September 10, 2015

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Tinubu to PDP governors: Buhari clearing your mess President is no dictator, say APC leader, Senator

Falling crude prices stall SWF

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HE Federal Government’s contribution to the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has been constrained by falling oil prices.

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LL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders yesterday rose in defence of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying he is not a dictator as claimed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors.

Buhari is only clearing the rot created by the PDP government, especially under former President Godluck Jonathan, APC National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former APC Interim National Chairman Chief Bisi Akande and Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) said.

Tinubu and Akande were at the Aso Villa, Abuja to confer with the President.

The former Lagos State governor said: “I disagree with that (dictatorial tendency). He (Buhari) was elected on a platform of democracy; he has adhered to the rule of law so far.

What is dictatorship about what he has done?

He has helped to stimulate the economy in the various states and that is where the people are. So what is dictatorship?

“An institutional paralysis had occurred in the country. It is very important for a steady man like the President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is Continued on page 6

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An institutional paralysis had occurred in the country. It is very important for a steady man like the President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is what he is doing; so I don’t see what is dictatorial about that

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Outages halt Senate’s power sector probe

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ENATORS pulled the brakes yesterday on their hearing on power sector funds —no thanks to power outages.

The outages, which occurred eight times within four hours, forced the committee to hurriedly bring the sitting to a close.

The first power failure happened around 2.30 p.m. when the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, was speaking on behalf of the various electricity generating and distrib-

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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS EVER RETURN?

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UNILAG student electrocuted

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NIVERSITY of Lagos (UNILAG) students took to the streets yesterday following Tuesday’s electrocution of their colleague Miss Oluchi Anekwe...

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uting companies.

The first outage lasted for 10 minutes, the second 14 minutes, the third five minutes, the fourth, eight minutes and the fifth five minutes.

The sixth, seventh and eight outages lasted for 12 minutes.

Many members of the committee said they suspected sabotage.

When the outage became irritating, a member of the committee rushed out to fetch candles to light the room.

Another brought two rechargeable lamps from his office to illuminate the table where the committee members sat.

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HE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is working on a threegame friendly match series to be played in London and Belgium in the next FIFA free week.

The Sunday Oliseh-led Super Eagles defeated Niger Republic 2-0 on Saturday in an international friendly in Port Harcourt.

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BA plane catches fire in Las Vegas

A •ON FIRE: The British Airways plane...yesterday.

BRITISH Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 170 people on board on emergency slides.

Airport officials said at least 14 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

SOURCE: BBC

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Counting losses, gains of the stock market

•Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, (middle), looking at the architectural design of Dangote Oil Refinery Company when he visited the company’s site during his inspection tour of the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Imobido, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos...yesterday. With him are: General Manager, Dangote Oil Refinery Company, Mr. Madhav Kelkar (left); Security Coordinator, Dangote Oil Refinery Company, Brig-Gen Abel Osamudiame (second left), Chairman, Lekki Free Trade Zone Development Company, Otunba Olusegun Jawando (second right) and Community Relations Officer, Prince Atiku Taiwo.

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Investors in the Nigerian stock market are losing money. Listed companies need funds and the operators are under pressure to raise additional funds. Everything appears to be moving fast in an election year, mixed with currency devaluation and a decline in the main income line of crude oil.

But, within the rough mix lies the gains of tomorrow. A survey of the underlying trends driving the market downward by Capital Market Editor TAOFIK SALAKO shows that the rough tide may bring huge gains

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•President, National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Mr. Chikwe Edoziem (left); Head, Corporate Banking, Skye Bank Plc., Mrs. Funmilola Oketogun and President-elect, NAPE, Mr. Nosa Omorodion, at the association’s monthly Technical/Business Luncheon, sponsored

by Skye Bank in Lagos.

• Winner of the MTN Best 11 Retailers Promo, Mrs. Shittu Kafayat with her cheque at the presentation of MTN Promo prizes in Lagos.

She is flanked by Sales & Distribution Executive, MTN Nigeria, Mr.'Tsola Barrow (left) and Frank Edoho.

•From left: Representative of the President, Ogun State Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Chief Bidemi Mulero; Zonal Controller, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Lagos Zonal Office, George Enyiekpon; representative of the permanent secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ogun State, Olufemi Olaoluwa and Chief Trade Promotion Officer, NEPC, Mrs Franscisca Odega, at the “Export for the beginners on opportunities in non-oil PHOTO: MUYIWA HASSAN export and market penetration strategy” in Abeokuta...yesterday.

NVESTORS in the Nigerian stock market have lost more than onetenth of their portfolios in the past eight months. The stock market had moved from the ups and downs of the first half to a more gruelling and sustained depreciation in the third quarter. The benchmark index for the Nigerian stock market - the All Share Index (ASI) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) - closed in August at 29,684.84 points, compared to the opening index of 34,657.15 points for this year, representing an average decline of 4,972.31 points or 14.35 per cent.

The ASI, a value-based common index that tracks prices of all quoted companies on the NSE, doubles as Nigeria’s sovereign equity index; the barometer to measure the performance of the Nigerian investment market within a time frame. The upward and downward movement of the ASI implies losses or gains in monetary value.

As such, the ASI and aggregate market value of all quoted companies on the stock market move proportionately in the same direction. While new listing, delisting and supplementary listing could temporarily distort full directional view of the market capitalisation, the market over a period corrects such distortion to align capitalisation with the benchmark index.

The aggregate market value of all quoted equities on the NSE closed in August at N10.208 trillion, indicating a loss of N1.27 billion on this year’s market opening value of N11.478 trillion. The negative average year-todate performance further underlined the anxieties of investors, who had lost N1.75 trillion in another negative year in 2014.

Nigerian equities ranked among the worst-performing stocks globally in 2014 with an average full-year decline of 16.14 per cent. Aggregate market value of all quoted equities closed in 2014 at N11.477 trillion as against its opening value of N13.226 trillion for the year, indicating a loss of N1.75 trillion during the year. The ASI had closed 2013 at 41,329.19 points while aggregate market value of all quoted closed in the same year at N13.226 trillion.

Everything put altogether, they simply imply that the investors in the Nigerian stock market have lost N3.02 trillion or 28.17 per cent over the past 20 months.

The slide knows no sector and to a large extent, no stock. There are few contrarian stocks. Cross-sectoral analysis underlined the market-wide nature of the downtrend. All tracked group indices at the stock market opened on September 7 in the red.

From banking to insurance, oil and gas to fast moving consumer goods, to industrial goods, ethical to general

stocks, blue chips to penny stocks and from the premium board to the main board and the emerging market, the market is coasting together in one direction. The ASI opened this week with average-year-to-date return of 14.85 per cent. The NSE 30 index, which tracks the highly influential 30 most capitalised companies at the stock market, opened with above average return of -15.18 per cent.

Investors in consumer goods’ companies appeared to be worst hit with the NSE Consumer Goods Index (CGI) carrying year-to-date return of -19.04 per cent. The NSE Premium Index, which tracks three newly grouped companies, including Dangote Cement, First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Holdings and Zenith Bank, opened with -13.93 per cent, slightly above the main board return of -13.68 per cent.

In the financial services sector, the NSE Banking Index indicated a return of -11.87 per cent, almost a step above -10.97 per cent in the populous, but less significant insurance sub-sector. The NSE oil & gas Index has a double-digit negative return of -11.37 per cent, underlining losses in the upstream and downstream segments of the oil industry.

The industrial goods sub-sector has shown the greater resistance with a modest negative return of -1.23 per cent. The illiquid Alternative Securities Market (ASeM) showed a return of -0.45 per cent. For ethical investors, the NSE Lotus Islamic Index- which tracks specially screened stocks for Shari’ah-compliant investments, provided the possible estimate of loss with average return of -11.08 per cent while the NSE Pension Index, which tracks 40 companies, adjudged to meet the stricter rules for pension investments, indicated average decline of 8.47 per cent.

With inflation rate at 9.2 per cent, the benchmark interest rate at 13 per cent and currency depreciation of more than 20 per cent, the adjusted losses by investors may be in double of the simple benchmark return. Executive Vice Chairman, Capital Assets Limited, Mr. Ariyo Olusekun, said foreign exchange was a major underlying factor for the downward trend at the stock market.

According to him, the steep depreciation in the naira and the uncertainty around the foreign exchange management has been combined factor in the dynamics shaping the market direction.

Citing an instance, he said that investor who invested in the stock market with $1 million in 2014 when the exchange rate was N160 to the dollar and gained 25 per cent would still be in a loss at the current exchange rate of about N220 per dollar.

The seven-month report on foreign

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portfolio investment (FPI) for the period ended July 31, indicated that foreign investors accounted for 54.21 per cent of total transaction value during the period but the larger proportion of foreign portfolio transactions were outflows rather than inflows.

The preponderance of sale transactions by foreign investors left Nigeria with a deficit FPI position of N28.38 billion. The total FPI outflow stood at N362.42 billion over the seven-month period, representing 52.04 per cent of the total foreign portfolio transactions of N696.46 billion.

The total foreign inflow totaled N334.04 billion, 47.96 per cent of total foreign flow and domestic investors accounted for N588.36 billion, 45.79 per cent of the market’s total transaction of N1.28 trillion during the seven-month period.

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Stock Exchange (NSE), the FPI report used two key indicators-inflows and outflow, to gauge foreign investors’ mood and participation in the stock market as a barometer for the economy.

The FPI outflow in-

cludes sales transactions or liquidation of equity portfolio investments through the stock market while inflow includes purchase transactions on the NSE. The NSE report is generally regarded as a credible gauge of FPI in the country as it coordinates data from nearly all active and major investment bankers, stockbrokers, custodians and other capital market operators.

Nigeria had recorded a net foreign portfolio deficit of N154.14 billion in 2014, overriding a modest positive net flow of N20.48 billion recorded in 2013. The 12month FPI report for 2014 had shown that foreign portfolio outflow was N846.53 billion as against inflow of N692.39 billion in 2014.

In 2013, total foreign inflow stood at N531.26 billion compared with outflow of N510.78 billion.

ESIDES the erosion of capital gains, the slide is adversely impacting the fundamental performance of companies. The long-drawn losing trend has dampened investors’ appetite and created apathy to new issues. Several companies have been unable to raise funds and many that had braced the odds to launch new capital, ended with under-subscription. Companies that had recently launched bids to raise new capital have demurred from furthering the issuance process as share prices continued to fall below intrinsic fundamental values.

For instance, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, which recently submitted application for regulatory approval to raise N30.25 billion through a proposed rights issue of 1.09 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N27.50 per share, is currently trading below the proposed offer price.

Another company, May & Baker Nigeria Plc, which had announced plan to float a rights issue, is trading at around N1.24 per share, a price the promoters of the issue considered to be below the intrinsic value of the company.

RT Briscoe, which struggled with huge financial leverage and sought to restructure its balance sheet through equity issue, has slumped to 55 kobo.

All the companies that floated new issues in recent time fell could not meet their offer targets as they trade below their offer price, putting subscribers to the issues in losses.

Access Bank, which had offered about 7.63 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N6.90 to existing shareholders, recorded 79.4 per cent success rate. The bank raised N42 billion as against its offer target of N53 billion.

The rule at the NSE allows price movement on a company undertaking new issue on the principle that a free market must be allowed to discover the current price through interplay of demand and supply.

In the words of Sewa Wusu, an economist and Head, Research & Investment Advisory, SCM Capital Limited (formerly Sterling Capital Markets Limited), “the reason why companies shy away from public offers is that the new issues may not necessarily get patronage or commitment from new investors due to the current state of the mar-

ket.

“Most companies are embarking on rights issues due to the certainty that they can raise the required funds from existing investors, particularly the institutional shareholders and some large bloc holders who may be fully committed to retain their shareholding positions in the companies. But the shortfalls you have seen were reactions from retail investors.”

Diamond in the rough Acting President, Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), Mr. Oluwaseyi Abe, blamed the slide in the market on political risk and uncertain macroeconomic direction contributed.

According to him, it is a normal pattern for the stock market to slow down during a political transition as investors wait for the policy direction of the market. Mr Oluleye Ademola, Head, Research & Investment, Capital Bancorp Plc, said the slide in the market might also not be unconnected with the high interest rate in the fixed-income market, weak earnings by some companies and panic selling from weary investors.

Most analysts however said the sustained depreciation has created opportunities for medium to long term investors.

The Head, Research & Investment Advisory, Meristem, Mr. Basheer Bashir, noted that the current market situation provides attractive buy opportunities for discerning investors.

He said: “Valuations look attractive for quite a number of stocks across all sectors of the market irrespective of the economic headwinds. We are of the opinion that the current economic factors and realities have been overpriced into the market.

“Nigerian equities basket is priced at PE of circa 9x current earnings compared to emerging market average of 11.6× and South Africa(24x), Kenya (13.7x) and Egypt (10.50x),” Bashir said.

Operators agreed that the market will witness considerable recovery in the fourth quarter. The FBN Capital has estimated that the market might close with a marginal decline of one per cent as against the current average loss of about 15 per cent.

What the future holds for the market, by operators

OR Executive Vice Chairman of Capital Assets Limited Ayo Asekun, the fundamentals of the quoted companies, especially the blue chips, remain sound. He said the earnings of the companies encourage people to invest in them, even as he noted that the environmental factors could affect the market.

He said: “You’ll observe that the market went up immediately after the election as a show of confidence in the new leader but the lack of economic policy •Asekun

discouraged investors.

“The foreign exchange situation has also not helped matters as foreign investors have been waiting to see the direction of the market. This investors’ apathy is also affecting the primary market. People may not want to buy shares when the market is down.

“But I think it is better for investors to manage their expectations. I’ll not advise anybody to expect a fantastic rally before the end of the year, even as I believe that the market will stabilise once the government unfolds its economic policy direction. There is room to make some gain, because if the market is 15 per cent negative now and it stabilises and closes the year at one per cent or flat, there is some gain.

But, the Head, Research & Investment Advisory, Meristem, Mr. Basheer Bashir predicted a blur in the outlook of the companies for the remaining part of the year.

He hinged his position on a few macro economic factors including weak global growth and tumbling oil prices at the global market.

“Worse still for the country”, he said, “the glut in the oil market will persist as we expect Iran to push more volume into the market before the end of the year as the sanctions regime will soon end on the Asian country. Against this •Bashir backdrop, government’s fiscal revenues and foreign exchange earnings are expected to re-

main under pressure, transferable to the Nigerian equities.

“But, there is a weak probability that the market may close positive as there may be some reliefs in the monetary space as we expect the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to relax some of its policies in favour of improved liquidity in the foreign exchange market, owning to JP Morgan’s deadline and its impact on Nigerian capital market, especially the bond market.

“We also expect the CBN to relax and do a downward review of the CRR rate currently at 31 per cent on the implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy on public sector fund. All these may bring some reliefs for the financial market. However, we are less enthusiastic about the marked recovery in the market for the last quarter of the year.”

He urged the government to create an enabling environment for the sustained development by paying specific attention to capital market through conscious policy guidelines and pronouncements.

“There should also be reduction in transaction charges in order to engender transactional efficient market in addition to greater regulations and enforcement by regulators in order to boost investors’ confidence, especially the institutional investors”, he said.

Oluleye Ademola, the Head, Research &Investment of Bancorp Plc., described the outlook for the stock market as upbeat, given the fundamentals of the economy and the listed companies.

He said: “The Nigerian economy is not where it supposed to be; despite the declining crude oil prices, devaluation of naira and the rising inflation, our situation is not the worse. We have seen the half year results of most of the listed companies, while some are good, some are not. All things being equal, we have a fair understanding of how the year will end for companies.

“If the Federal Government will get it policies right and put the economy on the right track by appointing quality ministers, I expect a positive turnaround for the stock market positively, “Going by the aforesaid, we are positive that the NSE ASI can still close the year on a positive note. •Ademola

You will recall that the NSE ASI year-to-date return on February 13 was -20.41 per cent but it reversed and peaked at +3.09 per cent on April 2. The same thing can happen if we get it right as a country before the end of the year.

“For discerning and long term investors, this is the time to buy. Investors should buy based on fundamentals and not sentiments or hearsays. Many of the listed stocks are trading around their year low with good fundamentals. Investors should seek advice from professionals.

“We are no more in the era of people are buying or a particular stock is moving up, then I must buy. Investors should ask to know why a stock is behaving in a particular way. This is long-term market; that is why it is called capital market.To support long-term development of the market, there should be more financial education and sensitisation. The people must understand the instrument and security into which they are investing their money. The listed companies should also strengthen their investor-relations unit so as to communicate well to the shareholders.

The Head, Investment Advisory & Research of SCM Capital, Mr. Sewa Wusu, traced the decline in the market to the lull in investors’ confidence due to uncertainty in policy direction and weak macro-economic dynamics of the country.

Other reasons according to him, include; declining oil prices at the in- •Wusu ternational markets, weak currency following CBN‘s administrative control measures in the foreign exchange market and increased volatility.

Wusu said: “The anticipated interest hike by the United States (U.S.) Federal Reserve also induced capital flow reversals which affected the Nigerian market as Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) were risk-averse on Nigerian Naira-denominated instruments.

“The ministerial announcements due this month may induce some intermittent spiral in the market. Although, the outlook still remain weak due to global headwinds. Should the companies also declare a weak third quarter results, this may also dampen market momen-

tum. There is the likelihood that the banking sector performance may deteriorate slightly as operating environment continues to remain volatile on tight monetary policy.

“Already Fitch Ratings has warned that Nigerian banks are operating under tight monetary environment and that could affect their asset quality, balance sheet size. The non performing loan ratio is expected to rise above the five per cent, but below 10 per cent.

In her own remarks, Aderayo Bankole, who heads the Communications Unit of Investment One Financial Services Limited, said the outlook for the market remained neutral given the macro-economic and sector-specific challenges, including the low crude oil price which has resulted in low foreign exchange reserves, the foreign exchange management that has also kept foreign players out of the market and the political transition period between the previous government and the formation of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) by the new administration.

She said: “But, we believe the market can still close on the positive. The market is definitely very attractive now; prices are very low and some stocks have reached an all-year-low. We advise the investing public to stick to stock that have good fundamentals; they should stagger their purchases and look for value when investing.

“In order to create a stable base for the market, investment education and early inculcation of investment culture that could stimulate domestic participation should be given priority by the regulators and the central government.”

GTI Securities’ John Kanayo expressed optimism that there will be moderate revival of the market in the last quarter of the year, despite the •Bankole tough economic environment witnessed in the first eight months.

He hinged his prediction on government’s commitment to systematically address the challenges and making good its promised economic and policy pronouncements this month. “These, we think, could boost confidence level of investors, especially, the foreign portfolio investors, thereby boosting the capital market returns”, he said.

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Rivers: Army says election didn’t hold in Tai local govt

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HE Army yesterday said election did not hold in one of the local government in Rivers State – Tai – because of the activities of hoodlums who allegedly caused violence and prevented intending voters from participating in the last governorship election in the state.

A Captain of the Army, Garba Sani, who said he was instructed by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj-Gen. Tukur Buratai to testify before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, said he did not witness election in Tai Local Government where they were deployed to maintain peace and order during the election.

Sani, who said he is from the Bori Camp, Army Barracks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, explained that he received the directive of the army authorities through the Directorate, Legal, of the Nigerian Army after his unit received “a signal” about the subpoena served on the Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen.

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Efforts by lawyers to Governor Nyesome Wike and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to prevent Sani from testifying failed as the tribunal Chairman, Mohammed Ambrosa, overruled their objection to the soldier giving oral evidence.

Sani, who said he led 37 other soldiers on a patrol of Tai, one of the state’s 23 local government areas, stated that he was before the tribunal on the directive of army authorities.

Led in evidence by Akin Olujinmi (SAN), lawyer to the petitioners – All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate for the election, Dakuku Peterside, Sani said his team patrolled the local government from about 6pm on April 10 to April 11.

During cross-examination by the respondents’ lawyers – Okey Wali (SAN), representing Wike, Ifedayo Adeipe (SAN) representing the PDP and Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) for the Independent National

Electoral Commission (INEC) – Sani insisted that he never saw where election took place in the entire Tai on the day of the poll. ”In some places where they attempted to conduct election and we saw people on queues, after we passed by, we would receive calls that thugs have disrupted the electoral process and before we ?got to such places, the election process would have been disrupted, everything would have scattered.

“That was how these things started and went on up till when election was supposed to have ended. We could not gain access easily because there were roadblocks. My soldiers would come down and remove the roadblocks.

“That was what we encountered till the following morning. Bunu was the place we met the highest number of roadblocks and as we were removing the roadblocks they would block the roads again,” the witness said.

Sani stated that as they left Bunu for Korokoro, they heard gunshots from unseen persons. He added that at Korokoro, they encountered “hundreds of thugs” who also blocked the roads and were wielding machetes. I was able to arrest some of the thugs carrying machetes and handed them over to the police.”

He added that on the election day in Nonwa town, some election officers of the INEC were wounded by thugs

and that his men had to take them to INEC office at the local government headquarters.

“In Nonwa, we got report that some thugs came there to disrupt the electoral process and a corper (a member of the National Youth Service Corps) named Jelil, was wounded and was rushed to the hospital. We had to rescue INEC staff from the spot to INEC office in the local government area?,” Sani said.

Another of the petitioners’ witnesses, Abie John-Jerry, who was the APC agent in Ward 3 of Tai Local Government, also confirmed that election did not hold on April 11 in his area.

“There was no election, no

election material and no election personnel. Anybody who said election held is a joker,” John Jerry said during cross-examination.

Before the commencement of trial yesterday, the tribunal in line with the order of the Court of Appeal delivered rulings on the pending motions filed by the respondents. It dismissed two out of the three motions.

It granted part of the one in which the respondents sought deletion of some portions of the petitioners’ statements on oath which were said to have leveled criminal allegation against some persons who were not parties to the petition.

Further hearing resumes today.

Navy redeploys 61 senior officers

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HE Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-EteIbas, has approved the redeployment of 61 senior officers of flag ranks. The appointments affected 28 Rear Admirals and 33 Commodores.

A statement by the Director Naval Information, Commodore Kabir Aliyu, said the redeployed senior officers would resume in their new units in the third week of September 2015 The statement said: “Rear Admiral SU Chinweuba, formerly Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard Lagos, resumes as Chief of Naval Engineering, Naval Headquarters while Rear Admiral PA Agba, formerly Chief of Logistics has been appointed Chief of Naval Transformation. Read Admiral JA Ajani has been moved from Defence Headquarters to Naval Doctrine and Assessment Centre as Admiral Superintendent while Rear Admiral SI Alade, formerly Chief of Naval Transformation, moves to the National Defence College as Commandant.

“Furthermore, Rear Admiral AA Dacosta moves from Defence Headquarters to Naval Headquarters as Chief of Naval Safety and Standards, Rear Admiral KB Ati-John is now Director of Plans, Naval Headquarters. Rear Admiral BA Egbedina moves to Defence Headquarters as Chief of Administration from Naval Training Command where he was Flag Officer Commanding, while Rear Admiral MM Salami resumes as Director of Policy Naval Headquarters. Rear Admiral OC Medani, formerly Chief of Training and Operations is now Director, Project Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate. Rear Admiral GA Anyankpele, formerly Chief of Administration is now Chief of Logistics Naval Headquarters. Rear Admiral HH Babalola, former Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command is now Chief of Training and Operations at the Naval Headquarters, while Rear Admiral EG Ofik resumes as Flag Officer Commanding, Logistics Command.

“The redeployment also affected Rear Admiral AL Akintola, who is now the Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard Ltd, Lagos. Rear Admiral JKZ Ango, formerly Flag Officer Commanding Western Naval Command resumes as Chief of Administration, Naval Headquarters, while Rear Admiral JD Michika resumes at Defence Headquarters as Director of Logistics.

Rear Admiral JO Okojie formerly Admiral Superintendent Naval Ordinance Depot moves to Defence Headquarters as Director of Plans. Similarly, Rear Admiral JO Oluwole resumes as Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Navy Holdings Limited and Rear Admiral AA Osinowo moves from the Defence Headquarters to Naval Training Command as Flag Officer Commanding. Rear Admiral AS Abdulkadir is now the Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Naval Command.

“Additionally, Rear Admiral RO Osondu, formerly Admiral Superintendent Naval Doctrine and Assessment Centre is now the Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, while Rear Admiral AO Odeh, formerly Managing Director, Naval Engineering Services Limited, resumes at the Naval Shipyard Limited as Admiral Superintendent. Rear Admiral UE Essien resumes at the Naval Headquarters as Director of Operations from the Defence Headquarters, while Rear Admiral SO Paul resumes as Admiral Superintendent Naval Ordinance Depot.

Rear Admiral AO Suleiman, formerly Chief Staff Officer at Naval Training Command is now the Flag Officer Commanding, Central Naval Command, Yenagoa.

Other senior officers affected include Rear Admiral BEE IbeEnwo, Deputy Commandant, AFCSC Jaji, Rear Admiral SAG Abbah, Director of Logistics,Defence Intelligence Agency, Rear Admiral T Dick, Director of Training, Defence Headquarters and Rear Admiral DO Ajatoye, Commandant, Nigerian Navy Engineering College, Sapele.”

•Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (middle) launching the African Global Commission Report on Governance, Security and Development, organised by Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, in Abuja...yesterday. With him are Amb. Babagana Kingibe (left) and Chairman/Founder, Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.

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Manufacturers brace for competition after Dangote’s price cut

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ANUFACTURERS of cement are set to take the competition tussle a notch higher, following the slash in the price of the essential commodity by the nation’s largest producer, Dangote Group.

Dangote Cement, which is also Africa’s largest producer, is said to have cut prices in an attempt to boost cement consumption.

The price cut to its 3X cement brand by N6 000 ($30.23) per metric tonne, translating to N300 reduction per 50kg bag, still allows Dangote to achieve strong returns, CEO Dangote Cement, Onne van der Weijde, said in a Lagos.

Meanwhile, a survey across the country showed that dis-

tributors and retailers were beginning to implement the new price regime, resulting in gradual decline in its price across the country.

A retailer in Benin City, Edo State, Sebastian Iwemgiwe, noted that cement which was sold at N1,850 per 50kg bag has, since last week, reduced to N1,650 per bag and is likely to decline further.

The claim of price reduction was corroborated by other retailers, including Opeloyeru Eniola in Ojodu area of Lagos State, who said: Although I am still selling his old stock, I am aware that the price for the next supply has been reduced.

While observers are of the opinion that the ongoing African operation expansion must have given Dangote cement a leeway to bring down domestic price of the product, the cement giant is also reportedly hoping the lower prices will help increase export sales to neighboring nations where it has no presence yet.

Team head, Chapel Denham, Tajudeen Ibrahim, had in reaction to the reports of price reduction by Dangote Cement said: “We expect the other cement producers such as WAPCO, UNICEM and AshakaCem in the Lafarge Africa Group and Cement Company of Northern

Nigeria, to cut cement prices, being price-takers in the industry,” “The sales volumes of the cement industry may however not rise on the back of the price cut, as the relationship between price and consumption is weak,” said Ibrahim.

According to the analyst, the drag in infrastructure developments due to government’s weakening fiscal strength and pressured consumer wallets will slow down the demand for building materials, industry watchers say.

Gross domestic product expanded 2.35 per cent on an annual basis, compared with 3.96 percent a quarter earlier, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, (NBS).

Saraki: my experience as Senate President challenging

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ENATE President Bukola Saraki yesterday described his experience since assumption of office three months ago as both interesting and challenging.

Saraki spoke while answering questions from reporters after his official tour of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja.

Saraki assumed office on June 9 under controversial circumstances.

The tour was the first by any Senate president since 1992 when the National Assembly moved to its present location.

Saraki noted that the reward-

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ing aspect of the job was the support he received from his colleagues, the management and staff of the National Assembly, Nigerians and the international community.

Asked about his experience since assumption of office he said: “Well, it is interesting, challenging but I think what is rewarding about it is the support from one’s colleagues, the management and the enthusiasm that you see going round with some of the staff of the National Assembly. Also, sim-

ilar support from Nigerians from all walks of life and the international community” He said the familiarisation tour was meant to allow him and the principal officers of the Senate to have on-the-spot assessment of the environment for good understanding of issues and challenges being faced by staff and management of the National Assembly.

Saraki said: “The Assembly complex represents the image of the National Assembly, So, it is important for us to see what the issues are and have an understanding of the environment. Unless you go round

and have a firsthand understanding, sometimes, it is difficult for you to understand what are the issues and challenges for all the staff, their conditions, productivity and all that. By the time I go round, I will have a better understanding and I will know what the issues are and we will be able to tackle them one by one.”

On his impression of the situation in the complex after the tour, Saraki said: “By and large I think for an institution like this and over the many years of its existence as well as the number of staff, I think the maintenance is generally acceptable.”

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•Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole (third left) cutting the tape to inaugurate the Ayuba Wabba House, MHWUN National Secretariat Complex, Abuja...yesterday.With him are former President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Hassan Summonu (left); President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) Comrade Biobelemoye Joy Josiah (second left); President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba (third right); Secretary General WHWUN, Comrade Marcus Omokhuale (second right) and President, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Alhaji Najeem Yasin.

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How to evolve a new Nigeria, by Fayemi

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ORMER Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi yesterday identified promotion of merit above ethnicity, value reorientation and punishment for corruption as the pathway to a new Nigeria.

The governor was delivering a lecture at the maiden symposium of the Advanced Media and Communications Academy (AMCA) at the University of Ibadan.

The symposium was in honour of two retired ambassadors - Dr Yemi Farounbi and Ayoola Olukanni.

Speaking on the theme: “Our New Nigeria: Role of Professionals in Government,” Fayemi said the notion of ‘ professionals in government’ had been misconstrued for so long, just as some of the so-called professionals who were in government were unable to perform effectively due to their narrow knowledge and experience.

According to him, Nigeria must overcome the wrong notion of professionals in politics because most politicians were also professionals. He explained that professionals must open themselves to acquire more knowledge about managing people in order to succeed in governance.

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Emphasising the importance of putting a round peg in a round hole, Fayemi said a new Nigeria would not be born until merit is used in recruitment and promotion in the public service and selection for political appointments.

The governor was represented by Mr Ayo Afolabi, who is the director of publicity, All Progressives Congress (APC), Southwest Zone.

Fayemi said: “On the one hand, there are those who believe in merit as the sole requirement for initiating individuals into public service.

They believe that the public service should feature our best and brightest. On the other hand, there are those who believe that merit is insufficient as a principle for recruitment and that representing diversity should weigh as much if not more in the constitution of the government. They argue that a strict application of educational qualifications and experience in recruitments would engender the hegemony of certain sections of the country as well as an ethnoregionally lop-sided complexion of the national governmental apparatus.

“Such an outcome, according

to some polemicists, would be grossly injurious to the cause of national unity in a pluralistic society. Advocates of equal opportunity therefore crafted public policies, such as the federal character principle ostensibly to guide the equitable distribution of public sector appointments to reflect the breadth of Nigeria’s diversity and to protect minority communities from domination by majority communities. In an ethnically diverse society, appearances matter and the government must not only represent the people; it must be seen to be representative of the people. This, it is contended, can only be achieved by fostering a sense of belonging by distributing positions to representatives of sub-national constituencies.

“Some advocates of equal opportunity contend that a desire for professionalism as espoused in the preference for competent individuals and a desire for equality need not be considered mutually exclusive.

It is entirely possible to meet both demands. In reality however, over the past few decades the emphasis on representation has been trumpeted significantly at the expense of merit to the point where consider-

ations of competence and integrity are a distant second place or not even any longer on the radar of concern.”

The former governor said the new government must also battle to redeem the hearts of Nigerians in addition to its anti-corruption crusade if it must succeed in fostering the birth of a new Nigeria.

His words: “Given the clear commitment of the present administration to fighting corruption, it is also clear that a key component of any holistic anticorruption campaign should be a battle to redeem the hearts and minds of Nigerians. There are changes that will be accomplished through diligent prosecution of official wrongdoing and reforms in the architecture of our institutions – certainly – the culture of official impunity can be dispelled once it becomes clear that for the first time in our recent history, there is a confluence of the political resolve at the highest levels with refined and strengthened institutional capacity to ensure consequences for bad behaviour. The certainty of punishment is one of the strongest disincentives for official misconduct. But ultimately there also has to be a value reorientation of the society at large.”

National theatre crisis: Union threatens action

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HE Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), has petitioned the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation following the alleged non compliance by the management of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos at a ruling by Justice K. I. Amadi, of the Nigeria Industrial Court (NIC) on the reversal of dismissed workers.

The petition, which was signed by Comrade M.A Bello, the Secretary (federal organ) of the Union called on the ministry to intervene in the lingering crisis to avert unnecessary industrial actions. The court ruling, was delivered on May 14, 2015.

In the ruling, Justice Amadi said: “That the parties in this suit are hereby reverted to their various positions, post and offices as they were on December 6, 2003 when the parties were ordered to main-

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tain the status quo ante.”

But AUPCTRE said the General Manager of the National Theater, Kabir Yusuf refused to obey the court ruling and appealed the judgment despite an instruction from the Board to the contrary.

According to Bello, filing an appeal on the judgment was not the same as a stay of execution on the ruling. “This is the position of the law and until the appeal is “heard” and a stay of execution is considered and granted, the ruling on the matter remains valid until otherwise decided,” he said.

He warned that the union might resort to other lawful steps to enforce the order. “In the event of the refusal of the general manager to act accordingly within 21 days of receipt of our letter, the union may be constrained to take other necessary steps known to law to enforce the ruling of the court,” he warned.

It was learnt that several entreaties to the general manager to reinstate and pay the accrued entitlements of the affected staff have been rebuffed. On June 5, 2015, counsel to AUPCTRE, Ennobong Ette wrote to Yusuf seeking the enforcement of the court order. Also the Chairman of the Board, Markus Ishaya on May 18, 2015 in a memo sent to Yusuf insisted that the management obeyed the court orders.

All efforts to speak to the general manager were however unsuccessful as messages sent to him were unanswered.

The affected staff, who are all executives of the union include: Dayo Akogun, who was dismissed by Yusuf led management, Tiamiyu Adeshina, Henry Ndubuisi, Ephesians Nodza, Bolanle Ashiyanbi, Abdullahi Usman, Babalola Muyiwa, Abubakar Bakare and Ogechi Ibeti.

USTICE M. N. Yunusa of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) from operating parallel account called “Eko Electricity Distribution Company Meter Account” number 2562128948 domiciled with ECOBANK Nigeria Plc. Justice Yunusa issued the order after hearing the submissions of Wahab Shittu and Olawale Ajia, counsel to the applicants Momas Systems Nigeria Limited and Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing Company Limited (MEMMCOL), first and second respondents respectively, in a Motion ExParte brought against EKEDC. The applicants are claiming N2.050 billion as special damages and another N3 billion as general damages against the first and third respondents respectively.

The second and third respondents in the matter are Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Respondents Commission (NERC) and ECOBANK Nigeria Plc. Justice Yunusa also compelled EKEDC to direct electricity consumers in the area exclusively assigned to the applicants to pay fees for the supply and installation of meters into an Escrow CAPMI bank account controlled jointly by the applicants and the first respondent under the CAPMI Scheme called Momas/Eko Distribution CAPMI account number 5712006231 domiciled with third respondent.

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hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice brought against the respondents scheduled to commence Monday, September 14, 2015.

In a 41-point affidavit he deposed to, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the applicants, Kola Balogun, saidhe was aware that the second respondent is an agency of the Federal government charged with the responsibility of regulating and monitoring the Nigerian electricity industry, issuance of licenses to market participants and ensuring compliance with market rules and guidelines.

According to him, sometime in May, 2013, the second respondent licensed the first and second applicants in the CAPMI Scheme, as Metering Service Providers (MSP) and also approved the participation of the companies as Metering System Vendor and as Metering System Manufacturer respectively.

Balogun added that as a result of the alleged breach of contract between the parties by the first respondent, the applicants have suffered series of financial crises, including a pile up of unsold meters and spare parts stocked in its warehouse; inability to service loan facility obtained from banks with the attendant astronomical interest; inability to access new loans facility and imminent collapse and wind up of companies; inability to meet obligations, including payment of salaries to workers among other problems.

‘Criminal charge against Cross Country boss not withdrawn’

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AGOS State has told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the criminal charges filed against Managing Director of Cross Country Limited, Mr Bube Okorodudu, has not been withdrawn.

In a counter-affidavit to a fundamental rights suit by Okorodudu, the state said it gave a fiat to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to try Okorodudu and Car Link Limited.

In the charge before the Lagos State High Court, they were accused of conspiracy to steal, stealing, forgery and “uttering” of forged documents.

The Federal High Court had ordered the Attorney-General of Lagos State, the EFCC, Inspector-General of Police, a firm, AG Moeller and its director Adeloye Olukemi, to maintain status quo on the issue.

But Lagos also filed a preliminary objection to the suit on the basis that Okorodudu is challenging the Attorney-General’s prosecutorial powers under Section 211 of the 1999 Constitution.

“Contrary to the claim by the applicants that the charge in ID/ 267C/13 at the Lagos High Court has been discontinued by the Attorney-General of the Federation, the said charge has not been discontinued.

“The charge is still pending before Hon. Justice Lawal-Akapo of Court No 34,” the state said in the counter-affidavit sworn to by a Chief State Counsel in the Lagos Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Ogunsanya.

Okorodudu and Cross Country were charged along with Car Link with eight counts of conspiracy, stealing of N82.8million, forgery and uttering (using of forged documents).

The anti-graft agency alleged that the defendants stole the money through the fraudulent sale of 17 units of Volkswagen transporter buses belonging to AG Moeller Ltd and Mr. Adeloye Olukemi.

Attempted stowaway arrested at Lagos airport

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25-year-old man who attempted to hide under the tyre carriage of a Medview aircraft on a domestic flight was apprehended yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 (MMA2) in Lagos.

The young man’s name could not be immediately verified as at the time of writing this report .

Airport workers hinted that he succeeded in gaining access

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into the tyre compartment of the aircraft which was ready for taxing on the Tarmac .

He hid himself at the tyre compartment in the under carriage of the aircraft .

A source hinted that final inspection round the plane by the pilot drew his attention to some strange movements and object inside the tyre compartment.

The man was handed over to

the police at the domestic airport where he confessed he has nursed the ambition of carry out the act for two weeks and had been holed up around the airport while perfecting his plan.

The stowaway was said to have confessed that he did what he did out of desperation to leave the country for another in the quest for greener pasture.

When asked how he found his way into the tyre compartment of the aircraft, he declared that

he jumped through the fence that demarcated the VIP Lounge section of the airport from the tarmac where the plane was waiting for clearance for takeoff.

A police officer at the domestic wing confirmed the incident but declined to give further comment .

He said the stowaway has been handed over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further questioning.

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what he is doing; so I don’t see what is dictatorial about that.”

Tinubu told the PDP: “If they don’t have anything to say, they’d rather be quiet. They created what is wrong here today and we can’t sweep that under the carpet. There must be rule of law.”

On the speculation that he was at the Villa to submit names for ministerial appointments, he said: “What can I do about that? They have the right to speculate; they have the right to their lies and I have the right to debunk.”

Sani in a statement in Abuja, said: “President Buhari is not

a dictator but a leader committed to fumigating the political space from the lethargic legacies of the PDP. PDP governors have the constitutional right to play the role of an opposition in our democracy but we must not in anyway forget the menace they represented just yesterday. ”PDP governors should apologise to Nigerians for the paralysis, the tragedy and the human misery their party left behind. Under Jonathan, the security apparatus of the state became an armed wing of the ruling party and an instrument of repression and political Continued on page 8

NNPC to remodel refineries

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•Some of the 128 freed Boko Haram suspects ...yesterday.

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NNPC signs four oil swap contracts

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HE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has set up four new crude swap contracts to replace those cancelled last month.

The contracts will enable the NNPC to meet about half of the country’s domestic gasoline demand, industry sources and a state oil firm source told the news agency Reuters.

The NNPC cancelled the 2015 deals with Nigerian companies Sahara Group, Aiteo Group and NNPC’s trading arm Duke Oil because they were “skewed in favour of the companies”, it said at the time.

Cash-strapped NNPC has no choice but to continue with some form of swap arrangement. The only other form of gasoline input comes from a fraud-ridden import subsidy scheme and revamping its refining system, neglected for years, has already met crude supply obstacles.

The economy has been hit hard by the sustained slump in global crude prices since last year as oil sales account for the bulk of government revenues.

The cancelled deals will run through September before being replaced by the interim Offshore Processing Agree-

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HE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has secured an interim Offshore Processing Agreement (OPA) with three of its Joint Venture companies namely Duke Oil, Carlson and Napoil, to boost the supply of refined petroleum products.

This followed its determination to sustain the prevailing unimpeded nationwide supply and distribution of petroleum products.

A statement yesterday by NNPC spokesman Ohi Alegbe, noted that the stop-gap OPA arrangement which is designed to run for three months obliges the Corporation to allocate a certain volume of crude oil within the period for refining at offshore locations in exchange for petroleum products at pre-agreed yield pattern.

The Corporation explained that the temporary OPA package will lapse with the advent of the fresh OPA contracts envisaged to come into effect at the end of the ongoing public tender process.

It noted that the OPA arrangement would help augment in-country production of refined petroleum products from the nation’s refineries to meet local demand.

The statement reads: "Determined to sustain the

ments (OPAs) between NNPC subsidiary the Products and Pipelines Marketing Co (PPMC) and four joint venture companies, industry sources and a state oil company source said.

A spokesman for NNPC did not respond to requests for comment.

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prevailing unimpeded nationwide supply and distribution of petroleum products, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC on Wednesday announced an interim Offshore Processing Agreement (OPA) with three of its Joint Venture companies namely Duke Oil, Carlson and Napoil to boost the supply of refined petroleum products.

"The NNPC stated in a release that the stopgap OPA arrangement which is designed to run for three months obliges the Corporation to allocate a certain volume of crude oil within the period for refining at offshore locations in exchange for petroleum products at pre-agreed yield pattern.

"The Corporation explained that the temporary OPA package will lapse with the advent of the fresh OPA contracts envisaged to come into effect at the end of the ongoing public tender process.

"It noted that the OPA arrangement would help augment in-country production of refined petroleum products from the nation’s refineries to meet local demand.

Two of the agreements are with NNPC joint-venture companies: One with Swiss trader Vitol called Calson and the other with commodities trader Trafigura called Napoil.

The other two are with nonincorporated joint ventures between oil major BP and Nigermed Ltd and NNPC’s trad-

ing arm Duke Oil Co with Sahara Group.

NNPC set up the first swaps in 2010 when it could no longer pay cash for gasoline imports. Facing cash flow problems and refineries that were barely running, NNPC decided to use half of the oil destined Continued on page 8

HE National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) will remodel the nation’s four refineries, its Group Managing Director, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu said yesterday.

The Refineries are in PortHarcourt (two), the Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, KRPC. Dr Kachukwu spoke after touring the various units of the Kaduna refinery. He lamented that with what he has seen, the four refineries cannot take Nigeria anywhere.

He said given the fact that the refineries were built between 30 to 40 years ago, there is the urgent need to support them with new modules and structures that are in tandem with global best practices in terms of new business module, new commercial module and technological approach.

“In term of how to get the refinery to function, like I said, new business module, new commercial module, new approach to how we have to get

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to where we should be, but what is obtainable is that most of our refineries are close to 3040 years old.

“We need to begin to look at building new refineries in the same land space where they can share facilities, so that you will have something to lean on when these old ones are beginning to kick out”.

He said: “That stuff of killing NNPC was historical before I came in, but we are working hard to justify why it shouldn’t be killed, but I am a business man, if we get to a point where we are not doing well enough, and it needs to be killed, we look at what alternatives are.

“Today, whether we like it or not, lets be realistic here, irrespective of the fact that negative gets alot of more publicity than the positives, this organisation has kept this country going for the last 30-40 years, it has built and sustained the refineries, it has delivered fuel the moment our refineries don’t work, it has Continued on page 8

CBN advises states to adopt Treasury Single Account

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HE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday in Abuja advised state governments to adopt the Federal Government’s system of using a single account for all its revenue deposits.

Mr Kure Abubakar, Head, Client Services at the CBN, gave the advice while presenting a paper on “Understanding Treasury Single Account (TSA)’’at the close of a two-day workshop on the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The News Agency of Nige-

ria (NAN) reports that the workshop, which began on Tuesday, was organised for government revenue generating Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

He said the TSA, if adopted by states, could help them to get maximum benefits.

Abubakar, while answering questions from participants, urged them to comply with the Federal Government’s directive and adhere to the Sept. 15 deadline to avoid sanctions.

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A third member brought two long touch lights.

The session was soon turned into a “bedroom conversation” between the senators and their invitees as the microphones malfunctioned due to lack of power.

Committee Chairman Senator Abubakar Kyari, who showed signs of embarrassment, told reporters that the power outage would be investigated.

Kyari said: “We will investigate the incident. We will find out whether it was an act of sabotage.”

Kyari added that the power failure further underscored the relevance of the committee “at this critical time but we shall investigate whether it deliberate or not”.

He faulted newspaper reports of the first day of the

panel’s sitting, which said N2.740 trillion was spent on the sector since 1999.

He said the amount only came from what the ministry and the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) gave.

According to him, money was spent through other sources.

The total expenditure would only be clear at the end of the probe, Kyari said.

Apart from members of the ad-hoc committee and the permanent secretary, others at the session were: the DirectorGeneral of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Ezra Dikki, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission ( NERC) Chairman Sam Amadi and some of the Managing Directors of electricity Generating and Distribution Companies (GENCOS) and ( DISCOs).

The managing directors of

investors in the sector told the committee that they were running it at great loss monthly because of some challenges.

The Managing Director of Enugu Distribution Company, Mr. Robert Dickerman, who spoke on behalf of all the Distribution Companies (DENKOs), noted the industry was being run by them at a deficit of N20 billion monthly.

He said part of their challenge was that over 50 per cent of electricity consumers are not metered; over 30 per cent are not on the billing system of the service providers.

Dickerman added that the N100 billion subsidy the Federal Government was supposed to pay the service providers through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had not been paid.

The Chief Executive Officer

of the Ibadan Electricity Generating Company, Adeoye Fagbembi, who spoke on behalf of the six GENCOs noted that their losses had been a big challenge to them.

He also listed non-payment of the N100 billion subsidy promised by the Federal Government as part of their challenge.

But the BPE Director- General, Benjamin Dikki, said the CBN had paid N5 billion out of the N100 billion.

The BPE boss agreed that the investors must be paid to keep the sector afloat.

He noted that the losses were envisaged at initial stages as embedded in the performance agreement reached with the investors, hence the subsidy.

Dikki said that the payment of subsidy became necessary to augment the power loss by

the investors due to no fault of theirs.

He said that distribution companies were losing between 40 to 60 per cent of power in the course of transmission due to dilapidated power equipment.

Kyari asked the BPE boss to tell the committee how much the 10 NIPP thermal stations were sold, following the disclosure by the NIPP that the Federal Government invested $8.23 billion in the NIPP. He said the committee would want to know whether the plants were undervalued.

The same question was repeated by three members of the committee but the BPE chairman evaded it.

Dikki rather directed members of the committee to the voluminous document BPE submitted to find out how

much the plants were sold.

He insisted that revenue shortfall was a reality, saying companies which generate power should be paid.

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Chairman Sam Amadi said it was not true that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)will soon be privatised.

Amadi noted that the government had no such plan because of the sensitivity of that particular component of the sector.

The BPE was mandated to submit to the committee a comprehensive report on the Yola DISCO that forced the investor to declare a force majeur.

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PDP to APC: you can’t compel Fayose to make public his assets

HE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of playing to the gallery by asking Governor Ayo Fayose to publicise his assets like his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

It said the opposition lacked the moral justification to criticise Fayose for not making his assets public when many of the governors elected on its (APC’s) platform had not done so.

PDP, in a statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Jackson Adebayo, said APC could not compel the governor to release details of his assets because it had an ulterior motive in making such a demand.

Rather than calling on Fayose to make public his assets, PDP urged APC to direct the call to the governors elected

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on its platform “before shamefully demanding that of the Ekiti governor.”

The party said until the APC did this, it would remain in “the wilderness of foolishness.

As a party peopled by intelligent persons, you should know that you can only ask questions on what you are not guilty of.”

Decrying the APC for celebrating the assets declaration

by President Muhammadu Buhari, the PDP alleged that the declaration made by the President “contained many loopholes, which no sensible being should be proud of.”

According to the PDP spokesman, “the declaration made by Buhari cannot be

compared to that made by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, which to date has been adjudged a perfect declaration by any Nigerian president.”

Wondering what the APC hoped to achieve by demanding an open declaration of assets from Governor Fayose, Adebayo said it was a trite in law that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands, stressing that the opposition lacked the moral rectitude to make such a demand.

Said he: “It is only reasonable for the APC to be mature enough to ask its 23 governors to, as a matter of urgency, declare their assets before demanding such from the PDP governor in Ekiti State.

“The APC controls 23 states.

The Ekiti State chapter of the

party would have been taken serious if it had asked its governors in those states to come out with the details of their assets, to justify why Governor Fayose, who belongs to the PDP, should be asked to declare his assets.

“This becomes expedient because he who wants to remove the speck in another person’s eyes, must first remove the mote in his own.

“This latest demand by the APC has exposed the mischief and poor sense of judgment on the part of the party, which is always the case whenever they run out of falsehood in their factory of lies.”

Adebayo noted that the opposition party lacked the intelligence to discern between good or bad, right or wrong and normal and abnormal,

“hence the stupidity that is always embedded in its regular propaganda.”

He said inasmuch as the party did not want to dignify the APC with response to what it called “irrational vituperations,” the PDP was constrained to put the records straight and open the eyes of the public to the alleged falsehood of the opposition in matters concerning Ekiti and its people.

The PDP spokesman concluded: “Inasmuch as we are not opposed to declaration of assets by public officers, governors inclusive, we believe the exercise should be based on sincerity and responsiveness, rather than turning it into a political brickbat in the face of sentimentality.

“The demand by the APC would have enjoyed popularity if it had been directed to all the governors and President Buhari.”

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AGOS State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has admonished Lagosians to beware of fire outbreaks.

According to a statement by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Mr. Fola Adeyemi, the governor was worried about the increasing cases of fire and the loss of lives.

He urged residents to be careful, especially at night, about high voltage supply.

The statement said: “The Lagos State government is worried about avoidable fire incidents, which are negatively impacting on the socio-economic activities and lives of Lagosians.

“Governor Ambode urges Lagosians to be vigilant, particularly at night, when they go to bed and ensure they switch off electrical appliances.

“Lagosians should ensure they don’t store inflammable materials, such as petroleum products, combustible materials and gasoline containers in their homes or garages.

“They should ensure they put off candles and lanterns whenever they are going to bed.

“The governor advises that they should take steps to rectify electrical problems that can cause fire. He enjoins Lagosians to be safety-conscious and to educate the young ones on safety measures, to reduce

Saraki, Ambode, others for Western Post launch

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ENATE President Bukola Saraki and Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode are among the guests of honour expected at the launch of Western Post.

The event will feature a national conversation on the topic: ‘The dwindling oil revenue: A case for regional integration’.

It will hold next Tuesday at the Bashorun Hall, Civic Centre, Agodi GRA, Ibadan, by 11am.

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola will be the special guest of honour, while the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, will be the royal father.

Other guests are Governors Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) and House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Lasun Suleiman Yussuff.

•Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola (middle); National President, Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Dr. Muhammed Tumala (second right); Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti (second left); immediate past NSA President, Mr. Boniface Oseloka Amobi (left); NSA National Treasurer, Mrs Obikudu Felicia (right) and others, during a courtesy visit to the governor, at the Government Secretariat, Abere, Osogbo.

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HE Federal Government has given the educational programme of the Osun State government a pass mark, describing it as world- class.

Speaking at the launch of the distribution of plastic desks and chairs to schools in Osun State by the Federal Government and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), at the Local Authority Government Middle School in Ayetoro, Osogbo, the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Dikko Suleiman, said the educational programme could equal any facility anywhere in the world.

Suleiman, who was represented by his deputy, Dr. Yakubu Gambo, said the choice of Osun for the launch was done to reward hard work and the dedication of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration to the delivery of democratic dividends.

He added that the home grown school feeding programme in Osun was one programme, which had endeared the state to the Federal Government, noting that Osun was the only state feeding pupils.

The UBEC boss urged state governments and the Federal Capital Territory to access their matching grants with UBEC, which stood above N58 billion, by making available their counterpart funds to their State Universal Basic

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Education Boards (SUBEBs).

According to him, “the quality of the structures and infrastructure the governor has put in place in Osun can compete with any of such in developed countries. What we have in Osun can equal that of the United States.

“The home grown school feeding programme, the OMeal, is one programme that has endeared His Excellency to us because he is the only governor doing it despite the capital intensive nature of the programme.

“We have embarked on intervention projects in Osun, some of which are the building of elibrary in schools in Ilesa, Ikirun and Ipetumodu. We also built Almajiri schools in Ede, Osogbo, Ikirun and Iwo.” Governor Aregbesola, in his address titled: ‘We are just coming out again,’ said the number of and the quality of the construction of schools in Osun could not be found in any part of the country.

The governor noted that the distribution of chairs and tables to schools was the beginning of a revolution in education, “not only in our state, but in the federation.”

He described the President Muhammadu Buhari administration as a purposeful government, which recognised education as the instrument

for development and societal renewal, saying Osun was humbled and delighted to be the leading light of the revolution.

Aregbesola stressed that education was a sector his administration’s legacy would be felt, hence the substantial efforts by Osun in education.

He said: “We thank the Almighty God that despite efforts by our adversaries, who have opposed our steps and orchestrated a campaign of calumny against us and our programmes, we have been vindicated. By the grace of the Almighty, we shall continue to progress.

“We are building state-ofthe-art 100 elementary schools, 50 middle schools and 20 high schools. This is a big project by any standard, which has injected life into the construction industry and has provided jobs for artisans and professionals.

“I assure you that we shall complete them before the end of our tenure.”

The Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Prince Felix Awofisayo, said the event marked a new direction and a policy thrust of the Federal Government in repositioning the education sector through direct intervention.

He said the measure would give succour to pupils.

The SUBEB boss stressed that the distribution of chairs

and tables was a good development.

Awofisayo said: “The emergence of Governor Aregbesola in 2010 marked the beginning of a positive development in all facets of life, as the administration is anchored on the implementation of a cohesive and an all-encompassing six-point integral action plan.

“Let me reiterate that the provision of functional education for the citizenry represents one of the major focal points of this integral action plan of the governor.”

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Amuda Abdul-Waheed, said the materials distributed would be monitored for optimum use.

He said the choice of Osun as the first state where the chairs and tables would be distributed was a pointer to the fact that Aregbesola had performed well in the education sector.

The NUT boss thanked the Federal Government and UBEC for the distribution, assuring that teachers would cooperate with the government in ensuring that the achievement in education continued.

His words: “We are promising as teachers that we will supervise the use of the materials. We thank the Federal Government and UBEC for finding Osun worthy as the launch state for the distribution.”

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HE Wanikin Compound of the Giesi Royal Family has signified intention to present a candidate for the Ooni stool.

Addressing reporters in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, the family spokesman, Prince Adewuyi Adesoji, said the compound should produce the next Ooni because the last Ooni it produced was Ooni Laroka.

He said other families from Giesi had produced about five Ooni after Laroka, including Agbedegbede and Deboye, stressing that the families should honour the memory of Laroka and concede the stool to Wanikin, “which is why the family is presenting Prince Olalekan Awojoju-Adesoji for the throne.”

Speaking on the process of selecting a successor, Prince Adesoji said it was not different from what it was in the past, adding that the kingmakers must follow due traditional process to enable the best candidate emerge.

Contrary to insinuation from some quarters that the richest candidate must be picked, he said the stool should be occupied on merit, based on good character, integrity and culture, adding that it should not be for sale.

Responding to an accusation that Giesi House sold its right to the Ogboru Family, he said the allegation was baseless and a figment of the imagination of those spreading it.

Adesoji cleared the insinuation that princes from male parents had more right than those from female parents, saying all princes, irrespective of the parents’ gender, had equal rights to the throne and selection would not be based on the origin of their gender.

He hailed the late Oba Okunade Sijuwade for raising the standard of the stool, saying he brought fame and respect to the throne.

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HE kingmakers in IleIfe, Osun State, have been advised to take into consideration, cultural heritage and due process in selecting the Ooni, to enable whoever wears the crown to continue the legacies left by the late monarch, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.

The ex-Chairman of Ife Central Local Government, Dr. Adetunji Obawole, who gave the advice, said traditional and historical norms were valued assets in choosing the Ooni.

He said: “At this critical period in the history of the ancient town, all hands must be on deck to choose a good successor so that Ile-Ife, which serves as the custodian of the Yoruba custom and tradition, will be preserved.”

Speaking on the death of Oba Sijuwade, Dr. Obawole described him as a father, a philanthropist and a man of many parts, who loved his subjects and contributed to the development of his community and country.

He noted that history would not forget the contributions of the late monarch to the progress of his town.

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witchhunting and persecution.”

He added: “The governors lack the moral right to preach the gospel of freedom and democracy; the very people whom before their very eyes security apparatus of the state under Jonathan was systematically and periodically unleashed against governors and states under the then opposition.

He recalled that the PDP governors kept mute when security forces under Jonathan barred Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s and Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole planes from taking off and landing; when security agencies raided the APC data offices in Lagos and when they laid siege to the Rivers State Government House.

The lawmaker argued that the PDP governors served the Jonathan administration as pillars of tyranny, lacking the liver and the heart to tell Jonathan the truth and cowardly sang his praises in an obsequies procession until they led their leader and their party over the cliff.

“The PDP governors are debris of a cancerous era; they are remains of our dark, despicable and dingy past. Nigeria is on a recuperation process as we march further away from the era of political decadence and pestilence which symbolized the PDP years.

He described the PDP governors statement as “evil ech-

oes from a dark forest” and urged the President to remain focused in his mission to end the inherited culture of malfeasance of the PDP. The PDP governors decried what they described as Buhari’s dictatorial tendencies.

In a communiqué after a meeting on Monday at the Bayelsa State Governor’s Office in Yenagoa, they condemned the alleged invasion of the Akwa Ibom State Government House by some operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), describing it as against the spirit, ethos, values and fundamental tenets of democratic norms and tradition, more so with the existence of a duly elected governor .

The governors said: “We insist that the trend must stop henceforth. No democracy survives without a viable opposition in any part of the world and we must also remember to remind the APC that they are the real beneficiaries of the liberal democratic ethos of the PDP. “We once more advise the DSS to preoccupy itself with the task of ensuring internal security and desist from daily harassing and intimidating members of the opposition.

“We implore the international community, the civil society organisations and human rights activists to caution the All Progressives Party-led Federal Government and to insist that it respects the well-entrenched democratic tradition.

“We all have a duty to pre-

vent what looks to us like a steady slide of this country into dictatorship.”

It was read by Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

Tinubu denied that there was rivalry in the APC, adding that the party is focused on supporting the President to achieve his goal of transforming the nation.

He said: “Don’t listen to rumours; there is no struggle. Our party is not even looking at the direction of power struggle or anything of such.

“The support structure is to encourage and support the President as you have heard from Chief Akande, to help him institutionalise his goal, principle and vision for a new Nigeria.”

On complaints about delay in sending the ministerial list, he said: “There is pitfall in rushing, quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. And that rush can cascade into mistakes of unimaginable magnitude.

There is equally glory and recovery in slowness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation.

“So to me, I would rather take the one that will last the country and endure for a longer period of time than the rush-hour shopping.”

Akande said they were at the Villa to encourage Buhari to change the rot he inherited.

He said: “I understand that President Buhari inherited piles of rot in the Villa and I say let me see him, talk to him and report to my party with a view to knowing how to encourage him to change the rot to good.”

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for its refining system for the swaps scheme.

The contracts came in two forms: an OPA, whereby a trader takes Nigerian crude to a foreign refinery and returns with the resulting products, and a direct crude-for-product swap.

Calson is new to this scheme.

BP and Nigermed previously held an OPA for one year in 2010. Trafigura had a direct contract between 2010 and 2014. Duke and Sahara have been involved up until now.

The interim OPAs will run from October until December when fresh contracts take over in 2016. PPMC issued a tender on Aug. 31 for new OPAs that closes on Oct. 14, according to a public tender document.

NNPC at first invited Oando, Sahara, Calson, MRS, Duke

Oil, BP/Nigermed and Total to bid for the 2016 contracts before opening up the process to the public. One of the industry sources added that NNPC was seeking to give the new contracts to those with retail stations to speed up delivery and cut out some middle men.

The 2010-2015 swaps, particularly the OPAs, were widely criticised for their opacity and are now being investigated by the authorities for short-changing the government.

NNPC’s five trading companies, including Napoil, Calson and Duke Oil, were described as “financial black boxes” by a 2012 presidential task force.

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a U.S.-based watchdog, said the joint ventures’ earnings, kept in offshore accounts, have not been declared by NNPC. The

firm has also not explained how they are accountable or share profits.

NRGI said last month that scrapping the 445,000 bpd domestic crude allocation and removing “unqualified intermediaries” would be key to help clean up how NNPC sells its about 1 million bpd share the country’s crude output.

President Muhammadu Buhari is bent on stamping out graft in NNPC and oil theft in the oil-producing delta region, which he pegs at about 250,000 bpd. Nigeria produces just over 2 million bpd.

Tens of billions of dollars in potential oil and gas revenues has been lost or unaccounted for through mismanagement and theft, according to international watchdogs and the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

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delivered retails in a very difficult terrain.

“So what I am trying to say is that you don’t throw away the baby with the bath water, there is bath water that need to be thrown away, and we are doing that, but there is a healthy baby sitting there that we are going to nurture it”.

The NNPC boss said over 200 million dollars was being saved from the cancellation of the oil swap deal.

“The essence of crude swap cancellation is that straight away you are saving over 200 million plus dollars by virtue of doing that. You have transparency in the deal per month and you have transparency that embedded in those processes, the new processes”, he added.

Dr Kachukwu who commended the resilience and determination of the engineers of the four refineries, assured that the NNPC is commited to making a

difference within the 90 days time frame he gave when he assumed the leadership of the corporation.

Speaking further on the status of the KRPC he said: “Obviously, we need new modules because with this modules it won’t get us to where we need to be very rapidly. Three out of the six units of the plants were down, some of them for a very long gestation periods, we need to sit down and see what modules, how do you turn around the new refinery. How do you work on emergency basis components of the ones that are there.

“Without them we are not going to get out of problems of fuel supply, power supply and all that. So we are going to have a gone whole commercial structure, gone whole engineering structure a lot needs to be done different from models we are pursuing right now. For me, it is truth time”.

“On security of the nation’s pipelines he said: “ we are doing

quite a lot on security as you are aware the working with the security forces to enhance the Warri to kaduna point has been tested now for integrity and I think by my understanding for the last testing is that is fairly ok now to take control if the FCC units are working.

“So on a short term basis we have been able to deal with that.

Medium term basis we are going to work with the security agencies to ensure that the sort of destruction you find on pipelines not just from warri to kaduna but the whole country become a thing of the past.

“We working on a very enhanced, very robust, very accelerated program to deal with that working with the security forces. We are trying everything that we can and we are sending a body language that the business of messing around with the pipelines is over and I think the message is going round as loud as ever.”

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Shun bribery, corruption, Senator Tinubu tells constituents

HE lawmaker representing Lagos Central, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, yesterday admonished her constituents to shun bribery and corruption to move the nation forward.

She gave the admonition at her 15th Town Hall Meeting held at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos.

The theme of the programme is: ‘New chapter, hope renewed’.

Senator Tinubu urged the people to be the change they wanted to see by shunning corruption and corrupt practices.

She said: “This is the time for us to rededicate ourselves to getting Nigeria to the promised land. It is time to differentiate the goat from the sheep and the wheat from the chaff.

“All hands have to be on deck to achieve that ‘new Nigeria’ we voted for.

“Let us all think of what we can contribute individually or collectively, rather than what we can get from our country.

“It is time to turn a new leaf; time to change from the old ways of doing things. Let us all shun bribery, corruption and respect the rule of law.

“Let us not be an accomplice in crime, as the Sultan of Sokoto admonished women recently to refrain from collecting ‘proceeds of corruption from their husbands.’ I believe we can all make the necessary sacrifices.”

On the activities of the Eighth Senate, Senator Tinubu said 17 motions had been debated and

Lawmaker gives scholarship to 26 pupils

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ENATOR Oluremi Tinubu yesterday gave N100,000 annual scholarship to 26 students from the Lagos Central.

The money was handed over to the beneficiaries during 15th Town Hall meeting she had with her constituents at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos.

She said the beneficiaries, who were short-listed from 45 students, would each receive N100,000 per year for four years.

Senator Tinubu also gave N20,000 to each of the 19 other students, who did not qualify for the scholarship.

Giving a report on her stewardship, the lawmaker said 255 General Certificate of Examination (GCE), O Level forms were distributed across the senatorial district for indigent pupils, urging them to study hard and ex cel in the exams.

She said 200 Consat decoders were distributed in partnership with the Television Continental (TVC), to party leaders, residents and constituents with two months subscription of N2000/ month paid.

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Senator Tinubu said no fewer than 200 expectant mothers and lactating women benefitted from 100 cartons of milk, donated by the Lagos monarch, Oba Rilwanu Akiolu, to support her vision.

Under the Youth Empowerment and Skills Acquisition Scheme (YESAS), she said 10 candidates were short-listed and inducted to participate in the Niger Dock Short Course Training, which would last three weeks.

While restating her commitment to other initiatives, such as the Petty Traders Empowerment Capital Scheme (PETECS), Elderly Citizens Assistance Scheme (ECAS) and Widows Economic Empowerment Scheme (WEES), Senator Tinubu assured that she would continue to do her best to better the lives of the people.

She said the drug rehabilitation centre, as well as the Modern Market in Ajah, which she started in the last Assembly, were ongoing and receiving attention.

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resolutions made; 15 Bills scaled first reading.

She, however, declined to comment further on the Eighth Senate, saying its constitution was subject of a litigation.

“We know how this present Senate was constituted. It is not really pleasing yet. We are the majority and I don’t see what an opposition is doing in the majority.

“There are proven laws, but we are waiting for the court to decide. At least, we are a country praying for respect for the rule of law.

“So, I am not going to go into whatever work the Senate is doing now. The court is not

what I want to discuss.”

She denied insinuations that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was slow, noting that in the last 100 days, the government had been engaged in house cleaning.

Senator Tinubu said: “When you move into a new house and it is filthy, do you start furnishing immediately? You have to sweep it.

“That is what is going on in Nigeria. Every sector has to be overhauled and has to be visited. Be it power, health, education; every sector.

“The most urgent now is security. If security is not fine, investors won’t be attracted. This is why the President is taking the issues of security and power

seriously.

“Security is taking its shape, power too is getting steady by the day. You can see that a lot has to be addressed in the area of corruption.

“Corruption is like cancer; if it is not addressed in Nigeria, it will kill this country. It has already started crippling our development. Before you know it, this country is flat on its face.

“He has started on a good note. We just have to give him support. Nobody can please everybody. This is the first time a President and his deputy are declaring their assets publicly.

They have set a precedent and that is what will follow in future.

“So I think fighting corrup-

tion, making sure that power is steady and stable, securing our borders and the country are the things we need to achieve, then we can start breathing.”

The lawmaker, who turned 55 this month, noted that the Nigeria of her dream was yet to be achieved, expressing confidence in the ability of the present administration to deliver.

“With what we are experiencing in the Senate today, would you say our democracy has matured? I don’t know, but we are still in the peeping stage and we will get there.

“This is a new chapter and our hope has to be renewed, but all hands have to be on deck. We all have parts to play. I am playing my part and so it is left to you to do yours.

“If the head is corrupt, the whole body will be corrupt. We are looking at the leadership President Buhari has promised us, to see what it will give to Nigerians.

“We are hopeful. He is a man of integrity and even the outside world has acknowledged that. Nigerians have to have faith, we are supporting the vision he has and what he stands for.”

The Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said in 100 days, Buhari had done what the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could not do in six years.

He said security, power and credibility had improved, adding that corruption was being fought.

Gbajabiamila, who praised the people for their massive support for him during the House leadership tussle, noted that the outcome was the will of God. A member of the House of Representatives, Jide Jimoh, who spoke to The Nation, said the fight against corruption could be won if everyone stayed committed to it.

He enjoined the constituents to avoid pressuring their legislators, noting that it would help stop corruption.

At the gathering were All Progressives Congress (APC) state Chairman Henry Ajomale, Prince Tajudeen Olusi, Mr. Wale Edun, Aro Lambo and Tunde Balogun, among others.

Fayose alleges plan by DSS to invade Govt House

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KITI State Governor Ayo Fayose has accused the Federal Government of planning to invade the Government House in Ado-Ekiti with the operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS), as witnessed in Akwa Ibom State.

The governor, in a statement yesterday to reporters in AdoEkiti, gave his assessment of the 100 days of President Muhammadu Buhari and said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government could only boast of “imaginary achievements.”

He said the only achievement recorded by the Buhari administration “is the harassment of leaders of the Peoples Demo-

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cratic Party (PDP) and those perceived as not on the same political page with the President.”

Fayose described the DSS swoop on the Akwa Ibom Government House as the “score point of the 100 days in office of President Buhari”, criticising the APC-led government at the centre for allegedly authorising the invasion of the facility, which he said violated the sovereignty of the state.

The governor accused the Director-General of the DSS,

Lawal Daura, of being an APC member and decried the appointment of retired Colonel Hameed Ali as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

He said the retention of Mrs. Amina Zakari as the acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was “illegal and unconstitutional.”

Fayose lambasted the President for carrying out what he called “lopsided and illegal appointments” by allegedly shutting out the Southeast geopolitical zone in the major appointments announced so far.

He described the non-appointment of Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation as “unacceptable.”

According to him, the appointments made so far by the President “have shown his (Buhari’s) insensitivity to the ethnic diversity of Nigeria and a contempt of the Nigerian Constitution”.

The governor alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan and those who worked with him as well as PDP governors and leaders were targets of harassment, saying: “The president, by this action, is telling Nigerians that it does not pay to be honourable”.

His words: “Dr Jonathan was honourable enough to allow a peaceful transition and conceded to President Buhari even though it was obvious that his victory was questionable.

“Visiting such a person and those who worked with him with persecution as being done now, is no doubt a sad reminder of the reason we have many sit-tight leaders in Africa.

“Interestingly, some of those who worked with Dr Jonathan that the APC called thieves are now being appointed to manage the affairs of international organisations, such as the World Bank and African Development Bank.”

On anti-graft war, Fayose said: “While I am in total support of the fight against corruption, it is my opinion that corruption can neither be fought along party lines nor through the media.

“What is being witnessed at present as fight against corruption is mere noise-making, witch-hunt and harassment of perceived political opponents of the president.

“This is more so that most of the political allies of the President and those who sponsored his election are also being accused of corruption and the president is looking the other way. Most importantly, the Halliburton bribery scandal must be revisited”.

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Stakeholders urge Buhari to revoke Lagos trade fair concession

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TAKEHOLDERS have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to revoke the concession agreement entered between the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex (LITFC) and Aulic Nigeria Limited.

They said the concession was done in bad faith as all efforts to correct anomalies identified in the agreement were turned down by Aulic because of its closeness to the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

This call was made at the end of the two-day Stakeholders Forum, held jointly by Lagos International Trade Fair Complex Management Board, Federal Ministry of Industry and Investment and CHOSOVAN-M (Nigeria) Enterprises, inside Rockview Hotel, Festac Town, Lagos. It was all in a bid to reposition the trade fair complex for transparency and business administration.

Speaking on behalf of the stakeholders through a paper titled: “Doing business: How to improve business In Lagos Trade Fair Complex,” , a representative of the traders, Mr. Bede Elo, blamed policy inconsistency for the concession of the complex. He said handing the complex to people with no business acumen to manage the place destroyed the government’s investment in the complex.

Mantrac’s exhibition, auction ends today

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ANTRAC Nigeria Limited’s four-day Caterpillar certified, used equipment exhibition and auction sales that started september 8 will end today.

The event which is holding at the company’s head office in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, exhibited full range of Caterpillar products and services in Nigeria. The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Edmund Martin-Lawson, said the exhibition and auction were designed to meet the needs of customers who wish to buy premium machines.

He said the event would parade a wide variety of machines with wide range of ages and hours in service. “They are Caterpillar certified machines that were carefully sourced, inspected and selected by the company’s specialist engineers, through its extensive links with recognised used-equipment suppliers worldwide. All the used machines are vigorously examined by our engineers before purchase, with exhaustive diagnostic tests, to ensure their excellent condition,” he added.

Martin-Lawson stated that customers would be assured of the opportunity to inspect the machines before they register their price and contact details.

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• From left: Assistant Legal Adviser, Federal Ministry of Industry and Investment, Mrs. Nkiru Ekweogwu; Executive Director/ CEO, Lagos International Trade Fair Complex Management Board, Dr. Bassey Eyamba; Chairman, Balogun Business Association and Industry, Chief Alex Obi and Representative of the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Industry and Investment, Dr. (Mrs.) Mimi Abu, at the 2-Day Stakeholders Forum, by Lagos International Trade Fair Complex Management Board, Federal Ministry of Industry and Investment and CHOSOVAN-M (Nigeria) Enterprises, at Rockview Hotel, Festac Town, Lagos...recently.

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HE Federal Govern ment’s contribution to the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has been constrained by falling crude oil prices.

The Managing Director of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Mr Uche Orji, told State House correspondents after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the fund that the $1billion initial sovereign fund contributed by the government earned N15.7 billion profit last year.

He said: “Oil price is below benchmark and because we are supposed to be funded when the oil price is above benchmark, so it will not make any sense for the government to make any contribution now that the oil price is still low.

“But there are other ways to support the fund which we have discussed with the President. When the time is ripe, that will be made

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known by the President’s spokesperson.”

On the state of the fund, he said: “The government gave us $1billion which is the only contribution we have received and we made N15.7billion profit last year from the contribution. We haven’t got additional fund from the goverment but the fund is structured in a way that it can go through hard time.

“We all know that the oil price is volatile, it comes up and goes down but the fund is structured in such a way that it can remain continuously profitable.

“The funds remain the government’s and the profit made. We also discussed about potential infrastructure investments

that can be made, but when the time is right, the President can make that known.”

He said he also discussed the commitment of the NSIA to the Second Niger Bridge, health care, agriculture and power with the President.

Stressing that the meeting was a successful, he said: “Our commitment is that we have a vehicle called NSIA Motorways Investment Company that partners with Julius Berger investments to become the preferred bidder in the Second Niger bridge.

We are still going through the process of signing concessional agreement to become a concessionaire and to do all of that we need to prepare the project.

“The progress we have made so far is in preparation of the project; making sure that the environmen-

tal impact assessment is made, the bridge properly designed and funded through our financial structuring.

“It is the project preparatory state that we are going into and that has cost us $2.2 million. This is a big project, the project we are looking at is 11.9km, the current Niger bridge is one lane going and one lane coming and what we are building is three lane coming and going; so, it is a big project. It is a four year construction period and we are looking at 2020 for the completion of the project.”

On how to attract more funds, he said: “We have hired African Finance Cooperation as our lead financial adviser and engaged successfully with about five or six lenders so far and some of them have commitment.”

Ambode promises incentives for Lekki Free Trade Zone’s development

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AGOS State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday said his administration will provide all incentives required to hasten the development of the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) that parades multi billion dollars investments.

Ambode spoke while fielding questions from reporters after an inspection tour of LFTZ situated on 16, 000 hectares of land at Ibeju-Lekki axis of the state.

LFTZ habours $11 billion Dangote Refinery and other multi billion dollar investments driven by consortium of Chinese companies.

Ambode said inputs from the zone is needed to boost eco-

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nomic prosperity of the country.

He said: “I came here to see the level of development that is going on. The Free Trade Zone is a major catalyst for the development of Lagos State. It was started during the administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and continued by my predecessor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola.

“I have come here to give my commitment that we would follow up with this project because it is going to be a major catalyst to the economy of this particular zone as well as the economy

of Nigeria.

“Whatever it is that we need to do together alongside with the community, we have got their commitment that we would join hands together to move this project forward,” Ambode said.

The governor said his administration will also look at the Lekki Seaports which has been idle for about nine years and ensure that it is revamped.

He said: “There is no way we would have this Free Trade Zone if the port is not activated. It needs to be reviewed. My administration will look at it and make sure the port is activated and construction starts immediately.

“I also want to assure the people here that the issue of electricity will be looked at; its surprising that some communities here do not have electricity in the last five years. In the next four weeks something must happen. It is totally unacceptable and we would make sure that we bring succor to our people.

“That is why we are in government and that is what they have told us that we should do and that is what we will do everyday in this administration.”

The governor lauded the community and the consortium of Chinese companies for supporting the state in the project.

HE World Economic Fo rum (WEF) has an nounced the selection of Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited, a wholly indigenous Nigerian oil exploration and production company as a member of the Forum’s Global Growth Companies (GGC).

According to Olivier Schwab, Head of Business Engagement at WEF “when choosing entrants to our community of Global Growth Companies, we assess companies on their business model, annual revenues and growth rates, executive leadership and market position.

Waltersmith is a dynamic company with a clear potential to shape the future in its relevant business sectors and so is a per fect fit to our GGC community.”

With the selection, Waltersmith becomes a member of a group regarded as the most dynamic, high-growth companies, which are trailblazers, shapers and innovators, committed to improving the state of the world.

Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited was incorporated in 1996 as a joint venture between Waltersmith and Associates Limited, a Nigerian investment company, and Petroman Oil Limited of Canada, to operate as an oil exploration and production company. In 2001, Waltersmith became a wholly indigenous company after the divestment of Petroman Oil. Responding to the honour, the company’s Chairman/CEO, Mr Abdulrazaq Isa said: Waltersmith is delighted and proud to be selected as a member of the Global Growth companies of the World Economic Forum. This is clearly a recognitioin of the giant strides the company has made in the past 10 years in the realization of its long term goals and objectives. Waltersmith is focused on creating a resilient and robust enterpreise with a clear vision of being an integrated energy company, with interests in gas, power and petroleum refinery.

The emergent Waltersmith will have a significant impact on employment while making important contributions to the national GDP.” With alomost 400 members from about 65 countries, the world Economic Forum believes each GGC has the potential to become a leader in the global economy arising from their business models, growth records, leadership and unique markets.

Membership nominations come from WEF’s network of media leaders, existing GGCs, Forum members and partners, faculty members and the general public. The WEF selection committee of regional business experts evaluate the nominees on the following stringent criteria: the company’s sustainable growth over a five-year period, major influence inb the industry of operation or national competitive skills, visionary leadership and global corporate citizenship.

The GGC membership is a platform for executives from high-growth companies to network with other businesses, as well as leaders from government, civil society and academia, to discuss global, regional and industry issues while advancing a sustainable and responsible path of growth.

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COMMENTARY EDITORIALS

LETTER

Asset declaration •Saraki and Dogara should emulate Buhari and Osinbajo

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HE information that President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his assets four times in the course of his public career is soothing, considering that many public officers circumvent this constitutional requirement. Even more ennobling is that the declarations of assets by the President and the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, have been made public.

Unfortunately, the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) provided for by the Third Schedule, Part 1a, to maintain standards and ensure public morality and accountability; and The Code of Conduct Tribunal established by the Fifth Schedule, Part 1, paragraph 15, of the 1999 constitution, to enforce those standards, have not lived up to their obligations.

President Buhari stated the number of declarations while in Ghana, early this week. He also challenged the media to seek out his declarations, as he has discharged his constitutional obligations. The President further stated that the governors, ministers and permanent secretaries must declare their assets, as required by the constitution.

We identify with the challenge thrown to the media by the president, and extend same to the civil society, as a collaborative watch-dog of the society. As the president observed, the media should demand from the bureau, the information in the assets declaration form; under the purview of Freedom of Information Act. As we have seen over the years, the bureau and the tribunal established by the constitution to help rein in the conduct of public officers have been more of laggards.

Were the organs to be alive to their responsibilities, all the state officers named in Part 2 of the fifth schedule to the constitution, would “immediately after taking office” declare their “properties, assets and liabilities and those of unmarried children under the age of eighteen”. This should be followed with another declaration “at the end of every four years” or “at the end of term of office” as provided by the constitution.

The idea behind the constitutional provision is to create a public trail of the assets of public officers while they are in public service. As provided in the fifth schedule, an unexplainable acquisition, while in public service, has serious consequences. In paragraph 18(2), these include vacation of office by the culprit, disqualification from membership of legislative house, and from holding any public office for 10 years or less, and seizure and forfeiture to the state of any property acquired in abuse or corruption of office.

We urge all the public officers listed in Part 2, paragraphs 1 to 16 of the schedule, to immediately declare their assets, in accordance with the law, if they have not done so by now. The constitution makes the declaration mandatory ‘immediately after taking office’; so there should be no further delay. The officers listed include the president, vice president, Senate President, deputy senate president, speaker and deputy speaker, House of Representatives, speakers of states houses of assembly, members and staff of legislative houses, governors and

deputy governors of states, justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, ministers, commissioners, permanent secretaries, director-generals, chairmen and members of local councils, police and military chiefs, among others.

As provided in paragraph 18(3), the sanctions that can be meted out by the tribunal shall not prejudice ‘the penalties that may be imposed by any law where the conduct is also a criminal offence’. In our view, a vibrant bureau and tribunal, will help reduce corrupt practices, and even preclude corrupt persons from further accessing public offices. It would also create employment, should they build the necessary capacity to perform their constitutional obligations, which include verifying the assets declared by the public officers, at the beginning and the end of public tenures.

With president and vice president as shining lights in this case, the Senate President and House Speaker should do same as well as governors. So others can follow.

‘With president and vice president as shining lights in this case, the Senate President and House Speaker should do same as well as governors. So others can follow’

Chadian example •Nigeria’s neighbours in the war against terrorism seem to have a better handle HE recent execution by firing squad of convicted members of the Boko Haram sect (eight Chadians and one Nigerian) in N’Djamena, capital of Chad is one more pointer to the notion that Nigeria’s prosecution of the war against terrorism is less than holistic.

Apart from the case of Kabiru Sokoto who was tried and convicted for masterminding the bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, near Abuja in 2011, hardly any significant convictions have been recorded. And no official execution of convicted terrorists is known since 2009 when the Boko Haram sect metamorphosed into a fighting ‘army’.

However, late August in Chad, the nine insurgents were reportedly tried and convicted and executed within 48 hours after it was said that “the accused recognised and accepted the sentence”. The militants had master-minded the June 15 double suicide attacks on school and police buildings in N’Djamena in which 38 people were killed and 101 were injured.

They were accused of about half a dozen assortment of charges which included; criminal conspiracy, killings, willful destruction with explosives, fraud, illegal possession of arms and ammunition as well as using psychotropic substances.

It is of note that unlike in Nigeria where the violent Islamist sect has caused the death of about 15,000 Nigerians and inflicted various shades of bodily injuries to hundreds of thousands, Chad cannot be regarded a hotspot in the insurgency until about two years ago. In fact, incidents of suicide bombings in the landlocked country only became rife after she had joined Nigeria in a regional force to

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combat the menace.

Chad may well have shown Nigeria the way to achieve closure, especially in most of the notorious cases of unbridled carnage. For instance in such celebrated cases like the Police Headquarters bombing, the UN office, the Nyanya Motor Park in Abuja, to name a few, such cases ought to have been brought to a logical closure, and publicly so if only to serve as deterrence in the war against insurgency.

But Nigeria’s government seems not to have the will or the capacity to take justice to the rampaging terror group in the last five years. The Nyanya Motor Park bombing which killed no fewer than 88 people and injured over 200 was a case in point. The suspected master-mind, Mr. Sadiq Aminu Ogwuche and seven others have been on trial since November, 2014 without much head way made. At the outset of the trial, both the Police and the Department of State Security were at loggerheads as to which body would be in charge of prosecution of the suspect.

This turf ‘war’ delayed the process for many months.

The lack of will from government; judicial inertia and procedural incoherence have stymied the fight against the Boko Haram sect, especially from the ‘back room’ end. This has led to the overflow of prisons across the country by numerous suspected terrorists.

Early in the life of the Mohammadu Buhari government last June, there was an up-roar over the keeping of Boko Haram terrorists in prison facilities in Anambra State. The people of the state had protested for many days, wondering why such violent detainees would be

moved all the way from the northeast of Nigeria to the southeast. They also argued that the Anambra facility, being a minimum security prison, was inadequate to hold such caliber of detainees.

It is not only in the aspect of a lack of judicial closure on arrested terrorist cases that Nigeria lags behind her other neighbours in the fight against fundamentalists, there are numerous other issues. For instance, affording fallen military and security men public and symbolic state burials; the keeping of decent war cemeteries; the process of relaying sad tales from the war-front to families and issues concerning compensation of officers and men.

The point we make in essence is that war is not only prosecuted at the war front but indeed, the fallouts from a war could sometimes prove more arduous to manage than the main show. We urge the Federal Government to take an even more holistic look at the on-going war.

‘The lack of will from government; judicial inertia and procedural incoherence have stymied the fight against the Boko Haram sect, especially from the ‘back room’ end. This has led to the overflow of prisons across the country by numerous suspected terrorists’

Haba, Mr. Senate President!

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IR: Ordinarily, it would not be out of place to commend the gesture of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in awarding N1million scholarship to two first class law graduates from University of Ilorin, but no! The subterfuge and deceit embedded has made the whole exercise a worthless one. Is it not curious, not to mention suspicious that the same person who has failed to use his position as an influential public officer and a behemoth in Kwara politics to persuade the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, to award a similar scholarship to successful law students from Nigerian law school has suddenly found it necessary to award same to a select law students? It seems to us that someone is clearly trying to crawl back to public reckoning. We have seen this handwriting before.

The truth of the matter is that the government of Kwara State has continued to pay lip service to the award of scholarship to law students. It would be recalled that the government of Kwara State in March 2014 undertook and promised to disburse bursaries to successful 2012/2013 law students from Law School. The government never fulfilled that promise. It is shameful and shocking that a constituted authority could tell a barefaced lie to its citizens in an orchestrated plan to pull the wool over their eyes. Worst still, the government has not deemed it proper to explain the reasons behind its failure to fulfil its promise. Where is the morality and accountability in governance? Where is the conscience in good leadership? For the record, we are disappointed.

While we congratulate the two awardees for a scholarship well deserved, we hasten to state without any fear of contradiction that the exercise is neither complete nor sincere until Kwara State government settles other outstanding scholarships due to others since 2013. This is the only way to demonstrate that this piece-meal award of scholarship is not political and one meant to launder personal image.

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CARTOON & LETTERS

IR: I am writing not as a person who sees you as role model and whose future is being threatened. Your emergence as President filled me with hope that excellence, hard work and persistence brings success. As a young citizen seeking gainful employment, I went through many bitter experiences. I was tempered by some very difficult times around. Shifting political conditions and economic turmoil also combined to heighten the challenges I faced as well as other unemployed young people in the country. I was almost giving up but the lesson I learnt from your doggedness and never-say-die attitude gave me the courage and enthusiasm to fight on. I followed your blueprints and I got employed into the Nigeria Immigration Service, and you, the great man that inspired me, became president. I was glad that nobody played dirty politics by faulting the election process that brought you in or by challenging your victory with a lawsuit. The same cannot be said about the recruitment process that got me and 1999 others the immigration job.

I have been patiently watching events as they unfold, particularly the refusal of the Immigration Board to issue appointment letters to the Assistant Superintendent- 2 officers, the suspension and replacement of the Comptroller General and our subsequent dispersal pending further directives. Though, I have been silently praying and hoping for your timely intervention as I believed you will pull us out of this quagmire, recent newspaper publications calling our recruitment illegal has made me realise that it is high time our voice is heard before power-drunken men with their shenanigans play political chess with the life and future of 2000 officers.

This is the awaited moment when our long suppressed voice needs to find utterance. This is why I am writing this piece.

We have been taken as pawns in this political crossfire as people are trying to justify their misdeeds and come clean at the expense of innocent youths. Why are people using the word “illegal to describe our recruitment?

Why did these people not come out and inform the innocent youths

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NIS recruitment: Plea to PMB that the Presidential Committee set up to assist in the recruitment process was illegal when the vacancies were advertised? Why did they allow the youths to apply and why did they wait till this moment before they use the word “illegal” to describe it? We need answers and explanations from the people involved. These set of people were alive when the candidates risked their life to travel to the designated centres nationwide to write the Computer-Based Aptitude Test. The candidates went to their various states of origin for document verification, physical examination and

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oral interview. We travelled to different training schools across the nation for documentation and collection of appointment letters, some were robbed, some had accidents during the course of their journey.

Besides, some quit their better paying jobs for the chance to make a difference by serving their fatherland.

Apart from this, we went through three months of induction training.

During this period we were subjected to intense training and extreme weather conditions. We toiled in the mid-day sun with sweats on our brows, our cloths soiled with

dirt like gladiators in the arena.

We are no longer civilians, we were taught the ethics of paramilitary men, how to handle and use fire-arms and many more service secrets. We were all eager to go to our training schools to learn more with a view to contributing to the service and the nation at large before we were asked to go home till further notice.

It is therefore saddening to see that despite our struggles and training, some individuals are trying to cancel our recruitment by fielding half truths to the public.

It is obvious that these corrupt in-

dividuals are aggrieved by the fact that the normal slot sharing practices was not allowed. It hurts them to see that that process was open, free, fair and credible. Because of their selfish interests they want to see our appointments terminated not minding that the action might lead to the destruction of 2000 lives.

Dear President, we do not want to go back home. We do not want to be sent back to the dreary street that once threatened our life goals, ambitions and dreams. Our service uniform has been a constant reminder of our dedication to relentlessly serve Nigeria and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity with pride and passion. Sir, we want to resume work as soon as possible.

We won’t let you down; we won’t let Nigeria down. Please don’t let us down.

• Kayode Adeola Old Ife Road, Ibadan.

Re-Awaiting the season of anomie

IR: As I read the above titled article written by Dr. Arthur A. Nwankwo, on page 22 of The Nation of Monday, September 7, I couldn’t just ignore the views of a man that I thought was above such sentiments. A doctor passing judgments on hypothetical and imaginary situations, events and crucifying people practically and for real on such permutations!

Listen to Nwankwo… “This unwritten policy of ‘identify and cut the Igbo to size’ has continued even unto this day. No energy is spared in cutting Igbo to size when the chance arises. The end point of all this has always been to destroy the Igbo economy”. How I wised the author had elaborated on this, by citing one such policy and how it came about being formulated in the country with the exclusion of the Igbo and their interest.

Funny enough I have found out that almost all the travails and atrocities that Nwankwo and his co-victims suffered as enunciated in his narrative referred to Igbo men as principal actors. Take the Alpha Merchant Bank, owned by one Eke Kalu and one Yoruba man, Jimi Lawal as the Managing Director.

The story is that the bank was liqui-

dated by General Sani Abacha when Paul Ogwuma was Central Bank Governor, according to Nwankwo.

How come that the Alpha Merchant Bank was liquidated just because its owner was Igbo by General Abacha when the Central Bank Governor was Igbo and its Managing Director, Yoruba? What anti-Igbo law was cited to liquidate it and also to stop the Igboman as well as the Yoruba man from heading to the courts to seek legal redress?

Take the other example mentioned by the doctor of a case instituted against him by Nwobodo. Hear him “I have had my own experience with tribunals.

If I have been tried by a tribunal in 1982 in the sedition suit instituted against me by Chief Jim Nwobodo, I would not have been free today”. He went on ‘If the tribunal had tried me under Abacha I would have been rotting away in jail by now”. Nwankwo concluded thus “It was the High Court in Enugu that set me free before I took the matter to the United States”.

What is the logic in these statements?

An Igboman sued you for sedition and you got away and you are dreaming that if it were a tribunal you would have been rotting away in prison and

a High Court had set you free. Therefore, tribunals were bad and high courts were good, even if what it meant was that the High Court did the wrong thing. Is Dr. Nwankwo not aware of several people who were set free by tribunals and several others jailed by high courts? Tribunals and high courts are institutions not individuals or persons.

Is Dr. Nwankwo telling us that all those who hate the Igbo used the Igbo against the Ndigbo? And if that is the case why should the Igbo blame others for their self-inflicted injury?

From the following, you would be able to easily see where the man is going and in whose defence he is fighting and why: “Now the same old politicians have come again calling on Buhari to set up tribunal to try so-called corrupt politicians. “Tribunal”, he went on “is antithetic to democracy”. Not done, Dr. Nwankwo fired on “setting up tribunals to try corrupt people in Nigeria is absurd. The courts are there, why circumvent them? He asked. Yes, indeed, the courts that set you free are there!

The man should be told point blank that there are no Nigerians anywhere who choose for the Ndigbo their in-

ability to come together, politically, like they have come together, economically to dominate every buying and selling enterprise in Nigeria. The leadership of this country will continue to elude them if they carry on with this phantom idea that some people and sections of this country hate them and are out to deny them their right to rule this country. Political pundits are still baffled and nonplussed on how the Ndigbo felt justified and convinced that their near-total support for President Jonathan to rule Nigeria for 10 years until they were trounced in the March 2015 Presidential elections was the right thing to do to qualify to rule Nigeria in 2019. This is bearing in mind that both the Niger Delta and the Southeast belonged to southern Nigeria.

And to Dr. Nwankwo, there are many ways of supporting corruption and corrupt people, especially your Ndigbo who presided mostly over that locust empire in the last government, without condescending to this unacceptable, heinous ethnic, religious, tribal and regional hatred and divide.

• Sale Bayari, Jos.

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Loot recovery, an existential imperative

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T does not appear to most Nigerians that our country is broke and in financial mess. If this were so, the kind of talk coming from some people about recovering as much as possible common patrimony appropriated by a few would have been unthinkable. How can any priest worth his robe be pleading justice for treasury looters? This is an abuse of priestly privilege. We have to be careful in this country not to drag the name of God in the mud. Rule of law is good but must be accompanied by justice and public good. We are all for rule of law but in the Nigerian case, what is rule of law when cases of corruption have been in the law courts for up to a decade without resolution and some of those charged have come back to occupy executive positions as governors and legislative positions as senators? One is not surprised that these so-called legislators within three months have expended N31 billion on themselves while meeting for only 15days. It does not appear that these legislators know the precarious situation of our national finances. How on earth can members of parliament be paid N23 million per month after the public had been told that they were going to cut their budget by 30 percent? An ad hoc committee in the senate that suggested salary reduction was peremptorily dissolved by the leadership of that body following a rejection of its recommendation. Those who had earlier suggested that the legislative branch has been cornered by remnants of the ancien regime has been proved right by the financial shenanigans going on in parliament. The Buhari administration would have to be prepared for a fight or else all its ranting against corruption would amount to to a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. If it has records of corruption, it is in its interest to quickly take those involved to court and prevail on the Chief Justice to direct his colleagues to dispense justice quickly and transparently without cases being bogged down with innumerable adjournment and legal technicalities.

It is really a pity that even before the campaign against corruption begins, hired hands have begun to raise the dust of possible ethnic persecution. I cannot understand why anybody should justify corruption because it is perpetrated by one’s eth-

‘The starting point is the recovery of the loot. This will show the world not only that we mean business and that we are serious about cleaning the Augean stable of corruption, it will also show that we realize that this task has become an existential imperative for our country’

nic cohort. I am yet to see anybody in Nigeria sharing the proceeds of corruption with members of his or ethnic groups. This kind of argument is the flimsy defense by the weak and guilty party. The fight against corruption must start somewhere. It is no use saying we must begin in 1960 or some other date. Wherever there is evidence of corruption, whether in recent past or any time in the past should be dealt with without statute of limitations. We of course know that judgement on corruption should begin with the sordid deeds of recent past and if anybody stole money for his ethnic group, let him or her come out and name those of his or her ethnic group who benefited from the loot. I sincerely hope the emphasis of the anti-corruption campaign should be recovery after which punishment may be considered.

The price of crude oil on which the economy largely depends has fallen below $50 a barrel and it is not likely to recover soon.

It is therefore imperative on the Buhari administration not to count on possibility of oil bonanza. It will not happen. Those who manipulate global pricing of commodities will ensure that oil and gas are kept at this level for the foreseeable future. The western economy is benefiting hugely from low energy cost while India and China that used to guzzle oil are also benefiting from the slump in oil price. Developing economies are also benefiting. It is countries like Nigeria, Venezuela and Russia that have become hopelessly dependent on a mono product that are in for a shock. This is why the effort of the CBN to conserve foreign reserves should be applauded. We ought to be sufficient in food production. We should eat only what we can grow. It is as simple as that. Imagine what the hundreds of billions of naira spent on rice and wheat imports can do for our farmers and those who may want to take to farming. Our economy which for years has encouraged buying and selling must now focus on agricultural and industrial production at home. All the young men hawking all kinds of Chinese and Indian goods and fried plantains and so-called pure water must be redirected back to their villages to cultivate the land or as gangs engaged in building roads and houses which our country needs. Economy based on retail of other people’s goods is no economy. It is merely exporting Nigerian jobs to India and China. I am for encouraging local industrialists and foreign investors. But one is unhappy seeing Indians and Lebanese people coming to our country and borrowing billions from our banks without bringing their own money into the country. This has been going for a long time to the detriment of the economy. These people are able to do this through the corrupt connivance and collusion of of our banks. This will call for government oversight of the banking sector. It is not only in government that corruption is rampant, it is also prevalent in the private sector.

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HERE is a mass movement of people across the globe today. Many of them are refugees seeking solace in countries where they will be far, far away from the suffering in their countries. Others are those the western media dubbed economic migrants. These people are fleeing their countries to seek greener pastures in territories where they feel their lot will be better. No matter the status of these people , one thing ties them together - the hardship they have to endure to get to their promised land, be it Germany, Britain or France.

Many of them, especially the Europe migrants prefer Germany and Britain. But Britain is not ready to open its doors wide to them. The European saga is being replicated in other parts of the world. There are millions struggling to enter the United States (US), Canada and other countries where they think the grass is greener to escape the crisis in their own fatherland. It is not the wish of some people to leave their homeland, but circumstances have forced them to do so.

Syria is burning; Iraq is on fire; the Middle East is forever sitting on a keg of gunpowder. In Africa, the situation is even worse. Poverty is ravaging the population in countries where there is no cri-

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coming at this lean time because those who ran the economy at the time of surplus and plenty did not save for a raining day like we are witnessing now.

This rain will not stop soon unfortunately.

This is why there is a need for radical transformation of our approach to governance.

Jide We must not only conserve funds through Osuntokun prudent management of funds, we must also find other avenues to generate funds.

People have glibly talked about solid minerals. We have heard this noise before. This was touted as money spinner during the Abacha regime. Not much came out of it except for the diversion of government money into the bottomless chasm of unprofitable ventures. If this sector is to be encouraged, it must be done transparently and with the private sector at its vanguard.

We also need to conclude whatever privatization regime the government may have in mind as well as resuscitate the textile industry while banning importation of cheap textiles from Asian countries. Nigeria made a mistake of over-reliance on oil and gas while neglecting other areas of our economy. We now need to encourage companies that can add value to our agricultural products to go into production . While one is not suggesting state enterprises that proved our undoing in the past, we must not be doctrinaire about private sector led economic development especially now that this government is seized with the problem of tackling unemployment. There may be need for state intervention in a few areas such as the development of vast plantations of such produce like cocoa, cotton, palm oil, rubber, cashew soya been wheat and even groundnuts. Local governments could be financially empowered to do this and get local youths employed in the process. We must not be encumbered by economic orthodoxy. Whatever can work in our clime should be experimented with. These are difficult times and this government must not be shy to try things that may not have been tried elsewhere before. We must put on our thinking caps and work ourselves out of this economic doldrums.

The starting point is the recovery of the loot. This will show the world not only that we mean business and that we are serious about cleaning the Augean stable of corruption, it will also show that we realize that this task has become an existential imperative for our country.

Exodus sis. Asia too is not left out. The world is in turmoil even though there is no global war as we know it on the scale of the Second World War, which ended in 1945.

Seventy years after the war, the magnitude of its human catastrophe seems incomparable to what we are witnessing in Europe alone today. People have been moving in droves from war-torn Syria, Libya, Iraq and Africa into Europe in search of asylum.

They risk everything on the journey. They travel on the sea, using rickety vessels that cannot withstand strong wind. When the boats capsize, many drown, going down with their dreams of a better and improved life in exile. Exile is not the best place to be; many are forced into it by circumstances beyond their control.

If such people have a choice, they will prefer to remain at home. But where your safety is at stake, the next option is to opt for exile. An exile is like a beggar, who lives at the mercy of others. In the country where he finds himself, he is treated as a nobody. He has no rights, forget what the United Nations (UN) says about treating exiles as the human beings they are.

In the past few weeks, we have been witnesses to what is happening in some European countries, especially Hungary, which thousands of migrants tried to pass through to reach their destinations. It was hell on earth for those migrants as the Hungarian government hemmed them in under the guise of taking their data before they continued on

their journey. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said his country was carrying out the order of the European Union (EU) in dealing with the migrants, became bad guy in the eyes of the world.

To the migrants, he was the devil incarnate because of his stand. Orban added insult upon the migrants’ injury when he advised them to remain in Turkey, which he described as safe, instead of trying to cross over to Greece before getting to their final destination in Europe. For days, the migrants and the Hungarian authorities engaged in a battle of wits. The migrants refused to disembark from an Austria-bound train when it was diverted to a camp in Bicske, about 12 miles from Budapest, the Hungarian capital. They endured heat and hunger inside the train for days. At a point, they resorted to trekking - this was how desperate they were to get to Germany - before buses came from Austria to convey them on the remaining leg of the journey The world watched in awe as this drama unfolded.

The most shocking of it all was the accompanying human tragedy. Many died in transit. Even at that, others were undeterred.

A survivor of a boat mishap from Damascus, the Syrian capital, was quoted by The Mail on Sunday of London, as saying : ‘’Even if we are banned 10 times, even if we sink 10 times, we will definitely get to Europe’’. Getting to Europe was a matter of life and death for many of the migrants.

The indisposed were ready to get to their destination even on wheelchairs rather than return to what they considered the Egypt they have left behind.

The face of this global horror remains the heartrending image of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. The boy died while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece with his family. He was with his father, Abdullah, mother, Rehan, and brother, Galip. Only the father survived when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean sea. Aylan’s body, which was washed ashore a Turkish beach, was beamed across the world by the Cable News Network (CNN). It sparked global anger and Europe was forced to wake up to the reality of the human calamity waiting to happen at its doorstep. or the Kurdis’ death not to be in vain, the world must act to fast to ensure that peace reigns globally. If Syria had been peaceful, the Kurdi family would not have embarked on the disastrous journey to Europe.

Abdullah Kurdi wanted a better life for his family, which he could not get in war-torn Syria. His case is not different from that of many others also streaming into Europe, the magic continent, which to them is filled with milk and honey. With the throng of people heading towards their continent,

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European leaders must by now realise that they have a big role to play in finding solution to what gives rise to refugees and ‘’economic migrants’’. If this problem is not urgently addressed, Europe will continue to bear the burden of accommodating these people.

Back home, we are faced with the same problem, though on a small scale. Those displaced from their homes by Boko Haram and Togolese asylum seekers abound all over the place. The Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and refugee camps are virtually bursting from the seams because of the heavy task of taking care of them. One thing is, however clear - the world cannot, afford to stand aloof in the midst of this human suffering. It must act now or it will go down with the crisis.

‘Exile is not the best place to be; many are forced into it by circumstances beyond their control. An exile is like a beggar, who lives at the mercy of others’

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ENATOR Godswill Akpabio, Akwa Ibom’s immediate past governor had a close shave with death a little over a week back. He was said to be in a rush to catch an international flight to visit his wife and children abroad when his SUV Mercedes ran into a convoy of some US embassy officials while trying to beat the traffic light. He left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja aboard a regular private jet that he usually travels with the following day to receive medical attention abroad. From his London hospital came good tidings six days later. He thanked Nigerians for their prayers while appreciating “President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and others for their calls.” For his detractors and political foes, he equally had a message: “I will rise again; though down but not out”.

Senator Akpabio, perhaps besides ex-President Jonathan has been the face of South-south politics in the last eight years. He was perhaps the greatest influence on Jonathan presidency. As a dyed in the wool PDP stalwart, he knows how to cut deals and how to acquire friendship. As a cheerful giver, those whose lives he has touched love him with passion. With Akpabio, the media can find no fault. From Thisday newspapers came an award for what the paper described as “Emerging Tiger”; to the Daily Times, he is ‘the Uncommon Transformer’. The Sun newspapers named him its “2011 Man of the Year,” while the Abuja based Leadership newspapers named him the ‘2012 Leadership Governor of the Year’.

Outside the media also came a deluge of awards. The African Church named Akpabio “Nehemiah of our time”, for “rebuilding Nigeria”. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) named him “the Best Governor in Nigeria”.

Honours also came from such institutions as the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). The most valuable, I suspect must have been the one from Ekaette, his wife who gave him an award for making Akwa Ibom “a state with limitless opportunities, and for delivering over 3,000 projects’.

This deluge of awards and honours did not come cheap. Apart from the Ekaette’s 3000 projects, Akpabio was said to have commissioned over 165 projects during his last week

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Akpabio, South-south ‘star’ governor in office. Some of his mega projects include the 15-floor 250-room 5-Star Hotel with Galleria with 10,000 seater-dome, multiple cinema halls and shopping malls; and the Akwa Ibom International airport with maintenance, ‘first of its kind in West and Central Africa”.

His star project however was the N30 billion world-class specialist hospital. The 308-bed international specialist hospital, ‘with an ultra-modern medical facility such as six fully integrated modular theatres, 640 slides CT scan, digital mammography, endoscopy surgery, highly sophisticated intensive care units and medical gas plants, paperless and fully automated laboratories’, all hooked up to a global system for best practice. It also has a helipad to facilitate easy emergency movements. The hospital, according to Akpabio, is the answer to “the billions of dollars, we lose every year to medical trips abroad.” “We are starting with 150 expatriates all at once and, we are in agreement with a Swiss hospital group and an Arab healthcare group in partnership with Cardio Care in Lagos, which is a group of cardiologists”, he added. The commissioning of the ultra modern hospital was wildly celebrated by the media only in May this year.

Having to be flown abroad to seek medical attention following his last week accident seemed to have now emboldened his detractors to raise fresh questions about the deluge of awards and newspaper celebration of achievements they claim did not reflect the quantum of naira accruing to a governor

HE drumbeats of war sounded so loudly in the run-up to the 2015 General Elections, that it reverberated in major capitals across the world, raising concerns that Nigeria could blow apart, if the polls were stalemated.

The prospect of a political quagmire loomed very large on the horizon. But like they say, all that is now history. The transition was concluded peacefully to the glory of God, and peace now reigns in Nigeria, apart from the perennial Boko Haram insurgency which is also top on the agenda of the APC government.

Every patriotic Nigerian should support President Buhari in his war against terror and its twin demon of corruption.

His success or failure would ultimately be judged by the defeat of insurgency and the recovery of looted public funds by the government of his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in particular, because the most reckless looting of our national resources happened under his watch.

One is therefore disappointed by the discordant tunes coming from some members of the National Peace Committee, which includes former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, Rtd., Bishop Mathew Kukah, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’Ad Abubakar III; the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor; Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Nicholas Okoh; etc. The committee only recently visited President Buhari for undisclosed reasons.

But Bishop Kukah, who addressed journalists on behalf of the Peace Committee after the meeting with the President alluded to the ongoing investigation of the PDP government of ex-President Jonathan, saying his group appealed to President Buhari “to be fair” in his handling of the probe.

I am amazed at the ecclesiastical affinity of Goodluck Jonathan. First it was Pastor Ayo Orisejafor and now it is Bishop Kukah. Both are now amalgamated in the Peace Committee. I submit that Pastor Ayo Orisejafor has exhibited himself as a general factotum of the imperial house of Goodluck and Patience Jonathan. He therefore debunks the definition of an emissary of peace.

Bishop Kukah in his apologetic prolixity describes Jonathan’s governmental enterprise, inter alia, as ‘’fantastic’’. To my sanctified mind; this is not only imaginary but approaches the periphery of phantasmagoria.

He castigates President Buhari in subtle verbiage for what he perceives to be a sluggish pace in revving the engine of governance. He thus, abandons momentarily, the responsibility of his committee’s morality posture and immerses his Episcopalian garments in the quagmire of the political emporium. He almost loses his compass in a broken monologue of praise-singing sycophancy in veneration of vanquished Jonathan Goodluck. Haba, Aboki, with all due respect!

Question: What compels a chartered libertine who has been weaned on the mountains of divine servitude to descend to

who earns in one month what many non oilproducing states earn in one year.

Jetting abroad in a private aircraft to seek medical help instead of taking advantage of the N30b specialist hospital with its celebrated state of the art facilities, Akpabio seems to have played into the hands of political opponents, who hitherto could only tackle him over his alleged profligacy such as donating two Prado SUVs valued at N30m as wedding gift, alleged acquisition for self an exotic multimillion dollar bullet-proof sprinter luxury vans from US-based Texas Armoring Corporation (TAC), N230 million donation on behalf of PDP Governors’ Forum towards ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Otuoke church, N50 million to Nollywood, and alleged multimillion donations to journalists and unscrupulous party and government officials.

Following his failure to live by his own precepts, his detractors are in fact now asking what value the sitting of ‘a 15-floor 250room 5-Star Hotel’, an International airport that is the ‘first of its kind in West and Central Africa’ in Uyo will add to the lives of the ordinary people. Would it not have made a more economic sense to invest in 5-star hotels in Abuja and repatriate dividends home to address social problems of the people? If Akpabio has no faith in his state of the art hospital, who will?

What, they ask is the family of a governor with a double award for “uncommon transformation of his state with quality infrastruc-

ture” and for ‘transforming his state from an unknown rural area to one of the most beautiful cities in Africa.” looking for in an atomized society like Britain and the US with their hostile environment? And now they openly ask if the African Church wrongly credited Akpabio, for ‘building Nigeria’ and named him the “Nehemiah of our time”; would that not amount to an affront to ex-President Jonathan and his transformation ambassadors who claimed to have solved the nation’s energy crisis, modernized railways and making the second Onitsha bridge a reality?

The questions are endless. Should a governor who has acquired a double award as “the Best Governor in Nigeria for “the institutionalization of free and compulsory education” not lead by example by keeping his children in the government celebrated schools instead of sending them abroad? I do not pretend to have answers to this and other concerns expressed by Akwa Ibom stakeholders about the wisdom of some of Akpabio’s policies or his compatriots who alleged most of the honours were purchased from newspapers in the habit of hawking honours which stopped only after the kidnapping of their chieftains, their car and undisclosed transport fare collected from Akpabio during their visit to Uyo some two years back.

But what cannot take away from Akpabio is the fact that he has distinguished himself as proud and adequate representative of the South-south in the Fourth Republic. Unlike ex-President Jonathan who claimed ‘stealing is not corruption’, his benefactor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Governor General of the Ijaws, charged to court by Britain Metropolitan police over his portfolio of foreign assets with five banks in the UK, banks in Cyprus, Denmark and the United States; four London properties acquired for a total of £4.8m; a Cape Town harbour penthouse acquired for almost £1m, assets in the United States, almost £1m in cash stored in one of his London properties, etc; James Ibori who had his 170-EFCC-count charge of money laundering struck out by Justice Marcel Awokulehin of Asaba High Court, only to be prosecuted and sentenced to 13 years jail term by Britain Metropolitan Police and Lucky Igbinedion who has since been indicted and others who are still in court battling to clear their names, Akpabio’s only weakness is being generous to friends. He remains the only shining star in the midst of ‘vultures’, (apology to Saro Wiwa).

Why Peace Committee must disband now

By Chris Okotie such lowly valleys of mundane terrestrials? What inspired such lisping accents of jejune political naivety? Is it peace committee? Seriously? Yeah right! Ha! There are several other questions still begging for urgent answers: Who sent the National Peace Committee to Aso Rock to plead with President Buhari “to be fair” to officials of the Jonathan government now under investigation? Why is the committee putting the President under pressure in his quest to rid the Augean stable of the filth of the corrupt PDP regime? Why are they pre-empting the President by assuming that he’d not be fair?

A mitigation plea by this committee is not only premature but uncalled for, and is a direct insult to the injury that exPresident Jonathan’s six-year misrule has inflicted on Nigerians, majority of whom are now impoverished and dying from the ravages of hunger, malnutrition and disease.

The Peace Committee is no longer relevant and should honourably and immediately disband, to save Nigerians from this gratuitous charade and national embarrassment. There’s no denying the fact that, at least, one of the committee members used to hobnob with ex-President Jonathan, and is a beneficiary of his patrimonial leadership.

President Buhari’s crusade against corruption must begin with a comprehensive probe of former President Jonathan, to send a clear signal that he means business. A serious fight against corruption must, therefore, begin with the immediate subpoena of the former President, who ran a large patronage network that spurned the unprecedented corruption that has brought this nation to the abyss. Under his leadership, his extravagant wife, Patience, functioned like a Deputy President, and must also be investigated, to ascertain the extent of her involvement in the squandermania.

Since a fish rots from the head, any credible and effective drive towards the recovery of looted public funds in the PDP federal government can only succeed, not just by investigating functionaries of that government, but by taking the bull by the horn: Probe the ex-President and his imperious wife.

President Buhari must know that Nigerian’s are firmly behind him. He must demonstrate to the world that he still has fire in his belly, by showing himself strong, fearless and capable of taking on the most sacred cows whose hands are soiled.

PDP chieftains and the erstwhile First Lady made an issue about Jonathan going to jail if President Buhari won the elections. In the twilight of his administration, Jonathan had

warned that officials of his government would be persecuted.

Well, this is cheap talk. The President has no power to send anyone to jail unless the court finds such person guilty. Moreover, there’s nothing new about jailing high profile leaders.

Besides, it is in Jonathan’s interest to face a probe to clear his name if he has nothing to hide.

Late politician, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the leader of the opposition in the first republic when he was tried and jailed by the Balewa government for treasonable felony. President Buhari himself was behind bars for 23 months with his No. 2 man, the late Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, after their military regime was toppled in August 1985, 30 years ago this month.

The Peace Committee should stop whipping-up sentiments about the probe and allow justice to take its natural course.

Whoever is aggrieved or dissatisfied with the outcome of an investigation could seek reliefs from the court, which is open to all. The probe is across party lines, President Buhari has assured. Therefore, nobody has anything to fear if their hands are clean. Whoever is found guilty of misappropriation must face the appropriate sanctions prescribed by law. Period!

The ambience of peace we now enjoy was attained by team effort, not just the Peace Committee. The international community, especially American President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, played commendable roles.

On my part, I dare say that I contributed to the success of the transition by resisting pressures to go to court to stop the general elections because of INEC’s refusal to allow our party, Fresh Democratic Party, FRESH, participate in the elections, despite the court verdict that voided the de-registration of our great party. I knew that a successful move to halt the elections would favour the PDP, which was facing imminent defeat from a determined and cohesive opposition, APC, which looked certain to carry the day. The PDP would have been grateful if anyone was able to stall the polls. It would have had a valid excuse to stay in power to continue to cover its tracks.

Former President Jonathan feigned ignorance of INEC’s intransigence in perpetuating the illegal act of disobeying a court order to relist our party and allow it to take part in the elections. He condoned the abuse of power and flagrant contempt for the rule of law displayed by the electoral agency; but now out of power, and at the receiving end of a new order that has restored individual liberties, Jonathan is desperately campaigning for the corporate respect of the rule of law. What goes up must come down.

• Rev Okotie, a pastor – politician wrote from Lagos.

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AST week we considered the HausaFulani and the Igbo. Today, we consider the Yoruba. The Yoruba are the largest nationality in the tropical forest country south of the valley of the River Niger. In land area and population, they are larger than most of today’s countries in the world. Their distinguishing characteristic in their history has been their urban civilization. Much more than any other people of Black Africa (indeed more than most other peoples of the world), the Yoruba have lived in towns and walled cities throughout the past 1,200 years.

By the time the first European explorers navigated the sea passage to the coast of West Africa in about 1450, most of the large Yoruba towns were already flourishing. In the 19th century, some more towns were founded – like Ibadan, Abeokuta, Shagamu, Modakeke, new Oyo, Aiyede-Ekiti, Oke-Agbe in Akoko, etc.

The first Europeans to penetrate into the interior of Yorubaland did so in the early 19th century. In 1825-6, the English explorer, Hugh Clapperton and his team entered Yorubaland from Badagry and travelled north to the great city of Oyo-Ile near the Niger. What they found surprised them, because it was considerably different from the rest of tropical Africa. Towns existed at short distances from one another in all directions. According to the explorers, many of these towns were “densely inhabited”, and were “remarkable for their cleanliness”.

Most were “clean habitations’, were “delightfully situated”, and were approached “through a beautiful walk of trees” or “through a spacious avenue of noble trees”. Very good roads connected town to town. The explorers recorded that the roads were, in many parts, “a long broad and beautiful avenue”, were “as level as a bowling green”, and were well protected and “carefully watched by overseers”.

In the context of this urban civilization, the Yoruba had long developed a very rich economy – in agriculture, artisanship, crafts, manufactures, commerce and the arts. All along the roads, the Yoruba people’s strength as farmers was obvious. The countryside was richly farmed – with “fields of Indian corn”, “plantations of cotton”, “extensive plantations of corn and plantains”, “rich plantations of yams”, “acres of indigo”. The explorers summed up their impression by writing that the Yoruba were indeed “an industrious race”.

Yoruba crafts and manufactures were highly sought in many parts of tropical Africa. The Yoruba also had the greatest art culture in Black Africa. In every town, the Clapperton group saw large numbers of sculptures decorating public buildings and family compounds. They remarked that the Yoruba people “appear to have a genius for the art of sculpture” and that

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LECTIONEERING in a democratic setting like Nigeria at times could be very interesting and entertaining. Not necessarily because of the fun and excitement that come with it but the opportunity it offers people to partake in many pre-election activities. Presently, the attractions that come with elections are rapidly unfolding in Kogi State in its another era of choosing a new governor or reelecting the incumbent Governor, Idris Wada.

As such, in the build up for the Kogi gubernatorial elections of November this year, some aspirants and their supporters have already started mouthing their chances and reasons why they should be regarded the best choice. Actually, political campaign is a permissible and important aspect of an electoral process, both for contestants and voters but it turns out best when it comes with objectivity than obscure sentiments.

In Kogi State, the struggle for party ticket is ongoing and political parties are taking decisions on who becomes their respective party standard bearer. Out of over 20 eligible political parties, only two seems to be making waves in the upcoming elections and as usual, these two parties have commenced the old tradition of courting the electorate by making bogus promises on both things that are feasible and impracticable. Nevertheless, there exist major hurdles to cross which do not really lie in the quantity of promises made but in the quality of candidate selected that will be acceptable to the voting public. Interestingly, the selection of contenders has stirred up a lot of problems in the wings of both parties, the APC and PDP. Although the APC party has successfully decided on its contestant, there are deafening grumbles over the emergence of Audu Abubakar as its candidate.

For the PDP, even before its primaries, its problem has gone beyond whispers of disaffection to an existential dilemma of purported rigging of its primary election.

Candidly put, the predicament that confronts the PDP is the interest and insistence of the incumbent Governor, Idris Wada to seek another term of office under its umbrella. For anyone with fair knowledge of the Kogi politics, it is no longer news that Governor Wada is facing a lot

Yes, ours are respectable nationalities Yoruba artistic productions “rival, in point of delicacy, any of a similar kind” that they had seen in Europe.

In every town, the explorers saw large and crowded marketplaces where innumerable kinds of merchandise from various ends of the earth were spread out for sale. They counted as many as seven large marketplaces in one large town. On a busy market day, the collective swell of bargaining in any of these marketplaces could be heard from many miles away like the roaring of the sea. Some market places specialized in night-time trading, with every trader using an oil lamp to illuminate her merchandise. When one approached one of such marketplaces in session, it was as if one was heading towards a sea of stars.

Other European and American explorers later in that century confirmed all that the Clapperton group had seen. In particular, these had much to write about Yoruba trade. They were greatly impressed by the ancient Yoruba institution of trade caravan (made up of many traders and their porters travelling together).

One British Anglican missionary estimated that a caravan that he travelled with near Ibadan in 1854 consisted of “not less than 4000 persons”. The American missionary, William H. Clarke, who travelled all over Yorubaland in 1854-8, wrote: “The trade in native produce and art keeps up continual intercommunication between the several adjacent towns, the one interchanging its abundance of one article for that of another.

Thus on those smaller routes may be seen caravans of fifties passing almost daily from one town to another, acting as the great reservoirs of trade. (On the longer routes) a network of trade is carried to a distance of hundreds of miles, and with an energy and perseverance scarcely compatible with a tropical people.

Hundreds and thousands of people are thus engaged in the carrying trade”.

Clarke added that whenever some caravans happened to merge, “a correct idea of the extent of trade may be found in the imposing numbers that stretch over several miles in length” on the road.

Most of the trading happened in the marketplaces, but there were various types of travelling traders – the owners of the caravans. Two of the richest traders in Yorubaland in the century were women – Madam Tinubu in Lagos

and Chief Efunseyitan Aniwura, the Iyalode of Ibadan. The Iyalode owned not only one of the largest commercial businesses in the country but also a large farming enterprise which, in the 1870’s, employed more than 2000 workers. In the port towns of Lagos and Ajase (Porto Novo), very many rich merchants grew up, and some of them even owned shipping lines.

According to the Clapperton group, the Yoruba people lived under very respectable government and paid “the greatest respect to the laws”. Yoruba people were also happy and wonderfully hospitable. “We experienced as much civility from them as our own countrymen would have bestowed upon us in our own native land.” In every town or village, the explorers were thronged by inquisitive crowds who “were, generally speaking, neatly dressed…and very clean in their personal appearance”, and “pleasing in their manners” and self-respecting. The explorers wanted to pay money to young men to carry their ailing leader (Clapperton) in a hammock, but found, in town after town, that no Yoruba youth would do such a thing for anybody; the boys always responded that it was “a task fit only for horses”. However, rich Yoruba folks as well as the chiefs and kings were always ready to help the explorers and to lend them the use of horses.

At the bottom of all this prosperity, order and peace, was Yoruba cultural unity. Though the Yoruba lived in many sovereign kingdoms, they were united by a common culture in language and patterns of life, powerful traditions that “proved” a common national origin and identity, and a common national pride as a superior civilization.

The very sophisticated Yoruba political and governmental system had a significantly democratic character. Unlike among most other monarchical peoples, Yoruba kings were not automatically succeeded by their biological sons, but were selected by their subjects from the pool of eligible princes of the royal lineage. The chiefly lineages also selected the chiefs. The culture demanded serious respect for the right of speech for all, and had a uniquely strong kind of respect for women.

Rich Yoruba women traders were regularly among Yorubaland’s richest and most influential people. And every Yoruba kingdom had traditional women chiefs. All these made the

Nigerian thoughts individual Yoruba a confident and freedom-loving person.

T h e Clapperton explorers noted repeatedly t h a t Yoruba rulers were digBanji Akintoye nified, professional and highly respectable. William Clarke wrote that, surprisingly, the Yoruba had long mastered the principle and practice of “balance of powers” in governance – probably better than many European peoples.

Then in the second half of the 19th century, the strengths of the Yoruba nation were powerfully reinforced by new, non-indigenous, cultural assets. European Christian missionaries had started to bring the Gospel message and Western education to Black Africa by the middle of the century – and the Yoruba had immediately jumped far ahead of the rest of Black Africa in taking advantage of the Western education. Yoruba language became a written language. By the 1870s, a Yoruba literate elite (of lawyers, doctors, engineers, journalists, accountants, etc) had risen and was expanding, and Yorubaland already had newspapers.

Among other things, the literate elite initiated a movement of Yoruba Cultural Nationalism which promoted studies and writings in Yoruba culture and history, and which greatly added to Yoruba national unity.

All in all, the Yoruba nation was a large Black African nation absolutely able and ready to evolve into a nation-state or country of its own in the modern world. European imperialism did the horrible harm of pre-empting that.

Nigeria is now engaged in the horror of attempting to suppress and destroy the Yoruba nation and other Nigerian nations. Denial, by Nigeria’s so-called “federal” centre, of the existence of the Yoruba and other Nigerian nationalities, and banning the teaching of their languages and histories in the schools, are abominations that can only boomerang someday – to the huge detriment of Nigeria.

Kogi 2015: The odds against the PDP

By Petra Akinti Onyegbule of challenges arising from wide spread criticisms of poor performance in his present first term in office. Indeed, more than anything else, many Kogi citizens believe that Governor Wada’s reelection trouble is more rooted in the fact that he ascended the number one office in Kogi state through the back door, as such, was ill-prepared for leadership as evinced in how he has conducted the affairs of Kogi state in the past three years.

Thus, to many political observers of governance in Kogi State, it will be least surprising that the second term ambition of the governor has stirred up deep resentment and anxiety within the PDP. Infact, under Wada’s leadership, his party’s shortcomings have been on vivid public display and his inability to manage the damage has hammered some form of huge dent on the fold of PDP loyalists. The common belief is that Wada’s leadership has destroyed the base of PDP reliable voters. The result from the last presidential and legislative elections in Kogi State has shown that the PDP hitherto faithful constituents have been largely taken over by the APC. This is largely ascribed to the growing number of PDP members that are aggrieved with Wada’s inappropriate headship. To a large extent, this fragmentation of party loyalists has made Governo Wada to be widely reviled and rejected by most PDP members except those who benefit from his government.

Reviving the PDP membership strength under Wada’s guidance will not be an easy task.

The quiet negotiations initiated between some top PDP leaders and Wada for a back down as state party leader to advance the PDP’s unity has not been possible because of a mix of the party’s constitutional limitation and Wada’s indifference. Also, appeals to the governor to step down as a contestant in the election are yet to yield any positive result. However, the truth is that

the fears about Wada’s candidacy are real because even if he ultimately captures the PDP nomination again, his chances of victory are very slim in a credible governorship election especially against a reinforced Audu Abubakar of the APC. Given the many political negatives against Wada, his insistence in not stepping down portends danger for the PDP especially given that there are many issues demanding clarification from him that if left unaddressed may be used by his opponents to make him unelectable in the coming election.

Some analysts posit that though Governor Wada’s ambition still flickers in the minds of his few close associates, the reality on ground is that the PDP majority are against his quest for second term. Thus, without Wada as candidate, it is right to state that the PDP may have a good chance of victory especially if its national leadership is able to halt the planned rigging of its primaries.

Ordinarily, the Kogi PDP primaries presents a ready and viable alternative for the PDP as there exist a credible contestant, Jibrin Isa Echocho that stands head and shoulders above the controversial Wada. However, for the skewed customary belief by Wada and his cohorts that an incumbent like him should be extended automatic nomination, such a credible option may be difficult. This is where it becomes necessary to encourage the national leadership of the PDP to be astute in its determination to cleanse the party of unethical democratic practices that advance imposition of candidates. Specifically, dignifying measures should be put in place to ensure that the delegates for the Kogi PDP primary election are not compromised or coerced into taking a decision that will buttress the PDP as unserious for victory in the governorship election.

If the truth be said, the Jibrin Isa Echocho option will make the most sense for both PDP members and Kogi electorate. Echocho remains

the political favorite of majority of Kogi PDP members as he has a broad appeal amongst the electorate and this puts him in a very good position to understand what can be done about his party’s division. Arguably, that most aggrieved persons that are now APC’s members are from Echocho’s PDP camp simply implies that he has the ability and antidote for the party’s unity.

Thus, given his capacity to desegregate the party, his emergence as PDP candidate will not only go a long way to console the many aggrieved persons that left the PDP out of frustration, but will give both new and old members of PDP equal comfort and opportunity for participation in Kogi politics. Such possession of trait of political charisma for attracting earlier decamped members of the PDP will help cultivate support outside the PDP which is a key advantage above Audu Abubakar of the APC. Realistically, given the present lessons from Wada’s failure, the right guess is that the politics of Echocho will certainly be about the exploration and implementation of new ideas to validate his age long claim of stolen mandate. Already, Echocho has defied every prediction that a maltreated politician should be the attraction of opposition camp because his four-year patience and calmness after being displaced as winner of the PDP 2011 governorship primaries defines his real nature as an exceptionally committed and loyal party member. The fact remains that a rejection of a popular choice from the PDP will not only stimulate anger that may rekindle another era of division within the party but will make many of its voters to emotionally act in ways that will advance the interest of the APC. Such protest votes will not only lead PDP to an ignominious defeat but will inflict deep injurious in its current purported bid to rebuild its party.

• Onyegbule writes from Ogori Magongo, Kogi State

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Can students sexually harass their teachers? Yes, say teachers, who lament that the searchlight is usually on them. According to the teachers, they are forced to cope with the ever-expanding methods students use to rope them in without help from school authorities.

•• Sexual harassment can be both ways.

Teachers: we’re ‘ also sexually harassed

By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, Oluwatoyin Adeleye, Mojisola Clement, Jane Chijioke, Leke Akeredolu (Akure), Ugochukwu Ugoji-Eke (Umuahia), Gbenga Omokhunu (Abuja), Yusufu Aminu Idegu (Jos), Uja Emmanuel (Makurdi), Nicholas Kalu (Calabar), Sunny Nwankwo (Aba), Bisi Oladele (Ibadan), Aderenike Gbadebo.

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OMPLAINTS about sexual harassment seem to come mostly from female students. They get all the sympathy and attention. However, lecturers say they are being sexually harassed, too, by their students. They are worried that

their case is not given as much attention as their students. Yet, they argue that they are at a greater risk because theirs is more difficult to prove.

Dr. Yau-Muhammed Damagun, a lecturer in the Accounting Department of the University of Abuja, said it was unfair not to recognise the stress

When I was a student, my lecturer corrected a student who sat in front for opening her legs wide without her panties on. I did not believe the lecturer then until it happened to me as a lecturer. A girl wearing no panties opened her legs wide in the class at the Isolo Campus

lecturers pass through because of sexual harassment by their students.

He noted that lecturers also need help to cope in such situations.

He said: "Lecturers also pass through sexual harassment from students but that of lecturer-to-students is always in the news.

"In some cases, the incidents were very upsetting for the academics and they did not know where to turn.

Some felt there was a perception that because they were academics, they were expected to cope with anything that was thrown at them.

"I wondered whether senior academics have more 'coping mechanisms' than those who are junior; but some very senior academics have some quite horrifying stories."

Mr Alaezi Offia of the Department of Humanities, Abia State Polytech-

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nic, said it was wrong to attribute sexual harassment to just one party, describing it as a two-way traffic.

However, he blamed students more for it than lecturers.

"This issue is a two-way traffic which takes place on the sides of both the lecturers and the female students.

But it is more on the side of the female students who feel they have more to gain when they trade sex for marks than the other way round," he said.

The most common reason the lecturers interviewed said they got advances from the students was to rectify their poor performance in academic work.

Prof Francis Angrey of the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Calabar, said poor grades make students vul-

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nerable and ready to offer their bodies.

"It is a terrible issue. I tell my students that those of them who run after lecturers to improve their grades do so because they are weak and it makes them vulnerable. I know some students on their own go to lecturers and offer one thing or the other, whether sex, for female students, or money. They just come to you and say 'Please how did I perform?' And from there they say they will give you anything you want so that you can change it for them. I advise them to go sit down and study. The time they spend doing other things and pursuing lecturers, if they sit down and read, they would have done several pages of their books," he said.

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Bank makes offers

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TERLING Bank Plc has rolled out various offerings to make going back to school in September a lot easier for all stakeholders.

The offerings include special gifts for children with the Bank's I Can Save Account; School fees financing for parents; special training programmes and household equipment finance scheme for teachers; school finance as well as sponsorship of their events.

Sterling Bank's Group Head, Strategy & Communications, Mr. Shina Atilola, said gifts for "I Can Save" customers include school bags, raincoats, cultural heritage books, exercise books and other writing materials.

For parents, Atilola said they would be able to put their wards in school while awaiting salaries and other receivables.

Personal Financial Management training scheme will be enjoyed by teachers of schools which pay salaries through the bank, in addition to flexible payment plan for household items they buy.

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Abimbola of the Department of Mass Communication, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, said students harass lecturers to settle scores, or even because of romantic attraction.

"Female students who harass their male lecturers do it for different purposes, chief among which is to get academic favours through the back door.

Such students are mentally weak and are not ready for any hard work but to seek cheap grades. Others do it because they are naturally attracted to their male lecturers. But those in this category are few. Some do it out of mischief in order to tarnish the reputation of their target victims."

Sexual harassment methods Sexual harassment against lecturers takes various modes. While provocative dressing was identified by many lecturers as the most common method students use to attract their attention, it is now being used with a combination of many other tactics, including phone calls, amorous text messages, invitations to hotels, and unsolicited visits.

Mr Oluwadamilola Fapetu, a lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo (RUGIPO) in Ondo State, will quit bachelorhood soon, and he hopes the marriage will stave off 'attacks' from his female students.

He has been invited by female students to hotels or hostels many times.

"On many occasions, students have seduced me for marks but what I always do is to let them know that their bodies should not be used as a means of exchange.

"I have been invited to hotels and even students’ houses to make me fall for them. But, by the special grace of God, I normally overcome such temptation," he said.

Mr John Galadima of the Mass Communication Department, University of Jos, has also got many invites from female students.

He said: "Most female students just believe they can achieve anything with their body. I have experienced a lot of them who have difficulties in passing my course or attending classes.

All they do is they make sure they get your phone number and you will get strange calls and the caller will introduce herself as your student. The caller will be asking the description to where you live because they want to visit.

When you refuse to welcome them to your house, they suggest you come to meet them in a hotel. Some will ask me to choose any location I want or will suggest an exclusive beer palour in town and so on."

Dr Paul Omale, a lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, said the level of sexual harassment is usually higher after examinations.

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"Teachers deserve the quality of living that employees in other sectors of the society enjoy. This informed the Bank's introduction of the Household Equipment Finance. This solution allows teachers and other school workers acquire household equipment like Refrigerating Sets and Television sets amongst other items with flexible repayment options spread over three months at discounted rates.”

Under the School Finance scheme, schools can access loans to bridge working capital gaps, expand and acquire assets with a tenor of up to 60 months at interest rates lower than the industry benchmark.

The Bank under the School and Family Events Partnerships would also provide support in the form of partnership and gift items for schools and other relevant organizations during events such as Inter House Sport Competitions, Children's Day, Cultural Day, Open Day, Fun Day, PTA meetings and Mother's/ Father's Day.

•From left: Representative of Jackson Family Foundation, Cecilie Binoche; Founder/Chair, Basic Education Africa (BEAfrica), Ms Abimbola Okoya and Brand Manager, Natures Gentle Touch, Mrs Toyin Adepegba at the BEAfrica/ Jackson Family Foundation 'Make That Change' seminar supported by Natures Gentle Touch, at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos.

‘Teachers are also sexually harassed’ number, but shortly after any examinations I usually receive many phone calls requesting my attention," Omale said.

Until he became a victim, Mr Ayodele Alade of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu, did not believe students could harass lecturers.

"Most of the harassment come from students and not lecturers. When I was a student, my lecturer corrected a student who sat in front for opening her legs wide without her panties on. I did not believe the lecturer then until it happened to me as a lecturer.

A girl wearing no panties opened her legs wide in the class at the Isolo Campus," he said.

An Associate Professor of Political Science, Ekiti State University, Dr. Femi Omotoso, shared his three experiences of sexual harassment.

He said: "The harassment on their part is just too much; they expose sensitive parts of their bodies. They write answers on their laps inside exam hall, and some of them even hide answers written in some pieces of paper inside their private parts and it is improper for a male invigilator to check their bodies.

"Most of them will come around looking at you seductively, saying, 'Oga, a n fo ju so, a n fara so' (Can't you decode the message we are sending to you?) Some of them will say, 'before I leave this university, I must have an affair with you'.

"I have two outstanding experiences of such. One of them sent a text message to me, saying, 'Oga, I love you.'

When I saw the text, I called back to know the sender and, lo and behold, she happened to be my student. She said she was having a feeling for me.

"Another one said: ‘Oga, I know you are married but I wish to be your second wife.' One of them, a married woman came to my office and jammed the door, saying 'Oga, don't you do faaji (enjoyment).' On that day, I was shaking and jittery.

"I had to apply wisdom to ease her out because if I didn't and she shouted, I knew I would be in trouble."

A lecturer in a privately-owned higher institution in Ondo State (names withheld) said he has since overcome the shock of getting suggestive text messages from students.

"In the school where I lecture, female students send me amorous text messages. The first day I received it, I was shocked that this could happen there; but when it became frequent, it did not matter to me again," he said.

But he was shocked when a student touched him.

He said: "There was a day a female student, who missed a test I conducted, came to my office at about 6.30 pm, begging that I should assist her. My policy was that any student

‘Universities need to recognise that harassment by students is going on. We shouldn't just be sweeping it under the carpet’ who fails to appear for my test would not have an opportunity for a makeup test because I always tell them ahead of time.

"When I told her that there was nothing I could do, she moved closer to me wrapped her hands around my shoulder and I shouted 'What!' I walked her out of my office that day because her action was very shocking.

"In my school, many of the students are children of influential people and you need to be very careful so that you will not be at the receiving end of the episode, and you need to think about the interest of the proprietor who wants to make money by having as many students as possible."

A lecturer in the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Dr Bisi Olawuyi, said girls sexually assault lecturers when they believe they can get what they need.

He recounted his experience with a girl begging for assistance over her poor results.

"I am the co-ordinator of the Distance Learning programme in the department. The young girl came in and started begging me to help her over her poor performance. But I told her that I couldn't help. She persisted, saying 'I know you can help me.' She went on her knees and burst into tears. Unfortunately, I can't help students in such ways.

"Anyway, students don't harass lecturers if they don't put themselves in position of power. I have always told them also that if they do what is needful, lecturers can't harass them."

Avoiding the trap Though many lecturers interviewed said they had been harassed, none admitted to have fallen for the temptation.

To overcome temptation, Fapetu said lecturers must be principled.

"As a lecturer you must be a man of principle and stand on it to the letter, no matter the situation. I normally send out any student who dresses indecently to my class because those that dress in that manner are on a mission and that mission is to seduce their lecturers," said the RUGIPO lec-

turer.

Dr Abimbola also advised lecturers to set boundaries that would prevent them from falling a victim of sexual harassment from students.

Abimbola did so when he taught in a higher institution in Benin.

"I was living on campus and was much younger. This female student used to come to the office asking lots of questions but I had to stop her from disturbing me. Not relenting, she found her way to my residence one evening. I was in my room when my flat mate came to inform me that I had a guest. I came out and found she was the one. I only asked who she came to visit and she said it was me. I hurriedly reminded her about my privacy and banged my door on her. That was the end of her overtures to me.

"Lecturers who are harassed should know it is a natural and common thing in any human setting. They should learn to set boundaries, both physical and emotional, to avoid a situation that will make it extremely difficult or inevitable to resist the test".

Omale of BSU said he has kept safe by refusing to meet with students outside his office and advises others to do same.

"I insist that whatever discussion should be held in my office on campus.This way, I have been able to wade off those who want to harass me sexually for marks," he said.

On his part, Dr Omotoso said in order not to fall victim of sexual harassment, he speaks openly against it in the classroom; ensures he does not stay alone in his office and dismisses such students the moment they send him signals.

"Some of the measures I take to tackle this menace include opening the door to my office and ensuring somebody is always with me while in the office. I also use some strategies to disengage them from office when they are unwilling to leave. If you are in Christ, you will always escape them and when you always speak against it in the class, they will respect you," he said.

Dr Canice Okoli of the Faculty of Education, UNILAG, said marking scripts promptly could help avoid attacks.

"My advice to lecturers is that, as much as you can, do your job right.

Mark their scripts and submit to the authorities so that even if they come, there is nothing you can do anymore.

Even when the students have been told that, some of them would still come and beg as if you can perform magic.”

Consequences of yielding Lecturers who are not principled enough to resist sexual advances by students usually get embarrassed.

Galadima of UNIJOS warned of the shame of exposure by the students

when he said: "When you fall into their trap and they get the favour they are looking for from you, they will expose you before other students by being boastful of having influence over one lecturer or the other. I have never fallen into their trap, and I will never.

There is no two ways to passing my course; you have to read well. You will only get the mark and grade you deserve; and that applies to male and female students."

Angrey of UNICAL fingered greed as the principal factor that makes lecturers give in to sexual harassment, and said such people should be sent away.

"It is a matter of greed for lecturers who succumb to such temptations. In the Faculty of Arts when I was Dean, I said if any lecturer is caught, he is going," he said.

Resolving sexual harassment on campus

Dr Damagun is advocating a change in the way authorities handle sexual harassment issues so both parties can feel protected in the course of carrying out their legal obligations in the school environment.

He suggested that managements of tertiary institutions should mount programmes to address the issue for both workers and students.

He said universities should establish workshops for students to raise awareness of the problem and help prevent harassment, in addition to offering training that would help staff deal with - and stop - unacceptable behaviour when it arose.

"Universities need to recognise that harassment by students is going on.

We shouldn't just be sweeping it under the carpet. Some of the lecturers do not want to say many of the happenings because many students threaten them. I have also passed and witnessed many which I do not want to mention. But I think urgent steps needs to be taken," he said.

Ray Njoku, who teaches in the Public Administration Department of Abia State Polytechnic, urged parents to raise their wards well so they do not offer sex to lecturers for marks.

"It takes a decadent student from a decadent background to offer sex for marks and it also take a decadent lecturer from a decadent background to allow that because it takes two to tango. The parents should bring up their children in a godly manner so that the thought of offering sex for marks will not cross their minds. Students should be in school, buy their textbooks, study to write and pass their exams and stop moving from one club to the other which makes them ill-prepared to study for their exams.

Because it is possible for them to read, write and pass their exams without debasing themselves," he said.

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UALITY education nurtures the mind and expands scope of opportunities for the educated but it is unaffordable for the less privileged, especially in rural areas.

To close the gaps in opportunities for the indigent, Bridge International Academies berthed in Nigeria last week with the inauguration of two schools in two suburbs of Lagos State - Ijegun in Alimosho Local Government Area (LGA) and Igbogbo in Ikorodu.

Its mission is to enroll indigent children to enjoy quality private education at a subsidised cost of N6,000.

Co-founded by Jay Kimmelman and Ms Shannon May, Bridge International Academies is a group of schools established with the aim of giving over 400,000 children living in rural areas a world-class education as their peers in exclusive private schools.

The inauguration of the schools in Ijegun and Ikorodu witnessed a large turnout of residents, who brought their children for enrollment at the schools.

At the ceremony in Ijegun, the presence of ace comedian and actor, Hafiz Oyetoro, popularly known as Saka, drew crowd to the event, which had Director-General of the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Lagos Ministry of Education, Mrs Ronke Soyombo, and Chief Executive Officer of TW Magazine, Mrs Adesuwa Oyenokwe, in attendance.

Other guests included chairperson of Nigeria Field Society, Robin Campbell, her husband, Hugh, Divisional CEO of Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services, Mr Mike Ogbalu, and representative of DEEPEN, Mr Adeyemi Adebayo, among others.

Having successfully run the Academies for six years in Mukuru slum in Kenya, Ms May said there was the need to expand the opportunity to other parts of Africa and Asia.

By 2025, she said, the schools would have trained 10 million children in several developing countries.

Ms May said the schools would leverage on technology and economic realities to dispense quality knowledge at subsidised rate.

May said: "The compelling case for this was the fact that, all over the world, poor children are likely to always under-perform their peers from affluent families, not because they are less intelligent, but because they are

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unable to access quality education.

"We are in Kenya and Uganda to partner communities and government on this project. It surprised many people that the pupils we worked with were able to learn fast. We believe that the pedagogy approach to teachers' training and the way we schedule the classes and how the teachers engage the children in activity-based learning can really help develop the children."

She said the success of the Academies in Kenya in 2009 led to the establishment of additional 412 pre-nursery and primary schools in different part of the country for the benefit of low-income families and wished the same to happen in Nigeria.

Director-General of the Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Ronke Soyombo said the Lagos State Ministry of Education was ready to

partner with the founders of the Academies to make education affordable and accessible in education-disadvantaged areas of the state.

The DG, who observed that an approval was given for the establishment of the Academies after assessment, said the ministry had reviewed the evaluation schedule to enable private and public schools to maintain the standard set by the government.

Mrs Soyombo said: "We will not condone any teaching and learning that is not up to the standard set by the government. We have upgraded curriculum for the benefit of the pupils. We want care and guidance to be ingrained in our evaluation schedule, because we want to ensure every child is monitored and properly guided by the teacher."

Saka urged the parents not to jeopardise the future of their wards by keeping them at home, telling a

story of how her father suspended construction work on his first house to pay his fees when he gained admission into university.

She said: "Education is not money; but it is a key that will unlock opportunities, including money and every other thing we desire. I came from a poor background. Because my parents struggled to send me to school, I can now have handshake with presidents and highly-placed people, who I think I could not have met. You parents must not allow your financial challenges to keep your children away from school."

The highpoint was the inauguration of the school building, which is located on Ibrahim Iyiola Street in Isheri Osun. The event also featured cultural display by the pupils and scholarship raffle draw, which had a Primary 2 pupil, Zikrullah Ambali, winning a year scholarship.

Shell scholarship for 60 Southsouth indigent pupils

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HE Anglo-Dutch multi-national, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Nigeria Limited has offered 60 pupils from public primary schools in the Southsouth zone admission into four top private boarding secondary schools in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital under her Cradle-toCareer (C 2 C), scholarship scheme.

The scheme is designed for gifted children from indigent background under Shell joint partnership with NNPC/TEPN/Agip Oil Company,

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but operated by Shell.

The 60 beneficiaries from Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa States are the sixth batch since the programme began in 2009 - bringing to 350 the total number of children reached so far.

Presenting his address at the award/closing ceremony of the 2015 orientation camp held for the new inductees in Port Harcourt on Monday, the country chair, Shell Com-

panies in Nigeria, Okunbor Osagie said the initiative offers the pupils opportunity to enjoy quality education at no cost to their families.

Represented by General Manager, External Relation Shell, Igo Weli, he added that the pupils passed through rigorous selection process and competitive examinations before selected from among over 400 applicants.

"These are 60 gifted young people, who probably would not have had the opportunity to access the kind of

• Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Bishop Mike Okonkwo (third left); his wife, Bishop Peace (second left); Prof George Obiozor, Chairman of the 16th Bishop Mike Okonkwo lecture (second right); Guest lecturer, Mr Babatunde Fashola (right); and the chief examiner of the Mike Okonkwo Essay competition, Prof Akachi Ezeigbo (left) with the winner of the competition, Chisom Emeto (middle).

quality secondary education that they will get through this programme," he said.

He said the two-week orientation programme was to introduce them to academics, character and psychological training "to integrate them into their new learning environment."

He expressed optimism that the scheme would help develop a sound human resource base for development in Nigeria.

The pupils would be posted to Archdeacon Brown Education Centre (ABEC), Brookstone Secondary School, Bloombreed High School and Jephthah Comprehensive College.

Responding to the gesture, the Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Education, Minaebi MichealWest; lauded the efforts and contribution of Shell in education development in the region.

He saId: "We admit that education sector is capital intensive, however, the state government has made a law that made education free and compulsory that any parent who does not send a child to school at least at the UBE level can be charged to court, but education in the state is free up to secondary school level.

"The difficulty the government faces in running free education make us to appreciate the private sector and companies like SPDC, who have keyed into this sector because it is a burden that the government alone cannot carry. The involvement of SHELL to education service delivery is heart-warming and commendable."

THE Vice Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, advised the 3,989 new students, who took the matriculation oath of the institution for th e2014/2015 academic session last week to build on the landmarks of their predecessors.

Ajibefun also counselled them to eschew social vices that could thwart their studentship.

The VC said: "Our students and alumni's landmarks continue to signpost the University's academic excellence. In 2014, Master Akeem Opeyemi Longe, the first student to graduate with a First Class in Law, did not only repeat the same feat in the Nigerian Law School 2014 Final Bar Examination, he emerged the Best Graduating Student in that examination. Not only that, this University won nine out of the 27 prizes available in that examination.”

The Registrar, Mr. Bamidele Olotu, administered the Matriculation Oath on the students.

Elizade VC seeks pact THE newly-appointed Vice Chancellor of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Prof.

Kunle Oloyede, is seeking to collaborate with AAUA. He said this when he visited the Vice Chancellor last week with Principal Officers of the university.

"We are looking for collaboration with sister universities such that we can create a new generation of graduates, who will understand that it is not just good enough to work technically. We are looking at how we can build our students to have sufficient awareness and developed minds in the area of entrepreneurship," said the professor of Medical Engineering.

Responding, the AAUA VC, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, welcomed the partnership.

"I am glad to say that AAUA is ready to work with Elizade University. As a new VC of Elizade University with overwhelming experience from both home and abroad, I have a strong belief that working with you will be a great exploit for both Universities," he said.

AIG Zone 11 visits THE new Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 11 (Ondo, Osun and Oyo States) , AIG Kalafite Helen Adeyemi, has assured AAUA of her support.

Adeyemi, who visited with some officers of her Command, said she had been briefed on the cooperation between the university and the police, particularly, in the areas of information dissemination and the fight criminal activities.

She thanked the university and promised to reciprocate the cooperation.

She said: "On our part, we want to assure you that the Police in Ondo State will continue to cooperate with you. We will treat all information received with uttermost confidentiality; and we want to assure you that we will ensure that your university is rid of all criminal activities.”

She noted that security of lives and property could no longer be left in the hands of the police, hence, the need for synergy with all stakeholders."

The Vice Chancellor, Prof.

Igbekele Ajibefun, expressed the varsity's satisfaction with the performance of the police in the state.

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Don decries salary disparity EXCEPT the huge disparity between incomes of political office holders and civil/public servants in Nigeria is corrected, the problem of crime may not be in sight, a Professor of Criminology at the Ibrahim Badamasi University (IBBU), Lapai Professor Eddiefloyd Igbo has said.

Igbo, of Department of Sociology, said this while delivering the institution’s fourth Inaugural Lecture titled: “Addressing Crime and Insecurity in Nigeria”.

He noted that huge disproportionate incomes encourage crime and deviance among those who feel deprived, disadvantaged or cheated, thereby dampening their overall morale and commitment to work.

He said crime and insecurity flourish in Nigeria because the executive, legislature and judiciary as well as the police have not been accountable in playing their respective statutory roles in the fight against crime and security in Nigeria.

Training to get priority THE Vice-Chancellor, IBBU, Prof Muhammad Maiturare, has assured that capacity development would be given the utmost priority to enable them add value to the university.

He said this while declaring open a five-day workshop for Laboratory Technicians on the installation, operation and maintenance of high-tech laboratory equipment acquired through TETFund grant, held in the Senate Chamber.

Maiturare said the management was poised to provide condusive environment for cutting edge research, training and community services, which could only be achieved with high-tech equipment and workers that can operate them.

The Vice-Chancellor charged the participants to avail themselves of the opportunity to pay attention to the training for the benefit of the University.

Workshop Coordinator and Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology, Prof Nuhu Obaje disclosed that the new equipment would make the university’s research centre a reference in the country.

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TAFF and pupils of Agidingbi Junior School, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos State were full of gratitude to the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Israel Parish, for refurbishing a block of three classrooms in their school. The rehabilitation offered them a safer and more conducive learning environment.

Speaking at the renovation of the classroom blocks, Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary (TG/PS), Education District Six, Mrs Amidat Anifowoshe, described the effort as remarkable.

She pointed out that lack of conducive learning environment and parents' lackadaisical attitude to their children's education contributed to the poor results in the last West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and encouraged the public to assist government, through such initiatives.

She said: "You (Israel Assembly) have helped to make life more comfortable and convenient for the children to learn and this is beneficial to the entire Lagos State, but not everyone is willing to do this. It is a remarkable improvement to the school.

Government is unhappy about the recent WASSCE result, which I believe was compounded by the state of the school and we hope that with more of such projects, there would be improvements.

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" The time these children spend with parents is very important also, because teaching is only complete when you see the children practicing what they have learnt. But the time they spend with their parents is militating against us in the school, as parents do not seem to be doing much. We need churches and other groups to help us advice parents. Government is spending to make sure we have good, reliable, efficient, leaders of tomorrow, but how are we helping the children to be useful in the future?"

Mrs Anifowoshe, who said the commemoration of the classroom blocks was the first project carried out in her district since she assumed office less than two months ago, promised to ensure maintenance of the classroom block.

Commemorating the event, Pastor of Israel Assembly, Dapo Awosika said a conducive learning environment in schools would help children do better and curb crimes in the society.

He called on the society to engage in corporate social responsibility acts to uplift the nation.

"The value of cannot be underestimated. Education is very important to any given society and when the environment is conducive, performance would be improved and we

would not even need to pray too much for the children's success. It would also help to curb crimes and remove jobless youths from the streets. It is high time churches, organisations and every one of us looked into the communities around us to see what we can do to take the youths off the streets," he said.

To the benefactors, he said: "I would only tell the children that there is nothing as good as being taught how to fish yourself. So now, they have no excuse not to learn. if you are not committed to learning, the you are the architect of your own misfortune."

Awosika said more than N2 million was spent on the project, which was raised through donations from church members.

Principal of the school, Mrs Oluyinka Fadeyibi assured the church that the classrooms would be wellmanaged and secured, saying: “teachers and class prefects would work hand-in-hand to make sure that hoodlums do not gain access into this place to vandalise our classes. And when the students destroy, we call in their parents to fix it, because the school has no money.”

Vice Principal, Academics, Mrs Oluwatoyin Williams advised the children to learn from the good gesture of the church and strive to imitate such as they grow.

HE Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna has withdrawn 28 students for poor performance and being absent for two semester examinations.

The approval for the withdrawal of the students was given during the 398th meeting of the university Senate.

A breakdown of the withdrawn students shows that eight of the students were from the Department of Risk Management and Development Studies; 15 were from the faculty of Engineering, two were from department of Animal Production, one student each from department of Geology, Estate Management and Valuation and Biochemistry.

One of the students was withdrawn due to overstayed studentship of maximum allowable periods of semesters; four were given voluntary withdrawal due to their absence in the first and second semester examination without official permission; while 23 were withdrawn due to poor academic performance.

The withdrawal of the students was contained in a statement issued by the office of the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution.

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HE Ninth Jire Olanlokun Memorial Lecture comes up today at the Julius Berger Hall of the University of Lagos, Akoka.

This year's guest lecturer is Dr Rilwan Abdu Salami, president, Nigerian Library Association. He is expected to proffer solutions to the problem of library services in schools.

The event, to be chaired by the Registrar of Librarians Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN), Dr Victoria Okojie, in line with the objectives of the foundation to proffer solutions to the problems militating against establishment of good library services.

Hope for Accounting THE Management of the IBBU has reiterated its commitment to regaining full accreditation for the Accounting programme.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Muhammad Maiturare made this known when executives of the Niger State branch of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) visited him.

He assured the visitors that the university was ready to partner with the association to boost human capital for its accounting programme before a new accreditation exercise.

The state Chairman of ANAN, Alhaji Aliyu Lafene, said the visit was to congratulate the vice chancellor on his laudable feats achieved within the short period he assumed office.

He pledged the association’s readiness to partner with the University towards strengthening the accounting system of its operations and enhancing the status of the accounting programme.

Lafene sought collaboration with the university to introduce Postgraduate programmes in Management so that both lecturers and civil servants could benefit instead of going outside the state for additional qualifications.

•Administrator of Grace School, Gbagada, Lagos, Mrs. Olatokunbo Edun (middle) flanked by Mr Philip Balogun, Vice Principal (Administration) and winners of the Grace Bisola Oshinowo indigent scholarship award for JSS3 pupils - Adaralesin Liadi (left), Owolabi Oluwatosin, Aileru Quadri and Olawale Ibrahim after the presentation of the scholarhip.

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ORMER Director-General (DG), National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Prof Oni Idigbe, has advised youths to create and share ideas to contribute to economic transformation.

Idigbe, who was guest speaker at the 38th Conference of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology, said: "Youths should gather, start putting ideas together, and develop their hands in order to play various roles to achieve economic transformation, particularly in the area of poverty alleviation."

The five-day conference, which held at the Multipurpose Hall, University of Lagos (UNILAG), has as theme: ‘The role of Microbiology in national economic transformation.’

Young microbiologists as leaders of tomorrow

By Aderenike Gbadebo

It was organised to inform the public on the empowerment of the youths who would ensure a better tomorrow.

Idigbe advised youths to research and be innovative to create new products, investigate on where and how to find better health and improve productivity, thereby increasing wealth and reducing poverty.

Dean of the University's Faculty of Science, Prof Olusoji Ilori, charged professionals and educationists to inspire youths through education in the classroom and otherwise.

"Leaders are discouraging the

youths with their lackadaisical attitude to work. The lecturers should develop, mentor and train the students. They must also encourage them to love Nigeria deeply and desire to serve selflessly to make Nigeria better than what it is today," he said.

Similarly, President, Nigerian Society for Microbiology, Mr Kehinde Eniola said: "Students are leaders of today because they are the engine room of any society, if they are allowed to contribute their quota by being encouraged and forming part of the society, they will go a long way to engineer the

transformation of the society because they will be the one to carry the information out, bring the ideas."

A 400 level microbiology student, Sandra Nnaka, told The Nation that the Society has helped her to understand how microbiology can impact positively on the environment and the economy.

"We can always solve our problems ourselves by using our facilities; we do not have to import things to use in Nigeria," she said.

Another student of the same level, Emmanuel Olubodun, lauded the Society for their forward-thinking.

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Were the products Unilever Nigeria Plc donated to the Adekunle Ajasin University in Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State expired? Yes, say some students; no, counter others. The crisis has led to the suspension of Students’ Union Government (SUG) leaders, who invited the firm. RICHARD ADURA-ILESANMI (300-Level Mass Communication) reports.

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HEN Unilever Nigeria Plc, through an agency, took some of its products to the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, the aim was to promote love during the Students’ Union Government (SUG) Week, last Friday.

The scorching sun did not deter students from trooping to the union building to receive the gifts.

They waited patiently under the blistering heat to get what many of them called “manna from heaven”.

But, what Unilever may have considered as strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) turned awry before it ended. Students returned some of the products, claiming that they were expired.

The students vented their anger on the SUG leaders, who invited the manufacturing firm to the campus. They returned the “expired” products, telling Unilever representatives their campus is not a dumping ground.

Some of the free products included toothpaste, body creams, deodorants, liquid body wash, body spray and roll-on, among others.

A female student, who pleaded not to be named, told CAMPUSLIFE that her roommate got a body cream that expired on August 21, 2015. She said: “I did not attend the event, but my roommate came home with some of the

•Students claim products have expired •Firm: we didn’t give out expired products Unilever products. She gave me a body cream, but when I checked the expiry date, it was August 21, 2015. I still have the cream as evidence.”

A member of the union parliament, representing the Faculty of Arts, Femi Adewole, said the Unilever representatives did not know that the products had expired until some students, who had got theirs, returned them.

He said: “We discovered some expired products that had been given out to students. This made us to stop them from giving out the remaining products but they showed us some toothpastes that will expire in 2016, which we allowed them to give out. But the body creams had expired at the time they were being given to the students.”

Omowumi Pelemo, a 400-Level Mass Communication student, said: “When I got the products, I did not look at the expiry dates until I got back to my hostel. I got a message that some of the products had expired. When I checked, only the body cream will expire next month. The toothpaste and Dove Body Shave I got will expire in

2016.”

Adebanjo Oluwasegun, a 400-Level Geology student, said the expiry dates of the products he got were “very close”, but he could still manage them.

The Unilever workers later stopped the distribution of the products, following the alarm raised by some of the beneficiaries.

The union President, Olukayode Ogunade, apologised to the students over the development.

Olukayode said: “With remorseful heart and mind full of regrets and shame, I apologise on behalf of the executive council of the Students Union for the ugly incident.

I plead that we should not allow the development to destabilise the state of the union’s affair.”

The union leader said the incident should not be seen as a plot to compromise health and safety on the campus, noting that Unilever was invited after the firm’s similar gesture to students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA).

He added: “Before the products were distrib-

uted to students, the union checked to ensure they were good for use. Unknowingly, some of the products were about to expire at the time of the event. When our attention was drawn to it, we instructed the Unilever workers not to give out edible products that are about to expire and they obliged us.”

But, the drama that trailed the incident took another turn last Monday, following the suspension of Olukayode by the union parliament.

The Student Representatives’ Council (SRC), at its plenary, suspended the president, Welfare Director, Saheed Latinwo, and Social Director, Abiodun Adelegan, for three-weeks for their failure to inform the parliament members of the firm’s visit to the campus.

The Acting Clerk, George Ayomide, said the suspended union leaders breached the constitution by unilaterally inviting the firm to donate products during the SUG Week.

The Assistant General Secretary, Adebowale Akinmoladun, was also suspended for the errors on the union members’ identity cards.

But, the executive arm faulted the suspension, saying it did not follow due process. Daniel Akingbade, the Public Relations Officer, said the suspension was illegal, because it negated Sec•Continued on page 30

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The power of music

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WO months ago, three young female undergraduates that I’m currently mentoring visited. On my way to drop them off, one of them requested I make a copy of the ‘old school’ songs I was playing in the car. “But these are old tunes, some even released before you were born so why the interest?” I asked. Her answer was instructive.

“Sir, the lyrics in most of the songs makes me feel appreciated as a woman because most of them sure know how to get to a woman’s heart,” was her reply.

That was how our discussion on music began. “But we have good musicians of your generation out there,” I reminded her. “Don’t even go there,” the three of them chorused immediately. One said of them “all they know is to go straight to the point.” Since I didn’t know what she was driving at, I asked her to elaborate.

Shyly she said “some of them are very raw in their lyrics.” Understandably, the discussion later veered to how the music is affecting young men in their generation and why young ladies dating ‘matured men’ appears to now be the trend. As one of them puts it, “most men my age that I’ve dated will come boldly to you and with a straight face say let’s have s-x; just like that. I find that very disgusting and cheapening.”

I didn’t give the discussion further thought after dropping them off until they visited again last week and the discussion started all over. Since I mainly concern myself with “weightier” issue of life and policies, I somehow felt I needed to hear these young women out because they might be sending strong messages to young men of their generation. What they revealed was quite deep which will be issue for another day. However, since music started the whole discussion. I’d like to focus on the power of music today.

Listening to some of what is churned out today as music in Nigeria is appalling – to say the least. In a show I attended earlier this year, a popular comedian joked about current Nigerian musicians and

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•aagboa@gmail.com asked whether they actually sit down to write their songs or just wake up from their beds and sing whatever comes to their mind.

The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Robert Nester Marley (Bob Marley) are two great musicians I admired. I listened to some Fela songs recently and I could have sworn they were written and sang yesterday! Most of the social malaise and challenges he sang about are still with us till date. So are Bob Marley’s songs. Marley, it was, who picked up a speech the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivered at the UN and made a lovely song out of it.

My point is that every song should tell a story; a compelling story like Fela and Bob Marley did with their songs. Every artiste should tell a story; the nature of such message(s) however, depends on the artiste’s inventiveness and innate constitution. The essence and quality of their stories are responsible for their eventual rise to acclaim, immortality or obscurity. Today, the ladies in question can relate to songs written even before they were born. What are our present artistes’ stories?

Most see “enemies” everywhere. Either people are envious of their ‘success’ or they are out to ‘bring them down.’ They seem to be following in the steps of the so called ‘gangster rap’ artistes of my generation who ended up shooting and killing each other on the streets of the United States of America. They became a bad influence on succeeding generation of African Americans.

I love music because it is something magical. It’s salve for all of life’s emotional wounds. The good thing about music is that there’s so much out there that there’s literally something for every mood imaginable.

There’s music to calm you down, there’s music to put you in an ethereal state, there’s

music to pump you up and there’s music that simply serves to take away silence.

Everyone has a favourite song or artist and it’s no surprise that liking the same music can be both a topic of conversation and a tool for connection. Personalities can even be deter-

mined by the types of music people listen to. Think about it, there are classical people, there are hard rock people, there are reggae people, and there are country people. There are so many facets of personalisation that come from music that it’s no surprise that music can be as contentious as politics, sports or religion. It’s different for everybody.

I can’t count the times I’ve been so overwhelmed by our world that the first thing I do when I get into my car or get home is put on some music to calm my nerves and lull me into a more peaceful and reflective state.

What makes music part of our lives and why were my three young female friends able to use music to send a message? Hundreds of studies have been conducted on the power of music. In the area of healing, some genre of music like calm music has been noted to produce results because of their soothing nature.

A sport psychologist, Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in England conducted a research recently using danceable upbeat music for London’s “Run to the Beat” race.

He learned how to devise soundtracks that are just as powerful, if not more so, as some of the not-so-legal substances that athletes commonly take to excel.

“Music is a great way to regulate mood both before and during physical activity. A lot of athletes use music as if it’s a legal drug,” Karageorghis told LiveScience.

“They can use it as a stimulant or as a sedative. Generally speaking, loud upbeat music has a stimulating effect and slow music reduces arousal.”

The link between music and athletic performance is just one example of the inroads scientists and doctors are making into understanding the amazing power that music has over our minds and bodies. Science is

backing up our intuition and experience, showing that music really does kill pain, reduce stress, better our brains and basically change how we experience life.

Linda Fisher, a pediatrician at Loyola University Hospital in Illinois, has also researched into playing therapeutic music for patients in hospitals, hospices and other clinical settings to improve their healing.

“The music I play is not necessarily familiar, its healing music that puts the patient in a special place of peace as far as the music’s rhythm, melodies and tonal qualities.”

A 1990 study at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska and St. Mary’s Hospital in Mequon, Wisconsin concluded that music “significantly” lowered the heart rates and calmed and regulated the blood pressures and respiration rates of patients who had undergone surgery.

Equally too, Fisher said a 2007 German study found that music therapy helped improve motor skills in patients recovering from strokes. Other studies have found that music therapy can boost the immune system, improve mental focus, help control pain, create a feeling of well-being and greatly reduce anxiety of patients awaiting surgery.

Along those lines, music therapy was recently found to reduce psychological stress in a study of 236 pregnant women, according to researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. Women in the study who listened to pre-recorded CDs of soothing music for 30 minutes daily showed significant reductions in stress, anxiety and depression, said researcher Chung-Hey Chen, who is now based at the National Cheng Kung University.

Good as some of these music are, to the extent they can have be used in medical researches, can we say the music of our present day artistes can or could be used for such researches? Answer that yourself.

I’ll like to sign off by reminding us that good music mixes with reality. My era boasts of artistes and a music culture that manifests as a rallying cry against poverty, oppression, apartheid, sexual violence etc. There’s a lot to write and sing about as Nigeria grapples with massive youth unemployment, terrorism, advance fee fraud, bad and insensitive leadership, gang violence, pipeline vandalism and a myriad of social challenges.

But all we seem to hear is unbridled materialism which often leads to laziness and the ‘get rich quick syndrome’ that has held us back for decades.

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tion 29 (1) of the union constitution, which provides for fair hearing.

Daniel said: “I wish to inform students and general public that Olukayode Ogunade, Abiodun Adelegan, Saheed Latinwo and Adebowale Akinmoladun have not been suspended. They remain the leaders of the union.”

George defended the parliament’s action, saying the motion for the union leaders’ suspension was unanimously adopted by members.

There was a bedlam at the Students’ Union Building (SUB) on Tuesday, when the suspended officers allegedly attacked the Speaker and some members of the parliament in their offices.

It took the intervention of the school security officers to restore order at the building, after which the SUB was shut down to prevent breakdown of law and order.

An eye witness told our correspondent that some members, who did not want the building shut because of conflict between the two arms of the union, resisted the security men’s move.

Some students accused Olukayode of masterminding the closure of the union building as a way of fighting his suspension. The union president, it was alleged, used his closeness to the management to harass the Speaker.

Meanwhile, Exp Marketing Nigeria Limited, the Unilever’s agency, has said it did not give out expired products to the students. The agency said the products were not expired at the time they were given out.

The firm’s Business Director, Ngozi Okonji, who spoke to our correspondent, said: “The Unilever is not sampling directly; they are using our agency to carry out the promo.

For confirmation, the aim of the promo is not to sample expired products and we did not give out expired products to the students as alleged. What we did at AAUA was part of the CSR they (Unilever) have just started doing. And the instruction is that, we should give out their products to students across higher institutions for sampling.

“The objective is not just to sample, but it is a CSR that will give students an opportunity to try Unilever's products. It is a way of giving back to the society. But, Unilever decided to carry out the CSR in higher institutions.

“It is wrong for the students to say we gave out expired products during the promo. Vaseline, for instance, is one of the products being sampling. Many people believe it is a product that is useful only during harmattan period. But, Unilever has the aim to convince people that Vaseline can also be used for beauty, which is why Vaseline is in the combo shared to the students.

“Apart from toothpaste, other products given out were in small jars to encourage quick consumption by the students. This is a marketing strategy that is done to create quick responses from students.

“If some people have gone to give out expired products to the students, I can assure you they are not from us. Unilever will never do that. I can confirm to you that the products we gave out to AAUA students were not expired.

“To be sure, AAUA is not the only campus we have visited to carry out the promo.

We have visited several schools and there has been no complaint on the products we gave out. The fact the promo continues in other campuses indicates we are not giving out expired products for students to sample.”

Director, Corporate Affairs (Unilever), Mrs Soromidayo George, said: "We do not give out expired products; this is against our company's policy and in violation of our Code of Business Principles. If there are allegations of expired products being given out on behalf of the company, we will appreciate detailed report in this regard and we will investigate and ensure that the appropriate action is taken."

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CADEMIC activities have been suspended indefinitely at the Federal College of Education (FCE) in Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State, after pandemonium trailed the election of the Students’ Union Government (SUG) held last Thursday.

The election turned violent after the management allegedly attempted to rig the poll in favour of a presidential candidate. This led to a rampage by students, leaving many injured. The presidential candidates are Dayo Olaiya and Ibrahim Afolabi.

To prevent anarchy, the management issued a statement, asking the students to leave the campus. Activities on the campus were suspended indefinitely.

The statement, signed by the Registrar, Mr Rafiu Akinola, said the move followed the fallout of the union election.

It reads: “The management has noted with great concern the security situation in the college as a result of the fallout from the Students’ Union election that was conducted yesterday. In view of the various allegations and counter-allegations leveled against each other by the students, which have led to pent-up emotions amongst the

From Samson Uwala ABEOKUTA students, the management considered the need to constitute a special panel to thoroughly investigate all the allegations. Meanwhile, the controversial election has been suspended.

“In order to prevent total breakdown of law and order, management has approved an indefinite suspension of academic activities in the college with effect from today.

“Consequently, all students are expected to vacate the college premises not later than 6pm today. Please note that no student will be allowed into the campus while the suspension last.”

Speaking with CAMPUSLIFE, a student, who pleaded for anonymity, said the management’s decision was the best to forestall anarchy in the school.

She said: “I think that is the best thing the management can do to preserve the honour of been the most peaceful institution in the state. If the step was not taken, things might go wrong and the college may not bear the consequence.”

Another student, Waheed Abiodun, accused the management of instigating the crisis by its action to meddle in the election.

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CAMPUS LIFE There is a crack in the Niger Delta Students’ Union Government (NIDSUG) following its president’s purported impeachment by members of the parliament.

EMMANUEL AHANONU reports.

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RISIS has hit the Niger Delta Students’ Union Government (NDSUG), following the purported impeachment of its president, Obada Akpomiemie, by the parliament, for alleged financial misconduct and impersonation.

But the president has described his removal as laughable, saying he could not be impeached by a “kangaroo house”.

The crisis started with allegations and counter-allegations, which degenerated to verbal attacks when petitions were forwarded to the parliament.

All members of the union executive, exceptof the treasurer, in July, sent a petition to the legislative arm, detailing the alleged financial recklessness and impersonation offences against Obada.

This led to the setting up of a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations against Obada. But the embattle president, it was learnt, declined all invitations to appear before the panel. Weeks after, the Senate President, Chimdi Obiarandu, a student of the Federal

•Members of the parliament during the sitting

University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) in Imo State, convened an emergency sitting held at the Rivers State College of Art and Science.

Obada was allegedly impeached at the sitting.

It was gathered that the meeting was not duly constituted as Chimdi was said to have appointed a floor member, Wisdom Ogbonna, to replace Deputy Clerk, Bianca Alagwu, who was absent at the sitting.

The panel, headed by Franklin Iwu, a student of Imo State University (IMSU), submitted its report to the parliament, alleging that Obada threatened the lives of the panel members.

Obada was said to have been criticised by his comportment, prompting members of the parliament to invoke Section 17 of the NDSUG constitution that spells out impeachment procedure.

Williams Welemu, a student of Niger Delta University (NDU) moved the motion for Obada’s removal and it was seconded by Ri-

•Franklin reading the panel’s report

chard Chukwu of FUTO. The impeachment was supported by 71 members, while two voted against it. The Vice President for Administration, Bariture Ngbee,

was sworn in as president after Obada’s impeachment.

Reacting, Obada said he could not be impeached at a “kangaroo sitting” presided over by a “fake Senate President”.

He said NIDSUG still had the offices of both Senate and Deputy Senate President vacant, noting that the instruments of office that would have given the parliament power to act were in his custody.

He further alleged that the Senate President’s election in which Chimdi contested was declared inconclusive when the electoral committee noticed he (Chimdi) was no longer a student.

Since Chimdi is posted to Adamawa State for National Youth Service, Obada said he ceased to be a member of the union and could not be elected as Senate President.

According to Obada, “I’m just trying to manage the issues and carry everybody along for the interest of our dear union” Obada said: “Where did they derive their power when the mace and

other legislative instruments are still in my house? Members are still waiting for a new date when Senate President election would be held.

The only officers that can convene sitting of the parliament when the office of Senate President is vacant is the Clerk and his deputy.”

The Clerk, Chinedu Aniogu, a student of Delta State University (DELSU), confirmed the union does not have a Senate President and Deputy Senate President.

He said: “I am acting as the leader of the parliament for now. The election held for the Senate President position was null and void when it was discovered that Chimdi is no longer a student at the time he contested.”

Chairman of the union’s state coordinators, Ubi Jasem, a student of Cross River State University, said there was no impeachment. “If there was any emergency setting, members of the parliament from my school would know about it. More so, the mace is still with Obada, who was the immediate past Senate President of the union,” he said.

Chimdi said he would not join issues with Obada, saying he is student of FUTO. He alleged that Obada graduated in 2012 at River State College of Education and was not a student of any school when he contested as president of the association last year.

Chimdi claimed that Obada lied to be FUTO student in his nomination form to contest the election. He said members ignored Obada’s eligibility because his opponent raised no objection against his candidature.

A member of the union, who pleaded for anonymity, said he was not concerned about the impeachment but added that Obada and Treasurer had been using the name of the union to make money for themselves. He said the crisis came to the fore, because some members of the executive felt they were sidelined by the president.

“It is not good to make money without carrying other members of the union along,” he said.

Some graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have returned to the country to hold a workshop for students on boosting innovation and technological advancement. KAWTHAR BABATUNDE (300-Level Petroleum Engineering, University of Lagos) reports.

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FTER their studies in the United States, a group of graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States have returned with the aim to engage their peers and equip them with knowledge in modern technology and innovation.

The MIT alumni stormed the Bells University of Technology in Ota, Ogun State with a seminar tagged: ImpactLabs Summer Workshop.

The two-week event was held in collaboration with the Technology Innovation Labs (TIL) of the university.

It was designed to engage students in engineering designs through real life technology implementation projects.

The workshop had 31 participants from various higher institutions, who were selected from 318 applicants.

The training was held at the school multipurpose hal.

Addressing participants, cofounder of ImpactLabs

Chukwunwike Iloeje the workshop aimed to give quality training to participants to enable them identify problems and proffer solutions.

Olumurejiwa Fatunde, a Bio-medical engineer and facilitator, said the participants were selected based on their ability to solve problems, using engineering applications and technological innovations.

At the workshop, the participants were divided into six groups, with each given charge to come up with an invention before the end of the workshop. The groups were Mavericks, Phoenix, G5, MegaMinds+, Team Dynamo and Team ACME. At after two weeks of intensive training and activities, each group came up with its invention, which was showcased on exhibition day.

Team MegaMinds+, which was led

by Maryam Adetunji, designed a wind pump and a solar concentrator, which they named Umbrella Magnificento. The device was built to

•Team MegaMinds+ displaying their Umbrella Magnificento

store solar energy and harness it for various mechanical uses.

Team Mavericks came up with a device that allows conversion of mechanical energy in bicycles to electrical energy, which is stored in a power bank for further usage.

Other inventions that were exhibited included an automated Septic Tank Sensor that monitors the level of waste in a septic tank, a Dual Bin that hastens the rate of decomposition of biodegradable wastes, an ACME Waste Sensor that can be used to detect faults in motorised waste bin and Dynamo Care, a de-

vice that monitors the heart rate and body temperature.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Isaac Adeyemi, represented by the Dean of Postgraduate School, Prof A.O. Ogunmoyela, described the workshop as a technology booster, saying the institution would continue to support programmes that would enhance technological advancement.

He praised participants for their willingness to learn skills that could change their lives and the country.

Babatunde Alawode, one of the workshop’s facilitators, expressed

gratitude to the university management, saying the ImpactLab would not relent in exploring the innovative minds of the youth to place the country on the world technological map.

After the exhibition, the participants were given certificates of participation. One of the participants, Sekinah Adeyemi, a 300Level Engineering student of University of Lagos (UNILAG), said facilitators of the workshop had imparted life-changing knowledge on her, promising to deploy the skills to solve challenges facing the nation.

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•Stephen (second left) being sworn in at the event

LEO Club installs officers

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EMBERS of the Leadership Experience Opportunity (LEO) Club from various higher institutions converged in Warri, Delta State, last week, for the installation of new officers to oversee the affairs of the club in 404A1 district.

The event was hosted by the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Effurun and Delta State Polytechnic in Ogwachukwu chapters.

Former president of the club at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi (AUCHI POLY), Stephen Agbra, was installed as the third president of the district whose jurisdiction extends to Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta and Edo states.

Omolara Olabande, a student of Yaba College of Technology

From Gbenga Ojo PTI (YABATECH), was also sworn in as the district Vice President 1, while Wahab Olayinka of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) took the oath as Vice President II. Other officers are Arinola Nosiru, a student of YABATECH (Secretary), and Ruth Abure, a student of University of Benin (UNIBEN), who became Treasurer.

LEO club is the youth wing of Liberty Intelligence of Our Nations Safety (LIONS) Club International.

It is committed to promoting actions that will equip youths with leadership qualities and provide them opportunities.

The installation also featured skill

acquisition seminar, where members were taught how to produce liquid soap, disinfectant and shampoos.

This was followed by training for the officers, which was anchored by the district’s pioneer president, Shogo Oloshunde, former president of district 404B2, Adedeji olukokun, and District 404A2 president, Nsikak-Abasi Killians.

After this, the district’s council meeting took place, during which budgets and policies were discussed for 2015/2016 Lions Year.

Arinola promised to work hard to earn reputation for quality service delivery. The district Chief of Staff, Cross Anigbogu, a PTI student, described the event as a new dawn for the members and the club.

VC to journalists: help deepen democracy

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HE Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Obong University in Obong Ntak, Akwa Ibom State, Prof Udoudo Ekanemesang, has urged media practitioners to engage in constructive reporting that will help the nation to grow its democracy. He charged journalists to promote credibility and strict adherence to media ethics in the discharge of professional duties.

The VC gave the charge at a twoday workshop organised for journalists in Akwa Ibom State with the theme: Professionalism, media ethics and responsibility in sustaining democracy and deepening oil and gas operations reportage.

Prof Ekanemesang, who chaired the event, said the core obligations of the media in a democratic society are to provide the citizens with credible information that would engender peace. He said journalists have duties to remind leaders of their promises to the people.

The VC maintained that reporting of timely and credible information built on facts must be carried out by journalists in a manner that would enable the people to have adequate understanding of the complex and conflicting scenarios in the society.

He said: “Accepting the definition of democracy as a system of government, which allows people to elect their representatives, it means people need relevant and credible information to participate effectively in a democratic process. A well-informed citizenry can vote wisely. If people are misinformed, their decisions would be based on the false information.

To educate the public, the media, as the guardian of public interest, must discharge its duty in line with democratic ethos. The media is ex-

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‘To educate the public, the media, as the guardian of public interest, must discharge its duty in line with democratic ethos. The media is expected to hold elected public officers and political office holders accountable for their actions or inactions’ pected to hold elected public officers and political office holders accountable for their actions or inactions. Democracy thrives in an atmosphere of responsible government, accountability and transparency. In this respect the media can serve as powerful counter-force to corruption. There should be mutual distrust between media and government.”

Speaking on the need for journalists to adhere to the ethics, Prof Ekanemesang urged media practitioners to always remember that people want to know the truth, adding that only accurate information can held people build confidence in the media.

To maintain standard, he said media must regulate itself and develop mechanisms for monitoring adherence to professional practices and conflict resolution. The VC said

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the task to report accurate news was a challenge in the age of new media.

He urged participants from the state to deploy their media platform to promote the state values and inform the people about the achievements being recorded in Akwa Ibom.

Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council, Elder Patrick Albert, said the leadership of the union would continue to make efforts in bringing good capacity-building training to members to expose them to best practice and show them ideals that should guide their professional conduct as they discharge their duties.

To ensure journalist in the state conduct their professional duties in line with the laws guiding the profession, Albert said the union put in an effective mechanism to monitor the conduct of journalists. He said his leadership would continue to be alive to its responsibility of taking appropriate actions against journalists who engaged in unprofessional practice.

The event, which was attended by guests from the government, academic and private sector, was sponsored by Mobil Producing Nigeria in collaboration with Anak Ventures Nigeria and NUJ.

S responsibility of the media limited to informing the public? To Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, the Provost of Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Ogba, Lagos, the media should not only inform the public, it must also educate the people on diverse issues.

He spoke at a ceremony to mark the 60th birthday of the Head of Department of Mass Communication of the Lagos State University (LASU), Mr Jimi Kayode.

Ogunleye, the guest speaker, noted that many journalists did not know the role of the media as stipulated in the Constitution. This, he said, is the reason practitioners display inefficiency in carrying out their role to the society.

Emphasising that the media had failed to carry out some of its constitutional responsibility, Ogunleye said: “Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution states that the press, which include newspaper, radio, television and other means of mass media, shall, at all time,

Moses Adeyemi and Tosin Falade LASU be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this section.”

He said the media had neglected its fundamental roles as enshrined in the constitution, while charging media houses’ owners to look beyond profit and allow journalists to discharge their duties without fear or favour.

Ogunleye praised the celebrator for his humility and kindness, saying Kayode had dedicated his life to the training of students in the discipline of mass communication.

Prof Lai Oso, a former Dean of School of Communication, LASU hailed the celebrator for his calmness.

He said: “If Dr Jimi Kayode is angry with anyone, such a person must have excessively played on his feelings, because he hardly gets angry.”

Oso highlighted Kayode’s academic achievements since he joined LASU, wrapping his speech up by advising students to emulate the virtues of the HOD. A 300-Level Mass Communication student, Feyisayo Olatunbosun, described the celebrator as a father to all students, saying: “Dr Kayode takes everyone one of us as his child. He is always willing to listen to our complaints. I wish him many more years.”

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HERE must be synergy among government, private sector and higher institutions to build a sustainable infrastructure to drive national development.

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of North Carolina, United States, Tobi Ogunro, made this submision at the 5th personality leacture of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO) in Owo, Ondo state.

The don spoke on Building critical infrastructure system: The role of higher education in technology transfer.

Ogunro said the economy was growing fast without commensurate provision of infrastructure to drive the growth. He challenge, he said, was due to deficit in higher education technology transfer.

The don identified poor transportation and road networks, epileptic power and dysfunctional information systems, among other as causes of the nation’s underdevelopment despite abundant natural

From Richard Adura-ilesanmi RUGIPO and human resources.

He called for a platform to train and educate competent, dedicated and ethical workforce, stressing that the higher institutions remained critical to achieving the aim.

The Acting Rector, Mr Boniface Ologunagba, said the lecture was aimed at improving the rating of the polytechnic in the world.

The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Adekunle Ajasin University in Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) and chairman of the occasion, Prof Igbekele Ajibefun, praised the polytechnic management for the choice of the theme, given the knowledge-driven nature of the global economy.

There was also an interactive session, which afforded members of the audience to contribute to the theme.

Participants at the event, held in the school 800-seater auditorium, included the polytechnic principal officers, policymakers, captains of industries and students.

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T was all celebration last week as the Adekunle Ajasin University in Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State chapter of Anglican Students Fellowship (ASF) marked its 15th anniversary of campus evangelism. The ceremony was well-attended by students and lecturers.

A student of Biology Education, Oluwatogbemi Ajose and seven others founded the fellowship in 2000.

Fifteen years after, the fellowship became one of the most attended congregations on the campus.

The fellowship president, Gbenga Olaniyi, appreciated God for keeping the religious body strong in the past years, saying it had recorded successes since its inception.

Gbenga, a 400-Level Physics Electronic student, said the fellowship had encountered challenges in getting worship centre and temptation to convert it to an independent church. The fellowship, he said, overcame it.

The president advised members to be steadfast in their academic pursuit and remain prayerful for them to achieve their aims.

Addressing the students, the pioneer president of the fellowship, Sen Akinro, hailed the leadership of the

From ‘Yomi Ayeleso AAUA fellowship for sustaining the values of the body. Akinro, who is now a priest in the Anglican Communion, urged the students to be steadfast and see the building of the chapel as God’s ordained. He solicited for financial supports towards the completion of the fellowship’s worship center.

Chairman of the fellowship’s alumni body, David Akinjebi, congratulated members on the anniversary, saying the grace of God had been good to the fellowship. He praised the leaders of the fellowship for their impressive contributions in upholding the legacy left behind by their predecessor. He assured them of the support of the alumni body in the quest for the completion of the worship centre.

President of Anglican Students’ Fellowship in Ondo State, Pamilerin Akinwumi, a student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), eulogised members for their commitment to the state chapter of the fellowship. He felicitated with the chapter on the anniversary, saying the state chapter would always support the campus fellowship.

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•A student donating blood during the exercise

Terrorism not Islam’s face, says VC

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HE Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba chapter of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has held its 25th Islam Propagation Week, with the theme: The optical illusion: Debunking misconceptions about Islam.

The event was aimed at educating Muslims and adherents of other religions about Islam and its teachings.

Activities held to mark the event included blood donation at New Great Hall of the College of Medicine and New Hall at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) in Akoka.

Other programmes included visit to prison and orphanage, and a Medical Fiqh Forum, where controversial issues in medical practice were discussed.

The guest speaker and Deputy ViceChancellor of Kampala University in Uganda, Prof Abdul-Hamid Adedeji, said the world needed to be informed that Islam is not just a religion, but a complete way of life, because it promotes peace, togetherness, love and comfort.

He said terrorism could not represent the teaching of Islam, because its activities negated the tenets of the religion.

Adedeji urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase allo-

•Some of the students posing the ‘couple’ during the ‘wedding anniversary’

Students mark 25th ‘wedding anniversary’

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By Idayat Bello cation to education, stressing that the Ministry of Education needed to be supervised by an expert, who have vast knowledge about administration and policymaking.

He said: “The Federal government, when appointing ministers, should choose a Minister of Education who has vast knowledge of the challenges facing education in the country. The minister should be a person that can guarantee access to quality education even to the unborn generation.”

During the blood donation exercise, Mrs Mercy Onofomi, the LUTH Chief Donor Officer, said blood donation prolongs life and could help the donor detect some diseases.

“At times, we carry excess blood in our bodies. When we remove some of it, new blood will be produced and human life will be prolonged. Some people don’t know that they have hepatitis except when they come for screening. We advise them to get treatment before it deteriorates. Liver problem can also be quickly detected through regular blood donation,” she said.

A volunteer, Fatimah Aliyu, said: “I donated my blood because I want to save the lives of others. Where there is passion, the fear of donating blood will diminish and the feeling of charity will be the reason for doing so.”

Another donor, Emmanuel Akinola, said it was the second time he would donate blood. “I feel good.

I used to have doubts about it, because of the misconceptions about the exercise. After the first donation, I did not regret my action; rather, I am happy for saving other people’s lives. I will be willing to donate again,” he said.

A member of the event’s organising committee, Umar-Farouk Adegoke, a 500-Level Medicine and Surgery student, said: “The event is of great impact to the Muslims and non-Muslims. We have organised the biggest blood donation exercise in the college, because we have succeeded in donating 440 pints of blood so far.

“We visited Kirikiri Maximum Prison and Girls’ Remand Home in Idi-Araba. All these activities are geared towards changing the notion many people have about Muslims.”

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HE graduating students of Home Economics Department of the Delta State University (DELSU) in Abraka, last Friday, turned out in elegant attires to organise a make-believe wedding ceremony in fulfilment of HEE415 titled: Home management and residence.

The event tagged “Wedding anniversary” was the 25th, during which students were required to demonstrate their ability to plan and organise large scale ceremonies.

Academic staff and their non-academic counterparts attended the colourful event held at the Home Management Residence in the Oleh campus of the school.

Home Management and Residence is a three-unit course, which must be practised in a three-bedroom apartment, where the students are expected to live together as a family for a period. At the end of their stay, they are required to organise mock events, such as birthday party, traditional marriage, naming ceremony and wedding re-

From Ese Okoduwa DELSU ception, among others. Each student is required to play key role in the mock party, while their lecturers assess and award marks.

The course lecturer, Mrs J.E. Azonuche, said the essence of the course was to promote family values and management of human and material resources.

According to her, the event would afford the students to learn best ways to receiving and entertaining guests, as well as helping them to develop traits and habits needed for successful family life.

A professor of Home Economics, Mrs D.O. Arubayi, commended the students for their concept, noting that the usefulness of the home economics to the society was enormous.

Prof B.A. Ukpore, who was the event’s Mother of the Day, applauded the students for their creativity, saying the event emphasised the need for peaceful co-existence.

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Mass Comm. dept shines at soccer contest

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TUDENTS of the Department of Mass Communication shone in the opening match of the ongoing University of Lagos (UNILAG) Freshers’ League, beating their counterparts in Social Works Department 5-0. Ola Fadahunsi, the Mass Communication team’s striker, scored an early goal to distabilise the opponent’s team.

The Social Works team was embarrassed after it conceded two goals in the first-half of the match, giving its opponents an easy ride to score three points.

From Miftaudeen Raji UNILAG The second goal was score by Majeed Orolade, while the Mass Communication team’s captain, Abayomi Ajowale, scored another five minutes into the second half of the match. The centre forward, Chukwunyerewa Ejike, and midfielder, Abdul-Qodri Idris, scored the remaining gaols.

Abayomi said adequate training was the secret of their victory, adding: “Nobody is bigger than anybody in the game. We all trained together and that was the technique

that worked for us.”

He decried lack moral support for the team, appealing to students of the department to see the team as their pride.

The subsequent match played by Mass Communication team with Political Science team on Friday ended in a draw. On Wednesday, Mass Communication team will meet Economic Department’s team after the latter beat Social Works’ team 5-1.

Also, Sociology team beat Geography team by 4-3 to qualify for the second round.

HE Legal Magnate and Company, a law students’ chamber at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), AgoIwoye in Ogun State, has sworn in leaders to pilot the affair of the body for a session. The ceremony was held at the Moot Court room of the Faculty of Law on Friday after weeks of tension in the faculty over the selection of the executive members.

Membership of the chamber is limited to law students and its objectives are to breed intelligent lawyers by exposing its members to best practice.

The event started with a Moot Court trial presided over by a Law lecturer, Mrs Mojisola Balogun. Excitement greeted the moot trial as the counsel exchanged legal crossfire over an imaginary case of Kwankwaso, who contested for president without West African Examination Council (WAEC) result.

After the trial, 13 new members were sworn in, following an interview with Sarah Babalola, the outgoing Chief Chancellor of the chamber. She urged the new members to be of good character and serve the chamber to be best of their ability.

Adewale Adefuye, Law Students’ Society (LSS) president, dis-

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From Boluwatife Sanya OOU solved the executive council, praising the outgoing members for rendering selfless service to the chamber.

As the new leaders took the oath, there was pin-drop silence in the court. The outgoing Lord Advocate, Yetunde Odusote, swore in the new executive members. They are Farouk Obisanya, Lord Advocate, Esther Agunbiade, Registrar, Adewale Sontan, Chief Chancellor, Damilola Fesojaye, Chancellor of Exchequer, and Emmanuel Awobona, Information Technologist.

Farouk, in his acceptance speech, noted he was privilege to be selected as the Lord Advocate, saying: “I hope for a better Nigeria that will have a vibrant legal system. I promise to take the chamber to greater heights.”

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CAMPUS LIFE The 40th convention of the Pharmaceutical Association of Nigerian Students (PANS) has been held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). It focused on strengthening primary healthcare in rural areas. OLADELE OGE (NYSC Enugu) reports.

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OR two weeks, Pharmacy students from various higher institutions gathered at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) for the annual convention of the Pharmaceutical Association of Nigerian Students (PANS). It was aimed at boosting their capacity in primary healthcare delivery.

The 40th PANS convention, held at various locations on the campus, attracted about 7,000 undergraduates from local and foreign higher institutions.

According to the organisers, the event was to discuss how students could partner with the government and health workers to increase access to primary healthcare in rural areas. It also focused on imparting participants with practical experience by local and foreign experts in therapeutic medicine.

Before the convention began, the PANS leadership visited the ViceChancellor (VC), Prof Benjamin Ozumba, in his office. He declared the event open.

The VC told the students to maintain peace while they discussed issues affecting their association.

Strengthening primary healthcare Ozumba said the school would always support students in their aim of tackling the challenges facing rural healthcare. He praised the Dean of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Prof Emmanuel Ibezim, and students for hosting the event in UNN, promising that the management would provide adequate security and a conducive environment to make the convention successful.

Addressing the students at PAA Hall, Prof. Ibezim said UNN encouraged international best in pharmaceutical practices, noting that students were being engaged in discussion about ideas to improve pharmaceutical practice in the country.

Ibezim said the convention would give students an opportunity to exchange ideas towards improving their knowledge in pharmacy.

He said: “There are numerous challenges plaguing pharmacy profession in Nigeria. We are still battling with problems of unregulated

and chaotic drug dispensation, which seem to have defied human solution. We have challenges of drug abuse and counterfeiting by businessmen. There is also a challenge of sustaining the six-year Doctor of Pharmacy programme in our higher institutions, which seems to be at its critical stage of implementation.”

He said the challenges could only be surmounted if the government had the will to prosecute counterfeiters peddling adulterated drugs and monitor the activities of the regulatory agencies.

Ibezim urged the students to utilise the new media to address the problems, by constructively engaging in discussions that could solve the challenges.

The guest lecturer, Dr Nkechi Anyanwu, urged the students to work closely with members of the public to identify obstacles against effectiveness of primary

healthcare delivery. She said pharmacy students must be comfortable and capable in communicating health matters with non-experts. They must also listen to patients carefully, she said, adding that paying attention to patients’ stories would enable them surmount the challenges of facing primary healthcare.

Anyawu said graduates of pharmacy must be able to fulfil their roles in line with ethical responsibility of the profession. She also charged students to complement activities of healthcare professionals and pharmacists, stressing that it was the best way they could serve and gain experience before their induction into the profession.

She said: “Students can have professional experience through internship and their willingness to complement the activities of professionals. It is good to have good practice before induction, because

it would help to boost curriculum vitae and develop students’ skills.

Good experience in pharmaceutical practice would help students to shape their future.”

The convention also featured an interactive session and debate, where students discussed latest inventions and knowledge in the profession. The event was ended with a dinner and award night, where some of the participants were honoured for their roles in the development of the association.

Some of the institutions that participated include UNN, Ahamdu Bello University (ABU), Enugu State Science and Technology (ESUTH), Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Niger Delta University (NDU), University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

Others are: Igbinedon University, University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Gombe State University (GSU), Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) and Eastern Meditarian University in Cyprus.

Winning souls for Christ Some students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) observed a turnaround in their lives after attending a Christian programme organised by Garrick Graham, a 400-Level Law student. EDDY UWOGHIREN (300-Level Medicine and Surgery) reports.

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ER intention was to catch fun and ease herself of academic stress. Vanessa Olumide, a Chemistry student, stepped into the Akin Deko Auditorium of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Saturday to attend a poetry rendition. Unknown to her, she was in for a surprise.

As the composers rendered soullifting poetries, Vanessa broke down in tears and started to confess her sins. She became a born-again Christian and left the auditorium a changed person.

How did it happen? Vanessa, with misty eyes, said she felt the touch of the Holy Spirit as the artistes rendered soul-lifting. Although she was born into Christianity, Vanessa said she deviated from the teachings of Christ for no reason.

“I felt the touch of the Holy Spirit during the poetry performance and my soul was lifted to accept Christ as my Lord and saviour,” she said.

This was a scenario that played out at the maiden edition of Words Unspoken, an event organised by Garrick Graham, a 400-Level Law student, to minister the gospel of Jesus in to students.

crowd of participants, started with an interview session, where participants were engaged in a discussion about their poetry skills, spiritual life and their expectations from the event.

In his opening speech, Garrick said the objective of the show was to make students with bad habits to retrace their steps back to Christianity. The event, he said was also aimed to harness the poetry talents of students and give them a platform to showcase their skills.

He said: “Most of you attended this event to be entertained. I want to assure that you will get more than entertainment. Your life will be transformed. The performance will make you reconsider your steps and set you on the right path.”

After his speech, Garrick entertained the audience with his poetry on love. As he rendered the words, there was excitement in the air as members of the audience were thrilled. At intervals, Garrick dramatised his message.

After him, Alex Osagie, another spoken word artiste, mounted the podium to render poetry on divorce.

•Garrick (onthe floor) with his crew entertaining members of the audience

•Rev. Lorry Idahosa during spoken word session

Other performances were on sexual abuse, prostitution, rape, campus fellowship, divine restoration and relationship, among others.

Members of VIP Dance Crew of the Christian Fellowship International (CFI) entertained the audience with their choreographed performance.

There was pin-drop silence when Garrick mounted the stage again for another performance on masturbation. His words exposed how youths engaged in what he called “satanic practice” and how they could stop it.

He said: “Rather than making our bodies to serve God, we are carried away by this satanic habit. The good news is that Jesus Christ has paid the price many years ago for our freedom. All that is needed is for

words were raw. They were meant to break into the sinful life of students and make them see reasons to live better lives. These are issues most of us do not discuss with our confidants and friends, because of the gravity of the sins we have committed. But, God is there to heal us.

The healing we have witnessed here today would not have been possible if Garrick had not used his innovative mind to organise this event. It is my hope that this kind of programme will be sustained to win souls for Christ.”

Participants who spoke to CAMPUSIFE said the event was beyond entertainment. Some described it as spiritual session aimed at transforming their lives for the better.

you to accept this love and be become born again.”

As Garrick stepped down from the stage, the audience became emotional. Some members of the audience wailed, cried and prayed for forgiveness. Some of them said the performances gave them a reason to change their lifestyle.

The highpoint of the event was the altar call, during which no fewer than 20 students, including Vanessa, came out to renounce their sins and became born-again Christians. They promised to live their lives according to the teachings of the Bible.

Reverend Lauri Idahosa, chairman of Board of Studies of Benson Idahosa University (BIU) in Benin City, said: “Many will be surprised by what happened at this event. The

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Media and nation building

By Esther Irikefe

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HE relevance of the media in virtually all facets of human activities, especially as it concerns the development of youths and nation building, has become the subject of discourse among media practitioners and the public.

This might not be unconnected with the fact that the media have been described, and rightly so, as the fourth estate of the realm and vehicle that conveys information from the diverse sources to the receivers charged with the responsibilities to inform, entertain, educate, influence and mobilise the public to shed light on issues and foster nation building.

The media, as an aggregation of all communication channels that uses techniques in making a lot of direct personal communication between the communicator and the

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ESSONS are learnt at various stages of life. Experiences are gathered from various happenings that we witness. But, it depends on which method we decide to learn. Both ways are better if one has the opportunity to have experience it. Many would be disturbed over my intrusion into the youth’s ways of life.

I will not hesitate to state that the youth must engage in activities that will make good impact on us. It is time we tried our hands on activities that will bring out the good in us and help the nation’s quest for development.

But it is shameful and embarrassing that the youth are engaging themselves in dirty deals, which could mar our present and also dent our future. Yet, we are made to believe youths are the leaders of tomorrow, even though we are not taking good steps to make this

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public, is a platform that can be used to either chart our path to enviable global reckoning or diminish our status with biased, unfounded, selective and sycophantic reportage.

In recent times, people have become sceptical of the information emanating from the mass media, which has the statutory function of keeping the people informed about the happenings in the society. This is because there has been constant change in accuracy of information being disseminated by the media and this affects the effect such information is designed to make. We have seen occasions when information is purposely disseminated to create fear, confusion and bias in the hearts of people. Mass media has been used to sow seeds of discord in the heart of the youths - the socalled leaders of tomorrow.

It has been argued in some quarters that the task of nation building rests squarely on the shoulders of the media as its practitioners can choose to foster the development of a country by striving to respect the ethics of their profession or simply allow ‘the piper to dictate the tune’ at the expense of peace.

Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe once noted: “If you want to know the future of any nation, take a look at what the youth are doing presently.” This brings about the question: what are the Nigerian youths between the ages of 15 and 35 years doing presently?

Sadly, the response to this poser is definitely not in the affirmative as it relates to today’s Nigeria. With a chunk of the country’s population

being the youth, it is only logical for such a group to play prominent roles in nation building and championing the course for a better tomorrow. It is pathetic that the reality is a far cry from expectation.

Today, virtually all smart phone users are into information dissemination and with increasing idleness and lack of opportunities for the teeming youths to be gainfully employed, the social media becomes a veritable tool for them to vent their anger on the society.

Millions of information is shared on the social media; this is regardless of whether it is true or false.

People rarely care as to the authenticity of any story they are passing across to other users. The social media is being used to spread falsehood, hatred, malice and unwholesome messages targeted at individuals.

Activities of online fraudsters, particularly the Yahoo-Yahoo scammers, who pose as genuine businessmen to unsuspecting Internet users in various countries has become a torn in the flesh and a setback to the mass communication process in this age.

The youth are the champions of these online vices. Left with no job, young people seek for opportunities to take care of their needs. They search for people to feed with wrong information that could actually fetch them million without sweat. They explore lapses of the Internet, which becomes their own goldmine and seeks to expand their nefarious trade by registering a company and then using its address to continue to transact fraudulent

Letter to youths

By Samson Uwala dream come true.

To start with, higher institutions have given students platforms to exhibit their leadership prowess through the Students’ Union Government (SUG) and departmental associations. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) also serves as platform to showcase our talents in management, which is why some former students’ leaders, in the recent time, have been appointed Special Assistants to governors and the president on students’ matters.

Anyone who has led these students’ bodies would know there are

other sides of these associations.

While a body, such as NANS may have been speaking on behalf of students to government and school authorities, it is should be known that NANS elections have always been riddled with bickering and violence.

The NANS elections have never been a tea party affair and this has made the youths to be on the same page with politicians, who also see elections as a do-or-die affair.

Many shameful acts of the youth are growing by the day. The recent crisis at the Federal College of Education in Abeokuta, Ogun State, where two candidates for the Students’ Union president, have their feet burnt during electioneering is

online businesses.

They ‘employ’ their fellow youths, who also grow to establish their own dishonest businesses. The circle goes on and on.

The politicians and businessmen pounces on the opportunity presented by the media to circulate derogatory and hate messages against their perceived enemies and competitors. The information disseminators on social media, the bulk of who are youths, see this as an opportunity to make money at the expense of the ethics of journalism. The result is the hatred and propaganda which today’s media is known for.

The future of any nation will be determined by the aspiration of its youths. With towering ambitions and tremendous energy, there is the need to fully tap into the vast talents of our youths. Regrettably, core values and attitude have been jettisoned by the media. A thorough analysis of issues and facts contained in news is a rare quality in media of today. Sentimentalism is the order of the day. The youths are learning and will one day want to put into practice, the negative virtues they learn.

It could be said that the media, as the fourth estate in the realm, has not done well in regards to laying a good foundation for youth re-orientation. A child who is continuously told a lie would believe the lie and continue in that direction without his conscience pricking him.

It is plausible to say that the older generation is not leaving a better legacy. Youths need to carve a niche for themselves in the scheme of

things by doing what is right. The media have failed in its role of orientating the younger people about good virtues and leadership, with the aim to inculcate in them, a sense of accountability, justice, fairness, patriotism, selflessness and discipline.

Irrespective of the challenges faced by the media, practitioners must brace up to the challenge and demands of the time and contribute to the task of nation building.

While the youths wait for their turn to assume the position of authority, it is expedient that the older generation strives to mentor the youth on good values. The media profession cannot be left in the hands of misfits, who are simply in the profession because they lack jobs. Journalism should not be allcomers affairs.

The role of the media in shaping the youth and contributing to the growth of the nation cannot be overemphasised. All hands must be on deck to ensure that the information gathering and dissemination process are done without bias and according to the principles of the media profession. The youths must be shown the right way to do things if tomorrow is to be better than today. Surely, we can weather the storm and make the media profession stand out and be counted as having contributed positively to the task of nation building

a clear example of how violent students can be.

Since some students supported the candidates that could induce them with money and other materials, deciding the winner of the poll became a challenge and it resulted into an uproar, which later culminated into the closure of the college indefinitely.

This is a phenomenon that is not peculiar to a particular school; it is actually an order in majority of our higher institutions. But, what do we gain from this? Should election into Students’ Union offices be do-ordie? What kind of leader are we going to become tomorrow with this corrupt mindset? To me, today’s students’ leaders cannot be good leaders tomorrow, because only a few of them has shown a good leadership traits. How many of them even know what it takes to be a leader? Some students’ lead-

ers follow the footsteps of corrupt politicians and take them as mentors.

While in school, some of these students’ leaders are found wanting in financial misconduct. Leaving the school, they would float faceless associations and claim to be fighting the youth cause, but their cupboards stinks.

It is high time the youth changed their thoughts about leadership and politics. If we must be good leaders to future generations, we must change our corrupt attitude.

It is not enough to say that we are the leaders of tomorrow when we cannot provide the leadership needed for our today. We need to become positive change agents whose actions and behaviour shoud become good example for the coming generations.

Esther, 200-Level Mass Communication and Theatre Arts, UNIBEN

•Samson, ND II Journalism, NIJ.

WAEC mass failure: We can still get it right

HE plummeting level of education in the country is quite disheartening. Examination bodies keep complaining that performance statistics keep going down the drains, casting a gloomy shadow on the future of the country. Statistics has shown that the rate at which candidates pass external examinations is declining. The extent of the tragedy that befalls the education is seen in the recent mass failure that trailed the 2014/2015 West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) results, which had 38.68 per cent of the candidates passed with credits in five core subjects, including English and Mathematics. Isn’t this depressing?

Now, the question remains: why the sharp decline in students’ performances over the years? Have the examining bodies’ suddenly complicated their marking scheme? Or are their questions getting more difficult than they used to be? If they actually are getting arduous, then the curriculum should push schools to up the ante by way of adequately preparing students to cover up for the

By Sheriffdeen Tijani changes in the syllabus of examination bodies. The bitter truth is the reality that there would be no changes in the syllabus of examination bodies without corresponding changes in the school syllabus. So, what is wrong?

School administrators vociferate at teachers, claiming they are not doing the needful. Some school administrators advise their teachers to start accessing their students with WAEC standards and guidelines in their internal examinations. This actually cost more since they tend to print more questions, offer practical exams, among other formal assessments examination bodies usually do. But then this is to help students get prepared to tackle external examinations when they roll around. But still the pass rate is still low. Some teachers even go as far as asking their students to buy past questions. This affords them the opportunity of proffering solutions to difficult ques-

tions. But quite a handful of students comply with these moves.

Parents see Parent-Teachers Association meeting days as days to tongue lash teachers. They talk unceasingly about the woeful results of their children after neglecting to play their parental roles in the education process. Most parents give no supporting hands to their children at all.

Many rely on the exorbitant fees they pay as guarantee for their wards’ success. Even literate parents who should know better have relegated their role of complementing the teachers’ efforts to the background and expect miracles to happen. What do we do about this ugly attitude of parents?

Some parents are simply ridiculous. When their children bring back home their report cards and find the result to be below expectations, they start beating up the child, abusing and threatening to change their schools. After the hectic day at school, a child returns home to seat in front of the television to watch movies, plays games or wastes his

or her time on music videos, surfing the internet aimlessly or simply while away the day on social media.

Yet, the parents fail to correct their wards. Instead, they push the blame on the school after failing to play their own part of the snip. What are we then saying?

And the bulk of it all falls back on the students themselves. Students are no longer serious. They misplace priorities. They get easily carried away by frivolities. They no longer read and those who even read do so in pretense and self-delusion. Today’s children want short-cuts. Although we still have those who take the pain to read, but those who don’t read form the critical mass of the population.

Students in recent time have put social media to debates, causing people to think its disadvantages are more than its good sides. But in reality, there is more to this. Those who use social media wisely get great value while those who use it wrongly get distracted the more. The issue of social media as a tool for edu-

cational degradation is another topic on its own. But the truth remains that there’s a whole lot of good embedded in the social media. But abuse is dangerous.

Furthermore, students don’t understand what it means to learn or better still they don’t know how to learn. When a teacher gives a lecture in class, there is always room for questions. It is a beautiful interactive section of the class. But many students do not take advantage of these opportunities to boost their learning and performance. Of course, there are students who are social misfits, finding it increasingly difficult to stand up in class to ask questions or contribute to a discussion. For this category of students, personal reading is crucial to cover lost grounds caused by this social problem. But many of such students resort to reading only few days to an exam. Are such students not doomed to fail? Whose fault?

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CAMPUS LIFE Anambra students mark cultural day

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•Members of the management with the mechanical engineers

Osun varsity hosts mechanical engineers

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EMBERS of the Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers were at the Osun State University, on Wednesday, to pay a courtesy visit to the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof Jelil Oguntola.

The team was led by the institute’s national chairman, Prof Adisa Bello. Other members of the team include Mr Ademola Oyinlola, Osun State chairman of the institute, Mr Akin Akintola and Hon. Felix

From Abideen Olasupo UNIOSUN Adeniran, Osogbo Branch chairman of Nigerian Society of Engineers, among others.

Prof Oguntola hailed the engineers their contribution to the development of Mechanical Engineering discipline, while advising them not to relent in their efforts to ensure strict adherence to the ethics of the profession.

Responding, Bello thanked the

school management for warm reception accorded his team, specifically praising the acting VC for supporting the state branch of the institute. He said the purpose of the visit was to felicitate with Prof Oguntola on his appointment as Acting Vice Chancellor of the university.

It should be recalled that the mechanical engineers presented a special award to Prof Oguntola during their annual Fellowship Award and Lecture in July.

T was a feast of culture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) when members of Anambra Students’ Association (ASSA) marked their cultural day. The students were seen in a procession round the campus, clad in their traditional attires.

They later converged at Social Science Square, where they held an elaborate event to mark the event.

The event was graced by leaders of Anambra indigenes in UNN and guests, including Dr Darlington Okoye of the Department of Political Science, the association’s Staff Adviser, Sir S.C. Ejiofor, Hon. Ohazurike Chito, who chaired the occasion, representatives of Igwe of Onitsha.

The ASSA president, Nnamdi Nnuta, said the event was to revive the cultural consciousness of students, saying some Igbo students had lost touch with their background. He stressed that his leadership has not had it smooth in the administration of the association, but said the body had recorded successes due to courage, determination and support by members.

Chief Akunne, who represented the Igwe of Onitsha, emphasised the need for students to unite and promote their language and heritage wherever they may be. According to him, Igbo cul-

From Chikezie Mbegbu UNN ture remained one of the richest and respected in the country, noting that the language was the easiest to transmit from parents to children.

He urged lecturers and guardians not to fail in their responsibility to inculcate good morals and values in the youths, adding that the students must be reminded of their cultural values at all time to discourage them from engaging in vices.

Ohazurike, who spoke on why Igbo culture must be promoted, described the ethic as progressive. He noted that Igbo culture accords respect to elders, authority and other people’s customs.

The association’s troupe entertained guests with drama and choreographed native dance. Highpoint included the presentation of awards to some of the guests and coronation of the association’s Igwe.

Chikezie Mbegbu, CAMPUSLIFE correspondent, was decorated as Ochendo of ASSA. A participant, Hillary Okoye, a 300Level Political Science student, said: “Anambra State has been the custodian of Igbo culture and it will not fade in our time.”

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Student offers scholarship to colleagues

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400-Level Mathematics and Education student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Tajudeen Mukaila, has given scholarship to 32 students to be trained on Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) for three months.

The beneficiaries are from UNILAG and Yaba College of Technology, (YABATECH).

The programme will run between August 17 and November 16.

Tajudeen said he was driven by the passion to impact on lives and empower the youth, adding the training cost N600,000.

He said: “I believe the training would add values to the beneficiaries and give them leverage over their mates in getting jobs in the labour market. The training can

•Tajudeen

From Miftaudeen Raji UNILAG make them earn a living for their lifetime.”

Tajudeen, who is a member of African Association of Entrepreneurs (MAAE), gave out the scholarship through his research firm, Kolket Ventures.

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ways to complement their learning skills. Teachers could come in here.

Students could be made to understand that their comprehension in class is limited. And that personal efforts and study are needed to complement the efforts of the teachers. They should be made to realize that when they fail to read relevant books, failure is sure to hit them hard.

Restoring the lost glory in our educational system is a collective task.

As such, it requires everyone to play their roles actively. Let students know the importance of reading. We

can help stimulate their interest towards reading process. Some of them may have to start from reading newspapers, magazines or other periodicals until they get used to the process psychologically. Readers are leaders, it is popularly said. Wole Soyinka was a reader. And now, he writes for others to read. Isaac Newton studied hard and his inventions and discoveries have helped to blow the world open. The best you can make of yourself is you. Reading is a powerful weapon to achieve that ideal.

Sheriffdeen is an Anatomy student, UNILORIN

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AAUA VC condemns cohabitation among students

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HE Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, has condemned cohabiting among students of opposite sex.

At a summit on “Cohabitation among students”, organised by the Students Affairs Division of the institution, Ajibefun said tertiary institutions should stop the trend.

Ajibefun, who was represented by the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof Benson Akinnawonu, at the event supported by Airtel, said cohabitation has dire consequences.

He said: “Cohabitation among students is a reprobate act that requires all hands to be on deck to arrest the ugly trend. Living together and having sexual relationship without being married is a

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trend that has virtually eroded the level of morality among the youth, particularly students of higher institutions.

“Findings by researchers have proved that cohabitation among unmarried students has been on the rise and if deliberate and pragmatic steps are not taken by all stakeholders, including managements of tertiary institutions, parents and religious leaders, this anomaly will continue to rise unabated and the society will, ultimately, suffer for it.”

Ajibefun praised the Students Affairs Division under Dr. Bolanle Ogungbamila for the initiative and Airtel for partnering to campaign against immorality.

Ogungbamila identified factors

that have helped the trend to grow.

“The low level of monitoring and mentoring coupled with inadequate hostel accommodation has engendered co-habitation among our students. Apart from constituting a source of distraction, co-habitation has physiologic, psychological, economic, academic and spiritual implications for students who engage in the act,” he said.

Resource persons at the event were Director of Women Studies and Development Centre, AAUA, Dr. Nireti Duyilemi, who spoke on “Campus Co-Habitation: A Negative attitudinal disposition that debases the dignity of womanhood”; and Dr A. A. Akintola, who examined the topic, “Adolescent’s risky sexual behaviour and its consequences on reproductive health.”

• Mr Odior presenting a t-shirt and materials for the lecture to Prof Onilude.

ExxonMobil experts ‘lecture’ in 17 varsities

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HE launch of ExxonMobil Lecture Series was greeted with enthusiasm by lecturers and students at the University of Ibadan last Friday.

The series, being implemented under the University Assistance Programme (UAP), an initiative of ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL), would hold in 17 schools that have benefited from the programme.

Since 2008, the UAP has been intervening in the Geosciences department of the 17 universities - providing them with workstations and other equipment for laboratories and ICT units, organising training for lecturers, and funding field trips.

General Manger, Exploration, EEPNL, Mr Andrew Ejayeriese, said at the launch held in the conference room of the Faculty of Science, UI, that the Lecture Series is expected to further bridge the gap between university training and industry practices.

"Under the Lecture Series, senior geosciences professionals from ExxonMobil Upstream companies will be presenting lectures at selected Nigerian universities on a pro bono basis, sharing their wealth of experience and depth of technical knowledge with both students and academic staff of these universities," he said.

Ejayeriese, who was represented

by Mr Gilbert Odior, the Geosciences Coordinator, said that 24 lectures would be delivered at each university during a three-day workshop.

Some of the 24 sub-topics under the theme, "Understanding the Upstream Oil and Gas Business", included: "ExxonMobil Company Overview"; "Understanding the Oil and Gas Business"; "Sedimentation

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Concepts and Structural Styles;” and "Petroleum Economics and Economic Evaluations."

He said the University of Ibadan was chosen to flag-off the series because of its age and achievements in producing professionals who have made their marks in the labour market.

Responding to the initiative, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof Isaac Adewole, represented by the Dean, Faculty of Science, Prof Abiodun Onilude, said the lecture series would build the capacity of both academics and students and urged them to imbibe whatever they were taught.

He also praised ExxonMobil for its investment in the UAP, valued at about N2 billion across all the universities and thanked the company for investing 60 per cent of the intervention in UI. He noted that the university has reciprocated the gesture by rising in the ranking of the best universities in Africa.

Adewole however appealed to the company to invest in other departments in the faculty like Chemistry and Microbiology, which both have areas that deal with geosciences.

"Through your STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programme, you have improved science and technology. But there are other departments in the faculty that need help for instance, Chemistry and Microbiology," he said.

On his part, the President, Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Prof Gbenga Okunlola, praised ExxonMobil for its intervention in Geosciences education, which has led to the production of 12 geo-

graphical maps across the country by the various universities.

Of the lot, Okunlola said UI produced three - with the fourth at 75 per cent completion.

He urged the company not to relent on the funding but continue so that the geosciences training would continue to improve.

"We want to appeal to you; you still need to do more in the Nigerian education system. N2 billion is chicken feed compared to what you make. Improve the chicken to cow meat. I want to appreciate and tell you that NMGS is always proud of you," he said.

A student participant, Chinelo Oduche, who is studying for an MSc in Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology, said the series has helped to make classroom learning clearer.

"It is a wonderful opportunity. It will help us to understand the upstream/downstream sectors well.

It will help us to sediment the knowledge. Having professionals from the field coming to talk to us is making clearer what we learnt in the classroom," she said.

Other universities to benefit from the lecture series include: Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt; Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun; University of Lagos, Akoka; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; University of Port Harcourt; University of Calabar; and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Others are: "University of Benin; Delta State University, Abraka; Akwa Ibom State University; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Enugu State University of Science and Technology; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; and the Anambra State University, Uli.

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•Prof Angrey

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ITH the selection of a new Vice Chancellor for the University of Calabar (UNICAL) is in progress, a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof Francis Unimna Angrey, has expressed his readiness to take the mantle of leadership in the next five years.

Angrey of the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies told The Nation in Calabar that he has the acumen to take the institution to a higher level, if he appointed.

He said: "I am running for position of Vice Chancellor of UNICAL. The University has come a long way in its 40 years of existence and we think it should be taken to a higher level than it is now.

“I feel having spent all these years here, I know everything about the place and I know what to do to turn it around. That is why I decided to put myself forward, so I can use my experience and exposure so far to see what value I can bring to the place and I think I can bring a lot of value, because I have all it takes both administratively, academically, managerially and otherwise.

"The challenges before us are enormous. When I talk of infrastructure I divide it into two, which are the physical infrastructure like roads, buildings, and

classrooms; and there is the mind infrastructure, which are the people and their attitude to work.

What is it they lack that does not allow them do their work the way they should? We have to rebuild that. When you do that the people can have confidence in the system and work towards achieving set goals.

"When you see the world today, we face a lot of challenges. The University cannot remain indifferent in the face of all these. The university has to look for a way to seek solutions to all these problems. Already people are working hard to see how they can change their curricula to make sure people start thinking differently, so we in Africa cannot remain behind.

The University of Calabar has to join that group of modern universities thinking about how to renew the face of the world. We can start from home; whatever results we get from research can be taken into the immediate community.

From Cross River we move to other places.The university should be able to proffer concrete solutions to problems and that means teaching our students the right thing through a well prepared curriculum, where they don't look at things just through the prism of where they come from but globally.

"We have to look for a way to seek solutions. So, if I become the Vice Chancellor, I would be able to form centres and institutes for special studies were students would be made to study things that would make them open their minds to the world and problems confronting them. That is the way people are reasoning today.You don't just throw your research into the shelf. How does it impact on the society? So that is why I decided that I should come in."

FUNAAB to mentor Mountain Top, Chrisland varsities

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HE Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) is to mentor two newly-approved private universities.

The institutions are: Mountain Top University (MTU) and Chrisland University, both in Ogun State.

Its Vice-Chancellor, Prof Olusola Oyewole, spoke while receiving officers of the institutions, who visited him to seek partnership on staff development, knowledge exchange, facilities sharing and other areas that would promote teaching, learning and research in line with the National Universities Commission’s (NUC’s) standards.

Receiving the team from the MTU, owned by the Mountain of Fire and Ministries (MFM), Oyewole said he was delighted when FUNAAB received a memo from the NUC, urging the institution to mentor MTU for five years.

With a staff of 562 (academic) and 1,421 (non-teaching), a student population of 15,000 (undergraduate) and 1,500 (postgraduate) across 10 colleges and a postgraduate school, as well as 27 years’experience as a university, Oyewole said FUNAAB has the experience to mentor the institutions.

The vice chancellor noted that the university has unique programmes that would be of interest to MTU, such as the Community-Based Farming Scheme (COBFAS), Graduate Farming Employment Scheme (GRADFES) and the commercial Tree-Crop Plantation Programme.

He, however, charged the MTU team to prepare a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that would include their expectations,

By Jane Chijioke

as well as define the extent of the collaboration between both institutions.

Responding, MTU Vice-Chancellor, Prof Elijah Ayolabi, said the partnership was divinely designed.

"When the NUC told us that FUNAAB would be our mentor, I think God must have been working behind the scene.

“University of Lagos is the closest to us; we were not given to them but we were sent here and only to discover that, it is like sending us home, because we found out that we have our own, someone who understands our language, the mission and vision of the proprietor of the university, who would be able to support us, both physically and spiritually", he said.

Chairman, Board of Trustees of MTU, Prof Akintunde Obilade, also agreed that the choice of FUNAAB as mentor was not by accident.

The delegation was later taken on a tour of some places, such as the Directorate of University Farms (DUFARMS), Industrial Park Unit and the Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR).

Similarly, while welcoming the Chrisland delegation during their visit, Prof Oyewole said FUNAAB was ready to mentor the institution and others that required such intervention.

A member of the council of the Chrisland University, Prof Adebayo Odebiyi, said the visit became imperative to help the university start on the right foundation.

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Rector tasks engineers on national issues Federal Polytechnic, Offa Rector Dr. Mufutau Olatinwo has called on stakeholders in the engineering and technology sectors to proffer pragmatic solutions to youth unemployment, insecurity and epileptic power supply using the emerging trends in engineering and technology.

Olatinwo gave this charge at the fourth national conference of the School of Engineering and Technology of the Polytechnic. He also tasked tertiary institutions to groom great minds that could make positive changes and advance the nation’s technological capacities.

“I challenge our institutions to rise up to this great task of which this conference is an avenue to fashion out tactics in moving Nigeria from developing country to a technologically advanced nation” he said.

He continued: “I am particularly happy that this conference with the theme ‘Application of emerging trends in engineering &technology to solving prevailing national Issues’ is coming at a time in our country when concerted efforts are actually needed to integrate engineering and technology into our national lives.

The main and sub-themes of today’s conference are very much in accordance with the current thinking of all stakeholders in the education sector having realised that Nigeria cannot continue to produce graduates that could not blend and function optimally in an ever-increasing globalised technological environment.

Poly, CPN partner THE polytechnic and the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) have entered into a partnership to encourage full membership of staff and students of FEDPOFFA. This decision was reached during a visit of CPN team to FEDPOFFA management. The CPN team was led by the Head, Education, Examination and Training Department, Mr. Idowu Olusile who stated that the purpose was to ensure full registration of staff and students of the Computer Science Department as members of Council. This, according to him, was to purge quacks among the professionals.

Responding, Head of the Computer Science Department, Mr. Saheed Ajibade, also noted that except for the newly employed staff, all others were registered members of the Council. On student membership, he promised to put up measures to encourage the students to register with the Council.

APPROACHING DEADLINE Post doctoral research fellowships at University of the Witwatersrand UNIVERSITY of the Witwatersrand, South Africa is offering postdoctoral research fellowship at the WADDP Research Unit based. Postdoctoral Fellows who have a keen interest in the field of advanced drug delivery and related biomaterials research can apply for this fellowship. The available positions are contractual over a total of 2 years, with renewal after the first year based on performance and progress. The application deadline is 15 September, 2015.

Study Subject(s): Fellowships are awarded in the field of Advanced Drug Delivery.

Course Level: Fellowships are available for pursuing postdoctoral research programme at the WADDP Research Unit based at the University

of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

Scholarship can be taken at: South Africa Eligibility: Minimum requirements: -A PhD obtained within the last 5 years -A minimum of 3 articles published/ accepted for publication in peerreviewed ISI journals.

Additional requirements: Experience would be advantageous; Research expertise aligned with current and past projects at the WADDP Research Unit Scholarship Description: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship positions are currently available at the WADDP Research Unit based at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa commencing in Q4 of 2015 as well as for 2016 onwards. The WADDP is under the Directorship of Professor Viness Pillay who is an established rated researcher with the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. Prof.

Pillay is also a South African NRF/ DST Chair in "Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and PolymerEngineered Drug Delivery Technologies" at the Tier 1 level that recognizes him as a world leader in the field stemming from his vast research program in advanced drug delivery technology.

How to Apply: send your CV directly to Professor Viness Pillay by email: viness.pillay-at-wits.ac.za.

ICFOnest+ Postdoctoral Program (COFUND): International Fellowships in Spain, 2015 Applications are invited for postdoctoral fellowships available for foreign nationals. The ICFOnest+ Postdoctoral Fellows will be hired by ICFO on a standard employment contract of 24-month duration to perform his/her duties within an existing ICFO research group. Salary and economic conditions are aligned with standard European Marie Curie

programs (gross salary in the range 40,000 EUR / 55,000 USD).

Study Subject(s): Fellowships are awarded for research projects at the forefront of science and technology.

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Course Level: Fellowships are available for postdoctoral research programme.

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NYSC may dismiss six for corrupt practices

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HE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, yesterday said about six members of the staff of the scheme facing disciplinary actions for conniving with corps members (CMs) to fraudulently abstain from the service would be sacked or dismissed from the service to serve as a deterrent to others.

This is coming on the heels of its launch of the use of biometric to monitor corps members.

Olawumi, who spoke at the demonstration of biometric technology for the conduct of monthly clearance of corps members in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Ter-

From Bukola Amusan, Abuja

ritory (FCT) yesterday, failed to reveal the identity of those involved.

However, he said the exercise would cover all serving corps members starting from 2014 Batch 'C'.

He further explained that the biometric clearance would kick off in Lagos State and FCT this month, while extension would be to other states of the federation as from next year.

Olawumi while allaying fear of the public and corps members on the exercise, assured them that it is going to be user friendly and not impose additional sufferings on them.

In his remarks, the Director of

Corps Welfare and Inspectorate, Mr Michael Ahile, noted that with the increasing number of corps members annually, "the task of effectively monitoring all the corps members nation-wide has remained a major challenge to the scheme."

He said: "With the use of biometric to monitor corps members, the NYSC would be able to effectively check cases of absenteeism, submission of monthly clearance letters by proxy, signing of community development service (CDS) attendance register by proxy and other forms of indiscipline among corps members."

The Executive Director of Sigma Technologies, the operator of the biometrics, Mr Hassan Alao, disclosed that the innovation would expose those who registered by proxy online.

Alao therefore urged corps members to note of the finger used for registration during orientation camp exercise.

According to him, at the end of the clearance, it will be loaded to the 'cloud' for the DG, Finance and other departments in the NYSC headquarter in Abuja to see the number of corps members cleared from each local government in the country for payment.

Stakeholders push for ICT expansion in tertiary institution

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TAKEHOLDERS in the tertiary education have identified Information and Communication Technology ICT as the only means of expanding access to tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

This was the resolve of participants who converged in Abuja for the 2015 Conference on Technology Assisted Learning jointly organised by the National Universities Commission (NUC), American University of Nigeria (AUN) and the Digital Promise Foundation.

Speaking on transiting from obsolete teaching method to ICT, the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, urged stakeholders in the university system to key into the ongoing change in the country, by addressing key problems of access and quality of the sector.

"We have about 2.4 million students in Nigerian universities and over 1.8 million students still seeking admission every year bearing in mind that we only have 500,000 spaces. Then the question arise on creating more access and knowing that we have 140 universities out of

From Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja

which 61 are private, and 39 are stateowned. We need more access" Based on the foregoing, Okojie suggested that the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) should be strengthened and encouraged more in the use of ICT for its teaching and learning exercise.

"ICT of course will improve the quality of students produced by our universities and will also enhance teachers quality. What we need basically is how to ensure expansion of access into the tertiary institutions.”

On the establishment of a common platform for sharing advance tech-

nology among universities in Nigeria, the Secretary General of Committee of Vice Chancellor, Prof Micheal Faborode, urged the Federal Government to rescue Nigeria Research Education Network (NgRen) which according to him, is in comatose due to insufficient fund to strengthen the network.

“NgRen is a very good platform that is expected to connect all universities on the same platform to share research materials and exchange ideas on University system if not only now that is in a comatose state and needs funding to avoid its present dwindling state, NgRen will also allow universities to key into e-

‘ICT of course will improve the quality of students produced by our universities and will also enhance teachers quality. What we need basically is how to ensure expansion of access into the tertiary institutions’

learning," Faborode said.

The Keynote speaker and the Former Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Peter Okebukola, who spoke on ‘ICT in the Nigeria Education Sector: its current state and future prospects’ said the current curriculum in Nigerian schools is not keeping pace with the current revolutions in advance technology.

Okebukola identified weak capacity of school administrators and inertia to change from analogue to digital frame of mind, as hindrance to full adoption of ICT in Nigeria schools.

He recommended capacity building for teachers and school administrators in ICT to enhance teaching, research and school management.

"NUC should initiate and sustain capacity building in ICT for teaching, research and management for vice chancellors, and all universities teachers in specialised field," Okebukola said.

Don seeks solar energy in varsities P

RESIDENT, Solar Energy Society of Nigeria (SESN) Prof. Isaac Itodo has urged governments to key into solar power revolution for enhanced development in all sectors of the economy.

Itodo, who is the director, Linkages at the University of Agriculture Makurdi (UAM) in Benue State, said the call became imperative because of the effectiveness of the solar system; urging government to venture into it as it has been proved effective and economically viable, given the challenges facing the power sector.

He said part of his desire as president of SESN was to push for

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the establishment of a centre for energy in agriculture at UAM during his tenure. Once achieved, Itodo added that it will make farming more interesting, profitable and ensure good security.

The university don, who announced that the paper work on the aforementioned has been commenced, appealed to the National Assembly to pass the bill when the SESN eventually pesents it to that effect.

• From left: Country Manager, Roche Product Limited, Herman Addae; representative of the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Ngozi Azodo; Deputy Head of Mission, Swiss Embassy, Daniel Cavegn and Director, Professional Education, School of Media & Communications, Pan-Atlantic University, Isaac Ezechukwu, at the launch of the Health Journalists Academy by Roche, at Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos.

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Ekiti plans education summit

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KITI State Governor Ayo Fayose has announced plans for an education summit to enable stakeholders join hands with his administration to restore the lost glory of education in the state.

Fayose is optimistic the summit, to be chaired by a former Chief Judge and the Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti, Oba John Ademola Ajakaye, would reaffirm the state’s target as the “Fountain of Knowledge” and the 'torchbearer of education' in Nigeria.

At a pre-summit parley with stakeholders at Olaoluwa Muslim Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Fayose expressed shock at the colossal failure of pupils of public schools in

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major entrance examinations.

Stakeholders, who attended the parley, included the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Conference of Primary School Heads of Nigeria (COPSHON), and National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS).

Fayose explained that the summit would address basic education, which he described as the foundation, adding that there was the need to get it

right from there.

Fayose disclosed that he had invited prominent individuals from the academia who are indigenes of the state in addition to other experts to present papers and fashion out a blueprint.

He promised to implement the recommendations of the summit to make his administration formulate policies that would turn around the sector.

Fayose recalled that he held a similar summit in his first term as governor in 2003, noting that the decision resulted in Ekiti rising from 35th position in the West African Senior School Certificate Ex-

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amination (WASSCE) to the sevent position before he left office in 2006.

He said the education sector has deteriorated to the extent that some

undergraduates find it difficult to express themselves in simple English.

The governor also lamented a situation in which many parents had abdicated their children's responsibilities to the government.

He said there was a time he wanted to assist an applicant to secure a job in a bank but the candidate was rejected because the bank had just come up with a policy not to employ first degree holders which he described as a "common academic certificate."

Fayose pledged to give teachers a better welfare package, identifying them as moulders of the future generation and drivers of education policy given their closeness to pupils.

He urged parents to stop spending money on frivolities and invest more in the education of their children.

Flour Mills trains food vendors •Donates 100 tuck shops

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UPILS in 100 public primary schools in Lagos State will resume for the 2015/2016 academic session next week to improvements in the snacks and meals food vendors sell in their schools.

The changes are courtesy of Flour Mills Nigeria Ltd, which has trained food vendors in schools. They are expected to apply same in providing mid-day meals for the pupils.

Some of them were also given industrial gas cookers to help in their cooking.

The firm also donated tuck shops to schools where its array of snacks that have been fortified with essential nutrients would be sold to encourage pupils to eat healthy rather than consuming snacks that are not nutricious.

The snacks include Golden bites (a sachet of chin chin), noodies (ready-to-eat noodles snack), Kool to Go (a vitamin c drink), and noodles.

During the training at the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LSUBEB), Maryland, the Executive Secretary of the board, Mrs Abosede Adelaja, praised the company for remembering this category of workers in the school system, urging the vendors not to take their roles in the smooth running of the school likely.

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“Today is a good day. I have heard of training for teachers, clerical officers and cleaners, but we have never heard anything like training for food vendors. Food vendors, you play a very great role in our schools; you may not know.

If for instance you feed any child with poison, there would be disarray. It may take up to one week for the school to settle down.

“Your role is essential. You play a parental role to these children. You must change the way you package your goods. When you cook, ask yourself if you can give what you are cooking to your own child. Let us do everything properly and with the fear of God,” she said.

On the new quality assurance programme of the state government, the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Ronke Soyombo, who was represented by Mrs Funmilayo Odupitan, said in the new session,

• Mrs Adelaja (5TH right), Mr Cliff-Ogingo (7th right) with other officials of SUBEB and the Lagos State Ministry of Education at the launch of the tuck shop at St Francis Primary School, Maryland.

food vendors would be assessed as part of the quality assurance process in schools.

‘Your role is essential. You play a parental role to these children. You must change the way you package your goods. When you cook, ask yourself if you can give what you are cooking to your own child’

“From September, we will start by examining your appearance; we will assess you from head-to-toe – whether your head is covered; we want to check your health record; how neat the environment is and the quality of the food you are serving,” she said.

Representative of Flour Mills, Mr Efosa Cliff-Ogingo, said the initia-

US Consulate holds Reading Express for children

‘It is always a great idea to read to your children.

You can read to them a great story or a newspaper, or even small stories like the one I just read and do this in an engaged way’

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HE Barack Obama American Corner has engaged pupils between five and 12 in a month-long summer reading programme called the Summer Reading Express at the Ovie House, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The occasion, the fourth in the series, was to encourage pupils to pick up and develop a healthy reading habit, the Coordinator, Lois Ekeleme, said.

At the close of the event, Acting Public Affairs Officer for the United States’ Consulate-General, Lagos, Kathy Bondy, read from the book: Engineering Elephants to the children.

Aunty Kathy, as she was fondly called by the pupils, said she chose the book due to the focus of the United States on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education and the need to spread its awareness, across the world, especially to female children.

She advised parents to read to their children often to build up their reading culture.

"We think that, particularly, STEM education is very important, so we focus on science, technology, engineering and maths, particu-

tive was part of the firm’s efforts to promote children’s right to nutrition.

“The major focus of Flour Mills is to ensure that the right of a child to adequate nutrition is guaranteed.

To reduce health hazards to our children, it is good to discourage unhealthy snacks and replace them with healthy and well fortified snacks,” he said.

•Aunty Kathy reading to the pupils, while Lois writes key words on the board for further study.

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larly, for young girls and women.

But we want everyone to be learning whatever subject they choose.

So that is why, today, I read a story about engineering. It is always a great idea to read to your children.

You can read to them a great story or a newspaper, or even small stories like the one I just read and do this in an engaged way. So if you can read to them before you go to sleep at night, or during your break during the day, it is a great way to spend time with your children and

have a focus on family time," she said.

For Ekeleme, guiding the children through their books had been an enjoyable task.

She said the children, who were engaged in activities, which cut across reading, writing and arts and craft, had recorded improvements in their reading abilities during the programme.

Lois said getting a child to read involved engaging the child in a personal, interactive manner.

She said: "A lot of children think

that reading is boring but if you make reading fun, then the children are willing to participate and read; and if you use books that are age sensitive and that they can relate with culturally, then you see that the children are willing to read with you. Besides, you know the way we teach in school today, we just read comprehension and sometimes, that can be boring so when you read to them in tiny groups of six or seven, you would see that you are able to engage with them and vice versa.

They would ask questions and you

would understand each other better, which you would not achieve in class."

She expressed dissatisfaction with the increasing disinterest of pupils in reading, calling for society to intervene.

One of the participants, a 10-yearold Sherifat Ibrahim of Kuramo Primary School, Victoria Island, said she looked forward to the reading programme, because of the interesting and inspiring stories they were told.

Another pupil, nine-year-old Happiness John from the same school, said she would love to be an engineer so that she could manufacture surf boards.

Happiness described Aunty Kathy as nice, saying: "She read to us in a way that we understood and taught us what engineering is all about as well as what to do to be an engineer."

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EDUCATION

UAM budgets N6b for NUGA

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HE Vice Chancellor Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM), Prof Emmanuel Kucha, has said the institution has budgeted N8billion to host the Nigeria Universities Games (NUGA).

Speaking when the leadership of the Sports Writers of Nigeria (SWAN) Benue State chapter, led by its Chairman, Uja Emmanuel, paid him a visit, Kucha said that the institution is 90 per cent ready with facilities for the games.

He said four new hostels were under construction to accommodate

over 10,000 sports men and women expected during the two-week meet. He added that three football pitches and tennis hall are almost completed.

However, he said the swimming pool and the track, which were not ready, are major obstacles and appealed to the private sector to partner with UAM to host a successful competition.

The Vice-Chancellor praised SWAN for donating a table tennis board for the games, urging other individuals to take a cue

from the sports writers.

In his speech, Emmanuel said the association visited the vice chancellor to seek partnership for the games.

He added that Benue people were happy that UAM got the rights to host the games, reiterating the determination of SWAN to provide coverage for the competition.

He praised the vice chancellor for his commitment and massive upgrade of facilities ahead of NUGA. SWAN members toured faculties being put in place for the games.

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The menace of cohabiting

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T was with immense delight that I read of a summit organised by the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) on Cohabitation among students organised by the Students’Affairs division of the institution recently.

The event was a demonstration that the university was not just Kofoworola concerned about the academic training of the students but their moral grooming as well.

Kofosagie@yahoo.com Cohabitation, the act of male and 08054503077 (SMS only) female students living together, occurs mostly in the off-campus residential setting. It is usually between student couples that have romantic relationships. In a few other cases, one stranded student takes in the other. How easy it is for them to live together on a platonic basis is left only for those in the situation to tell us. But we all know that it is almost humanly impossible, save for the highest level of discipline and divine grace, for two young people of the opposite sex who are not married to live together in one room for as long as a session and nothing would happen sexually.

As a result of globalisation, our values have become very liberal. But it does not take away the fact that our culture frowns at sexual intimacy between young people who are unmarried. Also, no parent, who manages to have the time to visit his or her ward in their school, would be happy to find them living with the opposite sex in the same room or apartment.

Even if two students are dating, they should not cohabit as long as they are not married. As students, their primary responsibility in school is to study and learn technical, social and soft skills in the process of relating with their lecturers, classmates, roommates and others they come across. All these are enough to create conflict, adventure, excitement, all kinds of experiences. Adding cohabitation to it is a burden not worth bearing. It is a burden that they undertake prematurely, without social or legal approval. As I noted during the summit, it is a burden that adversely affects their academics, psychological, economic, and other areas of life.

Many young people tend to be in a hurry. They want to grow up very fast and gain freedom to do 'adult' things. But there is nothing that comes 100 per cent free of responsibilities. Adults are envious of the carefree lives of young people - they are full of life, not overwhelmed by the cares of the world and have an abundance of enthusiasm that makes them feel they can take on any challenge. Once that stage is over - usually marked by graduation, responsibilities begin.That is why young people should treasure their youth and not purposely complicate their lives with matters that would naturally come when the time is right.

Complications could come by way of unwanted pregnancy. No student who is unmarried has business getting pregnant. Childbearing and rearing is not a joke. It is not for the unprepared youth. It has the potential of derailing their future and that of the baby if not properly managed. The sad part is that once pregnancy happens, the ‘couple’that previously could not live apart suddenly cannot stand each other.

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• Emeto, Mirabel and Jonathan with their prizes.

16-year-old wins ‘pay forward’ prize

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HISOM Emeto was celebrated for putting in the best essay for the 12th edition of the Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition last Thursday.

His treatise on the topic: "The Nigerian political class and the citizens' quest for good governance"; and his performance in the second stage essay of the competition titled: "Age and efficiency in governance: The Nigerian case study" earned him N100,000 prize, a trophy, and plaque, as well as three desktop computers and a printer for his school, Port Harcourt International School.

The 16-year-old also got a surprise additional prize of N25,000, from Matthew Adeiza, the second person to win the essay competition 10 years ago as a pupil of Community Secondary School, Adavi-Eba in Kogi State.

Adeiza impressed the audience that filled the Shell Hall of the MUSON Centre, Lagos where Emeto and other winners were rewarded during the 16th Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture with the prize.

The graduate of Mass Communication from the University of Jos described the N25,000, which was the amount he received as winner 10 years ago, as a "pay forward" gift.

"When I won, someone gave me, I think N1,000 or N500, and said I should pay it forward. When I won, the prize was N25,000. Now I present N25,000 to the winner and say go ahead and pay it forward," said Matthew.

Chief Examiner of the competition, Prof Akachi Ezeigbo, described Emeto's essays in both stages of the competition as impressive. The teenager scored 73 per cent at the first stage, which is the call for entry stage, and 66 at the second stage, which required shortlisted candidates to write under examination condition.

"In his essay, Master Emeto engages the subject by showing how citizens have been culprit in entrenching 'bad' governance. He then

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proposes what must be done to institute a political class that would deliver 'good' governance. His opinions sync very significantly with his age and he tends to use language appropriately. We congratulate Master Emeto and the other winners," she said.

However, few in the audience knew that it took Emeto about two months to write the first essay.

"I found preparing for the essay difficult. It took me almost two months before I completed the essay. I had to filter ideas. It took me almost two weeks to understand the topic. I did 20 drafts before submission. I wrote and cancelled many times.

"I had entered for the essay last year but wasn't successful. I met my Mum and she said I should just give it a try. My teacher also encouraged me," he said.

Not many also knew that the second essay, which was only written by the best seven of the 2,997 entries, also did not come easy for him.

"When I was told to come for a second test, I worried about what I was going to write about: "Age and Efficiency in Governance: The Nigerian Case Study" in one hour when it took

me almost two months to write the first. For the first 15 minutes I did not know where to start. After writing, I was not happy with what I wrote. I prayed to come third. But some days later, I was sent a text that I had won the competition. I was very happy," he said.

He said he learnt a lot about politics, governance and leadership as a result of the research he had to do for his entry.

Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), in whose honour the competition is organised yearly, thanked the examiner for coordinating the competition yearly. He expressed joy at the way it has helped young people to improve their writing skills and participate in public discourse.

The second prize of N75,000 went to Mirabel Asuquo of Redeemers International Secondary School, Port Harcourt. Mirabel scored 72 per cent in the first stage and 65 in the second stage. She also got two computers and a printer for her school.

Jonathan Ihejirika of King's College Lagos came third with 71 per cent in the first stage and 60 in the second. He got N50,000, a plaque and a computer for his school.

FUTA builds traffic lights

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HE Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), the Ondo State capital has embarked on the fabrication and installation of locally produced traffic lights on campus to control traffic.

This is to boost its prowess in technology for self-reliance in accordance with its motto.

The Head, Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering (EEE), Dr Samson Oyetunji, and the Project Manager, a Technologist in the same Department, Mr. Sola Oladiran, said the university management had entrusted the project

to the department with the mandate that it should harness locally fabricated equipment to control traffic within the campus.

The duo said the pilot traffic light had been installed at the Middle Belt Road (School of Engineering Junction). The solar inverter of the traffic light is designed to retain charge for seven days.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof Adebiyi Daramola, commended the ingenuity of the project team, pledging the support of the university to ensure that it is replicated at other levels after the successful completion of the pilot scheme.

‘How easy it is for them to live together on a platonic basis is left only for those in the situation to tell us. But we all know that it is almost humanly impossible, save for the highest level of discipline and divine grace, for two young people of the opposite sex who are not married to live together in one room for as long as a session and nothing would happen sexually’

NYSC, remember Suleja corps members in police net

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URGE the authorities of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at the national or Niger State level to intervene in the case of three corps members in the police net in Minna, Niger State for alleged robbery.The corps members were arrested after some traders in the place they went to purchase drugs claimed they looked like the robbers that attacked them some weeks earlier. But that was not before they were beaten black and blue. Other corps members serving in Suleja, where the incident took place do not believe their friends are guilty of robbery.

But that is left for the police to prove.

These corps members were sent to Niger State to serve their fatherland. It would be sad if they are victimised for answering the call. The NYSC should impress it on the police to do a thorough investigation without delay so the truth is exposed. If the corps members are victims of mistaken identity, then they should be compensated. Also, the police should educate the community and the vigilantes on how to manage situations like this. They should not take laws into their hands.

NYSC should set up a meeting with the Suleja community as the corps members do not feel safe there. They are worried about a reoccurrence, especially as they claimed that a corps member was killed there in 2011.

If the community do not want corps members, then they should not be sent there anymore.

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NATURAL HEALTH

Sinusitis, mucus discharged, systemic candidiasis (4)

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HE Mayo Clinic study published in the third part of this series last Thursday explained why many cases of sinusitis healed over many years, and why it may have nevernot be been healed.

Hitherto, researchers and doctors believed acute and chronicsinusitis were both caused by bacteria and made elimination of bacteria the mainspring of their therapy objectives or goals. But the Mayo Clinic study discovered or suggested that while acute (short-term) sinusitis originated from bacterial infection, chronic sinusitis (long-term) came from fungal infection.

Therefore, treating bacteria instead of fungi would not help if the patient was a long-term sufferer. Mayo Clinic researchers would like all doctors to know about their work which has been validated by other studies in reputable research centers worldwide. But, unfortunately, many doctors still do not know about it. Helpful as the Mayo Clinic study may have been, it still left an unexplored gap which, in my view, researchers such as Dr. Robert t O. Young, have tried to fill. Their work is important not only for understanding sinusitis from a better and broader perspective, but, also, for understanding, for example, why many people do not live to ripe old age nowadays, falling by the wayside in disease or death too early in their earthly sojourn. That secret, as I can assume from the conclusions of many anti-aging studies, and presented in a passing remark last Thursday, may be summarized as follows…

•Inside every cell, human plant or animal, is a tiny protein molecule called Microzyma. The function of this molecule is to dissolve the entire cell whenever it presents itself for dissolution that is death.

•A cell is ripe for dissolution or death when it becomes acidic rather than slightly alkaline.

•Acidity and Alkalinity are measured on aO -14 pH scale where values below 7 are acidic and above are alkaline the more the values move dowards, away from 7, the more acidic they become. Higher readings above a 7 are more alkaline. A 7.4 alkalinity is behaved to be the best environment for the optimum health and performance of the human cell, although there are a few exceptions •Certain foods, including white flour bread, all white flour foods, cooked foods, processed foods, fried foods, cow’s milk, soft drinks produce varying degrees of acidity.

•Fruit and vegetables, minerals, vitamins, raw foods, including salads, produce alkalinity.

•A reasonable diet, according to the World Health Organization, (WHO) and many researchers, should comprise every day, about 70 percent raw food. So should drinking water. Today, we drink chlorinated and flouridised water. Chlorine and fluoride are added to water to kill germs. But they acidify water. The so-called pure water or sachet water is a more criminal brand of water in this respect. InOkinauea near Japan, where drinking water is alkaline, coming from the coral reefs, and making Coral calcium, a choice calcium brand, many cases have been reported of people living beyond 120 years, and physically, emotionally and sexually active.

•Over many years, acidity builds up in the cells. And to prevents the blood becoming acidic and facilitating prompt death or dissolution of the cells, all major tissues or organs of the body donate to the blood stream “midou’smides” of their alkaline reserves. The bones give up calcium. The muscles give up potassium and become flabby, sore and weak. The red blood cells part with some iron, making us anaemic. The immune cells loose Manganese and Zinc, becoming unable to fight disease as efficiently as they should.

Accordingly, we fall ill often and end up in the hospital.

•The doctor who is not familiar about pH Balance does not advise his or her patient about what may be going on in his or her body, which can be corrected with an alkaline-forming diet and abandonment of negativeemotion such as fear, worry, hatred, anger, depression etc, as these negativeemotions contribute to acidosis. Such a doctor relies only on antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, pain relievers, sleep inducing drugs etc.

• These prescriptions leave the body with acid residues which further compromise a lopsided pH balance. Imagine a case where a person does not drink water about 30 minutes before a meal, to provide water for the manufacture of digestive enzymes, and about two or three hours after, to neutralize the acid in food moving from the acidprone stomach to the alkaline-prone intestine, and for a transport flush for the food.

Not only may ulcers develop along with constipation, the blood may become thicker and sluggish in circulation. Thick blood causes headaches and other pains which analgesics may not relieve but which, to the surprise of its many users, often yield to one in the blood of fungus in the cell glass of warm water sipped every 30 minutes or thereabout.

• To cut a long story short, as we say, acidosis stimulates the Microzyma inside every cell. It steps out of the cell to become (bacteria), virus or fungus (yeast and mold), depending on the degree of acidosis. We notice this in plants and fruits but do not relate this to our own bodies as well.

An overripe mango fruit or a wilted vegetable begin to decay. The excess sugar in the overripe Mango causes its acidosis and activates Microzyma to dissolve it. I watch banana before I eat it. In some bananas, what appears to be “wounds”n are evidence of Microzyma at work. Eating such a banana is like eating poison.

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N Nigeria, there is a type of banana I hardly eat because of its sugar load. Because it grows more in the Eastern part of the country, where Igbo speaking

people live, it is called Igbo banana. “Another variety called Yoruba banana grows more in the Western part of the country where the Yoruba-speaking Nigerians predominate.

The eastern banana is overripe even when its covers are green. The western variety inclines towards sweetness (sugar) more slowly and is less prone to “wounds” even when there are discomfeitures on its skin. In humans, we see the link between sugar, acidosis and microzyma, bacteria, fungus, (yeast, mold etc) in the diabetic person. He or she is sickly, in and out of hospital with various organs of his or her body under threat of damage. Finally, a human or animal corpse is a breeding haven for microzyma and everything in its train because a corpse lacks oxygen and has to be dissolved so it doesn’t constitute a nuisance to the environment. An interesting point to note in all of this is that any human body which is acidic is already being dissolved instalmentally, even if the owner of that body is still hopping to and about in the hustle and bustle of earthlife activities.

• People who suffer from sinusitis’s are filled with bacteria and/or fungi (including candida, a fungus which is a member of the yeast family).

• Mayo clinic found that, contrary to earlier beliefs in medicine that sinusitis was caused by bacteria and possibly fungi in about 10 percent of cases, acute sinusitis may fit this description but chronic sinusitis doesn’t. In fact, about 90 percent of chronic sinusitis were found to be fungi induced, with sufferers being attacked by as many as about four strains of fungi. The study did not state why one form of sinusitis is caused by bacteria and another arises because of fungi. This gap is filled, I believed, by the knowledge that, as acidosis progresses into worse dimensions, microzyma devolves into more killing forms of its specie.

It is far more easier to deal with bacteria than viruses or fungi. Thus chronic sinusitis would be a worse form of sinusitis because it is occurring in a worse state of acidosis.

This part of the series, the fourth, will explore on interesting but professionally explosive method of diagnosing the presence of fungi or candida, before an exploration of more treatment options, some having being suggested in other parts of the series.

Liver blood, Dark field microscopic examination Different techniques are employed to examine the blood for presence or otherwise of any foreign bodies, or for any abnormality in the natural residents. Under a microscope.

The microscope may enlarge their images hundreds of times or thousand times. The traditional microscopy view which orthodox medicine favours is thelight field microscopy.

Increasingly, alternative medicine practitioners are turning to Darkfield microscopy, Which they believe is a more effective technique. The critics of this method describe is as quackery and prone to many errors. In light field microscopy, the doctor or laboratory technologist undergoes many years of education in haemotology (science of the blood) whearas the practitioner of dark field microscopy requites is no more than a few hours education on how to handle the equipment and interpret its imaging.

Dark field microscopic examination of the blood is a diagnostic technique in which light strikes the material under observation from its side and not from underneath it as in white field technique. In dark field, the background is dark and the material observed is highlighted in a light stream.

In Bright field on the other hand, the background is white or light and the observed material may be stained to high light its details. Colours may not be visible.

Dark field technology claims to observe about 25 aspect of theLive blood, including “multiple mineral/vitamin deficiencies, toxicity, tendencies for allergic reactions, excess fat in circulation, liver weakness, arteriosclerosis” etc. but the orthodox medicine critics say most of the observed material are actually other entities and that it would take years of education for even a specialist to be able to tell the difference.

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When matters come to a head as in such a case, I do not unmindfully jump the boat, but cross-link medical opinions, mindful that frontiers do shift for better or for worse and that, when they are expanding for good, it is possible for doubtingthomases to attempt to hold the train down, derainity, or t slow it.

One of criticisms comes from STEPHEN BERRETT M.D., in www.quackwatch.com/livecell.In my view, he ignores the merits of dark field microscopy and dwells too much on the income it can bring the practitioners, as if light field microscopy is done on charity. He says, for example: “During the 1980s, one company marketing live cell equipment projected that a practitioner who persuades one patient per day to embrace a supplement programme based on the test would net over $ 60,000 per year for testing and for supplement sales. Another company estimated that with five new patients a day (22 days a month) paying $ 30 for the test and $ 50 for supplements, practitioners would gross over $ 100,000 per year just on initial visits.

“The most active individual promoters of live cell analysis have been James R. Privitera, M.D of Covina, California and Joel Robbins D.C, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. privitera claims that “clot malfunction” is an underlying cause of many diseases, can be diagnosed with live cell analysis, an can be treated with large doses of dietary supplements. His book, SILENT CLOTS, describes his “general daily guidelines for supplements that have worked well for many patients. As an anticlotting programme.”

The book also describes regimens for arthritis, asthma, baldness, bladder infections, cancer, cold, colitis, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulosis, eczema and edema and includes case-histories of patients he treated for many other conditions.

I do not believe there is any scientific evidence for the claims or that these regimens are effective as privitera claims. His well site offers more than 150 supplements for sale on 1975, priviteria was convicted of conspiring to drescribelactrideand was sentenced to six months in prison.

(Lactride is a quack cancer remedy).

In 1980s, after the appeals process ended, he spend 55 days in jail, but was released after being pardoned by Califonia Governor Jerry Brown. (The pardon occurred in response to a letter – writing campaign generated by the National Health Federation, a group that espouses what is called “health freedom”) Then, because previtera had been prescribing unapproved substances, (includingLactride, Calcium pangamate and DMSO) for the treatment of Cancer, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance suspended his medical licence for four months, and placed him on 10 years probation under Board Supervision during the probationary period, Priviteria was prohibited from making any representation that he is able to cure Cancer through nutrition.

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E was also forbidden to tell patients that have Cancer unless the diagnoses were confirmed in writing by an appropriate Board Certified Specialist. During the probationary period, Privetieria commercialized live cell analysis and founded two companies that marketed devices for doing it. SILENT CLOT mentions that in 1993, a federal judge signed and order authorizing internal revenue service agents to enter his clinic premises to effect a levy and that a seizure was made. However, the book provides no further default about his fax-related difficulty.

In 1999, Priveteria was implicated in the death of a 71 yearsold woman who had consucted him for arm pain. While in priviteria’s waiting room, she complained of a headache.

Documents in the care states that priviteria Prescribed 20,000 units of Heparin (an anti-coagulant) to be placed under the woman’s tongue, examined a blood sample with a dark field microscope, concluded that the blood specimen showed too much tendency to clot, and prescribed another 20,000 units of Heparinto be given under the patient’s skin. Soon afterwards, the patient became lightheaded, vomited and passed out. She was rushed to hospital while it was noted she was cornatose and was bleeding from several places. She died a few hours later, apparently as a result of a massive hemorrhage in inside her head. In 2003, the medical Board of California charged that Priviteria had failed to properly evaluate the woman’s headache, had no documented rationale for administering Heparin, and had administered and overdose” the case was settled under stipulation under which Priviteria agreed to be reprimanded by $5,000 for costs, and take courses in prescribing and medical record keeping.”

The Story of Joel Robbins, the other marketer of dark field microscopy machines as told by critique. Stephen Barreth is another interesting story which time and space do not permit telling. Both stores spring from either altruism or a hounding of professional rivals.

Dark Field microscopy was in Nigeria a few years ago, courtesy of a training programme in the United states offered by Dr. Robert .O. Young, another of the fabulous pH MIRACLE and a leading dark field microscopy exponent.

The blood sample is examined live, not stored in the refrigerator overnight or force few hours. The patient can observe activities of his blood sample. He can see red blood cells and white blood cells and Candida or bacteria, if these are present.

White patches indicate Candida or fungi.Where this is pronounced, deoxygenation is evident, and red cells, like white cells, can be seen moving sluggishly. Where the blood is well oxygenated, these cells moveabout with more vigour.There is whole lot more we can learn from it if we keep an open mind.

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LA GOS ST ATE GO VERNMENT LAGOS STA GOVERNMENT

PUBLIC NO TICE NOTICE RE: CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY READY FOR COLLECTION The general public is hereby informed that Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) for private Lands and Government Grants processed by Lands Bureau has been approved for release by His Excellency Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (FCA).

In furtherance of this, all the allottees whose names are mentioned hereunder should come forwrard after this publication to Room 18, 1st floor Lands Bureau Alausa, with proof of identification (National I.D. Card or International Passport or Drivers Licence) to sign for and collect their respective Certificate of Occupancy.

CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY READY FOR COLLECTION PRIVATE LAND S/N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41

NAME

ADDRESS

AGIDINGBI VILLAGE IKEJA IN IKEJA LAGOS ABULE OKUTA VIA IKORODU IKORODU LAGOS AJIBONA SAMSON KING AKOWONJO VILLAGE AGEGE IN ALIMOSHO MOWO JAMES BALOGUN LAYOUT AGEGE BLOCK 6466 IKEJA RAHMON SHAMSEEN OLATUNJI AT NEW OKO-OBA, AGEGE IN AGEGE LAGOS OLUGBENGA OGUNMOWOWALE ALONG AJOKE SALAKO STREET IFAKO, BARIGA SHOMOLU LAGOS GABRIEL OLISA EMODI NEW IFAKO AGEGE IKEJA LAGOS ALEXANDER OKONJI OKANLAWON STREET,ODI-OLOWO MUSHIN LAGOS OLAKUNLE OGUNBAYO IKOTUN/ISHERI OSHUN ROAD ISHER OSHUN IN ALIMOSHO LAGOS SAMUEL OLALERE OMIYALE OKO-OBAAREAAGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS PHILLIP AMATORISHESHE ASAGBA AKINLADE OWOKONIRAN STREET, SURULERE IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE MR & MRS ANTHONY ANUAM AGWAI WITHIN LATE FASASI ADESHINA EST. CAMP DAVIES ROAD, AYOBO, IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS DAISI FATAI ANJORIN MAIDAN VILLAGE MILE 12 IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE KOLAWOLE OLUSOLA ODEKU OBADORE VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OYESHIKU JELUGBO IJEGUN VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE SEIDUN OGUNYEMI ONAJONWO AT IFAKO BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AMOS BOSEDE ODENUSI AT EGBEDA NEAR IDIMU IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE JOSHUA ONUEGBU NWAKERENDU AT OGUNTADE STREET OKO-OBA IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE SOLA LADEINDE NEAR IDIMU VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE REBACCA OYEDOKUN ATAKESAN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE NATHAN MADUKA CHIKE OKECHUKWU ILASAMAJA VILLAGE IN J.AAJAO BROS FAMILY LAYOUT, BLOCK E, PLOT 12 MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALPHA MOSADOLORUN ISIAKA SERIKI ISIWO AREA IBA TOWN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE FATAI OMOLAJAALANI ALARAN ALONG KAYODE OLOWU STREET IJESHATEDO IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE KAMILU OLAORE ONILEKERE AGEGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE RAFIU JUNAID AT OKE-AFA NEAR ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE JUDE INWELEGBU MAZAMAZA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE EMMA INWELEGBU MAZAMAZA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ADIJATU KUBURAADEBAMBO ALONG ELEKIN STR,APAPAAJEGUNLE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE DAVID OLUSANYAADENIYI AKOWONJO ROAD/OKE STREET SANNI OLOPA VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF L/STATE MICHAEL AMUGWYENE OSUME DA-SILVA STREET OKO-OBAAGEGE AREA OF L/STATE STEPHEN IKECHUKWU DIMUDE APAKUN OSHODI IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MUYIWAADEMOSU AT OKE IMOYE FAMILY ESTATE NEAR IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE BERNADETTE OLUBUKOLAAJAYI AT IJEGUN VILLAGE FAGBILE FAMILY LAYOUT PLOT 54 BLOCK XXVII IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE SALI OYEWUNMI IKOTUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OLABODE FALEYE OKO-OBA VILLAGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE RICHARD NNANNA ABAKDORO IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE BENJAMIN ADEYEMI AJAO ESTATE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE CHARITY IWUOHA OKE AFA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AT OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ADEBISI ADENIYI ALONG RUFAI STREET KUJE AMUWO IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE TAIWO OYEDIRAN EKORO BETWEEN ORILE AGEGE & ABULE

S/N

NAME

AYO OGUN OLUMIDE IGE

42 JULIA OLUDOYIN ATINUKE 43 JOSEPH DURO OLAYE 44 KOLAWOLE OLUSOLA ODEKU 45 OLASUPO OLORI AND SHOLA OLORI 46 JOSEPH OLAWEPO OGUNBIYI 47 DAUDA SHOLA OLUGBODE 48 JOHNSON DAMILOLA AKINNAGBE 49 LATEEF ADEWALE ADEBAYO 50 ZACCHEUS ADERIBIGBE 51 JOSEPH OSADARE 52

LATEEF OLUKOREDE OLATUNJI

53 KASALI MAKINDE 54 OLASUNKANMI AFOLABI 55 KUBRAT JOKOTADE OLALABI 56 FADA MOSES EMEYA 57 PAUL TENGBE AND ANWO TENGBE 58 OLUSOLA ADEBO 59

BRENDON ARINZE CHARLES MGBACHI

60 MURISIKU OLADEGA RUFAI 61 TOLULOPE OLADIPO FISAYO AND ABIMBOLA OLUFUNKE FISAYO 62

CHRISTIANAAIMIOLOHIMOEHAABDALLAH

63 ANTHONY KAYODE ESAN 64 EMMANUEL EKWURUIBE 65 ELIEZAR IHE ONYEMUZE 66 ABIBATU YUSUFU 67 ADEMOLA COKER 68 SOLOMON BABATUNDE KUSIMO 69 OLATOBERA IDOWU FATINIKUN 70 ABENI AKEJU 71 SIKIRU ADESINA RAJI 72 TAOFIK ORIYOMI KAZEEM 73 OLAGBALEKAN SOLANKE 74 ISAAC OBI 75

MUKAILA ALADE YUSSUF ASHADE OGUN

76 SAFURAT AJANI 77 TAIWO ADENEKAN

ADDRESS EGBA PLOT 1 BLKX NEW ILUPEJU LAYOUT IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT EGAN VIAAKESAN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ODUBALA FAMILY LAND OFF IGBE ROAD EREGIDAN IGBOGBO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ISHERI OLOFIN OJO ROAD OBADORE ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT JIBOWU ESTATE ABULE EGBA IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IBA TOWN IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ESOMO CLOSE OFF TOYIN STREET IKEJA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT CARDOSO VILLAGE VIA BARUWA TOWN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ISHERI OSHUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OMOLE VILLAGE IKEJA IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE BLOCK 5 PLOT 3 & 4 MUSHADE ODUGATE FAMILY LAND,OFF LAGOS ROAD OJOKORO ODUGATE VILL IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

ABEOLA STREET IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT TAYO MAKINDE STREET, IJAIYE OJOKORO OFF ABEOKUTA EXPRESS WAY IN AGEGE (NOW IFAKO/IJAIYE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKE-OKO VILLAGE NEAR IKORODU ROAD IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKO-OBA IN IFAKO/IJAIYE (FORMERLY AGEGE) AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ALHAJI TOLANI ADEBISI STREET MEDINA ESTATE GBAGADA AT ABARANJE VILLAGE NEAR IKOTUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AGODO EGBE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE LAGOS ABEOKUTA EXPRESS WAY AJEGUNLE VILLAGE ILOALAKUKOAGEGEAREAOF LAGOS STATE AT OLAGBIRO ST. OFF ADEGBEYENI ST ALADE VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IDIMU TOWN ALIMOSHO IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG IBA/ISHERI OLOFIN ROAD OBADORE VILLAGE ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT KANJOWO ST AWODI ORAAREAAPAPA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ADETOLA ST AGUDA SURULERE IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE SANYA STREET, IJESHATEDO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG SEGUN ADETIDA STREET AJEGUNLE ILO AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE BECKLEY VILLAGE WASIMI OJOKORO AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKE ORUBE TOWN NEAR IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILAMOSE OKE AFA NEAR ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT RAJI CLOSE ALASIA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ABULE EGBA IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AIYETORO AGUDA IN SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALAKUKO VILLAGE OFF ABEOKUTA MOTOR ROAD IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

IJAIYE OJOKORO OFF ABEOKUTA EXPRESS ROAD AGEGE, AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILAMOSE OKE AFA NEAR ISOLO, OSHODI/ ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

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80 EYITEMI ROSEMARY ETCHIE 81 ADESOLA OLUREMI AMONA 82 IKECHI OJIMADU IHEANACHO 83 SULAIMON ADEYINKA BELLO 84 GANIYU KAYODE IDRIS 85 IBRAHIM ALIU 86 FATAI OLADIPO BANJO GIWA 87 EZEKIEL OLALEKAN FAGBEMI 88 OLUMIDE ADESOJI ADEFUYE 89 JOSEPH OLADIPO ABIONA 90 MODUPE ARIN OYEBOLA 91 BENJAMIN NWALEMA 92 FIDELIS UCHE ONONUJU 93 YISSA SULE ALLI 94 OMOBOLA SHAKIOYE OGUNSANYA 95 CLEMENT OKEKE 96 CORNELIUS OLUDADEJO FADIPE 97 AZUBUIKE MICHAEL ONWUTU 98 MARY SHAIBU DAMADAMI 99 OLUSEUN TEMITOPE ODUYEMI

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AT ONILEKERE AREA IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

132 OLUKAYODE SHILLO ADIOSUN

AT IKOTUN ISHERI OSHUN RD, IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

133 BOLAJI OLUWOLE OJO

ALONG OSANYINPELU ST.OFF ADETAYO OSHO AT AKOKA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

134 AMOS SUNDAY ADEYEMI OLUKOYA

SHOYE ODUBONA STREET IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ADESOLA AKANDE STREET IFAKO AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE NEAR TEMIDIRE ST. OFF TOLU OLODI APAPA, IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AJE STREET AKOWONJO VILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ALIMOSHO VILLAGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF L/STATE IJAIYE OJOKORO VIAAGBADO STATION IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE-ALO VILLAGE GBAGADA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IDOWU LANE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ILASAMAJAIN MUSHINAREAOF LAGOS STATE FATADE BARUWA OFF IPAJA ROAD IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKO-OBA, NEAR AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF DAVIES CRESCENT IPAKODO IKORODU LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISIWO IBA TOWN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE NO.55 JUBIRILA STREET ITIRE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKORODU ROAD IGBOGBO IKORODU LOCAL GOVT.AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ASHIPA STREET ORILE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS LOWA LAND IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OPONU AREA IPAJA VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE IJAIYE OJOKORO IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IGBOGILA VILLAGE IPAJA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ADENIYI STREET OLODI APAPA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILAMOSE OKO AFA NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALIMOSHO VIAAGEGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE GBASEMO AREAAGA IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AJAO ESTATE APAKUN OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF L/STATE ISHERI OSUN TOWN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILASAMAJA VILLAGE IN MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGAN VILLAGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

135 SIKIRU OLAJIRE SHOTOLU 136 EDWARD ADESOYEAKINTAYO 137 MICHAEL ADEBOLA TAIWO 138 ALEXANDER ALFRED MOGBOLU 139 IBRAHEEM MOHAMMED 140 MURITALA OLABOOYE 141 HENRY GBENRO AGUNLOYE 142 ELIZABETH SHIRLEY OBILEYE 143 YUSSUF ADEYEMI AFOLAHAN 144 BENJAMIN FOLORUNSO OBAYAN 145 OLUSOLA SODUNKE 146 OLUBIYI ADEDEJI DAHUNSI

147 TAIBAT YETUNDE ADEGBITE 148 ANIKE OGUNDIMU 149 YETUNDE FOLAKE AGUNBIADE 150 SHAMSIDEEN ALAKA

151 DARE OMOTOSHO

LAGOS STATE AT ATAN AJAYI VILLAGE IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

AT ONIPINLA STREET OFF ALAKUKO/AGBADO ROAD ALAKUKO IN AGEGE (NOW IFAKO IJAIYE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AGEGE OTA ROAD AGEGE DISRICT IN AGEGE (NOW IFAKO/IJAIYE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

ALONG AJILETE STREET IFAKO AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJAIYE OJOKORO IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG OMUNARAN ST. UNITY ESTATE ABULE ODU EGBADA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJU NEAR GEORGE ESTATE OFF AKUTE ROAD IN IKEJA (NOW AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

AT OKE OGBERE FAMILY LAYOUT, OKE OGBERE, ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ENOMA STR, OFF AGO PALACE WAY, OKOTA IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

152 AUSTIN CHUDI OKAFOR

ADENIYI ADEFIOYE STREET IKATE IN SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

153 O’ HARA INVESTMENT LIMITED

AT MATORI INDUSTRIAL SCHEME AS PLOT C ALONG GANAL MATORI IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

AT OLUWO VILLAGE, OWORONSOKI IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE SHASHA VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

154 VICTORIA MOSURAT HENRY

103 OLAWUNMI BOLADALE ATURAMU

AT OYETUBO STREET, OFF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO WAY, IKEJA IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

156 OPEOLU KUFILE 157 BASOLA OSIKOMAIYA

104 DAVID NWABUIKWU AMAIZU

ALONG IKUOMOLA CLOSE ALIMOSHO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG BAYO OYEWALE STREET OKOTA IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS

IJEGUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG BETTY STREET, APAKUN OSHODI IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT SHANGISHA VILAGE IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OPONU AREA VIA BARUWA VILL, NEAR IPAJA IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. ISHERI OSHUN IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IPAJA VILLAGE, IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AGUDA VILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ISHERI OLOFIN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

100 MESHARK OGEM ORJI 101 TOYIBAT ADENIJI 102 ABIOLA CAULCRICK

105 MOSES OSUYI OLAYE 106 CHRIS OKOLIE NWAINOKPOR

107 CHRISTOPHER AGBOOLA DAJI 108 NGOZI AREH

ALONG CHIEF A. MAJEK SOETAN STREET JIBOWU ESTATE ABULE EGBA IN AGEGE (NOW IFAKO/IJAIYE) AREA OF LAGOS STATE

ODI-OLOWO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISHERI OSUN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

155 TOYIN ADE ODEYEMI

158 JAMES BANDELE FAKOYEDE 159 MERCY IREBOWALE BALOGUN 160 MUTIU OSHINYEMI ADENIJI 161 JAMES ONI

109 PHILLIP AMATORISHESHE ASAGBAAKINLADEMUSHIN VIA ISHAGA CLOSE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

162 ABAYOMI ALADE

110 FELICIA IYABO KOLEOSO

163 AWULATU OMOTOLAOLADIPUPO (NEEADEOLA) MABAGAJE FAMILY LAND GBASEMO AREAAGA IKORODULAGOSSTATE

111 ABIODUN JOSEPH OLABAJO 112 JAMES OLALEYE ODUNIKAN 113 SEGUN FATUYI 114 FOLORUNSHO DAUDA 115 ADETOUN ODUNYINKA GLOVER 116 ADEYOOLAAYENI WILLIAMS 117 KHALID ADEBAYO LAWAL 118 JANET OLUSOLA ADEPEGBA

ALLEN AVENUE OFF ISHERI ROAD IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKESAN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AKESAN VILLGE VIA IGANDO AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKE ORUBU TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE OGBERE, OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ADELEKE CLOSE OKE IRA AGUDA TITUN IK IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF OSHODI TIN -CAN ISLAND EXPRESS ROAD OLODI APAPA LAGOS STATE AT OKE ALO VILLAGE GBAGADA, IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

119 AYODELE OYEWO

WITHIN LATE FASASI ADESINA ESTATE CAMP DAVIES ROAD AYOBO IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

120 HERBERT OLUOHA 121 CHARLES OSA IDEHEN

IDIMU VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AKINMADE STREET EGAN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLA-OGUN VILLAGE BARUWA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE ORUBE VILLAGE NEAR IKOTUN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG SAKA STREET MUSHIN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKE ALO VILLAGE GBAGADA, IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE NO 15 TANIMOWO STREET ILASAMAJA IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE EWEJE ESTATE AJEGUNLE VILLAGE VIA IROKO AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE FAGBILE FAMILY ALLOTMENT AT IJEGUN VILLAGE IN IKAJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

122 MICIAH ADETOYE OJO ADE 123 MICHAEL ADENIRAN ADERIBIGBE 124 BOLADALE AREMU AFOLABI 125 ABIOLA FAUSAT AKINLUSI 126 BASHIRU OSIN AREMU 127 AMBROSE CHUMA EZEYI 128 OLUMUYIWA OSIBODU 129 GODWIN ONYEUGBO

130 ROBERT OGUAMANAM ONUMAJURU - MADU OKE ORUBE OFF ABARANJE ROAD IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

131 SULEMAN AJIBOWO

IKOTUN TOWN NEAR ISOLO IKEJA AREA OF

164 OLUKEMI THOMAS 165 RALPH EBUNOLUWA OLOTU

ON ODUBALA FAMILY LAND OFF IGBE ROAD IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF BAMISHILE STREET, OPEBI IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

166 ADEBOLA AJIKE ADU

NEAR ALAKASI BUS STOP OJOKORO VILLAGE OFF LAGOS /ABEOKUTA EXPRESS WAY IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

167 MUYIDEEN AKANBI SHONUBI

OFF EBUTE IGBOGBO ROAD IGBOGBO IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISHERI OSHUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG WAHAB ALIMI STREET AGUDA IN SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKO-OBAINAGEGEAREAOF LAGOS STATE

168 DONALD UGBAJA 169 MUSINAT ADAHUNSE 170 FABIAN NWANKWO 171 MR MOSHOOD AKANNI AMUSA & MRS DOREEN AMUSA 172 SHOBOWALE ADENIYI SHOLANKE 173 JOHN OLATUNJI ADEBANJO 174 CYRIL CHUKWUEMENAM EZIMMUO

EGBEDA/IDIMU VILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE POPOOLA STREET, BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT SADIKU STR ILASAMAJA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

175 SURAJ ADETOLA AROGUNDADE

ALHAJI AJIBADE BABALOLA STREET AJAO ESTATE MAFOLUKU MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

176 ISAIAH OLUFAYOBI OGUNBOMEHIN

AKUTE ROAD IJU STATION AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA TOWN ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT MAFOLUKU VILLAGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF AGBOJU OLUTI BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJESHATEDO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGAN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ABARANJE VILLAGE NEAR IKOTUN IN

177 OLUREMI ADEBIYI 178 ADEGBOYEGA BABATUNDE ADEYEMI 179 ANTHONY CHUKWUNWEOBI OKEKE 180 DAVID SULOLAATOYEBI FOLAWIYO 181 GABRIEL AMAH TEKO 182 MARY BOLANLE BADA 183 MORENIKE OGUNBANJO

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235 YUSHAU OJULOWO YUSUPH 236 SONAYAN OLAWALE MOBEE

ORILE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKO-OBA NEAR ABULE EGBA BIO C.A SOGUNRO ESTATE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS

185 MR FOLARIN AND MRS MARIA OLUWOLE

SOLOMON OKONKWO STREET EGBEDA IDIMU ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

237 UNITED ROCK OF AGES CHURCH ( AFADURAJAGUN)

ALONG OGUNBADEJO ST, OFF POPOOLA ST, PEDRO BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS

186 MUSTAPHAABUBAKER

AT MILE B OFF IKORODU ROAD OWODE ONIRIN IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

238 CHURCH OF CHRIST

187 MESSRS OGOCHUKWU UMEJI AND PETER OKAKPU

OLADIMEJI ONIKOYI STREET IGURU AREA AGUDA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

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188 OLUREMI AYINKE ADEYEBA

ATAGBADO VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ALAGBADO IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISHERI OSHUN ALONG IJEGUN ROAD IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISHERI OSHUN ALONG IJEGUN ROAD IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE T.OKOLU STREET IFAKO TITUN AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT COMMUNITY ROAD AKOKA IN SOMOLU AT IJAIYE OJOKORO IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLORUNFUNMI STREET ARAROMI VILLAGE OWOROSOKI BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF IGBOGBO/IPAKODO ROAD IKORODU, IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ADENEKAN STREET ALAKUKO AGEGE, IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OJOTA OSHODI EXPRESS WAY SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OFF IKOTUN IGANDO ROAD IKOTUN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE SHADE STREET EPE,EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OBASOLAAJIJOLAAVENUE IJESHATEDO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE IDI ARABA SURULERE LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE OGUNNAIKE STREET SOMOLU, SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE LAGOS STATE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OPEBI VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AGUDA SURULERE LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE RAJOKEN LAND IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ITOIKIN ROAD KETU EPE EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE ALO VILLAGE GBAGADA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKOWONJO VILLAGE AGEGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT APAKUN OSHODI IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT DA-SILVA STREET OKO OBA AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISOLO TOWN IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

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216 JOEL OLUSHOLA OGUNSANYA

ALONG BABABUNMI DAWODU STREET IDIOROGBO OJOKORO AGEGE IN IKEJA (NEW IFAKO/IJAIYE) AREA OF LAGOS STATE

266 GABRIEL AFOLABI EKE

217 RICHARD SURAKATU

AT ORILE AGEGE IN IKEJA (NEW AGEGE)AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT MEGIDA OGUNBEWON STREET, IMOBA COMPOUND IGANDO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ABOLADE STREET IJESHATEDO IN LAGOS STATE BEING BLOCK 1 PLOT 1 ON OGUNMOLA OLODOGBO FAMILY LAND OJOKORO OFF SHAGAMU ROAD IKEJA IN IKORODU OF LAGOS STATE ILASAMAJA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IFAKO AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT TAJUDEEN KAZEEM CLOSE DOPEMU IN IKEJA (NOW AGEGE )AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ODELEYE FAMILY LAND AT AGBADO STATION IN IFAKO/IJAIYE AREA OF L/STATE ALONG JIMOH AKANNI STREET,OFF CAMP DAVIES ROAD AYOBO IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AKINOLA STREET BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF L/STATE ALIMOSHO VILLAGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF L/STATE

184 SAMUEL ONITAYO ALAO

189 SAMUEL OLATUNJI OSINUBI 190 GOERGE OGUNDU NWOSU 191 GEORGE OGUNDU NWOSU 192 ESTHER BOLANLE DARAMOLA 193 COMFORT ANTHONY NNAIFE 194 WILFRED ADEDOTUN ADEBOWALE 195 NELSON ADEWALE ASHADE 196 RAYMOND ADEWALE OYEBOKUN 197 NURUDEEN ALOWONLE OLAYIWOLA 198 BABATUNDE ADEYEMI BALOGUN 199 GBADEBO ALADE 200 EMMANUEL LOLA OGUNLEYE 201 ABENI SOKOTO 202 KUDIRAT OLUKOTUN 203 DOLAPO ABUKE FALOLA 204 FATAI OLAJIDE OYEWUWO 205 THEOPHILUS ODUKOYA OGUNNAIKE 206 AFISU TOLANI MURITALA OLOGOLO 207 KAMARU ANIMASHAUN 208 ANGUS AKINKUNMI HAMMOND 209 FAUSATU EJIDE RASHEED 210 SAMUEL OLUANJOLA AWONUGA 211 MODUPE OLUFUNKE OYE 212 WILSON AYODELE OGUNTOMI 213 ANDERSON ANUMITIE AHANOR 214 OLUKAYODE ADEDIPE 215 IFEANYI BARNABAS UDOYE

218 ABIGAEL MOJISOLA OLAOSEBIKAN 219 ANTHONIA OKUNGBOWA 220 LUCKY IFY ASUNWA

221 ISAAC AKHIGBEMIDU 222 JULIUS ADEKUNLE ERINOSO 223 EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU AHIPUE 224 ADEDEJI ADEWALE 225 STEPHEN ADEOYE OSISANYA 226 AMOPE JIMOH 227 MOJIDI ABIOYE SULE 228 EDMUND ADEBAYO SHODIYAN

229 ABIODUN OLAYINKA ODUYOYE ODUBAWO MARCAS AREA AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF L/STATE

230 LENNARDS OLADAPO IFAYEMI 231 ABUDU LAMIDI AJAO 232 KOLE-ADE AKINSANYA 233 HALIMA OKE 234 ALION INVESTMENT LIMITED

OWORONSHOKI BARIGA SHOMOLU LOCAL GOVT. AT OLAYINKA STREET ITIRE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG YEMMY OZAR CRESCENT IJEGUN TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS BEHINDE AYOOLAAVENUE NEAR ANTHONY VILLAGE IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS OKOTA NEAR ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

241 242

OLOJA STREET, BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE NEW LIFE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY OFF SHANGISHA ROAD IKOSI KETU SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE RISIKAT ABIMBOLA WUSU FRED WILLIAMS VILLAGE IJU IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE HARRY LADIPO OLUFEMI OLORUNDA AT OKOTA LAYOUT PLOT 12 IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MAJOR BENEDICT OLUFEMI. IYALLA BLOCK XVII PLOT6-11 FAGBILE FAMILY ALLOTMENT IJEGUN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

243 SAINT PETER ANGLICAN CHURCH OSHODI L/STATE 244 HENRIETTA OLABISI MUKOSOLU COKER

22 CHURCH STREET OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE HOLY MARY STREET OFF IJU STATION AGEGEAREA OF LAGOS STATE

245 OMOWUMI AYODELE DUROSIMI

ALONG EXPRESS ROAD GBAGADA BARIGA SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS

246 REDEEMED PILLAR OF FIRE

ALONG REDEEMED PILLAR AVENUE OFF OSOLO WAY AJAO ESTATE NEAR ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

247 HENRIETTA EYEWU TUNJI BELLO

OFF IDIMU LASU EXPRESS ROAD, IGBANDO TOWN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ADAM VILLAGE, ANTHONY, IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE MODUPE-OLA STREET OFF IPAJA ROAD AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AKESAN TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OWOPEJU ILUPEJU IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

248 MICHAEL OLUGBENGAAJAYI 249 GEOFFREY IFEANYI ANYIA 250 MUINAT ADENIKE BABALOLA 251 LADI AND COMPANY LIMITED 252 EMMANUEL KOLAWOLE BICKERSTETH

253 ALHAJI ABDULLAHI LATEEF SHOFOWORA

254 DORCAS IBIYEMI BANJO 255 UBAKA CHINEDUM OKAFOR 256 MARY OYEBOLAAKINYEMI 257 ADETUNJI LATEEF ADEGOKE 258 RAPHAEL USIOMOIFO EREYI 259 SUNDY ORUMWENSE 260 MALACHY UZOMA NWABUO

261 SHAIBU SANNI ABASI 262 KEHINDE NURUDEEN OLARIBIGBE 263 OLADIPO WILLIAMS 264 POLY CARD OYIGBO 265 AYODEJI ODUJINRIN

267 OMOWUNMI AYO DUROSIMI 268 GANIYU AJETUNMOBI SALAM AND

SON AND COMPANY 269 SEIDUN OGUNYEMI ONAJONWO 270 AMOS BOSEDE ODENUSI 271 SUNDAY IHEANYICHUKWU

REUBEN AKACHUKWU 272 ABIODUN LATEEF KOLEJO 273 BAERNARD CHUKUEMEKA OLIMINI 274 MR IDOWU ADEFUYE 275 KENECHUKWU OBUNIKE ORAJIUBA 276 JOSEPHUS OLAYIWOLA FASHINA 277 ROBERT AYO AIYELERO 278 ALBERT ONYEOGUNI NDUBISI 279 FELIX ANENE AYINOTU 280 FRANCIS UBA MUOMAH 281 AKANNI BUSARI 282 ISIAKAADEMOLA LAWAL 283 PAUL OKONKWO MONYE 284 RASHEED ADEKUNLE SALAWU 285 OROK ETOK OROK 286 GODI OBI OKEZIE

SOLIYI VILLAGE NEAR GBAGADA PLOT 8 CHIEF ADEKUNLE COKER ESTATE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE LYING AND BEING ALONG EXPRESS ROAD, GBAGADA BARIGA, SHOLOMU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

ALONG AKANBI STR, LADI-LAK BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE APAKUN OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT JANKARAAREA IJAIYE OJOKORO IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE NEW OKO OBA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IGANDO VILLAGE BEHIND SOLUOS HETEL BLOCK C’ PLOT 1&2 IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OJO ORISHADEKO ASALU-ELEMO FAMILY LAND AJAO ESTATE IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

OFF SEGUN AKINOLA STR, ABULE AGBA AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STAT OFF DAVIES CRESCENT IPAKODO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGBEDA VILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE MAZA MAZA OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ATAKESAN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ALAGBON METAAJEGUNLE VILLAGE AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG LAGOS/EPE RD OJOTA EPE LOCAL GOVT AREA OF LAGOS STATE ABULE IJESHA VILLAGE IJEDE IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILAJE ROAD BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OGUNNOIKI STREET OWORONSOKI BARIGA SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE KOLA JOHN STREET AGUDA SURULERE IN MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE GBASEMO AREAAGA WARD IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OWODE ELEDE IKORODU ROAD SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJAIYE OJOKORO IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE A.W ELIAS LAYOUT PLOT 337 AND 339 ILASAMAJA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE JINADU STREET IJESHATEDO VIA AGUDA ITIRE/IKATE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AGUNBIADE STREET/KARIMU STREET KIRIKIRI IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ADEWALE STREET COKER VILLAGE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OPEBI VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT SHANGISHA VILLAGE VIA KETU, IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISOLO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG IBA/ ISHERI LINK ROAD OBADORE TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISOLO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT BABATOPE STREET AGUDA ITIRE/IKATE IN LAGOS MAINLAND LAGOS STATE IJEGUN TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ISOLO TOWN IOKOTA FAMILY ESTATE POLT 22, BLOCK 23 MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA

THE NATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 OF LAGOS STATE AKESAN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 288 MOJISOLA IBRAHIM NEAR OJO ROAD AJEGUNLE APAPA IN OJO LAGOS STATE 289 BUKOLA OMOTAYO AT ADEWUNMI ESTATE IJE-ODODO TOWN IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 290 ERNEST ODIGHE AGHANENU AT OSO ORISHADEKO ASALU ELEMO FAMILY LAND AJAO ESTATE IN OSHODI/ISOLO 291 TAORIDI AKANNI AMUSSAH AT IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 292 PHILOMENA ILOBEKOME ABULU ALONG JOY EHIGHALE STR. IJEGUN VILLAGE NEAR BAGEMO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 293 TAWAJUDAT ALAKA OFF ABARANJE ROAD IKOTUN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 294 EBENEZER ADEKUNLE SHOLARIN AT OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA AND IRINA SHOLARIN OF LAGOS STATE 295 OSUNBA LAWRENCE ESAN BANKOLE IDIMU AGEGE ROAD IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 296 GANIYU OLALEKAN SANUSI OKO OBAAGEGE IKEJAAREAOF LAGOS STATE 297 DAMIAN EMEKA OBIANIGWE ALONG ANTIE CRESCENT, OFF OKOTA ROAD OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI AREA OF LAGOS STATE 298 ALLIU SALAMI JULIUS SHOWUNMI STR. SHOGUNLE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 299 AFOLABI FOLAYELE ABIODUN AT OFF ALAGBADO ROAD ALAKUKO VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE 300 JAMAL - DEEN MURITALA AT AGBEDE OMOLAIYE VILAGE OFF SAGAMU ROAD IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 301 CLETUS ONYEMENAM ALONG SAVANNAH STREET IJESHATEDO SURULERE IN SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 302 JACOB ADEBAYO IGE AT AKPOMUDJE STREET OKOTA IN MUSHIN NOW OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 303 OLABISI ODEYEMI ALONG BABABUNMI DAWODU STREET IDIOROGBO OJOKORO AGEGE IN IKEJA (NEW IFAKO/IJAIYE) AREA OF LAGOS STATE 304 JOSEPH OLUKAYODE ABIDEMI AT OWOLABI STR. MAFOLUKU IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 305 ADEFUNKE ADELANA AWAWU STREET IKOTUN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 306 KUNLE ABIJUL ATABATAN ST. IJAIYE AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 307 DISU ANIMASHAHUN AT ARAROMI VILLAGE BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 308 LINUS UCHE UZOAMA IPAKODO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 309 ALIU OSHIORE YAKUBU AT ISHERI OSUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 310 JULIUS OLATUNDE MUNIRU OFF LAGOS/EPE ROAD TEMU IN EPE AREA EGBERONGBE OF LAGOS STATE 311 CHRISTOPHER ADESEGUN DADA AT IJU RAILWAY STATION IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 312 RAMOTA OYINLOLA COLE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 313 AFISU TOLANI MURITALA OLOGOLO ADEDOSU STREET OGBA AGEGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE 314 SAID MAYALE EKE OKEMAGBAAREA ODOAYAN MOJODA EPE LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE 315 KAFILAT ALOGBA IPAKODO EBUTE IKORODU IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 316 FUNMILAYO BALOGUN SUNMONU ALONGE STREET IKOTUN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 317 JOHN OJE OKPEAHIOR AT IRE AKARI ESTATE ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 318 SUNDAY ADENOWO OWOLABI ABULE OKUTA VIA IKORODU IKORODU LAGOS 319 SALIU OLADIPO AKINTOLA OPONU VILLAGE NEAR IPAJA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 320 PATRICK EMEKA ONWUDIWE AT OGUNDAIRO BASHORUN SUNMOLA AKANWO VILLAGE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 321 SIMBIAT ABEKE OLUGBADE TABON TABON AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 322 AKINTUNDE SAMUEL AKINTIMOYE OFF IBESHE ROAD IPAKODO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 323 SUNDAY ADEKUNLE OMOSEBI IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 324 DAVID ADEBAYO SALAKO OPONU IPAJAAGEDE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 325 NOJIM ADEBUNKOLA OSHO MAFOLUKU NEAR OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 326 EVELYIN ADUNNI FADAIRO AT ISHERI OSHUN VILLAGE PLOT 19, FAGBILE FAMILY ALLOTMENT IN ALIMOSHO 327 OLAJUMOKE OKEFUNKE WILLIAMS AT AWAWU ST. MUSHIN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 328 MARGARET NOBEL OGUGUO AT IJESHATEDO ITIRE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 329 CHRISTOPHER OKPALA IKEJA TOWN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 330 BASIRU AREMU OGUNLEYE AT AGBEDE TOWN NEAR AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 331 MR AND MRS ABIODUN OKO-OBA AREA AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF OLAYIWOLA ADIO LAGOS STATE 332 PARTICK CHUKWUEMEKA NDEBEZE AKANWO VILLAGE NEAR ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 333 EMMANUEL IJAOLA OLUSINA OFF IJAN RD NEAR AYOBO TOWN IN OSINDELE ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 334 AUGUSTINE LEE AKOJIE AKESAN TOWN IKOTUN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 335 ROLAND NIEMOCHA AT LAWANI ALAKOTO APAPAAJEGUNLE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 336 ERIC UMEOFIA SHEKONI STREET COKER LAGOS 287 COMFORT OYEDOKUN

47 MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE 337 EMMANUEL NWAGBO MADEKWE

JADESOLA OSHODI STREET AGUDA SURULERE MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE

338 RASAKI OLARENWAJU ATANDA

ASHIMOWU ABEO STREET SARI ORILE IGANMU MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE ABULE OKUTA VIA IKORODU IKORODU LAGOS AT OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ILAMOSE NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGBDA OKUNOLA VILLAGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT SOLOMON OGUN ST. AGUDA VILLAGE SURULERE LAGOS STATE AT IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLADIMEJI ODUOLA STREET OFF ABARANJE ROAD IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF IPAJA ROAD ALAGBADO VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE

339 OLUYEMISI IGE (NEE BAMODU) 340 AUGUSTINE IKE ENWONWU 341 JOHN EBOSELE ERIAGBON 342 COLLINS JINANWA 343 VICTORIA UCHE CHIGBUE 344 IYIOLAAYINDE KUYOBO 345 MUHEED OLADIMEJI ODUOLA 346 SAMUEL ADEWALE BANJO 347 UCHENNA ETHELBERT EJIKE NSOFOR

ILAJE BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

348 CHRISTIAN CHIKE OYEKA

AT IRE AKARI ESTATE ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ISHERI-OSUN/IKOTUN ROAD ISHERIOSUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AKESAN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OLABODE STREET, IJU AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IGANDO TOWN,NEAR IKOTUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT KIRIKIRI ROAD APAPA IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE OREGUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ITIRE AREA MUSHIN, MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

349 EYINADE EGBEDINA 350 KAYODE ABDUL 351 ADEFOLAKE BUSARI 352 ANN JUDE 353 FOLASHADE SALAMI 354 GANIYU OLATUNJI ABU 355 BENJAMIN ADEYEMI SADIKU 356 FARUK BABATUNDE GRILLO 357 MR & MRS MRS SUNNY SAMUEL OMESIETE

AT KUSORU ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

358 IDRIS ADEMOLA SANUSI

IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ALAGBADO IJU ISAGA ROAD IJU ISAGA IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

359 MR AND MRS OLADOKUN OLADIMEJI 360 SOLOMON AFOLABI SOKOYA

UGBE ROAD IMAGBON VILLAGE ONOLU DESCENDENTS FAMILY ESTATE PLOT 4 BLOCK VIII IN IREPODUN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

361 KEHINDE OKUNNU

OFF OGUNSHI STREET IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IFAKO VILLAGE BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AJAO ESTATE APAKUN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MARYLAND SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKE-OLU STREET/AKINLAGUN LANE IDI ORO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ABULE ELEGUNGUN DOPEMU IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ODU VILLAGE NEAR EGBEDA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF IKORODU IGBE ROAD IGBOGBO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IPAJA TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE SOLO-OGUN STREET AGUDA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALEDO STREET ILARA EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT EDOBOR CLOSE IKEJA IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISHER OLOFIN IDIMU IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OMOLE VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AJEGUNLE VILLAGE NEAR ALAGBADO IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IDIROKO IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLODAN STREET ORILE IGANMU BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISOLO TOWN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT JETAN LAND IJOMU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ORILE IKEJA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF FOLORUNSO KUKU CRESENT OPEBI IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE BLOCK III PLOT D&G ON REGUN FAMILY ESTATE IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ABATA STREET ORILE IGBANMU OFF BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE MENDE VILLAGE ONIGBONGBO IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE DOPEMU AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE DANIYAN STREET IDIARABA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OGBA SCHEME AREA OFF AREA OF LAGOS

362 ABIODUN OMOTUNDE IDOWU 363 IYE EGHOMWANDE 364 MUFUTAU LANRE ATANDA 365 SAMPSON EGUALAYE OSIME 366 ALICE EBUN ALBERT 367 OYEWOLE ABIODUN ANUBI 368 JOKOTADE KIBITIU OGUNSEMI 369 SIKIRU TAIWO AKEWUSOLA 370 SIMON OLOLADE FADEYIBI 371 SAMUEL OKOLIE OGBU 372 MUSEMILU ADEBOLA OLOWU 373 ADERONKE OTUFALE AND SHERIFATU KUKU 374 ELIJAH OLUWAGBENGA OLADIPO 375 OSAZENAYE SAMUEL OSARENKHOE 376 SAMSON AJAGBE 377 FELIX OMO IZIREIN 378 WAHABI IDOWU ANIMASHAUN 379 JOHN ADETAYO OGUNDERO 380 MUSIBAU AJAO ADEDIRAN 381 MOSHUDI ADESHINA SANNI 382 TAYO ILORI 383 MR & MRS KOREDE HASSAN 384 OLALEKAN ADIO ABAGUN 385 ABAYOMI ADEKUNLE THOMAS 386 ISAAC OLUWOLE BANKOLE 387 BASHIRU KEHINDE ATUNRASHE 388 TIAMIYU ADISAADEDIRAN 389 CHRISTOPHER ONUMAJURU 390 LINUS CHIKA UZO

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THE NATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 391 AMUDU DAYO ADEKUNLE 392 ADESOGA OSINMADE 393 CHIEF HENRY OLAYIMOLA BALOGUN 394 KOLAWOLE OKE 395 DOLAPO ADUKE OPALEYE 396 TIJANI AKANI OLAIYA SANUSI 397 YEWANDE ONILE ERE 398 OBASOLAATOBATELE 399 AFESIME OIHOJE JONATHAN 400 OLUFEMI OGUNLEYE 401 ADETOKUNBO LAWRENCE THOMAS 402 BILIAMINU ADISA SALAKO 403 ESTHER SULOLA 404 KAFAYATABIDEMI FASHOLA 405 BURAIMOH RAJI 406 RAFIU ISHOLA BALOGUN 407 DAVID BAMIDELE OMOTOSHO 408 ADIJAT KUBURAT SANNI 409 RISIKAT ABIOLA DISU 410 SHAKAAKERE MOMOH 411 NWACHINEMERE WOLDWIDE LTD 412 IGNATIUS NMAEMEKA EZIAMAKA 413 SEIDU ANIFOWOSHE BAKARE 414 YEMI MAJEKODUNMI 415 RAHMAN KEHINDE HAMEED 416 SAULA SAKA OBADINA 417 EKE PETER GINIKANWA 418 LAWRENCE MUYIDELE AREMO 419 IBRAHIM BUHARI DANMOLA 420 AYEESHA MODUPE ADEWUNMI 421 FIDELIS ADEOLAADEYAN 422 BATCH 10 423 DANIEL IKEMEFUNA EGWUDOBI 424 OLUSEGUN GISANRIN

STATE ALONG UGBE RD/MAGBON VILLAGE IN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AWORI VILLAGE OJOKORO BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ESUOLA STREET OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IDIMU IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE JEZZA STREET EGBEDA IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE EPE PLOT 6&7 BLOCK XVI EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG M/M AIRPORT EXPRESS ROAD MAFOLUKU OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OPEBI VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ABULE SHILIYI BARIGA PLOT IN MR ADEWALE THOMAS LAYOUT SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ALAKUKO VILLAGE NEAR ALAGBADO AGEGE IN IKEJA LAGOS STATE IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE PLOT 196 CHEIF J.A AJAO LAYOUT 86 LADIPO STREET MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG WATER WORKS ROAD IJU STATION AREAAGEGE INAGEGEAREAOF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN TOWN, IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IDIMU IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ODUNTAN STREET OKE EJINRIN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ABULE AWORI AREAAGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OREMEJI STREET ISOLO TOWNSHIP MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ODEBIYI STREET IFAKO AGEGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG OGBA ROAD AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AJAO ESTATE IN OSHODI ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT NO 2B OKE-ONA STREET ITIRE IKATE, SURULERE IN SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG OLD ABEOKUTA MOTOR ROAD, AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AMODAALLI ST. OKE ALO VILL GBAGADA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEGUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IDIMU TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT BADMUS ADERONMU CLOSE OWUTU AREA IN IKORODU AREA ALIMOSHO VILLAGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF L/STATE KANO STREET EBUTE METTA IN THE LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE TAIRU ONIGBANJO STREET ITIRE SURULERE LAGOS STATE AT AJEGUNLE VILLAGE IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

442 OMOTAYO BANJOKO

ABOLAJI STREET MAFOLU OSHODI IN IKEJA AREA OF L/STATE SHOMORIN STREET IFAKO BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

474 OLUSESAN IDOWU 475 IDOWU OLUFEMI AKINDEHIN

425 FRANKLIN ADEDEJI OLASUNKANMI MEBUDE AT IJAIYE OJOKORO OFF ABEOKUTA EXPRESS ROAD IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 426 LUKMAN CHIOMA NWOKEYI ALONG ZEINAB CRESCENT MEDINA ESTATE GBAGADA IFAKO IN IFAKO IJAIYE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

427 WASIU AKANDE DAVIES 428 MICHEAL SUNDAY OJO 429 ANICHE EZEANA ENEKWA 430 AGNES ADENI TAIWO 431 GERALD EJECHIEKWE 432 LANRE SOLOMON 433 KAYODE FATAI OLUSOGA 434 AFUSAT OTITOLOJU 435 ANTHONY GODWILL ADOH 436 FUNMILAYO FUNKE AKINRINLO 437 MARTINS OLADIPO AJULO 438 OKINUDILI OBI 439 MUSILIMOTU ADUNNI OKIKIOLA 440 AJAO OLUYIDE AKANGBE 441 NASIRUDEEN ALABI AHMED

ALONG ALHAJI WASIU AKANDE DAVIES STREET ISHERI OSHUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE KUJE AREA AMUWO ODOFIN IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKE ORUBE VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE BLOCK V PLOT 7 IKOSAN FAMILY LAYOUT IN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJESHA ROAD IJESATEDO S/LERE LAGOS STATE ALONG ADETOLA STREET AGUDA VILLAGE LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF L/STATE AT ASIPA ROAD IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AWURI STREET AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS S APAKUN OSHODI IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MOTOBI VILLAGE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF L/ STATE BARUWA VILLAGE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF L/ STATE OKOTA ROAD IRE AKARI ESTATE ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE LOWA LAND OFF LAGOS ROAD IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE CARDOS VILLAGE NEAR IPAJAAGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE LIASU ROAD EGBE TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

443 UCHENNA E.E NSOFOR 444 MRS ESTHER ONILO ODUYALE AND MR OLUTOBI NATHANIEL ODUYALE

AT APELEHIN BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILAJE BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLAYINKA STREET ITIRE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

445 JANET OLUKEMI ASENUGA 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465

IDIMU TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE EMMANUEL OLATUNJI AKAPO AT ALAKA ESTATE, IN SURULERE LOCAL GOVT. AREA PLOT 265 IN ALAKA BOLANLE GEORGE OKE IMOYE FAMILY IKOTUN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ABIMBOLA SHIFAU KASALI IGANDO TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OGBUEFI JOHN ABANUM AT OKERUBE VIA IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE UZOMA UGOCHUKWU APAKUN OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AYISATU YAYA AT ITIRE, IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE BARTH ILECHUKWU SHANGISHA VILLAGE VIA KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE BENJAMIN EMEKA MBAEGBU ABULE-NLA EBUTE METTA WEST LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE TAIWO ADENEKAN AT ISHERI OSHUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLUKAYODE ADERONKE ADEDOMO EGBEDA VILLAGE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE SEFIU KOLAWOLE AT SOGUNLE SRT, ABULE ONIGBAGBO, IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE MUKAILAABAYOMI ADEWALE AT OKOTA FAMILY LAND IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MUKAILAABAYOMI ADEWALE AT OKOTA VIA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO LOCAL GOVT. AREA PLOT WITHIN OKOTA VIA ISOLO PHILIP OLUDAYO OLUFOWOTE ALONG IYIOLA LAWALE STREET, IGBARI AKOKA IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE MR & MRS WILLIAM EREWA MEGGISON AT FUNMILAYO ONARONKE STREET, AKOKA BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA O OF LAGOS STATE AHMED YUSSUF AT EWUTUNTUN SHOGUNLE MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLUFEMI AKINRINADE EMINA STREET IKEJA IKEHAAREA OF LAGOS STATE LAIDI BOLA OJIKUTU OFF IKORODU ROAD IJEDE IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE LAMIDI IYIOLA SADIKU AGUDAVILLAGE IKEJAAREAOF LAGOS STATE OLUSEMEKE FIDELIS IZAH ATABARANJE VILLAGE IKOTUN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

466 ABIODUN OLALEYE SYNTHETIC PLASTIC INDUSTRIES LTD

ALONG IKORODU/SAGAMU RD IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

467 ADEBAYO OLUWATOYIN ADEYINKA

OSHO DRIVE APAPA BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT BARUWAS VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT MILE 13 OFF IKORODU ROAD OWODE ONIRIN IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IPAKODO IKORODU IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IRE AKARI OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE MRNDE VILLAGE MARYLAND IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AGIDINGBI VILLAGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE IJU AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE MUDASIRU ERINFOLAMI STREET OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE

468 AYODELE ABAYOMI ADEYERI 469 RASHEED OLAYIWOLAABASS 470 SIKIRU OLOKUNOLA 471 EKE CHIMA KALU 472 MARY CHIKA OGUEJIOFOR 473 MUYIBI OGBOGBONU OWODUNNI

476 GABRIEL IKHUARIA JOHNSON AKHIGBE

SHOBAYO CLOSE GBAGADA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE

477 JAMES BABATUNDE ONI

AGUDAVILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OBADARE VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IGANDO IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKESAN TOWN NEAR IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF ABEOKUTA MOTOR ROAD ALAKUKO VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ADISA LAWAL CLOSE OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE LIDIPE STREET OFF IJU WATER WORK ROAD AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF EGBEDA IDIMU ROAD NEAR ODUWOLE VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

478 AUGUSTINE OSAMOR 479 EMMANUEL OLATUBI OLUBODUN 480 AUGUSTINE LEE AKOJIE 481 MICHEAL OLADELE ADESUYI 482 CHUKWUEMEKA ONWUKA 483 JAMES ABIMBOLA OWOEYE 484 IBIRONKE AJIKE COLE (PROPPRIETRESS OF TOLULOPE DAY NURSERY SCHOOL) 485 EZEKIEL AJIDE ADEBARA 486 ANDREW ASUQUO NKEM 487 SAMUEL IDOWU AYININUOLA 488 SAMUEL OPE AWOBAJO 489 ANTHONY OGWU 490 RASAKI ADEYEMI BURAIMO 491 GBEKE OLUMAYOWA BOLURO 492 SAUBANAAKANDE 493 NURENI KAYODE AJIBOLA 494 ODUNAYO OBAFEMI IDOWU 495 FOLASAYO ADEOLU OKUSAMI

AKESAN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKO OBAAGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AGUDA VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IJAIYE OJOKORO IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IGURU FAMILY LAND ITIRE/IKATE LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF AGUDA SURULERE IKOTUN VILLAGE EGBE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ALAKUKO VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IJU STATION IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF AJAGURO RD OWUTU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IJAIYE OJOKORO AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF

THE NATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 496 SUSAINAH ADEFOWORE OTUDEKO

LAGOS STATE FAFIOLU/SHADARE STREET OLORUNSOGO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

497 AFUSAT IBIDUNNI JINADU AJIBADE 498 MOSHOOD BABATUNDE ODEMUYIWA AT AGEGE MOTOR ROAD IDI-ORO MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE 499 ABIDEEN AJAO TEJUOSHO MILE 13 OWODE ONIRIN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 500 ADENIYI MARTINS GBINRINMIN VILLAGE VIAALAGBADO IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 501 VICTORIA OLUYOMIBO ODEBIYI OLADEINDE STREET AGUDA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 502 OLUFEMI ODUNFA IJESHATEDO VIA ITIRE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 503 OLUSANJO AMUSAN BETWEEN ORILE AGEGE AND ABULE EGBA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 504 SAMUEL BOLAJI TALABI ODOFIN LANE ITUN ABOSAN IGBOGBO IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 505 FOLARIN OLUTOSIN IJEDE TOWN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 506 TIAMIYU ADIO ENILOLOBO LOWA LAND IKORODU IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 507 MR AND MRS ROWLAND TONYE MCDUKE

EGBEDA IDIMU IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

508 RABIU AKANJI POPOOLA

PAPAASHAFAAGEGE OYINLOLASTREET IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE MOKOYA STREET OLODI APAPA BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE GBIRINMI IJAIYE OJOKORO IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IJEDE NEAR IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ON ELEPE FAMILY LAND AGA WARD IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN OFF ASALU STREET ABARANJE ROAD IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN OFF ASALU STREET ABARANJE ROAD IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OGUNBOLAAVENUE OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG ADEGBOLA STREET IKATE LAWANSON IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ADEBAIAYE ST IDIMU TOWN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ONIKOYI STREET AGUDA VILLAGE SURULERE MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE LOWA LAND IKORODU IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF IJAN ROAD NEAR AYOBO TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE-IMOYE FAMILY ESTATE ISHERI-OSHUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISHERI OSHUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ONILEKERE DOPEMU AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AGUDA VILLAGE S/LERE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF PIPE-LINE IKOTUN VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE KUSORU ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALAGBADO VILLAGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE ADENLE ST.AGEGE IKEJA LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IDOWU EKUN ESTATE ALAGBADO VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ISHERI OSHUN VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE ORUBE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IBA VILLAGE IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE EDUN ALARAN ROAD OJOKORO AGEGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE SUNMONU ADEWOYIN VILLAGE ALONG LAGOS EXPRESS WAY AGEGE PLOT II IN MR J.C SCOTT (DECD) LAYOUT AGEGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ON EDEYINGBO FAMILY LAND OJOKORO IKORODU PLOT 10 BLOCK 11 IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ILE OGBO STREET IJESHATEDO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG COMMUNITY ROAD IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG MAKANJUOLA STREET IGANMU OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISIAKA SHOBANDE STREET/LATEEF TOYE STREET ISHERI OSHUN NEAR IJEGUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE BECKLEY VILLAGE WASIMI OJOKORO AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKOWONJO AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

509 GREGORY ONUMAJURU 510 EMMANUEL IFEANYI EGBUNIWE 511 ADEFOLARIN SAMUEL 512 SAID ADEKUNLE ADEBAYO 513 JOSHUA UTURU 514 JOSHUA UTURU 515 NATHANIEL OMO UKEKO 516 BADRU-L-ISLAM OF NIGERIA 517 KOLE ADEBAYO RASAQ 518 MESSRS OGOCHUKWU UMEJI AND PETER OKAKPU 519 ALIYU MUHAMMED 520 MAKANJUOLAADISAABIOYE 521 RAIMI AYINLA OLANIYAN 522 ADEDOYIN BADEJO 523 JOSEPH OLUFEMI WILLIAMS 524 DAVID OLUSOLA OGUNDANA 525 TAJUDEEN OKE 526 OLUFEMI AYODEJI OKE 527 ABIODUN ADESHINA 528 ABASS ALABI ADENLE 529 MARY OFEFUNKE AJAYI 530 RUTH OYEYEMI TAIWO 531 ROBERT OGUNMANAM ONUMAJURU 532 AFOLABI OLUWOLE SUNDAY PETER OKAKPU 533 MERCY IGHODARO 534 ADEKUNLE OLANREWAJU ADEYEMI

535 AKINDELE OLUFEMI WURAOLA 536 KENNETH OKOYE 537 BASSEY EKONG 538 OMOTAYO BANJOKO 539 ANTHONY IFY NSIAMUYA 540 GABRIEL IDOWU AKINTUNDE 541 DANIEL ILUONAZE ASEOYE 542 MICHAEL ADEWUMI FALONI 543 REVEREND EMMANUEL AND MRS RACHEL ONOTOTA

AT ISHERI OSHUN VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

544 URIAH OGBORHE OSIOGO

IKANRAN VILLAGE NEAR ILO IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT EGBEDA IDIMU VILLAGE NEAR AGEGE IN

545 MICHAEL ONI

49 IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OKE AFA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 547 NOJEEMDEEN ADEKUNLE IJAGEMO VILLAGE IN IKEJA AREA AJANI LAWAL OF LAGOS STATE 548 OLUBUKOLA ADESHILE OJOKORO VILLAGE AREA IKORODU ON REKUMADE TOGEDEJOYE FAMILY LAND IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 549 SIKIRU BANIRE AT NO 4, IDIMU ROAD OPPSITE FEDERAL HOUSING AUTHORITY ESTATE IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 550 CAROLINE OLUBUNMI FADAMIRO AT CARDOSO VILLAGE VIA BARUWA TOWN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 551 RASAQ ADEBOWALE SAFIRIYU KOLOBAL LAND AYOBO IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 552 OLUWOLE ODERINDE BASHORUN OGUNDAIRO SUNMONU AKANRO VILLAGE NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 553 SHEDRACK OKEKE OKEKE ALONG ASSEMBLY ROAD SATELLITE TOWN IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 554 KATHERINE NGOZI OKOLO AT ISHEFUN VILLAGE NEAR BADA BALOGUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 555 CHARLES ERUGUA UWEJA PALM AVENUE MUSHIN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 556 FELIX EDOKPAIYI IJEGUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 557 JEMIL OLADIPO SANUSI AT IJEGUN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 558 RAPHAEL AKINTOLA AKINSULURE NO.18 IJEWEWRE AVENUE STREET AGUDA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 559 FATAI OLAIDE MUSA AT OLALEYE ST. BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 560 JOSEPH ENIOLORUNDA AGANGA AT ISOLO ISHAGA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 561 BAMSEDUN AGBEKE ADETOLA OKESANYASTREET PAPAAJAO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 562 TUNDE OTUFOWORA MAFOLUKU NEAR OSHODI IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 563 FATAI JIMOH OFF LAGOS BADAGRY EXPRESS ROAD OLUTI VILLAGE BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 564 NURENI AJAGBE ADE BAMGBADE EGBE TOWN ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 565 SELIA ONIKEPE BISHOP STREET ALAKARA IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE 566 THERESA AYODELE COKER AIIYETORO II MUSHIN,MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 567 JIMOH AKINOLA BALOGUN BARUWA VILLAGE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 568 JIMI SANYA KAFISANWO AT ISOLO TOWN IN OSHODI ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 569 PATRICK OGA UGBEBOR DOPEMU VILLAGE AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 570 IPADEOLA OYEDOKUN ABODERIN OKE ORUBE TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 571 KATE NARUNA EHIGIATOR ABULE AGBA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 572 SAFURANI TOLANI RUFAI OJOTA EPE, EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 573 OLUBUNMI OLUKAYODE ODUNMBAKU ALONG BOLARINWA STREET OFF ABARANJE RD IKOTUN ,IKOTUN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 574 DR & MRS FADEJIMI BADEMOSI OKE ALO VILLAGE GBAGADA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 575 JALIL AYINLA BADIRU ALHAJI TAJUDEEN JIMOH LAYOUT ABULE EGBA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 576 ADEMOLAADEDOYIN SALAMI ATAKESAN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 577 JAIYEOLA OGINNI SOLUYI VILLAGE IFAKO BARIGA SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 578 GIDEON ORILOYE AJAKAIYE AT GASPER OSAGIE ST OKO-OBA AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 579 MICHEAL SUNDAY IBIYEYE MAKANJUOLA STREET SARI IGANMU IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 580 OMOBOLANLE OLUBUKOLA SAKA IJEGUN AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 581 SALAMI OLAJIDE OLADIMEJI STREET /ADELAJA STREET AGUDA SURULERE IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE 582 IBATU ABENI SOKOTO OSHINOWO STREET EPE EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 583 ADEDOYIN OLUGBENGA OBAFEMI AT SANNI BALOGUN ST/ADU STREET ABULE EGBA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 584 AKEEM ADIO ALABEDE OSOLO WAY APAKUN OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 585 MR & MRS ADUKE ADEYEMI IJEGUN TOWN NEAR IKOTUN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 586 CLEMENT AZUBUOGU CHIADIKOBI IKORODU ROAD IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 587 SUNDAY OYEWOLA ADIGUN AT ADEGBUYI ADEBANJO STREET AGODO EGBE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 588 AMBROSE NWABUIKE MATTEWS ALONG OLATUNJI STREET ILUPEJU TITUN ABULE AWORI AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 589 ADEMOLA FRANCIS ADENIRAN AT ISOLO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 590 ABIODUN OMOTAYO IGE ABULE OKUTA VIA IKORODU IN IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 591 AKEEM ADENIJI ONIKE VILLAGE YABA IN LAGOS MAINLAND AREA OF LAGOS STATE 592 THOMAS OLU OYESANYAAND AT ALARAMIMO STREET OKO OBA AGEGE IN MODUPE OLUYINKA OYESANYA AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 593 MUSILIMAT ABAKE DANMOLE AT NNOBI STREET AGUDA SURULERE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 594 THOMAS ONOVUHEZI AGBOZERAH ALONG OWOTU AJAGURO ROAD ON OLIWO DIKAN FAMILY LAND OKORODU 595 SULAIMON ABIODUN AT ABULE EGBA VILLAGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 546 CHRISTY OHUAKA

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AT UWEKEN CLOSE IDIMU TOWN IN IKEJA TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE JOSEPH JAIYEOLA OLATOKUN OFF IDIMU ROAD EGBEDA AGEGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE GABRIEL OLUSOLA OMITOGUN ATATAN AJAYI VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE GEORGE OYEBAMIJI AFONJA IJEGUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE SAMUEL ADESOLA OGUNLANA SHOLUYI VILLAGE IFAKO BARIGA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE JOHN OLADEJO AKANNI ASHIPA VILLAGE IPAJA IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE MOSHOOD AREMU ADELAKUN AT OSITELU ST AGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE MUFUTAU SHODA ALONG IGBE ROAD/IMAGBON VILLAGE PLOT 37 IKORODU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ONIFADE EZEKIEL OLUWAROTIMI IJEGUN VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE KAYODE SEGUN AGO AVENUE OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE DELE OLOGUNDUDU IJAGEMO VILLAGE OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKWARA OSONWA OKWARA OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE SAMSON OLALEKAN OKUSOLUBO ALONG IDIMU RD ALIMOSHO VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE C & S AJAGUN JESU ALONG WONUOLA STREET IDI ARABA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE SUNDAY LANRE OZOLUA SOLUYI IFAKO BARIGA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE ANTHONY NWOBODO EZE APAKUN OSHODI MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE SALAWU ABDULKADIR NEAR ANSAR-UD-DEEN COLLEGE ISOLO IN OLUSHI FAMILY LAYOUT ,PLOT4,BLK H, IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE LAUREL OWENSON IBITOYE JOSEPH OFF IBA/IDIMU NEW ROAD AKESAN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE DAVID BAMIDELE OMOTOSHO AT IJEGUN TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE PATRICK CHUKWUDEBE ISICHELI IDIMU TOWN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE OLU ADEYEMI ADEKOYA SHASHA ROAD DOPEMU AGEGE IN IKEJA AREA LAGOS STATE IDRIS ADEMOLA SANUSI OLUSOLA ADE STREET IJEGUN VILL IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE SAKA ESHO AKOMEJI NO.14 ALH ANIMASHAUN STREET IJESHATEDO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLUJIMI THOMAS AT AGBAKIN ESTATE ALONG AKOWONJO ROAD,EGBEDA ,IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE ASIMIYU JIMOH AKOWONJO AREAAGEGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE RICHAARD AKINNUOYE IGBEKOYI NO.16 TITILAYO STREET ORILE OSHODI IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE PETER ADIGUN OJELABI ISOLO OKOTA NUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE ISRAEL CHUKWUEMEKA JACKS OFF IKEREKU STREET IJAIYE AGBADO ONYENBUCHI STATION AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

STATE LAND GBAGADA SCHEME 624 625 626 627

PLOT 4 PH1 A 138

BLOCK 89 SEWEASE SITE/17

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OLARENWAJU AJOKE ADESIDA HALIMA OKE PIUS OLADELE OLAWUNMI SULTAN LADEGA ADENIJI ADELE

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40 83 42 64 87 742 73 87 B29 62 64 22

OKO AFA 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667

OLUDAISI MOBOLAJI FARINRE DAVID OLU AJAYI SYLVESTER NWAEKE MOSES AUSTIN OSARUMWESE IZEKOR ISAAC OLUWOLE OKELOLA ANTHONY OLAJIDE ADELAKUN MEMUDU ADIGUN GODWIN OLUSEGUN AKINOLA

668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728

OLUWOLE OLADAPO OSIFALUJO OLUKEYE AKINNIYI AKINBAMI OLUGBENGA FAKOYA DAVID IDOWU ADEMOKUN GLADYS OLAPEJU ONAH ALICE OLABISI IDOWU ADENIYI SHAFAU SADIQ LATEEF KOLAWOLE DAWODU SALIU AYOOLA YUSUF KAFAYAT AGBEKE GIWA AYODELE ABIKE ODUYEYE BOLANLE ADUNNI AFOLABI JOHNSON BAMIDELE AGBOOLA OLOWOLE VICTORIA AYONI OLANIAWO SEYI MABOGUNJE ANUOLUWAPO OGUNFADEBO ODUDE OLUSEGUN ABIODUN ODUNNAYO OLUWOLE BAMIDELE BANJO RUFUS AROMOLARAN BOSEDE SOLOMON AKINOLA OYEWOLE AJIBAYO AKINSIKU JOHNSON ADEBOLA OGUNDEKO AKINTUNDE SHODE JIMOH ADESHINA OKE-OWO HAKEEM OLAJIDE MASHA FLORENCE KOKOE ATI-JOHN VICTORIA VUARHERHE MOWOE RAPHEAL ADETOLA AGBOJO ABAYOMI OLUKOGA WILSON FELIX OLADEPO OWOLABI PETER MATTEW IRIATA JOSIAH OLANIRAN FASOYIN REGINA ADEPEJU WHENU AYOOLA ODEKU DAVID OLUGBADE ADEWALE RASHEED ADEYINKA JIMOH FALILAT ASHAKE ADEKAKUN ERIC MANUEL SAIDAT OLAYINKA BALOGUN AGBAJE AURORA OLUGBEMISOLA GEORGE TAYLOR GABRIEL YOYE AFOLABI EMMANUEL AFOLABI OSO CHRISTOHER ISOLA FUJAMADE OLATOKUNBO OLABISI OKUPE EMMANUEL ADEKITE SOBANJO SIDIKATU ADENI BISHI ABIODUN ABAYOMI IPOSU RAPHAEL AJISOLA AJETUNMOBI EWUOLA ROSE OGEDI OKOLIE OMOTOLA OLADIMEJI RAMODE AKINSANYA OLUKOYA ROTIMI OLATUNDE JONES MOBOLAJI OKUNKOYA OLUYINKA JOSEPH SIKUADE ADEYEMI OLADAPO ODUKOYA FREDERICK ADEGBOLA ONITIRI ADESUNBO ADENIJI ONITIRI KAZEEM ADEGBITE SHAMUSI TOMORI ABIOYE AUSTEN NGEZELONYE ADEBISI ABOSEDE ONASANYA

729 730 731 732 733 734 735

ADEFUNKE OLALEYE OLALEKAN OLATUNJI OSIFESO MR BABAJIDE OLAKUNLE AINA MICHEAL OLUWOLE ODUBANJO JIDE BANKOLE OKI COMFORT OLUFUNMILAYO ADEOSUN OLABISI AKINBOLA AKONI

736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748

EDWIN AGBESIELE AYODELE JOSEPH COKER AMPIN DARKU JIM BLANKSON JOSEPINE CECILLIA OLUONYE NGOZI AUGUSTA CHIBUTUTU BILLY OMABEGHO ANDREW AGOM NDI OKEREKE ONYIUKE ABIOLA PAMELA MOHAMMED ROMANUS IFEANYICHUKWU DIKE EMMANUEL ECHETABU AKINREMI OLATUNBOSUN PHILIPS RAW MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL VICTOR QUINCY JUWAH NIGERIA POLICE MICHEAL ENOCHIE ATTAH AHRIS ABUTU GARUBA FATAI ABIODUN WAHAB

11 7 14 5 14 7 3 3

20 XX11 19 19 27 20 X11 XV111

48 10 21 21 14 8 17 4 12 40 19 14 15 27 8 1 2 16 29 13 27 2 1 6 26 1 15 7 12 2 7 8 46 6 10 7 7 14 40 24 35 12 11 14 6 13 17 44 16 19 14 8 3 6 21 11 2 14 25 6 11

49 145 97 126 112 164 112 48 28 39 87 75 121 75 148 168 113 93 82 41B 22 36 37 29 28 38 78 45 24 145 87 86 39 21 86 81 A78 78 49 146 43 21 21 83 41B 32 82 36 121 49 166 97 122 81 51 81 125 24 87 123 80

379G 349A 298 303 475 10 370

F D A A K

IPAJA

OGBA

E

LEKKI PENNISULA SCHEME

749 750 751 752 753

20 3 7 7 8 11 20 40 5 27 6D 14

113 116 136 64 70 87 138 100 39 52 136 6

13-14 28 S.2 13 2 55

N.B.D 100 C.60 117 A13 41

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ISHERI NORTH

LEKKI 11 754 755

ADEBANJO ABIOSE OWOAJE IFECHUKWU EILEEN ONYEKA

36 9

70 39

97

G

2 161 819 864 882 463 4 8

44 vi xxxi 33 xxxiv XXV 18 102 231

2

AB

7

20

8

14

OSHODI/ISOLO 756

MOSHOOD AYINLA SHABIOLEGBE

OMOLE SCHEME 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765

MR.OLAYINKA OMILANI EPHRAIM OLUFEMI OGUNTONA LT COLONEL TUNDE OYEDELE MOJEED OLALEKAN AKANDE PAUL OKOEBOR EMONYON PHEBEAN NURSERY/PRIMARY SCHOOL MR BENJAMIN AKINYEMO OKE BILIAMINU AJAO BUSARI MR JOSEPH OLATUNJI FADERO

OBANIKORO OKE-IRA 766

OLORUNLEKE MICHEAL

813 814 815 816 817 818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832

OLABISI AYODELE TAIWO OGUNFOWORA NDURIBE CHINEMEREM KENNETH OYEYEMI OYEFESO SOSANWO ARIYIBI OLUSEYI OLUSESI SYLVANUS EZE CHINEDU ILORI TAIWO MODUPE NKECHI PAT OGOEMELAN GBADAMOSI TAIYE HASSAN ADEBAYO ADENIYI OSHINYEMI BANJI AKINOLA ADENIYI TAIWO MUSTAPHA ADEREMI NWAMAKA ILOBACHI BUNMI ADENEKAN OLARA OMOLARA ADEBAYO RIDWAN BABATUNDE AGUNBIADE JOSEPH TOMI ORISANAGE OLUFUNMILAYO ADEOYE MARTINS FUNMILOLA OSHINOWO

833 834

VICTOR OLATUNBOSUN COLE-SHOWERS GOMBE SHEHU USMAN

835 836

EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF WEST AFRICA CHRISTIAN AKPALA

837

MARINER ENTERPRISES

IMOTA SCHEME 767

OLUBUKOLA OLUSANYA

IKORODU 11

AGBOWA SCHEME 768

BADMOS BOLAJI ABIMBOLA

EWU-ELEPE 769

OKULAJA ABIMBOLA IDOWU

12

1

MAGODO SCHEME 770 711 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781

NURUDEEN AYINLA SMITH VICTORIA AWUJOOLA DAWODU

11 33

DLR/RATIFICATION

MOBOLA OLUFUNMILAYO OKIKIADE (NEE OGUNBEKUN)1

67

ABIODUN OJO OMOTOLA DAYISI VICTOR BOLAJI FAKEYE OLUSEGUN AJAYI FOLASHADE OMOYELE ODUBOGUN OLUSEGUN ADEWOLE ADEKOYA AUGUSTA OLUJOKE DAVIES JOSHUA GBADEBO OJO LT.COL. ADEWALE OLORUNFEMI TADE FOLARIN OLUSESAN PETER

67 62 1A 51 33 1 9 53A 38A

838 RUTH ABEKE

37 25 1 14 1 12 23 37 8

NIGERIAN MERCHANT BANK PLC TESLIM AKINTAYO ADEDEJI

PHASE 1

AISHA NASIRU IMAM

5

A5

2

C

19

XLV

PLOT 380 140

BLOCK 13 6

PLOT 13A

BLOCK 1

MATORI SCHEHE 785

R.T BRISCOE (NIGERIA) P.L.C

ILUPEJU LAYOUT 786

UNION HOLDINGS LIMITED

ABIJO GRA 787 788

ISAAC ADEYEBA AYENI MUTIU TOYIN DABIRI

FORTUNE GARDEN 789

NDIDI ENENMOH

IKEJA BUSNESS DISTRICT 790 791 792

T.O.S FUNERALS LIMITED RAMONI ELEMERE NIGERIAN GAS COMPANY LIMITED

OGUDU OJOTA 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803

TAIRU TUNDE OGUNLEYE OGUDU SCHEME CHARITY IBIRONKE ADADEVOH DR. OLUYEMISI ADENIYI KUFORIJI TINUADE AMOPE MAJEKODUNMI AFOLABI OLUFEMI SOBODU BABATUNDE GBOLAHAN SADARE GBENGA ADEMULERO (ADEMULEGUN) LAWAL MUSTAPHA O MRS OLAIDE ADEFEYIKE OREDOPE LIADI OYENIYI OLAOYE & OLUBUKOLA OLUYEMI OLAOYE AUGUSTINE FIREUBENAGLE

GREEN GATE 804 805 806 807 808

ADEDOYIN BENSON RAMOTU KIKELOMO AKINWALE TAWA OSHOBAJO MILLICENT BABAFUNKE OGUNKELU OKOH PAUL IFEANYI

MOSAFEJOARADAGUNSCHEME 809

ANOZIE NNAMDI IGNATIUS

ABIJO SCHEME 810

ASHIMIYU ADEKOLA ADEBAYO

PLOT BLOCK 16 K PLOT WITHIN AGEGE 9 K PLOT 1 PLOT 42 51 31 12 29 17

BLOCK E BLOCK F J D 11 S 9

MUSTAPHA ADEBAYO AKINSANYA OLADEINDE LUCAS

843 YESIDE ENIOLA SOYINKA

845 CAROLINE ABISOLA OLOMO

847 GODDY UCHECHUKWU EZEONYEKA 848 THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH IN NIGERIA 849 DANIALU THOMPSON 850 YUSUF OLAJIDE 851 WINIFRED OYEYEMI 852 BABATUNDE AMUSU 853 ALOYSIUS MADUKA 854 EMMAUEL OJO FAGBEMI 855 SHERIF YUSUF 856 THOMAS ADESINA 857 AGNES UGOCHI ODIRI 858 SURAJUDEEN OLUKAYODE ABDUL 859 VERONICA VICTORIA FALADE 860 ABIODUN EHINMITAN

E 4

B 16

PLOT 17 9 10 10 24

BLOCK 15 28 28 14 25

PLOT 14

BLOCK 64

POT 944C

BLOCK 33

861 ADESOKAN TAJUDEEN KOSEMANI LAGOS STATE 862 ELIZABETH OLUWAREMILEKUN BANKOLE 863 ELIZABETH KEMI FASHANU 864 NIMOTAASANI 865 EDWIN ONUGHA 866 MUSIBAU AJANI ALAWODE 867 NEWTON OLU AKINTOMIDE 868 SANSON OLADIMEJI ERINSHO 869 JOHN KOLAWOLE BANKOLE 870 GEORGE MODUPE ADETIMIRIN

SURULERE SCHEME 811 812

841 OLUWOLE OLUMAKINDE FAMUYIWA 842 CECILIAADEOLA OSISAMI

846 SAMUEL ADEYEMI ADEDOYIN

PARK VIEW SCHEME 784

839 CHRISTIANA OLUFUNMILAYO BALOGUN 840 GANIAT ADEOLAABIKE ADEYEMI

844 NUSIRATU ADEOLA AGELE 636 256

30 15

JALUPON EXTENSION

BLOCK 59 5 57 93 50 98 86 24 3 20 12 65 10 6 45

3 6 8 16

43 6 3

PLT 21 23

BLK 5 5

PLT 47

BLK 10

DAIRY FARM RESIDENTIAL SCHEME

88 63

VICTORIA ISLAND 782 783

IGBOGBO MILLENIUM

PLOT 28 11 24B 15 11 17 5 57 64 76 96 16 5 12 5

871 JOY CHIDI NWOSU

9

EGBE TOWN VIA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE DARAMOLA STREET AKOWONJO IKJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE EJIGBO TOWN NEAR ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE OGUDU ON AGBOYI ROAD IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IGBEDE RD OJO IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OLABISI ST EGBE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE IDIMU TOWN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AKINTOLA STREET KETU SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT NO 62 EMMANUEL HIGH STREET OJOTA IN KOSOFE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT THOMAS LANIYAN ESTATE AJEGUNLE ALONG IKORODU RD IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IFOSHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO TOWN IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT GBENU AMOSU STREET,OFF TOLULOPE STREET AJARA,IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKINFEMI SAVAGE,OFF ADEBAYO STREET, FAGBA IN IFAKO/IJAIYE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OLUFEMI STREET EJIGBO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG DANIEL ODARHOWO STREET EJIGBO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ONIREKE VILLAGE OPPOSITE ARMY BARRACKS OJO IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE AIYEDERE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IFAKO ANIPELE AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN TOWN NEAR ISOLO ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN TOWN VILLAGE IKEJA AREA OF ARIDA VILLAGE IKOTUN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT TEDI VILLAGE, VIA OJO IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA VIA ISOLO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AKINRINLO STREET,IDIMU TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE THOMAS OLANIYAN ESTATE AJEGUNLE VILLAGE NEAR OWODE ONIRIN RD SOMOLU IDIMU TOWN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO ALIMOSHO LOCAL GOVT AREA OF LAGOS STATE ONDO CLOSE/ODO OLOWU STREET IJESHATEDO ITIRE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE EJIGBO TOWN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE

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AT EJIGBO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE OWODUNNI STREET EGBE IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 874 OMOBOLANE ADEGBORO FIDIREMI AGIDI VILLAGE KETU 875 FREDERICK UBACHUKWU OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 876 OAUL IREGBEYEN AKHIDENOR SABO ONIBA VIA OJO IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 877 MR & MRS SUNDAY DUMNOI AT AJANGBADI OFF LAGOS BAGAGRY EXPRESS RD IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 878 EMMANUEL OLADIMEJI BECKLEY AJANGBADI BLOCK XL ON FAMOSA ESTATE IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 879 BENSON SUNDAY ONUOGU OKOTA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 880 ABIODUN EMMANUELLA AISIEN KEMBERI VIA OKOMAIKO OJO AREAOF LAGOS STATE 881 ADEGBOLUGA OLUSEGUN ADENUGA ATALAGBADO IN IKEJAAREAOF LAGOS STATE 882 JOHN OKWEGWALI BASS MUSA AJANGBADI VILLAGE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 883 ODUOYE JIMOH ADEBAYO IGANDO ROAD IKOTUN VILLAGE IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 884 PAUL OLUWOLE OGUNSANYA KETU SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 885 GODWIN ADEBIYI AGHORUNSE IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 886 OLAYEYEAJAYI OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 887 JULIUS OMOBORIOWO AINA IDIMU TOWN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 888 EMMANUEL OLUWOLE OGUNJIMI EJIGBOTOWN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 889 MR & MRS JULIUS AGBORTOKUNO AJANGBADI VILLAGE IN BADAGRY AREA OF AROGULA LAGOS STATE 890 RACHEAL ADENIKE FAKUNLE AT OKE-OGBERE OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 891 ODUNTAYO OLUWOLE ODUJOKO IKOTUN AGEGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 892 ISAIAH ABIMBADE OYEMAKINDE AJANGBADI VILLAGE IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 893 KENNETH KEVIN DAKLU MOWO VILLAGE IN BADAGRYAREA OF LAGOS STATE 894 OLARENWAJU BABATUNDE TAIWO EGBE VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 895 STEPHEN EDIGBUE OKORO SABO ONIBA VILLAGE VIA OJO OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 896 JOSEPH ADETAYO OGUNKOYA AT EGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 897 SULAIMON KAYODE OLAIYA EGBE IDIMU ROAD IDIMU TOWN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 898 OLA MORUFU SUNMOLA AT MILE 12, KETU IN KOSOFE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 899 BARHLOMEW AKANNI KUSORO IKOTUN VILLAGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 900 MUFUTAU OLUSEGUN HAZEEZ AGBAJE AT BOSEDE ODEKUNLE STREET OLD AKUTE ROAD OFF NDIKE STREET AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

901 RAFIU SHODIYA 902 CHRISTOPHER OKOYE OTI 903 BEASON C. MORAH 904 MODUPE FOLORUNSO SHANSI

EGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ILEMBA HAUSAVIA OJO TOWN IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE

ILUFUNMI STREET EJIGBO TOWN OSHODI / ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 905 ELIZABETH OMOIGHO AIR AT OLUDE VILLAGE VIA IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 906 WELLINGTON OLUSOJI AT AYOBO VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 907 SAKAAJIBADE AT IKOTUN VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 908 IBIWUNMI OLALABI OMOLOLU OJO ,OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 909 BENSON CHUKWUMA MORAH OKOTA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 910 TAIWO DAVIES ALONG EJIGBO RD,OFF POWERLINE IDIMU,VIA ISHERI OLOFIN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 911 SAMUEL KOLAWOLE AKINWEHINMI OWORONSHOKI VILLAGE IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 912 MILTON URHOBOBURE OF EJIGBO TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OBRUKWEJA OF LAGOS STATE 913 RAPHEAL NWOCA EZEAGU AT AIYEGUN AND OMOBODA IFOSHI FAMILY EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 914 FATAI OLAITAN ONAPAJO OPELOYERU STREET /FOLARANMI STREET EGBE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 915 HERBERT OBIADUNMA EMESIE AT RABIU STR, SABO ONIBA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 916 ISAIAH ILESANMI IDOWU IJANIKIN VILLAGE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 917 LYDIA DURODOLA OSINUBI AT FASANYA STREET, KETU IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 918 CHRISTIAN NWAFOR UDEH ALONG OWOLABI STREET OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 919 NURUDEEN AKINSOLA ADEBAYO ALONG IGBEDE ROAD ILEMBA HAUSA VIA AJANGBADI IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 920 OKEY IGBOANUGO ALONG CHRIS IDOWU OLADIPO STR, ON IFOSHI FAMILY LAND EJIGBO TOWN OSHODI/ ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 921 ATIEMORIA GODWILL MUSAAGBONENI ALONG IKOTUN IDIMU ROAD/PRINCESS ABIOLA ADENIYI STR IDIMU TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 922 JAMIU YAKUBU ONAOPEPO ALONG AKAMSON STR, OFF AGIDI RD ALAPERE KETU IN KOSOFE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 923 ALOYSIUS UDEMADU OFF ABARANJE ROAD,IKOTUN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 924 ABIGAIL OLATOUN LADEINDE ALONG OGO-OLUWATEDO STR,IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 925 MARY WURAOLOAAJIBOYE AT OKOTA NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 926 ANTHONY ADEBISI BADEJO IFOASHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO TOWN

927 JOSEPH OLAYIWOLE AFOLABI 928 SIMEON OLU OKUSANYA 929 GABRIEL UMOERA OSEGHALE 930 VICTORIA IBIRONKE 931 RASHEED EMIDA 932 ODUNOLAAJIBOLA ROWAIYE 933 ADEBAYO IDOWU AKINOLA 934 ELIZABETH MOLARAALLEN 935 LINUS UZOCHUKWU AND LEONA UZOCKUKWU 936 ADEGBOYEGAAJAYI 937 AUGUSTINE KOLAWOLE FRANCISCO 938 MARY OHAERI 939 MUDRAKAT OLUMUYIWA KUKOYI 940 ZACCHAEUS ESEMOKAI 941 CHARLES OKWDILI IHEAKA 942 GANIYU AHMED 943 BELLO SULE 944 SIKIRU AFOLABI BANKOLE 945 WINIFRED OYEYEMI 946 ONYEMACHI NWOHU 947 ADEKUNLE OLATOYE ADELEYE 948 FATAI ADENIYI 949 ELIZABETH DESOUZA 950 SEKINAT ADEBISI OGUNNUSI 951 MATTHIAS OLUWOLE OLUYINKA 952 GRACE ADENIKE AKINFE 953 NURENI AKOREDE MOJEED 954 AMUSA MICHAEL 955 OLADELE HUBAIDAT KAZEEM 956 JOSEPH OLARENWAJU OKE-OWO 957 OYEPEJU MOFOLUWASO OLALOYE 958 FOWOBI ENTERPRISES LIMITED 959 SULAIMON ISHOLA ILESANMI 960 ORE THEOPHILUS OREKOYA 961 GBOLAHON OSHOBA 962 OMODOLAPO ADUNOLA OLOKODE 963 JULIANAARIONOLA MUNIS 964 OLUFEMI OGUNSEITAN 965 DAUDA OLADENI SALAUDEEN 966 SUNDAY ADEMOLA OGUNBOWALE 967 MUHIBAT ONIKEPE ODUNMBAKU 968 MR & MRS OLUYEMI ABAYOMI 969 CHIEF (MRS) CECILIA OLAYINKA BANKOLE 970 BOSEDE KUSORO

MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN ROAD IKOTUN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN TOWN OFF ABARANJE ROAD IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE YUSUF STREET EJIGBO TOWN VIA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ATEGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE SABO ONIBA IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE LAND AT IPAJAAGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE OFF OKE OGBERE ROAD OKE-OGBERE OKOTA IN OSHODI AREA OF LAGOS STATE OJO STREET SHASHA IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG NIYI ONILARI STREET OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IPAJA VILLAGE IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ALHAJI WAIDI ABIOLA STREET IDIMU TOWN IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE EJIGBO TOWN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG EGBE ROAD, IKOTUN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OGEDENGBE STREET KETU IN SHOMOLU (NOW KOSOFE) AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT ISOSHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO TOWN IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT EBITEH UTOMI/OGUNDELE STR, OLUDE VILLAGE NEAR IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG CHURCH STREET/ANU OLUWAPO STREET, ISHERI IN IKEJA DIVISION (NOW KOSOFE ) AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AGOYI VILLAGE ALAPERE KETU IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE IPAJA TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE PLOT 8 BLOCK C OLORUMBE PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT LIMITED IKOTUN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE ITIRE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT NIHINLOLAWA ST ORILE IGANMU IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AGO OKOTA VIA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALAPERE KOSOFE OSHOGUN KETU IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT AKOWONJO VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE LAISU ROAD/KOLAWOLE STREET IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT IKOTUN VILLAGE IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGBE VILLAGE MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE ALONG OKURIBIDO STREET, ITIRE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE EGBE TOWN ISOLO IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE IKOTUN VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE SHASHA OGUNTADE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT OYEBODE/THOMAS ANIMASHAUN STREET AGUDA MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. IKOTUN TOWN IN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE ODUTAYO STREET OJOTA IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE AT KEMBERI VILLAGE RD OKOMAIKO IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE AJARATOPABADAGRYAREAOF LAGOS STATE

IKOTUN VILLAFE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 971 BOLANLE AJOSE AT AJALA STREET EGBE NEAR IDIMU IN IKEJA NOW ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 972 JOKOTADE MOUSURAT SHONIBARE AT AJOKE ODUNAYO STREET, IFOSHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN NOW OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 973 JOEL IDOWU OLUWADERE AT IDIMU VILLAGE IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 974 CHERUBIN AND SERAPHIN CHURCH EGBE TOWN VIA ISOLO IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 975 DOTUN OLASODE IDIMU TOWN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 976 ALHAJI ISAMOI OGUNBADEJO ALAPERE ROAD KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 977 BAMIDELE OLUMUYIWA OKEOWO AJEGUNLE OFF IKORODU ROAD SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 978 ADEGBOLA MAJIYAGBE IPAJAAGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 979 RICHARD ENUGWURE ESIOVWA IJU ROAD, IJU STATION AGEGE, AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE

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IDIMU ALONG EJIGBO ROAD AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 982 JOHN OKWEGWALI BASS MUSA MEBAMU VILLAGE NEAR OKOMOMAIKO OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 983 SABAINAH IYABO OMOKRI OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 984 CAROLINE ABISOLA OLOMO IDIMU TOWN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 985 SHEWU AREMU BABATUNDE HAMMED OWODE ONIRIN IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 986 GILBERT ADEYEMI SOBANJO IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 987 CHRISTOPHER OKOYE OTI AT ILEMBAHAUSA VIAOJO TOWN IN OJOAREA OF LAGOS STATE 988 MORENIKE EGBAYELO OJO ONIBA VILLAGE IGBEDE ROAD IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 989 ANDREW UJIALELE AT IJEGUN EGBA BEHIND SATELLITE TOWN BADAGRY LOCAL GOVT. 990 LOOKMAN SHOKUNBI IGANDO/IKOTUN TOWN NEAR IDIMU AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 991 MR & MRS RAHEEM ALLI BALOGUN OJO, OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 992 AKANNI OLUFEMI SORUNGBE AT IDIMU ALIMOSHO IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 993 OLADAPO OSHINUSI ALONG ALOR STREET IN OSHODI ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 994 ISAAC OLUKAYODE OGUNADE AT IJESHATEDE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS 995 CLEMENTINA UBAKU MORAH OKOTA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 996 RAPHAEL OJO OLABISI IPAJA TOWN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 997 JOSEPH AKINWANDE FADIORA AT AGIDI VILLAGE NEAR KETU IKORODU ROAD IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 998 TAIWO ODUSOTE AT IKOTUN TOWN IN AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 999 NATHANAEL AKANNI FASHOLA EGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1000 OLUYEMISI PEJU ADEROGBA ATAGO-OKOTA ISOLO IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1001 TAJEDEED OMOBOWALE TIJANI OSHOGUN VILLAGE KETU IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1002ISSA IYANDA DADA POPOOLA ALONG CANAL AVENUE OKOTA IN OSHODI/ ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1003FRANK ADEBAYO AINA AT OKOTA VIA ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1004ADELAJA TITILAYO TALABI ALONG ADEMOLA TAIWO STREET IKOSI KETU IN SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1005SAMUEL OLAYIWOLA OYEYEMI AT IFOSHI FAMILY EST. EJOGBO TOWN IN OSHODI/ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1006MARGARET OLUYEMISI AFOLAYAN ALONG ERA ILE ROAD, ERA VILAGE, OFF LAGOS / BADAGRY EXPRESS WAY IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1007ELIZABETH OLUFUNMILAYO AT ASIPA OKUN KWEME IN BADAGRY AREA MEKWUNYE OF LAGOS STATE 1008BENJAMIN ASIONVI BABATUNDE AJARA DOKO BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS LAWSON STATE 1009OLUFUNMILAYO OYEBOLA ALONG OKIKI STREET,OKOTA ISOLO IN MUSHIN (NOW OSHODI ISOLO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1010 FUNMILOLA ADEBANJO AT OWODE ONIRIN IN SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1011 OLAYIWOLAALARA AT IKOTUN TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 1012 OLUKAYODE OKERINDE AGEMOWO VILLAGE VIA BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1013 STEPHEN AREMU DOSUNMU EGBE TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1014 SAMSON ABIKOYE AT ORILE IGANMU IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1015 RASAKI FASHORO OLUDE VILLAGE OFF IPAJA ROAD AGEGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 1016 ADEOLA OGUNADE EGBE TOWN MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1017 SAMUEL TAYO OLANIPEKUN OGUNJOBI STREET IGBOJILA IPAJA IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1018 ELIZABETH OHEARI EJIGBO TOWN NEAR ISOLO IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1019 SUNDAY LAWRENCE ADEKOYA AT EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1020 YEKINI TAYO YINUSA AGIDIFIDIREMI AREAALAPERE KETU SHOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1021 SAMUEL AYODEJI ARIJE SABO ONIBA VIA OJO BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1022 JOSEPH FOLORUNSHO AFOLABI IKOTUN TOWN IN IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE

ALONG IKOTUN STREET AJANGBADI VILLAGE OFF LAGOS/BADAGRY EXR ROAD IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1024 SUNDAY ADEYEMI FAKILE PLOT 17 BLOCK 39 LAGOS NORTH WEST RES. SCHEME IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 1025 ABUDULAHI ATANADAAROWOSAYE OROLEYE STREET AJANGBADI VILLAGE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1026 JOHN ENI IFOSHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1027ELIZABETH OLUFUNMILAYO LAGOS BADAGRY EXPRESS WAY MOROGBO MEKWUNYE VILLAGE IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1028 EMMANUEL ODUNAYO EJIDE AT EJIGBO TOWN NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1029 AJOKE OMOLARA OGUNYALE IKOTUN VILLAGE AGEGE AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1030 FOLAKE ADEYENI OGUNSOLA AT OKOKOMAIKO VILLAGE IN BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1031 DOLAPO ADUKE FALOLA IDIMU TOWN IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1032 ADEPEJU LAWANSON EGAN LAGOS NORTH WEST PLOT 7 BLOCK 70 IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1033 GANIYU IYANDA BELLO BALE STREET ILASAMAJA MUSHIN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1034 JACKSON MORURE YAGBA OKOMAIKO AREA BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1035 AKINLOYE OLUSOJI OYELAKUN EJIGBO IN IKEJA LAGOS STATE 1036 MUHAMMED NURUDEEN YUSUFF EJIGBO TOWN NEAR ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1037 SIMBIATU ANIKE ADENIRAN IFOSHI FAMILY ESTATE EJIGBO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1038 OLATUNDUN ABEKE OMOSAIYE AT IKOTUN NEAR ISOLO IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1039 SALAMI OLOYEDE OJO ALABA MARKET RD OJO TOWN OJO LOCAL GOVT. 1040OMOLABAKE GBEMISOLA OPAKUNLE ALONG KAYODE BELLO STREET OFF CELESTIAL ROAD IGANDO IN ALIMOSHO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1041 PHILIP OLUYEMI OLALEYE IPAJA VILLAGE IKEJAAREA OF LAGOS STATE 1042 BRAIMOH ADEYEMO AT ADEDEJI STREET, ITIRE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1043 OLORUNWA BALOGUN EJIGBO TOWN MUSJIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1044 TAORIDI ADISA ODUKOYA MILE 12 IKORODU ROAD SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1045 AKPAN DUFF BASSEY AT SABO ONIBA IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1046 FELIX OBAFEMI AKOMOLAFE ALONG UREN EJIGBO ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1047 IDOWU ADE OWOSENI IDIMU IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1048 ADEMOLA CORNELIUS ODUKOMAIYA ODUNTAN AVENUE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1049 AKIN OLOJO OKOTA MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1050 JANET MOFOLORUNSHO KANU AGIDI ROAD ALAPERE KETU SOMOLU AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1051 PATRICK CHUKWU IKOTUN TOWN NEAR IDIMU IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1052 STELLA TUNDUN OJOMO OKOTA ISOLO MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1053 TAIBATU OLUFUNSHO ALAO ANGANKA FAMILY LAND EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1054TROPICAL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ALONG BADAGRY/SEME EXPRESS LIMITED ROAD AJARA TOPAAREA BADAGRY LAGOS 1055 HAZEEZ MUHAMMED GIWA 9 OLORUNTOYIN STREET ABULE OKUTA BARIGA SHOMOLU LAGOS 1056 SAMUEL OLUKUNLE AJANI AT EGBE IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1057 NURAINI OLAKUNLE LAWAL AGO OKOTA IN MUSHIN AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1058 ADOLPHUS OLUFEMI BANJO ORESILE AT MEBAMU VILLAGE ALONG BADAGRY EXPRESS RD IN OJO AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1059 ABIGAEL RUNSEWE ILESANMI MUSHIN LOCAL GOVT. 1060 OLAYIDE OPEODU AT TONNY ADIALE STREET EGBE TOWN NEAR ISOLO IKEJA 1061 JOSEPH EGUNBIYI IDIMU/IKOTUN ROAD IKEJA AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1062 AMBROSE ENU AT ROTIMI SIKIRU/ALAFIA STREET, EJIGBO TOWN IN MUSHIN ( NOW OSHODI ISOLO) AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1063 CHRISTOPHER OBI AMUWO KUJE VILLAGE APAPAAFEGUNLE AWORI-AJEROMI DISRICT BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE 1064 JOSEPH OYEBANJI AKANBI KEMBERI OKOKOMAIKO BADAGRY AREA OF LAGOS STATE

NOTE: Members of the public are hereby again reminded to take formal approach to verify the status of any landed property before consummating the transaction. They should endavour to always obtain land information from Surveyor-General’s Office and ensure proper validation of titles from the StateLand Registry. This is to alert members of the public against the act of individuals, families and communities who engage in the widespread indiscriminate and illegal sale of Government land.

Signed:

BODE AGORO Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau

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MONEYLINK

Naira up 2.79% after JP Morgan bond moves

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HE one-year non-deliverable forwards (NDF) on naira rose 2.79 per cent to 268.50 yesterday, a day after a surprise move by JP Morgan to eject Nigeria from its government bond index, Thomson Reuters data showed.

Currency forwards, a derivative product used to hedge against future exchange rate moves, reflect expectations of a weaker naira: One-year NDFs priced the naira at 268.5 per dollar, while it traded at N261.01 shortly after the index announcement.

JP Morgan late on Tuesday said it will remove Nigeria from its Government Bond Index (GBI-EM) by the end of October, after warning

•Borrowing cost to rise Stories by Collins Nweze

that government’s currency controls were making transactions too complicated.

The naira is trading at a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) pegged rate of 197 to the dollar. On the black market, the currency firmed to 221 compared with 223 the previous day after the apex bank sold $80 million to bureaux de change operators, Aminu Gwadabe, President of Nigeria’s bureaux de change association said.

In a move that came earlier in the year than expected, JP Morgan said late on Tuesday, it would remove the bond listings be-

longing to Nigeria by the end of October, forcing fund managers to sell Nigerian bonds, which might raise the country’s borrowing costs.

But Nigeria said it disagreed with JP Morgan’s decision to phase it out of its emerging government bond index (GBI-EM), arguing that it was already improving liquidity and transparency in the currency market despite a huge drop in global crude prices since last June.

In a statement signed by the country’s Finance Ministry, Central Bank and Debt Management Office, the apex bank said it had ensured that all genuine dollar demand, were met especially from foreign investors.

Fidelity Bank appoints executive directors

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HE Board of Directors of Fidelity Bank Plc has announced the appointment of two new Executive Directors.

The appointments, the lender said in a statement, is part of efforts aimed at restructuring and strengthening its executive management team and convert emerging business to opportunities.

Managing Director/CEO of the Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, said the new appointments are part of the bank’s strategies to support strong growth plans and capacity building efforts. He expressed confidence that the new directors will bring on board their wealth of experience to

strengthen and reposition the bank for improved performance and new customer experience.

The new Executive Directors whose appointments took effect from September 3, 2015 are: Adeyeye Olawale Adepegba, Executive Director, Corporate Banking and Nneka Chinwe Onyali- Ekpe, Executive Director, Lagos and South West Bank.

Adepegba, holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Merit) a Masters Degree in Industrial & Labour Relations (MILR), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in

History from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Nneka Chinwe OnyealiIkpe- Executive Director, Lagos and South West Bank, has extensive industry experience in Retail/Commercial Treasury and Corporate Banking spanning over 24 years, having at various times, held middle, senior and executive management positions.

Prior to her appointment, she was an Executive Director at Enterprise Bank where she successfully set up the Retail Banking Group, using the segmentation framework with a Risk Asset portfolio in excess of N5 billion within one year.

Abia payroll scheme saves N300m HE Abia State Government has saved over N300 million nearly three months since it began implementing the Integrated Payroll Verification process started by its Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, to rid the state of ghost workers.

The Special Adviser, Economic Affairs to the Governor, Obinna Oriaku, said the Integrated Payroll Verification process is yielding positive results.

“In the month of May government was able to save N160 million from ghost workers. The summary of the state savings for both the month of May and June in salary payment stood at over

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N300 million.”

Speaking further on the condition of salary payment in the state, Oriaku said, “We have paid all for the three months we are in charge while the bailout fund will be used to offset arrears.”

According to him, “We had arrears before we came in.

We started from when we came in which is May, June and July. We took over on May 29th. There is no way we could have paid that same May, so we paid May in June, June in July and then July in August. The bailout fund will be used to take out all outstanding salaries and pension that we met on ground.”

The effect, according to Oriaku, was being felt by the State civil servants. “Please note that civil servants now take it for granted that they all will be paid at the end of every month… All the institutions in the state are back to work, while streetlight is back at Umuahia town.”

Recently, health workers in the State, under the aegis of Joint Union of Health Workers (JOHESU), protesting unpaid salary arrears, suspended their five-month-old strike, following a meeting of the State leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Governor Ikpeazu, who assured them that he would soon pay them their arrears.

Ecobank Foundation, WACP tackle THE Ecobank Founda- malaria, others tion, along with two of features leadership training

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its partners, the West African College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (London) have launched the second year strategic partnership drive to reduce the impact of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Millennium Development Goal Six Partnership for African Clinical Training, also known by the acronym ‘MPACT,’ is a three-year project sponsored by the Ecobank Foundation, and managed by the West African College of Physicians together with the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Through helping to build local capacity, the project supports member countries of the West African College of Physicians in tackling HIV, tuber-

culosis and malaria. In the first year of the partnership, the project delivered three clinical training courses, one each in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal.

The cities were Ibadan, Accra and Dakar, respectively. The project trained 94 doctors in total, while two ‘Doctors as Educators’ courses were organised in Ibadan and Accra, aimed at raising the skills of local trainers.

The second year of the overall programme began today with the first course of Year 2 starting off in Ibadan, Nigeria. The programme has enabled doctors in the region to become better equipped to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the challenging conditions of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. The course also

for outbreak investigations, given the Ebola crisis that gripped parts of West Africa in the earlier part of 2015.

Senior faculty of the West African College of Physicians deliver the courses in collaboration with UK-based consultant volunteers from the Royal College of Physicians.

Course participants in the first year came not only from the capital regions of the three countries but six regions in Ghana, six Nigerian states and 10 regions in Senegal. Doctors were invited to these courses and given the opportunity to share course material widely with clinicians in their home setting, to ensure further dissemination of course knowledge.

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Seven family members die in night fire

Man electrocuted at Isolo

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MIDDLE-AGED man has been electrocuted in Jakande near Oke Afa Isolo in Lagos.

An eyewitness, who gave her name as Medinah said the man and two others wanted to use a stick to raise an electric cable because of the height of the container they were conveying on a trailer marked BFG298XD. She said: “It threw him and he hit his head on a pavement. As he tried to escape, his leg got stuck in the trailer”.

Lagos State Fire Service Director Razak Fadipe Director said the man’s head hit the cable when he climbed the trailer.

•Lone survivor hospitalised

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EVEN members of a family of eight were killed on Tuesday night when fire razed their self-contain apartment in Surulere, Lagos Mainland.

The fire was caused by candlelight while the family was asleep.

The lone survivor Chidinma (8) is lying critically ill in hospital.

The dead are Kelechi Onoja, 28, his wife, Nkiru, 18, two children Favour, 2 and her three-week-old brother.

Others are the late Onoja’s mother-in-law Mrs Okezie and her visiting two relatives.

A neighbour, Uzor Alajemba, said he heard shouts of “help!” “help!!” “help!!!” from the apartment, adding that when he came out, smoke had filled the whole compound.

He said: “I brought my family out of the house and called neighbours who alerted the fire fighters. I don’t how it happened. I just rescued my family.”

Another resident, Tony Anslem said other tenants didn’t raise the alarm on time,noting that by the time fire fighters arrived, it was too late to rescue them.

“We heard noise but we couldn’t rescue them because there was a burglarproof at the entrance of the house. Nkiru’s mother was found burnt at the entrance of the door while trying to escape and the others were found on a mattress inside the room,” he said.

The late Onoja’s sister, Obioma, in tears, said: “I live in Onipanu and I got the information this morning (yesterday), I was still happy that the house was burnt and not that they died until I got

I’m a drug dealer, says blind man

•The burnt building ... yesterday

By Joseph Jibueze •Chindima at the hospital ... yesterday

•The late Onoja

By Basirat Braimah

here. I don’t know what to do ooo! I am in shock. He is my younger brother. See the way my brother died.”

Christiana Faleti, a resident, who took Chidinma to the hospital said: “Even before I came out, neighbours were busy pouring water from the ceiling because no one could access the entrance because of the burglar-proof. We rescued the girl from the toilet after the fire was put out; a fire service official heard someone cough and sadly we saw a burnt little girl almost lifeless. The Lagos State Ambulance came to carry her and we took her to Gbagada General Hospital, around 3am, but on getting there, she wasn’t admitted because we had no money. So we

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•Sympathizers at the scene ... yesterday

came back home and neighbours gathered almost N50, 000 for her. I was scared.

Her face has roasted. As a mother, I feel her pains.”

The late Mrs Onoja’s brother, Michael Okezie, said their mother was to return to the village yesterday after babysitting her grandchild for a month.

“Kelechi is my sister’s husband and we hail from Enugu State. He sells curtain materials on Lagos Island. I am sad. Why is it only their building that burnt? Why did the neighbours run away? These are questions I haven’t found answers to.

Our mother went to the market on Tuesday to buy things for yesterday’s journey. We planned to see the baby this Sunday. There is more to this. Why didn’t they rescue them? Why?” he wondered

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in tears.

Baale of Surulere, Kareem Awoyemi, said he learnt the tenants were not in good terms with the Onojas even before the incident.

“They were not in talking terms with their neighbours; does that mean they shouldn’t rescue them. None of them came out. All of them ran away. I was informed around 3am that they needed money to treat the survivor, which I contributed. The building is over 23 years and we have never had such incident before. It is painful,” Awoyemi said.

Another resident Ejike Eke-Opara said: “The fire was caused by candlelight because their light was disconnected few days ago because they couldn’t afford the prepaid meter. They were the only ones without light

UNILAG student electrocuted

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NIVERSITY of Lagos (UNILAG) students took to the streets yesterday following Tuesday’s electrocution of their colleague.

Miss Oluchi Anekwe, a 300level Accounting student, was electrocuted when a high-tension cable fell on her at the entrance of New Hall, a female hostel.

She was returning from a lecture.

The late Oluchi was described as a brilliant student, who could graduate with a First Class, because of her high Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).

Eye witnesses said Oluchi died on the spot, because help did not come on time. The school’s fire fighters evacuated her body from the scene.

The cable was said to have dropped from a pole close to the hostel and fallen on the late Oluchi, who was walking into the hostel at the time.

The protesters, led by the Students Union Government

By Wale Ajetunmobi, Oluwatoyin Adeleye and Jane Chijioke

(SUG) leaders, moved to the Administrative Building, demanding to see the Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Rahamon Bello. But, he was not around.

All efforts by top management officials to pacify the students failed as they insisted on seeing the VC. Convinced that the VC was not around, the students went to the office of Dean, Students’ Affairs (DSA), Prof Tunde Babawale, who pleaded with them to return to their hostels.

The students accused the management of negligence, saying the cable had sparked severally in the last two weeks.

Matthew Banjo, a student of Faculty of Science, said: “This shows how insensitive the management can be on issues affecting students’ wellbeing.

Members of the management cannot claim they did not have knowledge of the elec-

trical sparks in the last two weeks. Yet, nothing was done because students are living in the hostels. Now, see what their negligence has caused.”

A 200-Level Mathematics student, Michael Osinuga, said all cables in the hostel and academic areas were run underground except those at the New Hall.

“We want the school to ensure the cables are run underground,” he said.

The students regrouped at the school main gate, barricading it to draw attention to the incident.

Addressing them later at the Amphitheatre, Prof Bello described the incident as unfortunate, saying the management had commiserated with the bereaved family.

According to the VC, the cable did not transmit electricity to the school hostel but served the nearby Onike.

He said: “We have written letters to the management of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC) that

and they have been using candle. The occupants of this compound are terrible. Is it because they weren’t in good terms with them that they couldn’t try their best to save them? It didn’t affect the two buildings beside them. This is very strange.”

A security guard, Desmond Mazeli, pleaded with government to take over the building because it was marked two months ago by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). He said since the landlord’s death, the building has been used for all sort of things, including drug trafficking.

The bodies have been deposited in a morgue.

Lagos State Fire Service Director Razak Fadipe appealed to people to desist from using candle in their homes, as it could be very dangerous.

FTER two years in prison without trial, the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced a 21-year-old man, Nura Abdullahi, to five years imprisonment for unlawfully dealing in 62 kilogrammes of marijuana.

He was said to have become blind in custody following his arrest on March 19, 2013 at Ezewanta Motor Park at Ijora, Lagos.

He pleaded guilty when he was arraigned on September 3.

Justice Mohammed Yunusa said the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

The five-year prison term, the judge said, took effect from the day the convict was arrested.

The judge ordered that the banned narcotic recovered from him be destroyed.

Alumni meet

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HE Olabisi Onabanjo University Law Alumni/Alumnae Association will meet on Saturday at Arowolo Adeyemo Avenue, Millennium Estate, Gbagada-Lagos.

According to the group’s Interim President, Dr Fassy Yusuf, the meeting which will be hosted by Mr Rotimi Odusola, will ratify its constitution and strategic plan, among other issues slated for consideration.

Lagos to curb crime with sports

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•The late Anekwe owns those cables to run them underground, but they did not comply. Because of this unfortunate incident, we will not allow further power transmission power through the bad cables to prevent another tragedy.”

The Public Relations Officer, Mr Goke Oke, in a statement, said the management had paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family.

Oke said the management had instructed the electrical company to de-energise the cable immediately to prevent another tragedy.

AGOS State Deputy Governor Dr Idiat Adebule has identified sports as veritable tools for crime reduction.

Sports, she said, remained an avenue to develop the young and encourage social integration.

Mrs Adebule said efforts were on to reduce crime, adding that attention will be paid to the provision of modern sports facilities and encouragement of young sports men and women.

She spoke while receiving members of the Green Team Nigeria, an international basketball organisation that promotes the development of the game among children in the country.

She hailed the team for doing Nigeria proud at an international competition held in Matera, Italy.

The deputy governor urged the team not to rest on its oars, but to strive for excellence in basketball, pledg-

By Tajudeen Adebanjo

ing government’s support for the group and related groups committed to the development of the sporting prowess of children, especially of Lagos extraction.

Green Team Nigeria president Jerry Frankie Aigbede described the group as the first African team to participate at the competition since its inception in 1993.

The children, he said, were delighted to participate at the competition, which he said exposed them to the culture of other countries.

He enjoined government at all levels to see sports as a development strategy for youths.

“In order to address the societal disadvantage, marginalisation and discouragement which the youths face today, government at all levels must use sports to take youths out of their present state of despair to sporting greats,” Aigbede said.

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NEWS

Thugs steal Sokoto teachers’ N1m salary

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NE million naira for the payment of the August salary of 53 primary school teachers in Sokoto State has allegedly been stolen by suspected thugs in Isa Local Government Area.

The incident followed an attack on the Education Officer of Bargaja area of the local government, Alhaji Umar Kwambe.

The education officer told reporters that some thugs, allegedly sponsored by the District Head of Isa, Alhaji Nasir Ahmed, stole the cash

From Adamu Suleiman, Sokoto

last Saturday.

He said the hoodlums set his room on fire with the intention to burn him to death and go away with the money.

Kwambe said: “They (thugs) attacked me and set my room on fire. They prevented me from escaping from the room and, in the process, took away the money.

“The money was meant for the payment of teachers’

salaries, ranging from N10,000 to N60,000.”

A resident, Alhaji Sani Dallatu, accused Ahmed’s younger brother, Alhaji Aliyu Sarkin-Yamma, of spearheading the attack.

He said: “This led to the destruction of his (Kwambe’s) vehicle and the smashing of the windows of his house.”

But some residents absolved the community leader of wrongdoing.

Sarkin-Yamma, who is also the village head of Tsabre in the area, described the allegations as “lies, baseless and

Fayose expresses shock at workers’ lateness

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KITI State Governor Ayo Fayose yesterday visited the Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) and discovered that more than half of the workers were yet to report for duty at 9am.

The governor, who said he would no longer tolerate lateness to work, condemned the workers’ attitude despite efforts by the government to pay their salaries.

Fayose, who had earlier sent a team to assess workers’ punctuality,

•Threatens sanction

‘Spread the message to everybody that we will no longer tolerate poor attitude to work’ From Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado Ekiti

warned civil servants that “many people are outside waiting in the wings to take

over their jobs.”

He said: “The team got there and as at almost 9am, more than half of the workers were yet to resume, including some directors.

This is really bad. We are doing our best to make everybody comfortable and we want you to reciprocate the gesture.

“Spread the message to everybody that we will no longer tolerate poor attitude to work. I know you love me, but love your job also and don’t play with it.

There are many people outside waiting to come and take over your job.”

Poly ignores court order on sacked workers

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HE sacked workers of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo , Ondo State, are yet to be reinstated two months afer Akure Appeal court gave judgment in their favour, it was learnt yesterday.

On June 26, the court ordered the reinstatement of 15 of the 32 sacked workers after two years of legal battle.

It based its ruling on a suit by the workers’ lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on the fact that 15 of them were wrongfully sacked.

But the polytechnic, which relieved the workers of their jobs on January 1, 2013, based its action

From Leke Akeredolu, Akure

on what it described as “reconstruction of the polytechnic”.

A member of the polytechnic management, who spoke with The Nation in confidence, said the institution received the court order, but it was yet to reinstate the workers because its Governing Council had been dissolved by the government.

He added that it was also difficult for the workers to be reinstated since the institution had no substantive rector, since its former rector, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, was asked

by Governor Olusegun Mimiko to replace his younger brother, Prof.

Femi Mimiko, as the vicechancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA).

A lawyer, who represented Falana at the court, Adedotun Osobu, decried the failure of the polytechnic to reinstate the sacked workers.

Saying the court would force the polytechnic to comply, he cautioned the institution to stop hiding under the fact that its Governing Council had been dissolved.

The polytechnic spokesman Samuel Ojo declined comments on the issue.

PDP shifts Kogi governorship primary

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HE National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the Kogi State governorship primary from today to Monday, September 14.

A statement yesterday in Abuja by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said the postponement was informed

by logistics issues.

The party directed affected members to be so guided.

“The NWC reassures members of the party and other critical stakeholders, particularly the governorship aspirants, of a transparent, credible, free and fair primary,” the statement added.

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HE fifth meeting of the Benue State Executive Council (Exco) resolved yesterday to set up a committee to draw up a comprehensive framework for the implementation of a

culture and Natural Resources; Youth and Sports, as well as Women Affairs.

Also on the committee are: Special Advisers on Ethics and Value Orientation, Media and ICT; Politics, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; Small and Medium Enterprises; Labour and Employment as well as Religion and civil society organisations (CSOs).

The council directed the other Exco committees already set up on various issues to submit their reports on or before the next meeting for action to begin on them.

It reiterated that prominent indigenes would be hosted at a meeting on Septem-

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GROUP, Nigeria Youth Initiative Forum, has hailed the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Prof.

Abdulganiy Ambali, for sustaining academic excellence in the institution since he assumed office in July 2012.

In a statement by its chairman, Sikiru Ayinde Wahaab, and Secretary, Alabi Samuel Olumide, the group noted that Prof. Ambali and his management team had not only sustained the uninterrupted academic calendar of the institution but ensured that the training of youths, worthy in character and learning, was carried out under condusive environment.

The group noted that improvement in infrastructural facilities had not been uncom-

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unfounded”.

The community leader said he and his brother were running the affairs of the area with the fear of God. He said: “We are not afraid of any probe.”

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr Ilyasu Tanko, confirmed receiving a formal complaint from Kwambe and Dallatu.

He said: “We have received these complaints and they are being investigated with a view to finding out the truth.”

N Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 29-year-old man, Morufu Sofoluwe, in prison custody for allegedly raping his nine-year-old neighbour’s daughter and infecting her with HIV. The prosecutor, Sunday Eigbejiale, told the court that the offence was committed sometime in July at Isale-Abetu in Abeokuta.

He said the accused lured the victim, whose parents were his neighbours, into his room and had carnal knowledge of her.

“The nine-year-old girl, who had been ill for a while, was taken to the hospital on August 28.

Tests were carried out and the results indicated that she has HIV. “After questioning, the victim later told her parents that the accused was the one, who defiled her. The accused has also been diagnosed with HIV,’’ the prosecutor said.

He said the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Laws of Ogun, 2006.

The court did not take the plea of the accused.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Anthony Araba, ordered that the accused be remanded in Oba Prison pending the advice by the Director of Public Prosecution.

He adjourned till October 30.

Benue sets up panel on value orientation programme that will positively change the values and orientation of the people.

The council, presided over by Governor Samuel Ortom, took the decision while accepting a memorandum submitted by the Ministry of Information and Orientation.

It noted that the programme should be multisectoral and involve many stakeholders to deliver its goals.

The committee has the Commissioner of Information and Orientation as chairman; his colleagues in the ministries of Arts, Culture and Tourism; Industry, Trade and Investment; Agri-

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ber 18, when the governor would brief them on his activities since assumption of office and give posthumous honours to the late Governors Aper Aka and Moses Adasu.

The council also resolved to hold a special retreat to by addressed by Gbile Akanni, a renowned Gboko-based Bible teacher next Monday and Tuesday.

The meeting directed the Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to address the media on the state of affairs at the Bureau on the challenges with payment of salaries at the local government level.

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HE Kogi State chapter of the Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria (AOPSHON) has honoured Governor Idris Wada with an award of excellence.

The chairman of the association, Comrade Dominic Ondeku, performed the ceremony at a workshop for head teachers.

The union leader said the award was anchored on the achievements of the governor, especially in the prompt payment of salaries and construction of new classrooms in all local government areas.

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NEWS Oshiomhole sacks four commissioners From Osemwengie Ben Ogbemudia, Benin

EDO State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has terminated the appointment of four commissioners.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Prince Kazeem Afegbua, said those affected are: •Chief Lucky James, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; •Mrs. Maigida Blessing, Commissioner for Women Affairs; •Mr. Patrick Aguinede, Commissioner for Basic Education; and •Mr. Chris Ebare, Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources.

Baba-Ahmed heads Bayelsa APC committee From Tony Akowe, Abuja

A FORMER Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, is the chairman of a seven-man committee to screen the 20 aspirants contesting the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary.

Awole Nwoko is its Secretary.

Other members are: Mrs. Kemi Olaaleye, Sunny Adamu, Okon Eket, Bashir Bolalowa and Nonso Nnorom.

Inaugurating the committee, APC Deputy National Chairman, South, Olusegun Oni, assured that the screening would be free, fair and transparent.

Gunmen abduct Dickson’s special adviser , PA From Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa

GUNMEN yesterday abducted the Special Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor on Political Matters, Mr. Fyneman Wilson, and his personal aide, identified simply as Fred.

It was learnt that the gunmen whisked away Wilson, a close associate of Governor Seriake Dickson, from his hometown in Sagbama, Sagbama Local Government Area, at 4am to an unknown place.

The incident occurred a few hours after Dickson, at a well-attended rally, declared his intention to seek re-election on December 5.

The gunmen, who were said to be five, reportedly created panic by shooting sporadically into the air before escaping with their victims.

A government official, who spoke in confidence, said the incident had political coloration, adding that some people were scared of losing the December 5 poll.

The source urged security agencies to rescue the victims unharmed.

Also, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) group, the PDP Youth Vanguard (PYV), urged security agencies to combat crimes across the state.

Seven injured in Effurun hotel collapse

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EVEN persons, including a woman police officer and an aide to the wife of a northern governor, were among the injured when the popular Markaival Hotel, on Refinery Road in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, collapsed yesterday.

It was learnt that the hotel collapsed the way Synagogue of All Nations Church in Okota, a Lagos suburb, crashed in 2014.

The victims were mostly indigenes of other states who were in the town for a ptrogramme at the Christ Mercy Land Church, headed

by Pastor Jeremiah Fufeyin, popularly called the Ijaw T.B. Joshua among his followers.

Although the cause of the collapse could not be ascertained yesterday, Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro, a lawyer and deacon, hinted of a likely structural defect.

Otuaro, who was on the scene at 10:45am, ordered the closure of the hotel and its two-storey’s main wing to avert a recurrence.

He said: “The state government has ordered that the hotel be closed immediately to avert further loss of life.

We are going to send engineers straight away.

“It is possible that there had been some structural defects during construction, because that place seems to be a waterlogged area and, maybe, the proper engineering works were not done.”

Otuaro addressed reporters at the Divine Grace Clinic, where five of the victims, including two brothers and three other men, were being treated.

He regretted the devastation and trauma among some of the lodgers at the hotel, including a lady from Bayelsa State, simply identified as Evangelist Florence. She reportedly spent over seven hours under rub-

•The collapsed Markival Hotel Effurun...yesterday From Shola O’Neil and Bolaji Ogundele, Warri

bles of the hotel.

Stressing that it was not time for buck-passing, Otuaro said competent engineers would be on the site to assess the immediate and remote causes of the collapse.

Our correspondent’s checks revealed that the victims of the collapse were mainly religious pilgrims from outside of Delta State.

The aide to the wife of a northern governor, simply identified as Adeza, told Otuaro that she left Abuja on Tuesday afternoon in search of a solution to some family problems.

The lady, who hails from Agbede, Edo State, said: “I am a Muslim, but I came here to see the man of God. Recently, I lost my elder brother, who was in the Army. So many things have been happening in my family. So, I came here for prayers.”

The lady, who occupied Room 206 before the incident, said heard some voices from under the rubbles when she was rescued.

She hinted that more people could still be trapped underground.

But the hotel management said the seven lodgers in its record were rescued at 11am yesterday.

Another victim, who simply identified herself as Evangelist Florence, told our reporter that she came from Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, for the church programme.

Florence said: “Immediately I got into town, I went to the mountain for prayers. It was after the prayer that I came to the hotel.

“As I was sleeping at 2am, I heard a sound like krakrakra (creaking sound) and everything came down. I tried to unlock my door but I couldn’t; it seemed like the

door was locked from outside. I was under the ground till about 7am when I was rescue.”

A landlord in the neighbourhood, Akpoguma Davis, said he was woken up by the barking of his dogs.

He said: “At 3am my dogs were barking seriously. So, I came out, not knowing they were reacting to the noisy cracks from the first vibration.

“I took a torchlight and went round, wondering if there were robbers lurking.

After three minutes, this whole wing of the building collapsed.

“About seven persons have been rescued alive. I heard one woman shouting: ‘I am Mercy; help me.’ We got her out after four hours.”

Another neighbour, Ayo Ameye, told our reporter that he and others were certain that there were more people under the rubbles because they were hearing calls for

help from beneath the collapsed structure.

Ameye said: “More persons could still be in there. A man on the other side has been in contact on his phone.

The phone probably ran out on battery because we have not been hearing from him anymore. The line has gone dead.”

One of the rescued victims, Benjamin Hosu, said he arrived in Warri from Lagos on Tuesday.

He said: “A colleague and I came to town to execute a project yesterday. We were lodged on the first floor.

Around 3.10am, we heard a noise and thought they were robbers.

“Suddenly, our room went down to the floor. Some rescuers came out with torchlights as we shouted for help.

They started breaking in till they got us out. We have been to the hospital, checked and confirmed okay.”

Port Harcourt hosts final audition of Dance With Peter

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•Former Secretary of Health, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi (left) with CEO of Sujimoto Construction Ltd., Mr Sijibomi Ogundele at the 20th Annual Thisday Awards

ORT Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, also called the Garden City, will today host the final audition for Africa’s hottest reality TV show, Dance with Peter, sponsored by Globacom.

At the audition, the last in the series of five-city auditions, hundreds of dance enthusiasts are expected to fight for the six available slots for the region at the Atrium Event Centre, Stadium Road.

Other auditions have been held in Accra (Ghana), Abuja, Benin and Lagos, all in Nigeria.

The three-man panel of judges for the show - Peter Okoye of PSquare musical group, legendary dancer Kaffy, and dance choreog-

Five Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

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IVE Nigerian pilgrims have died in the Holy land, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) said yesterday.

The Head of Madinah Op-

erations of NAHCON, Dr Bello Tambuwal, told reporters in Madinah that Four of the deceased died in Madinah and one in Macca.

He said NAHCON had es-

tablished two clinics in Madinah to provide medical treatment for the pilgrims.

“The clinics are stock with drugs. We brought some from Nigeria while we bought some here.’’

He also said the commission had not recorded any traffic accident involving a Nigerian pilgrim.

Tambuwal said 46,770 pilgrims had been transported to Saudi Arabia.

rapher Don Flexx - left for Port Harcourt yesterday after concluding the Lagos audition which began on Tuesday morning and lasted into the early hours of yesterday.

The six successful dancers from Port Harcourt will join other contestants selected from the thousands who participated in the audition in the other four cities for the finals in Lagos later this month.

Globacom is offering attractive prizes to winners in the competition.

The best dancer will win a brand new Toyota RAV 4 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), N3 million cash and featuring in PSquare’s next music video.

The first and second runners-up will also receive fantastic prizes.

The first runner-up will get a brand new Honda Civic car and N2 million cash; the third place winner will get a brand new Kia Rio car with N1 million. Both will feature in a top Glo Ambassador’s music videos.

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‘Primary cert not condition for salary payment’

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SUN State government has said primary school leaving certificate was not a condition for the payment of areas of salaries to workers.

The Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Sunday Owoeye, who spoke yesterday in a programme monitored in Osogbo, on the state television, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC), described as mischievous and incorrect, a media report that the state had asked workers to present their primary school certificate before the arrears of salaries would be paid.

The HOS said the circular sent out by the government was not meant for the payment of salaries, but for the monitoring and control within the civil service.

Owoeye said the verification of workers under a normal civil service situation was an exercise that was supposed to be carried out yearly.

Church marks 90th anniversary THE Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria will celebrate its 90 th anniversary on Saturday September 12.

Faithful would converge on Seraphim Land, Maba at Kilometer 40, Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway to celebrate the anniversary.

The thanksgiving service will round off series of soul-winning and philanthropic activities which began with a news conference on August 26, visitation to an orphanage home at Mushin, musical concert, revivals, outdoor evangelism and fund raising for the Moses Orimolade University (MOU), which is under construction at Omu Aran, Kwara State.

Supreme Head, His Eminence, Prophet Solomon Adegboyega Alao will preside over the anniversary thanksgiving service.

• Dr. Musa (middle) presenting Prof. Olayinka... yesterday. With them is Prof. Adewole

Omatseye to students: be professional

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HAIRMAN, Editorial Board of The Nation, Mr. Sam Omatseye has urged journalism and mass communication students to uphold integrity and professionalism in the discharge of their duties.

Omatseye spoke while delivering the first Distinguished Guest Lecture of the School of Communication of the Lagos State University (LASUSOC) yesterday.

The lecture, held at the university’s Surulere campus, was themed: “The Legal

By Oluwatoyin Adeleye

and Ethical Perspectives of the media coverage of the 2015 general election”.

Omatseye condemned the spate of hate advertisements during the campaigns and called on necessary institutions to rise to their tasks of censorship for ethical purposes.

He referred to the seeming quietness of the many media outlets about the fall out of the last administration, especially on the missing Chibok girls and commended the few who stood out through

commentaries, analysis and editorials.

The award-winning writer, poet and author told the students to be careful when upholding their integrity, while seeking to be objective.

“I have not for one day believed that there is anything called objectivity. If a person has stolen and it’s proven, why should I be looking for his own opinion? We must seek genuine posterity of the media,” he said.

Omatseye, who is also a member of the governing council of LASU, advised as-

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piring journalists to pay attention to details and verify facts to avoid deception in the sensitive profession.

“The reporter has to decide anytime he or she is trapped in the house, to make a decision that will not set the house on fire.”

Dean of SOC, Associate Prof Durotimi Williams Olatunji, who described Omatseye as a worthy role model for his students said the lecture series was inaugurated to make students see people’s achievements and strive to surpass them.

Boko Haram: Army clears four foreigners, 124 others

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HE Army yesterday handed over four foreigners and 124 Nigerians detained for Boko Haram membership to Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, performed the ceremony at the Maimalari Contentment in Maiduguri, the state capital.

Buratai said the 128 comprised 109 men, seven women, 11 minors and one child.

The Army Chief said they were found innocent after thorough investigations by intelligence officers of the Army, the police, the Department of State Security (DSS) and representatives of the Borno State Government.

Three Chadians and one

•Ex-detainees handed over to Shettima From Duku Joel, Maiduguri

Cameroonian were among the detainees.

The suspects were arrested at various points during military activities on suspicion of having dealings with Boko Haram insurgents.

Kashim hailed the Army and other security agents for respecting human rights and screening the detainees to prove their innocence.

The governor praised the Army Chief for his determination to stop insurgents in the Northeast and reposition the Army.

He urged the former detainees to avoid getting involved in any illegal act, especially the fact that some of them might have contacted insur-

gents in detention.

Shettima said they should pray for peace to return to the state and the country.

The governor said a special team was expected in Maiduguri, from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), to train the former suspects on vocational skills.

He added that they would be empowered with start-up tools to make them self-employed and fitting for reintegration into their communities.

Buratai said the Army, through its operation, alongside other security agents and human rights commission, found the suspects innocent.

The Army Chief said it was the reason they werehanded

was in the team that worked with the colonial masters to build many Health Centers, under the One Health Center Per Village Scheme especially in the then old Onitsha Province of Eastern Region. He retired from the service in 1958 having disagreed with the British Senior Engineers on some fundamental labour issues about the treatment being meted to Nigerian junior workers and artisans.

He became self employed in 1959 and operated his private business as P.O Ngige & Sons Enterprises a Building Engineering Firm. He was the Cofounder and Treasurer of the

indigenous Federated Association of Nigerian Contractors, East Central State Branch in 1971.

A devout Christian of the Catholic faith. Akunnia was a prominent community leader in his community, Alor especially in the area of community development.

He is survived by many children, grand children and great grand children amongst whom are Ugodinobi Edwin Ngige, Barrister (Mrs.) Bernadette Nwachukwu, Senator (Dr.) Chris Nwabueze Ngige, former Governor of Anambra State, Lady Felicia Obiefuna, a United States based Immigration Attorney (Mrs.) Mary-

over to the government.

He said the Army was determined to defeat insurgents, restore peace and create an enabling environment for administrative stability.

Buratai said the Army would maintain professionalism and respect the rights of individuals, adding that the military was glad about the cooperation from the residents.

The governor, assisted by the Army Chief, presented clothes and cash to the former detainees.

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CTIVITIES marking the quarterly revival of the Sanctuary of Christ Evangelical Church, Ibadan, Oyo State, will begin tomorrow at the church auditorium at Olabiyi Agoro Street, Ibadan.

The programme tagged: “Provoking God’s Favour,” will be followed by a Special Worship Service on Sunday by 9am at the church auditorium.

It will be rounded off with a Special Men’s Vigil on Monday at the same venue at 10pm.

A statement by the pastor and chief host, Dr. Gbade Ojo, said the event would be attended by Pastor E.A. Adetuberu, a guest revivalist from Lagos, adding that there would be praise worship, deliverance and song ministrations by the choir.

Ex-NSE president Somolu is dead

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Senator Ngige’s father dies at 105 A Akunnia Pius Okonkwo Ngige, father of Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, is dead.

He was aged 105, a statement by the former Anambra State Governor said.

According to the statement, Pa Akunnia was a devout Christian and a prominent community leader.

The late Chief Pius Ngige was born in 1910 in his home town Alor and started his life career as an Assistant Foreman Building (carpentry) rising to the post of Supervisor Building (carpentry) in the then Public Works Department (P.W.D) of the Eastern Regional Colonial Government. He

PHOTO FEMI ILESANMI, IBADAN

HE Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) has announced Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka as the institution’s vice chancellor.

The Professor of Geology, who will resume after the expiration of the tenure of Prof.

Isaac Adewole on December 1, is the first from the Faculty of Science.

Announcing the new VC, who is the 12th in the history of the university, the Chairman of the Council and Pro-chancellor, Dr. Umar Musa Mustapha, said of the 13 professors who applied, Prof. Olayinka was chosen.

There was an applause as the pro-chancellor announced the 57-year-old professor as the new VC. Beaming with smiles, the new VC said it was a great opportunity for him to serve the university. According to him, “the university belongs to everybody because anybody from Ibadan is of outstanding qualities. The students are going to be the core of our programmes, while we will not neglect the workers. We will fast-track accelerated development through consolidation.”

The outgoing VC, Prof. Adewole, described the event as historical, “as this will be the first time a news conference of this nature will be addressed, with the outgoing and incoming in attendance.”

•The late Pa Ngige rose Ozee Nwadike and Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN), a Lagos based Legal Practitioner.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the family.

OLUSEKE Abidemi Somolu, a former president of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) and onetime senior special assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo is dead. He was 69.

With a career in the Niger Dams Authority (NDA) and NEPA, spanning 27 years, Somolu was involved in the design, building and operation of most power generating stations in Nigeria, including the Kainji Dam Extension, Egbin Power Plant in Lagos, Shiroro and Jebba Hydroelectric Dams, as well as Afam power station in Rivers State. He later headed the Transmission Division. He retired from NEPA in 1997.

The late Somolu was an avid sportsman in his school days, competing in athletics, boxing and basketball. He published

•The late Somolu electrical engineering journals and presented over 30 conference and workshop papers. He was a Fellow of several professional bodies, including the Nigeria Society of Engineers, the Nigerian Institute of Management, the Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Engineering & Technology in the United Kingdom.

He is survived by wife, Dr. Olatokunbo Somolu, children, grand-children and siblings.

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FOREIGN NEWS Al-Qaida seizes last army base in Syria's Idlib

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L-Qaida's affiliate in Syria and other insurgents yesterdday captured the last remaining Syrian army air base in Idlib province, following a two-year siege on the facility and expelling all of President Bashar Assad's military from the northwestern province, state media and activists reported.

It is the latest in a series of setbacks for Assad in Syria's bitter civil war, now in its fifth year.

Syria's embattled president has acknowledged the losses, saying the army has had to relinquish some areas in the north

to be able to better defend core areas seen as more critical to the government.

The army pullout from the Abu Zuhour air base makes Idlib the second of Syria's 14 provinces to completely fall out of Syrian army control.

Earlier this year, militant groups captured the provincial capital, also called Idlib, as well as other towns and villages.

The province of Raqqa fell to the extremist Islamic State group - a rival of the al-Qaida branch in Syria, known as the Nusra Front- in January 2014.

Hungarian camerawoman trips, kicks migrants

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Hungarian camerawoman, documenting the wave of desperate migrants sprinting from a holding camp, sees a man running with child in his arms. So she trips him.

The man, carrying all his belongings with him, falls on top of the boy as they tumble to the ground. He screams in disbelief.

Moments later, the same camerawoman kicks other migrants as they run, including a young girl in the leg.

The videographer, who worked for the Hungarian nationalist N1TV station, has been fired, Editor in Chief Szabolcs Kisberk said.

“The camera operator behavior was completely unacceptable,” N1TV said in a statement.

The station did not identify the camerawoman, but thousands took to a Facebook "shame wall” to criticize her acts.

She was one of the videographers filming the flood of migrants trying to get through Hungary and into Austria and Germany. The migrants include many refugees trying to escape the carnage brought on by terrorists and war in their homelands.

After crossing from Serbia into Hungary with only the belongings they could carry, the migrants were stuck for days at a holding camp in southern Hungary. Many complained about uncomfortable or inhumane conditions in the camp.

Two children from one family lost the shoes they were wearing. They walked over a train track and rocks barefoot for miles, hoping to reach a country more welcoming of refugees.

Hungary, a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention aimed at protecting refugees, has come under criticism for its handling of migrants and for erecting a razor-wire fence to stymie the flow.

• The camerawoman kicking a young girl at a holding camp in PHOTO: REUTERS southern Hungary...yesterday

Russia sends ships, aircraft and forces to Syria

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USSIA has sent two tank landing ships and additional aircraft to Syria in the past day or so and has deployed a small number of forces there, U.S. officials said yesterday, in the latest signs of a military buildup that has put Washington on edge.

The two U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the intent of Russia's military moves in Syria remained unclear.

U.S. officials have not ruled out the possibility that Moscow may be laying the groundwork for an air combat role in Syria's conflict to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Assad, a longtime Russian ally, has seen the area he controls whittled down to a fifth or less of Syria's territory after more than four years of grinding civil war.

An official with the Russian defense ministry declined to

comment.

A traditional arms supplier to Damascus, Moscow has supported Assad throughout the war that has fractured Syria and has said it strongly opposes Islamic State, a militant group that is also the target of a U.S.-led air campaign.

One of the U.S. officials said initial indications suggested the focus was on preparing an airfield near the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Assad.

The officials estimated that dozens of the naval infantry forces had recently arrived at the airfield, possibly to help provide security.

Reuters has previously reported on the transport of prefabricated housing units for hundreds of people to the Syrian airfield. The two officials said additional Russian prefabricated housing units had arrived as well.

EU announces refugee quota plan

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UROPEAN Commission President JeanClaude Juncker has announced plans that he says will offer a “swift, determined and comprehensive” response to Europe’s migrant crisis.

Under the proposals, 120,000 additional asylum seekers will be distributed among EU nations, with binding quotas.

It comes after a surge of thousands of mainly Syrian migrants pushed north through Europe in recent days.

Mr Juncker told the European Parliament it was “not a time to take fright”.

Germany, the main destination for many migrants, supports quotas, but some EU countries oppose a compulsory system.

Mr Juncker’s plans were set out in a “state of the union” annual address in which he outlined the priorities of the European Commission.

He opened his speech by admitting the European Union was “not in a good situation. There is a lack of Europe in this union, and a lack of union in this union”.

He said tackling the crisis was “a matter of humanity and human dignity. It is true that Europe cannot house all the misery in the world. But we have to put it into perspective.

“This still represents just 0.11% of the EU population.

In Lebanon refugees represent 25% of the population."

Image copyright AP Image caption Migrants in Roszke, southern Hungary, jostled again with police on

yesterday as they tried to leave a makeshift camp for asylum seekers - many later broke through the police lines Image copyright AFP Image caption There were smiles in a Paris suburb as France welcomed 93 migrants from Syria, Eritrea and Iraq some of 1,000 migrants it has agreed to receive from Germany.

Among Mr Juncker's proposals: “EU member states to accept their share of an additional 120,000 refugees, building upon proposed quotas to relocate 40,000 refugees which were set out in May (though governments then only actually agreed to take 32,000) “A permanent relocation system to “deal with crisis situations more swiftly in the

future”.

“Commission to propose list of “safe countries” to which migrants would generally have to return.

“Efforts to strengthen the EU's common asylum system “A review of the so-called Dublin system, which states that people must claim asylum in the state where they first enter the EU. “Better management of external borders and better legal channels for migration.

“It’s 160,000 refugees in total that Europeans have to take into their arms and I really hope that this time everyone will be on board no rhetoric, action is what is needed,” he told MEPs. The new plans would relocate 60% of those now in Italy, Greece and Hungary to Germany, France and Spain.

British Airways plane catches fire in Las Vegas

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British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 170 people on board on emergency slides.

Airport officials said at least 14 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

US Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the left engine of the Boeing 777-200 caught fire before take-off.

The plane was seen engulfed in flames and smoke. The fire was later put out.

In a statement, British Airways said the aircraft “experienced a technical issue as it was preparing for take-off”.

In a distress call the plane's captain asked for the airport’s emergency services: “Speedbird Mayday Mayday.

Speedbird 2276 request fire services”.

"Speedbird 2276 heavy, we are evacuating on the runway.

We have a fire, repeat, we are evacuating,” he adds.

The pilot later told passengers that the accident was the result of a “catastrophic failure of the engine”, reports the Guardian's Jacob Steinberg, who was on board the plane.

“We looked out the window and for the first time saw smoke near the wing. We could smell it. It was like burn-

• Passengers fleeing from British Airways plane on fire at Las Vegas Airport shortlybefore take-off...yesterday PHOTO: REUTERS

ing rubber bitter and deeply unpleasant and it was time to panic,”Steinberg writes.

Most pilots will go through their whole career without having to deal with an emergency like this, but it’s always on their minds.

This flight was travelling at around 89mph when they decided to abort.

One experienced airline pilot told me that this BA crew seems to have reacted in a “text-book” fashion, getting everyone off quickly and safely.

Flight 2276 was bound for London’s Gatwick airport.

There were 157 passengers

and 13 crew members on board.

A spokesman for Rolls Royce told Reuters news agency the engine was not made by the company, British Airways uses engines made by either Rolls Royce or General Electric, the agency adds.

The airport tweeted: “Received first call at 4:13 PM (23:13 GMT); flames were spotted at 4:14, and by 4:14 response was underway.”

Airport officials said passengers were taken to the city’s Sunrise hospital, most of them with injuries sustained while sliding down inflatable chutes during the evacuation.

Some of those on board said there was smoke in the cabin as one exit was opened and immediately declared unsafe.

Eyewitness Reggie Bugmuncher said she was waiting at a gate for her flight when she heard people saying: “Oh, my God”.

She said looked out the window and could see ”bursts of flames coming out of the middle of the plane”, the Associated Press news agency reports.

An investigation into the blaze is now under way after what was clearly a lucky escape, the BBC’s James Cook in Los Angeles reports.

Hillary Clinton makes case for Iran nuclear deal

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ORMER Secretary of State, Senator Hillary Clinton, made her case in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC yesterday, as the US Senate formally begins its debate on the accord in anticipation of a vote to disapprove the deal.

Clinton, who stated her sup-

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port for the agreement shortly after it was reached, elaborated on her position while emphasizing continued scepticism of the Iranian regime.

Clinton said the US faces a choice to either "move forward on a path to diplomacy or turn down more dangerous path leading to a far less certain and riskier future".

The former secretary of state said the deal "blocks every pathway for Iran to get a bomb" and that it was "unrealistic" to get a better deal, as some opponents claimed was possible.

However, Clinton maintained her distrust for the Iranian regime. "I too am deeply concerned about Iranian aggression and need to confront it," she said. "There is absolutely no reason to trust Iran."

Instead, she insisted her approach to dealing with Iran's

nuclear program would be "distrust but verify".

Clinton's disdain for the Iranian government was evident when she dismissed the Islamic Republic's cooperation with the US in the nuclear deal.

"I don't see Iran as our partner in implementing the agreement," she said. "I see Iran as our subject in implementing the agreement."

Further, Clinton made clear she would be willing to launch military strikes against Iran if the regime attempted to contravene its agreement and build a nuclear weapon anyway. "I will not hesitate to take military action if Iran attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon."

Clinton also tried to assuage Israeli concerns about the Iran deal. She insisted the agreement makes Israel safer and told Israelis that, if elected,

"you'll never have to question whether we are with you. The United States will always be with you".

Clinton introduced a fivepoint plan focused on building regional alliances to counter what called "Iran's bad behavior in the region". This will include continued military aid to Israel in particular, as to the US's Gulf allies, along with taking steps to counter growing Iranian influence in the Middle East, particularly through proxy groups like Hezbollah. She will also emphasize the need to crack down on Iranian human rights abuses, and leave the door open to broadening sanctions on the regime.

While majorities in both houses of Congress oppose the Iran deal, there will be sufficient support from Democrats to stop it being torpedoed.

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No crush on Kate Henshaw, says JJC

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OPULAR music producer cum hit-maker, Abdul Rasheed Bello, better known as JJC Skillz, is fully back in the fiercely competitive Nigerian music industry.

The proud father of three, whose songs, My life and Save The Last Dance, are still ruling the airwaves, was recently linked with Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw; a bond which led to a music and video collaboration titled See Us Now. When asked to explain the connection between him and Kate, JJC hinted that he had always longed to have a bond with an actress and Kate Henshaw was perfect for his mission.

“I actually saw Kate Henshaw’s performance once at a banquet and I thought she would be perfect to pass the message to the people.

I like her uniqueness. I have been looking forward to a chance for the Nigerian music industry and Nollywood to come together for the common good of the masses. With Kate, I have made that happen. People have been saying I have a crush on her, but it is far from the truth,” he said.

He also highlighted what their fans should expect from the duo,

saying that “the video I shot with Kate is an emotional and inspiring video to lift the hearts and minds of all Nigerians worldwide. It is a call to come together and support and build a brighter future for ourselves and our children. Kate was amazing like you’ve never seen her. You all should watch out for it.”

In the highly competitive Nigerian music industry, the multi-talented singer talked about his challenges as a returnee artiste and how he has been coping since returning from London in 2013.

“My biggest challenge coming back to Nigeria is the fact that I didn’t grow up in Lagos. I didn’t even grow up in Nigeria. Though I come to Nigeria once in a while to promote my music, I don’t really know a lot of people in the industry. I have also come to notice that people do things based on who they know. It is all about who you know or who you grew up or schooled with. Everybody have their own struggles, and mine is totally different. I felt like a fish out of water when I moved back to Nigeria. Lots of people know me, but I didn’t know lots of them. A lot of people thought I was arrogant, but they don’t know the real me,” JJC adds.

How Project Fame influenced me, by David Omodunmiju

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LTHOUGH he did not win the popular music reality show, former MTN Project Fame contestant, David Omodunmiju, who has been off the radar, says that he is ready to take the world by storm.

At the album unveiling of True Heritage Worshippers held last Saturday, David who spoke of life after Project Fame told The Nation that he had to get his act right to be able to give the best to the society.

According to the budding artiste who now does gospel music, the Project Fame platform was a tool in the hands of God to teach him

By Dupe Ayinla-Olasunkanmi

how not to use fame, decide on the kind of music to do, relate well with others and develop his voice.

“It was beautiful; I can never forget Project Fame because it was worthwhile learning from Mummy J, Mr. Ben, Miss Ige, and others.

“After Project Fame, I decided for God. I decided to learn the ways of God and how he uses fame and music to train his children. I attended music school, strictly for gospel ministers, attended a Bible school and after that

• Omodunmiju

got the permission to begin to release my songs and God has given me strength to become what I am made to be. I also got married,” he said.

On his anticipated album, David, who is signed to New Wine Music, said it would be released by December and will contain about ten tracks. He also says that the album is inspired and motivated by the word of God and the Holy Spirit. According to him, he is driven to testify Jesus, edify him, access the power inside music and lift Jesus in his music so that he can draw men unto himself.

All set for Nollywood Film Festival Germany

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LL is set for this year’s edition of Nollywood Film Festival Germany, with organisers, Ehizoya Golden Entertainment and partners promising a spectacular show.

According to the convener of the festival, Isaac Ehizoya, the festival, which also hosts the Nollywood Europe Golden Awards, NEGA, is a platform designed to honour Nollywood stakeholders, Nollywood stars, comedians, musicians (both in Africa and in the Diaspora). The event, he said, has been expanded to recognise the artistic bias of outstanding politicians and business men whose actions have directly or indirectly impacted upon the industry, thereby shaping what it has grown to become today.

“Since it started in 2012 as Nollywood Europe Golden Awards till when the film festi-

By Ovwe Medeme

val was berthed in 2014, NFFG has always ended in a grand gala night featuring top artistes from Nigeria and 2015 will not be an exception. NEGA Awards is the climax (awards and gala-night) marking the closing ceremony of Nollywood Film Festival Germany – NFFG, a viable platform designed for Nollywood filmmakers to showcase their movies to Europeans and Nollywood fans in the Diaspora which is in its second edition.

The event is scheduled to hold at the prestigious Filmforum Höchst VHS Cinema, Emmerich-Joselstr, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from September 11 to September 12,” Ehizoya stated.

The two-day event kicks off tomorrow, featuring films screening. Among the films to be

screened are Stigma by Dagogo Diminas and Last Slave by Henry Ozuluonye as well as The Grave Dust directed by Ikechukwu Onyeka.

The ceremonies also include a courtesy visit to the Consulate General, Frankfurt while the event will climax with the Nollywood Europe Golden Awards, Gala-night/After-Party on Saturday, September 12 to be hosted by Nollywood actress, Queen Blessing Itua.

Expected to grace the occasion as Special Guest of Honour in recognition of what she does for the Africa people in the United States is Senator Donzella James, Democratic senator representing Metropolitan Atlanta’s 35th District of Georgia.

Artistes expected at the event are comedian Gandoki; Ime Bishop, aka Okon, Cossy Orjiako as well as former Miss Lagos State Nollywood star, Cynthia Agholor.

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HE tragedy of the civil war and horror in Syria has continued unabated.

Last week, the picture of a three-yearold Syrian boy, found dead and lying face down on a Turkish beach, went viral. It was shocking and heartbreaking. His father had been trying to take his family out of Syria in a dinghy boat to Greece, en route hopefully to Canada to seek a better future for them there. It was his third attempt to flee Syria. The family had applied for a Canadian visa and was hoping to join a relation there from Greece. But no Canadian visas were granted them. Desperate, the family decided to leave Syria at all costs. The venture ended in a complete disaster as the overcrowded dinghy in which they were sailing to Greece sank. The three-year-old toddler was buried last Friday in Syria from which he and his family had fled. Also reported dead along with the little boy were his mother and older brother aged five.

Tears welled in my eyes as I watched the horrifying tragedy on CNN, the American global news network. I could not bear to continue watching this incredible horror and switched my TV off the whole day. I am still saddened by the image of that innocent little boy lying face down dead with his clothes and shoes on. His body had been washed off by the sea ending on the beach.

That image will be etched in my memory for ever. It highlighted with greater poignancy the tragedy of the civil war in Syria and its human sufferings. It should stir the conscience of the world to do something concrete to end the civil war in Syria. Even the Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr. Erdogan, was moved to angrily and bitterly denounce this inhumanity to man caused by the civil war in Syria. It reminds one of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland during World War II in which millions of Jews were gassed to death and the American My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

But that horror was only the latest in the long drama and tragedy of the civil war that has been going on in Syria for over four years, with no end in sight. Syrian families are being torn apart daily with millions of Syrians seeking refuge and safety abroad. There are now millions of Syrian refugees in the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, imposing a crushing burden on these countries. Most of these refugees are children and the aged.

The children can no longer go to school.

The conditions in which they live in these countries that have offered them a refuge are pitiable and almost indescribable. In most cases they have no water or food in their makeshift refugee camps. Many have taken to begging on the streets for alms.

We have seen on TV in recent weeks how these Syrian and other migrants have tried

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The tragedy in Syria

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Most of these refugees are children and the aged. The children can no longer go to school. The conditions in which they live in these countries that have offered them a refuge are pitiable and almost indescribable. In most cases they have no water or food in their makeshift refugee camps.

Many have taken to begging on the streets for alms desperately and unsuccessfully to cross over to Western Europe after a long and difficult trek for days from Syria. In most cases they have met in varying degrees with hostility and opposition from the European countries.

Italy has been supportive, while France and Germany have shown some understanding of the plight of these Syrian and other migrants. Britain is less compromising and has continued to shut its doors to these desperate and hopeless migrants. Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK was reported as saying that, accepting migrants into Europe was not the solution and that the origins of the crisis lay in Syria and other countries from which the migrants are fleeing. While the EU countries laud the increasing global economic integration from which they profit, they are less willing to accept the idea of a

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global cultural integration, which is ultimately inevitable as it is a component of the global economic integration. They should show more compassion and do more to offer these migrants and refugees some hope of a better future It may be true that it is the Arab spring and the collapse of many states in the Arab world, particularly in Syria, that is directly responsible for these mass migrations from the Arab world. But the Western powers cannot totally absolve themselves from some blame over the continuing crises in the Arab world. It started with the Anglo American invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Sadam Hussein, its President, from power. The excuse given then was that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. In the end this claim proved to be due to false intelligence infor-

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ARDBALL is at it again foisting his football peccadilloes on you guys. But this is a football story that has to be done. The news is that two clubs in Lagos have qualified to play in the GLO Premier League top division next season. They are MFM FC (Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry Football Club) and Ikorodu United Football Club, (IU FC).

So what the heck? Easy, the story is that Lagos State, the largest city state in Africa had no football economy for over two decades. What on earth is football economy, you ask? It is about private stadia, about weekly football matches, thousands of young men and women working and making good living as footballers, coaches, referees, etc. It is about many more people working as stadium managers, sports wears and equipment producers and sellers.

It would be about many more talented young footballers in Lagos getting noticed by scouts from big European leagues. It is about weekly gate-takings and merchandising. It is yet, about the psychological satisfaction of supporting your own local football club; buying its kits and wearing them proudly. It is the joy and therapy of taking your family to a late Sunday evening foot-

mation. The ouster of Sadam Hussein from power in Iraq removed a stabilizing force and a source of stability in the region, which sparked of a revolution of some sorts in the Arab world. The Americans could not quite hold the place. It was too costly and wisely President Obama decided to pull out American troops from Iraq, as he did from Afghanistan. The attempt of the Western powers to create client states in the Arab world failed and it is the consequences of this failure that we are now seeing in the Arab world, including the migrations to Europe.

Deplorable as the ISIS insurgency is, it has to be understood in the context of the rejection by the Arab world of western domination and influence in the region for over a century. It is a deliberate and irreversible revolt against foreign cultural and religious influences in the Arab world.

We now have a bizarre and paradoxical situation, a convergence of interests that has led to a western military coalition joining President Assad of Syria to fight ISIS in the region, with Saudi Arabia also joining in the fray. Iran, the long time friend of Assad of Syria and the bitter enemy of America and Saudi Arabia, also finds itself joining the USled military coalition to fight the ISIS in what is now looking increasingly to the US like a military quagmire with no end in sight. The use of force and foreign intervention will not end the conflict in Syria. There must be a resort to high level diplomacy by the major powers and President Assad of Syria.

To end the Syrian crisis and bring the civil war there to an end, it is imperative to stop foreign meddling in the affairs of the Arab World. Whatever foreign powers may perceive as their national interests in the region, these will not be achieved by open intervention in the internal affairs of these countries. The emergence of ISIS is just the symptom of a much deeper malaise, the open and inevitable rebellion against foreign cultural influences and the presence of foreign military forces in the Arab world. African leaders should learn from the Syrian experience and guard their countries’ independence more jealously.

As for the migrants’ crisis the EU countries should, on humanitarian grounds, be persuaded to accept more refugees from Syria and other parts of the Arab world. The UN should play a greater role in this regard.

Since World War II and the gassing of Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany, the world has become a global village. We can no longer hide or pretend to be unaware of the plight of these migrants, or abandon our moral responsibilities to them.

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Between Ubah, Olukoya, Aliko et al ball outing. It is so much more.

For over two decades, Lagos has missed all these despite its huge population. While most other states had at least one club playing competitive football in their city every weekend, Lagos had none. For a state that had the legendary Stationery Stores FC, among notable others; it is a wonder why successive governments did not see the huge potentials of football economy for so long.

Today, Lagos has I.U.FC and MFM FC to play top-flight soccer every weekend from next season. How salutary. While one knows little about I.U.FC, MFM FC is a dream come true for Dr. D. K. Olukoya Founder and General Overseer of MFM. Those who know him say after God and family, his other passion is youth development through football.

He had therefore taken his church football club from an academy and through the lower rungs of our league to the elite division. We hear he is raising the bar of football club ownership by building a stadium.

Going by his methods and zest he is aiming for the world stage.

Ifeanyi Ubah, the enfant terrible, recently

bought over a flailing Udoji United FC and converted it to Ifeanyi Ubah FC. We hear a 50,000 capacity stadium is rising in his hometown, Nnewi. We don’t need an expert to tell us what this singular move would signal for the youths of Anambra and the economy of Nnewi.

Aliko et al means business mogul Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chi Limited, Sterling Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Seven Up, etc. While Aliko nurses a strong desire to acquire Arsenal, London’s iconic football club, the aforementioned Nigerian firms are jointly spending millions of pounds in sponsorship promotion of such English clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal FC, Manchester City and Chelsea FC. It is sorry enough that at least a quarter of Nigeria is watching the English Premier League every weekend; do we need to ship out millions of pounds to them as well?

Thousands of talented Nigerian youths are wasting away, who will help develop our rich but comatose football economy? Imagine what a few more Olukoyas and Ubahs will do for our country.

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