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Presidential poll: Bulkachuwa disqualifies self from tribunal As tribunal strikes out Atiku, PDP motion

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(PDP) seeking the disqualification of Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa from the panel.

But in her dissenting ruling, Justice Bulkachuwa, who is also the President of Court of Appeal, disqualified herself and opted out of the panel on personal reasons.

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controversy the matter had generated, she would rescue herself from the panel.

Delivering the majority ruling, Justice Peter Olabisi Ige, said that the petitioners who filed the application had failed to provide evidence and prove the likelihood of bias they claimed in their application.

The panel had on Wednesday morning after taking arguments and submissions from lawyers representing the parties shifted the ruling till 2pm but could not reconvene until late in the evening.

The applicants through their lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, had on May 16, sought private audience with members of the panel and the respondents where he urged Bulkachuwa to disqualify herself from further participating in the proceedings of the tribunal on the basis of alleged likelihood of bias.

The application was premised on the fact that Bulkachuwa’s husband was a top member of All Progressives Congress (APC) and senatorelect from Buachi State, a party whose victory is being challenged in the petition filed before the tribunal by both Atiku and the PDP.

They claimed that her husband, Adamu Bulkachuwa, being a senator -elect on the platform of the APC in Bauchi State, and her biological son, Aliyu Abubakar, being a governorship aspirant on the platform of the same party during the last electioneering in Gombe State, she would be biased against the petitioners in her handling of the proceedings.

During the hearing on Wednesday, the legal teams of the Independent National Electoral Commission, President Muhammadu Buhari, and the APC, filed separate counter-affidavits to oppose the application which they described as unmeritorious.

But the lawyer representing the APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), urged Bulkachuwa to “leave the matter” for the sake of her name with her retirement from the bench only barely a year away.

He said: “As it is fast becoming the norm and regrettably so, this is another havoc wreaked on the finest Nigerian jury.

“This is not the first time this is happening. Just recently, Justice Oyewole, whose immortal contribution was acknowledged by the counsel for the applicants a while ago, was written against not to be allowed to sit on the appeal

panel on the Osun State governorship election petition.

“Nebulous as ‘likelihood of bias’ is, it has its own boundaries.

“The exhortation in all the authorities that have been cited, recognise that each case will have to be dealt with on its own merit.

“The matter before the court has nothing to do with governorship or National Assembly elections.

“Whatever the Constitution of a political party is, it is the Constitution of the country that is supreme.

“And nowhere in the Nigerian Constitution that the President is allowed to remove a governor or a member of the National Assembly.

“My conclusion, with respect, is that the application is blackmail. On the facts and the law, the application is most unmeritorious.

“But , with respect, next year, your lordship, the President of the Court of Appeal, will be bowing out gloriously by God’ s grace.

“Your name, either the one you acquired before you got married or the one you acquired after you got married, none is for you alone.

You hold them in trust and you have been blessed – being the first female President of the Court of Appeal in Nigeria.

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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (centre) with members of the cabinet after last council meeting at the Presidential Villa,Abuja...on Wednesday

L-R: Governor Akinwumi Ambode (Lagos State); Governor Gboyega Oyetola (Osun State); Governor Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo State); Governor Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti State); and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo State), during the Southwest Governors’ Forum meeting, held in Abuja... on Wednesday.

Zainab Aliyu: FG indicts Egypt, Ethiopian airlines of running drugs cartel Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Following the recent rescue of a Nigerian teenager, Zainab Aliyu, from execution for drug offences in Saudi Arabia, the Federal Government has fingered two foreign airlines, Egypt airline and Ethiopian airlines of running drug cartel in the country.

The two airlines were accused of neck deep involvement in drug business network across airports in Nigeria.

The chairman, Nigeria Diaspora Commission (NDC), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made the disclosure on Wednesday at the National Assembly complex, Abuja, when she appeared before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee set up to look into the circumstances leading to the arrest of Zainab Aliyu in Saudi Arabia in December last year.

Briefing the Committee, Dabiri-Erewa said: “We have other foreign and local Airlines operating at our Airports, but

Egyptian and Ethiopian Airlines have drug cartels operating at our International Airports.

They operate alongside local collaborators. It is not Air Peace, not Arik Air but Egyptian and Ethiopian Airlines”.

When asked by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya, about the condition of the scanners, the Airport Chief of Security of the Federal Airport Authority (FAAN), Mr. El-Yakub Usman Lamir, revealed that scanners at the Aminu Kano International Airport were not configured to detect drugs.

He said that there were 15 security agents involved in checking luggages at the point of entry and exit but that they had been reduced in number due to public complaints.

Representative of the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr. Mustapha Abdallah, also disclosed that their German trained sniffer dogs were few in number.

“Throughout the

federation, NDLEA only has 14 sniffer dogs stationed in Lagos and we don’t even have one to detect drugs at the Aminu Kano International Airport at all”, NDLEA maintained.

In his remarks, Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee, Senator Gaya, charged the officials of NDLEA to increase the number of sniffer dogs in all the international Airports across the country.

He also directed the officials of Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) to upgrade such sensitive device as the Scanner in the Airports to ensure that the country was rid of hard drugs.

Gaya, however, commended Zainab’s father for providing the information on the arrest of his daughter by Saudi Arabia law enforcement agencies to the Social Media from where the Federal Government got wind of the arrest.

He assured that as soon as the committee concluded its investigation, it would submit its report to the Senate.

L-R: Branch Leader, Ikeja 1 Strategic Business Unit (SBU), Charles Nwadike; Executive Director, Lagos and South West, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe; Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo – Olu; MD/CEO, Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo; Team Lead, Corporate Banking, Omobolaji Odubanjo and Regional Bank Head, Ikeja, Ken Opara, when the Fidelity Bank delegation paid a courtesy visit to the the Governor-elect… on Tuesday

Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (5th right); Deputy Governor, of Delta State, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro (4th left); Secretary to State Government, Hon. Ovie Agas (4th right); Head of Delta State Civil Service, Mr. Reginald Bayoko (3rd right); Chief of State Government House, Hon. Tam Brisibe (3rd left) and others, during a Valedictory Exco Meeting in Government House Asaba...on Tuesday.

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Why l didn’t dissolve cabinet in 4 years –Buhari Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why he refused to dissolve the members of his cabinet to inject fresh hands for a straight four year term, despite pressures from cross section of Nigerians.

The President disclosed this on Wednesday, just as he hosted his team to a valedictory session at the State House Council Chamber, Abuja.

Buhari, who said that he had heated debates sometimes during the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings, added that the debates enabled them to make rational decision on the long run to better the economy.

Against the expectations of Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to dissolve his cabinet members even after the valedictory session.

The Daily Times recalls that the ministers were sworn-in in November 2015 and the President had directed them to submit their handover notes weeks ago; despite that, he told them to remain in office till the eve of his swearing on May 28, 2019 when they should handover to the permanent secretaries in their respective ministries.

He said the diversity in thought of the ministers were a reflection of the diversity of the entire country, hence every opinion mattered and needed to be considered thoroughly.

“Although we all had a common vision, we frequently had heated debates in this room on the best way to achieve our goals. These differing views are what made the decisions we took all the more rational.

“It is this quality that made me retain my cabinet for the full term.

Each of you in this room has a unique skill and strength. We are a reflection of the Nigeria we aspire to achieve. A diverse but tolerant nation where no one is silenced and where every opinion should be heard and considered,” the President stated at the valedictory session.

While mandating the ministers to continue to hold brief in their respective ministries and submit their handover notes to their Permanent Secretaries on May 28, which happens to be the eve of his official swearing-in for a fresh four year term, Buhari said they ought to be proud of contributing their

quota to the development of the country, especially with the initial challenges that trailed the current administration.

Buhari said: “Although today (Wednesday) is our last council meeting, I expect all of you to continue working until Tuesday, 28th May 2019 when you will officially hand over your schedules to your respective Permanent Secretaries. Your handing over letters should be submitted to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

“I want you all to leave this meeting proud to have served your nation to the best of your ability.

You should be proud to have been part of the Government that liberated the local governments previously under Boko Haram rule.

“You should be proud to have contributed to our food security and economic diversification agenda which led to the revival of our rural agrarian economy. You should be proud to have been part of the team that developed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan which led Nigeria exiting its worst recession in decades.

“You should be proud to have introduced the social investment programme that enhanced livelihoods of millions of Nigerians. You should be proud to have participated in settling outstanding pensions of many senior citizens abandoned by previous governments while supporting state governments to meet their salary arrears.

“And of course, you should all be proud to have overseen the most ambitious road, rail and airport rehabilitation programmes in the history of our country.

“I must put on record that your achievements in the last three and half years have guaranteed your position in the history books of this nation. You have certainly built the foundations for an improved economy and a more purposeful government”.

The President however regretted that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, late James Ocholi, who died along with his wife and son in a ghastly accident along Kaduna-Abuja express way was not around to witness the valedictory session.

“Today’s Federal Executive Council meeting is the last time we will meet as a cabinet before the commencement of the second and final term of this Administration.

Buhari “Our first meeting in this chamber was in November 2015.

Over the past three and a half years, we worked together to deliver our campaign promises. I strongly believe that it is this team work that led to the successes recorded during our first term.

“Some of our colleagues, with whom we started this journey, unfortunately are not here to join us in celebrating our successes.

“Specifically, I must recognise our late brother, James Ocholi, SAN, who passed away in a fearful motor accident with his wife, Blessing and son, Joshua, only four months after being sworn-in as a Minister.

“I want us to all put him, and indeed his family, in our memory.

He was a true patriot committed to our change agenda.

“I also acknowledge the contributions of other Council members who resigned before the completion of our tenure to pursue other opportunities. You will recall that when we started this journey, our country was facing numerous challenges.

“We inherited a broken economy which eventually went into recession in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016. The situation was further compounded by insecurity and massive corruption.

“Many would have given up.

Indeed, many outside commentators said our situation was well nigh hopeless. However, we all came together and pushed forward to deliver our campaign promise to rescue our country from its parlous state”.

Buhari said he would remain grateful to his cabinet members

for agreeing to serve the country during these difficult times, adding that the contributions of other silent partners to the cabinet, their spouses, families and friends, would remain invaluable.

“I wish you the very best of luck and pray for your successes, for your families and our country in the years ahead,” he stated.

Apart from a few Ministers who resigned their appointments to pursue political ambitions, Buhari will go down history as the President that retained his cabinet members for a straight four year term.

Meanwhile, President Buhari has emphasised that he respects the country’s judiciary and is willing to abide by their decisions at all times.

Speaking at an Iftar dinner with the representatives of the Third Arm of the government, the Judiciary, on Wednesday in the evening at his official residence, President Buhari said he believed that the judiciary should be independent and recalled how he submitted himself to the adjudication of the courts three times on his way to becoming President without any fuss because, as he said, “I respect the institution.

I have come before you three times before I got here on the fourth run for the office. Your word is the last word on any given issue.”

He praised the capabilities of Nigerian judges, saying that “your training and experience has earned you respect.”

In his remarks in appreciation of the Ramadan fast-breaking, the Acting Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, leading retired Chief Justices, some

Senate passes Federal Audit Service, NFF, 9 other new bills Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday passed 11 new bills in last minutes efforts to round up the business of the 8th National Assembly.

Notable among the passed bills was the Nigeria Football Federation (Establishment, etc) Bill, 2019 (SB154) which repeals the law governing football administration in the country in the past 20 years.

The new bill seeks to put football administration in Nigeria in the right perspectives and align the

management of the round leather game with international best practices.

The passage of the bill followed the clause by clause consideration of the conference Committee report presented by the chairman of Senate committee on Youth and Sports, Sen. Obinna Ogba (Ebonyi Central).)

Also, the upper Chamber passed the Federal Audit Service Bill, 2019 (SB 742).

This bill which was earlier passed and sent to President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2019 for assent

was reprocessed.

It seeks to strengthen the powers if the office of the Auditor General of the Federation to audit government agencies and parastatals.

The chairman Senate committee on Public Account while presenting the report of the Committee held that the important Bill will help in fighting corruption by ensuring that government agencies are promptly audited.

Other bills passed include National Assembly Budget and Research Office (Est, etc) Bill, 2019 (SB736); Institute of Transport

Administration of Nigeria Bill, 2019; Chartered Institute of Social Work Practitioners (Est, etc) Bill, 2019; Suppression of Piracy and other Maritime Offences Bill, 2019; Corporate Bodies (Members Emolument) Act (Repeal) Bill, 2019 and National Institute for Brackish Water Fisheries Research, NgoAndoni (Est, etc), Bill 2019.

The rest are Nigeria Council for Management Development Bill 2019; Traffic Warden Service Bill, 2019 and the Nigeria Road Safety Commission Bill, 2019.

Justices of the Supreme Court and heads of courts in the Federal Capital Territory, assured the nation that judiciary will continue to do its best in safeguarding the country’s democracy.

He praised President Buhari for not meddling in the affairs of the courts in the country.

Speaking during the valedictory session at the Council Chambers on Wednesday, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo who held forth for President Buhari on several occasion, especially during his health challenges, however said many Nigerians are ignorant of the humorous nature of the President.

He also said while serving in Acting capacity, Buhari never for once faulted his decisions, a development that has endeared him to the President.

Osinbajo said: “I thank almighty God for preserving our lives to serve our nation this past four years. I will like to thank Mr. President for the opportunity to serve as your vice president and your running mate twice. My deepest gratitude comes from the great trust that you reposed in me at all times.

“I will never forget when you were going on medical leave in May of 2017 and you said to me that you will not fault my discretion as acting President in anyway. In keeping with your character and style, you kept your words.

“Mr. President many know of your personal integrity, discipline and capacity for hard work but many will not know just how humorous you are. I remember you Mr. President telling me once that the we should observe the cabinet members who go out often during meetings, that they were actually going out to finish the coconut and peanut. And since then I have noted carefully all those who go out looking very serious but I’m sure they end up finishing the coconut and peanut as Mr. President said.

“I want to use this opportunity to greet our cabinet colleagues. This has been an exceptionally patriotic and talented team. Everyone brought experience, knowledge, wisdom and selflessness to council deliberations at all times. I treasure the friendship that we have built with ourselves and among family members in the last four years. I pray that you will all go from glory to glory, that you will never fail or fall. As we all us depart from council, I pray that the Lord that has guided us this far will be our help in the years to come in Jesus name.

“Just to mention for the record that I was elected chairman of the association to which Dr. Ngige referred, the one to which Adams Oshiomhole, Ngige and El-Rufai are members, not because I’m the Vice President but because I’m the tallest member”.

Among Ministers that resigned from the cabinet includes former Minister of Mines and Steel Development and current governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi; former Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jubril; Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan; Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Abba-Ibrahim and Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed.

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Okorocha’s 4 new varsities, booby traps for Ihedioha, say ex-VCs, others As Judge hears Okorocha’s suit amidst allegations of misconduct

Val Okara, Owerri Former Vice Chancellors from different universities and other Professors on Wednesday accused the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, of setting booby traps for the incoming government of Emeka Ihedioha by “hurriedly” establishing four new universities and polytechnics in the state without due process.

Professor Jude Njoku, former Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Owerri; Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, former Vice Chancellor, Imo State University, Owerri; Prof Obioma Iheduru, former VC, Tansian University, Umunya; Prof Chuka Okonkwo, former VC, IMSU and Prof P.A Ogbonna, former Director of Admissions, IMSU, described the establishment of the new institutions as “a reckless and irresponsible act

by Okorocha”.

The University administrators said that there was no infrastructure on ground to show that the state government could

only fund two universities, stressing that funding of four universities and four polytechnics without budget.

The university dons contended what the outgoing government could had have done was to provide the enabling environment for private investors and organisations establish “universities and polytechnics in Imo State.”

Prof Njoku, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, said “the hurried establishment of the four new universities and four new polytechnics by the Okorocha administration in Imo State is a reckless and irresponsible act aimed at creating disharmony between the incoming administration and the host communities, zones who may believe that the proposed institutions are their own dividend of democracy and would feel offended if the incoming administration decides either to suspend the licences or revert them to their original status.”

“This educational fiasco is a clear manifestation of the level of irresponsibility and recklessness of the leadership and membership

Okorocha of the 8th Imo State House of Assembly.”

The FUTO former Vice Chancellor noted that the state government was unable to properly fund the two state owned institutions talk of eight new ones, describing Okorocha’s action as deceit and insincerity of purpose.

“It is therefore our considered opinion that the incoming government of Emeka Ihedioha sets up a powerful committee to review the establishment of these institutions.

“It is also recommended that the School of Nursing and Midwifery now at Ogboko be returned to its permanent site at Okporo in the Orlu LGA.” The Daily Times recalls that Okorocha initially told the people of that his administration planned to relocate IMSU to Ogboko his town as the permanent site having changed its name at different times but latter registered it as private university named Eastern Palm University.

Sen. Marafa indicts ex-minister of diverting N300m health fund Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Senator Kabiru Marafa (APC Zamfara Central) on Tuesday opened a can of worms on how a former Health minister in the country diverted funds meant for healthcare facilities in Zamfara State to Enugu State.

He accused Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, former Minister of Health of conniving with the then Permanent Secretary in his ministry to divert Constituency project fund worth N300 million meant for procurement of equipment for the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau to his home state of Enugu to procure mosquito nets.

The Senator made the disclosure at plenary when the Senate had in session the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole who had come to brief the Senate on the state of teaching hospitals in the country.

The embittered Marafa further alleged siphoning of another N200m he provided through the Constituency project fund for the enlisting the people of Zamfara State in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Senate majority whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye ( Osun Central), who was enraged by the striking revelation knocked Marafa for not reporting the minister to the Senate for legislative sanctioning.

However, Health minister,

Adewole, who apologised on behalf of Chukwu for the ugly incident, urged the Senator to forget the issue completely.

Relaying the issue, Sen. Marafa said: “Upon assumption of office, I had an interaction with you based on the petition I wrote to the office of Mr. President. It is closely related with what I said now that members of National Assembly would have paid this N100 million from the constituency project.

“In 2012, my first term in office, the Medical Director FMC Gusau came to my office.

He said he came to greet me after defending his budget “He drew my attention to the challenge the hospital faced. He said today, FMC Gusau lacks so many vital equipment.

“He said an accident victim would either be taken to Zaria or Sokoto which is about 200 kilometres distance either way because of the state of the hospital.

“I asked him what can I do to assist. He told some of the equipment we need to put in the medical centre.

“I now asked him to do the costing of some of the equipment they need. He did it and came with a figure of N300 million that time.

“Having come from Zamfara which is in north west, the zone that most senators and members receive last constituency project.

“My cash call is N197 million. So I went to the then

Senate President, Sen. David Mark, and I told him what the medical director told me and he graciously approved that I should be given the remaining part of this to make the N300 million which I now domiciled in FMC Gusau to purchase those critical equipment so that in the event of any accident, which we don’t know who is going to be, people can be attended to in Gusau without being taken to Zaria of Sokoto.

“Honourable Minister, through 2012, 2013, 2014 up to 2015, that project did not see the light of the day after the money was paid 100 per cent. That year, I could remember only Sen. Chukwumerije of blessed memory and myself domiciled their constituency projects in Ministry of Health. His own, N25 million, while my own was a whole N300 million. It was during Jonathan administration.

“But what happened? The great Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu, took the money belonging to the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, the money belonging to the people of Zamfara central that I domiciled in the hospital and took it in active connivance with his permanent secretary, they took the money to Enugu to buy mosquito nets. They used my N300 million to buy mosquito nets. I wrote a petition to Mr. President “Sir, 2015, you promised me that you are going to address this issue, from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, up till now, 2019, I am

retiring. The money belongs to the people of Zamfara and it is nowhere to be found. Now we can hear the failures in Zamfara.

“Again in 2017, I put the whole of my consistency project of about N200 million into NHIS because I have learnt of the advantage the people derived when they are registered into NHIS. “Honourable Minister, till today, the story has been, we have to get a letter from the SGF, we have to do this, we have to do that.

“To me, it is like there is a general gang up to sabotage the people of Zamfara State by the Ministry of Health to deny us of this money that senators and members of the House of Representatives have always been blackmailed and called names in the name of pocketing constituency project allowances.

“If we have gotten this money, this is what it could have done to my people “Is there anything you can do especially about my N300 and N200 million to help my people?

Responding, Adewole acknowledged the misapplication of the fund, apologised and begged the Senator to forget the issue.

He said he always feel embarrassed whenever he sees Senator Marafa.

Adewole said: “I want you to accept the final apology and let us move forward”.

But he said he was not aware of the NHIS fund.

Buhari expresses shock at Katsina killings Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock as he received reports of killings in his home state, Katsina, assuring citizens that the government would restore peace and stability in the polity.

Bandits had on Tuesday killed more than 26 people in an attack on three communities in Dan Musa, Faskari and Batsari local government areas of Katsina State.

The President, on Wednesday, directed Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu and Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin to constitute an assessment team to intervene immediately in the state, and bring a feedback.

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, stated that President Buhari, specifically, instructed the security chiefs to find out how the operation was carried out by the perpetrators, not minding the Holy month of Ramadhan, and put in place structures to prevent future occurrence.

The President, who has been briefed on the criminal and political intents of the attacks in Katsina and other parts of the North, described the carnage as senseless.

Buhari admonished that all those instigating violence in the

North and other parts of the country will be exposed and made to face the wrath of the law.

The President commiserated with the Governor and people of Katsina State over the losses. He prayed that Allah will comfort those who have lost loved ones.

It was reported that 11 persons were allegedly killed in an attack on Sabon Layin Galadima community of Faskari LGA, while five persons were killed at Mara Zamfarawa village in Dan Musa LGA with many animals rustled.

The bandits were said to have attacked farmers on their farmlands in the afternoon in Yar Gamji village of Batsari LGA, killing 18 people with 10 others missing.

Spokesman of the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, said those killed in Faskari were members of a vigilante group.

He said: “On the Faskari incident, a group of Yansakai (vigilantes) from Sabon Layi village, went into the forest and confronted the bandits since yesterday and did not report back. Two corpses were recovered and buried by the villagers yesterday”.

“A search party led by the DPO in Faskari recovered three other bodies inside the forest. A bandits’ camp was also discovered abandoned by d bandits. Investigation is ongoing.”

We’ve learnt from Buhari’s humility, selfless leadership- Ministers Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The valedictory session held at the State House Council Chamber, Abuja, on Wednesday, afforded ministers opportunities to reflect on the journey so far, with some of them recounting their experiences.

On his part, outgoing Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami said: “I will forever remain grateful to the President for finding me worthy to serve in his cabinet; it was an opportunity that exposed me to leadership skills especially for national development.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, recalled the helicopter crash involving the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, the health challenges that confronted the President at the initial stage of the administration, the death of James Ocholi in a car crash and recession that hit the country as some of the worst experiences that characterised the administration.

Minister of State Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri said Buhari will remain a lesson in humility and selfless service, adding that the mere fact that the President was able to manage the economy following

the drop in oil prices at the international market stands him out better than Venezuela example.

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, thanked Buhari for shunning personal sentiments in appointing him, according to him, despite the fact that he was relatively unknown to the President prior to 2015, he trusted him enough to serve in the cabinet.

He equally lauded the Vice President for rallying the ministers at any point in time to achieve set goals.

Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, said despite being in politics for four decades, his experience in the last three and half years in Buhari’s cabinet will remain a reference point for him.

He seized the opportunity to advise Nigerians to embrace ICT. Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said the degrading of the terrorist sect Boko Haram, especially reclaiming annexed local council authorities would remain a defining moment for Buhari’s government.

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said despite being a journalist with a critical mindset, the President never for once asked him for any favour, not even to influence contact awards.

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FG denies default in foreign fine payment Short News Andrew Orolua, Abuja The federal government has denied media claims that its property abroad would be confiscated if it fails to pay about $40 million judgment fine in a case between it and the Processes and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) before February 15 next year.

Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) made this clarification on Wednesday.

He said there was no truth in the media reports that should the federal government fail to pay the fine before February 15, P&ID could enforce the award against Nigeria by seizing its assets in the United Kingdom.

He noted that noted in the first place, P&ID never incurred a debt of $40 million while executing the gas supply and processing agreement entered with the federal government in 2010 in respect of an accelerated gas development project in Nigeria’s OMLs 67 and 123, adding that “P&ID never began the construction of the project facility although, it alleges it incurred about $40 million in preliminary expenses.”

Malami, who addressed a press briefing Wednesday, noted that there was so much misrepresentation in the media concerning

the issue, hence the need to put the records straight.

The minister said the ministry would do everything possible to protect the interest of the country in the matter, adding that the Buhari administration is challenging the award of the fine in courts in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively.

He stated that the federal government is represented by the foreign law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP as the legal proceedings are currently on-going in both countries, assuring that the federal government will ensure that its interest and that of the people of Nigeria are vigorously defended.

“Meanwhile, as proceedings were ongoing in the United States, P & ID simultaneously, commenced recognition and enforcement proceedings of the arbitral award against the federal government in the UK Commercial Court. The case came up for hearing on 21st May, 2019 and has been further adjourned to 14th June, 2019 at the instance of the UK Commercial Court due to judicial availability.

“Consequently, the government is vigorously defending its interests in the United Kingdom. It is entirely proper for Nigeria to raise and to strongly assert all

available and proper defences to the claims brought by P&ID. “The foregoing facts are the true state of things and contrary to the false assertions widely circulating online that “if Nigeria fails to pay the judgment fine before February 15, P & ID can enforce the award against Nigeria by seizing its assets in the United Kingdom.

“It must be highlighted in light of the above that neither the US District Court or the UK Commercial Court has granted P&ID any enforcement orders against the government as the proceedings are still ongoing with the interests of Nigeria being vigorously defended.

“We urge our foreign friends and investors to ignore the malicious reports as the federal government is making concerted efforts through legal and diplomatic channels to resolve the issues in contention between the parties in this matter.

“It is therefore, unfortunate that false and unsubstantiated information in relation to the matter is currently being circulated. The general public should thus be well guided and rest assured that the office of the attorney general of the federation and our foreign counsel is committed to effectively defending the interests of the federal government of Nigeria in the matter as always,” he stated.

Senate urges FG, Rivers to tackle insecurity in state Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Senate has urged the federal government and Rivers state governments to tame the rising cases of heinous killings in the state by working together in developing workable strategies to tackle the menace The resolution followed the adoption of the motion sponsored by Senator Andrew Uchendu (APC/Rivers East) titled: “Frightening killings in Rivers state” at plenary on Wednesday.

The senator painted a scenario of horrendous beheading of people and eventual burning of their corpses by killers that have pervaded nooks and crannies of Rivers state.

He insisted that the spate of killings in the state has been under- reported in the media while he claimed that people are being killed in the state on daily basis.

Presenting the motion, an emotional Sen. Uchendu said the killing of innocent citizens as a result of murder, kidnapping, violence or abduction had been happening unabated in Rivers state for more than a decade.

Dickson advocates rotation in electing NGF chairman Tunde Opalana, Abuja Governor of Bayelsa state and Chairman of the South South Governors Forum, Henry Seriake Dickson has called on the 36 governors to adhere to the principle of rotation in the election of a new leader for the Nigerian Governors Forum.

The governor said in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, that the decision on who should be the next chairman of the forum should be guided by the time tested principle of rotation between the North and South.

The governor said that the next chairman of the NGF should come from the South with the end of the tenure of Gov. Abdulazeez Yari òf Zamfara state.

The governor added that governors elected under the platform of the PDP would not contest the position in consonance with the precedence that the NGF chairman should be a ranking governor from the ruling political party.

He stressed that the PDP governors would not make any move to endanger the time honoured principle guiding the emergence of the chairman of the NGF, but noted however, that the next NGF chairman should emerge preferably through consensus among the members of the forum.

He said that “I am calling on the governors who would assemble today to take a decision on the chairmanship of the governor’s forum to be guided by the time tested principle of rotation between the North and the South.

“Now that the Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari, governor òf Zamfara state would be ending his tenure, we expect that the next chairman should come from the South.”

Ganduje to keep commissioners until May 29 Ahmad Sorondinki, Kano

L-R: Past president, The Nigerian Society of Engineers, Lagos Branch, Engr. Yetunde Holloway; 3rd runner-up, Eletu Odibo Senior High School; 2nd runner-up, International School, Unilag; winner, NSE, Lagos branch annual inter-School quiz competition, Igbobi College; and Vice chairman, NSE, Lagos branch, Engr. Ayotunde Ogunmoiki, during presentation of prizes to the winners of the competition in Lagos... on Wednesday.

Photo: Olawale Rotimi

A’Court reserves ruling on Delta North senatorial seat Andrew Orolua, Abuja A three-man panel of the appellate court headed by Justice Adamu Jauro on Wednesday reserved judgment on two separate appeals filed Senator Peter Nwaoboshi and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the decision of Federal High Court, Abuja that nullified Sen. Nwaoboshi election.

Justice Jauro, who reserved the judgment, however, said that the appellate court will deliver its judgment not later than June 3 before the expiration of the statutory 60 days for the hearing of the appeal.

Sen. Nwaoboshi representing Delta North Senatorial District, who also won the February 28 election, is asking the appeal court to reverse the lower court’s decision delivered by Justice Ahmed Mohammed and to restate his victory as senator-elect.

At the hearing of the appeal on Wednesday, Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN),

counsel to the appellant after adopting his brief of argument urged the appellate court to uphold the appeal and restate Sen. Nwaoboshi as the senator- elect for Delta North Senatorial district.

He said that two issues are involved in the appeal. First, is whether the case as filed by Ned Nwoko at the Federal High Court was a pre- election matter and statute barred at the time it was filed.

The appellant lawyer asked the court to consider the reliefs which were sought by the respondent- seeking a declaration that he won the PDP primary election which was not granted by the lower court.

He further urged the court to look at the result sheet of the primary election that was tendered by both the appellant and Nwoko at the lower court and find the date the primary took place, maintaining that the suit being a pre -election matter was first filed at the Federal Capital Territory High Court after the 14 days allowed by law had elapsed.

On the second issue, Idigbe (SAN) urged

the court to hold that respondent (Nwoko) had the burden to show that the processes he filed at the lower court were served on the appellant. He said that till date the respondent never served them with the court processes, that the appellant only became aware of the suit from the media.

Besides, he added that Nwoko did not appeal the lower court refusal to declare him winner of the primary election.

Responding, Nwoko’s lawyer, Ahmed Raji (SAN) urged the court to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the suit was filed within time allowed by law. He explained that the action which ignited the suit was the publication made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showing the list of party candidates.

Counsel to the PDP, Emmanuel Enoidem whose brief of argument was struck out having been withdrawn by him relied on the submissions made by Idigbe while Anthony Onyeri, who represented INEC did not file any brief, but pledged to abide by the decision of the court.

Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said that all commissioners would remain in office till May 29.

In a press release signed by the Director Press to the governor, Abba Anwar, Ganduje commended his commissioners for being dutiful, transparent, committed and prudent in the management of their respective offices in the last four years.

He made the statement Wednesday during the last executive council meeting, saying this would not be the end of their stay in office, since his first tenure would come to an end on May 29.

“I thank you for being prudent in the management of your respective ministries’ resources. You prove your mettle by exhibiting exemplary leadership,” he stated.

According to Anwar, the governor singled out his Deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, even though he came mid-way into the administration, but contributed immensely towards the development of the state.

On the appointment of new permanent secretaries, Ganduje reveals that “we are putting in place procedures that will not pave way for business as usual. Business shouldn’t be as usual.”

He explained further that while appointing permanent secretaries, the state government would consider the inclusion of professionals and technical people the chance to come on board.

The governor assured that those who applied for the position, after being shortlisted would go through test and after being appointed, they would be placed on provisional appointment for a period of six months before being confirmed.

Army denies allegations against GOC 6 Division

The 6 Division of the Nigeria Army has described the recent allegations of aiding and abetting oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region against its general officer commanding

by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state as baseless, spurious, unfounded and a figment of the governor’s imagination.

Reacting to the governor’s allegation against the General Officer Commanding (G0C) 6 Division, Major General Jamil Sarham, the Deputy Director Army Public Relations of the Division, Col. Aminu Iliyasu challenged the governor to provide proof of his allegations by adhering to laid down procedures of petitioning the chief of army staff for redress.

The public relations officer of the division who threw the challenge in a press release dated May 20 and circulated in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, further accused Wike of wanting to tarnish the image of the GOC for his refusal to accept the gratification he offered to compromise the last general elections in his favour.

The statement said that the campaign of calumny against General Sarham and the Nigerian Army leadership by Wike did not start today, asserting that the governor has failed to use civilised and legitimate options to prove his allegations against Sarham.

“On the mischievous accusation against General Sarham leaking proceeds of state security council meetings to criminals in Rivers state, Wike knows well that Maj. Gen. Sarham is not a member of the Rivers state security council, neither has he ever approached the gates of Rivers state Government House since his assumption of office as the GOC 6 Division.

“Wike only came face to face with General Sarham on the 15th of January 2019 during the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Parade at Isaac Boro Park.

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As Buhari jumps into the ‘true federalism’ bandwagon

Jideofor Adibe

President Buhari’s recent call for ‘true federalism’ has left many people confused and wondering what his real intentions were. At an award ceremony organised by the All Progressives’ Governors’ Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on May 10 2019, the President was quoted as saying: “We remain committed to improving the welfare of the Nigerian people. Your Excellencies, it will be belabouring the point to say that true federalism is necessary at this juncture of our political and democratic evolution.”

Though Buhari did not explain what he meant by ‘true federalism’ – and many proponents of the term have conflicting notions of what it means – it is generally accepted as either a call for a return to the regionalism of the immediate post-independence era or a model of restructuring that will include tinkering with the current structure of the country and its system of fiscal federalism. Buhari never wanted to be part of that conversation – even when it would have been politically expedient for him to do so in the run-up to the 2019 presidential election. In fact in the run-up to the presidential election, when it became obvious that restructuring was going to be a big campaign issue, Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) turned from dismissing its proponents as opportunists and denying that it was part of its campaign promises, to inaugurating a committee on ‘true federalism’, chaired

by Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who was at that time a vocal critic of the whole clamour for restructuring. The El Rufai committee submitted a report last year and made some recommendations, including devolution of power to states, resource management, internal security and merger of states, among others.

However many viewed the committee and its recommendations as a ruse, something

cobbled up just to broaden the APC’s political appeal in the South during the election. The truth is that restructuring, like its earlier incarnations of ‘sovereign national conference’, and ‘national conference’ has been largely a tool by the Southern faction of the political class in their competition for power and lucre with their Northern counterparts.

Despite the recommendations of the El Rufai report, and the brouhaha around restructuring at the time, Buhari refused to be identified with it. I did not think it was right of him to refuse to even discuss it but I respected his honesty in not trying to reap cheap political capital by expediently embracing it. Therefore for him to embrace the call for ‘true federalism’ after the election, when he apparently has nothing to lose by sticking to his gun of ‘hear no evil, and speak no evil’ as far as restructuring is concerned, means that he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

There are a few issues that need to be cleared up urgently: first is that there is nothing like ‘true’ or ‘false’ federalism. Every federalism is unique and no two federations are alike. In fact every unitary state has federalising features and every federal state has centralising tendencies. The nature of a country’s federalism – the mix between the federalising and the centralizing featuresis informed by the peculiarity of that country’s history. The second issue is the tendency of proponents of ‘restructuring’ or ‘true federalism’ to romanticize it as the magic elixir that will solve all the country’s developmental problems. More worrying is an uncritical abstraction from some of the features of the First Republic’s regionalism that served the country and the regions well without counterbalancing these with some of the negatives from the experience such as the tendency of the regions to hold the centre hostage or suffocate the

minority ethnic groups in their respective enclaves. While the country cannot be sustained on its current structure – both from geographic and fiscal restructuring perspectives – the suggestion that once we embrace restructuring or true federalism all our problems will be solved is eitheroverly optimistic or naïve. Restructuring – or returning to ‘true federalism’ (if it is ever achieved), will solve some problems and naturally create new ones. It can only be achieved through negotiations that will factor in the fears and aspirations of different parts of the country. It is also likely to come through incremental actions rather than a quantum leap of many radical changes.

Whatever may be Buhari’s true intention for joining the ‘true federalism’ bandwagon, what has come across from that move is a certain concession that contending ideas for development should be given listening ears, even if not accepted. Hitherto, he gave the impression of being inflexible and set in his ways, and regarding those with contrary ideas of development as not even deserving any attention. Without prejudice to the challenge of the outcome of the election, it is hoped that Buhari’s conversion to a proponent of ‘true federalism’ will signal a change inhis style of governance during his second term in office. While giving him the benefit of the doubt and being hopeful, it will be germane to remind the President that intentions and declarations are not enough.

For instance before his inauguration on May 29 2015, he claimed that he was not going to concern himself unduly with the past but would draw the line from the time of his inauguration. Contrary to that declaration, he spent most of his first term in office blaming the Jonathan government for the ills of the country, even self-inflicted ones. Also on the day of his inauguration he famously declared that he belonged to

everyone and to no one – only to come up with his statement about those who gave him 95 per cent support and those who gave him seven per cent votes. In the same vein, rather than belonging to all and no one, his government was routinely accused of favouring his section of the country in critical appointments. In essence, if the President really meant what he said about true federalism, then he will also have to muster the necessary political will to resist contrarian forces that will come in different guises and with different arguments to derail him.

While I was overall quite impressed with the conciliatory tone of President Buhari’s speech on May 10 2019, I was disappointed that he was unable to make a neat break with his ‘comfort zone’ of blaming all the problems of the country on past leaders. He was quoted as saying: “Hence, against the backdrop of the challenges we have been passing through as a nation arising from past economic and political mismanagement (emphasis, mine), we must feel justifiably proud to have contributed actively in getting Nigeria back on track in the last four years in human and infrastructure development.” The President also wondered what would have happened to the country if the opposition did not come together to seize power from the PDP, which he accused of frittering away the country’s wealth. For him, the APC came to power to save the country from collapse.

Apart from some untruths in such sweeping generalizations, and the ‘messiah complex’ that is embedded in such narratives, it will be nice to see a new Buhari that is not fixated on the alleged malfeasances of past governments and the suggestions that good governance has never happened in the country except during his military rule more than 25 years ago and during his second coming as a civilian President.

Lifeline for war-weary Borno people Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X

Zainab Okino

In one of the tweets I posted about the progress in education and the industrial leap in Maiduguri recently, Jones Abiri, once imprisoned for two years on trumped up charges of subversion, responded thus: “this is unbelievable and is contrary to what we have been hearing about the state”.

Abiri was not alone in his incredulity. Until late last year and the penultimate week, it had been over 10 years since I went to Borno State, and going as far as Southern Borno.

Like everyone else, since Boko Haram took over the North-East, the thought of going to that State is not just suicidal, it sends shivers down the spine; yet here is a region, including parts of Yobe and Gombe like Damaturu, Potiskum, Gashua, Gombe, Askira Uba, Michika, I used to cruise through with my fearless and daring driver, Ahijo (he is not from Cameroon though), while reveling in the vast environment of the ‘as-far-as-you-can-look’ beautiful desert lying fallow, with the exception of herders and their animals that could be sighted from afar. These were before Boko Haram took over these same lands.

Boko Haram predated the administration of Governor Kashim Shettima and its devastating consequences for years.

However, but for the recent thawing and degrading of the terrorist group, who would have thought that paradise was not already lost in Borno State to the dare-devil insurgents.

Besides, despite the disruption of normal daily living in Borno State and the destruction of hundreds of lives and property worth billions of naira in the many battlefronts that abound in the State, the people of Borno, led by their ebullient

and affable Governor Shettima, are ready to obliterate insurgency with optimism, hope, transformation and development of their State, and restore it to its past glory, no matter how tortuous the journey is.

So, while visitors might be apprehensive while driving through Maiduguri metropolis due to the prevailing security situation reports they get every day, for the residents of this huge and vibrant city, life is becoming normal and daily activities are going on without any glitch. It should be noted that it is neither the reduction in the number of attacks nor suicide bombings that has given residents renewed confidence. There is more to it — from the hope, assurance, empathy and concrete rebuilding efforts of the government.

The subtle messages of government and development of critical infrastructure is engendering trust that people can live their normal lives again, work and walk freely and feel that the government has their back.

The Kashim Shettima government, the federal government’s massive deployment of troops and humanitarian interventions, the reconstruction, and rehabilitation efforts under the supervision of the now governorelect, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, are all proven antidotes to despair, which have given the people the happy faces seen in Maiduguri. Although the fringes and outskirts, not too contiguous to Maiduguri, still record some form of attacks, the certainty of a renewed Borno State is on the horizon.

Western education, to be or not to be, was the focus of Boko Haram’s war on the area, even though some of their leaders are ‘educated’ in this model.

Meanwhile, if the 44 mega schools and other educational facilities receiving the attention of the current administration had been in place years back, perhaps many of

the insurgents would probably not have turned out to terrorise their people and those in the environment. In other words, they became outlaws because they had no good educational foundation. Conversely, the kind of schools I saw in Borno State, many of which surpass private and public universities in Nigeria, could be the answer to reverse the ugly trend of insurgency in the region. Benjamin Franklin said, “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest”. So, while the lack of investment in this sector has come back to haunt us all, Shettima’s investment in education is the appropriate way to avoid the mistakes of the past, having built the best primary schools in the State, including boarding facilities that serve as home and school for orphans of the insurgency. “Each of the schools is designed with air-conditioned classroom, digital teaching aides built with K-YAN technology that is customised with local curriculum. The schools have libraries, playgrounds, dining halls”, and meals are served gratis, while uniforms are provided free of charge too.

Most of these schools are named after prominent personalities in society, including former governors Modu Sheriff and late Mala Kachala; the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari; and business mogul, Aliko Dangote, for supporting Borno State and victims of the war.

With his interest in education seen as the antidote to the current malaise of misguided youth drafted into the war, perhaps Shettima is at one with Malcolm X who was quoted to have said: “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”.

For Borno children attending one of these schools, their future is somehow secure with the solid foundation already established by today’s government. And for the first

time in the history of the State, under the guidance of Shettima, Borno already has a university. The bill establishing it has been passed into law and major structures are already in place waiting for academic activities to commence.

Apart from the attention given to education, other social services such as health, infrastructure and industries to absorb the teeming unemployed youth are also not left out. The industrial hub caught my attention. The practical demonstration of their works, to show how chairs and desks are being produced, was such a sight to behold. They produced one for me to sit on and I can attest to its pleasant aesthetics and durability. So also is their solar panel assemblage, which has the capacity to produce 120 megawatts of electricity annually.

The health sector is not left out. The equipment are modern, state-of-the-art and some of the best in Africa, such as the 1.5 MRI Tesla machine; the 4D ultrasound; the S70 echo cardiogram; the digital and internet enabled 500 MA X-ray and the ICU containing care space R860 and P450 ventilators and monitors. Going by the sophistication of the equipment, healthcare surely occupies a special place in the Shettima administration’s priorities.

Equally, there is the Green House project to harness and recycle waste produce, packaged for use in a sustainable agriculture value chain. With that in place, waste will be avoided and farmers will get value for their money, but the bottom-line in all these is that employment will be generated.

With an elaborate foundation in education in the State, as being established

by Governor Shettima, who says Macolm X’s prognosis that education is the key to liberating the mind has not come to stay in Borno State?

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Editorial Commentary

Lessons from Suleja’s royal gladiators (I)

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

In 1993, the commercial gateway city and baptismal-mother of ‘Abuja’, namely Niger State’s Suleja, was embroiled in one of the fiercest royal succession tussles in the history of Nigeria. By the way, Suleja was originally ‘Abu-ja’, named after one of its earliest Zazzau (Zaria) kings, ‘Abu’ (nicknamed ‘the red one’ or ‘ja’ for courage). ‘Abuja’ ceded its name in the 70s to General Murtala Mohammed’s dream Federal Capital, and since then adopted ‘Sule-ja’, after another of its ‘red’ kings, ‘Sule’, or Sulaiman Barau. Following the demise of the last but one Emir, Ibrahim Dodo Musa in 1993, Suleja was engulfed, for years, in a bloody succession crisis after self-serving State powers attempted to tamper with the Emirate’s succession laws to accommodate a certain preferred candidate-prince who, legally-speaking, had no right of contest under the Kingdom’s Native Laws and Customs.

Reportedly, most members of the emirate’s Kingmakers’ Council and a majority of the people of Suleja –supported morally and materially by the city’s huge Igbo community- wanted Bashir Sulaiman Barau, an unassuming, not-too-eminent retired Federal Civil servant, to succeed his uncle Dodo Musa under the alternate, partially-primogenital rule of succession historically adopted by the emirate’s two recognized royal Houses of ‘Abu-Kwaka’ and ‘Abu-Jatau’. Both Awwal and Barau were from the ruling Abu-kwaka house whose turn it was to produce the king. And since the rule was that princes eligible for contest must descend directly from the last Emir in the ruling house whose turn it was to produce the next king, the not-too-eminent retired civil servant, Bashir virtually had everything going for him: he was favored by the Kingmakers, preferred by the people and descended directly from a father, Sulaiman Barau (the Sule ‘ja’) who was the penultimate king from the candidate-ruling house.

But the then Niger State civilian Governor, Dr. Musa Inuwa, allegedly in deference to the preference of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Gado Nasko, was openly on a mission to install Bashir’s cousin Awwal Ibrahim, -a more educationally exposed, more politically-experienced and connected former civilian Governor of the State under Shagari. In all fairness although he was favored by the influence of his two ‘General’ friends, Awwal was nonetheless the more eminently qualified of the two contenders. And by the way, even Dr.Musa Inuwa’s National Republican Convention (NRC) Governorship seat was said to owe to the god-fatherly discretion of IBB and Nasko; in addition to the fact that the Governor was Nasko’s own lecturerclansman surreptitiously pulled out of UDUS classroom only a few weeks to party primaries. Helping Awwal to the throne would be Inuwa’s first opportunity to repay his liege-ships for their patrician favor.

“The blood more stirs to rouse a lion” Shakespeare said “than to start a hare”. It was also alleged that the attempt to use state power to interfere with royal prerogatives in Suleja was also to test the waters for an upcoming task, namely the creation of an emirate back home in Nasko District where General Nasko’s District Head elder brother was scheming for the upgrade of his little borough into a fiefdom. Plus, it was alleged also that the Emir of Minna Faruk Bahago, who was a lone supporter of the State on Suleja, was hoping too, that State power could help him pull a royal chestnut out of the fire of an adverse succession rule under his emirate which favored the seven Gbagyi District heads over the lineage of a demised king. So now the irony was that, whereas Bashir had everything going for him except the support of the State, the State’s preferred candidate, Awwal Ibrahim had a fundamental legal handicap.

Although he was from the same ruling house as Bashir, he neither descended from the last but one king, nor was he even descended from a father who was a king.

Like Kano’s Sanusi Lamido Sanusi only Awwal’s grandfather, Mamman Gani was king. And just like Lamido’s grandfather-king suffered a politicallymotivated deposition and banishment, Awwal’s too

did not die on the throne of his forefathers. They said that he was deposed and banished to Kaduna in politically-motivated circumstances. Meaning that the only thing going for Awwal was the anointing of his two powerful military friends, and the zealotry of a sitting Governor. He had neither the law nor kingmakers who would implement the law on his side. Plus he faced a strong plebeian opposition on the streets of Suleja. All the same, in a letter to the kingmakers authorizing the commencement of the selection process, Governor Inuwa was categorical, that the State expected nothing less from them than Awwal’s name making it, at least, to the list of three nominees that the Council was expected to recommend to the Governor and from which the prerogative would be his to choose one. And so, not to take any chances, he had appointed two Directors from his office and two loyal LG chairmen to serve respectively as Secretary to the Council, supervisor and observers of the selection process. Plus the Governor had earlier communicated the trimming down of the 7-man kingmakers Council to 4.

Yet the kingmakers, whether in deference to the succession rules or so not to take chances too, not only excluded Awwal’s name, but all three of their nominees were sons of the late Emir Sulaiman Barau, -with the favored eldest one, Bashir’s top on the list. Expectedly this was outrightly rejected by the Governor on the grounds, ironically, of improper constitution of the kingmaking council. Thereafter, a desperate Governor Inuwa now resorted to a most despicable self-help measure: he requested the Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers headed then by the Etsu Nupe Umaru Sanda Ndayako to assume the kingmakership and select an emir for Suleja. It was as ridiculous as when President Jonathan, a Bayelsan attempted to influence the choice of an emir for Kano; and just as it will be too if the Sultan of Sokoto, -following pressure now mounted on him- were to arrogate the right to interfere with the creation of new emirates in far away Kano.

Dr. Inuwa in a memo to the Etsu Nupe Council had cited sundry ridiculous reasons for inviting it, including the fact that the Suleja Kingmakers had openly demonstrated bias in favor of a particular candidate, and that their insistence on applying the rule of direct lineage was more discriminative than it was altruistic. And short of expressly demanding the nomination only of Awwal, the Governor had said that given Suleja’s strategic entrepot location, it required a ‘more educated, more competent and more experienced’ emir than the Suleja kingmakers were ready to admit.

Suffice it to say that almost immediately, the Etsu Nupe had rallied all the State’s First Class emirs -less only Minna’s, who was embedded with the State- to communicate their outright rejection of the idea that they should be involved in the desecration of the timehonored Kingmaking institution from whence they all came. They observed that since the role of traditional rulers in modern times was essentially one of ‘advise’, ‘mobilization’ and ‘public relations’, it was Inuwa’s unsolicited prioritization of so called ‘good education’, ‘exposure’ and ‘experience’ that was unrealistic, -because they said ‘acceptability’ and ‘goodwill of the people’ are the most crucial requirements for the making of kings, not necessarily ‘education’ or ‘experience’ which are preconditions to the making only of mere potentates.

In any case the Council also argues that Bashir too was above average educationally, and that having retired as a very senior Federal Civil Servant, he was modestly ‘experienced’ and ‘exposed’ enough to be king.

If Governor Inuwa and his military godfathers thought they could ride roughshod over the royal prerogatives of Suleja emirate, with this baptism of fire they now knew this ‘game of throne’ would not only be ‘battle royal’, it would require a ‘war room’ and a ‘war chest’ to prosecute. Just as Kano’s Ganduje too, must be realizing by now, that the race is not after all to the swift; or the battle, to the powerful..!

To be concluded

OUR POSITION Beyond passage of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill Recently, the Senate passed the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill which the House of Representatives had passed almost a year ago.

The bill if transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari and receives his assent before the 8th National Assembly winds up in the first week of June this year, will definitely upgrade the funding of Nigeria Police.

As it is now, only the Federal Government is legally responsible for the funding of the Nigeria Police, even though we all know that States Government, some corporate entities and individuals are bearings some of its day to day running expenses if not the larger part of it.

The Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill is meant to address the inadequacy in funding of police particularly the training of its personnel and acquisition of modern equipment that would enable optimal and effective policing of the country.

One of the major objectives of the bill is to improve funding for the Nigeria Police Force. This point was further stressed

by President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who presided over the Senate that belatedly passed the bill.

He was very clear in his remark that by the passage of the bill the National Assembly had fulfilled its promise to pass it before expiration of the 8th Assembly.

“By passing this bill, we will be creating big strides towards providing and improving security and policing in our country.

We agree with him that “one of the

major concerns about our police has always been the issue of funding”. We believe that this bill will provide leeway for the funding needed for training, recruitment and equipment. It will also act as a relief to the Federal Government who had borne the burden all these years.

Technically, the bill is aimed at providing a legal framework for the management and control of the special intervention funds established under the Act for the training of personnel of the NPF. The trust fund should also be utilised to enhance the skills of the personnel of the Police in order to ensure their effectiveness in the overall performance.

Needles to state that constant improvement in the performance of their duties is what the country is craving for.

We also expect that the trust fund would be used to ensure that the NPF has the necessary operational equipment, instructional materials, build and maintain police stations and living quarters.

We therefore appeal to the President to consider assenting the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill as soon as it is transmitted to him to avoid it been elapsed in June this year. Though, we are not expecting that the bill may contain contentious provisions, we plead that in case there is any, it should be resolved hastily.

The management of the police force should be thinking how to make best use of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill and safeguard it to ensure that it is not bedeviled by graft and all forms of vices.

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9.5m pupils benefiting from FG’s school feeding scheme - Uwais Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja No fewer than 9.5 million pupils in 56, 000 public primary schools across the federation are currently benefiting from the Federal government National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).

Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, who disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, said that the programme provides one nutritious and balanced meal for 200 school days for about 12 million pupils in classes one to three in public primary schools.

She spoke during the opening of a two day capacity building workshop for the use of the “School meal planner for developing meals on the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme organised by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) in collaboration with New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD).

Mrs Uwais also revealed that about 872,700 household figures of clean data comprising 3, 492, 001 individuals from 28 states are benefitting from the programme, adding that

the federal government has enrolled caregivers from 422, 992 households being paid in 26 states, including the Borno IDP camps.

Speaking further, the special adviser said that the government enterprise and empowerment programme is providing financial support and training to small businesses, petty traders, farmers and artisans at the bottom of the financial pyramid in every state across Nigeria.

“We have been able to cumulatively provide loans to 1, 707, 932 beneficiaries across three products; the MarketMoni, FarmerMoni and TraderMoni with the support of the Bank of Industry, who manages the programme on behalf of our office.

“N-Power is the employability and enhancement programme of the federal government aimed at imbibing the learn/work entrepreneurship culture in youth between the ages of 18 -35. For graduate volunteers, 500, 000 youth are deployed to serve in the teaching, health and agricultural sector.

“Technology devices are made available to the N-Power volunteers, which content facilitates continuous learning; to enable them successfully implement the selected vocation thereby encouraging entrepreneurship and

self-reliance.

“For non-graduate volunteers, 26, 000 have been trained and are serving in the automobile, building, hospitality and technology (hardware and software) sectors in 36 states and the FCT,” she added.

Earlier, an official of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Boitshepo Bibi Giyose called on the federal government to enact a law that will sustain the school feeding programme as is currently done in Ghana.

“NEPAD started the school feeding programme in 2003 in some African countries and Nigeria was one of them. I am coming here to support the country in developing a tool for designing nutritious school meal.

“For the sustainability of the programme, Nigeria both at the federal and state levels to ensure that there are enough investment not only financially, but with a capacity to design, redesign and evaluate the programme with a view of putting in place mechanism for sustainability,” she added.

The programme is designed to increase enrolment rates by mopping up the huge numbers of out-of-school children in Nigeria, while tackling early year malnutrition.

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Short News Ngige denies plans to proscribe NUPENG Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Ministry of Labour and Employment has dismissed as cheap and unconscionable lies the allegations by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that the Minister, Chris Ngige was on a vendetta mission to proscribe NUPENG. In a statement signed by the Head of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, Rhoda Iliya, the minister warned the leadership of NUPENG to desist from misleading the public by spreading wrong information about the ministry.

The warning came less than 72 hours after the NUPENG leadership had accused the minister of threatening to proscribe the union.

NUPENG President, William Akporeha, in a statement said that the minister, Sen. Ngige issued a directive to the union to produce its only outstanding financial returns for 2018 within 72 hours when the extant law stipulates 30 days.

He also accused the minister of carrying all their files right from inception of the union in 1978 to date in a bid to fish out phantom reasons he intends to use in proscribing the union.

But, the labour ministry described the allegations as not only false, but mischievous, maintaining that the ministry was only carrying out its statutory functions as NUPENG was not only singled out neither was it asked to produce only the annual report of 2018 as they had conducted in their 2019 conference.

He also declared that the ministry has no intention of proscribing NUPENG or any union whatsoever, though constitutionally empowered to do so if need be.

“It is evident that the ministry was only carrying out its statutory functions. NUPENG was not singled out, neither was it asked to provide only the annual report of 2018 as they had conducted their 2019 conference.

Users of unregistered SIM cards threat to national security – NCC Joseph Inokotong, Abuja

L-R: Public Affairs Manager (Lagos/West), Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC), Ifeoma Okoye; Director, Employment Generation, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Abdulhakeem Ashimi; Public Affairs and Communication Director, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, Ekuma Eze; External Communications Manager, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, Olatomiwa Akande and Programme Facilitator, Sam Obafemi during the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited Youth Empowered Workshop held in Abeokuta.

Insecurity: PDP tells Lai to apologize to Nigerians Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had charged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to apologize to Nigerians for misleading them that the country is safer, bearing in mind the daily security breaches across the land.

The minister was also accused of heating up the polity with unfounded security breach allegations against the PDP and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Faulting the minister’s assurances on Monday, that the nation was safe for the presidential inauguration, the party said Mohammed has further exposed the fact that he, acting for the federal government only conjured claims to create the impression that the PDP and Atiku Abubakar had set security breaches against the presidential inauguration.

PDP described as lamentable that the Buhari administration in its desperation

to secure acceptance from Nigerians and confer legitimacy on the government, would manufacture and purvey fake news to the public.

The party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it is appalling only for Nigerians to learn from the same minister that his earlier claims against the PDP and its presidential candidate were not based on any concrete evidence.

The party stressed that the minister’s claims that he relied on certain alarms fell flat as no agency in the country had ever accused the PDP as a political party, or its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar of “doing everything possible to sabotage the Buhari administration, generally overheat the polity and make Nigeria seemingly ungovernable” as claimed by Lai Mohammed.

“It is now clear that the whole essence of the misleading allegation was to heat up the system, attempt to cow democratic voices, divert public discourse from the rigging of the

presidential election and scare the PDP and our presidential candidate from pursuing our stolen presidential mandate at the court.

“We also have fears that Alhaji Lai Mohammed could have made those wild claims in a bid to pave the way to frame, harass, arrest and detain some opposition figures on trump-up charges.

“Such antics have failed as Nigerians have seen through them and are resolute, behind Atiku Abubakar, in the determination to retrieve his mandate in the court, and no form of blackmail and intimidation will detract from that resolve.

“By his fabricated claims, the minister only succeeded in further de-marketing our dear nation in the international arena, causing more damage to investors’ confidence in our system and exposing this administration as the purveyor of fake news,” said Ologbondiyan.

The PDP therefore, asked Mohammed to apologize to the nation and desist from such acts of incitement.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned that those using unregistered SIM cards pose serious threat to the nation’s security. It lamented that in spite of enlightenment efforts, some customers still deal in unregistered SIM cards.

Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, NCC, Sunday Dare said this during a North East regional sensitisation workshop in Gombe.

He added that Nigerians must appreciate the dangers associated with fraudulently activated SIM cards.

“The availability of improperly registered SIM in any corner of Nigeria is a threat to the security of all,” he warned, adding that those who use such SIMs contribute to the insecurity in the nation.

“As we all know, the objective of subscribers’ registration is basically to assist in easy identification of mobile telephone users and detection of crimes committed through the use of mobile phones, hence the need for proper registration,” he added.

He said the commission had carried out enforcement activities throughout the country and registration agents had been arrested while registration machines and fully activated SIMs by agents were confiscated.

Dare said perpetrators of such acts were prosecuted and fines had been imposed on them, saying that the workshop would address all these challenges and come out with solutions on how to tackle those issues.

The Director, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement, Efosa Idehen said the sale of already registered SIM cards by agents to the public was a crime. He said mobile network operators and their agents must abide by the laws which prohibit the release of fully activated SIMs into the market.

NAFDAC seizes N2.6m fake, substandard goods in Enugu Moses Oyediran, Enugu The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized fake, sub-standard and unwholesome drugs, cosmetics and medical devices worth N2, 650, 000 at Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu by the Deputy Director and Head, Ports Inspection Directorate, John Okwori on Wednesday.

Okwori said that the seized items were imported from China, USA and Dublin in Ireland, adding that the items were seized in the interest of safeguarding public health.

According to him, surveillance and vigilance operations have been helpful at carrying out these seizures, adding that “all the illicit consignments were abandoned by their respective importers.’’

The director noted that the seized consignments include cartons of Isner Mile Minoxidil hair spray imported from China estimated to be N200, 000 and a carton of unlabeled off-white powdery substance estimated to worth N500, 000 from China.

Others are two big bags of Eomay toothbrush for children estimated at N450, 000 from China, two travelling bags with donated drugs and medical devices from USA estimated to worth N500, 000 and nine travel bags of medical devices estimated to be N1, 000, 000. ``NAFDAC is working relentlessly to ensure that the airport, especially

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N20m fraud: 2 former NBA chairmen, Treasurer docked Peter Fowoyo, Lagos

Two former chairmen of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, Adesina Ogunlana and Yinka Farounbi, were on Wednesday arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos for allegedly defrauding the lawyers’ umbrella body.

Docked alongside the duo was a former treasurer of the branch, Aderinola Kappo.

The erstwhile executives are accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of conniving and stealing N20 million belonging to the association.

Mr Farounbi served as chairman between 2014 and 2016 with Kappo serving as treasurer during the period while Mr Ogunlana served as chairman from 2016 to 2018.

Mr Ogunlana is charged with 15-counts of stealing and one-count of money laundering, while Mr Farounbi and Kappo are jointly charged with 13 counts of stealing.

They, however, pleaded not guilty to the 30-count charge.

According to the EFCC Prosecutor, S. O. Daji, Mr Farounbi and Kappo allegedly committed the offences from June 15, 2016 to April 9, 2018 in Lagos while Mr Ogunlana is alleged by the anti-graft commission to have committed the offences from July 18, 2016 to April 10, 2018.

“Farounbi and Kappo on 13 occasions without authorisation and in order to facilitate the stealing of N20 million funds belonging to the Ikeja Branch of the NBA issued cheques to Ogunlana.

“The cheques were paid into Ogunlana’s personal bank account No. 2004528818 with First Bank Plc during his tenure as Chairman of NBA Ikeja branch.

“He dishonestly converted the funds to his personal use,” Daji said.

Shedding light on the money laundering charge, the prosecutor said: “Sometime in 2017, Ogunlana converted to his own use, N1 million out of N2.8 million purportedly paid to Brand in Demand Ltd for the NBA Ikeja Branch.

“In order to disguise the legal origin of the money, informed Adegoke Dairo of Brand in Demand Ltd to issue him an invoice/receipt No. 82871 as purported payment for the NBA Ikeja Branch,” he said.

The offences contravened Sections 278, 285(1), 330 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos 2011.

Following their plea, Mr Daji asked the court for a trial date and for the former NBA Ikeja executives to be remanded in prison custody.

“I will like to request for an accelerated hearing, we have 14 witnesses who are willing and ready to testify in this matter,” he said.

Counsel to the defendants, Akinola Olatunji, said: “We are anxious to see the determination of this matter.

“We have filed an application for bail dated May 17 and we have served our learned friends.”

The EFCC prosecutor, however, told the court that the anti-graft commission was only served the bail applications of the defendants in court before the arraignment.

He noted that he would “vehemently” oppose their bail application.

“The lives of our witnesses are in danger; the lead investigator in this matter is being threatened by the agents of the first defendant (Ogunlana).

“Even my learned colleagues are threatening me but I’m not afraid. I’m doing what their taxes were paid to do,” Mr Daji said.

Justice Mojisola Dada in granting the defendants bail, noted that they were ex-officio members of the NBA Ikeja branch.

“The first and third defendants (Ogunlana and Kappo) have been coming to court since Monday. This is proof of their preparedness to face their trial.

“The defendants shall release their international passports to the custody of this court pending the hearing and determination of this suit.”

The court has adjourned the matter till Monday June 3, 2019 for trial.

Short News Tribunal upholds Wike’s re-election, dismisses Labour Party’s petition Amaka Agu, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by the Rivers State 2019 Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Chief Isaac Wonwu, against the re-electoral victory of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for lacking in merit.

Justice O.K Kaigama of the Tribunal, dismissed the petition following a motion for withdrawal, moved by counsel to Chief Wonwu, Mr. Uche Ulemene.

The judge also stated that the Labour Party Governorship Candidate withdrew the petition on his own volition and that there were no illegal agreements that necessitated the withdrawal.

Counsel to the Rivers State Labour Party Governorship Candidate had sought the leave of the Tribunal to withdraw the petition and strike out same.

He informed the Tribunal that his application to withdraw the petition was accompanied by a notice of consent to withdraw, marked as Exhibit adding that also annexed was an affidavit against illegal terms of withdrawal.

Police arrest INEC staff with 4 card readers in A’Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo The kwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Ejike Nwankwo a staff of Akwa Ibom State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for alleged illegal possession of four card readers after the 2019 general election.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, a Superintendent of Police who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect has since been released on bail while a ‘’discreet’’ investigation was on-going to get to the bottom of the matter.

According to him, the Police have written to the electoral body for more details on the four card readers. ‘’Yes, there was an arrest by the men of the Command and the said person is an INEC staff. He was found to be in possession of four card readers.

We have written to the Commission demanding to know why he was in possession of the card readers.” ‘’One, we know he is with the ICT department after we had carried out a preliminary investigation. The Commissioner of Police has ordered us to carry out a more discreet investigation into the matter.”

Police establish gender crime desk in Jos Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

Members of the Creative industry in a group picture with the acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu.

Scores feared dead as gunmen attack A’Ibom community Isaac Job, Uyo No fewer than 15 persons are feared dead while others have been declared missing following an early morning attack on Ikot Adaba fishing community in Oku Iboku clan , Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State .

An eyewitness Mrs Nkoyo Etim said the attack which took residents of the fishing settlement unaware left several people wounded as in the attempt to scamper for safety.

The gunmen according to the eyewitness were suspected to be natives of Ikot Offiong community in Cross River state who have been in age long communal conflict over ownership of land adding that the attacks has crippled commercial activities in the fishing community .

Mrs Etim further confirmed to our correspondent that the chairman, Itu local government area, Mr. Etetim Onuk accompanied by the Army operations officer, 2 Brigade, Uyo, Capt. SS Jatau and the DPO, Itu local government

area visited the scene of the incident to restore law and order.

Also, another anonymous indigene of the community while confirming the development to the Daily Times said that search for the missing persons has commenced.

“You know in an attack like this, the corpses will start to float like 24 hours after. So, the search for the missing has started. No corpse has been found yet.

“The gunmen were suspected to come from Ikot Offiong, they came in speed boats and started shooting sporadic but were prevented from further attacks by men of the Nigeria Military on the beach who returned fire for fire’’.

Confirming the attack in a telephone interview, the Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer Supol Odiko MacDon promised that the police will investigate the incident.

He expressed worry over the repeated clashes between both communities in Akwa Ibom and Cross River states saying, ‘’ I haven’t gotten a brief on that, I have not gotten the complete

information on that, but, immediately we get the report, we will commence a full scale investigation to determine the cause, and of course look at preventive measures to forestall future occurrences. ‘’But, basically, the commissioner of police, CP Zaki Ahmed has been very concern with the situation at Oku Iboku, which is said to have lingered for too long”, “I think not just security solutions are needed, but, political solutions also are needed. I think it’s high time also governments of both states, leaders of thought of both states come together, and review the existing relationship between both communities of both sister states, in order to ensure that the needed peace will be prevalent in these areas”.

It would be recalled that the boundary crises between Oku Iboku community in Akwa Ibom state, and Ikot Offiong in Cross River state which have lingered for decades now have so far claimed thousands of lives and property worth several millions of naira.

Worried over the rampant cases of rape of minors in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State the Nigeria Police Force has established a gender crime desk in Jos community of Nassarrawa Gwom.

The Desk which is to be manned by experts from operatives of the Nigeria Police Force is established to cater specifically for gender-based issues and serve as the first port of call in cases of abuse as many victims do not know where to table their complaints when they are abused in any way.

Explaining the need for the Desk, the Executive Director, Centre for Peace Advancement in Nigeria, CEPAN, Rev. Samuel Goro who disclosed that his organization is working in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace, USIP, West Africa Network of Peace-building, WANEP and the Nigeria Police Force noted the prevalence cases of gender-based crimes perpetrated in communities and the need for urgent mechanism to curb the trend.

Goro stated, “The Gender Crime Desk aims to improve the survivor’s experience with the Police by increasing instances of reporting through tollfree hotlines, effective case management and specialized care which will hopefully lead to higher prosecution rates and reduce the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence in Jos North. The Desk will bring the Plateau State Command of the Nigeria Police Force in line with international, regional, national and State conventions like the Africa Charter on Human and People’s Rights.

NYSC Management happy with facilities at orientation camp in Niger Saka Bolaji, Minna The state coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Ajayi Fumilayo has commended the Niger state government for expediting action on provision of facilities at the Orientation Camp in Paiko area of the state.

She stated this on Wednesday while speaking with the leadership of Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Niger state council in her office.

She explained that her office has submitted technical drawing of the projects to government, adding that “as we speak the engineers and officials of government have inspected locations with a view to mobilizing to site.

Fumilayo said that she was particularly happy with the solidarity of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello in his determination to upgrade facilities at the Orientation Camp, adding that “the governor has attended to our plight personally and directed the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) who is the chairman of NYSC state governing board, to ensure that works commenced smoothly”.

She said that the state Deputy Governor Alhaji Ahmed Ketso has also granted her audience few days ago to fine tune final arrangements .

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Nigeria produces 8m tonnes of rice, Short News Kebbi parents call for scraping of JAMB says farmers’ body Joseph Inokotong, Abuja

Nigeria’s annual rice production has hit the 8 million metric tonnes mark, according to the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN).

The association which disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, added that the association is targeting actualizing the production of 18 million metric tonnes by 2023.

President of RIFAN, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, who disclosed this, said it is misleading for people to say that Nigeria currently produces a little above 4 million metric tonnes of rice.

Alhaji Goronyo said “the production as of today by RIFAN and other relevant agencies record is 8 million metric tonnes, even Kebbi alone has hit almost 2 million metric tonnes if not for the last flood that devastated the farms.

“It has been established by relevant agencies that Nigeria is the largest producer of rice in Africa as the population of rice farmers in the country has also risen.

“With the ever increasing population and the total ban on rice importation, RIFAN is targeting 18 million tonnes by 2023.’’

He said the feat was achieved with the

disbursement of N40 billion by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (CBN/APB) to over 12.2 million rice farmers.

He said that “in 2018/2019 wet-season RIFAN/CBN/BOA, Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) farming model in Kebbi and Adamawa states has 26, 000 rice farmers out of the 10 million farmers from 32 states targeted for the project benefited from the pilot project. Under the first phase of the programme, 6, 800 hectares of land were cultivated at the cost of N203, 000 per hectare.

“It is a cashless project that provides farmers the needed farm inputs, which comprise improved seedlings, water pumps, chemicals and other services like land preparations were also under the project, mechanised services was made available to farmers.”

The RIFAN president said that all the participating states under the scheme have converted their pilot programmes into massive production resulting in high cultivation.

According to him, under the anchor borrowers’ programme over 33.6 million Nigerians were gainfully employed and due to the support of the template by CBN, additional 5 million applications have been received to be members of RIFAN.

Goronyo said with the total ban on rice importation by the government and collaboration between RIFAN and customs to tackle rice and paddy rice smugglers across the nation’s borders, more feats would be achieved by rice farmers.

He added that the association was collaborating with the federal government towards reducing the cost of production aimed at crashing the price of milled rice.

The RIFAN president commended the efforts by companies and agencies working towards ensuring self-sufficiency in rice production in the country.

He observed that Olam Nigeria Limited had also set up a multi-million dollar integrated rice mill in Nasarawa state with the capacity of producing 36, 000 metric tonnes of rice per annum while the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) had also distributed over N2.9 billion across 13, 900 hectares of rice farms comprising 40 projects.

Also, he added that NIRSAL has facilitated the flow of over N4.2 billion into the rice value chain through commercial lending, even as large-scale commercial rice producers were already expanding their production with the establishment of 14 large-scale integrated rice mills by the private sector.

Haruna Aliyu usman, Birnin Kebbi

Anguish, pains, frustration and despair best describe the feelings of parents whose children were affected by this years’ mass failure recorded in the just concluded Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Examination (JAMB).

An opinion poll carried out by correspondent, revealed that the examination body contributed to the mass failure as it only paid attention to meeting the huge remittances it makes into government’s coffers instead of the basic rudiments that will facilitate success in the examination.

A mother, Zainab Abdul said JAMB lied from the onset when it said it had reduced application fees, as prospective applicants ended up around N6, 000 or even above, instead of the N5, 000, declaring that the reduction was a mere paper work and media propaganda.

She also condemned the decentralization of examination centres, stressing that parents were at the receiving end because they had to transport their wards and pay for their accommodation, adding that the imitative exposed candidates to the dangers of kidnapping and avoidable accidents.

Zainab urged the federal government to scrap JAMB because it has outlived its usefulness, as the examination body denies determined and brainy applicants from getting admissions into various tertiary institutions in the country.

According to her, she was angry hearing the JAMB register general bragging about how much he remitted into the federation account amid the mass failure in the examination.

Another aggrieved parent, Usman Bala accused the government of using the UTME to reduce the number of applicants since it has failed to give employment to the huge number of graduates, adding that JAMB is a non- profit making body that should focus more on the reason for its establishment.

Jonathan receives accolades for stopping Ebola, polio Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja

World Bank’s new global Director for Health, Nutrition and Population, Dr. Ali Muhammad Pate has commended former President Goodluck Jonathan for his administration’s landmark achievements in the health sector, stressing that future generations would honour the former President for his good works.

In a tweet, Pate poured encomiums on the former President over his successful primary and secondary health schemes, noting that Jonathan stopped the spread of Ebola and eliminated polio in the country.

Dr. Pate stated this in response to Jonathan’s earlier tweet congratulating him for his appointment as the global director for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank.

Commending the former President, Pate wrote: “Thanks very much sir @GEJonathan for the immense honour of serving on your team 2011/13.

Your leadership delivered largely polio-free Nigeria, halted Ebola, new vaccines, MSS (midwife services scheme), SOML (Saving one million lives), introduced RBF/NSHIP (Nigeria State Health Investment Programme) and many great things in the health sector. Future generations will honor you.”

In an earlier congratulatory message to Dr. Pate, the former President had said: “I congratulate Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, my former minister of state for health over his appointment by World Bank as global director for health, nutrition, and population. Since he left the country in 2013 to take up an international appointment, Dr. Pate has continued to soar like an eagle on the global stage. He exhibited prodigious capacity and professionalism as a member of my cabinet. I have no doubt that he will do very well in his new position.”

Enugu Assembly passes virement of N7.1bn Moses Oyediran, Enugu

L-R: Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Professor Joseph Fuwape hands over the Glo-Huawei ICT Solution package from Globacom to one of the best students of the institution, Emmanuel Ogundeji of the Department of Remote Sensing and Geoscience Information Systems, while Globacom’s State Manager for the state, Mr. Segun Oguntuase watches during the presentation at the school recently.

FCT flags-off farming season, distributes gas cylinders to rural women Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello has flagged-off the 2019 farming season with the distribution of cooking gas cylinders to rural farmers to help stop deforestation and the use of firewood for cooking as well as stem the trend of global warming.

Addressing the farmers, the minister also ordered the distribution of fertilizers, seeds and seedlings, herbicides and pesticides as well as other agro-chemical products to the farmers.

Earlier, the Secretary, Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Nzekwe Ifeanyichukwu, said that with the support of the minister, the territory has recorded upward review of funding for fertilizer and other assorted farm inputs, including tractors from about N98 million to N500 million at the end of the 2019 procurement process.

“As a result of this increase, more NPK, urea, liquid organic, liquid inorganic fertilizers, seeds and seedlings, herbicides and pesticides as well as other agro-chemical products will be distributed to our rural farmers at six locations in our agro-service centres located at Gwagwalada, Gwagwa, Kwali, Kuje, Tungamaje and Bwari. The

allocations will be given on equal basis of not more than 1-3 bags per farmer.

“I will like to appreciate the FCT minister, who along with the FCT executive approved a policy of 50 per cent subsidy on all agricultural inputs, which means that these inputs will be sold at 50 per cent less the market price.

“In addition, he led the FCT to review the policy on charges pertaining to agricultural buildings and structures and consequently, approved a reduction of the existing charges downward. This means large commercial farms will be encouraged to erect or acquire standard structures that would enhance their productivity,” he said.

The Enugu state House of Assembly has passed into law the bill seeking to authorise the issuance and appropriation of N7, 185, 000.00 for capital and recurrent expenditure for the year ended December 31, 2019.

The law passed thus is to enable the executive transfer monies originally provided in the appropriation law from one ministry to the other as well as monies meant for one project to another.

Recall that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi presented a budget appropriation of N109, 199, 243, 000.00 for the 2019 fiscal year. Explaining the merits of the bill, Leader of the House, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, said that the bill does not alter the 2019 budget of over N109 billion.

“This does not alter the appropriation. What we are doing is to move money from one section to the other,” he said.

Explaining further, he said that N1.5 billion which was originally voted for the completion of the international conference centre was reduced to N7 billion, thereby saving about N800 million for other projects.

Ezeugwu said that the executive cannot spend any money without authorisation from the legislature, pointing out that “that was why the executive came to us.”

The bill was eventually passed into law with a motion moved by the member representing Ezeagu Local Government Constituency, Chima Obieze.

In a related development, the House also passed into law the law seeking to amend the law that established the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu to allow for a multi- campus status which it was originally designed before it was altered in 2004 which made a one campus university.

Before the passage of the bill, it generated controversy as some members wanted the university campus to be sited in their zones.

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What’s unique about 12 incoming governors? (3) Oluwaseyi Makinde: Bringing youthful vigour into governance of Oyo State Patrick Okohue, Lagos The election of Oluwaseyi Makinde as the next governor of Oyo State have been described by many as an open door for the younger generation into the politics of the state, with many unique ancient cities.

Makinde, 51, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will go down in history as the youngest person to be governor of the state in the current political dispensation, succeeding men like Lam Adeshina, Rashidi Ladoja, Christopher Alao-Akala and Abiola Ajimobi, all of whom were much older than his age when they assumed office in the ancient town of Ibadan.

The emergence of Makinde therefore has been seen as a test case for the younger generation to prove how well they are indeed ready to take over the mantle of leadership from the older generation.

Makinde, an Electrical Engineering graduate of the University of Lagos, can be said to have done well for himself in his personal capacity, enough to trust him with the affairs of a state despite his seeming lack of experience in the political terrain.

The Ibadan born governor-elect did his national service (NYSC) with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria, where he was later engaged as a pupil engineer, rising to become a Field Manager in the same company.

He established his first oil and gas private business called Makon Engineering and Technical Services, (METS) at the age of 29 in 1997, growing it to become a group of companies and today he is the Group Managing Director of Makon Group Limited, an indigenous oil and gas company in Nigeria.

Born to a renowned teacher turned accountant, the late Pa Olatubosun Makinde and Madam Abigail Makinde of Aigbofa Compound in Oja’ba, Ibadan, Seyi, who is the third child of the family, began his education at St Paul Primary School and completed his primary education at St Michael Primary School, Yemetu, Ibadan. His secondary

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education was at Bishop Phillips Academy, Monatan, Ibadan and he gained admission to the University of Lagos (Unilag) in 1985.

He has also had some foreign academic exposure which further exposed him to international best practices but in engineering and administration generally, which it is believed will be added advantage in his new responsibility.

However, as intimidating as Makinde’s curriculum Vitae may be, he needs to know that his election was not necessarily because of it, but more because the man who calls the shot at present, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, was rejected by the people more because of his attitude than for the love of Makinde.

He must also realise that some others who were rejected in the state had similar intimidating credentials if not better, yet they lost favour with the people, therefore for him to succeed, he must endeavour to find out why others failed.

Now that he is about to climb the ladder of leadership in the state is the best time for him to free himself from any and every primordial sentiment and open his heart to work for the people in the true spirit of a great Ibadan son, who can be described as an ‘Omoluabi’.

If anything, the people of Oyo State, especially Ibadan, are hungry for peace and security, a clear departure from the times when thugs called the shots in the state. He must make concerted effort to build on the achievements of the outgoing governor in the area of ensuring that members of the Road Transport sector no longer have the capacity to hold the state by the jugular.

Makinde has been described severally as a kind hearted man who cannot endure the tears of others, and with his philanthropic gestures, people’s hopes were rekindled.

From his personal accounts, Makinde has been putting smiles on the down-trodden, the poor, the vulnerable, the indigent, the less-privileged, and, in some cases, the haves.

He has cheerfully given assistance to religious groups, schools, and individuals. He has given scholarships and bursary awards to students. All of these he did through the Seyi Makinde Organisation, not as a political office holder.

Perhaps bearing these in mind, the Oyo State electorate spared no efforts to vote massively for him on March 9. It is expected that the next government of Oyo State should consolidate on the developmental agenda he has begun, even, before being in government office.

It is incumbent on the governor-elect to look for a way of incorporating all of these in his government’s agenda.

If the next government’s agenda is in converse to these gestures, then, the electorate would quickly submit that all the gestures of the governor-elect from the past were only meant to induce and cajole the voters.

He should always remember that four years is still at hand when electorate decides again.

Expectations are daily increasing on massive employment opportunities. In primary and secondary schools, there is shortage of teachers.

Agriculture will, in addition, boost the economy of Oyo State. The teeming youths of the state should be adequately encouraged to focus on agriculture with a view to building a robust economy.

Though there are many expectations of the incoming governor, the first few days and weeks in office will go a long way in showing the direction he intends to go and the policy drive he intends to pursue. it is only hoped that the central point of whatever policy he has will be Oyocentric.

Babagana Zulum

Prof. Babagana Zulum set to fast-track rebuilding of insurgency ravaged Borno Tunde Opalana, Abuja The story of Professor Babagana Umara Zulum is a unique one. He was not born with a silver spoon but had a humble beginning from a peasant background in Mafa town, Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State.

He strived to become what he is today by dint of hard work. He was a University don and of recent elected Governor of Borno State.

He paid for his secondary education and National Diploma (ND) fees and also sponsored his university education for a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture at the University of Maiduguri by working as a commercial taxi driver as well as farm produce driver to make ends meet.

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Zulum extended his commercial driving trade to Lagos, precisely at Alaba-Rago to raise his tuition fees for his MSc programme, three weeks after resumption.

Surprisingly he returned to Maiduguri for his PhD programme where he moved through the ranks and file within the university community until his appointment as Professor in 2014.

The coming of Zulum to govern Borno at a time that the state is getting reprieve from insurgency activities and displaced persons gradually returning back home will be a good omen.

This is because the governor - elect was saddled with the responsibility of rehabilitating and resettling victims of Boko Haram insurgents in the state by the outgoing administration of Governor Kashim Shettima.

He was appointed State Commissioner of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR)), one of the newly created State Ministries by Governor Kashim Shettima in his second tenure in office in 2015.

The demand of his office as a Commissioner made him susceptible to the attack of Boko Haram insurgents twice.

He was attacked for bringing

succour to affected persons but he was not deterred as the pressure on him to jettison rebuilding violated places didn’t stop his efforts to rebuild substantial parts of the ravaged communities across Borno State.

His persecution was so much that he did not have a house of his own.

The state government bought him a house and a car when he emerged as Borno State APC Governorship standard bearer in 2018.

With the attention the State is getting from the Federal Government especially the North East Development Commission (NEDC), a concerned governor in the mode of Prof. Umara will help in driving initiatives put in place to alleviate the suffering of the people.

His being part of the outgoing administration will no doubt boost the socio-economic development of the state.

However, the challenges before the incoming governor includes a drastic reduction of the number of out-of-school children in the state, utilisation of school buildings constructed by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan for Almajiri education.

The incoming governor has the task of improving lives of the people of Borno State by bringing life changing development to the grassroots and introducing social Intervention measures.

Babagana Umara Zulum had no difficulty in picking the APC governorship tickett during its primary election.

He swept aside 31 other contestants, polling 1,175,440 votes to beat his closest opponent, Mohammed Imam, who garnered 66,115 votes.

The APC candidate polled the highest votes cast in the 27 local government areas and fulfilled the requirements of the law.

This is the first time Borno State is having a young and energetic Professor as a Governor and First Lady (Governor’s Wife) as a PhD holder.

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Group urges INEC to cancel Imo West senatorial election accuses Okorocha of instigating violence during poll

Stories by Patrick Okohue A pan-Igbo social political group, Imo Renaissance has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the Imo West Senatorial District election with immediate effect due to the circumstances in which the poll was held.

The group in a petition to INEC said that there was overwhelming evidence of violence by agents of Governor Rochas Okorocha, during the poll.

In a statement issued by Chief Donatus Oparadike, the convener of the group, INEC erred to have allowed the election to go on, given the open show of violence and brigandage before, during and after the election in the senatorial district.

He said, “Without prejudice to the case now before the court and the tribunal, we are aghast that INEC didn’t annul the Imo West senatorial election amid overwhelming evidence of violence by agents of the incumbent governor, Rochas Okorocha, who is also a contestant in the election.

“We refer INEC to the decisions it took in elections with similar acts of violence, namely, the elections in parts of River State, Anambra, Lagos among others; all of which were cancelled and reruns held.

“We do not see any difference between these elections that were cancelled and the sham that happened in Imo West senatorial district.

“We hold INEC in high esteem and we expect it to show the same courage it demonstrated in states where elections in some flash points were cancelled and re-run held.

“What happened in Imo West was a display of primitive electoral values by the incumbent governor, who used state apparatus to oppress and intimidate not only the opposition, but INEC officials and the electorate, who trooped out to exercise their franchise but were scared away by armed agents of the governors.

“Those of us from this part of Nigeria particularly residents and natives of Imo West, who witnessed what happened during the election are still in shock as to why INEC failed to halt the election in the peak of the violence visited on INEC officials and the electorate. INEC ought to have declared the exercise a nullity, hours after the show of shame by Governor Okorocha and his agents.

“We wager that it is still not late for INEC to render nugatory the senatorial election in Imo West in the same manner it did in similar election in other states with similar circumstances of violence and crude undertakings of a few agents of destabilisation to abridge the will of the people,” Oparadike said.

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2023 Igbo Presidency: APC chieftain says Amaechi’s statement misunderstood A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South region, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has described as myopic and self-serving, an alleged recent derogatory remarks made against the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, by some elements of Igbo extraction, Eze in a statement issued in Port Harcourt said there was no basis for the attack as what the Minister did was merely stating the obvious.

The Minister of Transportation and former governor of Rivers state, Amaechi, had recently opined that it would be difficult and almost impossible task for the Igbo nation to expect the ruling party to give its presidential ticket to South-Eastern Igbo candidate because when the region had the opportunity to be counted among mainstream APC followers, they loudly rejected the opportunity and rather chose to line behind the candidate of the opposition party.

“For refusing to support the APC, they cannot come to the table to demand the presidency slot.

For people like us in the APC, if the Igbo had come and voted Buhari, they would boldly tell Mr President and the National Chairman of the party that presidency should go the South East, since the South-South, South-West and NorthWest have produced president. What argument would the South East come up with now to convince anybody that they deserve the slot for 2023 president,” Amaechi had queried.

However, Eze who is a well known voice on political issues in South-South region maintained that Amaechi’s statement had been blown out of proportion, maintaining that what the Minister said doesn’t in any way stop Ndi-Igbo from fielding or presenting presidential candidates for the 2023 election, but for working against the fortunes of APC during the 2019 general elections, they will not be expected to vie for the APC ticket, adding “it is a common and wise advice; you don’t eat from where you didn’t work for.

Amaechi “How does this harmless suggestion portray Amaechi as playing God or planning against Ndi-Igbo from fielding candidates for the 2023 presidential election?”

This notwithstanding, Eze counsels that this stand would not stop Ndi-Igbo either using PDP, APGA or any other political platform from fielding candidates for the 2023 presidential election if they so desire, but to vie for this position in APC based on the outcome of the 2019 elections is totally out of the equation.

“The fact remains that the Ndi- Igbo worked and voted for the Peoples Democratic Party, even adopted Atiku Abubakar as their preferred candidate for the 2023 presidential election not minding the consequences that Atiku’s economic agenda for Nigeria runs into 2026, indicating he will contest the 2023 presidential election if he had won, so where and how will the Igbo contest the 2023 election if their adopted candidate had won?

“Amaechi is a patriotic and illustrious Igbo man being married to an Igbo Lady, Dame Judith Amaechi, of Igbo extraction, besides his special love for Ndi-Igbo is infectious by doing everything possible to guide and protect the interests of Ndi-Igbo since he joined politics.

“Apart from marrying an Igbo woman, he appointed an Igbo man, Barr Chuma Chinny of Delta Igbo extraction as Commissioner for Commerce and Pastor Mrs Manuela GeorgeIzunwa who is married to an Igbo man as Commissioner for Women Affairs and accord me, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze a place of honour in the politics of Rivers State likewise many other Igbos’ he has placed in sensitive positions when he was the Governor of Rivers State.

“His chief driver and most of his cooks are all Igbos. Governor Nyesom Wike stopped the foreign scholarship to Rivers State students and canceled the employment of 13,000 teachers that Amaechi employed because Ndi-Igbo were listed as beneficiaries, so how can such a fellow be accused of working against the aspiration or interests of Ndi Igbo?

“Politics these days has gone beyond playing tribal and myopic politics and wanting to benefit from where you didn’t labour. Ndi Igbo should come together and proffer solutions to their seeming politics of exclusion from larger political interests and connections. Once they are able to put their house in order, nobody or force will deny them whatever they want in Nigeria,” Eze

PDP to Ogunlewe: You are free to leave if you so desire The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe to leave the party if he so desires.

The former Minister of Works had described the PDP as an unserious party, saying it is not a party anybody with political future should belong to.

However, reacting to Ogunlewe’s statement, Adegbola Dominic, the state factional chairman of the party, said his departure from the party will do the PDP a lot of good.

Dominic said: “Such disparaging remarks are unbecoming and not expected from a 75-year-old man who claims to be a leader of the party. Ogunlewe has been publicly supporting and hailing one Segun Adewale (aka) Aeroland, who has been openly declared a non-member of our party by the National Working Committee, and who has been disparaging our leaders and terrorizing them with his thugs.

“Ogunlewe has repeatedly lied that he was present at a meeting where I, as state chairman, canvassed support for the candidate of another party. This deliberate falsehood was obviously targeted at creating confusion and disaffection among the party members”.

“A respected former state chairman, Capt.

Tunji Shelle (rtd), who was present at the said meeting, noted that Ogunlewe was nowhere near the venue of the meeting. He declared that Ogunlewe is a confused man who should go take a rest.”

Ogunlewe had earlier denied media reports that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the report that he had dumped the party was not true. He said rumours of his defection was not true, but, he warned that the party was bedeviled with many crises which if not urgently resolved could spark exodus of people from the party.

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Bristow Nigeria increases fleet six aircraft Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Limited (“Bristow”), the leading provider of industrial aviation services in Nigeria has increased its Nigerian fleet size with the introduction of at least six additional aircraft in the past six months.

These state-of-the-art aircraft which include the Sikorsky S76D & S92, the Leonardo AW139 & AW189 helicopters, and also the Embraer ERJ 145 Jet aircraft serve to provide much more optionality and resilience to its operations in Nigeria, and further strengthen the company’s continuing support and commitment to its varied client base and particularly, to the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry as a whole.

Bristow is the first and currently the only operator of both the Sikorsky S76D and Leonardo AW189 helicopter in the offshore Oil & Gas Market in Africa and currently the only operator of the Sikorsky S92 aircraft type in Nigeria with well over 32,000 flight hours flown on this aircraft type in Nigeria since its introduction to the country in 2008.

The Sikorsky S76D helicopter represents the latest variant of tried and tested S76 Series. A proven aircraft type that has flown well over 7 million flight hours since its first variant came into operation in 1977. This medium sized aircraft type and its variants is the workhorse of the industry. With its two Pratt & Whitney engines, composite blades, low noise signature, smaller D-Value, modern avionics suite and 400nm range, the S76D (as with the S76C++ type) is ideally suited to support the daily shuttles to the Oil & Gas accommodation platforms and unmanned offshore installations in the Niger Delta.

The Sikorsky S92, on the other hand, is the largest helicopter type supporting the Oil & Gas industry in Nigeria today and arguably the only ‘heavy’ type aircraft currently supporting the Oil & Gas industry globally.

With its robust gearbox design, 540nm range and 19-Seat capacity, this aircraft is ideally suited to long range, crew change flights to offshore Rigs, FPSOs and also for Search & Rescue. Besides providing an ideal opportunity for client sharing, the aircraft’s internal seat configuration and large cabin space and cabin windows essentially provide such room and comfort as to qualify it as an ‘airliner’.

The Leonardo AW189 is a new 8-tonne helicopter that sits ‘midway’ between the S76D and the S92 in terms of its seat capacity, size and range. It has also been designed to comply fully with the latest international regulatory safety requirements EASA/FAA Part 29 and JAR OPS 3/ EU-OPS. A unique feature of particular importance to the AW189’s use for offshore and SAR operations are the fact that its main Gear Box has been designed to provide for a 50-minute run-dry capacity, well in excess of regulatory requirements.

Bristow currently operates two of these aircraft types in Nigeria and has recently received the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authorities (NCAA) approval to include the type on its Operations Specifications after a very thorough certification and approval process.

According to Captain ‘Dapo Oyeleke, Managing Director of Bristow, these additions to the Bristow Nigeria fleet signify the importance, growth potential and confidence the company has in the Nigerian market.

“Nigeria continues to be a very important market for Bristow. Besides an unwavering commitment to safety and exceptional service delivery, our business strategy revolves around our understanding of individual client’s future requirements and ability to accurately forecast the needs of the Oil & Gas market; and then proactively delivering safe, best in class, and cost-effective solutions tailored to fully meet those requirements.

“The twin-engined, air-conditioned Helicopters with 12, 16 and 19 passenger seat configurations in the medium, light heavy and heavy type categories offer our clients choice, flexibility and the ability to ‘breathe in, and breathe out’, in such a way that drives down their operating costs per seat, per mile, mitigates exposure to one ‘Original Aircraft Manufacturer’ OEM type and optimizes payload.”

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma (third from right) flanked by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr. Ernest Umakikhe (2nd right), Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale (right); Director General of the National Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER), Dr. Folarin Gbadebo-Smith (2nd left) and Special Adviser to the President on Planning, Mr. Tijani Abdullahi, during a press conference, in Abuja.

Emefiele identifies funding, electricity supply, others as challenges to MSMEs …assures entrepreneurs of favourable financing Motolani Oseni The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has identified access to finance and a conducive environment with constant electricity supply for uninterrupted production, as part of the biggest challenges faced by Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.

The CBN Governor, however, assured entrepreneurs set to commence operations at the Edo Production Centre, of the availability of favourable financing options through the apex bank’s NIRSAL National Microfinance Bank, to complement other incentives for industrial production at the facility.

Speaking during a visit to the Centre along Sapele Road-axis of Benin City, Edo State, Emefiele, stated that the production Centre provided by the Obaseki administration, has makes it easy for the CBN to have a place to meet people who are ready to do business.

He added, “As CBN, we are trying to deal with issues of access to finance and this place provides an opportunity.”

On opportunities for financing for SMEs, Emefiele said although Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and microfinance institutions are set up to deal with the issues of financing, the CBN in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee has established the National Micro Finance Bank to expand access to financing. We have set up over 20 centres for the National Micro Finance Bank (NMFB) across the country and I am sure Edo State will have a share”,

The Minister of Power Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has urged the contractors handling the ongoing works at Umunya section of Onitsha-Enugu expressway to ensure the completion of the project as scheduled in the contract Agreement.

opportunities for industrialisation. We are providing 24-hour electricity to ensure profitability, as we have eliminated initial setup cost such as cost for electricity, security, water, among others.”

Obaseki, also, assured the CBN governor that the Production Centre will be commissioned by the second week of June when the facility will be ready for business, noting, “A lot of people are interested in the facility. We have received about 200 applications from small business owners who have shown interest to own spaces at the hub.”

The Hub is a cluster for MSMEs in the state, where they will enjoy 24-hour electricity supply, share resources and other business support services aimed at boosting productivity. The cluster is to be set up in the three Senatorial Districts of the state.

Broadband penetration: NCC mulls 120,000 kilometres optic fiber by 2023 Ladesope Ladelokun The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has expressed readiness to cause the laying of not less than120000 kilometres optic fiber by 2023 to aid pervasive broadband penetration.

Danbatta made this known at a valedictory press conference held in honour of the Minister of Communications, Barr

Adebayo Shittu Danbatta, also revealed that the NCC had caused the expansion of the frontiers of access to Information and Communications Technology, adding that data usage had quadrupled from 20 terabytes in 2015 to 85 in 2019.

Meanwhile, in a related development, Infrastructure Company, MainOne, says it has committed N25 billion to lay 2,000 kilometres of fibre optic cables across Lagos in three years.

The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Funke Opeke told journalists on Tuesday that the InfraCo was committed

Timely completion of Onitsha-Enugu expressway, important to Nigeria’s economy, says Fashola Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja

Emefiele noted.

He said entrepreneurs who wish to benefit from the bank would enjoy singledigit interest loans, noting, “If you are given a loan with about 9 per cent and if you are getting constant electricity, your cost of production will certainly below and you can compete effectively, employ others and also grow the economy.”

On his part, Edo State Governor, Mr Obaseki said the Centre has helped his administration to move towards hitting the 200,000 jobs target of the state government.

He said, “We set up this hub to help us achieve our aim of creating a minimum of 200,000 jobs during the first four years in office in the civil service. We are not expected to give out the jobs in the civil service, but rather create most of them in the private sector. So, we are providing

Addressing the contractor, he emphasized the importance of Onitsha-Enugu expressway to the nation’s economy, hence the reason why the Federal Government has placed a high premium on the construction work, to ensure it is delivered at record time.

The minister which was represented by the Director Highways,

Construction and Rehabilitation, Engr. Yemi Oguntominiyi stated this during is on-the-spot assessment visit to the projects sites in Anambra state.

He expressed scepticism over timely delivery of the project because of the fast approaching rainfalls which he said might hinder the work and cause a delay. However, the contractor, Messrs. Reynolds

to collaborating with the Lagos State government and other stakeholders to build a digital Lagos and help citizens to enjoy a better quality of life.

“MainOne is pleased to have the opportunity to present its plan for Digital Lagos, a proven path to ubiquitous broadband connectivity. This plan will involve the investment by MainOne of over N25 billion over the next 2-3 years to develop critical fiber optic infrastructure to enable broadband services across Lagos state.”

Opeke added that the network to be

built by MainOne would provide essential connectivity to critical state institutions, 10,000 state CCTV locations, telecom operators, over 300 government agencies, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, et al.

Earlier, Danbatta had lamented that the Right of Way issue had refused to go despite the existence of a document guiding what should be charged.

Also, he called for more Information and Communications Technology capacity building in the country in order to take advantage of the digital transformation that is taking place in the world.

Construction Company Limited (RCC) promised to deliver on the project irrespective of the rainfall.

The Federal Controller of Works, Anambra State, Engr. Adeyemi Ajani was of the opinion that considering the progress of work so far, it was obvious that RCC will definitely deliver on target.

Also inspected was the Federal Secretariat, Awka where painting works have commenced. The Director promised outstanding

payments would be made as soon as approval was given from the Presidency.

Just before rounding off the sites inspection, Engr. Oguntominiyi also inspected the National Housing Programme in Anambra where he assured the contractors that the Minister would discuss the challenges of access road with the State Government in order to ease the movement of materials to and fro the site.

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Pay attention to water transportation as Tourism enhancer, Amachree urges govts Temitope Adebayo

L-R: Executive Director, Pharma Sales & Marketing, Mr Chukuka Chukutem; Managing Director, Mr Nnamdi Okafor and Executive Director, Corporate Planning & Strategy, Mr Valentine Okelu all of May & Baker Nigeria Plc during the company’s Walk for Life programme to mark the 2019 World Hypertension Day in Lagos… recently.

Anticipation as Nigerian workers await implementation of new minimum wage Workers in Nigeria’s business and economy space are not only excited about signing of the new minimum wage by President Muhammadu Buhari last month; they are anticipating the full implementation by the private and public employers, including government at local, state and federal levels. JOY OBAKEYE writes...

Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new minimum wage of N30, 000, barely two weeks to the May 1 Worker’s Day celebration which had been due for review since 2016.

Although, the implementation was expected to take effect from Thursday, April 18, as announced by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Mr. Ita Enang; workers expectations have been left gaping as the date passed on.

According to Mr Enang, the bill now makes it mandatory for employers of labour in both public and private organisations to pay N30, 000 as minimum wage.

“This makes it compulsory for all employers of labour in Nigeria to pay to their workers the sum of N30, 000.

undergo before the commencement of its implementation, even though it had been passed and signed into law. ”It is a whole process and the salary and wages commission will do its job before implementation,” the minister said.

He said that the committee was made of seven ministers with the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita as Chairman.

The minister said that those at the lowest cadre of employment whether in the public or private sector would earn N30,000 as the law provided.

Ngige did not state when the government would start payment but said that arrears would be paid anytime implementation of the new wage began.

Inauguration of the new minimum wage implementation committee

Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have accused the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, of delay in issuing the circular for the minimum wage implementation.

The National President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba who led a protest im Abuja said “the minimum wage has been put into law, we don’t need to beg anyone for implementation.

“We are not going to see anybody for

Meanwhile, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, assured workers that the federal government will inaugurate the N30,000 new national minimum wage implementation committee.

He said there were still processes and procedures the new wage would

Labour reactions

implementation, the President passed the bill on the 18th of April and it takes effect from that day.

“Let it also be on notice that will not give any further notice or deadline on when our alert will be seen in our accounts which must be made public by the Federal Government”.

In same vein, the National President of United Labour Congress, (ULC), Comrade Joe Ajaero said, “We also commend His Excellency the President on his decision to give assent to the Bill despite the slight difference in figure. He acted on the side of Nigerian workers and we plead with him to assist us as we go into the most critical phase of getting it implemented.”

“ULC calls on all Nigerian workers and masses to be vigilant as we go through this critical phase of getting this law implemented. We are happy that many Governors have indicated willingness to comply but it is important that others come on board or face our collective wrath. We also warn private sector employers to immediately comply to avoid unsavory consequences. All Nigerian workers must remember that we did not get to this level by charity but by struggle.”

Worker’s reactions

Speaking with The Daily Times correspondent, the Secretary General of Private Telecommunication and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN), comrade Okonu Abudullahi on behalf of his union, said the delay in the implementation of the minimum wage is a sad one.

“It only shows the lack of comitment of those governing us to the plight of the common man. They always drag their feet when it comes to the welfare of the downtrodden but when it has to do with theirs the speed of light at which they implement is unimaginable.”

“Recall that the organised labour had to go on series of industrial actions before the new minimum was signed to law. Have you ever seen our leaders embarked on any action to press home their demands. No way, there’s no need for any action because their demands are met promptly over and above what is legitimately earmarked for them.”

Abudullahi further stressed that, “Naturally, the workers’ morale will be down because their expectations are high towards the implementation of the new wage. Labour leaders will have to do a lot towards boosting the morale of the workers.”

LG committed to building sustainable brand on genuine foundations Ladesope Ladelokun LG electronics has reiterated its commitment to building a sustainable brand on genuine foundations to continue to unlock opportunities, create new markets, launch sub-brands and package innovations.

The company, in a statement, identified Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) as one of the activities in today’s competitive world today

experience increased sales, attract and retain top talents and prevent being going viral for the wrong reasons on social media in order not to suffer a damaged reputation.

According to the South Korean brand, it has proven to be a dependable brand in the area of sponsorship and social support, adding that it is looking to generate a positive idea of their products in the minds of their consumers.

It further stressed that the company would continue to support events that it feels can influence consumer opinions and bring a

positive change in their lives, noting that the rise of social media has put a lot of attention to external activities of each company.

According to Mr Hari Elluru, Head of Corporate Marketing, LG Electronics, West Africa Operations, “As a global company, LG Electronics wants to use its capabilities to help local communities all over the world solving some of their regional issues. For us, we believe that ‘Life’s Good’ when shared with others. We are committed to giving back to society because we believe doing good is good business.

“We have remained competitive while improving sustainability; we have enabled investment and innovation required to deploy new technologies and to safely and responsibly develop progressive products. LG Electronics will continue to support communities even in the future”, he said.

Over the years, the company notes, LG Electronics has vigorously pursued its CSR initiatives with all sense of responsibility and commitment, placing it at the forefront of giving back to society.

Nigeria’s Father of Tourism, Chief Mike Amachree has called on the governments across all tiers in the country to support and pay greater attention to water transportation as an important tourism enhancer.

Amachree was speaking while being hosted by members of the Association of Tourism Boat Operators and Water Transporters of Nigeria (ATBOWATON) at the Tarzan Jetty, Lagos.

He explained that all over the world, no country that wants to do well in tourism and transport neglects water transportation, saying it is a complementary mode of mobility.

According to him, a tourist has three means of movement: by air, by road and by water. I want to use this opportunity to encourage travellers to patronise aquatic tourism or water-based travel, which is the most interesting aspect of tourism. For instance, more people travel to Hawaii because of Wakiki Beach in Honolulu as well as Miami in Florida because of beaches. Here in West Africa, the Gambia, one of the smallest countries in the region attracts more international tourists because of the Banjul beach.

“Activities that can be embarked upon in water tourism include swimming, fishing, boat cruise, diving, water skiing, canoeing, boat regatta and many others.

“I want to use this opportunity to call on government at all levels to pay greater attention to water transportation and tourism. The operators in waterbased tourism sub-sector need greater encouragement and the enabling environment to operate.”

Amachree also called on government to build fuel stations at waterfronts across the country that would service operators of water transportation. He said the issue of building filling stations to service boat operators in water based tourism has been on for many years. The government needs to act by providing these operators with fuel stations instead of carrying jerry cans in search of fuel.”

He commended the Lagos state government for their efforts to open up the waterways and urged the state to partner with ATBOWATON to further improve the water transportation in the state.

“The Lagos State government has done much in building modern jetties, but they should partner with boat operators to further open up the water ways for safe travel on water and greater usage of the lagoons and the ocean.”

Amachree charged ATBOWATON as a body to reach out and involve other riverine areas of the federation.

His words: “I advise you to reach out and encourage water based tourism all over the country, and to include riverine areas of Nigeria in the association. Places to be included are Lokoja, Kogi State; Okitipupa, Ondo State; Twon-Brass, Bayelsa State; Argungu waterfront, Kebbi State, Oguta Lake, Imo State, Sapele waterfront, Delta State, Kono waterfront, Ogoni, Rivers State; Kainji Dam, Niger State; Port Harcourt tourist beach, Rivers State; Badagry waterfront in Lagos; Nike Lake, Enugu; Bagauda Lake, Kano; Kaduna River waterfront, and many others.”

National President of ATBOWATON, Mr. Tarzan Gani Balogun, said it was in recognition of the tremendous contributions of Chief Mike Amachree that the boat operators decided to hold the special event in his honour. Tarzan said Amachree has been the galvanizing force in the promotion and development of tourism in Nigeria, and he had been of tremendous help to tourism industry practitioners all over the country for many years.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 *TRUSTEES* 1. ABUBAKAR MUHAMMAD ABDULLAHI - CHAIRMAN 2. TUKUR MUHAMMED MUSTAPHA 3. HALIMA ABDULLAHI *AIMS & OBJECTIVES* 1. TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY THROUGH PROVISION OF SUPPORT FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED INCLUDING ORPHANS, ALMAJIRI, HOMELESS AND DESTITUTES. 2. TO PROVIDE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO COMMUNITIES THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT OF TRAINING CENTRES AND SCHOOLS 3. TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES THROUGH PROVISION OF CLEAN WATER, ICT AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES. 4.TO DISSEMINATE ISLAMIC INFORMATION THROUGH PUBLIC AND EDUCATIONAL ISLAMIC PROPAGATION ACTIVITIES INCLUDING LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES.

TEENS OF LIGTH INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES ARE: 1 UGONMA JOHNBOSCO OZIGBU-PRESIDENT 2 JOHNBOSCO CHUKWUMA OZIGBU-SECRETARY 3 EBOIGBE JOY ONYINYECHI-TRUSTEE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 TO TEACH TEENAGERS ABOUT GOD. 2 TO INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND MENTOR TEENAGERS EMPOWERING THEM WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR AUTHORITY AS CHILDREN OF GOD.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEE

SIGNED: BARR IBE KELECHI

TOWER OF POWER MIRACLE ASSEMBLY INT’L

JOULES INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION CAC/IT/NO: 124785

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES ARE: 1) IGBINOMWANHIA ANDREW 2) IYEKEKPOLOR OSASERE ESOHE 3) OSADIAYE DORIS AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

BETTER YOUTHS FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NKEREUWEM, MITCHEL 2. NKEREUWEM, INEMESIT MITCHEL 3. NKANTA, SHADRACH SACHIEL 4. ITA, OKOKON ITA 5. UKPONG, GODWIN AUGUSTINE 6. OKON, OFONIME FELIX 7. AKPAN, ISAAC ROBERSON 8. UMOH, EMMANUEL SAMUEL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO INITIATE PROGRAMMES THAT WILL EMPOWER THE YOUTHS IN ORDER TO BECOME SELF- RELIANT AND UNDERTAKE PROGRAMMES WHICH WILL HELP IN REDUCING THE RESTIVENESS OF THE YOUTH. 2. TO ENGAGE AND TRAIN THE YOUTHS IN LEADERSHIP, SKILL ACQUISITION, MENTORSHIP, INTERNSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

DIVINE CLOUD OF GLORY & FIRE MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES ALSO AMENDMENT OF PART OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990

TRUSTEES ARE 1) OLADIMEJI OLUFEMI OREOFE - RE-APPOINTED 2) OLADIMEJI OLAJUMOKE OMOLOLA - RE-APPOINTED 3) BIELONWU MICHAEL KAMA - REMOVED 4) CONSTITUTION SHALL ALSO BE AMENDED ESPECIALLY ARTICLE 4 AND OTHERS 5) OLADIMEJI OLAJUMOKE OMOLOLA SHALL ALSO BE APPOINTED THE SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. ADEGBE ISIAKA DAIKWO SAMUEL 2. MAJI PAULINA JUMMAI 3. ANNAFA, RIMAMTAWE FAIRA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: BARR ENE IDOKO

ALICE ANGELS FOUNDATION

ONYEMARA NWANEYA UNITED CLUB OF NIGERIA

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES 1. SOLA SOLOMON ADEGBOYEGA 2. OMOSALEWA OLUTOMILAYO ADEGBOYEGA 3. KOMOLAFE VERONICA 4. ABOLAJI ADEGBOYEGA AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN OUR SOCIETY 2. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS- COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28- DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR B. B. UMAR ESQ 08060302061

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC),ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NNAKAOGU ONYEBUCHI SABIN (CHAIRMAN) (2) EMEKA UCHE KINGSLEY, (3) ONYIOHA NICOLAS CHUKWUMA (4) ISIDUKOR CHIGOZIE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO CATER, PROMOTE THE WELFARE, PEACE AND UNITY OF THE ONYEMARA NWANEYA UNITED CLUB OF NIGERIA. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

TETRA BANA ENVIRONMENTAL EHANCEMENT INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. MUAZU MOHAMMED DIKWA 2. AL-BASHIR MUHAMMAD ABUBAKAR 3. MUSA LAWAN KAGA 4. IBRAHIM MUHAMMAD ABUBAKAR 5. ABUBAKAR MUHAMMAD BUKAR 6. MUSA MOHAMMED ZANNA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO EQUIP VUNERABLE FARMERS AND FAMILIES WITH THE SKILLS, IMPLEMENT, AND QUALITY SEEDS THEY NEED TO PRODUCE LIFE- SUSTAINING CROPS. 2.TO ENCOURAGE YOUTHS TO REALIZE THERE VALUE AND REACH THERE POTENTIAL THROUGH JOB TRAINING AND EDUCATION. 3. TO PROVIDE MORAL SUPPORT AND RELIEF MATERIALS TO THE MOST VULNERABLE PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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THE POTTER’S HILL-TOP CHURCH OF ALL NATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC),ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. PASTOR IGHOEZAIBUE OTHUKE ISRAEL - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. PASTOR MRS. REBECCA OLUWATOYIN DAVID - SECRETARY 3. EVANGELIST EMMANUEL IGHOEZAIBUE - MEMBER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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USOMINI NORTH PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION OBRIKOM ONELGA RIVERS STATE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. ELUOZO MONDAY 2. NWAELEHIA KINGSLEY NGOZI 3. NWOBI AUGUSTINE IKECHUKWU -SECRETARY 4. AMADI GOODLUCK CHIMA -CHAIRMAN 5. OSAH VICTOR 6. OJUKA EKE OYEMECHI 7. OBURU MOSES IKECHUKWU 8. OHIA DESTINY 9. ATAMA MOSES 10. SABATINE FUTURE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO ASSIST MEMBERS GAIN EMPLOYMENT IN COMPANIES OPERATING WITHIN MEMBERS COMMUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

BIBIIRE CULTURAL INITIATIVE FOR CONTROL AND FIGHT AGAINST NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

FRAGRANCE COUNSELING SUPPORT INITIATIVE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1. MRS KOLAWOLE OLAYINKA (CHAIRMAN ) 2. MR GBOLAHAN KOLAWOLE 3. DR AYOKUNLE ADEMOSUN (SECETARY) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE THE CONTROL AND FIGHT AGAINST NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: IBEH CYRIL CHINEDU (ESQ.)

IT IS MY TURN PROPHETIC PRAYER OUTREACH

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR AYO OLUSINA EZEKIEL 2. PASTOR MRS OMOLARA OMOWUMI EZEKIEL 3. PASTOR KENNY ADEOLA IKUYELORIMI 4. EVANGELIST TITILAYO IYABO OJO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES ARE 1. IFEANYI HENRY OKEKE .....CHAIRMAN 2. FREDRICK UMEKWULU 3. DR JOY OSAZUWA 4. CHUKWUEMEKA ONYEBUCHI 5. CHINWE NKECHINYERE OKEKE .....SECRETARY 6. APOSTLE JD KOSITA MADU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO WORK WITH EVERY WELL MEANING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS IN PROVIDING PREVENTION AND POSTVENTION SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING SERVICES FOR SUICIDE ATTEMPT SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHINWE NKECHINYERE OKEKE

LILIES OF THE FIELD FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. KWASHI MATILDA 2. MRS EZE PANKAN MELISSA AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND AGED.

Classified GOOD BROTHERS GLOBAL ELITE CLUB

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. CHUKWUMA JOHNSON ODO 2. FRIDAY OKIKE UNAH 3. ANAYO CHUKWU EDIMOND AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FORGE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, LOVE AND CO-OPERATION AMONG MEMBERS 2. TO ASSIST EVERY MEMBER TO MAKE PROGRESS IN HIS CHOSEN FIELD/ TRADE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: GIDEON NWANKWO LEGAL ADVISER

ASOOLIHAAT ALASALATU OF AJIGBOTIALQUR’AN SOCIETY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1, SULAIMOM ‘A’IBRAHIM - FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN 2,MRS. HAFSAT SALLAAM. ------SECRETARY 3,MRS AIRAT MUJEEB ---SERIKI ADINI. 4,MRS. MUHIBAT LAWAL --AROWOSHADINI 5,ALHAJA TAWAKALITU ANOFI --AMIIRA. 6, MRS. ROQEEBAT ODEKUNLE -- MEMBER 7. MR MUSBAUDEEN ODUGBEMI -MEMBER 8. MR ABASS BABALOLA -MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1, TO PROPAGATE THE TEACHINGS IN QUR’AN 2, ENGAGE IN CHARITY ACTIVITIES THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 SIGNED: L O BELLO ESQ.

SOUL HARVEST GOSPEL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR EDEH ANAYOCHUKWU IGWESI. 2. PASTOR EDEH UCHECHUKWU NNAMANI. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH AND TEACH THE TOTALITY OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD. 2. TO ESTABLISH AND RUN CHURCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF TRUE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

HEAVEN’S CHILDREN ASSEMBLY

CHIMEREZE UNITED CLUB OF NIGERIA

FIRST GLORIOUS RAPTURE EXPECTANT CHURCH

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. EMEKA EMMANUEL OZOUGWUECHE - CHAIRMAN 2. IKECHUKWU OGBONNA ENYIRIM - SECRETARY 3. SAMUEL OKEKE OBIDIKE - TREASURER 4. CHIJIOKE ONYEJIAKA

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) AROWOSEGBE JOSEPH SUNDAY -PRESIDENT (2) AROWOSEGBE GIDEON ADENIRAN -VICE PRESIDENT (3) AROWOSEGBE ELIZABETH OLUREMI - ASSISTANT PASTOR (4) AROWOSEGBE BABALOLA EMMA -TREASURER (5) OGUNYEMI FEMI OLALEKAN -SECRETARY THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS :TO PREACH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:TO FOSTER LOVE AND UNITY AMONGST MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED BY: BARR CHRIS I. CHILUE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR NNAJI OGEMDI RAPHAEL 2. MRS. NKEMAKONAM GEORGINA NNAJI 3. PASTOR OZOUDE CHRISTOPHER 4. MIRACLE N. ARINZE 5. SIS. EBERE CHUKWU EMEKA 6. EVANGELIST CHUKWU EMEKA AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH AND TEACH THE TOTALITY OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD. 2. TO ESTABLISH AND RUN CHURCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF TRUE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH

ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE FOR AFRICA DEVELOPMENT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLABISI ADELEYE DARE - CHAIRMAN 2. MARGARET NGOZI UKEGBU 3. RILWAN OLADIPUPO BALOGUN 4. OLALEKAN T. SULAIMAN TELLA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENRY PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT. 2. TO RENDER HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE BY PROVIDING RELIEF MATERIALS AND SERVICES IN CRISIS SITUATIONS. 3. TO RE-ORIENTATE THE POPULACE ON HOW ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY CAN ACCELERATE GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT. 4. TO PROMOTE GOOD LEADERSHIP BY EDUCATION AND RE-ORIENTATION OF LEADERS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR FOLLOWERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS MERCY SHARON AYUBA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS MERCY PIUS EKOMKI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

HASSAN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALH. IBRAHIM HALA NOW WISH TO BE ADDRESSED AND KNOWN AS IBRAHIM HALA HASSAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS AJILEYE IFORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS AFOLABI ADIJAT FOLASHADE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS AJILEYE ADIJAT FOLASHADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID, THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY CLEMENT KNOWN AS AKPA EBIZIMOR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS CLEMENT, SUNDAY PERELADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADEMILOYO IK NFORMERLY O W N AND ADDRESSED AS ADEMILOYO TEMITOPE MICHAEL. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEMILOYO TEMITOPE IFEOLUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY WURAOLA K N O W N AS OSHOKO HALIMAT ADENIKE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OSHOKO HALIMAT WURAOLA, THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 20/03/1993. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY NELSON KNOWN AS ADEKOYA SERIFAT OLABODE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS NELSON ADEKOYA SERIFAT OLABODE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY FABUNMI KNOWN AS SHOKUNBI ADESEWA ABOSEDE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS FABUNMI HALIMAT ADESEWA, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

YEWANDE IKNOWNFORMERLY AND ADDRESSED AS OSENI SEMIAT YEWANDE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAMEED-OSENI SEMIAT YEWANDE, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY OMOTAYO K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS SAKA OLUWASEUN GANIAT. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOTAYO OLUWASEUN GANIAT, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS IYARE MONDAY. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS IMADE MARCUS MONDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS MERCY PIUS

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ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

MRS. AFEMIKHE I

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS. OSEGHE SUZANNE ODEMERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS. AFEMIKHE SUZANNE ODEMERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IMADE

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I, FORMERLY GINIKACHI : KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWANKWO GINIKACHI SUSSAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EMEH JESSICA GINIKACHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEKE EJIKE INNOCENT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEKE EJIKE DAVID. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHE OLUCHUKWU LINDA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWUZOR OLUCHUKWU LINDA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

: I, F O R M E R LY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS OKOJI OLUCHUKWU MAUREEN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINEDU OLUCHUKWU MAUREEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MADUAGWUNA ROSELINE CHINYERE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UMELUE ROSE CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY JOSEPHINE K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NNAMUNE JOSEPHINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EDEH JOSEPHINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY EZIAMAKA K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKOLONJI ANTHONIA EZIAMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OYEGO ANTHONIA EZIAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNKOYA SHAKIRAT OMOLOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDU SHAKIRAT OMOLOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ILO GERTRUDE NKECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LIVI-ILO NKECHI GERTRUDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY O L AY I W O L A OLAYEMI MORADE NOW ADERETI OLAYEMI MORADE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS HAASTRUP OMOTUNDE ADEBUKOLA ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHUNKEYE OMOTUNDE ADEBUKOLA ESHTER ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY ADEBOLA K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS KARUNWI ADEBOLA STELLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABIFARIN ADEBOLA STELLA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NGENE

I, FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS NNEKA STELLA UCHEAMAKA ASHIEDU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNEKA STELLA UCHEAMAKA NGENE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

LOVELYN

F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKAFOR CHIDIEBERE LOVELYN , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OHANEBO CHIDIEBERE LOVELYN. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 08/03/1980. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS OLUBUNMI ESTHER TERRELL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUBUNMI ESTHER KEKERE EKUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THAT I WAS F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NEBO CHINONSO, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD CHRISTIANTO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NEBO CHINONSO CHRISTIAN.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY NNABUIKE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI BASIL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI BASIL NNABUIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

HAPPINESS

: I, EMEKA F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AUGUSTINA UGOCHI DURU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED ASMRS AUGUSTINA UGOCHI EMEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADU UJU LOVELINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IFEANYI-CHUKWU UJU LOVELINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBA HENRY UGOCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTUU VICTOR AKANU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHINENYE MARIAGORATHY OGBODO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHINENYE MARIAGORATHY OMULU. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 05/09/1986.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS RASHEEDAT OLUFUNKE YINUSA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS RASHEEDAT OLUFUNKE YINUSA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED TAIWO AYINDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED TAIWO MIKAILA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

: I, F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UZOEKWE EMMANUEL THOMPSON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED ASTHOMPSON EMMANUEL KELECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NGWU AUGUSTINA ONUCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED ASMRS NWANGWU AUGUSTINA ONUCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY CYRACUS K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS RICHARD TOCHUKWU CYRACUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMAEFULE TOCHUKWU CYRACUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADETUNJI IDAYAT AJOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJENIYI IDAYAT AJOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNACHI GIFT ONYINYECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGWE GIFT ONYINYECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT UTHMAN AFOLABI OLANIYI AND UTHMAN AFOLABI OLUWABUKOLA REFERS TO ONE AND SAME PERSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS AKINOLA OMOLABAKE EUNICE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENUDI EUNICE OMOLABAKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY AWODEINDE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ABISOLA ODUNAYO MAJEKODUNMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABISOLA ODUNAYO AWODEINDE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

F O R M E R LY ROFIAT KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJUROYE OLASUNKANMI ROFIAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOYOMI OLASUNKANMI ROFIAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY CYNTHIA K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS NTAH BLESSING CYNTHIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTINWANTAH BLESSING CYNTHIA .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY OMOLARA KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINTONDE FUNMILAYO OMOLARA CHRISTIANA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKE FUNMILAYO OMOLARA CHRISTIANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

F O R M E R LY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADEYOMISOLA MITCHELLE ADEWUNMI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADEYOMISOLA MITCHELLE ADEGEYE .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY TITILAYO K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKOYA OMOWUNMI TITILAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIDAIRO OMOWUNMI TITILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT MR. OLOWU, OLADIPO HALEEM AND MR. OLOWU, OLADIPUPO ABUDULHALEEM, REFER TO ONE AND SAME PERSON. ALL DOCUMENTS REFLECTING ANY OF THE STATED NAMES REMAIN VALID AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS ONE PERSON. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, EMBASSIES, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SANDRA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAGBARA CHINYERE SANDRA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN CHINYERE SANDRA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY FUNKE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJAYI FUNKE ESTHER , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ULOROH FUNKE ESTHER. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY OBASANJO K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS KPOHOUN SINHOU ABDULLAHI , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADELE ABDULLAHI OBASANJO. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

KAFILAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SAKA TEMITOPE KAFILAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHERIFF TEMITOPE KAFILAT. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIKIRU LADIPO ADEDAMOLA FAKAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIKIRU LADIPO ADEDAMOLA IYANDA _ FAKAN. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JULIET OBIANUJU EKEMEZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JULIET OBIANUJU ALLEN. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY LILIAN KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOJI CHIOMA LILIAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOJIOLADEINDE CHIOMA LILIAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY ROSELINE K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS NWAGBARA OGECHI ROSELINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN OGECHUKWU ROSELINE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

LINDA

MORADE

EKUN

ADDITION OF NAME THAT POPOOLA FUNKE BUKOLA ARE MY REAL NAME WRITTEN ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS AND ARE PROPERLY ARRANGED. THAT POPOOLA FUNKE ARE THE NANES WRITTEN ON MY OTHER DOCUMENTS. THAT I WANT TO ADD BUKOLA TO MY NAMES. THAT HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS POPOOLA FUNKE BUKOLA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING OUR FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

DAVID

OLUCHUKWU

OMOTUNDE

ADEGEYE

ADDITION OF NAME

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUCHA IGWEBUIKE, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD COSMAS TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUCHA COSMAS IGWEBUIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHRISTIAN

CHINYERE

OMOLOLA

OMOLABAKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBETEN HAPPINESS IWARA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBETEN TEBE HAPPINESS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GERTRUDE

MIKAILA

AJOKE

LOVELINE

OMULU

KELECHUKWU

IGWE GIFT

AKANU

YINUSA

ONUCHUKWU

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OBIANUJU

DAMISA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DADA DEBORAH DAMISA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKHIGBE DEBORAH DAMISA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SAIDAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONIBEJU DOYINSOLA SAIDAT, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAYINKA DOYINSOLA SAIDAT. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS ISIAKA ADEWALE SIKIRU, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAJE OLORUNJUEDA ADEWALE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNBAJO OLUWAFUNKE TEMITOPE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNBAJO CHRISTIANA OLUWAFUNKE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLUWATOSIN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LYDIA OLUWATOSIN FASHAKIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LYDIA OLUWATOSIN EBHOTE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY ADETUTU KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIEF FATAI ADEBARE ADETUTU, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIEF FATAI SAKA ADETUTU. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THAT WE ARE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAMILEKAN MOHAMMED FAWAZ AND ABIOLA RUKAYAT, BUT WE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAHEEDBABA MOHAMMED FAWAZ OLAMILEKAN AND SAHEED-BABA RUQAYYA ABIOLA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING OUR FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JUDE JACKSON, NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ENEARU JUDE JACKSON. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT I, OLOFINTE FELIX AKINROLUYO WAS BORN ON THE 5TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1960 IN IDANRE, ONDO STATE OF NIGERIA. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 5TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1960.

AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BILIKIS AJOKE

IDOWU GBENGA KI FORMERLY N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS HARIB OLAWALE GBENGA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KODAOLU IDOWU GBENGA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY ADEOLA K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OMOTOSHO AMINAT ADEOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS JINADU AMINAT ADEOLA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY JIMMY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OMOTOSHO AMINAT ADEOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS JINADU AMINAT ADEOLA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME APPEARS AS MR ADEBAYO KEHINDE LEKAN WHILE IN SOME OTHER DOCUMENTS IT APPEARS AS MR KEHINDE AINA . I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING ALL THE NAMES. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING ALL THE NAMES ARE VALID, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME APPEARS AS MR ADEBAYO KEHINDE LEKAN WHILE IN SOME OTHER DOCUMENTS IT APPEARS AS MR KEHINDE AINA . I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING ALL THE NAMES. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING ALL THE NAMES ARE VALID, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FAKAN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS KOLEOSHO BILIKIS EBUNOLUWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOJEDE BILIKIS AJOKE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

RUQAYYA

ADEWALE

JACKSON

KEHINDE

OLUWAFUNKE

DECLARATION OF AGE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THAT OYEBAMIJI MUTIYAT IYABODE WAS USED IN MY FIRST BANK, OYEBAMIJI MUTIYAT IYABODE USED IN MY VOTERS CARD, ADEYEMI MUTIYAT IYABODE IN MY OTHER DOCUMENTS. THAT ADEYEMI MUTIYAT IYABODE AND OYEBAMIJI MUTIYAT IYABODE ARE ONE AND SAME PERSON. THAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI MUTIYAT IYABODE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMALLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. ADEYEMI MUTIYAT IYABODE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ALARAPE MUTIYAT IYABODE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,.

GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY TEMITOPE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HUSSAIN TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOYEBI TEMITOPE ESTHER . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABIMBOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABAYOMI CHRISTIANA ABIMBOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABORISADE CHRISTIANA ABIMBOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N A N D ADDRESSED AS ABIKE LUCIA FADEYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIKE LUCIA ADENIYI .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FATIMA OMOWUMI RAJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FATIMA OMOWUMI ABDRAZZAQ. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS (BANK) MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS RABIU .I. JAJERE INSTEAD OF RABIU IBRAHIM BABA . ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING ALL THE NAMES ARE VALID,BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM AND CERTIFY THAT MISS NWANZE ODINAKACHI VANESSA, MISS NWANZE UCHE AND MISS UCHENNA ODINAKACHI VANESSA IS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NZEGBUNA ODINAKACHI VANESSA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. LANIYAN TIMMY SHERIFF NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. LANIYAN SHERIFF OLUWADUROTIMI .ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

F O R M A L LY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS LOVEDAY MARY VIVIAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MOSHE MARY LOVEDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I , FORMERLY ANJORIN FAITH BISOLA NOW WIISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANJORIN FAITH OGHENERO.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I , FORMERLY MISS NOBLE ESTHER C H I N E M E R E NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHIGOZIE ESTHER CHINEMERE, MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 01 .01 .1993 NOT 01 .01 1980.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,BANKS,GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE IBRAHIM ABIODUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE JOSEPH OLUWATIMILEHIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. KOLEOSHO MODINAT OLURANTI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ODEBODE MODINAT OLURANTI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY AJANI KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNGBE MUTIU SEGUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNGBE MUTIU AJANI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLAYINKA IKNOWNFORMERLY AND ADDRESSED AS FAMOROTI AYOMIDE CHRISTIANAH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAYINKA AYOMIDE CHRISTIANAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY EMMANUEL IKNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAMOROTI O L U W A T I M I L E H I N EMMANUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAYINKA OLUWATIMILEHIN EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

O R M E R L Y ADETILEWA FKNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. ADEBAMBO ADETILEWA STELLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. AKINOLA ADETILEWA STELLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY BUSAYO KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BASHORIN KEHINDE BUSAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWOLE KEHINDE BUSAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUWAKEMI IKNOWN FORMERLY AND ADDRESSED AS MISS POPOOLA TEMITOPE OLUWAKEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ODEFUNSO TEMITOPE OLUWAKEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN ORITOKE IAND ADDRESSED AS MISS BAMIGBOSE RASIDAT ORITOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AKINBO RASIDAT ORITOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ODINAKACHI

LANIYAN

LOVEDAY

OGHENERO

ADENIYI

ESTHER

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ADELEKE

CORRECTION OF NAME

OLURANTI

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ADESIJI ENIOLA FEYISAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS SHODIYA ENIOLA ADEFEYISAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

THAT IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS MISTAKENLY WRITTEN AS SANYA RAFIU ADISA INSTEAD OF OLAKUNLE SANYA RAFIU.THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 06/12/1951 AND NOT 06/12/1952. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

SHODIYA

CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY IDOWU K N O W N CALLED AS IDOWU BLESSING OYENCHE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS IDOWU BLESSING EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

NNODUMELE IK FORMERLY N O W N AS OKORONKWO REGINA ONYINYECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS NNODUMELE REGINA ONYINYECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. I FORMERLY KNOWN AS NWAYA HENRY IKENNA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS NWAYA NICOLAS IKENNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MICHAEL PETERS IGBOSONU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MICHAEL CHIKARA PETERS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OKWULU CHIAGOZIW FRED. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OKWULU CHIAGOZIE WILFRED. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS NWANKWO IFEANYI PAUL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS DAVID GOODLUCK EMEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N AS ADEBAYO ANUOLUWAPO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS NURUDEEN RIDWAN ADEBAYO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY DARAMOLA IKNOWN AS DARAMOLA OLUWAGBENGA TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS DARAMOLA BENSON TEMITOPE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

INEGBE IKNOWNFORMERLY AS

I, FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS ANYAOHA MERCY CHINENYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KUFRE MERCY CHINENYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGOMUEGBUNAM F O R M E R L YI,

MICHAEL

OKWULU

NURUDEEN

CHINENYE

KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PAUL MATHEW OFFIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OFFIAH PAUL OGOMUEGBUNAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

DAVID

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Golden Eaglets Coach to submit World Cup programme soon The Head coach of the national U-17 team, Manu Garba, on Wednesday said that he would soon submit his programme for the U-17 World Cup to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Garba, who told the News Agency Nigeria (NAN) that the he was on top of the situation, said he had to wait for the World Cup draws to be made first.

“The draws of the World Cup has yet to be made. My programme for the World Cup will soon be submitted to the federation through the Technical Director,” Garba said.

He called for the support of Nigerians for a glorious outing in Brazil, saying that the team under his tutelage would make the country proud.

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said that his team had shown classic performance in the qualifiers and trial matches.

He said that he was doing his best with the team to restore Nigeria’s glory at the U-17 World Cup category.

NAN reports that the FIFA U-17 World Cup that would be hosted by Brazil in September had been won five times by Nigeria in 1985, 1993, 2007, 2013 and 2015. (NAN)

Gov. Amosun approves N10m for Karate, Badminton devt.

Olympic marathon silver medallist Kirwa suspended for doping Bahrain’s Olympic women’s marathon silver medallist Eunice Kirwa has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said in a statement.

Kenyan-born Kirwa, Doping Rules,” AIU said in a statement.

Kirwa becomes the second women’s marathon podium finisher at Rio to test positive for the same substance after Kenyan gold medallist Jemima Sumgong, who was suspended for four years by her country’s anti-doping agency (ADAK) in

who switched allegiance to Bahrain in 2013 and finished second at the Rio Olympics in 2016, tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO), a banned blood-boosting hormone that improves endurance.

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Sumgong’s ban was doubled to eight years by the AIU after the IAAF found her guilty of providing false information while defending herself against the initial sanction, but was allowed to keep her gold medal as she tested positive in April 2017. (Reuters/NAN)

“The AIU confirms (a) provisional suspension against…

Bahraini longdistance runner Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa… for a violation of the IAAF’s (International Association of Athletics Federations’) Anti-

Gov. Ibikunle Amosun on Wednesday in Abeokuta approved N10million for the development of Karate and Badminton in the state.

Amosun, who gave the approval at a meeting in his office, said that N5million would be used to prepare the best African Badminton player, Dorcas Adesokan, and her Karate counterpart, Bolanle Dauda, toward future competitions.

He said sports development remained the responsibility of all stakeholders, adding that it should not be left to goverernment alone.

“The sum of N5million is to be used for Adesokan’s preparation toward Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, N3.6million for the purchase of Badminton and Karate Mart and the sum of N1.5 million for Miss Dauda and other sports officials,” he said.

Reliving his days as a Karate athlete, Amosun advised the athletes not to rest on their oars in winning laurels for the state and Nigeria in general.

The Vice Chairman, Badminton Association of Nigeria, Ogun Chapter,

Mrs Adebayo Ikepo, said the provision of the Mart would go a long way in boosting the morale of the athletes and keeping them in shape for the upcoming Olympic Games.

She commended the governor for the first tranche of N5million and permanent employment for Adesokan, stressing that the second tranche would be judiciously used for the trip to Tokyo.

On his part, the Director of the State Sport Council, Mr Adesola Faleti, said the gesture was coming at a time when it was most needed.

The gesture, he added, would encourage other athletes to put in their best whenever they represent the state in any competition.

In their separate remarks, Adesokan and Dauda, expressed gratitude to the governor for his magnanimity which they said would further encourage them and other athletes to be hardworking and committed to their chosen sporting career.

They also pledged to do the state and country proud. (NAN)

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