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2019: Anxiety as Obasanjo’s letter to Buhari overheats polity

Ï Wants Buhari to forget re-election bid, seeks Third Force to take over power Ï President holds closed-door meeting with Tinubu, Akande in Aso Rock Ï Femi Adesina: No comment ÏWe have been vindicated -PDP Patrick Okohue, Lagos and Myke Uchendu, Abuja

such for a second term bid in 2019, because in his first term, he has performed below expectations.

Obasanjo, in a special press statement entitled, ‘The Way Out: A Clarion Call For Nigeria Movement,’ said because Buhari

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Ï When & where did Sen Obiora come in as owner of DTN?

Reps alters INEC’s 6 timetable, changes election sequence, amends Electoral Act

President, others mourn as ex-CJN Musdapher passes on at 75 7

FAAC distributes N655.177bn to FG, states, LGAs 7

Forfeiture: Court fixes Feb 12 for ruling on $8.4m, N9.1bn linked to Patience Jonathan 5

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‘How Folio Communications purchased Daily Times in 2004’ Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Sequel to the latest onslaught and illegal claim of embattled Senator Ikechukwu Obiora to ownership of The Daily Times, the management of Folio Communications Limited, publishers/own-

ers of The Daily Times Nigeria (DTN) has decided to make public, the purchase receipts of the acquisition of DTN by the Folio in 2004.

It is instructive to note that Folio legally assumed ownership of DTN on September 3, 2004 after a colourful handover cer-

emony that was televised.

Prior to the handover of DTN to Folio, The Presidency, through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), privatised the DTN and sold the heritage newspaper to Folio in 2004.

The BPE further stated in a letter dated June 16,

2004 that the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) had approved Folio Communications as the preferred bidder for the DTN. The purchase receipts by the BPE (See the documents on the Front page for ease of reference), further showed payment

made by Folio for the acquisition of the DTN while the BPE acknowledged the payment in a letter dated July 29, 2004. The receipts are self explanatory without any ambiguity.

The management of Folio also wish to inform the general public that the relevant documents on the pur-

chase of DTN are still with the BPE for verification.

Without prejudice to pending suits, the Folio management is therefore wondering when and where the ownership of DTN, which was legally acquired by Folio in 2004, has been transferred to Obiora.

Forfeiture: Court fixes Feb 12 for verdict on $8.4m, N9.1bn linked to Patience Jonathan Peter Fowoyo

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Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday fixed February 2 for its verdict in a suit fby the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking an interim forfeiture of $8.4 million and N9.18billion linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs Patience Jonathan, five companies and Esther Oba. The monies were said to be in custody of Skye Bank Plc, Diamond Bank Plc, and Stabic-IBTC. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun had adjourned the hearing and determination of the ex-parte application filed against Mrs Jonathan and others at the instance of the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo.

Other respondents in the suit marked FHC/L/ CS/1918/17, are: Globus Integrated Service Limited, Finchley Top Homes Limited, AM-PM Global Network Limited, Pagmat Oil and Gas Limited, and Magel Resort Limited.

At the last hearing of the ex-parte application, Justice Olatoregun ordered the EFCC to file an affidavit showing that none of the properties is subject of litigation in any court.

But at the resumed hearing of the matter on Tuesday, the EFCC lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, informed the court that his client had filed an affidavit to show that all monies seeking to be forfeited to the Federal government, are not subject of litigation in any court.

Oyedepo stated that in line with the court order, the EFCC at Abuja office, had filed a notice of continuation in relation to the suit marked FHC/ABJ/ CS/1342/17, before Justice Binta Nyako.

He added that the judge had on December 5, 2017, granted an interim order, which stopped the banks warehousing the money to

place post No Debit order on the account.

He however stated that in view of the current position, the commission had filed a notice of discontinuance to that suit.

Justice Olatoregun later ordered that the EFCC lawyer should come back and expatiate further on current position of suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1342/17, before further hearing on the new ex-parte application.

Following the court’s position, the EFCC lawyer, Oyedepo asked for short adjournment, to enable the court give an update in suit number FHC/ABJ/ CS/1342/17.

The EFCC has been in fresh move to seize funds in 15 bank accounts linked with Mrs. Patience Jonathan.

The funds, which the EFCC is seeking to seize, include a total of $8,435,788.84 and over N7.35bn.

The EFCC had appeared before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos with an ex parte application, seeking the temporary forfeiture of the funds.

The move was, however, interrupted by a train of senior lawyers led by Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN) and Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), who challenged the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the ex parte application.

The SANs told the judge that the funds, which the EFCC seeks to seize, were already subject of litigation.

But Oyedepo maintained that the SANs had no right of hearing in the court, since his application was ex parte, wondering how they got wind of the move by the anti-graft agency in the first place.

He urged the judge to disregard their appearance.

The judge upheld Oyedepo’s submission, following which the SANs left the courtroom.

L-R: President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and President Muhammadu Buhari, during a courtesy visit to President Buhari at the State House in Abuja...on Tuesday.

FRSC records 4,418 crashes, 338 deaths, 20,371 bookings in 2017 - Oyeyemi

Ï Says crashes reduces in 2017 due to enlightenment.

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The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has said that the corps recorded 4,418 crashes, 338 deaths in 2017 which is fewer when compared to 2016 records.

The reduction, according to the FRSC boss, is connected with a number of measures, including multiple and diverse stakeholders interactions, logistics support from the Federal Government and introduction of the speed limiters as well as increased traffic surveillance and enlightenment by the FRSC personnel.

He explained that the device addressed challenges of speeding on the highways, as well as strategic operational options that could adequately tackle the end of year traffic movements.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday on behalf to the Corps Marshal, the Corps Public Education Officer of FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, went further to disclose that 196 fatal accidents were recorded in 2016, while 161 were recorded in 2017, a reduction by 18 per cent.

He said, “In the same vein, reductions of 33 per cent and 43 per cent respectively were recorded in serious and minor accident cases during the periods, representing 31 per cent reduction.”

He added that 5, 993 people were involved in various road traffic accidents in 2016, but the figure reduced to 4,418 in 2017.

Kazeem further explained that the difference of 1, 575 in reduction in the periods under review represents 28 per cent, adding that while 454 were killed in 2016, it reduced to 338

in 2017, a difference of 116, representing 26 per cent.

According to the FRSC spokesman, the figure of injured people in 2016 is 2,848 as against 2,040 in 2017, a difference of 808, representing 26 per cent reduction.

He observed that there were improved conduct among road users and offenders behaviour which he attributed to massive public enlightenment embarked upon by the corps.

He said other factor responsible for road users improved conduct was due to collaboration with the strategic stakeholders, including transport unions and law enforcement agencies.

He said, “Consequently, while 28, 224 offenders were booked for various offences in 2016, the number reduced to 20, 371, in 2017, making a difference of 7, 853, which represents a decrease of 28 per cent.

“In same vein, while of-

fences committed during 2016 operations were 31, 284, these reduced to 22,987 in 2017, a difference of 8, 297, which represents a decrease of 27 per cent.”

On assault, he regretted that in spite the corps commitment to civility and increased public enlightenment, some of the corps’ personnel continued to suffer one form of assault or another from recalcitrant offenders.

He added that mapping out of the strategic locations and routes across the country through strategic sessions held with the field commander was also responsible for the reduction and improved motorists’ behaviour.

He also noted said that the use of social media like Instagram, Youtube and Facebook by the corps in interacting with public during the period under review made positive impact.

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Anxiety as Obasanjo’s letter to Buhari overheats polity Continued from page 1 performed far below expectations, he should honourably “dismount from the horse” to join the league of the country’s former leaders whose “experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.”

The former two-term president on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said he feels disappointed by Buhari, whom he supported during the 2015 election over the then incumbent and candidate of his former party, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

Obasanjo had written an open letter to condemn the Jonathan adminstartion in December, 2013 titled “Before it is Too Late” where he highlighted the numerous failings of the Jonathan administration.

He had argued that his decision to go against Jonathan at the time was the right one as events in the

last three years had proved was for the good of the nation and nothing personal.

“Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard,” Obasanjo said.

Likening the state of the nation today to lice-infested clothes, Obasanjo said the country’s fingernails is stained with blood as it tries to kill the lice by pressing them in-between two fingernails. According to the former president, in order to make sure that our fingernails remain blood-free, we must do what it takes to rid our clothes of lice.

“The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national

cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today,” he wrote.

“With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’,” he added.

While thanking Buhari for the effort of his administration in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency and his fight against corruption, Obasanjo said Buhari has ultimately failed in other areas where he had thought he would be efficient.

The octogenarian, who bagged a PhD over the weekend, admitted he knew Buhari was weak in handling the economy, but that he went ahead and voted for him because at the time “it was a matter of ‘any option but Jonathan’ and because he thought Buhari would appoint qualified Nigerians to help out in that area.

“Although, I know that you cannot give what you don’t have and that economy does not obey military

order. You have to give it what it takes in the short-, medium- and long-term,” the former president wrote.

He slammed Buhari for turning a blind eye to corruption within his government, saying it amounted to condoning and cover-up, adding that whoever is “going to justice must be with clean hands.”

He also berated Buhari for allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go “sour” and messy, saying the endorsement of the President by some governors to seek re-election barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were given mass burial was “a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness.”

But Obasanjo reserved his harshest words for what he described as Buhari’s failings in three major areas: clannishness, lack of understanding of the dynamics of politics, and his tendencies to pass the buck of his government’s inadequacies to the immediate

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and members of the Planning Committee for the 61st meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation/Commission for Africa at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja on Tuesday.

past administration.

He said, “But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation.

“It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action? How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public?

“The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics.

This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced.

It also has effect on general national security.

“The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own responsibility.

“Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today. If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the

blame game.”

Obasanjo also argued that neither Buhari nor his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), hold the solution to the country’s problems, suggesting that Buhari was not healthy enough to withstand the rigour associated with running a country like Nigeria, neither is his party capable of providing the answer needed to sail the country through its difficulties.

Obasanjo therefore advised that Buhari should step down at the end of his first term with honour and dignity and attend to his health and not listen to the “self-serving so-called advisers who would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria.”

“I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward,” he said.

“I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling. I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction. The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria.

“To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the party, he must dictate the tune all the way, this is Continued on page 7

Reps alters INEC’s timetable, changes election sequence, amends Electoral Act Henry Omunu,

Ï Favours N/Assembly, gubernatorial, state assemblies, presidential polls

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elections while the presidential election should be conducted last.

The House at a Committee of the Whole, chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Hon Yussuff Lasun, passed the decisions, while considering the report of its Committee on Electoral and Political Party Matters on a bill to further amend the Electoral Act, 2010, Presently, based on the election sequence released

by INEC, the Presidential and National Assembly elections takes place first on the same date with the governorship and state Houses of Assembly com-

Abuja

The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to change the order of elections in the country, thereby altering the dates and timetable recently released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the 2019 general elections.

Following yesterday’s amendment of the Electoral Act by the House , the lawmakers are proposing that the conduct of National Assembly election should comes first, to be followed by the governorship and state Houses of Assembly

ing last. In passing the amendments, the House substituted the content of the provisions of Section 25 of the extant Act, by changing the order of elections in the country.

The Daily Times reports that even though the 2010 Electoral Act makes provision for the conduct of elections into the affected offices, the Act however left the powers to determine the order as well as dates of elections with the INEC. Therefore, in complying with the law, INEC had the previous week scheduled the 2019 presidential and National Assembly elec-

tions for Saturday, February 16, while the governorship and state assemblies and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area council elections were fixed for Saturday, March 2, 2019.

Furthermore, the new amendment approved by the House altered Section 87(11a) of the extant Act, to outline sequence for the conduct of political parties’ primaries in this order, state House of Assembly, National Assembly, governorship and presidential.

The House resolved that dates for the various primaries “shall not be earlier than 120 days and not later

than 90 days before the date of elections to the offices”.

Similarly, a new Section 143 has also been introduced to the Act, to give protection to office occupants whose elections may be nullified owing to the process of the primary election that brought them on board.

The new section reads thus, “Where the nomination of an elected candidate is nullified by the court and notice of appeal against the decision is given within the stipulated period for appeal, the elected candidate shall, not withstanding the contrary decision of the court remain in the office

pending the determination of the appeal.

“If the court determines that the candidate was not validly nominated, the elected candidate, shall notwithstanding the contrary decision of the court remain in office within the period an appeal may be filed and shall not be sanctioned for the benefits he derived while in office pursuant to this section”.

The Act has also made provisions to the effect that where a nominated candidate of a political party dies before, or withdraws from the race, his/her political party shall within seven days, conduct a fresh primary to replace such a candidate.

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Anxiety as Obasanjo’s letter to Buhari overheats polity Continued from page 6 indeed fraught with danger.

“If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do? Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it “a cruel Hobson’s choice; it’s like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference. We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly”.

Having ruled out the PDP and the ruling APC of possessing the panacea to the malaise that affects the country, Obasanjo therefore called for a Third Force movement he termed, ‘Coalition of Nigeria’, which he offered to be a part of, to wrest power from the present ruling class and lead the country into the path of rebirth.

He said, “We can collectively save ourselves from the position we find ourselves. It will not come through self-pity, fruitless

complaint or protest, but through constructive and positive engagement and collective action for the good of our nation and ourselves and our children and their children. We need moral re-armament and engaging togetherness of people of like-mind and goodwill to come solidly together to lift Nigeria up. This is no time for trading blames or embarking on futile argument and neither should we accept untenable excuses for non-performance.

“Let us accept that the present administration has done what it can do to the limit of its ability, aptitude and understanding. Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us. They have given as best as they have and as best as they can give.

“Nigeria deserves and urgently needs better than what they have given or what we know they are capable of giving. To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it

beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth.”

When contacted for his reaction over Obasanjo’s advice to Buhari, asking him not to seek re-election in 2019, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, simply said: “No comment”.

But Tuesday’s to the Presidential Villa by two prominent members of the ruling APC, former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former Osun State governor and first chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, has nothing to do with the call

by Obasanjo to Buhari not to contest the 2019 election.

The Tinubu Media Office stated this in a statement made available on Tuesday, stating that the visit to the Villa by the two party leaders was scheduled last

week. The statement was signed by Tunde Rahman.

The statement reads in part, “President Buhari periodically schedules talks with Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande, as he does with other Nigerians and APC figures, to discuss substantive issues pertaining to the governance of the country and matters concerning the party.

“This visit was one such meeting. As such, the meeting had nothing to do with the statement of former President Obasanjo. It is totally unconnected. At the time of the meeting, Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande were even unaware that Obasanjo had released his statement.”

Also, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Obasanjo’s advice to Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019 as courageous, timeous and patriotic, adding that such has

vindicated its position on Buhari and the APC. But the PDP rejected the call by Obasanjo for a Third Force, saying that such would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the ideologically vacuous APC and the Buhari Presidency, which it claimed has now wrecked havoc on the nation in its almost three years of governance.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Tuesday, said the fact that Buhari and the APC have irredeemably failed the nation is obvious, adding that Nigerians have already taken an irrevocable position against them ahead of the 2019 elections.

He said, “Chief Obasanjo’s counsel has rekindled the fate of the people in the democratic process, stressing however that the solution does not lie in creating

another political quicksand in a third force but consolidating on a rescue mission with the repositioned PDP which Nigerians have already embraced.

“Nigerians would recall that in the heat of 2015 elections, many citizens, who claimed to have become tired of the PDP and its government, opted for a coalition of strange bedfellows who had little or no experience in governance as a vehicle for electoral victory. Expectedly, in their confusion, they have plunged us into this regrettable situation that has brought our nation to its knees.”

The PDP spokesman maintained that repeating the old mistake of congregating political strangers cannot help our nation at this time, more so, when the few concerns raised by the former President about the PDP no longer obtain under the refocused and rebranded PDP.

FAAC distributes N655.177bn to FG, states, LGAs

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a whopping N655.177 billion to the three tiers of government being the monthly allocation for the month of December 2017.

Chairman of FAAC and Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who announced the figures on Tuesday, said that the gross statutory revenue of N540.446 billion received for the month was lower than the N549.533bn received in the previous month by N9.087bm.

Adeosun said that the decrease in crude oil export sales by 0.59 million barrels resulted in decreased revenue from export sales of $11.65 million.

She however, stated that the average price of crude oil increased from $52.07 to $56.83 per barrel during the period under review.

Giving the breakdown, the Federal Government received N252.543bn representing its 52.68% sharing formulae in line with the constitution.

The Federal Government also received N12.091 billion being its 15% Value Added Tax (VAT) bringing the total to N264.634bn.

The State Governments received N128.093bn representing 26.72% as enshrined in the constitution with additional N40.302 bn being 50% VAT allocation bringing the total amount of revenue received for the month of December to N168.395bn.

While the Local Government Councils received N98.755bn isrepresenting 20.60%, and also got N28.211bnas 35% VAT revenue bringing the total amount of revenue received for the month to N126.966 billion.

According to the Minister, there was shut-ins and shut-downs at various terminals due to theft activities and for continuous repairs.

Force Majeure was also declared at Bonny terminal, but there were marginal increase in revenues from Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) and Value Added Tax, while import duty and oil royalty recorded decreases.

The Excess Crude Account stood at $2.317 bn.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of Finance Commissioners Forum, Mahmood Sale Yunusa said that all state governments have adopted establishment of Efficiency Unit and in the next four months would commence its operation to reduce cost of governance.

L-R: President, Ijaw Youth Council, Barr. Pereotubo Owoleimi; Alhaji Yerima Shettima of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum; former Vvce-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar; Mazi Okechukwu Isigusoro of Ohanaeze Youths Worldwide, President of Ibibio Youths, Mr. Imoh Okoko; President of Yoruba Youths Congress and Chairman of All Atiku Support Group, Oladimeji Fabiyi, at a meeting of the leaders of youth ethnic nationalities groups and the former Vice President in Abuja on Monday.

Buhari, others mourn as ex-CJN Musdapher passes on at 75 Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, some state governors and other stakeholders have paid tributes to the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), the late Justice Dahiru Musdapher.

The President and other stakeholders also extolled the virtues of the late CJN, saying that he would be remembered for his contributions to the judiciary.

The late Musdapher died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 75.

Though the cause of his death was not immediately

clear at press time, family members took to social media to break the news.

“My elder brother, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, former CJN passed on tonight,” Muneer Musdapher, a younger brother of the former CJN wrote on Facebook.

The jurist retired from bench five years ago on attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Almost a year to his retirement, he was appointed as the CJN by former President Goodluck Jonathan, upon the exit of Justice Alysious Katsina-Alu. He was succeeded by the first female CJN, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar in 2012.

The late Musdapher was educated at the Ahmadu Bello University and the

School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

He was called to the Nigerian bar in 1968 and began his legal practice as one of the early private legal practitioners in Northern Nigeria.

In 1976, he was appointed as Kaduna State attorney general and commissioner for justice.

He switched to the Bench in 1979 with his appointment as a judge high court in Kano State. He was later made the Chief Judge for Kano State.

In 1983, Musdapher was appointed to the Court of Appeal where he spent 18 years, until his appointment to the Supreme Court Bench in 2003.

He hailed from a family

of emigrant Kanuri scholars and jurists in Babura local government of presentday Jigawa State.

Tambuwal: Justice Musdapher was a jurists’ jurist Meanwhile, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has condoled with the family of the late former CJN Musdapher.

In a message of condolence issued by his spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, Tambuwal said the deceased made invaluable contributions to the development of the legal profession in the country.

He said, “He was jurist’s jurist. He was a man of distinction and impeccable character. His life is an example in dedication and commitment to legal ethos, norms and values.

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Lagos Police corporal gets commendation for portraying bravery Joy Anyim

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A gallant police corporal who had displayed exceptional bravery while on the line of duty has been recognised by the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi.

It had been reported that two unidentified robbery suspects had been gunned down by a mobile policeman at

Satellite, Alakija bustop along the Lagos/ Badagry Expressway.

The robbers who had attacked a private vehicle at about 8:00am around the Odu-Ade area of same road, disposing them of their valuables met their waterloo when Corporal Hassan Aminu attached to PMF 20 squadron Ikeja had intervened.

Aminu who was on

duty at China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) OduAde had given the robbers a hot chase.

According to the Commissioner of Police who handed the Corporal with force number 457046 a letter of commendation at the command Headquarters, “On the January 18th, 2018, at about 10 am, Corporal Aminu had sighted

a group of armed robbers attacking the occupants of a vehicle and dispossessing them of their valuables.

“He quickly swung into action and the hoodlums on sighting him fled with their unregistered operational motorcycle. The Corporal immediately on his own initiated a hot pursuit of the fleeing robbers and caught up with them at Alakija,

Satellite town.

“During the gun battle that ensued, he gunned down two of the robbers and recovered one locally made pistol, one Nokia handset, a bag containing valuables belonging to the victims who have been identified and handed over to the victims as well as the operational motorcycle.

“The historic fit of this Corporal has not

gone unnoticed and that is why the commissioner of police certificate of commendation is being given to him and it will also be put inside his personal file and when there is consideration for promotion, it is going to give him an edge over his contemporary,” he added.

Imohimi also encouraged other officers and men to emulate the bravery of the corporal.

Maternal mortality: Bayelsa launches Dickson safe delivery project Chris Eze, Yenagoa

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the high rate of maternal mortality in Bayelsa State, the state government has launched an initiative christened ‘Gov. Dickson Safe Delivery Project’ to take care of the medical care of all pregnant women in the state from conception to delivery.

Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu who disclosed this on Tuesday at the Inter ministerial /Agency Media Briefing as part of the programs to mark the sixth anniversary of Governor Dickson said with effect from this year, pregnant women in the state would begin to benefit from the initiative.

“And the reason the Governor is doing all this is because a group of very concerned people came having looked at our health achievements and they started wondering why we have a very high maternal and infant mortality index that was higher than the national average”, the Commissioner stated.

He attributed the high incidence of maternal and infant mortality to what he referred to as the “health seeking habit of our women” as well as the “social cultural beliefs” in the localities.

Prof. Etebu also said that the government has begun the process of taking the statistics of all Traditional Birth Attendants, TBAs in the communities with a view to enrol them into the N-Power program, with a monthly stipend of N30, 000 for their welfare, all aimed at ensuring that every person who has a role to play in the safe delivery of pregnant women does

that with commitment for the safety of the mother and child.

The Commissioner further disclosed that the state government has equally launched ‘Gov. Dickson’s Eye Care Project’ for primary and secondary school students in the state.

“The program is going to be sustained in partnership with Commissioner for Education and we are going to ensure that by the end of this year, most of our children who have this eye problem who can’t compete favourably with their peers will be given free eye glasses at no cost to them and their parents.

“And I think because of the passion the governor has for the education sector and for the building of the minds of our children, I think this will be an added advantage for us in whatever we are going to achieve for our children in education”, he said.

Prof. Etebu who maintained that there is a silent revolution going on in the health sector in the state said the state has acquired state of the art equipment in its Specialist Hospital for the treatment of diabetes, such that the incidence of amputating diabetes patients has become a thing of the past.

He also informed that patients who suffered stroke could now be treated and the consequences of the sickness like paralysis reversed with the use of the cat lab also in the Specialist Hospital in Yenagoa.

According to him, Bayelsa is the only state in the country that has fully commenced the Health Insurance Scheme. He said while other states are doing theirs in bits and pieces, Bayelsa has done it fully and successfully.

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita (left), permanent secretary, Common Services Office, Mr. Folayan Olaniyi (middle) and permanent secretary, Career Management Office, Alhaji Sulieman Lawal while addressing a news conference on the achievements of her office in the last one year in Abuja.... on Tuesday

Ahmed commits to eradicating TB, leprosy from rural communities Specifically, he said cate the diseases.

Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

ÏÏÏKwara State Gov-

ernor, Dr Abdulfatah

Ahmed has called for concerted efforts to eradicate communicable diseases ravaging rural communities in the country.

The Governor made the call while receiving delegates from Damien Foundation Belgium led by its country representative, Dr. Osman Eltayeb at Government House Ilorin.

steps must be taken to eradicate diseases like Tuberculosis and leprosy in the environment stating that the diseases are directly linked to reduced productivity.

He noted that the responsibility of eradicating these communicable diseases is beyond what government can do alone, calling on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), corporate bodies and individuals to partner with government to eradi-

Alhaji Ahmed said the state has committed resources to support preventive cases and has made support available at the primary level of healthcare delivery system to ensure quality and adequate healthcare available across the State.

According to him, “our government has done so much on support for primary and secondary health and we are still planning to support tertiary health care for an

improved healthcare delivery”.

Earlier, the country representative of Damien Foundation Belgium, Dr Osman Eltayeb said the NGO has been in the country since 1993 with the aim of eradicating Tuberculosis and Leprosy.

He stated that the NGO is collaborating with Federal Ministry of Health to combat the Tuberculosis and Leprosy adding that Kwara State has been pencilled down for capacity building on both diseases.

Army nab herdsmen syndicates for cattle rustling Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

ÏÏÏThe

Special Task Force mandated to restore peace on the Plateau and some parts of Bauchi and Southern Kaduna, on Tuesday in Jos, paraded

three Fulani herdsmen for cattle rustling.

Among the herdsman is a native of Berom who facilitates the cattle for onward purchase.

The taskforce also known as Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), said the

syndicate were arrested for rustling cattle belonging to their fellow Fulani herdsman, adding that the arrest was made at Bisichi, in Heipang community of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Speaking to newsmen, the Media and Information Officer of OPSH, Major Umar Adam said the suspected gang leader of the syndicate escaped and is being trailed by soldiers from the command.

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Edo Govt, NDE train 4000 on technical skills, cosmetology, others ÏÏÏ

Gover nor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has revealed how the state government reached a deal with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to increase the state’s quota by 2000 people in the agency’s training programme for 76,400 people across states in southern part of the country.

Obaseki disclosed this at the flag-off of the skills acquisition training for 76,400 persons in southern zone of the country by the NDE, at Imaguero College, Benin City.

The governor, who revealed that the bulk of the trainees were drawn from the EdoJobs portal, said that though the agency had intended to train 2000 people in the state, his intervention led to the addition of extra 2000, totaling 4000 people being trained in various small and medium enterprises for improved livelihood.

According to him, “one of my campaign promises was to create 200,000 jobs in the state. We are doing everything to achieve that. After the elections, I went to Abuja to seek partners.

I went to the World Bank and the NDE to seek support. I didn’t know I was the first sitting governor to visit the agency. The DG, at that time, promised to do everything within his power to assist us in realizing our goal for job creation.”

He continued, “When I got the notice that they wanted to train, I was told that they had 2000 slot for Edo State, but I appealed to them, intimating them on the peculiar situation we have here, especially with lack of jobs and the lure of illegal migration. The DG then agreed to add

2000 more people to be trained from Edo State.”

He assured youths that those who registered on the EdoJobs portal will be trained and matched with employers even as those with knack for entrepreneurship will be duly guided.

The governor said the state is in talks with various embassies in the country to train youths in the state and provide the right orientation for skilled migration abroad.

Director-General, NDE, Dr. Nasir Mohammed Ladan commended the Godwin Obaseki led-administration for the vision to provide 200,000 jobs for youths through skill acquisition, adding that, “a skillbased, knowledge economy is the most effective way to address the high rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria.”

According to Ladan, Governor Obaseki has continued to demonstrate uncommon resolve to partner the directorate to address the problem of unemployment.

He said, “NDE will further explore areas of collaboration with Edo State government in training returnees from Libya and victims of human trafficking. This will enable youths to be empowered with skills to engage in viable economic activities and better their well-being.”

A Libya returnee, Miss Grace Idemudia, who is a beneficiary of the training, expressed appreciation to NDE and Governor Obaseki, for the training, promising to utilise the opportunity to start life afresh after her sad experience in Libya.

The New General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Okwudili Azinta (right), while taking over from his predecessor, Major General Chukwunedum Abraham, at the division Headquarters, Adekunle Fajuyi cantonment, Ibadan, Oyo State...on Tuesday

Herdsmen attacks: FG’s continuous silence unsettles Akure elders ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure.

ÏÏÏElders

of Akure kingdom in Ondo state on Tuesday issued a warning against the continuous destructions and attacks of farmlands by the Fulani herdsmen.

The elders were speaking sequel to the attack on the farm of erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae in the Ilado area of Akure North.

Some arsonists suspected to be Fulani herdsmen had on Sunday invaded a farm belonging to Chief Falae and set ablaze the cash crops on the plantation.

The elders, who are kinsmen to Chief Olu Falae, said the attacks on local farmers in Akure and the state at large must be stopped forthwith to prevent total reprisal.

They agreed that there was need for the government to be proactive about the activities of the cattle rustlers before it degenerated into ethnic crisis or war.

Also, many of the elders

...says incessant action may lead to ethnic war kicked against the idea of cattle colonies in all states of the federation which is being proposed by the Federal Government noting there was no land in Akure for such colony.

Prof. Olu Agbi, Asiwaju of Akureland who spoke on behalf of the elders lamented the rate of attacks on the farms of many local farmers who solely depends on the cash crops to feed their families.

Agbi said since Falae was released from the den of kidnappers and the suspects convicted, his farms had been subject of attacks by Fulani herdsmen.

“Apart from killing people in his farm, the neighbouring farms have been subject of attack by these gun wielding herdsmen. “ The recent burning of Chief Olu Falae’s plantation by these same elements call for worry and we also call on the security agencies to protect the life and property of Chief Olu Falae.

“We are making this appeal not only because he is an Akure chief but to prevent tribal war as the Olu of Ilu Abo’s stature transcends Akure and Yoruba land.

“We warn the herdsmen not to create an opportunity for a civil war because any further attack on Chief Olu Falae or his farm would be deemed as casual belly”.

The Nigerian ex ambassador to Greece also decried the continuous attacks and destructions of farmlands by the Fulani herdsmen noting that security agencies are helpless in curtailing the activities of the marauders.

He expressed the elders’ total dismay at the unwholesome activities of the Fulani herdsmen who carry out their grazing on farmland with disregard and disrespect.

Agbi stressed that the accommodating nature of Akure kingdom and its people have now been taken for granted by the herdsmen who daily unleashed terror on the indigenes and resi-

dents.

“The Non-Yoruba speaking people and other ethnic groups living among us will attest to the fact that Akure people are loving and very accommodating.

“We have sabo in the heart of Akure here and there is also Shasha Market where people of the northern extraction trade without any hindrance.

“And in our farmlands we welcome non indigenes who also reside without being discriminated against and this made it possible for the non indigenes to bag chieftaincy titles in our communities.

“Apart from the killing of hapless people, these herdsmen have made residents to live in fear especially those who reside in the farm settlements.

“And we are uncertain who may likely be their next target as these hoodlums have been going from one place to another, attacking the harmless people and also destroying their farmlands” Agbi added.

...Atiku condemns burning of Falae’s farm Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏFormer vice president

and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has condemned the burning of a farm belonging to former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae.

Atiku said in a press state-

ment by his media office on Tuesday that arson is a punishable offence under the law and that when the crime is aimed at destroying a private investment, it adds the additional penalty of economic sabotage.

“It is a reprehensible act of economic sabotage to wilfully set ablaze any person’s property and investments.

“As a statesman who has worked tirelessly for this country, Chief Falae deserves a quiet and peaceful retirement and not this lot that has been characterised by kidnapping and other vices including this arson”.

Atiku Abubakar urges the police and other relevant security agencies in the country to launch an inves-

tigation into the crime and ensure that the culprits are brought to book to serve as deterrent.

Recall that some people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday burned a five hectare palm plantation farm belonging to a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae.

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Secrets of our success in 6 years – Dickson Akam James, Yenagoa

ÏÏÏ The Bayelsa State

Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Edgal Imohinmi (left) reading the citation of Corporal Hassan Aminu attached to PMF 20 squadron Ikeja, for his act of bravery when he foiled a robbery attack on an individual in Lagos.

Lai Mohammed inaugurates committee on African tourism ministers ÏÏÏThe

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has inaugurated the planning committee for the 61st Meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation/CAF taking place in Abuja, Nigeria, 4th6th June 2018.

The Minister, who performed the ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, charged members of the committee to ensure the success of the event.

“Today’s inauguration kickstarts our preparation for the hosting of the (UNWTO/ CAF Meeting). The task ahead of us is enormous, but

with the quality membership of the Planning Committee, we are up to the task and we will host a successful event,’’ he said.

“You have been selected based on your knowledge and expertise in content, logistics and planning. Your role is to execute a successful event with professional inputs and assistance from the Ministry and the UNWTO. I have no doubt that you will take your assignments very seriously,” Alhaji Mohammed said.

The Minister said the hosting right of the event, which was given to Nigeria, has clearly demonstrated the confidence of the CAF

member states and the UNWTO in the country.

He said the highlight of Nigeria’s relevance and acceptance by the Organization, within two years of its return after a period of absence, was further shown in his election as a Vice Chairman of the UNWTO General Assembly at an election held during the 22nd session of the UNWTO General Assembly in Chengdu, China, in September 2017.

Alhaji Mohammed said the UNWTO meeting will afford the country the unique opportunity to project its image as a safe and desirable

destination for leisure and business as well as promote the country’s tourism products and services.

He said the meeting will also provide a platform for tourism stakeholders to interact with their counterparts from other countries, generate foreign exchange through accommodation in hotels, airfares and souvenirs purchased by foreign delegates, create direct and indirect employment, thereby alleviating poverty, and provide the platform for the training for public and private sector tourism officials.

of promotion arrears, shortfalls in salary payment and Christmas bonus.

Daily Times recalled that Non-academic workers of the university under JAC which comprises Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) recently threatened to frustrate activities in UNN by shutting down electricity and water supply in UNN in solidarity with the indefinite strike called last December by its national body.

Erua, they alleged abducted JAC-UNN chairman had in a recent interview with Daily Times advised students of the university to return to their respective homes as the nonacademic staff was on a nationwide strike.

Speaking to newsmen, the Treasurer of JAC-UNN, Mr. Moses Linus Akata said

the campus gate to protest the abduction of the JACUNN chairman, Mr. Paul Erua and his two sons by the university authorities.

“Police Anti Kidnap squad arrested our chairman and some of his family members very early this morning without telling us his offence he committed.

“The gate of the university will remain under lock and key until Erua is released as we do not know his whereabouts.

“The non teaching staff strike is nationwide we do not know why our chairman will be singled out for arrest, “he said.

Akata alleged that the Vice chancellor of UNN Prof. Benjamin Ozumba was responsible for Erua arrest as he had threatened many times to deal with non academic staff leadership in the University.

“This strike is going on in all universities in the country, nobody in other universities had been arrested, and I do not know

UNN case will be different.

“The VC has refused to pay our check off dues and other allowances for some time now as a way of crippling none the finance of teaching staff.

“We have been having peaceful strike enforcement since this strike started I do not why somebody should go the extent of arresting our chairman,” he said.

As of the time of filing this report there were heavy presence of police at UNN first gate led by the Nsukka Area Police Commander, Mr. Steve Yabanet, to prevent breakdown of law and order by the workers.

When contacted the ViceChancellor of the UNN, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba said he was not responsible for the arrest of the JACUNN chairman.

“I did not arrest Erua, the chairman of JAC. The members of non teaching staff should go to police and find out what he did that made police to arrest him, “he said.

Tension in UNN over abduction of union chairman bordering on non-payment workers of UNN shutdown why Moses Oyediran, Enugu ÏÏÏThe

Joint Action Committee of the University of Nigeria Nsukka on Tuesday blocked the main entrance of the university preventing workers, students and motorists from going in or out of the campus.

Daily Times gathered that workers of the university and their leaders had arrived at the gate as early as 7:30am to enforce the closure of the gate stating that their action was as a result of the abduction of their chairman, Mr. Paul Erua and his two sons in his house in the wee hours of Tuesday by the Police Anti Kidnap Squad allegedly at the instance of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba.

Workers of the university had been at logger heads with the leadership of the university.

Our correspondent gathered that apart from the ongoing nationwide strike there is also the local issue

Government has attributed the six years success of the current administration under the leadership of Governor Seriake Dickson, to a strong and robust security system established since 2012 when it took over.

Governor Dickson, made this known during the Restoration Government at Six, our scorecard in focus, Inter-Ministerial/Agency Briefing held at the Gabriel Okara, Cultural Center Yenagoa.

He explained that his administration instituted a state security outfit called Duo-Akpo both on land and on the sea to check and address any criminal activities to keep the state safe, adding that the vision of the government has led the state to this point.

The Governor, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, noted that the governor has not relented in ensuring he drives the process himself, adding that since the foundation has been laid already the state is building towards a critical point.

He admonished the people to support the government in ensuring it succeeds, noting that Nigeria is what he calls an un-equal country, where nobody will help you solve your problem unless you solve it yourself.

In his opening speech, the State’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon. Markson Iworiso, noted that the last six years has been a watershed, adding that no doubt it has been challenging but the important thing is the resolve of the government’s focused leadership to make a difference against all odds.

He submitted that the occasion was an avenue to duly acknowledge and appreciate the governor for his sterling stewardship that has changed the collective story in the state, noting that things that have been thought impossible in the past have become possible and thereby giving

the people hope for a brighter tomorrow.

He furthermore stated that “From all indications, the next foreseeable years will come with so come much improvement in the quality of life for the people. That is when our people can better appreciate the true meaning and impact of the investment in education, building model boarding schools across the state with over 5,000 students on scholarship enjoying free nutritious meals, free uniforms, school sandals, school bags and free textbooks” “Bayelsa has been truly restored to its pride of place as the Jerusalem of the Ijaw nation. In all of this, we have our leader and governor to thank for his leadership and vision. Through thick and thin, he exhibited uncommon approach to governance. He is firm, resolute and doggedly pursuing his goals with vigour despite many distractions and undue criticism” Briefing the media, the commissioner for works and infrastructure, Mr. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, stated that motive behind the occasion was to create awareness on what will be done in the next coming years and also show all that has been done in the past 6 years by the current administration.

Ewhrudjakpo, said that the government doesn’t believe there’s any project that will be abandoned because it wasn’t conceived by it, adding that the whole part of the state would have been impacted by development but the major part of the 2014 recession that affected the state.

He explained that the Airport built by the government is a necessity to bring development to the state, adding that the government has also declared colonial bridges out of Yenagoa, the capital city.

He noted that with the numerous constructions happening in the state has also generated jobs for thousands of youths and developed their capacity.

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Restructuring is inevitable with state of things in Nigeria –Omolegan Prince Idowu Omolegan, is a Lagos-based constitutional lawyer and human rights activist. In this interview with INIOBONG IWOK, Omolegan says that the position of President that Nigeria does not need to be restructured leaves more confusion in the land as he has failed to bring forth a workable option. To him , with the state of things in the country at present , the only workable option is to restructure the country.

How did you react when the President said the problem with Nigeria was not about restructuring, but the process of doing things?

I don’t know what people are saying when they talk about restructuring of the country, is it about the way things are done? Even if we are to restructure, which the majority of Nigerians are clamouring for, President Muhammadu Buhari cannot say we would not restructure the country, even when everybody is talking about it. As a Nigerian, and if you are sincere with the state of affairs in the country you would agree that it has become inevitable.

If the President says, the problem with the country is about the process: let him bring a blue print in which way things should be done, may be it would help the system and check Fulani herdsmen killings, cure badoo and other issues.

But if the process is to remain like this and nothing is done about it, then is not for the nation’s best interest.

Look at the fuel scarcity, he seem helpless, Buhari cannot say we don’t need restructuring, he is not a military man, he seem confused I don’t think he can move the country forward, alot of people are thinking by now, things would have changed, but you go to the street and see the suffering of Nigerians.

There has been talk that he is detached from his ministers and he needs to urgently reshuffle his cabinet, do you share that idea?

That also may be an issue, because it took him about six months to appoint this set of ministers, he may not want to run into the hands of godfathers, and he would consult Oyegun, that may take him another six months to do.

This President is not moving, the administration is not moving. Look at when he was abroad, nothing was on ground, the NNPC man was doing as he likes and no one could check him, even when Kachikwu raised the issues of contract scam they settled the issue among themselves, personally I don’t

OMOLEGAN think the President is sincere.

Personally I would say, let us not play with security issues. I think what we need to do is to check them and see how the funds are utilised. We have to be vigilant, you know Soyinka has advised him to stop the blame game and get down to work which Nigerians elected him for.

The attacks are barbaric and alarming, it makes one to wonder if Boko haram is actually subdued and this one is coming up and the response has been this slow; no Nigeria would be happy with the response of the government, it is unfortunate, it is very slow. What are the security agencies doing? It makes one to wonder if they are culpable, even to think of what the security agencies are doing, the police and army are there with all other security agencies and all these killings are going on. Setting up a committee is a useless option, this is

war, and it should be treated as such.

Rather than Buhari to send soldiers and police to the place, what are the committee members going to do, to carry guns? The committee is just another jamboree, let them treat the issues the way it was treated in Delta and other states, and this has now aggravated the President’s position, because when there are little issues here in the South he sends soldiers, why not also in the North? These people have declared war on us and it should be treated as such, the committee is a camouflage, it is clear that this governments is confused.

Politician being what they are, the way we play our politics here is very crude unlike the western world. Here politicians want to ensure they run down governments. When PDP was in power; the APC was promising heaven on earth, that they would change the

country when they get to power, but they are in government now, they have not been able to do it. When you want to fight corruption, expect it to fight back, and it is fighting back, what is happening now in the country seem like their handy work.

What has he forgotten in office to want to come back? Maybe if we see some level of progress in the next one year, if unemployment among Nigerians improve, people can eat three square meals, maybe we can give him another four years, if we have to continue with this suffering we would not vote him, let him go, so much is happening.

The anti graft war to me has not really yielded the anticipated fruits. Until we can see prosecution and jailing then we can believe in the war.

Plea bargaining is not bad, but it is not the way it is practised in America and the advanced world, we often do everything upside down here. They still punish in America, even when it is applied. But what is happening is that: alot of people here are siphoning money and they only drop little portion of it and they are set free.

All of our politicians are rouges. I just wish we can have another mega party where there are people we can trust. Then we can safely say we have an alternative to this government. This government has failed, you cannot spend four years and there is nothing on the ground. His anti corruption war is selective, look at Obanikoro he is working freely, because he has joined APC and dropped little portion of the money he siphoned.

The problem is the operators of the constitution, cross carpeting should be done within the law. You cannot jump from one party to the other, in the United State, there are people that are identified with the Republican, while others are Democrats and they are known as such. We need to even ask ourselves if we are practising democracy, we are not, because what we are practising is unitary system, the Central is too powerful and that is not helping us with the state of things.

Dogara bemoans state of 2nd Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday called for the completion of Second Niger Bridge and Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

He said that they were critical to national development, but are almost becoming white elephant projects.

Dogara made the call while declaring open a two-day investigative hearing on the nature of the contract or concession arrangement on the projects, organised by the House Committee on Works.

Represented by Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Rep. Chukwuka Onyema, he

…Says they are becoming white elephant projects

said that the investigative hearing became critical given that the projects were constant and ugly features in national discourse.

He said that proactive steps must be taken to ensure early completion of the projects, pointing out that they constituted vital arterial network for the country’s road transport system.

“They have become media sensations and highly politicised to the extent that it now seems that we are playing games with the lives of our people.

“Past administrations have celebrated progress ostensibly made on them while

achieving little or nothing in reality,’’ Dogara said.

According to him, the House observed that contracts for the construction of the projects continued to feature in annual budgets without any seeming signs of their completion.

“The Minister for Power, Works and Housing stated that funds for the projects in 2017 Appropriation Act were reduced, so they run the risk of becoming white elephant projects because they are not under concession or Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) arrangement.’’

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Delta Speaker charges Assembly members on improved performance Benjamin Omoike

The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has charged members of the House to redouble their efforts in their legislative duties in order to impact positively on the people of the state, just as he commended the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for his continued support to the House.

In his welcome address to members on Tuesday upon resumption after the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Speaker lauded members for their contributions, which made it possible for the House to achieve commendable results in 2017 and urged them to double up their efforts in the New Year.

He specifically mentioned that the House was able to pass the 2018 Appropriation Bill into Law in November 2017, describing it as unprecedented, adding that the House successfully worked on the 4th Alteration Bill, 2017 of the Constitution as forwarded by the National Assembly and said that, “These are indeed milestones for the House.”

According to him: “As we have resumed this year for our legislative duties, I urge all of us to settle down to our various duties as fast as possible and begin to play our part in moving Delta

State forward. On this note, I therefore call on Chairmen of Committees to work on outstanding Bills that are before their Committees and bring them before the House for further legislative action as we are determined to give Deltans the best. I want to assure our people that the Legislature will always work for the interest of Deltans.”

The Speaker thanked members for their unalloyed support to him and the Leadership of the House, and implored them to sustain same in this year 2018.

“I also wish to acknowledge the support of the staff of the Assembly. I thank you very much,” the Speaker said.

He commended the state governor for his continued support to the Delta State House of Assembly, saying that: “The House is in its enviable position today as a result of the support being enjoyed from the Executive Arm of the state government. But we hope for more support this year. The Delta State House of Assembly will sustain the existing cordial relationship between the Executive and the Legislative.”

The Speaker congratulated the governor, the Chairman and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), members of the House and Deltans in general for the successful conduct of the January 6, 2018 Local Government Elections.

Osun LG poll: Come out to vote enmass, APC tells electorate The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) in Osun State has charged the people of the state to come out en masse on Saturday to vote for its candidates in the local government election.

The party advised the people, particularly the APC supporters to ensure those they prefer to elect to be in charge of their local governments have their votes because “it is a responsibility they should not take lightly.”

According to the statement by its spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi “Participation in local government election is as important as any other election in the country, and for locals, it should perhaps be more important for residents of the locality because it is their closest interaction with governance through which they can be heard.

“Since it is official from the state electoral commission that the election is holding on Saturday, and since no other agency is authorised by law to do so, it is imperative that voters turn up for the election.

‘Nobody should allow himself/herself to be deceived that there will be no voting on that day. Anyone who says so will be attempting to fool you; so you have to come out and vote for your choice of candidate “Any party that is not participating in the election may be doing so either out of ignorance or fear of possible disgraceful failure at the polls or both. However, the APC already has 280 of its candidates returned unopposed out of the 389 wards; but that’s not a reason to take victory for granted in the remaining 109 wards up for grabs. Go out on Saturday and register a decisive

AREGBESOLA victory by voting for the APC from the rest of the contest.

“The local government election will give a vivid indication of what the governorship contest of September will be. The APC expects no less than a resounding victory.

“As you read this,” ‘the party continued, the PDP, which is the most vitriolic opposition party we have in Osun, is so disorganised that its centre cannot hold.

“Besides, all efforts to patch the factions together have repeatedly failed; which is an indication that the party is incapable of governing. They are falling apart even before the people of Osun show them the red card for the fourth time. The first time the PDP got the red card was in 2003, (but it took the court’s intervention in 2010 to stop PDP from stealing victory).

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‘Cattle colony is satanic oppression’ A University lecturer and paramount ruler of Apa Kingdom in Osun State, Professor John Akinola Akintola has frowned at the cattle colony proposed by the Federal Government, describing it as a satanic oppression that Nigerians and Christians must rise against.

The Olumomi III, Alapaa of Apa Kingdom made this known at the 88th Annual General Conference of the Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Nigeria and Overseas, with the theme: ‘We are Marching On’, held at the Oyo District of the Church.

He stated that it is inimical for the powers that be to compel traditional rulers to allot acres of land to Fulani herdsmen.

“The issue of colony being proposed by the Federal Government, I am saying no to it, as a traditional ruler you cannot bring a Fulani man to my place and you ask me to give him or her 1000 acres of land, to do what?

“Do I have that opportunity in Sokoto?

Nobody can use style to colonise us in the name of loving ourselves, we love them, Fayose said recently a poultry farmers is not being provided good things by the Federal Government.

“You are a marketer you are not given money to get a shop for your trade either, but the traditional ruler should provide grazing land for the Fulani’s, it is not done, we are not in support.”

The biology Professor at LAUTECH noted that Nigerians should resist the development.

“I call on every Nigerian and Christian that this is the time for us to rise and fight oppression being created by Satanic

people.”

His Most Eminence Prophet (Dr.) Solomon Alao, The Baba Alakoso Implemented 1 of Sacred C&S Church of Nigeria and Supreme Head, Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church World Wide stated that the theme of the conference was apt.

“When you have a mission Satan will move to abort it, a particular individual in Abeokuta was against the progress of the Church, now we are marching forward because Satan has failed, Satan is insignificant, we are to March fearlessly because Satan has failed.”

According to the cleric, Christian leaders should desist from wrestling for post.

“For Cherubim and Seraphim to grow they should forget about titles Baba Aladura, Primate, we are all co-workers in the vineyard, position will not take you to heaven.

“Let me tell you what pains my heart, you cannot see a mosque with an Imam in charge, where some people will take him to court, that obtains in Christendom, not only Seraph they would wrestle for position as if their lives depends on it”.

The cleric noted that 2018 will be progressive for all Cherubim and Seraphim Church members worldwide, as not only the mortals that are seraphs even the immortals and host of heaven are part of us.

“Seraph is a special gift for Africans because if not for it, the world would have become idol worshipers, we expose the witches and wizards, we confront them,” he said.

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E-payment fraud as Nigeria’s biggest enemy

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ecent news that Nigerian Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), lost as much as N2.19 billion to fraudsters through electronic channels, otherwise called epayments, or e-banking in 2016 fiscal year, is an indication that all is still not well with the security of electronic payment system in the country. Of the amount lost to e-payment fraud, across the counter transactions amounted to N511.07milllion, followed by Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transactions worth N464.5 million, Internet banking worth N320.66 million, Point-ofSale (POS) transactions worth N243.32 million and mobile banking transactions worth N235.17 million, among others.

The news, coming from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is an indication that e-payment system in Nigeria needs to be more strengthened so that it will be safer, more secured and enduring in the interest of safe banking. According to the CBN, e-payment is any form of payment that allows for the use of electronics system to initiate, authorise and confirm the transfer of money between two parties. The transaction reason could be for the payment for goods and services, settlement of obligations and gifts, among others.

According to the CBN, e-payment transaction volumes grew at 8 .9% to reach $387.3 billion in 2014, an increase driven by accelerated growth in developing markets. Cards have been the fastest growing payment instrument since 2010, while payments using cheques have declined consistently and significantly. In 2014, debit cards accounted for the highest share (45.7%) of global e-payment transactions and were also the fastest growing (12.8%) payment instrument. Thus, it is incumbent on all stakeholders, users, regulatory authorities, particularly the CBN and the federal government to put in place strict legislation and rules that will safeguard the safety of e-payment system in the country.

There is no doubt that there are hard challenges facing the CBN, the banks and the security agencies in enforcing the provisions of the Cybercrime

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Act of 2015, a situation which has not helped much in nabbing cyber crime perpetrators, thus making a review of the act imperative.

While e-frauds can happen at any time, their frequencies of occurrence increase towards the end of the year because of the festivities around the end of the year and the need for people to hold more money for their expenses.

The fact that as much as N2.19 billion was lost to fraudsters last year through electronic fraud is a clear indication that the existing preventive and detective strategies currently in place at the banks are not enough to prevent efrauds.

It is true that the introduction of ebanking into the Nigerian financial system has made the conduct of financial transactions much easier than before, especially in this era of cashless policy. Unfortunately, e-banking has been abused by fraudsters and it has become Nigeria’s biggest economic enemy. The CBN and the banks must therefore embark on enlightenment of the banking public on how to drastically reduce cyber-fraud and e-banking abuses in the country.

At the same time, the National Assembly would need to review the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act of 2015 to make it more difficult for fraudsters to embark on e-fraud and to increase the penalties for those convicted for e-fraud. In addition, given the very significant importance attached across the world to the protection of information infrastructure in the delivery of financial services, persons who attempt to compromise e-payment infrastructure should be visited with heavy sanctions to deter other like- minded criminals from committing such crimes.

There is also a need for the CBN to use the biometric information on the Bank Verification Number of bank customers to identify, verify and authenticate all customers at the point of their e-transactions. By blocking all loopholes that could make e-fraud possible and by enacting an effective anti cybercrime law, there is no doubt that incidences of e-fraud would be drastically reduced in the country.

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Aisha Buhari: The critic in the other room

Times Columnist REUBEN ABATI

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It is possible that there is a fake Buhari wife and a fake Buhari daughter out there being used to amplify negative narratives, in the most treacherous medium of the time: the social media.

It is the job of the intelligence system to track that trail and stop it, if indeed it exists

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rs Aisha M. Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari is probably the most loved person in Nigeria today, especially by critics of her husband’s administration. She first came to our notice in this regard when in the course of her ailing husband’s medical vacation in London, she famously declared through BBC Hausa Service that the Buhari administration had been hijacked by a cabal. Long before anybody raised the issue, she was the first to observe that President Buhari has no business seeking a second term in office the way he was carrying on. She even added that she would not join him for any second term campaign. I had written a piece at the time titled “Aisha and that BBC interview”.

I said I expected that the statement attributed to her would be disowned. But no such thing happened. Her husband soon took his own pound of flesh when at a press conference in Germany, he told the entire world that Aisha Buhari, his wife, belongs to the “living room, the kitchen and the other room.” I didn’t support this brazenly chauvinistic statement but I reminded Mrs Buhari that her primary duty is to support her husband, and that this, historically, has indeed been the duty of First Ladies. Mamie Eisenhower covered up for her husband. Jackie Kennedy had to endure her husband, JFK’s shortcomings. Hillary Clinton saved Bill Clinton by standing with him in his most difficult moment. Not every President would ask for a Grace Mugabe, who pushed her husband out of office, or a Lucy Kibaki who made Mwai Kibaki of Kenya look like a domestic victim. Closer home, the tradition has been for our First Ladies to stand by their husbands through thick and thin. Those whose husbands were Muslims, with perhaps the exception of Maryam Babangida, took the additional step of staying off the radar. Aisha Buhari is probably the first Nigerian First Lady to cultivate the public persona of an assertive, irreverent, independentminded, critic-in-the-other-room, aggressive, resident and privileged “wailing wailer” in Aso Villa.

I don’t consider this a praiseworthy development. I stand by the cautious conservative view I expressed in my previous article on her. From initial concerns about her haute-couture fashion appearances, Nigerians have come to regard her more for her occasional, but striking political statements, or such statements that may be attributed to her. She reportedly bolted out of “the other room” about three days ago, when she retweeted videos of two major attacks on her husband’s administration on the floor of the Senate. Senator Isa Misau (Bauchi Central) had accused President Buhari of surrounding himself with incompetent persons. He even cited the example of the new Director-General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA), which in my view is an un-

Aisha Buhari fair assessment.

Civil servants are not necessarily competent because they pass promotion examinations. The most important requirement in the secret intelligence cycle may not necessarily be book intelligence. But Misau spoke his mind as he painted a broader picture of incompetence and disappointment, and the failure of the Buhari cabinet: 50% of whom he dismissed outrightly. Mrs Buhari found this so quotable and impressive, she tweeted the video on her twitter handle six times! Three days later, and in the face of the public interest that this has generated, the tweets are still there. Nobody has disowned them or deleted them. One popular caveat in twitter-sphere is that “retweets are not endorsements.” In this case, it seems we are not dealing with mere retweets, but actual endorsement.

You retweet what makes an impression on you. Mrs Buhari on the handle, a verified handle - @aishambuhari – also retweets Senator Ben Murray-Bruce’s condemnation of the Buhari administration. Ben Bruce goes about proclaiming that he talks common sense, and although I don’t see much sense in what is common, uncommon sense projects more creativity in my view, but clearly Aisha Buhari sees sense in Ben Bruce’s unflattering criticisms of President Buhari’s leadership style and ability, and hence she serves as his Vuvuzela.

Ben Bruce has been going about since then like a man who just got a sweetheart kiss from a crush.

Mrs Buhari’s conduct is unusual; it is shocking in its extra-ordinariness, to put it directly, it smacks of treachery and disloyalty. But it has fetched her enormous praise. My brother and colleague, Dele Momodu, a onetime Buharist, no, in fact a Buharideen, now a thoroughly disappointed “wailing wailer” has written a paen to Aisha Buhari. Ben Murray-Bruce has also composed the equivalent of a poem in her honour. He says she must refuse to be “cowed”. Ben Bruce is mean. Why use the word cow at this time? Is he suggesting that Mrs Aisha Buhari should not allow herself to be turned into a cow, when he as a common sense Senator knows that cows are not particularly famous in Nigeria at this time?

He redeems himself by saying she is an intelligent woman. Some other commentators have said that Aisha Buhari will make a better President of Nigeria than her husband. There are others who have suggested that she should become Nigeria’s Vice-

President in 2019. “Toasting” and “seducing” another man’s wife with nice words is off-limits in my cultural space. I disagree with everyone on social media and elsewhere who have been saying that Aisha Buhari is right to criticize her husband publicly and to lend voice and strength to the likes of Senator Misau and Ben Murray-Bruce. Reno Omokri has also praised Aisha M. Buhari. This is how we would be here and Femi Fani-Kayode will be the chairman at an award ceremony making President Buhari’s wife “the Woman of the Year 2018”. If care is not taken, Aisha Buhari will soon join the Chibok Girls Movement or become an associate of Oby Ezekwesili’s Red Card Movement.

I think something is wrong somewhere. The position of the President is a national security position. It is hard enough to be a President, but to have issues on the home front makes the job doubly difficult. This is the very issue that came up the other day. One character who likes to talk accused me of being sympathetic to the Jonathan administration and using style to criticize the present administration. I told him off and reminded him of my rights as a trained journalist and as a professionally licensed critic and citizen. He held his ground. So I asked: “Aisha Buhari criticizes President Buhari and retweets anti-Buhari comments, is she also a Jonathanian woman? The guy had nothing to say. So I added: “if President Buhari is being criticized in his own bedroom, by persons who eat his pepper and palm oil, what moral right does anybody have to silence critics of his administration?”

The guy blurted out: “if my wife tries that nonsense with me, there will be a meeting with my in-laws with serious consequences!” Case settled, so I rested it.

The de-marketing campaign against President Buhari is even worse than that. Within 24 hours after the retweet on Aisha Buhari’s handle, it was reported that one of her daughters, Zahra M. Buhari had also posted a cryptic statement, which suggested a condemnation of the administration. Unlike her mother, Zahra does not seem to have a verified twitter handle. There are even about eight handles bearing her name, including one that confesses to being a parody.

But of all these, the most influential is - @zmbuhari – which has the largest following – 77.4k – and which seems to be more credible. Under this handle, Zahra supports her father, retweets her mother’s tweets including the

ones already cited, she sounds spiritual and poetic and in every measure, comes across as her mother’s daughter, as if mother and daughter are united in a rebellious mission inside the Presidential Villa.

I recommend a forensic study of the retweets under her handle. In one case, she retweets @aminuganawa, a bright US-based Ph.D, who writes: “I doubt if there is anyone who would want you to succeed more than your wife and children. Your success is their success. If there is anything that will harm you they are likely to be the first to notice it. If you want an honest feedback listen to your wife and children.” That was three days ago, shortly after Zahra retweeted her mother’s retweets. Are we being told that the President does not listen to his wife and children, and that indeed, outsiders have held him hostage? A rigorous semiotic analysis of wife-anddaughter-Buhari’s tweets belongs to another level of analysis and other revelations. But here is Zahra M. Buhari’s most controversial tweet in the last 48 hours and it speaks for itself: Sahih al-Bukahri, Knowledge Book 3, Hadith 1 Narrated ‘Abu Huraira When the Prophet (pbuh) finished his/speech, he said, Where is the questioner,/Who inquired about the Hour (Doomsday)?”/ The Bedouin said “I am here, O Allah’s Apostle”/ Then the Prophet (phub) said, “When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour/ (Doomsday).”/The Bedouin said, “How will that be lost?”/ The Prophet (phub) said, “When the power/or authority comes in the hands of unfit/ persons, then wait for the hour/ (Doomsday.)”

The foregoing verse is probably the most intellectually relevant criticism of the Buhari government to date and to be attributed to his daughter’s platform is the scariest of all things. “Unfit persons”? “Doomsday?”

It seems to me that some people are sleeping on the job. The happiness of the President is a matter of national security. The biggest problems that the Buhari administration has faced have been mainly unforced errors.

In the absence of a competent opposition, this government has consistently shot itself in the foot. To add to that: a President with what looks like a troubled home is the most unfortunate thing that can happen to a country. To show a lack of capacity to manage that particular trouble has sorry implications for the Presidency and the administration. I may sound conservative but I think the twin-image of a rebellious wife and a free-willing daughter posting negative comments about a sitting President should be of greater interest to the intelligence agencies and reputation managers.

However, it is possible that there is a fake Buhari wife and a fake Buhari daughter out there being used to amplify negative narratives, in the most treacherous medium of the time: the social media. It is the job of the intelligence system to track that trail and stop it, if indeed it exists. It doesn’t require more than a couple of emails to Twitter, anyway, with complaints about implications for national security. Zahra M. Buhari doesn’t need to have so many twitter accounts in her name. And if Aisha Buhari’s account has been hacked, we should be told, and if she did not retweet those antispouse messages, we should know even if serious damage has been done already. If this is not the case: then we should say this: her job in the other room does not include openly and deliberately discrediting her husband.

This much should be made clear. And if that fails, then we would be dealing, more or less with the true quality of the man in that other room.

The bottom line in my view: This President needs HELP. And he is not getting it.

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Turmoil in UNN as workers alleges abduction of JAC chairman by VC Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Joint Action Committee of the University of Nigeria Nsukka on Tuesday blocked the main entrance gate of the university preventing workers, students and motorists from going in or out of the campus.

The Daily Times gathered that workers of the university and their leaders had arrived at the gate as early as 7:30am to enforce the closure of the gate, stating that

their action was as a result of the abduction of their chairman, Mr. Paul Erua and his two sons in his house in the wee hour of Tuesday by the Police Anti-Kidnap Squad at the instance of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba.

Workers of the university had been at loggerhead with the leadership of the university.

Our correspondent gathered that apart from the ongoing nationwide strike, there is also the local issue bordering on nonpayment of promotion arrears,

shortfalls in salary payment and Christmas bonus.

The Daily Times recalls that Non-academic workers of the university under JAC which comprises Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) recently threatened to frustrate activities in UNN by shutting down electricity and water supply in UNN in solidarity with the indefinite strike called

last December by its national bod y.

Erua, the alleged abducted JACUNN chairman had in a recent interview with The Daily Times advised students of the university to return to their respective homes as the non-academic staff was on a nationwide strike.

Speaking to newsmen, the Treasurer of JAC-UNN, Mr. Moses Linus Akata said workers of UNN shutdown the campus gate to protest the abduction of the JACUNN chairman, Mr. Paul Erua

and his two sons by the university authorities.

“Police Anti-Kidnap squad arrested our chairman and some of his family members very early this morning without telling us his offence he committed.

“The gate of the university will remain under lock and key until Erua is released as we do not know his whereabouts.

“The non teaching staff strike is nationwide we do not know why our chairman will be singled out for arrest, “he said.

AOCOED management reduces NCE full-time charges

Esther Taiwo

The Management of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos State, at an inclusive meeting with the Students’ Union Executives held recently, has reduced charges for all levels of full –time, Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) students.

In a press release signed by the College Registrar/ Secretary to Council, AOCOED, Mr. Shehu Muhideen, the management acceeded to the agitation by the students for reduction in the charges earlier agreed on at a Parents’ Forum Meeting held in the College on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, due to the economic recession in the country.

Hence, the new charges to be paid by students with effect from 2017/2018 Academic Session is as follows: for 100 level students-Regular NCE programme, the charges include acceptance fee, administrative charges, ICT Levy, ID Card (Biometric), Sports, Medical, Library and Teaching practice. The total charges to be paid now will be N25, 000.00 instead of N28, 000 that was agreed upon earlier during the Parents’ Forum.

For the 200 and 300 level students, the total charges will be N15, 000.00 as against the N18, 000.00 agreed upon at the Parents’ Forum to cover Administrative, ICT, ID Card and others. Others such as Sports, Medical and Library will attract no charge for 200 and 300 level students.

L-R: Vice-Chancellor, Covenant University, Professor Anthony. Atayero; Vice-President (Education), Living Faith Church, Worldwide, Pastor (Mrs.) Faith Oyedepo; Chancellor, Dr. David Oyedepo and Covenant University’s 12th Inaugural Lecturer Prof. Taiwo Olubunmi Abioye, at the 12th inaugural lecture of Covenant University titled “By Words They Were Created: The Synergy Between Language, Discourse and the Media in the Construction of Realities, held at the University Chapel in Otta, Ogun State...recently

FG poised to enhance school children enrolment Augustine Okezie, Abuja The Federal Government has re-stated that the issue of out of school children, and enhancing school enrolment remained a critical component of the Ministerial Strategic Plan (MSP) and a special area of focus by the ministry.

Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who made the above declaration in his keynote address at the flagging - off the Annual National School Enrolment Campaign at the Tudun Salmanu primary school, Bauchi, said the event was organised to sensitise parents and stakeholders to enroll school age children into preprimary and primary schools

for the 2017/2018 academic session. He commended the Bauchi State Government for partnering the ministry to launch the Campaign According to the Minister, the Ministry targets enrolment of 2, 875, 000 pupils and construction of additional 71,875 classrooms annually for four years as well as recruitment of teachers all in anticipation of the increased enrolments.

The Minister, who was represented by the Registrar and Chief Executive of Teachers’ Registration Council (TRCN), Professor Josiah Ajiboye, said that the school enrolment campaign was a deliberate project of the ministry targeting children ages 3-6years for enrol-

ment into the formal school system.

Mallam Adamu reiterated the dangers of allowing children to continue to roam the streets, saying that illiteracy was a major factor behind the security challenges being faced by the country.

According to him, the National Enrolment Drive Framework for reducing out of school children was approved by the National Council on Education (NCE) in 2016 as a guide for effective coordination of the campaign at each level of government.

The Minister further announced his desire to organize a high level meeting with state Governors and other key players in the sector to further

discuss the menace of out of school children, adding that the Ministry recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Youth Service Corps to enlist Early Childhood Education in the Community Development Service.

Bauchi State Governor, Muhammad Abubakar, in his address at the occasion, stated that the emergence of Boko Haram increased the challenge of out of school children in North - East region of the country.

He stressed that even though Bauchi State was not affected directly as much as other states, managing influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was quite challenging.

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Bridge educational gap between South, North, Don urges FG Stories by Esther Taiwo A professor of Discourse Stylistics and Applied Lingustics, Department of Languages and General Studies, Covenant University, Otta in Ogun State, Professor Taiwo Abioye, has urged the Federal Government to bridge the gap in education between northern and southern Nigeria as she described education as a fundamental human right.

The don stated this in her inaugural lectured titled, “By Words They Were Created: The Synergy between Language, Discourse and the Media in the Construction of Realities,” which is the 12th in the series of Covenant University inaugural lecture held at the university chapel recently.

According to her, socio-cultural factors are potent ones in the creation of educational gaps, adding that the dichotomy is connected to the different sociological and ideological leanings of the two zones.

“It is obvious that literacy level reduces from the South towards the North which may partly account for the frequent breakdown of law and order in the North. A strong link is thus established between literacy on one hand and economic, political and other relevant factors in the process of national development on the other hand”, she said.

Prof. Abioye also lamented that Nigeria has been battling with the weight of illiteracy which does not seem to have improved for decades as she added that without literacy, the nation’s goals for socio-transformation and sustainable human development cannot be actualised because literate people are the real wealth of a nation.

She also noted that the major factor mili-

L-R Head of School, Grace Children, Dr. Nike Akindayo; Grace School Administrator, Mrs. Iyiola Olatokunbo Edun and Vice-Principal, Grace High School, Mr. Philip Balogun, during the 50th Anniversary of Grace school in Lagos,, recently.

tating against the achievement of an effective literacy level in Nigeria os the persistent pattern observed in government’s attitude.

“Government has consistently exhibited lack of political commitment by paying lipservice to its policies rather than actively encouraging and backing the implementation”, she said.

The inaugural lecturer also noted that misplaced priorities have seriously affected

Education minister tasks states on implementation of teacher education policy Augustine Okezie,Abuja The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has charged state governments and relevant stakeholders in the education sector to intensify the implementation of the content of the National Teacher Development Project (NTEP) towards improving the standard of education in the country.

Adamu, who gave the charge through a keynote address at a sensitisation meeting of the stakeholders in Abuja, also expressed optimism that the policy would ensure the production of quality teachers who will in turn; produce an educated citizenry that can make the country developed and her citizens globally competitive.

The Minister, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Architect Sonny Echono, said: “We must produce teachers who can teach and motivate students in a way that leads to a substantial positive and permanent influence on how they think , act, and react to their environment” he said.

According to him, key stakeholders including National Universities Commission, National Commission for Colleges of Edu-

cation, Universal Basic Education Commission, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria and International Development Partners, should actively help in charting the way forward for implementation of the policy.

The Minister further stressed the need to attract best brains to train as teachers, and for teaching to be accepted as a profession rather than a vocation and to stay relevant by keying into the transformations brought into teaching via technology break- troughs.

Earlier in a welcome address the Director of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Ojo said that the National Teacher Education Project was part of the on-going Education Sector Reforms, aimed at complementing the efforts of the Federal Government and to improve the pre-service and in-service teacher education. He noted with regret that Nigeria was still facing challenges of aversion to the teaching profession.

The Representatives of International Development Partners namely :World Bank and the Department For International Development (DFID) re- assured of their continued support for teacher development and other programmes in the education sector.

education in Nigeria as government spends extravagantly on sports and politics whereas policies and projects are poorly implemented, completed, sometimes diverted, inadequately monitored or even abandoned and subsequently forgotten.

She said in most cases, educational policies are sometimes personalised and used in scoring cheap political goals or in settling scores.

Educational services being provided by private investors has come to stay in Nigeria just as it has a great future, the immediate past Vice Chancellor University of Lagos Professor Rahamon Bello has said.

He made the observation while giving a lecture titled, “Private Education in Nigeria, Sustainability in the next 50 years” as part of activities marking the 50th anniversary of Grace Schools.

He said that any serious attempt to access the place of private education in national development in the next fifty years must take note of four main factors. These are public sector activities in education, quality of public school education, and the economy and government policy.

In terms of public sector activities in education, he noted that “the increasing demand of other competing social services like health, transportation, may not enable fund large enough for the public sector to meet its obligation in education. Hence the involvement of the private sector in both the primary and secondary education is likely to keep expanding if the objective

As part of her recommendations after her research findings on the topic, Abioye suggested integrating reading and writing skills in Nigerian schools using newspaper texts.

She also tasked media practitioners to use positive words to get positive results from government but reminded them that they should not embellish the fact and analyse issues objectively.

Private education has great future -Don of the compulsory even if not free education up to Basic 9 or junior secondary school is to be met”.

On the issue of quality of public school education, Prof.

Bello noted that if there is no significant change in the prevailing low quality of public schools, then more people will keep opting for private schools in the foreseeable future.

The don also argued that as the economy improve and more people fall into the middle class more money will be available to more people who would demand private education. In terms of government policy he observed that a ban on private education is unlikely. He also said that even when government is able to fund education effectively people are likely to still patronise private education because of its high quality. To support this view he cited the situation in the tertiary education where parents send their children abroad despite the high cost.

Based on all the mentioned parameters, Professor Bello concluded that the demand for private education rather than wane will multiply in the years ahead.

The lecture which was delivered in the school hall was the first major activity that kick started the 50th anniversary celebrations.

Earlier, the Administrator of Grace Schools, Mrs. Tokunbo Edun commended the effort of her late mother, Deaconess Grace Oshinoaro, who founded the school on January 8 1958.

She disclosed that Grace Schools in line with the aspiration of the founder has kept its commitment to the education of all round individuals with global perspective and zeal for excellence adding that we are confident that the next 50 years will be amazing.

“We stand on our principles of benchmarking the best in technology to deliver world class education”.

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Rufus Giwa Poly students on rampage, destroy cars, ICT centre

‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure

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Ag g rieved students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo (RUGIPO) in Ondo state on Tuesday went on rampage, as they disrupted the ongoing second semester examination on the campus.

They were protesting over the decision of the management’s policy of “no school fees, no examination” in the institution.

Daily Times learned that trouble started when some of the students were chased out of the exami-

Management shuts down school nation hall for failing to tender their school (tuition) receipt.

Our correspondent gathered on Tuesday that the management’s policy did not go down well with the students as they went berserk destroying school properties.

The angry students chanted solidarity songs as they moved en mass around the campus and hurled abuses on the management of the institution.

Properties destroyed by the rampaging stu-

dents worth millions of naira among which was the building of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) unit of the school.

Some students said the management of the polytechnic had issued a circular and threatened to stop any students who fail to pay his or her tuition fee from writing the examination.

One of the students, Dayo Adeojo who spoke on behalf of his mates, said they had to kick against the obnoxious policy of the school man-

agement.

Adeojo revealed that it took the effort of the mobile policemen drafted to the school gate to stop the students from extending the protest to the town.

No fewer than 12 protesting students of the school were arrested by the mobile policemen drafted to the institution to enforce law and order.

The students were being accused of leading the protest, attacking lecturers and damaging properties of the school during the procession on campus.

Speaking, Comrade

Temitayo Ayejuyo, the President of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the institution condemned the protest and act of destruction on the campus by the students.

Ayejuyo also explained that the students’ leaders of the school had earlier pleaded with the management of the institution to halt its decision during the first semester examination.

“The management allowed those (students) who didn’t pay to sit for the first semester examination but now I wonder

why same set of students refused to pay before the second semester exams.

“This act of destruction is uncalled for and we the entire Students Union Government body on this campus condemned in totality the attitude displayed by the students” he added.

Rafiu Ijawoye, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) of the institution also described the action of the students as embarrassing and unacceptable.

IGP warns junior officers not to sell off bikes Yakubu Salisu, Kano

ÏÏÏThe Inspector Gen-

ICT Centre, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo state destroyed by irate students who went on rampage when they demonstrated against the management’s policy of “No tuition fees, no exam, in Owo...on Tuesday

Nasarawa IDPs starve, in absence of security, water

Augustine Kuza, Lafia

ÏÏÏOver

8,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge at Central Primary School in Kadarko, Keana local government area of Nasarawa state, have complained of none supply of relief materials to the camp.

Secretary-General of United Farmers Association in Kadarko,Mr. Denis Utsa made the complaint on behalf of the IDPs when he led officials of the association on advocacy visit to the leadership of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nasarawa state council, at the weekend in Lafia, the state capital.

He stressed that since the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) arrived camp four days

after the attacks by suspected herdsmen on their villages in Dooka community in Doma local government of the state, they have been staying in the camp without food, water and health facility.

According to him, the IDPs were excluded from the distribution of relief materials earlier donated to some IDPs camps in Keana and Awe by the state government, leaving them to their own fate.

Utsa added that the attacks on the villages along border communities in Doma, Awe and Keana have rendered over 20,000 of his members homeless with loss of over 12 lives including farm produce worth millions of naira also destroyed by the attackers.

He identified the gap between government and the

communities in the state, of none inclusion of Tiv in traditional institution in Kadarko chiefdom, saying that absence of Tiv representation at the traditional institution in the area has contributed to the lingering conflict between herders and farmers in the area.

He regretted that matters that could have been resolved by traditional leaders at the communities level sometime escalated violence due to none inclusion of Tiv in the traditional institution at the various levels in the state.

He therefore called on the state government to create chiefdom in the Tiv speaking areas of Kadarko, Keana, Awe and Doma and Lafia local government areas in the state,as according to him, do-

ing so would create synergy and better understanding between the Tiv tribe and other ethnic nationalities in the state.

Responding, Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nasarawa state council, Comrade Dogo Shammah, who sympathized with the officials of the association over the hardship being experienced by their members, assured their plight would be made known to government through media reports.

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eral of Police Ibrahim K Idris has warned junior officers who were given motorcycles loan to enhance security in the state not to sell the motorcycles.

Idris gave the warning on Tuesday during the distribution of 500 motorcycles to junior officers at the Kano Command Bompai Headquarters.

The IGP, who was represented by the AIG zone 1 Mr. Daniel Bature charged the rank and file to make judicious use of the motorcycles which the IGP has provided them with in order to provide relief for them and enhance security challenges associated with transportation.

“I urge you all not to

be tempted into selling off these bikes at cheap prices. I decided to support you with these motorcycles after considering what some of you pass through to get to your places of duty.

These motorcycles will help you to beat time and report to work on time as well as other personal uses at home” Ibrahim further stated that he remains committed to making life better for the police personnel who have sacrificed their lives for the service of the nation that the gesture is just the first phase of such as more is to come.

However, he warned that no police officer should dispose the motorcycle given out to them in order to make quick money as such attitude would not be tolerated.

Police refuse to state reason for my arrest - Ezekwesili Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, and other executive members of the group said that the police has failed to state any reason for their arrest.

The BBOG leaders were picked up on Tuesday morning at the Abuja Unity Fountain in the early hours of the morning when they gathered for their usual peaceful match.

Confirming the arrest, Ezekwesili in her verified tweeter handle said that they were arrested and detained without being told the reasons for their arrest.

She wrote, “I have been arrested along

with the rest of our BBOG members and now detained without a charge by the @PoliceNG. WE are detained at the FCT command.

The police here have refused to tell us why we are detained”.

“What are we demanding? BringBackOurGirlsNOW!!!!!!!”

Speaking with journalists from the police station, Ezekwesili called for the release all members of the group already in detention.

“Today we gathered to do our usual march, and the Nigerian police refused for us to leave the Unity Fountain (in Abuja),” she said.

“Some of our colleagues have already gone and they are going to be giving their press statement there.

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KINGDOM COLLEGE OF THE WORD FOUNDATION has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission,Abuja for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE (1) REV.DR.EMMANUEL UKOHA (2) PASTOR STEVE PATH (3) MR.LONDON OGBONNAYA EMMANUEL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. (1) To train, qualify and equip Gospel Ministers for Gospel Campaigns.

(2) To Organise Arts and Science Skill acquisition programs as a means of youth empowerment.

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

SIGNED, BARR.C.U.AZUBUIKE 08033419972

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CHRIST TOWER DIVINE ASSEMBLY MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

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CHRIST TRANSFORMING POWER EVANGELISTIC WORLD OUTREACH

Companies Registration 22 (Trustees)

THE GREATEST HARVEST OF SOUL DELIVERANCE AND SOLUTION ASSEMBLY

OSUNNAYE YOMI ABRAHAM

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TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE VINNING V. COOKEYGAM 2. COOKEYGAM VINNING HELEN 3. OTELIMABIA GEORGE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR PRINCE TITUS 2. MRS. MERCY TITUS 3. CHIEF NYEKWERE CHINDA

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SIGNED: APOSTLE VINNING V. COOKEYGAM

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TRUSTEES. (1) ABATORE AJUSHUMEN PHILIP (CHAIRMAN) (2)ABATORE ZEPHANIAH EYENELE (SECRETARY) (3)ARO OLUKAYODE ISREAL (MEMBER) (4)SHINYIABE GODWIN .A. (MEMBER) (5)LIKUNA JULIUS HIMONGISE (MEMBER) AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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TRUSTEES: (1)THANKGOD DIVINE PRAISE. (2)THANKGOD EGBONYI CHARLES. (3) HALIMA ELUU OJII. (4)HELEN ONORI UNOH.

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TRUSTEE ARE: 1 PASTOR ADEJOH EKEYI , 2. PASTOR MRS RACHEAL ADEJOH. (3) PASTOR JAMES EKEYI (4) MRS ANAJA RUTH (5) MRS EMMANUEL RACHEAL (6) PASTOR ABRAHAM ACHILE. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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SIGNED: NNENNA UKPAI IRO. 08032773398

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SIGNED: IDONGESIT ELISHA SUCCESS

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ABDULSALAM ALIMAT

SHOKUNBI HASSAN FEMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABUBUKAR ALIMAT ROMOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULSALAM ALIMAT ROMOKE, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO BRING SALVATION OF SOULS AND PEACE TO MANKIND.

NWAGU IFEANYI

GOVERNING CITY OF CHRIST VISIBLE HABITANTS CHURCH THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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.

TRUSTEES. 1.EGWU CHARLES UKOLO, 2.NUBI TAYO RACHEAL, 3.ATEKPE SAMUEL ESHIOZEMHEDE, 4.SALIF GIDEON U, 5.LONTON JOSEPHINE KASUWA. AIMS: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF GOD. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED. VICTOR C ORIZU ESQ. 07030223944.

YUSUF UMAR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RABIU ABDULLAHI, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS YUSUF UMAR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UZOMA NKECHINYERE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ORINGANJE SYLVIA NKECHINYERE CHINENYE, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS MRS UZOMA NKECHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I,SHONOLA KAMORU IS THE SAME PERSON AS SHONOLA KAMORU AREMU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHONOLA KAMORU AREMU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. FIRST BANK PLC AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EDOSOMWAN ROSEMARY OSAMUDIAME. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLAKUNLE ROSEMARY OSAMUDIAME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IBIRONKE SABINAH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOETAN SABINAH OLUWAFUNMILAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBIRONKE SABINAH OLUWAFUNMILAYO, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

RALIYA UMAR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AISHA ABDULLAHI, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS RALIYA UMAR, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ORDU KELECHI JUSTINA

ENYIOHA WISDOM CHINWENDU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ORDU KELECHI JUSTINA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS ORDU KELECHI JUSTINA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY SPELT AS EHYIOHA WISDOM CHINENYE, INSTEAD OF ENYIOHA WISDOM CHINWENDU, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OYINLADE SOLOMON GBENGA

OKPALEYE ADEYINKA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYINLADE SOLOMON ADEMOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYINLADE SOLOMON GBENGA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPALEYE RAPHAEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPALEYE ADEYINKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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PROPHET OLUSEYI MODEBOLA ABRAHAM FOUNDATION

Change of Names 23

KACHI IHEDIOHA FOUNDATION FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED

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.

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.

PROPHET OLUSEYI MODEBOLA ABRAHAM 2.

EVANG. ESTHER ABRAHAM-SECRETARY 3.

MISS OLUWATUNMISE ABRAHAM 4.

MISS OLUWASEUN ANWOJU

TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

KACHI IHEDIOHA 2.

UCHECHI UCHEGBU 3.

OBIAGERI ORIE

FOUNTAIN OF REVELATION AND LIBERATION CHURCH

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.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN, OLD PEOPLE AS WELL AS SICKLE CELL

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY 2.

GENERAL HUMANITARIAN SERVICES TO THE POOR.

TRUSTEES: 1.

CHRISTIAN E.ISEGHOHIMEN(PRESIDENT) 2. ADEDAYO ADELEKE(ASISTING PASTOR) 3. DOVE IFEOMA EZURIKE(BOARD MEMBER) 4. ESTHER OGBONNA(MEMBER).

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2.

TO TAKE CARE OF THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. 3.

TO ESTABLISH LOCAL BRANCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL WORLDWIDE.

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.

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

SIGNED: BARR MERCY OMAGE

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE SAINT CLINIC MINISTRY

NIGER DELTA RURAL WOMEN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

-CHAIRMAN

COMMONWEALTH OF THE REDEEMED AND OVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN CENTRE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

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.

OKORIE SAMUEL 2.

OKORIE FLORENCE 3.

ONUOHA STEPHENE IKECHUKWU 4.

BARR. ONUOHA NKECHINYERE PROMISE (SECRETARY) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2.

TO TAKE CARE OF THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. 3.

TO ESTABLISH LOCAL BRANCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL WORLDWIDE.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS 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.

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.

CONSTANCE EGWOLO OGBOWU 2.

FLORENCE OLISE 3.

PETER OGBA 4.

ROSE NKEM ONWUSA 5.

LENITY EMMANUEL JOHN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1.

EMPOWERING THE RURAL WOMEN OF NIGER-DELTA REGION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF DIFFERENT EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES LIKE SKILL ACQUISITION, ADULT EDUCATION, CREDIT FACILITIES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE. 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: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

PRAISE VICTORY OF THE CROSS MINISTRY

IKEJA INDIGENES PROGRESSIVE FORUM

THE INCORPORTATED TRUSTEES OF LIFTED AND WINNING VULNERABLE PERSONS FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BALOGUN MOJEED ALABI 2. APENA ADEKUNLE ISIAKA 3. ILLO FOLASHADE IDAYAT 4. ABIORO AFUSAT APINKE 5. BAKARE MUSIBAU OLUSOLA 6. ARUBO AMIDU AYINDE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.’PROMOTING UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS AND ALL IKEJA INDIGENES. 2. OFFERING EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO MEMBERS AND IKEJA INDIGENES 3. DEFENDING AND PROMOTING THE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF IKEJALAND 4. EDUCATING MEMBERS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN MADE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF THE ABOVE NAMED AT THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C 20 LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. OMOLOLA AKIN-WILLIAMS 2. MR. ADESINA MICHAEL AKIN-WILLIAMS 3. MISS IYANUOLUWA AKIN-WILLIAMS 4. MRS OLOLADE ADESOLA OSILALU. 5. MRS TEMITOPE ABIMBOLA ODUNSI. 6. PASTOR OJO ADEDAYO ADEWUMI. 7. MRS REBECCA FOLASHADE AJAYI. 8. MR OKAJA SIMON OKAJA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: A. SUSTAINABILITY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION AMONG VULNERABLE PERSONS. B. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE REDUCTION OF MISERY AND THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY FOCUSING ON THE SUPPORT OF VULNERABLE PERSONS. C. TO ENRICH THE KNOWLEDGE AND ENHANCE THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS OF VULNERABLE PERSONS AND PERSONS GENERALLY AND HELP THEM TO MEET REQUIREMENTS OF THE LABOUR MARKET AND INCREASING THEIR ACCESS TO DECENT WORK OPPORTUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION OF THE ABOVE NAMED TRUSTEES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ADVERT. SIGNED: OLUGBENGA AKINLABI ESQ. BROADRIDGE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS & NOTARY PUBLIC NO 8 ALHAJA OLUWAKEMI STREET, OFF ODUNLAMI STREET, ANTHONY (MARYLAND) LAGOS STATE.

PRO- WOMEN SAFE SANITARY FOUNDATION

MERCYFIELD HELPS AND SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV’D AGBOLABORI OLATUNDE JOHN 2. PASTOR MRS. AGBOLABORI BUSOLA OLATILEWA 3. PASTOR AKINWUMI SAMUEL SUNDAY 4. DEACONESS ADIGUN OLANIKE OLUBUNMI 5. MR. AGBOLABORI DAMILOLA MICHAEL

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JOHN ELIJAH MENDIE 2. OBAZI DANIEL 3. OKON LOVETH IMAOBONG 4. WAHAB ADEBOWALE MUSA 5. EKWERE OKON EKWERE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BY TRUSTEES

COMMUNITY HEALTH AND INFORMATIVE SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OWOLABI ISAIAH OLUWATOBI 2. EMELE AUGUSTINA CHIDINMA 3. UFELLE NKEMAKONAM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE IN-DWELLERS OF RURAL AREAS AND SLUMS IN NIGERIA. 2. TO SUPPORT ADULT EDUCATION ESPECIALLY WITH WOMEN. 3. TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT HEALTH LITERACY VIA ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, INFORMATIVE AND EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITIES IN ORDER TO INCREASE PUBLIC HEALTH AWARENESS. 4. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT HEALTH 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

FOUNTAIN OF GOD’S LOVE MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEE AND ADDITION OF TRUSTEE TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. ATUIWASHE OBA - TREASURE - (REMOVED).

2. SOLOMON O. LAWRENCE - SECRETARY - (ADDED).

3. SOLOMON EMMANUEL BONIFACE - CLERGY (RETAINED) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME. 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: BARR. CHUKWU SAMUEL PRINCE.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MISS. VIVIAN AKUDO NWOGU - CHAIRMAN 2. MR. ADEDAMOLA BELLO - MEMBER 3. MR. PAUL ONYEWUENYI - MEMBER 4. MR. UCHENNA T. NDUBUISI - MEMBER 5. MISS FRANCISCA N. NWOGU - SECRETARY THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE: 1. TO EDUCATE/SENSITIZE YOUNG WOMEN ON SAFE SANITARY HYGIENE. 2. TO PROVIDE SANITARY WEARS FOR INDIGENT WOMEN IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES. 3. TO SUPPORT HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTRES THROUGH HEALTH EDUCATION ON USE AND SUPPLIES OF SANITARY WEARS. 4. TO SUPPORT CAMPAIGNS ON COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH AGAINST ENDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. TO EMPOWER WOMEN FOR HEALTHY LIVING ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. NNENNA JOYCE EMEHIE

SOLA SCRIPTURAL MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY 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. IDOGA PETER ANYEBE - CHAIRMAN. 2. ALEWO ALICE IDOGA ANYEBE. 3. UNEKWU-OJO ANYEBE - SECRETARY. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE FROM SATANIC TRAPS BY THE WORD OF DOMINION AND LIBERATION. 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.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) DOYIN GLADYS ADEWALE - PRESIDENT (2) ADEPITAN EBENEZER ADEMOLA - SECRETARY (3) ADEBIMPE OLAJUMOKE ADELEKUN (4) OLAIYA TOLULOPE REBECCA (4) ADENEKAN AYODELE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP AND CARE FOR LESS PRIVILEGES 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

GOLDEN FAITH WORLD CHURCH

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ISOBOYE JOB GEORGE --CHAIRMAN 2. IBIBIA ANTHONY GEORGE --SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH AND PROMOTE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE. 2. TO PROMOTE, PROTECT THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS 3. TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER LOVE, UNITY AND PROGRESS BETWEEN AND AMONGST MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OKHAI OHIMAI, ESQ

24 Change of Names WOMEN CHILD YOUTH HEALTH AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. HALIMA MUSA MUKADDAS(CHAIRMAN) 2. ZAINAB ABDULLAHI 3. RABI’ATU MUSA (SECRETARY) 4. JAFAR MUSA MUKADDAS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO SAVE LIVES, IMPROVE NUTRITION AND PROMOTE PRODUCTIVE LIVING FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUTH THROUGH ADEQUATE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, QUALITY HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND IMPROVED ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN NIGERIA TOWARDS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SDGS 2. TO PROMOTE HEALTHY PREGNANCY AND SAFE DELIVERY ESPECIALLY AMONG RURAL WOMEN. 3. SENSITIZE COMMUNITIES TOWARDS ELIMINATION OF HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ROSA FABLANE FOUNDATION

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 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ROSA NKEM ONWUSA. 2. HELLEN ONWUSA. 3. LENITY EMMANUEL JOHN. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO CARTER FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE. 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.

CONVENANT KEEPING GOD MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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WASTE CARTON PAPER DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

TRUSTEE ARE: 1. ALIHAJI WAHEED ADEDEJI. 2. AEWUYI KUKMAN SOLA. 3. GANIYI ADEBIYI 4. ELEANYA HYGINUS EMEKA 5OBIJIAKU SIMON UCHE. 6. OKOLI NDUBUEZE BATHOLOMEW 7. ALHAJI JARA BASHA 8. OKAFOR TIMOTHY EMEKA 9. QUADRI ADEREMI ROTIMI 10. AKINREMI JAMIU OLOYEDE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONG THE MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OMONIYI LANRE

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE PROGRAM

HIGH SOARING SCHOLARS ACADEMY

THIS IS INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE SCHOOL MAYFAIR NURSERY/PRIMARY SCHOOL SAGAMU OGUN STATE IS NOW CHANGED TO HIGH SOARING SCHOLARS ACADEMY SAGAMU OGUN STATE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THE FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. MANGU ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

TRUSTEES: (1) MR SYLVESTER ONU ONYEKE (2) MRS MARGARET ONYECHE ONYEKE (3) OLABODE ADEWALE FASHOYI (4) MR SAMUEL ELAIGWU ONYEKE. (5) MR FRIDAY OLOCHE ONYEKESON. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO RENDER HUMAN, MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO DISADVANTAGE AND LESS PRIVILEGED WOMEN AND CHILDREN ESPECIALLY ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO HELP IN THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HIV/AIDS DISEASES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1,VAMDING MUSTAFA KURTONG 2) HARUNA SULAIMAN ABUBAKAR 3) ARDO ABDULLAHI GARBA 4) MAKSOR MOHAMMED BALA 5) SULEIMAN HASIYA LENGTU 6) RYEMCHI SALISU AKUBA 7) TRENCHING SALISU AKUBA, 8) GARBA DANBALA 9) BELLO IMRANA ALI 10) ISA ADAMU ABDULLAHI AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO STRENGTHEN FRATANAL BONDS AND RELATION AMONG THE MUSLIM UMM ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

THE EBENEZER GOSPEL ASSEMBLY

GOD’S STAFF GLOBAL MINISTRY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD TO ALL NATIONS

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1] JEREMIAH JEREMIAH JEREMIAH 2] NANGIBO ORIKEBIOBARAMNA FESTUS 3] SAMBO PRINCE OTOBONG 4] PATIENCE SAMUEL JEREMIAH AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO WIN SOULS FOR OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE DANIEL DAVID 2. PST IMOH DANIEL 3. SIS IDARA KUFRE 4. DEACONESS AGNES ANTHONY AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF GOD

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

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

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

SIGNED: JEREMIAH JEREMIAH JEREMIAH

SIGNED: APOSTLE DANIEL DAVID

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1] PASTOR MBA UNYEAWAJI ABEL 2] PASTOR KUFRE DENIS ETIM 3] PASTOR MBA GIFT ABEL

SIGNED: PASTOR MBA UNYEAWAJI ABEL

CLEAN COMMUNITY WATER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE RC NO. IT/CAC/94686 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. GBOLAHAN ALEX AJISOPE- RETAINED 2. OSOSANYA NGOZIKA GEOGIA- REMOVED NEW TRUSTEES 3. SAYOMI DOYIN AJIBOLA-NEWLY APPOINTED: OTHER INFORMATION REMAIN THE SAME : ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE 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 BY : GBOLAHAN ALEX AJISOPE- CHAIRMAN

KINGDOM LIFE ANOINTED FELLOWSHIP INT’L 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. PASTOR NWAODU PATRICK ENYERIBENYEM 2. PASTOR NWAODU JOY NKECHI 3. EVANG. ADIELE JULIANA NGOZI 4. REV. OGUGUA CHRISTIAN UKACHUKWU 5. PASTOR NWAODU CHIAMAKA ESTHER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ROUND THE GLOBE 2. TO ESTABLISH A BIBLE BASED CHURCH WITH THE BRANCHES PLANTED IN MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD SIGNED: BARR. ARINZE J. UZOCHUKWU 08038466838 (SOLICITOR)

COVENANT LIBERATION GOSPEL CENTER CAC/IT/NO 87132 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEE TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES: 1.

REV. ERNEST ANENECHUKWU MADUKA-RETAINED 2.

PST. MRS. CHIOMA GLORY MADUKA-RETAINED 3.

CALEB ANENECHUKWU MADUKA -REMOVED 4.

OBIORA JOHN OPUTA -RETAINED 5.

LIVINUS OKECHUKWU NWAELOM-RETAINED 6.

OSITA OKAFOR-RETAINED 7.

PETER OKOYE -RETAINED NEW TRUSTEE APPOINTED: 1.

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

MELVILLE AID 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.

TRUSTEES: 1.

DR. ADEBIMPE BARUWA 2.

DR. OMUTUNDE ALDER 3.

DR. NURUDEEN MOHAMMED AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PROVIDE FREE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE 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: BARR. MERCY OMAGE SOLICITOR

UNIQUE GLOBAL FIRE MINISTRY

ALL NATIONS GOSHEN GRACE MINISTRY

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. JONAH IGBOKO (CHAIRMAN); 2. REV MRS. CONFIDENCE JONAH SECRETARY).

3. UCHE UWALAKA. 4. MRS GOODNESS ALOZIE. 5. OYIDIYA EKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2.

TO TAKE CARE OF THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. 3.

TO ESTABLISH LOCAL BRANCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL WORLDWIDE. 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

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. CHIGBU STANLEY KANU 2. NWAFOR HILARY EMEZIE 3. ANIKAMADU PHILIP GEORGE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: A. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ROUND THE GLOBE B. TO ESTABLISH A BIBLE BASED CHURCH WITH BRANCHES PLANTED IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. ARINZE J. UZOCHUKWU 08038466838 (SOLICITOR)

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Companies Registration 25 (Trustees)

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. DR AHAOMA JACOB ISREAL 2. PASTOR MRS. BLESSING AHAOMA 3. DEACONESS HAPPINESS OZOR 4. PASTOR CHIBUEZE NNACHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. FAVOUR NWORGU 2. PASTOR SIMON NWORGU 3. PASTOR CLEMENT JOSEPH 4. ELDER PAUL ANIECHE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE REFUGE OF THE LORD GOSPEL CHURCH

INCREASING GRACE GOSPEL CHURCH

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TTHE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. KALU ONUOHA PAUL - CHAIRMAN 2. SAMUEL EMEKA NWAOSU - SECRETARY 3. ONUOHA PAULINA NWAEKE - MEMBER 4. DURU CHIKWUNOSO - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

LIVING BETHEL MINISTRY

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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. PST NGOZI CHUKWUEMEKA - CHAIRMAN 2. CHUKS EMEKA ALAKWE - SECRETARY 3. SUNDAY CHINYERE SALOMIE - MEMBER 4. OBINWURU ESTHER - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MAGNUS GLORY UGOCHUKWU (PRESIDENT)

THE FREEDOM WORD GOSPEL CHURCH

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PST. DICKSON SMART - CHAIRMAN 2. PST. (MRS) FAVOUR DICKSON - SECRETARY 3. DEACONESS AGNES WOKOMA - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE MANTLE CHURCH OF CHRIST

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHUKWUDI V. N. IJEOMA - CHAIRMAN 2. COMFORT CHUKWUDI - SECRETARY 3. ANTHONY IJEOMA - MEMBER 4. OMENMA MBAWDIKE - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

PALACE OF PRAISE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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. PASTOR UKENI JOHN CHIGOZIRIM - CHAIRMAN 2. BLESSING JOHN - MEMBER 3. HENRY OSUJI - MEMBER 4. DEBORAH ONYEKACHUKWU EZEAMA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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. PST. ALBERT CHITURU - CHAIRMAN 2. ELDER PATRICK NWACHUKWU - MEMBER 3. PST. CHITURU EDITH - SECRETARY 4. ELDER MKPANG DANIEL - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

GOD’S DIVINE REDEEMERS MINISTRY

SIGNED: SECRETARY (PRESIDENT)

BEAULAH HOUSE OF GRACE GOSPEL CENTRE

SIGNED: SECRETARY

NEW NATION OF GOD’S PEOPLE CENTRE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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. REV VITALIS OGULEDO - CHAIRMAN 2. JOSHUA CHINONSO OGULEDO - SECRETARY 3. OKEREKE ONYINYECHUKWU KINGSLEY - MEMBER 4. ROLAND AGUMUO - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST MINISTRY INT’L THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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. PROPHET BELOVED GEORGE AKPAN 2. EVANG. MRS. PATIENCE JACOB 3. ELDER FAMOUS AIYEDUN 4. PASTOR JOHN EDET UDO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

FULL JUBILEE GOSPEL MINISTRY INTEL

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. PROMISE BEAULAH UGOCHUKWU - CHAIRMAN 2. REV. LUCKY OKEKE - MEMBER 3. APOSTLE BIGMAN UGOCHUKWU - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED :SECRETARY

DIVINE FLAME CHAPEL

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UDEMBA TENDERHEART - CHAIRMAN 2. UDEMBA VIOLET - MEMBER 3. AKAYA CHRISTIAN NDUDIRIM - SECRETARY 4. SAMUEL NWACHUKWU - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

ANCHOR OF GOD GOSPEL CHURCH

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C’ OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKORIE CHIDY STANLEY - CHAIRMAN 2. PRISCILLIA OKORIE - MEMBER 3. AUGUSTINE FLORENCE ADANMA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. SIST. EDINA IYAMA - MEMBER 2. EVANG. AUGUSTINA ONYECHEFULA - MEMBER 3. REV. OHANU P. UZOMA - SEC 4. PASTOR MRS. NGOZI OHANU - CHAIRMAN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE LOUISA NWEKE - CHAIRMAN 2. PST. CHRISTIAN NWEKE - SECRETARY 3. EVANG. PRISCILLIA OKORIE - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJAWITHIN 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJAWITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. 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

26 Companies Registration GOD’S WORDBASE ASSEMBLY

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE GOSPEL ITESHI (JP) - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. PASTOR SUSAN GOSPEL - ASSISTANT PASTOR 3. PASTOR VICTOR ODU - GENERAL SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD TO ALL NATIONS. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: APOSTLE GOSPEL ITESHI (JP) (GENERAL OVERSEER)

ILUMO PRODUCE AND BUYERS ASSOCIATION

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. *CHAIRMAN* - OKEKUNLE TAYE GBENGA 3. *SECRETARY* - SALAMI RIDWAN OLADEPO 4. *TREASURER* OKEKUNLE SEUN AIMS &OBJECTIVES TO MAKE AVAILABLE FARM PRODUCE CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE AND AT AN AFFORDABLE RATE.

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

ANIOMA FARMERS 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. NWANI NGOZI DIAMOND-PRESIDENT 2. NWANI OZIOMA BENEDICTA-SECRETARY 3. NWOSU BENJAMIN AMECHI AIM AND OBJECTIVE: GROWING OF FOOD CROPS,PIGGERY,FISHERIES ETC 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

OGESH WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AYOADE MICHAEL DAPO BOBOLA 2. FLORENCE OGECHUKWUKA BOBOLA 3. UCHE JOY ONWUEMENE 4. HENRY IDEMUDIA ENOSEGBE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND YOUTHS THROUGH SKILL ACQUISITION, AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES. 2. TO FOSTER HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TRAINING/ ENTREPRENEURIAL INITIATIVES. 3. TO CREATE A PLATFORM THAT PROMOTES WOMEN/YOUTH DEVELOPMENT BY PROVIDING CAPITAL/FINANCE FOR SMALL SCALE ENTERPRISES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B, 198 GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

BROTHERBIGMAN & SPIRIT AGE REVIVAL 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 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BIGMAN CHIMDI UGOCHUKWU - CHAIRMAN 2. BRIGHT ONUEGBU - MEMBER 3. CHRIS UGOCHUKWU - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. 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

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THE TREASURED PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

THE ARMOUR OF GOD INTERCESSORY EVANGELICAL MISSION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR PRINCE EMMA OKERE 2. PASTOR FAVOUR OMUETI 3. SIS GIFT MICHEAL 4. SIS VICTORIA OKERE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANGELIST HART N INNOCENT 2. MRS PAULINE OKERE HART 3. BRO IZUCHUKWU EMMANUEL

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

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

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

SIGNED: PASTOR PRINCE EMMA OKERE

GOD’S GOSHEN WINNING RAY COVENANT MINISTRY 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.

OBJECTIVE: 1.TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. 2.TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD TO THE LOST SOUL IN ALL NATIONS. 3. TO CARRY OUT SOUL WINNING EVANGELISM THROUGH THE WHOLE WORLD. NAMES OF TRUSTTEES 1.PROPHET/ EVANGELIST SANNI OLABODE OLANIYI R. {2} PROPHETESS SANNI OLANIYI ADEOLA IDOWU . (3) BROTHER SANNI ADETAYO ABDULRAZAQ. (4) SISTER MATHIAS RUTH ABENI OJISHUA 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

GLOBAL RESCUE INITIATIVE AND EMPOWERMENT FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C’ OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1 ELAIHO OMO GODFREY - PRESIDENT 2 LYARE LNNOCENT GEORGE. - VICE PRESIDENT 3 ELAIHO JEFFREY EGHOSA. FINANCIAL SECRETAY 4 AKAGBOSU CHRISTOPHER BADAMACI - GEN SEC 5 OMORODION PATRICK ALAWALE - MEDIA PUBLICITY 6 ELAIHO OSAODIN - WELFARE OFFICER 7 ADEMOLA WASIU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO EMPOWER THE WOMAN AND YOUTH ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIY IIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: EVANGELIST HART N INNOCENT

MELVILLE AID 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 TRUSTEES: 1.

DR. ADEBIMPE BARUWA 2.

DR. OMUTUNDE ALDER 3.

DR. NURUDEEN MOHAMMED AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PROVIDE FREE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. MERCY OMAGE SOLICITOR

LAUNCHPAD INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANISATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. OGHENEKOME OSAHON UMUERRI - CHAIRMAN 2. MR. CHARLES UNUANE IGBOA – HON. SECRETARY 3. MRS. JULIE EKUWA UMUERRI – TREASURER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (A) TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE OBJECTIVES OF ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION, EMPLOYMENT CREATION, CITIZEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES, MICRO SAVINGS AND LENDING OPPORTUNITIES. (B) TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENHANCE THE STANDARD OF LIVING AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF NIGERIANS. (C) TO FOSTER CITIZEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ENCOURAGEMENT OF LOCAL ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE THROUGH FUNDING, ESTABLISHMENT OF SMMES, COOPERATIVES ETC. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE 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

PRESENT TRUTH INTERNATIONAL CHURCH THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION AS AN INCORPORATED TRUSTEE UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP. C-20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKEHIE MACDONALD ONYEMUCHE 2. OKEHIE LOVE CHINYERE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD IN EVERY NATION 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

DORCAS EVANGELISTIC GOSPEL OUTREACH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION AS AN INCORPORATED TRUSTEE UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP. C-20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHITURU UCHEOMA EDITH - CHAIRMAN 2. ALBERT CHITURU - MEMBER 3. MKPANG DANIEL - SECRETARY 4. UZOMA LIVINUS OGBUEHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

EVANGELISM CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT INTERNATIONAL. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION AS AN INCORPORATED TRUSTEE UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP. C-20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 2004.

TRUSTEES 1. OGUNDELE BOLANLE ELIZABETH 2. OGUNDELE OLUWAMAYOWA BODUNDE AYODEJI 3. OGUNDELE OLAJIDE SUNDAY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD. TO ESTABLISH AND ORGANISE REVIVAL,CRUSADE,DISCIPLESHIP,CHRISTIAN CENTER ,INSTITUTES,SEMINAR,WORKSHOP ETC AND TO DO ALL OTHER THINGS INCIDENTAL THERETO. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE SPIRIT OF RESURRECTION MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION AS AN INCORPORATED TRUSTEE UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP. C-20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 2004.

TTHE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANG CHIDUME CHUKWUEZUGO ELIAS - CHAIRMAN 2. EVANG. CHUKWUEZUGO ETHEL ULOMA - SECRETARY 3. OKOGI SABASTINE - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, TEACH AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF THE LORD THEREBY BRINGING JOY TO MANY GENERATIONS. 3. TO REGAIN THE LOSS GLORY OF MAN , TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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IFEANYI IJEOMA IRENE

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UGWUANYI JOHN ONUZURIKE

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BELEMA WOYENGI-AKUBOYE BEN-IHEKWOABA

OLUCHI TELMAR IKERI

MISS. FRANK JOY

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OGOKE JOSUA CHINONSO

OLUWASEYI ANIKE OLATUNJI

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CONVENANT KEEPING GOD MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1] PASTOR MBA UNYEAWAJI ABEL 2] PASTOR KUFRE DENIS ETIM 3] PASTOR MBA GIFT ABEL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PASTOR MBA UNYEAWAJI ABEL

GOD’S STAFF GLOBAL MINISTRY

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MISHAEL KELECHI OBIANUJU MEDELEINE

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WILFRED PRINCE OKEZIE

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DURU NKECHI CRYSTABEL

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ADIGUN AJOKE QUEEN

ISHIEKWENE OMOTOLA STELLA

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ANITA OSE OKAFOR

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ZAKKA MANTAU

CHIBUEZE SANDRA EZINNE

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HAPPINESS COMFORT

I formerly known and addressed as IFEOMA MARTINS GODWILL also in my BVN now I wish to be known and addressed as CHIBUEZE SANDRA EZINNE. I was born on 12/11/1997 not 23/01/1985.

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GIRL CHILD CONCERNS. CTC OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION CAC/IT NO 15575.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR LOSS OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (CTC) REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA. WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED :SECRETARY

THE TREASURED PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

KINGDOM LIFE EVANGELICAL BIBLE MINISTRY CAC/IT/NO 48330 THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE AND APPOINTING OF TRUSTEES UNDER THE PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR OLAJIDE ABIBU -RETAIN 2. MR CHARLES AGBEZE -RETAIN 3.MR ADEYEMI ABIBU - RETAIN 4. PASTOR STEPHEN ISAH -REMOVED 5. REV SPECIAL IRAN - REMOVED THE NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR ABIBU AKINYEMI AKINTUNDE 2. MR ABIBU ADEDEJI BABATUNDE. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE EBENEZER GOSPEL ASSEMBLY

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE DANIEL DAVID 2. PST IMOH DANIEL 3. SIS IDARA KUFRE 4. DEACONESS AGNES ANTHONY

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR PRINCE EMMA OKERE 2. PASTOR FAVOUR OMUETI 3. SIS GIFT MICHEAL 4. SIS VICTORIA OKERE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1] JEREMIAH JEREMIAH JEREMIAH 2] NANGIBO ORIKEBIOBARAMNA FESTUS 3] SAMBO PRINCE OTOBONG 4] PATIENCE SAMUEL JEREMIAH

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: APOSTLE DANIEL DAVID

ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PASTOR PRINCE EMMA OKERE

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

CITY OF THE ALMIGHTY MINISTRY

THE GREATEST HARVEST OF SOUL DELIVERANCE AND SOLUTION ASSEMBLY

CHRIST TRANSFORMING POWER EVANGELISTIC WORLD OUTREACH

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 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 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR PRINCE TITUS 2. MRS. MERCY TITUS 3. CHIEF NYEKWERE CHINDA

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE VINNING V. COOKEYGAM 2. COOKEYGAM VINNING HELEN 3. OTELIMABIA GEORGE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1] IDONGESIT ELISHA SUCCESS 2] PRECIOUS ELIZABETH ELISHA 3] JOSEPH IDOKO 4] GOODNEWS BEN

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 2. TO SET CAPTIVES FREE THROUGH PRAYERS 3. TO RAISE VIBRANT KINGDOM MINDED PRAYER LEADERS

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

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

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

SIGNED: PASTOR PRINCE TITUS

SIGNED: APOSTLE VINNING V. COOKEYGAM

SIGNED: IDONGESIT ELISHA SUCCESS

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MRS LYDIA IFY OKONKWO I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS LYDIA IFY EDOZIE,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS LYDIA IFY OKONKWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ENSUBEB AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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World joins South Africa to mourn Jazz legend Hugh Masekela Bonny Amadi with agency reports

ÏÏÏHugh

Masekela, legendary South African musician and song writer, has died in Johannesburg at the age of 78, his family confirmed in a statement as the world community join to mourn him.

According to agency report, a statement on Tuesday January 23, 2018 said he died after a protracted fight against cancer. The celebrated jazz musician was born on April 4, 1939.

It hailed his legacy in diverse fields beyond his music and disclosed that details of his memorial and burial were being worked out.

We are blessed and grateful to be part of a life and ever-expanding legacy of love, sharing and vanguard creativity that spans the time and space of 6 decades. Rest in power beloved, you are forever in our hearts “It is with profound sorrow that the family of Ramapolo Hugh Masekela announce his

passing. After a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer, he passed peacefully in Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.

“A loving father, brother, grandfather and friend, our hearts beat with profound loss. Hugh’s global and activist contribution and participation in the areas of music, theatre, and the arts in general is contained in the minds and memory of millions across 6 continents and we are blessed and grate-

Weah hits ground running, names 5 key appointees ÏÏÏPresident

George Weah, newly sworn in Liberia’s president has hit the ground running after taking his oath of office on January 22, 2018 as the 24th president of Liberia.

The president, according to agency report, has named five key cabinet portfolios including Foreign Affairs, Finance, Defence, Justice and Presidential Affairs.

Two “surprise” nominees are Sirleaf’s former army chief as Defence minister and another ally as Foreign Affairs chief.

Weah contested on the platform of his party, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), he led in the first round in October 2017 but failed to secure an out-

right victory.

The election body, NEC Liberia, was cleared by the Supreme Court to run a runoff between Weah and former vice-president Joseph Boakai. This was after the third-place party contested the results.

The former world and African footballer of the year beat Boakai. The former ruling Unity Party has since expelled Sirleaf, blaming her for the party’s loss in the December 26 runoff polls. She has hinted that she will challenge the action.

Meanwhile, the list of ministerial appointment also include,Gbezohngar Findley, a former senator for Minister of Foreign

Affairs, Nathaniel McGill, a former chairman of the ruling party as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Samuel Tweah as Minister for Finance and Development Planning and Charles Gibson – Minister for Justice.

Others are, Major-General Daniel Dee Ziankahn as Minister for Defence, Local media reports that the former Major-General will be subjected to a Senate approval before he can officially take up the post.

The new foreign affairs minister is also said to be an ally of former President Ellen JohnsonSirleaf. Reports indicate that his former boss had recommended him.

President George O. Weah and the outgoing president Helen Sirleaf-Johnson

ful to be part of a life and ever-expanding legacy of love, sharing and vanguard creativity that spans the time and space of 6 decades. Rest in power beloved, you are forever in our hearts,” the statement read in part.

The government led the social media celebration of his life, several other people across the world continue to tweet pictures of Masekela and reminisce over his many pieces of work over the years.

Masekela

Eritrea tops asylum seekers in Switzerland 2017 list Migration authorities in Switzerland have revealed that Eritreans topped the list of asylum seekers into the country over the course of 2017.

Eritreans topped September 2017 Swiss asylum requests. Most migration reports on Africa has identified Eritrea as a major contributor to migrant flows. They are joined by Ethiopia, Nigerians, Somalis and to some extent Sudanese.

According to the report released by Agency report, Eritreans made up almost a fifth of requests followed by Syrians, Afghans and people from Turkey – the Turks largely in the category of people fleeing a crackdown

ÏÏÏMilitary

authorities in Gambia have arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said in a statement has revealed.

According to agency report, Gambia’s current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who had refused to accept his defeat in elections, to flee to Equatorial Guinea.

Umpa Mendy, Jammeh’s principal protection officer, and the former head of the State Guards Battalion Ansumana Tamba had both accompanied the former leader into exile.

But the army statement said they flew back into Gambia on Sunday.

“They were arrested at their respective homes ... and are currently de-

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki

arising from a failed coup in 2016.

In general, however, the Swiss authorities said asylum requests fell to the lowest level since 2010. Down by a third from 2016, they alluded to the drop in asylum seek-

ers from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq for the drop.

In total, 18,088 asylum requests were registered last year, down 9,119 from 2016 and less than half the 39,523 requests of 2015, Switzerland said.

The last time Switzerland recorded numbers below the 20,000 mark was in 2010, when 15,567 applications came in.

It is largely said that the illegal migration and human trafficking problem of Eritrea is hinged on harsh economic conditions and the lack of democratic space back home. The government rejects the claims blaming migration on external forces.

Gambia arrests top Jammeh Generals on return from exile

Gambia’s president Adama Barrow

tained at the Yundum Military Barracks, where they are helping the military police with their investigations,” the statement said.

It did not say why the two men returned to Gambia or on what charges they had been arrested.

Barrow is seeking to assert control following the end of 22 years of Jammeh’s authoritarian rule under which the military served as a key pillar of a regime notorious for jail-

ing and torturing political opponents.

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Don’t contest in 2019, Obasanjo tells Buhari Olusegun Obasanjo Since we are still in the month of January, it is appropriate to wish all Nigerians Happy 2018. I am constrained to issue this special statement at this time considering the situation of the country. Some of you may be asking, “What has brought about this special occasion of Obasanjo issuing a Special Statement?” You will be right to ask such a question. But there is a Yoruba saying that ‘when lice abound in your clothes, your fingernails will never be dried of blood’. When I was in the village, to make sure that lice die, you put them between two fingernails and press hard to ensure they die and they always leave blood stains on the fingernails. To ensure you do not have blood on your fingernails, you have to ensure that lice are not harboured anywhere within your vicinity.

The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today. With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’.

Four years ago when my PDP card was torn, I made it abundantly clear that I quit partisan politics for aye but my concern and interest in Nigeria, Africa and indeed in humanity would not wane.

Ever since, I have adhered strictly to that position. Since that time, I have devoted quality time to the issue of zero hunger as contained in Goal No. 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. We have set the target that Nigeria with the participating States in the Zero Hunger Forum should reach Zero Hunger goal by 2025 – five years earlier than the UN target date. I am involved in the issue of education in some States and generally in the issue of youth empowerment and employment. I am involved in all these domestically and altruistically to give hope and future to the seemingly hopeless and those in despair. I believe strongly that God has endowed Nigeria so adequately that no Nigerian should be either in want or in despair.

I believe in team work and collaborative efforts. At the international level, we have worked with other world leaders to domicile the apparatus for monitoring and encouraging socio-economic progress in Africa in our Presidential Library. The purpose of Africa Progress Group,which is the new name assumed

by Africa Progress Panel (APP),is to point out where, when and what works need to be done for the progress of Africa separately and collectively by African leaders and their development partners. I have also gladly accepted the invitation of the UN Secretary-General to be a member of his eighteen-member High-Level Board of Advisers on Mediation. There are other assignments I take up in other fora for Africa and for the international community. For Africa to move forward, Nigeria must be one of the anchor countries, if not the leading anchor country. It means that Nigeria must be good at home to be good outside. No doubt, our situation in the last decade or so had shown that we

Government must take the lead in bringing about solution that protects life and properties of herdsmen and crop farmers alike and for them to live amicably in the same community.

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are not good enough at home; hence we are invariably absent at the table that we should be abroad.

All these led me to take the unusual step of going against my own political Party, PDP, in the last general election to support the opposite side. I saw that action as the best option for Nigeria. As it has been revealed in the last three years or so, that decision and the subsequent collective decision of Nigerians to vote for a change was the right decision for the nation. For me, there was nothing personal, it was all in the best interest of Nigeria and, indeed, in the best interest of Africa and humanity at large. Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard. He has a role to play on the sideline for the good of Nigeria, Africa and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again.

The situation that made Nigerians to vote massively to get my brother Jonathan off the horse is playing itself out again. First, I thought I knew the point where President Buhari is weak and I spoke and wrote about it even before Nigerians voted for him and I also did vote for him because at that time it was a matter of “any option but Jonathan” (aobj). But my letter to President Jonathan titled: “Before It Is Too Late” was meant for him to act before it was too late. He ignored it and it was too late for him and those who goaded him into ignoring the voice of caution. I know that praise-singers and hired attackers may be raised up against me for verbal or even physical attack but if I can withstand undeserved imprisonment and was ready to shed my blood by standing for Nigeria, I will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the good of Nigeria at any time. No human leader is

expected to be personally strong or selfsufficient in all aspects of governance.

I knew President Buhari before he became President and said that he is weak in the knowledge and understanding of the economy but I thought that he could make use of good Nigerians in that area that could help. Although, I know that you cannot give what you don’t have and that economy does not obey military order. You have to give it what it takes in the short-, medium- and long-term. Then, it would move. I know his weakness in understanding and playing in the foreign affairs sector and again, there are many Nigerians that could be used in that area as well. They have knowledge and experience that could be deployed for the good of Nigeria. There were serious allegations of round-tripping against some inner caucus of the Presidency which would seem to have been condoned. I wonder if such actions do not amount to corruption and financial crime, then what is it? Culture of condonation and turning blind eye will cover up rather than clean up. And going to justice must be with clean hands.

I thought President Buhari would fight corruption and insurgency and he must be given some credit for his achievement so far in these two areas although it is not yet uhuru!

The herdsmen/crop farmers issue is being wittingly or unwittingly allowed to turn sour and messy. It is no credit to the Federal Government that the herdsmen rampage continues with careless abandon and without finding an effective solution to it. And it is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for a second term! The timing was most unfortunate.

The issue of herdsmen/crop farmers dichotomy should not be left on the political platform of blame game; the Federal

But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action? How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public? The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics. This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security. The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least,not accepting one’s own responsibility. Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today. If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game.

Our Constitution is very clear, one of the cardinal responsibilities of the President is the management of the economy of which the value of the naira forms an integral part. Kinship and friendship that place responsibility for governance in the hands of the unelected can only be deleterious to good government and to the nation.

President Buhari’s illness called for the sympathy, understanding, prayer and patience from every sane Nigerian. It is part of our culture. Most Nigerians prayed for him while he was away sick in London for over hundred days and he gave his Deputy sufficient leeway to carry on in his absence. We all thanked God for President Buhari for coming back reasonably hale and hearty and progressing well in his recovery.But whatever may be the state of President Buhari’s health today, he should neither over-push his luck nor over-tax the patience and tolerance of Nigerians for him, no matter what his self-serving, so-called advisers, who would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria say. President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse. He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the sideline for the good of the country. His place in history is already assured. WithCONTINUED ON PAGE 31

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out impaired health and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7.

I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward.

I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling. I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction. The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria. To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the Party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with danger. If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do? Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it “a cruel Hobson’s choice; it’s like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference.” We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly.

I believe the situation we are in today is akin to what and where we were in at the beginning of this democratic dispensation in 1999. The nation was tottering. People became hopeless and saw no bright future in the horizon. It was all a dark cloud politically, economically and socially. The price of oil at that time was nine dollars per barrel and we had a debt overhang of about $35 billion.

Most people were confused with lack of direction in the country. One of the factors that saved the situation was a near government of national unity that was put in place to navigate us through the dark cloud. We had almost all hands on deck. We used people at home and from the diaspora and we navigated through the dark cloud of those days. At that time, most people were hopelessly groping in the dark. They saw no choice,neither in the left nor in the right, and yet we were not bereft of people at home and from the diaspora that could come together to make Nigeria truly a land flowing with milk and honey. Where we are is a matter of choice but we can choose differently to make a necessary and desirable change, once again.

Wherever I go, I hear Nigerians complaining, murmuring in anguish and anger. But our anger should not be like the anger of the cripple. We can collectively save ourselves from the position we find ourselves. It will not come through self-pity, fruitless complaint or protest but through constructive and positive engagement and collective action for the good of our nation and ourselves and our children and their children. We need moral re-armament and engaging togetherness of people of like-mind and goodwill to come solidly together to lift Nigeria up.

This is no time for trading blames or embarking on futile argument and neither should we accept untenable excuses for non-performance. Let us accept that the present administration has done what it

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can do to the limit of its ability, aptitude and understanding. Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us. They have given as best as they have and as best as they can give. Nigeria deserves and urgently needs better than what they have given or what we know they are capable of giving.

To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth. Einstein made it clear to us that doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the height of folly. Already, Nigerians are committing suicide for the unbearable socio-economic situation they find themselves in. And yet Nigerians love life. We must not continue to reinforce failure and hope that all will be well. It is self-deceit and self-defeat and another aspect of folly.

What has emerged from the opposition has shown no better promise from their antecedents. As the leader of that Party for eight years as President of Nigeria, I can categorically say there is nothing to write home about in their new team.

We have only one choice left to take us out of Egypt to the promised land. And that is the coalition of the concerned and the willing – ready for positive and drastic change, progress and involvement.

Change that will give hope and future to all our youth and dignity and full participation to all our women. Our youth should be empowered to deploy their ability to learn, innovate and work energetically at ideas and concepts in which they can make their own original inputs.

Youth must be part of the action today and not relegated to leadership of tomorrow which may never come. Change that will mean enhancement of living standard and progress for all. A situation where the elected will accountably govern and every Nigerian will have equal opportunity not based on kinship and

friendship but based on free citizenship.

Democracy is sustained and measured not by leaders doing extra-ordinary things, (invariably, leaders fail to do ordinary things very well), but by citizens rising up to do ordinary things extra-ordinarily well. Our democracy, development and progress at this juncture require ordinary citizens of Nigeria to do the extraordinary things of changing the course and direction of our lackluster performance and development. If leadership fails, citizens must not fail and there lies the beauty and importance of democracy.

We are challenged by the current situation; we must neither adopt spirit of cowardice nor timidity let alone impotence but must be sustained by courage, determination and commitment to say and do and to persist until we achieve upliftment for Nigeria. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and we believe that our venturing will not be in vain. God of Nigeria has endowed this country adequately and our non-performance cannot be blamed on God but on leadership. God, who has given us what we need and which is potentially there, will give us leadership enablement to actualize our potentiality.

The development and modernization of our country and society must be anchored and sustained on dynamic Nigerian culture, enduring values and an enchanting Nigerian dream. We must have abiding faith in our country and its role and place within the comity of nations.

Today, Nigeria needs all hands on deck.

All hands of men and women of goodwill must be on deck. We need all hands to move our country forward.

We need a Coalition for Nigeria, CN. Such a Movement at this juncture needs not be a political party but one to which all well-meaning Nigerians can belong.

That Movement must be a coalition for democracy, good governance, social and economic well-being and progress. Coalition to salvage and redeem our country.

You can count me with such a Movement.

Last time, we asked, prayed and worked

for change and God granted our request.

This time, we must ask, pray and work for change with unity, security and progress.

And God will again grant us. Of course, nothing should stop such a Movement from satisfying conditions for fielding candidates for elections. But if at any stage the Movement wishes to metamorphose into candidate-sponsoring Movement for elections, I will bow out of the Movement because I will continue to maintain my non-partisan position. Coalition for Nigeria must have its headquarters in Abuja.

This Coalition for Nigeria will be a Movement that will drive Nigeria up and forward. It must have a pride of place for all Nigerians, particularly for our youth and our women. It is a coalition of hope for all Nigerians for speedy, quality and equal development, security, unity, prosperity and progress. It is a coalition to banish poverty, insecurity and despair.

Our country must not be oblivious to concomitant danger around, outside and ahead. Coalition for Nigeria must be a Movement to break new ground in building a united country, a socially-cohesive and moderately prosperous society with equity, equality of opportunity, justice and a dynamic and progressive economy that is self-reliant and takes active part in global division of labour and international decision-making.

The Movement must work out the path of development and the trajectory of development in speed, quality and equality in the short- medium- and long-term for Nigeria on the basis of sustainability, stability, predictability, credibility, security, cooperation and prosperity with diminishing inequality. What is called for is love, commitment and interest in our country, not in self, friends and kinship alone but particularly love, compassion and interest in the poor, underprivileged and downtrodden. It is our human duty and responsibility so to do. Failure to do this will amount to a sin against God and a crime against humanity.

Some may ask, what does Obasanjo want again? Obasanjo has wanted nothing other than the best for Nigeria and Nigerians and he will continue to want nothing less. And if we have the best, we will be contented whether where we live is described as palaces or huts by others and we will always give thanks to God. I, therefore,will gladly join such a Movement when one is established as Coalition for Nigeria, CN, taking Nigeria to the height God has created it to be. From now on, the Nigeria eagle must continue to soar and fly high. CN, as a Movement, will be new, green, transparent and must remain clean and always active, selflessly so. Members must be ready to make sacrifice for the nation and pay the price of being pioneers and good Nigerians for our country to play the God-assigned role for itself, for its neighbours, for its subregion of West Africa, for its continent and for humanity in general. For me, the strength and sustainable success of CN will derive largely from the strong commitment of a population that is constantly mobilized to the rallying platform of the fact that going forward together is our best option for building a nation that will occupy its deserved place in the global community. May God continue to lead, guide and protect us. Amen.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo stated this in an open statement made available on Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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Farmers-Herdsmen clashes: FCTA partners NOA AT2 to sensitise residents

$15m KOICA school handover: FCTA trains 150 teachers, administrators AT3 Smart City project: FCT DRTS graduates traffic experts ÏÏÏThe Federal Capital Territo-

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), presenting a souvenir to the recently retired president of the FCT Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Moses Bello, during a dinner organised by the FCTA to honour the later in Abuja…recently.

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Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has called on public officials to always emulate model of selfless service of the likes of recently retired president of the FCT Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Moses Bello.

Malam Bello gave this charge at a dinner organised by the FCT Administration in honour of the outgone Customary Court President, who bowed out of the Bench after more than 35 years of service, including 26 years as head of the Federal Capital Territory, Customary Court of Appeal.

The FCT Minister, who described Justice Bello’s tenure as exceptional, said: “Your tenure as President, FCT Customary Court of Appeal has not been matched anywhere in

this country because a person must be God chosen and be an exceptional person to be able to hold an exalted public office continuously for 26 years as a head of an organisation.

That is unsurpassed and I congratulate you for that.”

The Minister used the occasion to encourage public officials, particularly the younger officers, to always put in their best in the service to fill the void created by the exit of such veterans as the retiring Justice.

“If we don’t hold on to the historical beginning of this city, we will never appreciate what this city is and we’ll never appreciate why we all need to put in a lot to make sure that we protect this city, we defend this city and uphold the unity that this city stands for and we do all that based on justice, hard work and fair play,” he added.

Malam Bello while acknowledging the crucial role the judiciary has

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played in helping to rapidly transform the FCT beyond expectations, said the FCT Administration, in particular, has enjoyed tremendous support from the judiciary.

He recalled that the FCT Customary Court of Appeal was established as a Superior Court of Record pursuant to Decree No. 30 of 1991 and enshrined in Section 265, of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended. It was charged with the mandate to exercise appellate and supervisory jurisdiction over issues of Customary Law and Chieftaincy matters in the territory.

Consequently, the FCT Minister commended retired Justice Moses Bello for the able way the Court, under his watch, discharged its mandate creditably. He pledged to extend the good relations between the Court and the FCT Administration to the new leadership of the Court.

While wishing him a successful retirement, the FCT minister assured “we will always be available to listen to you if there are any areas you think the administration will need to look at. Whenever we call upon you to support us in any kind

of venture, we hope you will always be available to support us.”

The FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Christian Chinyeaka Ohaa, in his welcome address at the event, said Justice Bello has made vital contributions to the development of the FCTA, having started his Law practice as a staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration Development Authority during which he acted as Head of Department of Legal Services between 1984 and 1985.

In his response at the occasion, retired Justice Moses Bello urged all public servants, especially the up and coming ones, to have patience.

His words: “If you know what you are doing before God, stand by it. Nothing will happen to you irrespective of the challenges that comes with standing for the truth.

If you give honest advice with due respect to your seniors, you will save yourself and you will save the institution.”

Justice Bello thanked the FCT minister for the able way with which he is piloting the affairs of the territory as well as his commitment to prudence, justice and effective service delivery.

ry’s moves for the review of the Abuja master plan for the realisation of smart city project has received a boost as all sectors of the nation’s capital city are beginning to key into the project.

One of the key sectors in response to this directives, the transportation secretariat is ensuring that all is put in place to enhance the drive.

In a recent development, the Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, Comrade Kayode Opeifa, the FCT Administration is doing everything within its power to ensure that there are safe traveling and respect to traffic laws in the Federal Capital Territory.

Comrade Opeifa stated this during the passing out ceremony of 200 trainee staff of the Directorate of Roads Traffic Services (DRTS) in readiness to the task ahead.

The secretary further said that training and retraining of road traffic personnel ensures that dynamics of transportation are well mastered and taken care of.

His words: “The Abuja of our dream is to ensure a transportation system that is efficient and effective while delivering world class service. Efforts are on ground to improve on the status quo to acceptable international standards. I call on the staff to use their gained knowledge to privately impact on the service of the Directorate in ensuring world class service delivery. May I also use this opportunity to warn all staff to desist from acts capable of affecting the image of the Directorate negatively”.

He announced that the secretariat is embarking on massive traffic flow bottlenecks hampering the seamless flow of traffic and ensuring that productive man-hours are improved. He also called on the general public to co-operate with the transportation secretariat and the directorate of road traffic services to achieve safety on the roads by ensuring that traffic regulations are adhered to.

While commending the efforts of the Directorate thus far in ridding-off the FCT of traffic miscreants, he encouraged the DRTS not to settle for less until the directorate achieves the vision and the Abuja dream.

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2018 Hajj: FCT Muslim Pilgrims’ Board ends collection of deposit next month ÏÏÏThe Federal Capital Territory

Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board is to end the collection of hajj deposits for this year’s hajj by the end of February.

In a statement issued by the FCT Hajj Media Officer, Mohammed Aliyu, the Director of the Board, Mallam Muhammad Bashir, gave this indication while briefing top management staff of the Board after the first pre Hajj visit to Saudi Arabia.

Mallam Bashir disclosed that the measure was to enable the board comply with the March 16 deadline set up by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria to complete the payment of seats allocated to the Board for 2018 Hajj exercise.

The Director stated that the ongoing sales of hajj forms for the exercise would end by February regardless of the total number of intending pilgrims registered for the 2018 Hajj through FCT. He explained that the Board has decentralised its services to the six area councils for the comfort of the intending Pilgrims who wish to reg-

ister with the FCT and for administrative convenience.

Mallam Bashir said the Board has reached advanced stage in preparation for the exercise in Saudi Arabia by securing comfortable accommodation in Makkah as well as feeding arrangements with service providers for the FCT contingents for the 2018 Hajj exercise.

He, therefore, directed staff of the board to be more dedicated to their duties in order to complement the successes recorded in previous Hajj operations and warned them against any act capable of tarnishing the image of the Administration and the country at large.

The Director called for the cooperation of all staff and other stakeholders to ensure the success of the 2018 hajj exercise in line with the desire of the present administration.

The Director, Mallam Muhammad Bashir, resumed office in December last year after successful completion of a one year course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.

Farmers-Herdsmen clashes: FCTA partners NOA to sensitise residents

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Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is to partner with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in a community-based sensitisation and enlightenment campaign aimed at forestalling the deadly clashes between farmers and cattle herders, currently rocking some parts of the country.

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, made this disclosure in Abuja over the weekend during a parley with the Director-General of

NOA, when the latter paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Towards the success of this initiative, the FCT Administration, the Minister pledged, would provide the necessary financial, logistics and manpower support.

Bello said it had become increasingly necessary for government to take pre-emptive steps to ensure that the city remains very peaceful and safe in the face of the influx of people with different characters.

FCT minister assured NOA Director, saying, “We are going to give you

full support on this programme. We are going to make available our facilities and establish a small group in the FCT Administration that is going to liaise with you on this. We will also give you monetary support.”

He directed the Secretaries of Social Development, Agriculture, Area Council and the Head of the FCTA Information and Communication Department to liaise with the NOA to map out the strategies for peaceful coexistence, patriotism and national unity among residents of the territory.

Bello upbeat on area councils dev’t –Bappah ÏÏÏThe

Secretary to the Area Council Service Secretariat of the FCT, Alhaji Adamu Abubakar Bappah, has said that The FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, is bent on shifting developmental programmes towards developing the area councils and satellite towns in the six area councils of the capital city.

This, he said, is to ensure that basic infrastructure are made available at various residential points to curb huge migration to the urban centres of the FCT. Bappah let this out during his media briefing to mark the year 2017 and secretariat scorecard. He said that the minister’s contribution towards the development of Area Councils cannot be over emphasised.

He said: “The FCT minister has worked round the clock to save FCT residents from Flood disaster.

The Minister has created avenue for people to know the danger of flood through vigorous Community sensitisation on flood disasters and Management strategies in all the six Area Councils in FCT”.

Bappah stated that in the Minister’s quest his ensure lasting peace and tranquillity within FCT and environs has gainfully engaged in settling Communal clashes between FCT farmers and Fulani herdsmen and also Chieftaincy tussles in some quarters.

In furtherance to his efforts to peace project, the Minister, Bappah said has weighed-in to resolved dispute between the Nigerian Airforce Housing and Construction Co. Ltd and indigenes of Bwari Area Council. “The minister also has dialogued with Abuja Municipal Area Council and A-F shop owners Association Apo district”, Bappah said.

Meanwhile, the newly appointed Mandate Secretary of Area Councils Services Secretariat in an effort to establishing developmental initiative has embarked on familia-

risation tour to Area Councils and Traditional Institution in FCT. As part of the developmental efforts, the secretary stated that the Area Council Services Secretariat is an active service delivery agent of the Area councils and communities in the FCT. “The Area council facilitates developmental efforts at the Area Councils level to conform to FCT standards of qualitative infrastructural development as well as empowering rural Communities towards eradicating poverty at the grassroots.

“The Area Council institutes and strengthens a robust and sustainable supervisory framework to effectively coordinate and reposition the Area Councils programmes and activities for effective service delivery while building partnership that will synchronize FCTA developmental efforts with development at the grassroots level.

“The Secretariat is composed of the Secretary’s office and five main departments, each departments has defined mandates/functions that proceed from the overall mandate of the secretariat. The Secretariat was established mainly to play the role of oversight functions on the six area councils that make up the FCT. The Area Council Services Secretariat is equivalent to the ministry of local government and Chieftaincy matters at the state level”.

The secretariat, according to him, consists of four main departments including the inspectorate, planning and monitoring (IPM) department. It is one of the five departments that makes up the Area Councils Services Secretariat (ACSS) charged with numerous responsibilities most especially the Monitoring and inspection of Area Councils Project, Programmes and activities. “This therefore places the department strategically in the realisation of the mandate vision and mission of the ACSS which keys into that of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in general.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (middle), FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. Christian Chinyeaka Ohaa (2nd left), the Ambassador of Thailand to Nigeria, Mr. Wattana Kunwongse (2nd right), and others, when the envoy paid the FCT Minister a courtesy visit in Abuja…on Friday.

FCT MJTF ready for 2018 operation –CP

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in the Federal Capital Administration has said that in order to stamp out crime and criminality in the FCT, its leadership will improve on the already existing achievements in 2017, just as it has arrested 4,627 offenders for various offences.

Leader of the ministerial joint taskforce and FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sadiq Bello, stated this while reviewing 2017 operation of the taskforce.

According to the Sadiq Bello, his taskforce has done much to arrest certain vices bedeviling the Nigerian capital city. He said that in as much as curbing crime is concerned, there shall be a continuous review of operations including the reshuflement of security for the subsequent operations.

He further stated that training of the security men is quite necessary to ensure professional conduct of the men during operation.

Bello, while affirming the need for professional conduct of his men, noted that civilized approach to issues during operation, will curb confrontations with the public.

The single act, it would be recalled, has been noted by the FCT minister, who has received several reports of misconducts on the side of joint task force.

Meanwhile, Bello has announced that his leadership has recorded significant successes and achievements in the year under review.

He said that the taskforce sustained

its raid on the use of motorcycles in the city centre and this brought about a significant reduction especially around AYA, Asokoro.

He disclosed that the taskfoarce also sustained a clampdown on the use of unpainted taxis for commercial purposes within the capital city.

This, he said, has brought about reduction in the cases of ‘one chance’ and kidnapping within the city centre.

Part of the taskforce achievements includes the constant raid of illegal motor parks especially at Wuse Market, Berger roundabout, Galadimawa roundabout and Area 1 roundabout which has brought down to the barest minimum the incidences of ‘Pickpockets’ and snatching of handbags from commuters. It has also enhanced the free flow of traffic in the mentioned areas.

The FCT Police Commissioner said the taskforce in conjunction with the Kuje Police Division raided the Kuje forest and 82 suspects were arrested and handed over to the Division for profiling.

“The Taskforce raided a drug base called Tura Bora (a Hill not too far away from APO roundabout and SARS office made some arrests. This location is noted as a base for big time drug business. Similarly, Taskforce in conjunction with Wuse Police Division raided a drug spot in Wuse Zone 4. The Drug traffickers escaped but drugs such as Indian hemp, Codeine and Tramadol of various quantities were recovered. All suspects were handed over to the NDLEA”.

Bello recalled that the taskforce received written complaints from the Landlord Association at Tamal Close Wuse Zone 3 on the increasing commercial sex activities at Block 2, Flat 12 and Block 8 Flat 7 and a similar complaint from the Landlord of a private residence at Wuse Zone 5.

He said that the two locations were raided and arrest of the offenders was made.

“They were handed over to Social Development Secretariat for further action. Similarly, the management of Eden Garden in Utako complained about the activities of commercial sex workers around their vicinity.

The Taskforce also carried out raids there and arrest of the offenders was made. They were also handed over to Social Development Secretariat for further action. The Taskforce also raided other locations/residences used for commercial sex activities.

Some of the locations/residences are House 5 Blackie Plaza, OTT Hotel, Imperial Hotel, Airwaves Hotel, House 797 all in Wuse 2 and Criss Garden at Daki Biu. Removal of shanties used for Commercial Sex purposes in Apo Mechanic village and Chika Village were carried out. In all the locations raided, Commercial Sex workers were apprehended and handed over to Social Development Secretariat accordingly,” the CP added.

At Gudu market, the taskforce, Bello said, also demolished shanties and cleared areas used for illegal Mechanic workshops at the vicinity.

Other places, according to him, are Kubwa, Bwari as well as Nyanya.

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Why Patience Jonathan’s property was demolished –AMMC ÏÏÏThe Abuja Metropolitan Man-

agement Council (AMMC), an agency in the Federal Capital Territory Administration, has pulled down the housing property belonging to wife of former president, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.

The authority of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Agency (AMMC) said it demolished the property because of the structure contravenes development control regulations.

Speaking to journalists after the exercise, AMMC Co-coordinator, Umar Shuiabu explained that the former first lady’s building in Mabushi and all the other structures removed by his organization in Wuse II were illegal ones.

He said: “If they have approval, we would not have been there. Everyone must have approval before commencing any development in the FCT. When our officials go on inspection and discover that a structure is been put up, they would request to know whether there has been an approval prior to commencement of the development or not.

“It is because of this that we give three sets of approval –one is to be on the site, another should be with the owner and the other in our file at Development Control department, so that whenever we go for inspection and require building plan approval, it should be handy.

“Abuja is a planned city so if we do not control the development in the city, we won’t have met it the way it is today. Abuja is planned to be a garden city, meaning that there are some areas that we reserve for green development so we won’t allow desecration of whatever manner.

“If we have been leaving illegal developments within the city, this city would have been inhabitable for

people. Abuja is the pride of the nation, so we want to maintain a beautiful city for ourselves.

Speaking on the ongoing cleanup exercise by the AMMC, Shuibu explained: “When you get any allocation (land allocation) in Abuja, you have to apply it based on development control requirements. By the time you are given approval for a residential purpose and after the building, you convert it to commercial, it is not accepted by law so we require you to revert to the original planning.

“We have a situation where people are given plots for residential purpose, but they convert them into night clubs so much so that the neighbours are always complaining. We cannot allow them to continue cheating their neighboiurs, disturbing them in the night and not allowing them to sleep.

“We served them notices, but they refused to comply so we have no choice but to pull down those structures “We will not stop at removal of all illegal structures across the Territory, but we will submit for relevant measure that is necessary for that type of action. So it is not only the pulling down, we are now submitting a report, even if it means for the plot to be revoked, because we did not allocate those plots for the use in which they are doing.

“And that is why it is necessary that whenever you plan, you have an area for residential activity, you have an area for commercial activity and have an area for industrial activity. Wherever it is residential, you don’t use it for commercial; wherever it residential, you don’t use it for a hotel or any activity that will injure your neighbours.

FCTA partners NDLEA, security agencies on war against drug abuse ÏÏÏThe Federal Capital Territory

Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has lamented the growing incidence of drug abuse in the territory.

To stem the upsurge, the minister has moved to rally FCT security agencies to combat the scourge.

The FCT Minister gave this indication during a meeting with the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (rtd), when the latter paid him a working visit recently.

Malam Bello expressed alarm at the dimension to which the menace of drug has grown especially among women, while aligning himself with the declaration of the drug law enforcement boss who had associated the problems of insurgency, robbery, kidnapping and other crimes to drug abuse.

He said: “We really intend to make Abuja drug free. That will take tremendous amount of hard work and tremendous amount of commitment and resources. But we have no option but to do it.”

The Minister acknowledged that it was bad enough that Nigeria used

be known only as a transit point and expressed dismay it was becoming a consuming nation.

He charged the FCT Police, Department of State Security, Social Development Secretariat, and NDLEA, who were present at the occasion, to come together to chart a new plan of action towards fighting the scourge in FCT. The Minister assured the agencies that FCT was going to support measures designed to recover affected neighbourhoods and persons from drugs. In addition, he announced measures to fast-track the allocation of land for the construction of a rehabilitation centre for drug victims in the FCT. He canvassed for the naming and shaming of traffickers and perpetrators, as one of the strategies for discouraging the resort to drugs, suggesting, “All arrested persons need to be publicised along with their pictures and businesses. If they are found to be part of the negative value chain of the drug thing, they have to be exposed very widely. It is absolutely important. This is something relevant agencies will work together at in order to recover this vulnerable segment of our population from this menace.”

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$15m KOICA school handover: FCTA trains 150 teachers, administrators Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

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Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through its Education Secretariat, has commenced a 7-day training of 150 teachers as part of preparations to takeover a secondary school to be donated by Korea to the FCT. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 4th level training for teachers and administrators of the Nigeria/ Korea model at FCDA conference hall, recently, Education Secretary, Sen. Isa Maina, tasked all beneficiaries of the training and all other stakeholders to take their responsibilities to the operation and maintenance of the school with utmost seriousness and professionalism.

Pointing out the importance of the

training, Maina said: “Your training is very important because you are going to form an elite corps of teachers.

You are hereby called to live up to your calling as imparters of knowledge and molders of young minds. This 4th level training will further enhance and broaden your scope of knowledge and I urge you not to misuse this opportunity and even use it as a foundation for personal improvement.

“For the 150 of you who are being trained on ICT usage in the classroom, I implore you to endeavor to further train your colleagues who did not have the opportunity to attend this training. South Korea is one of the most technologically advanced countries and the chance to be trained by some of their most gifted minds does

not come everyday. Use the knowledge being acquired effectively in your duties”.

Represented by Director, Administration and Finance, Mrs. Eunice Ugochukwu, Maina further said, “the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has taken a personal interest in the school having visited it even during construction”, adding that the Minister has set up a committee, chaired by the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Sir. Christian Ohaa and supervised by the Education Secretary to maintain the aesthetics and academic integrity of the school for the foreseeable future. “This clearly underscores the premium position the FCTA has placed this institution. We intend to make the very best use of it,” he said.

L-R: The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed; FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Christian Chinyaka Ohaa; Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and the FCT Chief Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, when the FCT Administration secured the release of 114 inmates at the Kuje Medium Security Prison in Abuja...recently

Buhari has tried, but his best is not good enough –FCT PDP group

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2019 election year nears, members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started opening up as an FCT PDP group has lashed on President Muhammadu Buhari that he has tried his best, but yet to meet the expectations of Nigerians given the outlandish campaign promises.

Coordinator of FCT Goodluck/ Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Abubakar Sidi, told The Abuja Times that President Buhari does not have the capacity to do better than what he has done.

Sidi said in spite of the tremendous respect he has for Buhari as a person, truth must be told that Buhari”s best is simply not good enough as Nigerians have seen worst moments under President Buhari.

He pointed out that the likes of Sen. George Akume who led people into the APC are today seeing the kind of development the APC is bringing to their state.

“Those who decamped into the APC like Sen. Akume and others are today regretting their actions. Akume

now sees the kind of development the APC is bringing to his state; they are all regretting it,” he said.

Though he agreed that President Buhari has tried in the area of Boko Haram insurgency, yet other killings across the country like Fulani herdsmen and farmers’ clashes as well as Fulani herdsmen attcks and killing of innocent women and children without commensurate response from the Federal Government has taken the shine off the security achievements of President Buhari.

Still on security, the PDP campaigner said kidnapping, armed robbery and banditry are on the increase and that the government lacks the capacity to handle these vices.

On agriculture, Sidi said Buhari is trying, but that it was still better when under former President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that then Minister of Agriculture, now head of AfDB, introduced the envelop system which guaranteed direct supply of fertilizers to farmers. He said today, most farmers cannot access fertilizers as some politicians divert them and middle

men buy them all off, like it happened in his community.

One of the challenges, he said that is making life very difficult is the fuel price hike which has in turn increased prices of food stuff across the country. This, he said, is coupled with scarcity of petroleum products with the illegal subsidy regime that is being exposed.

Comparing the standard of living of Nigerians under the PDP-led Federal Government and that of President Buhari, Alhaji Sidi said it is clear as petrol pump price under Jonathan was N86 per litre, but today costs N145 per litre.

He said a 50kg bag of rice cost N15, 000.00 during Jonathan, but today costs N25, 000.00. Also, Hajj fare to Mecca was N250, 000 and now it is N7000, 00.00, just like local transportation which has increased astronomically.

Alhaji said what Nigerians are experiencing now is not what they bargained for and that the successes of the present administration is definitely not good enough.

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FCT Health secretariat decries lack of enabling laws to fight quackery

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Human Services Secretariat, Barrister Amanda Pam, has said that despite the degree of professionalism exhibited by the management and staff of the secretariat that certain enabling laws are required for the secretariat to operate in a full capacity.

Barrister Pam revealed this while briefing the media to mark the end of 2017 Fiscal year.

According to Pam, the FCT has no enabling law as at the moment to help fight certain illegalities because of the delay of its passages at the National Assembly.

She said however that there are laws establishing the FCT, which the secretariat makes use of at the moment to guide its operation.

The Secretary stressed that the laws has become necessary, owing to the great importance to enshrining standards in health facilities establishment in the FCT, to curb sub standards and quackery Further commenting, she observed that the committee for the establishment of private hospitals registration and monitoring, headed by Dr. Ibrahim Tata in the year under review sealed about 70 illegally operated hospitals in the FCT, while over N60,644,250, has been injected into the coffers of

the FCT thereby contributing to the IGR of the FCT. She said that the Health and Human Services Secretariat during the physical year expended the sum of N2, 595, 646.00 for HIV prevalent programmes for the residents of the FCT. Also on the fight against TB, she disclosed that N15,350,842.80 was expended, adding that over N20,787,436,.80 was expended for family planning programmes while expenditure for Vaccine programmes (polio, missiles programmes stands at 3,793,645,800.00 respectively.

Enlisting few among the challenges of the secretariat, Pam said that overdependence on donor agencies in fighting the war on certain diseases such as HIV/ AIDS response has become clog in the wheel of progress.

She decried the non-legislation of all facilities including FCT Primary Healthcare Board Establishment bill, the FCT School of Nursing and Midwifery ACT 2011.

Part of the challenges of the secretariat, she further stated, also include absence of the FCT Hospital Management Board Establishment bill as well as inadequate manpower due to lack of staff attrition.

FCTA threatens to revoke certificate of undeveloped lands Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

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Administration (FCTA) has threatened to revoke plots in the FCT that have not been developed two years after provision of infrastructure has been carried out.

Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuiabu who gave this warning recently while addressing journalists during removal of illegal structures around Zuba Interchange, specifically gave the owner of an empty plot of land, near Major Oil Ltd, Zuba to take possession of his property within one week or risk revocation.

According to him, the law permits the Administration to revoke any property which has not been devel-

oped within two years of infrastructural provision, adding that such undeveloped plots of land constitute insecurity by harbouring criminals and miscreants.

Shuiabu who led a team made of his men and those of the ministerial taskforce on environmental sanitation on the cleanup exercise said: “The aim of this exercise is to make Abuja clean at all times. It is a ministerial directive that we should clean up the city and make Abuja safe for residents to go about their legitimate businesses with ease.

“There are designated motor parks and markets across the city but they are all empty, people insist on using illegal ones; even if they are informal parks and markets, let the people use them and stop conducting businesses in illegal places in the

FCT. “We want to give Abuja a clean environment and Zuba is an entry point and whatever any visitor sees here (Zuba) he or she carries that picture and impression of the city.

“This is a new era. Abuja is not only the capital of Nigeria but of the entire black race because in every four black persons you meet, at least two are Nigerians. That is why we want to ensure that legal ventures take place in legal places, and we will leave no stone unturned to stop all illegal activities wherever they take place.”

The AMMC Coordinator disclosed that after Zuba, other places like Area 1, Nyanya, Giri and a host of others would follow in the cleanup exercise.

Youth unemployment: FCTA to embark on agricultural programme ÏÏÏThe

Federal Capital territory Administration says it is ready to battle youth unemployment through agricultural value chain.

This was disclosed by the Secretary, Agric Secretariat, Honourable Stanly Ifeanyichukwu Nzekwe, on the occasion of end of the year scorecard of the secretariat.

The programme initiative, according to the Secretary, was planned to ensure that a certain per centage of the youth unemployment is concurred.

According to him, the administration, earlier in the effort to curbing youth unemployment, said that it went into partnership with Leventis Foundation which has been at the center of agriculture training, to ensure that youths from the FCT are engaged meaningfully.

His words, our partnership with the Leventis foundation at the center for agricultural training, Yaba Lagos established to build the capacities of youth in agriculture, the relationship has continued to grow from strength to strength. Just on December 16th a total of100 trainees graduated from the center. And we have on good record that some of the past trainees have set up their farms and have become employers of labour”.

Further speaking, he said that within the period under review, that the agric and rural development secretariat, has tried to reposition the agriculture project ADP to enable it provide credible extension delivery to all the agricultural value chains in the FCT, the programme it said is in the effort to ensure agricultural development project and field extension programme.

Nzekwe said that the programme, is in pursuance of the mandate as

well as the project routinely promoted dissemination and adoption of good agricultural practices GAP that ensured that small holder farmers increased their yield and income by producing what they can sell.

This objective was accomplished due to the support received from the FCT administration, international partnership including the Japanese International Fertilizer development center, International Fertilizer development IFDC, United States International development USAID and Food and agricultural organization and federal Ministry of agriculture and rural development.

Consequently, it said that about 175,000 farming families and 100 project staff were supported through the international capacity building of 4 projects staff in Japan courtesy of JICA. Also, it has the local capacity building of about 40 women group and 30 extension agents on rice paddy par boiling using false bottom technology courtesy of JICA. Mr. Nzekwe also noted that the administration was engaged in the mobilisation of farmers groups and extension agents in all the FCT area councils including AMAC, Kuje, Dei Dei vegetable market, Kwali Checheyi community and Dwagwalada Ibwa community on SHEPSmall Horticultural empowerment programme courtesy.

The secretariat was also engaged on sensitization and mobilization of 10,000 farmers and 25extension agents on anchor borrowers program coordinated the training of 805 N-empower Agropreneur on extension delivery strategies. Promotion of small irrigation farming practices along the Pukafa flooding plain in Kwali area council.

FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Christian Chinyaka Ohaa (left) in handshake with the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (right), while the Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed looks on, when the FCT Administration paid the fines of 114 prisoners in Kuje Medium Security Prison to secure their freedom in Abuja....recently.

Metro rail: Abuja residents commend FCTA ÏÏÏResidents of

the Federal Capital Territory have commended the administration of the FCT over the recent effort made in bringing acquiring ultra-modern railway coaches for the commencement of the planed light rail project.

In an interview with The Abuja Times, thousands of Abuja residents including Mrs. Victoria Banu, is keenly waiting for the commencement of the project as it will enable her move around the city without traffic hickups.

According to Mrs. Victoria, traffic situation in the FCT, would be taken seriously to ensure that the modern infrastructures are complemented.

She said “I was happy when I had the news that the coaches for the test running of the project has arrived and I commend the present administration over this particular achievement. One thing is to make a promise but another is to carry it out. It is also worthy of commendation seeing the present administration of APC trying to complete projects initiated by the PDP administration”.

Speaking also, Eunice Agbaje a trader, noted that all over the world, that rail transportation helps the movement of goods and human to enhance business activities for the improvement of economic activities. “the emergence of the rail project in the FCT will now enhance economic activities across the FCT. And here we should be looking at the business side of the rail project. As a business woman, I should be thinking of taking the advantage of the rail corridors for business transactions”.

Eunice Agbaje observed the delay in the commencement, but however said that the project had better be late than never as some corners had earlier tagged it almost a failed project.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in conjunction with Transport Secretary, of the FCT, last week had announced that the test coaches for the Abuja light rail project, has arrived the FCT. The secretary to FCT Transport secretariat, Comrade Kayode Opeifa told the residents that the Administration is on course in its commitment to deliver on the FCT Light Rail

project.

Comrade Opeifa commended the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello for the passion and energy he invested in driving the project to the tremendous success story we are witnessing.

According to him, the ultra-modern coaches, with a total capacity of 390 passengers, he disclosed, arrived at the same time with the Kaduna rolling stocks at the end of last year.

Comrade Opeifa noted that FCTA could not commence trial runs because of the preliminary logistics needed before the exercise.

According to Opeifa, all hands are on deck for the operations to commence early. There would be two phases in all, he revealed. These involve test-runs by the technical team which would come before the test-run by passengers. These, he emphasized, are required before the arrival of the regular passenger coaches needed for the formal commencement of full operations. But while these are being awaited, the test-run coaches would be rolling with passengers.

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Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has called for stronger enforcement of current ban on importation of poultry products into the country to protect the health of citizens and boost the nation’s economy.

Declaring open a seminar organised by the Poultry Association of Nigeria with the theme: “Impact of Smuggled Poultry Products on the Economy and Health of Nigerians” in Ilorin, Governor Ahmed emphasised that Nigeria has the local capacity to fill the supply gap that may be created by this ban on importation of frozen meat.

The governor who explained that poultry industry is still faced with challenges including but not limited to unfair competition from imported frozen meat, chicken and turkey, said “imported frozen meat is said to account for over $2.5 in foreign exchange and a loss of more than one million jobs opportunities annually”.

The net impact of this, according to Dr Ahmed, is the gradual emasculation of local businesses, resulting in unemployment and stunted growth.

Gov Ahmed insisted that smuggling of contraband items drains the national income, retards local businesses and often results in the demise of local industries, and in the long term have devastating effects on the health of consumers.

Earlier in his remarks, the President, Poultry Association

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Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, MD/CEO, First Bank of Nigeria Limited (1st left) with executives of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) during a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja ...

Nigeria, Mr. Ezekiel Ibrahim, who attributed high cases of cancer and kidney diseases, particularly among the wealthy individuals, to the consumption of imported products, disclosed that an average of 1.3 metric

tonnes of poultry products were smuggled into the country on annual basis between 2004 and 2017.

Mr. Ibrahim called on Kwara State Government to encourage whistle blowing policy among

inhabitants of border communities to expose those smuggling poultry products.

In his paper presentation titled: State of Emergency: Job losses due to smuggling of poultry products in Nigeria, the im-

mediate past National President of the association, Dr Ayoola Oduntan described poultry business as low hanging fruits with potential to creating high paying jobs.

Nigerian airlines disagree with AU on Yamoussoukro implementation Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Airline operators yesterday declared that they are against the implementation of the Yamoussoukro Declaration (YD) as its implementation, according to them, meant the complete and utter demise of Nigerian airlines especially with the inherent challenges the

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airline’s face.

This is just as African governments, airlines and other stakeholders have been charged to adopt and implement the Yamoussoukro Declaration (YD) as a means to curb the excessive incursion of mega carriers from Europe and the Middle East especially with the carting away of over 80% of the market from the continent.

These divergent positions were made known at a one-day sensitization workshop on Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) at the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Annex with theme: Implementation of SAATM: Its impact on the Nigerian Aviation Industry and National Economy” where industry regulators urged airlines and government to get onboard with the initiative or risk losing out on the long run.

Setting the tone for the workshop, Chairman Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Captain Noggie Meggison said the airline’s were not carried along by the African government as they have gone ahead to sign off on the the declaration’s implementation without putting in place facilities to aid domestic airlines to compete.

Meggison questioned if the country was actually ready for the intraAfrican open skies and what the benefits are especially since the AON feels the playing field is not level and is skewed against Nigerian carriers with regards to how their neighbors tax and charge them.

Chief Executive of WestLink Airline, Captain Ibrahim Mshelia commended the idea of open skies but stated that the airlines needed more preparation to be part of the /and benefit from the the single air trans-

port market.

However, Secretary General of the African Civil Aviation Council (AFCAC), Ms Iyabo Sosina who reacted to the statements of the AON stated that the position of the airline body had not changed in over 20years and respectfully added that the issues the airlines mentioned were purely domestic issues and had nothing to do the the YD. Ms Iyabo Sosina explained that protectionism of local market share is not the way forward and that Africa needed to open its airspace within the continent.

On benefits she stated the the YD will provide African airlines commercial freedom, wider networks, better aircraft utilization and create a larger market share for the continent and improved access to capital as well as more flexible commercial

arrangements such as alliances, codeshares, franchises, interlining, mergers and acquisitions among African carriers.

“As we are aware, the better connected a country is by air, the greater its ability to unlock the economic and social benefits that air transport can deliver through mobility of people and goods to the traveling public, air carriers, airports, other allied service providers, the economy of member states and the continent as a whole.”

Giving the opening statement, Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika stated that Nigeria was set to review all the subsisting Bilateral Air Services Agreements (BASAs) to be in consonance with the YD while the process of domesticating the decision is currently at the advance stage.

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Fashola seeks strengthening of FERMA, opposes Reps funding proposal Henry Omunu, Abuja

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (right); Facilitator/Coordinator, Maritime Security Agency (MSA), Bishop Goodluck Akpore (2nd from right); Member, MSA, Igiebor. O. Semi (2nd from left), and Acting Director-General, MSA, Awighoza Friday (left), during the courtesy visit by MSA to the governor at the Government House in Benin City, Edo State.

Hydro-power: Edo to dam Ikpoba, Ovia Rivers, partners UNDP …to support bill oan Maritime Security Agency The Edo State Government has disclosed that it is in talks with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to harness the state’s water resources to generate electricity.

This was disclosed by the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, when he received the Coordinator and Officers of the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) during the group’s courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House in Benin City, Edo State.

Obaseki said the partner-

ship talks with the UNDP on electricity generation is to strengthen the state government’s efforts to promote economic activities.

He said, “We are currently working with the UNDP to develop a mini-hydro project from the water resources in the state, specifically from Ovia and Ikpoba Rivers.

“We have identified two major projects. The state government will take advantage of the opportunity provided by these water bodies to generate electricity to boost economic

activities in the state.”

According to Obaseki, “this administration is open to collaboration with relevant groups and agencies to complement government policies designed to grow the economy of the state and secure our internal waterways.”

The governor added that his administration supports the bill for the establishment of the Maritime Security Agency as the creation of the agency will safeguard internal waterways across the country.

Coordinator and facilitator,

Maritime Security Agency, Bishop Goodluck Akpore, commended the governor for his drive in promoting economic development in the state, noting “your effort in promoting economic development in the state is visible to all.”

Akpore said the objectives of the agency include to provide security, information and mechanisms to protect national maritime zones in the country, coordinate Nigeria’s Maritime security in collaboration and consultation with the relevant agencies.

Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday kicked against the proposed amendment bill being considered by the House of Representatives seeking to set aside one per cent from the consolidated revenue fund to fund the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

Fashola made his opposition to the amendment bill known when he appeared at a one-day public hearing organised by the House Committee on FERMA. He asserted that instead of dedicating one per cent from the consolidated revenue fund to fund the operations of FERMA, the agency should rather spell out its financial needs that will enable perform optimally.

According to the minister, the consolidated revenue fund belongs to the three tiers of government and as such it would be untenable to allocate such funds to an agency.

He also advised that rather than the establishment of new agencies to assist FERMA as is being proposed by lawmakers, there should be the harmonization and repeal of some sections of the FERMA Act in order to strengthen the agency.

In its presentation, the technical service department of the ministry of finance through its representative, Mediayedu Stephen supported the erection of toll gates as is being proposed in the bill, describing it as a welcome development.

According to Stephen, this is mostly the avenue through which the private sector can recoup their investment in the advent of any road concession.

Conference to address real estate holds in Lagos The Blueprint Real Estate Conference, an intensive one-day programme on opportunities in real estate investments within the Lagos New Emerging Cities, with new insights for first time home buyers and experienced investors, is scheduled to hold on 31 January, 2018, at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The conference with the theme; Succeeding in Property Markets: Strategic Positioning within New Emerging Cities, is designed to be an empowerment and futuristic session and will see participants presented with in-depth knowledge, ultimately ensuring they leave equipped with information,

knowledge and tools that aid in the process of owning their own home either through purchasing options or building from start to finish.

Participants of the conference are also expected to come away with clarity on how to make better and smarter property investment decisions. The conference will also feature panel discussions where critical issues regarding the Nigerian Real Estate industry will be discussed, with valuable insights shared with first-time and experienced investors.

The panel will feature speakers drawn from government, finance, mortgage and insurance, addressing challenges relevant to the property invest-

ment scene.

The convener of the conference, Mrs. MojisolaAfolayan, said: “The conference aims to provide answers to a broad range of questions ranging from what type of investment in real estate is obtainable, when to invest, where to invest, how to safely invest and who to deal with. The conference will also provide insight into the economic and social performance amongst Lagos’ new emerging cities, including tips on investing in real estate especially for first time investors.”

A major highlight of the conference will be an address by the keynote speaker, Chief Kola Akomolede, a former National Publicity Secretary of

the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers who also worked with Tope Oloyede& Co. from 1979 to 1986 before moving to the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) as a Chief Estate Surveyor and Head of the Estate Department.

Chief Akomolede later rose to become the Deputy General Manager (Estates) before retiring in 1999 to establish his own practice under the name Kola Akomolede& Co. Chief Akomolede is also a fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers(NIESV) and a member of the International Real Estate Federation(FIABCI). He is also a member of the Nigerian In-

stitute of Management (NIM).

The Blueprint Real Estate conference promises to be an important gathering for anyone interested in learning about investing in one of the world’s most viable property hubs, and is also a unique opportunity for discerning investors to network and participate in various projects, whilst benefitting from the considerable options available from the relevant finance houses.

The conference holds onJanuary 31, 2018, at the Four Points

by Sheraton Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos. Registration starts at 9am prompt and costs N15, 000. For registration and more details, visit www.mojisolaafolayan.com/blueprint

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Stories By Motolani Oseni Following the injection of a whopping $210 million into the inter-bank foreign exchange market by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigeria’s local currency, Naira, on Tuesday appreciated at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange ( NAFEX ) window, however, remained stabled at N305.65 to the dollar at official apex bank rate.

The latest forex intervention was said to be part of the continuous efforts by the CBN to meet customers’ requests in various segments of the forex market.

Although, the Naira, at the NAFEX opened at a declined rate of N360.31 against N360.20 per Dollar on Monday and N360.18 recorded on Friday, before traded high at 361.50 and eventually closed at a better rate of N360.25 to the dollar compared to depre-

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Naira appreciates at NAFEX as FX Market lifted with $210m ÏStables at official interbank forex market ciated rate of 360.67 sold on the first trading day of the week, even though it was weaker than 360.10 exchaneged on Friday, data obtained from the FMDQ OTC has showed.

But at the official forex maket, the naira, at the close of yesterday trading activities sustained the appreciated rate of N305.65 recorded on Mondaym slugtky better than N305.70 exchanged on Friday and Thursday last week, even as finance experts have projected further gains for the Naira in 2018.

The local currency, in the other hand dropped against the Euro at N440, but gained a point against the dollar to close at N364, and seen unchanged to the

pound sterling at 500 the same rate they traded on Monday at the the parallel market segment of the forex market.

It would be recalled that Nigeria’s central bank on Monday injected $210 million into the interbank foreign exchange market, extending efforts to boost liquidity and alleviate dollar shortages.

The bank said in a statement it had released $100 million earmarked for the wholesale market, $55 million for small businesses and individuals, and $55 million for certain dollar expenses such as school fees and medical bills.

The central bank said it: “will continue to manage the forex

with a view to reducing the country’s import bills and halting accretion to its foreign reserves.

The Bank’s acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in the statement said the fund would ensure that legitimate demands for foreign exchange are met.

He said also that customers needing foreign exchange for tuition fees, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance (BTA), among others, were also allocated the sum of $55 million.

Okorafor reiterated the Bank’s determination to continue to intervene in the interbank foreign exchange market, in line with its pledge to sustain liquid-

ity in the market and maintain stability.

He said the CBN would continue to manage the forex market with a view to reducing the country’s import bills and minimise depletion of foreign reserves.

In the past week, the CBN intervened in the market to the tune of $210 million, to cater for requests in the airlines, agricultural, petroleum products, raw materials and machinery sectors.

Meanwhile, the Naira continues its stability in the foreign exchange market, exchanging at an average of N361 to a dollar in the Bureau de Change segment of the market.

LSETF entrepreneurship, enrolls candidates for free vocational training In keeping up with its objective to improve the local economy by creating a skilled and experienced workforce, the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) through its Employability Support Project, has commenced free skills training for the first batch of beneficiaries in the state.

Launched in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, the employability support project provides six to eight weeks of vocational training to Lagos residents between the ages of 18 and 35 years. The project aims to empower its beneficiaries with industry relevant skills which will improve their chances of gaining employment.

The Executive Secretary, LSETF, Akintunde Oyebode, explained the role of the project in addressing unemployment in the state, while also creating active youths that can contribute to the socio-economic development of their communities.

“The Employability Support Project addresses sectors of the economy that require highly skilled workforce to spur innovation, creativity and business growth. Our first batch of beneficiaries will graduate by the end of February, 2018 and by the end of the 18-month project, we aim to train 10,000 Lagos residents. We expect that the successful trainees, with their newly-acquired skills and personal commitment, will help entrepreneurs and investors in the state to create new businesses and grow the local economy.” He said.

He added that LSETF has engaged several Vocational Training Centres across the state to facilitate the free skills training course in Manufacturing, Entertainment, Garment Making, Hospitality, Healthcare and Construction.

‘How FG rakes N4trn through tax collection in one year’ The Federal Government of Nigeria has raked not less than a whopping N4 trillion through effective tax revenue collection in 2017.

This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, at the FIRS 2018 Management and Stakeholders in Lagos with theme, “Optimizing Tax Administration with Parliamentary Synergy”.

The latest figure showed a significant increase in the nation’s tax revenuem while compared the N3.3 trillion revenue collection recirded in 2016.

The chairman said he was hopeful that the country would be further moved forward through taxation.

“By putting our hands together in contribution on to our set goal,

I am confident that we will surpass our past result and we will be on our way to the future we hope to achieve.

“It is clear that taxation is the most sustainable of all government revenue sources,” Mr. Fowler said.

According to him, there has been sustained decline in global price of oil in second half of 2014, making the revenue generated from it to stand at N2.45 trillion.

He also said that in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the nation’s revenue from oil stood at N1.29 trillion, N1.16 trillion and N1.52, respectively.

Mr. Fowler said the trend had adverse effects on the ability of oil dependent countries to meet their development objectives.

For us in Nigeria, a decline in receipts from oil revenue and de-

cline in accruals to states from the federal account has placed many states in a financial quandary, to the extent where basic obligation such as the payment of employee wage has become a perennial challenge,” he said.

Mr. Fowler also said what the retreat hoped to achieve was part of efforts to ensure that the country must act differently by looking beyond oil as the mainstay of the economy.

“Therefore, there cannot be any serious discussion on diversification of the nation’s revenue generation without reviewing the country’s tax regime for optimal performance.

“Between the resource persons, we have invited our own staff and our stakeholders.

“We hope to draw from a wide spectrum of perspectives on how

best to move forward.

“If the way forward requires a review of existing legal framework or legislative reform, there is no doubt in my mind that we have willing and able partners in National Assembly, FIRS Board and the Joint Tax Board”.

He commended the National Assembly and traditional institution for their involvement in deepening tax collection in the country.

Earlier, Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, who received the FIRS Chairman at his palace, thanked the National Assembly for its contribution and support to tax revenue generation in the country.

Mr. Akiolu said that the country needed good government, governance and leadership while urging them to be patient with the president in moving the country forward.

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UAC announces new heads for subsidiaries to boost offerings In continuation of its growth trajectory and delivery on promises to shareholders, UAC of Nigeria Plc demonstrated commitment to profitability of its subsidiaries with new appointment of Heads of some of its subsidiaries.

In a statement made available to Daily Times Nigeria, UAC of Nigeria PLC (UAC) announced the appointment of Mrs. Oluwakemi Ogunnubi as Managing Director, Chemical and Allied Products PLC (CAP PLC); Mr. Taiwo Ajibola as the Managing Director, MDS Logistics Limited, while Mr. Adedamola Olusunmade is the new Managing Director of Portland Paints & Products Nigeria Plc. Mr. Mukhtar Yakasai, formerly Managing Director of Portland Paints and Products Nigeria Plc has been appointed the Deputy Managing Director of Grand Cereals Limited, a UAC subsidiary located in Jos, as Mr. Solomon Aigbavboa, previously Managing Director of MDS Logistics Limited as the newly appointed Managing Director of Livestock Feeds PLC (LSF PLC).

UAC revealed that Mrs. Modupe Asanmo, erstwhile Managing Director of Livestock Feeds Plc has retired from the company after 10 years of meritorious service, adding that all the appointments took effect from 1st January 2018.

The company disclosed that Mrs. Oluwakemi Ogunnubi, a Chartered Accountant (ACA), until her appointment, was the Head, Financial Services of UAC. She has worked variously within the Group as the Head, Risk and Compliance of UAC, Lead Inter-

nal Auditor (Lagos/West) – UAC Audit, Business Efficiency Manager – CAP Plc, Supply Chain Manager – CAP PLC and National Customer Service Manager – CAP Plc; National Sales Manager and the GM Sales of UAC Foods Limited.

She is an alumna of Ashridge Business School and a member of the Institute of Risk Management, UK and attended the Polytechnic, Ibadan where she obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy in 1992.

Mr. Adedamola Olusunmade, a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Benin started his career as an Assistant Production Manager with CAP PLC in 1999. He worked in different capacities including Plant Manager, Marketing Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Strategy Manager and Technical Operations Manager.

He had a stint in Paints and Coatings Manufacturers Nigeria Plc where he was the Escravos Project Lead. In 2012, he was appointed as Country Manager of Beckers Industrial Coatings Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Beckers Group owned by Lindengroppen, Sweden.

AtBeckers, Damola was responsible for setting up the Coil and Industrial coatings manufacturing facility and managing the Nigerian business, while overseeing the West African sub- region.

He has attended local and international training courses including the Lagos Business School’s Advance Management Program and was in 2007 appointed to the International Labour Organisa-

tion’s Committee of Experts on Safe Handling of Hazardous Chemicals Mr. Mukhtar Yakasai is a graduate of Agriculture with Agricultural Economics option from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and holds an MBA from the same University. He joined Chemical and Allied Products Plc, a subsidiary of UAC in July 1985. He held various roles as National Sales Coordinator (2001), Business Manager Flame Guard and CAP Decorators (2002), General Manager Business Development and General Manager Paints (2003).

Yakasai was at various times the Managing Director of Spring Waters Nigeria Limited (SWAN)

and Warm Spring Waters Nigeria Limited (Gossy) and Special Projects Manager, UAC. He was appointed to the Board of Portland Paints in June 2013 as a Non-Executive Director and, subsequently, Managing Director of the Company in October 2015. Mukhtar is an alumnus of Ashridge Business School, UK and has attended other local and international training programmes.

Mr. Solomon Aigbavboa, a Pharmacist, was educated at the University of Benin (B.Pharm & M.Sc) and Federal University of Technology, Owerri (MBA), joined UAC in June 1997 as Personal Products Manager in the then GBO – MDS Division

. He thereafter, occupied various Management positions in the UAC Group including National Customer Service Manager, MDS Logistics; General Manager -Franchise Operations, Mr Biggs and GM, Operations, UAC Foods.

In September 2008, he joined Zain Telecoms, Nigeria where he served as General Manager, North West Regional Operations and Director, Regional Support in the Sales Group. In June 2009, he returned to UAC and was subsequently appointed in January 2010 as the Managing Director of MDS Logistics Limited. Solomon is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management.

L-R: Executive Director, Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries PLc, Fatima Dangote; Director, NASCON Allied Industries PLc, Halima Dangote; Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Oscar Onyema; and the Chairperson, NASCON Allied Industries PLc, Mrs ‘Yemisi Ayeni; during the Closing Gong Ceremony at the Trading Floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, January, 22, 2018.

NASCON plans new investments Wapic clinches new earning opportunity with NFF MoU to boost returns, efficiency NASCON Allied Industries Plc, a subsidiary of Dangote Industries Limited, has said that it is investing in backward integration projects as a strategy to diversify and add more value to both its shareholders and the Nigerian economy.

Chairman, Board of Directors of NASCON, Mrs. Yemisi Ayeni stated this yesterday at the sounding of the closing gong on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

Addressing stockbrokers on the trading floor of the Exchange, she said that adhering to best corporate governance has yielded the desired results as the company performed strongly despite the harsh operating environment, delivering good returns to all stakeholders.

She said “We are committed to best corporate governance requirements as all our board members have passed the fiduciary test.”

She told the stockbrokers that NASCON Allied Industries is the company to watch out for in the future in terms of performance as it is breaking new grounds while embarking on projects that will enable it to remain a reference point in the food industry.

While appreciating the gesture of the NSE management in inviting NASCON to sound the closing gong, Ayeni stated that the food processing company will continue to partner the exchange in its drive to ensure that best practices are adopted by listed companies.

She commended the management of the exchange for the progress recorded in promoting corporate governance which has resulted positively with many companies coming for listing. She added that NASCON is proud to partner with an entity that is progressive and ICT driven.

Wapic Insurance Nigeria Plc has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the official insurance provider for the federation and co-sponsors of the NFF. In a statement signed by Eniola Alli- Fawela released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange Tuesday, the company said that with the MoU, Wapic becomes the official insurer of the NFF, official insurer of the Super Eagles, other national teams and co-sponsors. The agreement sponsorship is a five years deal and subject to renewal at the expiration.

It was disclosed that MoU was signed by the president of the NFF, Mr. Amaju Pinnick and the managing Director of Wapic Insurance, Mrs. Yinka Adekoya and witnessed by numerous sports dignitaries, including the independent president of the Nigerian women football league (NWFL) Mrs. Aisha Folade.

Others that witnessed the signing ceremony, include, Wapic executive director, Mr. Olufemi Obaleke, Sen-

force Insurance brokers Anirejurotishe Ojuyah, the vice president of the NFF, Barr, Seyi Akinwumi, the second vice president NFF, Mr. Shehu Dikko ,among others The arrangement in the MoU spelt that Wapic will provide comprehensive insurance coverage for all national players and officials for every match to be played and all other events and programmes organized by the NFF. The teams requiring such insurance coverage include, the national team, Super Eagles, , national under 23 team, the Golden Eagles , national under 20 team, the Flying Eagles, national under 17 team, the golden Eaglets, national under 15 team, the future Eagles.

It also include the national beach football Eagles, the sand eagles, the national Futsal team, the national women team, (Super Falcons), national female under 20 team, the falconets, the national female under 71 team, the Flamingoes and any other national team to be created by the NFF.

The NFF also appointed Senfore insurance brokers as the official stockbroker of the agreement. Senforce will provide advisory services as to the best insurance coverage to NFF. NFF president in a statement said, “We are not just looking for a partner because of money, we want to give our players a life and a future.

We also want to help them invest their money wisely. Encouraging smart investment among players is important to the NFF and so together with NFF and so, together with Wapic, players will be mentored and influenced towards investments so that they have something to fall back on, upon retirement” Mrs. Yinka Adekoya, managing Director Wapic Insurance said that as Nigerians moves towards sustainable future for sports, the games, institutions and players alike, Wapic is proud to play a pivotal role in facilitating these, as sports enjoys a spotlight in Wapic sustainability and social development programme”

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Bribery, corruption and evolution of pro-social institutions (2) The “Bribery Game” was the usual institutional punishment public goods game with the punishing leader, but with one additional choice—players could not only keep money for themselves or contribute to the public pool, they could also contribute to the leader.

And the leader could not only punish or not punish, they could instead accept that contribution. What happened? On average, we saw contributions fall by 25% compared to the game without bribery as an option. More than double what the pound has fallen against the USD since Brexit (~12%.

Fine, bribery is costly. The World Bank estimates $1 trillion is paid in bribes alone; in Kenya, 8 out of 10 interactions with public officials involves a bribe, and as pointed out in the paper, most of humanity—6 billion people—live in nations with high levels of corruption. The model also reveals that unlike the typical institutional punishment public goods game, where stronger institutions mean that more cooperation can be sustained, when bribery is an option, stronger institutions mean more bribery.

A small bribe multiplied by the number of players will make you a lot richer than your share of the public good!

So can it be fixed?The usual answer is transparency. There are also some interesting approaches, like tying a leader’s salary to the country’s GDP—the Singaporean model. So what happened when these strategies are introduced?

Well, when the public goods multiplier was high (economic potential—potential to make money using legitimate means—was high) or the institution had power to punish, then contributions went up. Not to levels without bribery as an option, but higher. But in poor contexts with weak punishing institutions, transparency had no effect or backfired. As

did the Singaporean model.

Why? Consider what transparency does. It tells us what people are doing. But as psychological and cultural evolutionary research reveals, this solves a common knowledge problem and reveals the descriptive norm—what people are doing. For it to have any hope of changing behavior, we need a prescriptive or proscriptive norm against corruption. Without this, transparency just reinforces that everyone is accepting bribes and you had be a fool not to. People who have lived in corrupt countries will have felt this frustration first hand. There’s a sense that it’s not about bad apples—the society is broken in ways that are sometimes difficult to articulate.

But societal norms are not arbitrary. They are adapted to the local environment and influenced by historical contexts. In the experiment, the parameters created the environment. If there really is no easy way to legitimately make money and the state doesn’t have the power to punish free-riders, then bribery really is the right option. So even among Canadians, admittedly some of the nicest people in the world, in these in-game parameters, corruption was difficult to eradicate. When the country is poor and the state has no power, transparency doesn’t tell you not to pay a bribe, it solves a different problem—it tells you the price of the bribe. Not “should I pay”, but “how much”?

There were some other nuances to the experiment that deserve follow up. If we had played the game in Cameroon instead of Canada, we suspect baseline bribery would have been higher. Indeed, people with direct exposure to corruption norms encouraged more corruption in the game controlling for ethnic background. And those with an ethnic background that included more

corrupt countries, but without direct exposure were actually better cooperators than the third generation+ Canadians. These results may reveal some of the effects of migration and historical path dependence. Of course, great caution is required in applying these results to the messiness of the real world.

A further investigation into these cultural patterns is hoped to be carried out in future work.

The experiment also reveals that corruption may be quite high in developed countries, but its costs aren’t as easily felt. Leaders in richer nations like the United States may accept “bribes” in the form of lobbying or campaign funding and these may indeed be costly for the efficiency of the economy, but it may be the difference between a city building 25 or 20 schools. In a poor country similar corruption may be the difference between a

city building 3 or 1 school.

Five is more than 3, but 3 is three times more than 1. In a rich nation, the cost of corruption may be larger in absolute value, but in a poorer nation, it may be larger in relative value and felt more acutely.

The take home is that cooperation and corruption are two sides of the same coin; different scales of cooperation competing. This approach gives us a powerful theoretical and empiri-

cal toolkit for developing a framework for understanding corruption, why some states succeed and others fail, why some oscillate, and the triggers that may lead to failed states succeeding and successful states failing.

Our cultural evolutionary biases lead us to look for whom to learn from and perhaps whom to avoid.

They lead us to blame individuals for corruption. But just as atrocities are the acts of many humans cooperating toward an evil end, corruption is a feature of a society not individuals.

Indeed, corruption is arguably easier to understand than my fearless acceptance of my anonymous barista’s coffee. Our tendency to favor those who share copies of our genes—a tendency all animals share—lead to both love of family and nepotism. Putting our buddies before others is as ancient as our species, but it creates inefficiencies in a meritocracy. Innovation are often the result of applying well-established approaches in one area to the problems of another. We hope the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption.

Putting aside what it means for something to be natural for our species, suffice to say these are recent inventions in our evolutionary history, by no means culturally universal, and not shared by our closest cousins.Genes that identify and favor copies of themselves will spread.Helping those who help you. The United Nations Human Development Index ranks the United States 10th in the world.

Liberia is 177th.

Temporal discounting the degree to which we value the future less than the present. Our tendency to value the present over the future is one reason we don’t yet have Moon or Mars colonies, but the degree to which we do this varies from society to society.

Indeed, corruption is arguably easier to understand than my fearless acceptance of my anonymous barista’s coffee. Our tendency to favor those who share copies of our genes—a tendency all animals share—lead to both love of family and nepotism. Putting our buddies before others is as ancient as our species, but it creates inefficiencies in a meritocracy.

Nwaodu Chukwuemeka, is a consultant with IDEAS Exchange Consulting, Lagos. He can be reached at nwaodu.lawrence@hotmail.co.uk (07066375847)

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How we tackle issue of blind spots in Nigeria airspace - Dung As the president, can you tell us few things about NAAE? The association has mission and vision. The mission is to protect professionalism as far as the practice of engineering is concerned in the Nigeria airspace. We operate in a safety critical environment. So there is need and demand that we operate in a professional manner in line with set rules and standards as provided by the International Civil Aviation Organisation ICAO. We have standards and Recommended Practices. We ensure that we operate in safe environment and that lives are protected.

What changes have you brought in since you were elected in July last year?

We came in around July after our Annual General Meeting held in Kano. Before we came in, NAAE was bedeviled with crises and the challenges were more of disunity amongst members of the association. By the time, we came in, there is relative stability. We are not there yet but we have made remarkable progress and the atmosphere is quite stable. We have reached out to members that were responsible for the disunity and disagreement. Things are working out so far as we are bringing everybody on board. Before we came in, there were challenges; some relating to equipment and tools and others relating to welfare of our members.

When I came in, we started talking with the management and they have started addressing them.

What are those challenges?

The challenges include issues bordering on operational vehicles. We were actually struggling with operational vehicles. The nature of our operations is that we have equipment deployed in the field and mobility becomes very critical. Now that management has provided new vehicles, it has addressed that challenge. As soon as we do the necessary documentation, we will distribute them to various stations where they are most needed. . They assured us it will be a continuous process until the problem is solved.

We also have challenge of advancement on the part of our members moving from one level to the other. But that has been taken care of.

We also have the challenges of manpower shortage as we have some of our members retired and they need replacements. However, not long ago, management has started by giving employment to make up those manpower shortage. We also had serious issues concerning training. Training was virtually like dead, if I may use it that way but before the end of last week, training picked up seriously. The foremost training which we call the ATSEP training was actually stagnated for

a year. However, it was commenced last week. Management is already working on commencing ATSEP training early enough. There are other trainings schedules that the management came up with and are being implemented. We have the On The Job Training (OJT) training which was abandoned but commenced last week. As we speak, there is one going on in Minna, Niger State.

We also have some of our members going to Norway for training. There were some challenges in terms of communication in the entire airspace. There were some areas where pilots actually lodged complains that they are blind spots. Management bought Long Range Radios which were actually new in the system. It is new because it was the first time radios were deployed in our system.

So far, that challenge has been taken care of and it has been testified to too by some of the pilots that we have interacted with.

Sometime ago, we had a stakeholders’ meeting last year which comprised of stakeholders like NCAA and pilots. In that forum they testified that the challenge of blind spots have actually fizzled out. It is a remarkable achievement. Even in the areas of navigation, we have some of the areas where navigational aids were deployed and that goes a long way to easing communication in the airspace.

Can you say the communication systems are now seamless?

As far as I wish, I have not heard of any complaints again. As I said, we had a stakeholders meeting and the pilots testified that the blind spots are no longer experienced. That does not mean management should go and sleep because as new technology comes up, we need to improve operations by keeping with the latest trends. Once the technology is coming, you have to train the manpower that will be required to man them. The issue of blind spot has been taken care of.

What is the relationship between NAAE and NATCA? The relationship is cordial and healthy. That does not mean that if there is any challenge, they tell us, we will not take them seriously. Like I said concerning disunity among our members previously; there was some level of that aspect of relationship between NAAE and Air Traffic Controllers (ATC), NATCA, especially NATCA but we have tried to bridge the gap. That issue of bulk passing is no longer there.

As it stands now, what are your immediate needs?

As an association, one of our challenges is on welfare and that is on salaries and remunerations where we are lagging behind compared to other sister agen-

Emirates order 36 A380 worth $8.9bn

Emirates has agreed to buy up to 36 Airbus A380s in a provisional order that will keep the world’s largest passenger jet in production for a further 10 years.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Emirates signed with Airbus is for 20 A380s and an option for 16 more.

The 20 aircraft order is worth over USD$8.9 billion at 2018 list prices. If the options are converted, the deal would be worth $16 billion.

“We’ve made no secret of the fact that the A380 has been a success for Emirates. Our customers love it, and we’ve been able to deploy it on different missions across our network, giving us flexibility in

terms of range and passenger mix,” the airline’s chief executive Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said.

Emirates will use part of the new order for expansion and part to replace older aircraft. Deliveries will start in 2020.

The Dubai-based airline has not selected an engine manufacturer yet, but has both Engine Alliance and Rolls-Royce-powered A380s in its fleet.

According to Airwisenews, the order will allow Airbus to keep the A380 production line open until 2018, while it seeks orders from other airlines.

Airbus chief salesman John Leahy said “This new order underscores Airbus’s commitment to produce the

A380 at least for another 10 years. I’m personally convinced more orders will follow Emirates’ example and that this great aircraft will be built well into the 2030s.”

Leahy said earlier this week that A380 production would have to be wound down if Emirates failed to order more aircraft. An or-

der was originally expected at the Dubai Airshow in November but that failed to happen and the two companies have been in extended negotiations since then.

Emirates is the largest A380 operator with 142 ordered prior to the new agreement, and 101 currently in service.

Dung cies. It is a great area of concern and we need to put pressure on the management. They felt concerned and they have gone far. It was an issue that has to do with collective bargaining as well. Our own association and other association have a part to ply in it. Along the line, they are grey areas that delayed the process.

All those grey areas have been resolved and I want to believe that any moment, something will happen. The request has gone to the ministry and as at the last time I did a follow up, I learnt that it has reached at an advanced stage. We are happy that not too long from now, say in the next one month or maximum two months, that new salary structure will be implemented for our members. The anxiety has come down. It has been a lingering issue dating back 5 years back.

You said you have equipment. Do you have back up for them?

That is what we are trying to identify. In areas where we don’t have backup, we put pressure on management to ensure that backups are provided. I think so far, so good, management is doing their best to provide backups. That is why we are even having less complaints coming from the ATCs un-

like previously when we have challenges.

Do you still have expatriate Engineers?

We still have especially for equipment that our own engineers have not been trained on extensively such as AIS automation which is an ongoing project. It is the expatriates that are handling them.

How can you describe the management team of NAMA? The management team of NAMA is living up to expectation because when they came in, we enumerated quite a number of challenges. As I am talking to you now, part of the challenges we had before the management came in have been taken care of. So that tells us that management is a responsible one and out to ensure the system functions very well. I will say they are doing very well.

How about the aviation industry compared to the neighboring countries?

I have not travelled to neighboring countries extensively but where I spot some differences easily is in the areas of terminal buildings. It is in that aspect that we are lagging behind. I was privileged to travel to Kenya and I discovered that their terminal building was well taken care of.

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Sokoto to inaugurate West Africa’s largest cattle breeding project in May

The Sokoto State Cattle Breeding Project, the largest of its kind in the West African sub-region, will be inaugurated in May this year, Commissioner for Animal Health and Fisheries Development, Alhaji Tukur Alkali has said.

Conducting journalists round the project sites in Sokoto and Rabah LGA of the state, Alkali said the project will improve the genetics of local cattle breeds by ensuring higher milk and beef production while at the same time empowering farmers with modern technique of livestock production.

“The government has spent N2.8 billion on the project which was inherited from the immediate past administration of Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko. Of the amount, N1.5 billion was spent on the supply of Argentinean cattle to be used for cross-breeding, construction, training of personnel, security and other logistics while another N1.3 billion was for the procurement of equipment for the project.

“The project is the most definite longterm strategy to end farmers-herdsmen clashes as is being experienced across the federation, and in some neighboring West African countries. We hope to not only empower our farmers, but also impact new/modern knowledge on mechanized farming and cattle breeding techniques.

“About 13 cluster farms would be established to be run by private entities.

All the cattle breeds will graze in these fields. We will also provide research cen-

tre and laboratory, veterinary services among others,” he added.

The Sokoto state government had in 2010 signed a N2 billion contract with an

Argentine firm, South American Breeding Technologies (SABT) for the establishment of a cattle breeding, milk and beef production factory.

Based on the agreement, SABT will train and bring revolutionary changes in agriculture, genetic procedure, meat processing and milking machines.

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FAAN urges ICRC to settle rift with Bi-Courtney Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has urged the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) to correct what it described as “the anomalies” associated with the Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement between Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA 2) and the Authority.

This call was made following a mediatory visit

by Mr. Chidi Iwuzah, the Acting Director General of ICRC to both parties

recently to iron out grey areas in the contractual agreement in the interest of the nation.

The BOT agreement granted Messrs Bi Courtney Limited was for the design, financing, construction and management of a domestic terminal building at the Murtala Muhammed Airport.

The concession premises is limited to the domestic terminal, as clearly de-marcated and delineated by beacon nos as contained in the survey plan.

A statement by spokesperson for FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said

that for the purpose of emphasis, the General Aviation Terminal does not and could not have formed a part of the concession.

Even before the terminal presently developed and occupied by BASL got burnt, the GAT had existed and operated independently on its own, BASL is only trying to reap where it has not sown.

“We, therefore, want to reiterate our position that GAT is not part of the concession granted Messrs Bi Courtney, neither had FAAN admitted to that assertion at any time. It is imperative to state that certain provisions in the

concession agreement are negatively skewed against the overall interest of Nigeria and Nigerians and it hampers the growth and development of the industry.

“Any contract whose provisions are contrary to overriding public interest should not be allowed as no single individual or corporation is bigger than the nation Nigeria”.

She said FAAN is open to a progressive review/ collaboration that puts the interest of the over 180 million Nigerians as well as the growth and development of Nigeria first. We are also willing and ready to collaborate with our

partners and investors in this regard.

She further described the Four Star hotel and conference center, which are separate projects executed in 2007 and distinct from the terminal building, as clear case of breach of contract.

Her words, “Messrs Bi Courtney exhausted the construction and the extension period granted it in the lease. However, in the interest of fostering our business relationship, FAAN showed magnanimity by granting a further construction completion period of 24 months by an addendum executed by the parties in 2015. The adden-

dum clearly stated that no further extension shall be granted Bi Courtney”.

“Two days before the expiration of the construction completion period, Messrs Bi Courtney went to court and obtained an injunction restraining FAAN from terminating or interfering with their posession and occupation of the two premises, having flagrantly breached the provisions of the agreement by failing to deliver the projects, thereby causing monumental embarassment to the aviation sector with these two structures that are strategically located”, she added.

‘Dahiru Mangal is substantial shareholder’ ….Explains Oando Plc

L-R: Director-General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Nasir Mohammed Ladan; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Skills Development and Head, EdoJobs, Mrs. Ukinebo Dare; Commissioner for Youth and Special Duties; Hon. Mika Amanokha and Edo State Coordinator, NDE, Mrs. Ayo Edegbai, at the flag-off ceremony of NDE training programme for 76,400 people in various states in Southern Nigeria, held at Imaguero College Hall, in Benin City, on Tuesday,

Air Peace inaugurated Freetown, Banjul, others Feb 19

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

Nigeria’s leading airline, Air Peace has announced a new date for the launch of its flights from Lagos to Freetown in Sierra Leone, Banjul in The Gambia and Dakar in Senegal.

The airline said it will now connect the three West Coast destinations on February 19.

The airline had fixed the launch of its flights to Freetown, Banjul and Dakar for December 15, 2017. The inauguration was, however, suspended at the last minute due to the industrial unrest by air traffic control (ATC) in Dakar.

The carrier had pledged to announce a new date for the launch when it was certain that the industrial action in Dakar, a critical connection in its route plan, had been fully resolved to avoid its guests being put through a strain.

A statement issued by Air

Peace Corporate Communications Manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah on Tuesday said the new destinations would now join its route network on February 19.

The routes, the statement said, were part of the second phase of the airline’s expansion project on the West Coast of Africa and would bring its network to a total of 14 destinations.

Air Peace made its first scheduled commercial flight out of Nigeria from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos into the Kotoka International Airport, Accra-Ghana on February 16, 2017.

The airline plans to operate flights to five other regional routes as well as six international destinations comprising Dubai, London, Guangzhou-China, Houston, Mumbai and South Africa soon.

Air Peace, which recently embarked on a project to in-

crease its fleet size to 24 aircraft, said its Freetown, Banjul and Dakar routes would be serviced by its Boeing 737 aircraft to guarantee the comfort of its guests.

“We are pleased that after the unfortunate suspension of the launch of our Freetown, Banjul and Dakar services fixed for December 15, 2017 due to the industrial action by air traffic control in Dakar, we can confirm that our inaugural flights to the three destinations will now take place on February 19, 2018.

The new routes constitute the second phase of the expansion of our network on the West Coast of Africa.

This is an exciting step in fulfilling our promise to unlock the economies of the region, offer air travellers on business and leisure trips seamless connectivity as well as create jobs for the people when we launched our first flight out of Ni-

geria into Accra, Ghana on February 16, 2017”, Air Peace said.

It added: “We will operate round-trip flights from our Lagos base to the new routes four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The service departs the Murtala Muhammed International Airport for Freetown at 7am (local time).

“The launch will bring destinations on our regional route map to four. Our West Coast expansion project is still unveiling. We hope to connect about five more routes in the region in the next few weeks.

“In the coming months, we will open up more opportunities for our guests to experience the exciting world of Africa and international destinations, including Dubai, London, Guangzhou-China, Houston, Mumbai and South Africa.”

Oando Nigeria Plc has officially notified the investment community that Alhaji Dahiru Mangal (’Alhaji Mangal’), one of the petitioners that triggered the crisis in Oando following petition against the company’s board, that Mangal is a substantial shareholder in the Company.

The company revealed that a memorandum of understanding reached with the petitioner was in accordance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap. C20 LFN 2004 (‘CAMA’) an individual or entity with direct / beneficial share ownership over 10 per cent constitutes a substantial shareholder in the Company.

In addition to confirming Dahiru Mangal status in OANDO, as a substantial shareholder, all the issues raised by Alhaji Mangal in his petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) have been successfully addressed and clarified by the Company.

The Company has always encouraged oversight over its affairs by all shareholders. In the same vein, we have encouraged Alhaji Mangal to exercise such rights to enable him gain a better understanding of the Company’s business development plans, initiatives and operations.

To this end, a Peace Accord mediated by Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II (CON), the Emir of Kano was concluded on January 7, 2018.

Commenting on the Peace Accord, Oando PLC’s Group Chief Executive, Jubril Adewale Tinubu said: “I am pleased we have reached an amicable agreement with Alhaji Dahiru Mangal and have satisfactorily addressed

the concerns he raised in his petition to the SEC. We encourage him to exercise his rights as a shareholder and be more involved in oversight of the affairs of the Company. Shareholders must be confident in the operations of the company they are invested in; this can only occur through active participation.’’

Commenting further the Emir of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II (CON) said: “The development of the Nigerian economy is hinged on local participation; it is therefore an imperative that as a people we come together to make indigenous participation and success a reality.

I have watched Wale Tinubu from his days in Ocean and Oil and I am extremely proud of his growth and the company he has built. Oando is proudly a Nigerian company whose impact has been positively felt by every Nigerian.

The Company is evidence of the progress we have made from an IOC led sector to one that is thriving with a mix of indigenous and international players. I call on Alhaji Mangal and Wale Tinubu to see themselves as partners focused on achieving one goal; attainable only if they have confidence and trust in one another.

It is my belief is that they have put the past behind them and are looking forward to working together to create greater success stories. As Nigerians we must protect our local industries and ultimately the development of this great nation and so I am excited by what this means for the company and Nigeria as a whole.’’

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I can wear anything but I would never be naked –Mimi Orjiekwe L2

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Light skin actress, Mimi Orjiekwe needs no introduction in the industry, for someone who storm the industry after having a fear share of appearance in beauty pageant; stardom was longer new to her as she came into industry in 2010 and ever since she has featured in countless movies making her one of the most sought after actress. In this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, Mimi talks more about her fashion and style.

You are beautiful and always radiant; has your beauty ever worked against you?

It has opened a lot of doors for me but it can also make people upset at you. If someone thinks you

I keep clean, so I don’t need a tattoo –Mimi Orjiekwe

refuse to do their bidding, they get upset and I lose hard. One has to work out daily, watch what you eat, embark on regular diets, and maintain your physique.

How have you been able to maintain your physique?

It is hard to stay in shape because as you grow you tend to eat more food and if you do not exercise

You seem not to have any tattoos?

I cannot draw anything on my body.

Sometimes I say that my body is like a anyone write things on such exotic cars.

hard. Sometimes I grow bigger and other times I am slimmer but I work out a lot and I watch what I eat.

my body because I do not need all that. I think if I inscribe something on my body, at a point, I might not want it any more so I

what you eat but the hormones in you. If you want How about extra body piercing? background. It is not like there is anything wrong with extra body piercing but I grew extra piercing on her body. She is my role model and I do not want to do anything she did not do. As the only daughter in my family, my mother is the only one I look up

learnt from her. When I grew up and saw that my friends had multiple ears piercing, I liked it at a point but I made a decision not to indulge in it.

What would you never be caught wear?

I can wear anything but I would

accessories? like accessories and I use them sometimes but they make you look know what you are wearing so that you

How often do you visit spas?

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Men! Spice up that swag with short sleeve button down down as it add to your style and makes you look

are typically made of cotton fabric and are either solid colors or striped, men button down shirts offer

The appearance of each type of shirt varies only slightly, and all of them can be accessorized to all button down shirts have a row of buttons down

shirt that has a collar that buttons down or just a of men button down shirts are classic, ruffled, and

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The bomber jacket trend The bomber jacket has become a mainstay in recent years, this classic piece of military clothing was adopted by skinheads the world over and has now become as Be it with chinos and trainers or jeans and a pair of hitops, the bomber jacket in all its guises is very much a

durability and versatility make it an important piece to

should not pull across the back area, around the hips or

leather, the more “broken in� it becomes, similar to the way a baseball glove breaks in and becomes a part of

Style: There are many styles to choose from, so think be worn either dressed up with a shirt, tie and dress pants, or dressed down with a casual shirt and jeans or Sizing: it can be worn over a sweater or other piece of bulky

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Exercise Intelligently 1ne Get the most of out your workout routine by following some of my simple tips to help you burn more calories and feel great during and after each workout.

2wo you would indoors. By pushing against the wind and gaining more momentum jumping on the grass, you will most likely burn more calories. with nature.

3hree Thirty minutes before you begin your exercise routine, apply firming or anti-cellutlie cream (in a circular motion) on your body. This helps to improve blood circulation and burn calories faster.

4our Always stretch before (to warm up) and after (to cool down) each workout, keeping still and holding each stretch for at least 20 seconds. By and injury whilst working out. Stretching will also keep your muscles long and lean.

5ive A small dose of caffeine before you workout has numerous benefits including less pain, improved circulation, more muscle fuel, increased metabolism and an overall better performance when you exercise. However, be aware that a large intake of caffeine over the long haul might lead to muscle spasms, anxiety, high blood pressure, insomnia and stomach ulcers.

6ix Choosing the wrong music when you workout can decrease your motivation, increase fatigue and boredom or make you give up altogether.

So make sure that you curate the best workout

playlist that will keep you moving.

7even Spend at least fifteen minutes after each workout laying down flat on the floor, keeping your mind and body absolutely still. This meditative practice will help to increase muscle memory and it will also help to relieve stress from the body and mind.

8ight Have at least 8 hours of quality sleep the evening of your workout for the body to recover and detoxify as well as renew and repair cells, muscles and body tissue.

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