No 1 to give you three fixed draws on coupon.

Wk 5 cost price for LIVERPOOL -N30,000 (Thirty thousand naira only). Wk 5 cost price for Arsenal live code N250,000 Two hundred and fifty thousand naira only without negotation).

Call 08170779623 & 08071554934.

winning is possible!!!

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08103244128, 08144047577 KEY: Brentford at Home/Away on Saturday, date of play:

Week 4 = 14x, 17x, 27x. Pair 5x, 18x.

Week 5 = NAP, NAP, NAP Pair 15, 29.

Week 6 = BET, BET, BET Pair X, X. Cost price = N25,000 cash weekly.

Acct Name: Mr. Oloyede Ibrahim Olamide.

Acct No: 0154084537. GTbank.

AJISEFINNI BACK WITH GAZETTED

080349575534/ 08023683775 DRAWS SET FOR WEEKS 05, 06 AND 07.

Week 5 – 17x 26 and 43x 44 for X each way – and the Nap. Call for details Naps. Don’t miss it.

MIGHTY INT NAP 08032300297 (26CBK) .

We welcome all our fans and customers to the new English season the season started on a good note and make hay while the sunshine we are very sure of what we are doing Bank= 26x 26x 26x with other 2 drs cost N10, 000= this weeks Next week 6 cost N25, 000 Good-luck.

YEWA GAMES – 07064660296 11X 41X 49XXX

Play and pay N20, 000= after winning to Bankole Bashiru at GT. Bank Account No 0114368154. Starting of our 3 weeks operational Nap. Call & win. Goodluck.

MID-WEEK OFFER 2628 (08087176217) The juicy Mid-Week International is offering coupon Nos 26 & 28 for a good draw to all punters on Saturday. The duo will definitely oblige us with a good X bk. Use them profitably, add them to our IBK sells for N1,500.00, 2 draws cost N3,000.00; and 3 super sell for N10,000.00 on 08087176217. Good luck!

HERITAGE NAP.

(08032428168) 13 WED. 15 With the encouraging result of last week, stakers must open their eyes very well in the current season to ensure that promoters pay for their sins. The pair above and other gazetted draws are for stakers desirous of being millionaires. Pay N15,000 and get the game. We are winning together.

akande with the draws prospect in the early run week 5 pair 16 or 17.

Watch-out for my draws soon. Pay N10,000 cash to KEYSTONE BANK. Account No: 6017037192, payable Akande Asatokun Bola Mustapha and win big with N10,000 cash as 16 pair 17 will do justice.

PHONE: 08025572554.

ISRAEL BAIL OUT - 09085712800 Congratulations your bail out is back love best

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two BANKERS N4,000 WK 05 WK 06 WK 04 nap nap x18x nap nap x34x pair pair pair nap nap x02x nap nap x05x

two BANKERS N4,000 WK 05 WK 06 WK 04 nap nap x17x nap nap x27x pair pair pair nap nap x31x nap nap f32f

send mtn card to 08166222529, 08095602590.

WEEK 4 X RAY Good start to 2016/2017 UK/Scottish season with unlimited winnings fromj our outstanding compilers.

Best bargain lead our Experxts rating ;ast week with incredible welcome NAP. Our pair manager fulfilled their promises, Luckman, Sunderland System, Dosa, Akande Ola City, Labaeka, Dr M.M Promise, Madam Emilia. King David, Yewa Games, Dr B4 Dr, Leke International and Babson. Narrow missed at Magic Kingdom, Dr J.K Pools and Carmark Super.

Modfran remain solid in one banker series. Congratulationc, all our compilers are now ready to fire from all cyclinders without compromise to enrich all our readers/clients.

Welcome to prosperous 2016/2017 UK/Scottish season. Stay with our experts to win with their early hot served winning contact. Good luck.

VICTOR 08126994034 05X 07X 32X 33X 35X 09

Sure permutation with the above games as a welcome to U/K 2016/2017 season. 3 direct NAP cost N10,000- now (3 weeks nap).

Watch Liverpool at away No 1 in weeks 5 and 6 to be on number 8 in week 7 for our assured 3 weeks back to back sensational fixed naps.

Good luck.

WEEK 5 STATUS

EKO- 7 and 48 LKO- 8 and 19 SUNDAY MATCHES01,02,16 and 24 MONDAY MATCH-04

torquay

TWO BANKER WK 04 N3,000

x14x x28x WK 05 brown nap nap

lincoln

TWO BANKER WK 04 N3,000 x17x x34x WK 05 brown nap nap

telford

TWO BANKER WK 04 N3,000 x27x X47X WK 05 brown nap nap

SEND MTN CARD TO 09038460009

BEST BARGAIN INTERNATIONAL 08092621480 WK 04 = 5XX WK 05 = NAP,

14XX NAP,

17XX = 3/3 NAP. = 3/3

The U.k/ Scotish season started on an excellent note last week as my free game played 3/3 with 5xx 14xx 17xx. The 2016/2017 week 04 to week 10 coded key has been unveiled to me by the pools panel and Bookmarkers. Stakers should therefore fetch water when the rain is falling. Last week result was not an after – thought, as the game was released to stakers before the matches. Registration fee remains N250,000. take advantage of this opportunity to change your fortune and stop complaining of lack of money.

Call me on 08092621480 for further discussions and details.

NJOROGE MR ASSURANCE BACK ON WINNING TRACK TO WELCOME ALL STAKERS TO 2016/17 SEASON THE real ASSURANCE WINNING PLACE. 08177474535 (22 GLUE 21) CALL FOR YOUR ASSURANCE 3 FIXED DRAWS. WELCOME.

SIDELINES

NO 16,565

N150

THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST, 2016

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Commuters were left groaning in Lagos on Tuesday as drivers of BRT buses protested the delay in the payment of their salaries. Since there is no delay in payment of fares by the commuters on those buses, why make them suffer for other people’s lapses?

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ERTAIN qualities and concepts such as service and philanthropy, the hallmarks of many great countries are terms with which many Nigerians are not familiar. Majority of Nigerians do not believe in rendering any form of service without taking something in return”.

Recently I delivered the Keynote Address on the occasion of the investiture of the 8th District Governor of Rotary International District 9125 Nigeria, Rotarian Bisi Adegoke. Though I am not a member of the association, I have nevertheless maintained, in the course of several years, close relationships with many members of the body as to have formed a very positive view of the objectives of the association and the lessons which the country as a whole can draw from them. Without a doubt, ours is a country of immense potential. At independence Nigerians and foreigners alike were unified in their conviction that this country would in no time assume greatness and become a world leader. Decades down the line, Nigeria has become a conundrum of sorts, bewildering not only those who projected its greatness but even those who had their doubts as to its viability as a nation.

Regrettably, most of the problems of the country have been blamed on its leadership and perhaps this is understandably so given its huge human and natural resources. However I am of the view that when the story of the current challenges of Nigeria come to be told decades down the road, the government and governed will take the blame in not too dissimilar measures. For one, “certain qualities and concepts such as service and philanthropy, the hallmarks of many great countries are terms with which many Nigerians are not familiar. Majority of Nigerians do not believe in rendering any form of service without taking something in return”. For many the idea of selfless service is anathema. Yet some groups and individuals exist whom have identified service as a way of life without which there cannot be meaningful development. This is where Rotary International is significant. To set the

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Rotary international: Service above self an ideology worthy of emulation (1) proper perspective, the history of Rotary International must be taken into account albeit in summary form.

ORIGIN OF ROTARY Rotary International is an international service organisation. The website of Rotary International reveals it was founded

by Paul.P Harris who, like myself, was an Attorney after he felt the need to create a professional group with the same friendly spirit he felt in the small towns of his youth. From the first meeting, ROTARY was adopted asthe name of the new club.

By 1910, Rotary had 16 clubs and had its first convention, that same year ROTARY also went National in the USA. The name ROTARY INTERNATIONAL was adopted in 1922 and by mid-1925;ROTARY INTERNATIONAL had grown to more than 2000 clubs and estimated membership strength of 108,000 members on six continents. As ROTARY INTERNATIONAL grew, members pooled their resources and used their talents to serve their communities. Today ROTARY INTERNATIONAL connects 1.2 million members from more than 34,000 Rotary Clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. The work of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is to improve live at both local and international levels. The organization’s dedication to this ideal is most appropriately expressed in its motto: Service Above Self.

Another unique aspect of the core beliefs of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is the

four-way test. The 4-way testposits four questions of the things we think say or do, viz: 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4.

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

OBJECT OF ROTARY Again no meaningful discussion can be held without considering the Object of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL. The Object of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: • FIRST: the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; • SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society; • THIRD: the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life; • FOURTH: the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

These objects are and have been met through various avenues of service such as:

1. Club service which focuses on active membership development plan.

2. Vocational service which calls on every Rotarian to contribute their expertise to the problems and needs of society.

3. Community service which encourages every Rotarian to serve the public interest.

4. International service through sponsorship of and volunteering on international projects, and partnerships.

5. Youth service through leadership development programs.

CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY In pursuing its core mandate, Rotary has made many contributions to society which include: 1. The contribution of over $600 million to the eradication of Polio; 2. Provision of a vehicle for helping individuals achieve philanthropic goals, in this aspect the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stands out.

3. Employment of thousands of people to drive its mission in thousands of offices across the world.

4. Contributions in areas of health, education, economic empowerment, emergency and disaster, and armed conflict situations.

In these areas, Rotary has an enviable track record. However there is much more to be done to place Rotary firmly as a fundamental part of Nigeria’s National development and the development of positive attitudes towards giving in Nigeria.

To be continued

Rio Olympics: Quadri crashes out, gets $2,500 reward from Frot

By Ganiyu Salman REIGNING African champion, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has crashed out of the ongoing Rio Olympics.

Quadri, who became the first African to qualify for the quarter-final of the men’s table tennis singles event of the Olympic Games, lost 0-4 to world’s number one, Ma Long of China in the early hours of Wednesday.

The match ended in just 28 minutes with Long cruising to the semi-final with 11-4, 112, 11-6, 11-7 scoreline.

Quadri, had before his exit in the Games created upsets when he sent world’s number seven, Chuang Chih-Yuan of Chinese Taipei 4-0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-6, 11-7) and world’s number 13th Timo Boll of Germany packing in the third and fourth round respectively.

Meanwhile, Quadri, who marked his 28th birthday on the day he lost to the king of table tennis was honoured by Brazilian spectators after the match, as they sang a befitting birthday song in honour of the Oyo State-born ping pong star.

“They were really good singers, I was so happy seeing them singing for me, it’s an amazing thing,” an elated Quadri said.

The 40 ranked player in the world and 27 at Rio Olympics, acknowledged that he lost to a better opponent saying: “MA Long is so much better, so much faster, everything is just perfect about Long. His speed was just too much for me (to contain). It was not going very well for me tonight and I had a lot more difficulty receiving his service. He was stronger and faster, everything was just too perfect about him.”

With his feat in Rio, Quadri believes this

would inspire African players to aim for medals at the Olympics.

“I believe that it is possible for an African to win Olympic medal in table tennis because nothing is impossible to go there, and not just me. I strongly believe there are some upcoming players in Africa, including Omar Assar, and some top Nigerian players who could be able to easily match my record with hard work,” the 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist stated.

Meanwhile, Quadri has been rewarded

by Frot Group with a sum of $2,500 (about N1million).

According to the President of Frot Group, Frank Momoh, the exploits of the Nigerian star at Rio 2016 should be celebrated.

“Despite the loss of Quadri to Ma Long, the team needs our commendation, especially as Quadri has set a new African re-

cord as the first African to reach an Olympic quarter final in table tennis.

“To show our full support for the team, I on behalf of Frot Group hereby give a cash reward of $2,500 to Aruna Quadri for his new African record. Well done NTTF President, Wahid Enitan-Oshodi, well done team Nigeria,” Momoh stated.

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