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Editorial Observing World Humanitarian Day

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oday, August 19,2016, the international community will be observing the World Humanitarian Day. It is a day set aside to pay tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service, and to mobilise people to advocate for a more humane world. The theme for this year’s observance is ‘One Humanity’. It is intended to promote how the world came together in Istanbul, Turkey from 23 to 24 May, 2016 to make commitments on how to help the 130 million people around the world who need humanitarian assistance to survive.

Definitely, the theme highlights mankind’s shared humanity and creates a common responsibility to demand action for the most vulnerable in the society. Every day, humanitarian aid workers stand on the front lines of war and disaster, braving tremendous dangers and difficulties to deliver assistance to those who need it most.

There is no denying that as record numbers of people are being displaced by disaster and conflict, the humanitarian community faces increasing challenges. In addition, populationincrease and the impacts of climate change are intensifying the risk of wider humanitarian crises, such as food and water insecurity.

As protracted internal conflicts have become more common and more deadly, the impact on civilians has multiplied.

Unarguably, conflicts adversely affect civilians both directly, and indirectly, through the resulting “complex emergencies” that protracted conflicts create. For example, in the conflict zone, the primary aim is preventing human casualties and ensuring access to the basics for survival: water, sanitation, food, shelter, and health care. However, within the affected zones, the priority is to assist those displaced through support relief work, and rehabilitation.

In recent years, humanitarian as-

sistance provided in situations of war and disaster by donor governments and international organisations has saved hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of lives. The provision of food and medical supplies to refugees, displaced persons, and those near the battlefields in Somalia, Rwanda, Zaire, Mozambique, Angola, Liberia, Sudan, and elsewhere constitutes one of the most heroic and life-preserving activities of our time.

In Nigeria, the destructive cycle of poverty, underdevelopment and instability, especially in the northeast is being exacerbated by the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency. Their brutal attacks including abductions of women, killings, sexual violence, destruction of homes and livelihoods are responsible for the massive humanitarian disaster in the geopolitical zone. However, government agencies have been responding to the crisis by providing food and basic relief items.

Incidentally, due to the scale of the humanitarian crisis, made worse by a small presence of aid agencies and the difficult access to displaced populations, assistance has been insufficient especially to the most vulnerable populations. According to the United Nations estimates over 7 million Nigerians have been affected by the conflict in the north-east alone – including over 2 million displaced who rely on humanitarian assistance to survive.

While the needs are immense, providing humanitarian assistance in Nigeria and the region as a whole remains challenging. We therefore call on the Federal Government to focus more on reducing human casualties, loss of livelihood, food insecurity and more focus on the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons back to the society, in order to nip the threats emanating from the humanitarian crises and Boko Haram insurgency in the bud in the region.

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No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part”.

“To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret”.

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

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Hajj, Goro and Nigerian pilgrims Segun

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Hajj period is here.

Blessed be to Allah. About 70, 000 of our Muslim brothers and sisters across Nigeria will be in Saudi Arabia to carry out the fifth Pillar of their faith. A large chunk of those will surely come from the extended Northern part of the country.

Islamic scholars say that in Islam, Prophet Muhammed (SAW), urged faithful to go visit select Saudi Arabian cities to, among other religious reasons, see the relics of his spiritual journeys and sacred sites as handed down to Him by Allah. Of course, the holy Prophet made it abundantly clear that this spiritual journey is optional, and should be embarked upon by only those who could afford it physically, financially and mentally.

Every year, Nigerian Muslims join millions of compatriots from around to globe to perform the yearly ‘ritual’ in the Middle Eastern nation.

Last year, however, was not a palatable experience for Nigeria and some family members of those on that pilgrimage. About 274 Nigerians were killed in a stampede at Muna, in that country, while six others were struck by a falling crane in the precincts of the Kaaba during the period. Those were natural causes one would say.

Yet again, the sky is buzzing with planes ferrying pilgrims from across Nigeria to the holy land.

However, the Saudi authorities have reeled out series of dos and don’ts for all intending pilgrims.

Some of these new rules really concerns our people of which they have to take heed before they run fowl of them.

Naturally, Saudi Arabia is not a country you visit with drugs in your luggage (especially those drugs outlawed in their statute books). For this year’s Hajj, the Saudi authority has already outlawed one of Nigeria’s most cherished stimulants, kola nuts.

To many in Nigeria, this is unheard of but to the Saudi government, it is an offence to bring kola nut into the country. Kola nut is sold in virtually all streets of Nigeria but a large quantity of it could attract a death penalty in Riyadh.

One man’s meat, is another’s poi-

son, one would say.

Of course, this may not go down well with our northern brothers who cherish kola nut a lot, but it is a taboo in Saudi Arabia. This caffeine-based edible seed, that is kola nut, otherwise as “Goro” and “Oji” “Obi” is commonly used ceremonially among Nigerians to show a gesture of friendship and warmth.

Scientists also say the commodity is also used in the production of beverages and energy drinks.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in her advice to pilgrims warned that the Federal Government may not be disposed to sending emissaries to Riyadh to plead for anyone caught to have contravene this law.

She reminded the pilgrims that some Nigerians caught with hard drugs in the last few years are still currently on death row in Saudi Arabia.

By implication, it could be safely said that beverages and energy drinks are also not permitted by pilgrims in the holy land.

But as at Thursday, August 18, about five Nigerian were reported to have been arrested for alleged possession of substance suspected to be hard drugs as well as kola nuts. Already, the NDLEA has ordered full investigation into the arrest of the Nigerians according to Mitchel Ofoyeju, spokesman of the Agency.

All said, our pilgrims to Saudi must heed the warning of their host country by jettisoning kola nuts and other substances considered injurious to Saudi lifestyle.

Not eating kola nuts or sipping their favourite beverages and energy drinks during the duration of the pilgrimage in Mecca should not be a headache for any pilgrim.

The Federal Government may not be comfortable with any diplomatic row with Riyadh when culprits are being escorted to the gallows. To be forwarded, they say, is to be forearmed.

As Ojo Maduekwe goes home in a blaze of glory Akinjide Akintola Politics Editor

ÏÏÏNoted as a bridge builder, it

was the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola who used to fondly refer to him as the only Ojo on the other side of the Niger.

This was during the fiery days of the clamour for the actualisation of the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election which Abiola was believed to have won and for which he made the supreme sacrifice.

Ojo Maduekwe, a strategic and pragmatic politician was in the forefront of that struggle and as was usual with everything he believed in, he put everything he had into that struggle, risking his life and that of his family even during the dreaded Abacha junta.

Tomorrow (Saturday), he is going home to join Abiola and other great Nigerians who have sacrificed all for justice and fairplay in the project called Nigeria. He would be able to look all in the face, eyeball to eyeball, without blinking that he had played his part.

As Transport Minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, he risked his life amidst taunts, riding a bicycle on the busy and dangerous streets of Abuja from his home to the Presidential Villa at Aso Rock, to prove his point on his belief in his own Transportation Policy.

He was so many things rolled

Madueke

in one: a colourful and flambouyant politician, lawyer and activist; an intellectual, a diplomat and a statesman with friends and allies across the country including former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

As a result, he was regarded as a bridge between the South East, the South West as well as Northern politicians in Nigeria.

Consequently, since his death on Wednesday June 29, the political landscape has witnessed such a bond between members of different political parties in the country who have been unanimous in their condolence to his family of the passage of a quintessential politician per excellence.

He was born on 6TH May, 1945.

He hailed from Ohafia, Ohafia LGA of Abia State. He bagged LL.B Hons from the University of Nigeria (UNN) in 1972.

He was a Member of the National Assembly in the Second Republic in 1983 and later National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was the deputy director of PDP presidential campaign 2011 Goodluck/Sambo ticket.

He was an Elder at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Club International.

He was a member of the Nigeria Bar Association and Associate Member of the American Bar Association as well as a member of the International Bar Association.

He was Minister of Transport from 2000 to 2003 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010.

He had a brief stint as the Culture and Tourism minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.

He was the first Cabinet Minister to design and create an AntiCorruption Unit as Transport Minister 2000-2003, which became the model for other Ministries and Government Agencies.

As transport Minister, he began and concluded the First Railway Master plan for Nigeria to span over a period of 25 years.

He also helped Nigeria to get on the International Maritime Organisation White List without which the entire Maritime Sector would have grounded.

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Budget padding: House principal officers tackle Jibrin ÏÏÏPrincipal Officers in the House

of Representatives on Thursday said the removal of a former chairman of House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, was done in the best interest of Nigeria.

The The 10 House leaders, who include Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Minority Leader Femi Gbajabiamila, took “full responsibility” for the dismissal of Jibrin from his post.

“The decision to relieve the erstwhile Appropriation Chairman of his position was a collective decision of the leadership in response to unrelenting pressures from the overwhelming majority of Honourable Members who were irked by

the former Chairman’s gross abuse of the budget process,” the lawmakers said.

The 10 lawmakers who signed the statement included Speaker Dogara, his deputy, Lasun Yusuf, Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, Deputy Majority Leader, Buba Jibril, House Whip, Ado Doguwa and Deputy Chief Whip, Pally Iriase.

Others included Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, Minority Whip, Yakubu Barde, Deputy Minority Leader, Chukwuma Onyem and Fatima Maigari.

Jibrin was relieved of his post post on July 20. The House accused him of breach of trust.

Jibrin pushed back against the allegation, saying his effort to as-

sert his authority against alleged fraudulent attempt by the speaker and others to manipulate the budget, earned him sanction.

Mr. Jibrin also refused to let the matter die in the House, taking the fight to the public by releasing internal House documents that he said illustrated how the budget was severely padded by Dogara and other lawmakers.

The House however denied the allegations.

In their statement on Thursday, the principal officers, said Jibrin’s “allegations are wild, baseless and unfounded”.

The lawmakers said the House joined forces with the Senate to take over scrutiny of the 2016 budget

from Jibrin when they discovered that he had bungled the process.

“The Leadership of the House of Representatives wishes to reaffirm that it took collective action, in conjunction with the Senate and a team from the Executive, to rescue the 2016 Budget when it became obvious that the former Appropriation Chairman had placed both the document and the process in jeopardy resulting in a spate of agitations from Ministries, Departments and Agencies,” the lawmakers said.

The principal officers said they would take careful measures in dealing with the attacks from the former Appropriation committee chairman “upon the resumption of the House” in September.

Ƅƈ 1 ƒô ƈƍ ƐƑ ƋƆë A’Court restores Ikpeazu to office Andrew Orolua, Abuja and Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia The Court of Appeal Abuja division on Thursday upturned six separate judgments of the Federal High Court Abuja and reinstated Governor Victor Ikpeazu of Abia State who was sacked on the ground of false tax payments.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court Abuja had on June 27, 2016 in six separate judgments sacked Gov. Ikpeazu and declared Dr. Okechukwu Samson Ogah as the governor of Abia State.

But in a unanimous judgements

delivered on Thursday, the Court of Appeal set aside the judgments, describing them and the reasons given by the Justice Okon Abang as “ridiculous”and “grossly erroneous.”

Delivering the judgment, the presiding Justice, Justice Helen Morenikeji Ogunwunmiju, noted that the originating summons on which the case was decided upon was defective as it was not signed by the counsel who filed the suit.

She said that the amended originating summons could not cure the defective originating summons. Justice Ogunwunmiju add-

ed that Abang J. could have struck out the suit or set down the case for hearing by writ of summons as the controversies raised in the suit were contentious i.e whether the tax documents were false.

Justice Ogunwunmiju said that the lower court failure to consider the affidavit deposed to by James Okoji of Abia State Internal Revenue Board was in a grave error.

According to the appellate court, the affidavit evidence would afford him the opportunity to know the truth whether Ikpeazu’s tax certifIkpeazu

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13 inmates killed in Abakaliki attempted jail break

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Jacob Ogodo Abakaliki

ÏÏÏNo fewer than 13 inmates were

on Thursday feared dead while many others sustained bullet wound injuries following a foiled jail break in Abakaliki federal prison, Ebonyi State.

This is even as the state Governor, David Umahi, has declared a state of emergency on Abakaliki prisons.

It was gathered that among those killed include one prison officer as those injured and killed had been taken to the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA, for medical attention.

It was also gathered that trouble started when prisoners early morning on Thursday revolted against the poor treatment, especially inadequate feeding that has been persistent in the prison for a long time.

Sources further revealed that the angry inmates started rioting inside the prison and used every object within their reach to attack prison officers and consequently injured many.

Also, two of the prison officers wounded during the incident had been hospitalised.

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No ghost slapped Gov. Okorocha, says Aide Val Okara Owerri

ÏÏÏThe Imo state govern-

ment has dismissed rumours making the rounds alleging that the state governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, was slapped in his office by ghosts and had been flown to India for medical treatment.

The statement on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, was to debunk social media report alleging that one of the governors from the South East was slapped in his office by ghosts and was subsequently flown abroad.

Onwuemeodo accused

Gov. Okorocha

the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being behind the rumours describing it as one of the antics of the opposition party.

He noted that a social media report indicated that “one of the leading SouthEast Governors was alleged to have travelled abroad unscheduled few days ago on a business trip.”

The social media news broadcast also went on to say that: “But reports emanating from our source in diaspora community has it that the said state Chief Executive had been moved from Europe to India over a serious healthy (sic) challenge after he encountered a ghost in his office. And the ghost women made the governor to start shouting.

“The government immediately arranged for abroad treatment of the Chief Executive covering it with business engagement. News from abroad states that the situation is worst and the governor has been moved to India where he is receiving medical attention through unorthodox means”, the social media reported.

Lagos Speaker hosts Kogi lawmakers ÏÏÏAlade

TasmaThe Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obas, a has challenged legislators at the state and federal levels to shift attention from the controversial padding of the 2016 budget and concentrate on creating avenue for effective service delivery to their constituents.

Hon. Obasa stated this in his office at Alausa, Ikeja while receiving Kogi State House of Assembly lawmakers led by their Speaker, Rt. Hon. Umar Ahmed Imam.

The Lagos chief lawmaker said his colleagues should come together to channel their energies towards promoting moral high standards, untainted integrity and determination to assure those they represent of their readiness to serve them better.

Obasa who declared that all arms of government are equal according to the constitution of the land, challenged

lawmakers to ‘‘summon the courage to identify themselves as lawmakers and commit themselves to positive service delivery to our people.”

Earlier, the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Umar Imam had informed the gathering that the purpose of the visit was to familiarize with the legislative process in the Lagos State House of Assembly and as well gather more experience on legislative duties. ‘‘We have come as united lawmakers, not as a divided House to visit the Lagos State House of Assembly – a senior Assembly and big brother -in order to gather more experience on how things are done,’’ Kogi Assembly Speaker said.

Rt. Hon. Obasa commended Kogi State House of Assembly for coming out stronger in unity from the crisis that has rocked the Assembly earlier this year.

L-R: Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola; Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Rahamon Bello and former Minister of Education, Prof. Chinwe Obaji, during the Maiden Education Summit entitled: Integrity of Public Examinations and Admission in Nigeria, in Lagos… on Thursday

NDLEA investigates arrest of 3 pilgrims in Saudi Arabia Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

ÏÏÏChief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (rtd) has ordered investigation into the arrest of three Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia in connection with substances suspected to be cocaine.

Abdallah, who expressed disappointment over the unfortunate incident constituted a panel of inquiry headed by the Director of Operations

and General Investigation, Mr. Olugbenga Mabo, to immediately investigate the incident adding that the agency will address the situation with every sense of seriousness and urgency.

The agency had also deployed more investigators to all the screening camps nationwide.

According to the NDLEA boss, “narcotic smuggling is criminal and the involvement of pilgrims is utterly reprehensible. This is unfortunate and we are working

very hard to get to the root of it. The Agency is handling this case with every sense of seriousness and urgency because this action has negatively affected the image of Nigeria. We have also taken measures to intensify the on-going screening of pilgrims who are yet to depart to Saudi Arabia to prevent a re-occurrence of the sad incident.”

Abdallah assured members of the public that the NDLEA will get to the root of the incident.

The terms of reference for the panel of inquiry include ascertaining the circumstances behind the non-detection of the pilgrims before takeoff, identification of possible sponsors and source of drug supply, as well as making recommendations on effective screening of pilgrims.

Meanwhile, the NDLEA boss has also called on pilgrims to uphold the principle of probity, patriotism and eschew any act capable of bringing the image of the country to disrepute.

Buhari is trying but needs time to get it right - Cleric ÏÏÏA

renowned female cleric, Queen Capt. Maria Ogunyooye, has urged Nigerians to be patient with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the president is trying his best but the myriads of problems the country is facing make it seem as if he is not doing anything.

This is even as she expressed optimism that the country is on the path of greatness again.

Ogunyooye, Spiritual Head of the Ona Iwa Mimo (Oke Ayo) Cherubim & Seraphim Church, Ojota, Lagos, made this declaration

during a press briefing on Thursday as part of activities marking the 70th year of her divine call to serve in the vineyard of the Lord at her church in Lagos.

The nonagenarian said: ‘’Buhari is working but the problem facing the country is too much. Nigeria will be great again”, she said She also used the occasion to call for the unity of the country as regards the persistent religious crises rocking the country, In her words, there should be no fighting amongst Christians and Muslims as we all are one. If you are truly a child of God, unity,

oneness should be your watch word.

“We should all live in unity and not force our religion on each other’’ she said.

She also called on religious leaders to eschew all forms of materialism while calling on them to live as simply as they could.

“If they are truly called by God, they should be humble, as God is not pleased with some of the things the so-called men of God are doing.”

Ogunyooye also called on religious leaders to teach their followers the true teachings in their various

holy books, saying that fight in the name of religion is ungodly.

She continued, “I sometime wonder why people will fight over a religion. It is totally ungodly and you cannot be fighting on behalf of God who commanded that we should live in peace with our neighbours. We can only be great as a nation if we live in peace and harmony with one another and if we allow one another to worship God as dictated by their faiths.”

On his part, the Chairman of the Church, Rev. Dr. Sunday Oyebola, challenged all religious leaders to live a life worthy of emulation.

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APC wades into Ondo guber crisis

Tom Okpe Abuja

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) arising from an emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting summoned all the party’s gubernatorial aspirants for Ondo State and all party leaders sequel to the crisis that has bedeviled the party at the state level.

The state chapter on Tuesday

erupted in a crisis with some members claiming they have impeached the chairman, Isaac Kekemeke, for his involvement in the endorsement of an aspirant ahead of the governorship primaries slated for August 27.

The group had forcefully took over the state secretariat along Oyemekun Road, shutting the gates against Mr. Kekemeke and his allies just as they announced the appointment of Saka Ogunleye as

their new chairman.

Addressing journalists at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, APC Deputy National Secretary, Oji Ngofa urged party supporters to have confidence in the national leadership towards finding lasting solutions to the issues affecting the party.

He said: “We have taken a decision to invite all the aspirants, the state chairman and the state secreCONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Buhari’s selective anti-graft war encouraged budget padding - PDP Iniobong Iwok A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of encouraging corruption and padding of the 2016 budget by not punishing Directors General of several federal agencies which initially inserted items which were originally not included in the 2016 appropriation bill because they hailed from the northern part of the country.

Dr. Pearse, spokesman of a faction of the party in the state in a chat with Daily Times noted that if the president had prosecuted the DGs, it would have served as a deterrent for other

public office holders and discouraged padding in the 2016 budget by the lawmakers.

His words: “The president should take some of the blame about the budget padding issue, when he went past some of the ministries and met DGs, they inserted some of these things that were not in the 2016 budget.

“The president did not prosecute these people and most of them were from the north, they were only re- posted to other ministries and they allowed it, it has affected his credibility at fighting corruption. And that is why he cannot talk for now because he allowed it to take place in the first instance”, he said.

On the crisis rocking his party, Pearse stressed that there

was imminent end to the crisis adding that his faction led by Segun Adewale was ready for dialogue.

He said he was confident the PDP would surmount it troubles to win the forth coming council election in the state, adding that Nigerians were tired of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led-administration at all levels.

“We would be ready to put the structure in place to win the local government election. We would be ready before 2019 to play the role of the opposition to the APC. PDP is more organised and focused to win than the APC which is in disarray and have lost focus, before 2019, the party would have failed Nigerians”, he stressed.

BUHARI

4,536 PDP members defect to APC in Edo A total 4,536 aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, on Thursday, decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Leader of the defectors, Mr. Promise Igbinevbo, who spoke on behalf of the others, said the PDP had deceived them over the years and that the party was yet to shed its old ways in spite of attempts to re-brand it.

Said he, “We are here to bury PDP today.

We were deceived by some political leaders

of the PDP all these years. Today, they call them new PDP but I realized that old PDP remains. I later realized that they are like the leopard which doesn’t change its skin.

“PDP leaders are conservatives. PDP leaders cry for their parochial interest alone to the detriment of their followers.”

According to him, “I have wiped off my tears because of the belief that I have in democracy. In democracy, it is said that the minority will have their say while the majority will have their way. Today, the

majority are having their way from the PDP to APC. I want to let you know that myself, my chairmen here and women leaders and all executives are members of PDP across Egor Local Government Area, that we are here to team up with the Comrade Governor and his APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. I want to let you know that I don’t bow down for people for nothing.

I don’t bow down to people because of money. I want to let you know that I bow down to people with integrity. We bow before Os-

hiomhole because of his handwork in Edo State.”

Igbinevbo who called out each of the 4,536 decampees from across the wards in Egor Local Government said he and the new APC members will go out on their own to ensure total vicory for the APC in the Local Government Area.

Receiving the defectors, Govenor Adams Oshiomhole said he was impressed by the large number and quality of those who decided to oin the APC fold.

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tary to a meeting here on Saturday by 12 am. At that meeting, we will ensure that everybody is on the same page, what our party constitution says on primaries will be instituted; we’ll get the confidence of everybody. There’s no need for crisis in Ondo State. As a party, we are committed to transparent, credible primaries, we have a reputation for that, and we will continue to do that.

“We urge our party supporters in Ondo State that they should remain steadfast and have confidence in us because from what we have seen and read in the papers, they seem to think that the state is responsible for primaries, no. We at the national level are responsible for the primaries and we will go according to the constitution of our party”, he added.

On whether the national leadership is aware of any endorsement, he said: “We are not aware of any such endorsement. The person that was claimed to be endorsed has come out to deny, there’s no such thing but our responsibility as a party is to build confidence in the system, let our party members and supporters know that we are not going to do anything that is untoward and are committed to credible, transparent and free exercise that everybody will reckon with. We know the peculiar situation in Ondo, we are aware we will win the state, so there is no need for this crisis and no need for anyone to feel shortchanged because we owe them a duty here to ensure that we do the right thing”.

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Oyo bye-election: APC still holds the ace Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) still holds the ace in the state as the party with the best welfare package and comprehensive rural-urban development.

He said this while addressing the electorate during a campaign rally organised by APC to canvass for votes for the party’s candidate in Saturday’s bye election into Oorelope State Constituency, for Mr. Jimoh Gbadamosi, at Igboho.

The governor called on the people of the town to come out en masse and cast their votes for the ruling party’s candidate, stressing that they stood to gain more from voting for the ruling party than any opposition party.

The seat had become vacant following the murder the former occupant, Mr. Gideon Aremu, on July 1 at his Ibadan residence.

The governor assured the constituents of sustained infrastructural development, describing the APC candidate as an accomplished lawyer and young politician who would not disappoint them.

Ajimobi said, “It is logical and more profitable for the people to support the ruling party in any election in order to attract developmental projects from the federal and state governments. I, therefore, implore you to vote for our candidate to bring more development to Igboho and its environs.

“Majority of those in the opposition parties during the 2015 gen-

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eral elections are already with us (APC). For instance, former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, who used to be the leader of Labour Party in the state, is now with us along with his supporters”, he added.

The governor said the election would further lend credence to APC’s strength and popularity, not only in the state but, in the country at large and assured the people of the state that his administration would continue to consolidate on its various achievements in the last

five years to better the lots of the people.

The governor used the opportunity to again condemn the murder of Aremu while praising the police for apprehending the suspected killers.

“The death of Hon. Aremu is a sad occurrence because from all indications our state has outgrown incidences of violence and brigandage. He was a very stoic legislator, a shining star and gentleman who had contributed immensely to the development of the state”, he added.

Why I want to become Chairman of Ikeja LGA - Adewale Iniobong Iwok Chairmanship aspirant for Ikeja local government in the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Lagos State, in the forthcoming local government election in the state, Barrister Babafemi Adewale Saheed has promised to initiate foreign scholarship scheme for brilliant but indigent students in the council if elected.

Worried by the high rate of drop out among youths in secondary and tertiary institutions in the society, he disclosed that if elected, he would also pay the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fees of students in the council and build a modern library equipped with latest books.

Babafemi son of the late, Hon Yekini Adewale, a prominent politician in Ikeja local government noted that he would also place priority on the welfare of the aged in the society, adding that he would build a welfare home for the aged and employ social workers to take care of them.

His words: “Without education you are nothing. I would initiate a scholarly scheme where the best and indigent students would be send abroad so that when they come back they can be useful to our community.

We would also pay the WAEC fees of the brilliant ones. If you go round this Ikeja, there is no library, I would build a standard library and equip it with books if am elected.

Oyegun: I joined politics by accident You are looking younger than your age; can you tell us the secret?

So how many years do you want me to be? When I get up there, I would ask God because it is his doing. I think coming to this world, you know, is lucky dip.

As God is discharging you from heaven to come down, you dip your hand into this thing and to take a card and if you picked a lucky card, that is it. I don’t know if I am doing anything very special except that I don’t do anything that would worry me or that would lead to threat, or that would make or cause enemies; So that whatever I do, I think even the worse critic knows that I am doing it with honest intention and not deliberately to undermine or deliberately to harm, and things like that, except politically, I have no natural enemies. I live my life quietly, go about whatever I want to do, drive myself, of course with the office of

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), marked his 77th birthday last Friday. In this interview, he unveiled the secret behind his good health and how he accidentally joined politics, among others. Tom Okpe was there. Excerpts the National Chairman, security is forced on you, but outside that, I am just like any other Nigerian.

We know you have seen it all, what do you have to say to the younger ones to learn to attain old age like you?

Simple, just believe there is room for everybody. No particular individual is standing on your way, so you don’t have to pull anybody down to get to where you want to go. It is in the process of doing that, you make enemies. Don’t do anything that you don’t want to see on the front page of the Daily Times; that is the saying I heard way

back. Anything you do, be sure that when it hits the headlines, you say ha! Yes, so what?

You can say so what, so live a simple life, strive, succeed by trying to be the best you can, not by pulling anybody down, or by using underhand method, but be the best in what you had decided to do in what career you have chosen; you would get there, it may take a little bit longer.

Your sojourn into politics?

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Ambode tasks security operatives on intelligence gathering, information sharing Governor Akinwumi Ambode has challenged security agencies in the country to strengthen their intelligence gathering technique, collaborate and share relevant security information among themselves to make them more effective in combating crime.

According to him, this would enable government to successfully play its constitutional role of protecting lives and property of the citizenry.

Governor Ambode, who made the call while declaring open a 2 – day quarterly meeting of the Federal and states security administrators held at Adeyemi Bero Auditorum, Alausa Ikeja on Thursday, noted that effective collaboration among security operatives and strategic intelligence gathering technique is crucial to achieving success in combating security challenges facing the country at present.

He urged them to work together in unity and share security information to help them provide required security and enabling environment that will make our country safe and attract foreign investors.

The governor, represented by

Ambode

his deputy, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, expressed optimism that various security challenges in the country would soon be a forgotten issue with effective collaboration noted that security administrators across the country have major role to play in translating government policies on security to impact on the lives of the people as well as enhance the economic viability of the country to at-

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tract foreign investment. ‘’government is constitutionally charged with the responsibility of ensuring adequate security of lives and property of our people, but this responsibility is functionally implemented through the various security agencies for maximum effect; therefore as administrators of our security, you have a major role to play to effectively translate government policies

to impact on lives of our people and also enhance economic viability of our dear country for prospective foreign investors’’, Ambode stated.

The governor who stated that the changing dynamics of crime across the country ranging from attacks by marauding herdsmen who have killed many innocent people, kidnapping and maiming of innocent citizens and the disturbing

sabotage of government economic infrastructure which has resulted in huge financial loss and impacted negatively on the revenue of government with its attendant effect on the nations’ economy called for urgent security attention and effective collaboration.

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General Liene, and he said, oh I have a meeting in my house in Benin; we were in Lagos and he asked me if I could attend, we just want to borrow from your wisdom and any advise you want to give us. So, as his friend then I said why not. So, I went to this meeting, it was held behind his house not knowing that he has set a big trap for me, they were setting up committees. I spoke once or twice and he said Chief Oyegun would be a member of that committee in spite of all protests. So, one thing led to the other and I finally settled down; I said okay, I would be a back bencher, I interact with you people, I would give you advise, I would assist to the best of my ability and let it go at that. I was in politics, but not elective politics; at that stage, I was content to be a back

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bencher, I didn’t want anything at all. Then we started the early IBB (Ibrahim Babangida) days when all those associations were coming up. I think we were in the PSP, you know we have to do examinations then, I think so, something like that, we started it, those were ridiculous days believe me. You have to register people from all the local government and then we finally got our documents to go by truck to headquarters. So we took them to Lagos but that is now history; we all proclaimed to have finished the examinations and they found a little to the left hand and a little to the right party so that was it. Why did I really become a politician?

I was still helping in the PSP days and they had a candidate and accidentally, very accidentally, they had an aspirant, somebody who was the only one any way. Very accidentally,

I ran into the fact, personally not stories that he was being sponsored by somebody from an opposition, So I went and told them this, I say look, look at what is happening, I say look you can’t have this man as your candidate because this is what I ran into by accident and they said no. I finally said no, if you people want me I cannot have this because it is like a foolish errand so eventually I said to myself if nobody else would do it I will do it so I became a politician.

What time would you call the most challenging part of your life and when would you say is the turning point?

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Ambode said: “We have to raise the stakes in the area of intelligence gathering and information sharing across all security agencies, there must be synergy in analyzing opportunities and threat to national security’’ saying the most effective method is to nip security breaches before they happen.

The governor noted that since perpetrators of criminal acts are not invisible as they operate around and among our various communities, he therefore challenged all secu-

rity agencies to reinvigorate their intelligence gathering mechanism for effective security operations.

While reiterating his administration’s zero tolerance for crime and all forms of criminal act in the state, the governor said his government would continue to offer the required support in terms of provision of modern equipment and facilities for efficient and effective operation of the various security agencies in the state.

As a demonstration of his administration’s genuine commitment to the issue of security, Ambode said a number

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of equipment including a hundred saloon cars, one hundred power bike, fifteen BMW power bikes, Fifteen Armored Personnel Carriers (APC), 2 gun boats, and 3 patrol Helicopters among

others were purchased last year November and distributed among agencies in the state.

Earlier in his welcome address, Secretary to the State Government , Mr. Tunji Bello

stated that the essence of the meeting was to reaffirm government’s commitment to the issue of security of lives and property as amplified in section 14(2b) of the constitution of the country.

Bello said various security challenges in the country called for a concerted efforts and collaboration among various security agencies across the country for effective operation, disclosing that Lagos state government has initiated some security policies which he said has helped to reduce crime in the state despite its huge population.

While decrying the activities of militants in the Niger Delta, that has affected the nation’s oil output and cut gas supplies to most power generating plants, the chairman, Federal and States Security Administrators, Ambassador Aminu Nabego, urged all parties involved to embrace dialogue as initiated by the Federal Government.

He advised all other states in the federation to take a cue from Anambra and Edo states by enacting similar legislations that empowers the government to destroy ill-gotten properties of kidnappers after arrest, saying this will discourage kidnapping and other related crimes in the country.

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days. You cannot compare those days to what is happening today.

I think when my election was annulled. We have had corruption for a long time in some of these processes. Was it really challenging? No! It was high point. When it was annulled, I knew before it was annulled that it would be annulled, why, because a member of the Tribunal came to me twice. I remember he was from Borno, came to me twice, first time it was to felicitate and chat, and of course those days we didn’t think of bribing anybody. I don’t know if that was what went wrong, he came a second time and he started: ‘well look whatever way this things goes, we are sure even if the election would hold again, you will beat Lucky Igbinedion hands down; no fear about that, whatever may happen just take it and move on and I said ha, ha! What is going to happen? I put two and two together and I said it was clear straight away that the election was going to

be annulled. It was annulled. I want to see the hands behind the process but that was what I think one of my finest moments because the entire country converged and they find it very revolting, they find it unacceptable. You know I had support from across and then the chairman of that Tribunal had to be smuggled out of Benin, he was virtually rejected by members of his family and all sorts of things. So, it was a pleasant and the whole state of course rose up like one man and IBB was in East Africa then the situation was so charged and this is fact that he had to cut short his tour to come back. And some things even now cannot be said. With that, we leave the rest to history and I got my election back, reinstated, the rest as they say is now history.

Do you have any regret since you joined politics?

No, I have not had any regret actually. For me it has been an era of service to the nation and like I said, I think I said that publicly once, the moment I em-

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barked on politics and decided to be a full time politician and to seek elective office, my objective was clear and that is that look, I was growing up when there were these wonderful leaders; Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo, Tafawa

Belewa. But I think the sadness in me owing back up to two years ago, I don’t think any of them have that fulfillment of knowing that yes all our labors had turn out right, because the country is headed in a right direction and it is headed for greatness, it is

headed for its manifest destiny as the most, as the greatest. The largest and most highly populated black nation on the face of the earth, things continued to degenerate. I will do everything I can while the good lord gives me health, gives me strength and gives me the possibilities to influence the events. I will do everything in my power so that when my time comes I would be on my death bed with a smile on my face that yes, finally Nigeria is on the road to greatness. I have that fulfillment today, I worked hard at every opportunity, I worked hard to ensure that this great coalition called the APC that removed an incumbent, destructive, unacceptable government came into being. Today we are in government, today I have finally seen that yes we are taking the turn, we are now on the road. It is early days yet, there is no question at all that we are now addressing these issues that held this great nation down and so I consider myself fulfilled; we are now addressing them, we will get there, Nigeria would be great.

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Front row from left: Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh; Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; Chairman, Association of African Central Banks (AACB), Mr. Lucas Nchama; President Muhammadu Buhari; CBN Governor/Vice-Chairman of AACB, Mr. Godwin Emefiele; Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi; Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Sen. Rafiu Ibrahim; and Governors of Central Banks of participating countries at the 2016 Symposium, in Abuja...on Thursday

Avengers to Buhari: Restructure Nigeria or… ÏÏÏThe

Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), on Thursday, insisted that it would go ahead with its planned declaration of independence on October 1 if the Federal Government failed to adhere to the demand to restructure the country.

The group also said it is praying for the Buhari-led Federal Government to discover oil in commercial quantity in the northern part of the country.

NDA had claimed responsibility for major attacks on oil facili-

ties in the region in recent past vowing not to relent until the nation’s economy was completely crippled.

The group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, stated this on Thursday in reaction to President Buhari’s order directing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to increase tempo on oil exploration in the North-East.

It said that the discovery of oil in commercial quantity would make Nigerians appreciate what the people of the Niger Delta ex-

perienced in the hands of the Nigerian government.

NDA re-emphasised that the country was in dare need of restructuring and accused the present government of dividing the country through her ‘misdirected policies’.

The militants said: “Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern hypocrite (Northern Governors) is that oil should be found in commercial quantity in the North, so they can let the Niger Delta go.

“The Buhari-led government

has failed Nigerians with their misdirected policies that has divided the country, as such nobody wants to be part of that failed state not even the Niger Delta.”

The statement added further: “The October 1st declaration of independence is still sacrosanct if the Nigerian government fails to retrace its step by restructuring this country.

“We want to warn the general public that those using NDA to defraud people days of reckoning is close.”

Abia Gov’ship tussle: A’Court restores Ikpeazu to office Continued from page 6 icate was forged or not. The court consequently upheld the appeal and set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court. It awarded cost of N100,000 in favour of appellants in each of the appeals.

In another judgement by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, the appellate court held that Justice Abang raped democracy in his order that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should issue a certificate of return to Dr. Samson Ogah.

She said that there was no evidence of forgery or case of criminality against the appellant.

According to the court, the judgement of Justice Abang was grossly erroneous because it was based on inadequacy of tax receipt that cannot be visited on the appellant (Ikpeazu).

“After reading through the judgement several times, I was amazed at how the trial Judge ar-

rived at his conclusion of perjury against the appellant when there was no evidence of forgery. To say the least, his findings are ridiculous.

“The Judge must have sat in his chamber, unilaterally assessed and computed the tax of the appellant and came to the conclusion that he did not pay the required tax. But let me say that courts are not allowed to speculate as the trial Judge has done in the instant case.

“In another breadth, the trail Judge spoke from both sides of his mouth when in one breadth, he claimed that he based his findings on supply of false information and in another breadth, the came to the conclusion that the appellant in this matter committed pejury, even when there was no allegation of forgery and no allegation that he did not pay tax.

Justice Ogunwumiju also held that the Federal High Court Judge turned the head of the law upside

down in his conclusion that it was the appellant that should bear the burden of proof on the allegation made by Ogah.

“With respect, we disagree with him in this conclusion because it is the person that makes allegation of falsehood that must prove it.”

The Appeal Court also held that

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Justice Abang erred when he imported the phrase ‘as at when due’ into the PDP 2014 guidelines.

“The Judge would not have imported the phrase into his findings if he had seen the copy of the PDP guidelines. In this case, he violated the PDP guidelines”.

“From whatever angle one looks at the judgement of the trail Judge, the decision of his court was grossly erroneous. The inadequacies of the tax receipt cannot be visited on Ikpeazu who scored the highest votes in the 2015 governorship elections as doing so will amount to rape of democracy.”

Other justices on the panel, Abubakar Dati Yahaya, Philomena Ekpe, Ibrahim shata Bdliya and Justice Saidu Tanko Hussaini agreed with the judgments.

Reacting to the ruling, Gov. Ikpeazu, on Thursday, described as a victory for the people of the state who voted massively for him in the 2015 general elections in the state.

13 inmates killed in Abakaliki attempted jail break Continued from page 6 resulted in the killing of several inmates and many others sustained gunshot.

Our source revealed that if not for the rapid response of the combined team of the Prison officers, Nigeria Police and Army drafted to the scene, the inmates had started escaping from the prison having overpowered the guards.

As at press time, soldiers and policemen had already cordoned off all roads leading to the Abakaliki prisons.

Gunshots was heard intermittently as Police and soldiers tried to recover a firearm allegedly taken from one of the prison officers by the inmates.

The rioting inmates had already succeeded in creating an opening on the wall before anti-riot policemen arrived and heavily tear-gassed them into submission.

The prison is located beside the police headquarters leading to prompt intervention from the police.

Meanwhile, Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has declared a state of emergency on Abakaliki prisons.

He made the declaration on Thursday evening when he visited the prisons after a botched jailbreak by the inmates.

Umahi had just returned from Port Harcourt, Rivers State where he attended the Peoples Democratic Party national convention when he decided to visit the prisons.

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Politicians and the courts are shackling INEC (2)

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. PDP v Ali Modu Sheriff and 4 others - suit number FHC/ PH/524/2016 On July 4, 2016, the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt ordered as follows: 1) That the National Convention of the plaintiff is supreme and controlling authority of the plaintiff and its principal representatives, policy making and administering body; 2) That the decisions of the National Convention of the plaintiff made pursuant to its authority expressly provided for in the Constitution of the plaintiff is binding on all members of the plaintiff, the 1st and 2nd defendants inclusive; 3) That the decision of the National Convention of the plaintiff cannot be countermanded by members of a National officer/ officers or an organ/organs of the plaintiff; 4) That the 1st and 2nd defendants or any and/or the national officers of the National Executive Committee and members of the National Convention who were removed from office by the National Convention of the plaintiff held on 21st May 2016 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state cannot hold or continue to hold themselves out either individually or collectively as the Chairman, Secretary or National Officers or National Working Committee of the plaintiff; 5) An order of perpetual injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants or any and/or the National Officers, the members of both National Executive Committee of the plaintiff who were removed from office by the National Convention held on 21st May, 2016 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state cannot hold or continue to hold themselves out either individually or collectively as the Chairman, Secretary or National Officers or National Working Committee of the plaintiff; 6) A declaration that the 3rd defendant cannot in its role as a monitoring agency of the activities of the plaintiff interfere or negate a decision of the plaintiff’s National Convention reached in accordance with the plaintiff’s Constitution; 7) An order restraining the 3rd defendant from according or continue to accord any recognition to the 1st and 2nd defendants or

any and/or all the national officers, the members of both the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee of the plaintiff, who were removed from office by the National Convention of the plaintiff held on 21st May, 2016 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state as officers or organs of the plaintiff; 8) An order directing the 3rd defendant to recognize the National Caretaker Committee appointed by the National Convention of the plaintiff held in Port Harcourt on 21st May, 2016 as the Executive Committee appointed by the national authority of the plaintiff, including: a. Conduct primaries for political offices; b. Submission of the plaintiff’s list of candidates for any election conducted by the 3rd defendant; 9) A mandatory injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants, their allies, representatives and persons acting for and on their behalf from any action or conduct whatsoever and howsoever, which is contrary to the decisions reached at the National Convention of the plaintiff held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on 21st May, 2016; 10) That it is unlawful for the 4th and 5th defendants to deploy security personnel to the 1st and 2nd defendants for the purpose of preventing the 1st and 2nd defendants or any and/or all the National Officers, the members of both the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee of the plaintiff who were removed from office by the National Convention of the plaintiff in accordance with the plaintiff’s constitution; 11) An order restraining the 4th

defendant from deploying security personnel to the 1st and 2nd defendants for the purposes of preventing the 1st and 2nd defendants or any and/or all the National Officers, the members of both the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee of the plaintiff from vacating their respective offices from where they were removed by the National Convention of the plaintiff in accordance with the plaintiff’s constitution.

F. Ali Modu Sheriff and 8 others v INEC and another- suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/464/2016 The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja delivered a ruling on 28th day of July, 2016 and ordered that: 1) The Port Harcourt National Convention held on 21st May, 2016 was unlawfully held and the National Caretaker Committee was unlawfully and illegally appointed and cannot take decisions in behalf of the PDP; 2) Any action taken by Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee, having regards to the subsistence of the orders of the Lagos Division of this Court, inclusive of the authority to issue letter of instructions appointing Ferdinand Orbih, SAN to act for the PDP is unlawful, illegal and accordingly declared null and void; 3) The National Convention was held in violent contravention of the orders of this court, Lagos Division, dated 12th and 20th May, 2016 respectively. That unless the orders of the Lagos Division of this court are set aside, Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee of the PDP acts in vain in affairs of the PDP;

4) That having regard to the subsisting orders of the Lagos Division of this court dated 12th and 20th May, 2016 and the orders of this court as presently constituted dated 30th June, 2016, Dr Ali Modu Sheriff is the National Chairman of the PDP, inclusive of authority to appoint a counsel to represent it in court.

G. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu v INEC - suit number FCT/HC/ CV/2295/2016 In an exparte application filed along with the motion on notice by the governorship candidate of Senator Ahmed Makarfi led PDP, the presiding vacation judge, Justice Adeniyi ordered on 4th day of August as follows: 1) That parties are hereby ordered to maintain status quo ante bellum, that is the position with respect to the subject matter of this suit as at 03/08/2016, when the same was filed, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

Accordingly, the motion on notice is hereby set down to Tuesday the 9th day of August for hearing.

THE ELECTORAL UMPIRE AS CAESAR’S WIFE As the statutory body charged with conducting free and fair elections, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and the Electoral Act, 2010, give limited room and latitude to INEC to cherrypick orders, rulings and judgments of courts of competent jurisdiction to obey. For an electoral umpire operating in a nascent democracy, how it engages with the polity to confer respect for it and repose confidence in its work is determined to a large extent by how it respects the law and the judgments of courts, and how it sticks to the democratic character of its mandate to deliver free and fair elections, and to the demands of accountability of the electorates and politicians.

It was in recognition of all of this that the court expressed in Dr Chris Ngige v Dr Peter Obi (2006) All FWLR (PT 330 ) at 1041 that “INEC has not only a pivotal, but also a dedicated role to play in ensuring a free and fair election in this country, and like Caesar’s wife, it must be seen to live above board... if it wants to be taken seriously as it should be or is expected to be taken, it must learn to do things properly and in accordance with the law”.

•To be continued

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Promoting selfless service on World Humanitarian Day

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Fred Nwaozor

n August 19 of every year, the international community the World Humanitarian Day. It is a day dedicated to recognise humanitarian personnel and those who have lost their lives while working for humanitarian causes. The event was designated by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as part of a Swedish-sponsored General Assembly Resolution on the strengthening of the coordination of emergency assistance of the UN. The World Humanitarian Day is a time to recognize those who face danger and adversity while helping others. The day was set aside to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad – Iraq, which claimed twenty-two (22) lives including the live of the then Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Iraq in the person of Sergio Vieira de Mello.

The invention of August 19 as World Humanitarian Day was the outcome of the relentless efforts

of Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation coupled with the partnership of the deceased’s family with the Ambassadors of France, Switzerland, Japan, as well as Brazil in both Geneva and New York tabling and steering the draft resolution through the UN General Assembly.

All the efforts of the Foundation was to ensure that the tragic loss of the said hero among his twenty-one (21) colleagues, and all the humanitarian personnel who have made the ultimate sacrifices in relieving the suffering of the victims of humanitarian crises were not in vain.

Sergio Vieira de Mello who was a citizen of Brazil, South America dedicated his lifetime spanning over thirty years in the UN, serving in some of the most challenging humanitarian situations in the world to reach the voiceless victims of armed conflict, alleviate their suffering and draw global attention to their plights. His death alongside twenty-one of his colleagues on 19th August 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq deprived the victims of armed conflict worldwide of a unique humanitarian leader of unmatched courage, drive and empathy who championed

their cause fearlessly and clearly engraved their plight on the world map.

The tragic event also robbed the humanitarian community of an outstanding leader and intellectual whose thought, philosophy, dynamism and courage inspired all, and remains a timeless legacy to emulate by generations yet unborn.

Mindful of this legacy, in 2006 the family of the late humanitarian icon and a group of close friends founded the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation dedicated to continue his unfinished mission of encouraging dialogue between communities and relieving the predicament faced by the victims of humanitarian crises.

The World Humanitarian Day was commemorated for the first time on 19th August 2009. Suffice to say that, this year’s commemoration is the eighth of its kind in the history of the worthwhile event. As the international community marks the event today, we are all urged to borrow a leaf from the indelible landmark achievements of the great warrior and legend – Sergio Vieira de Mello. To this end, we are all expected to strive towards promot-

ing selfless service in our respective jurisdictions cum endeavours at all costs.

Surely, the most important thing to any man remains his/her welfare. Welfare could be referred to as one’s well-being, or organized efforts to ensure the basic well-being of people in need. Since the term ‘humanitarianism’ has to do with human welfare, it is of no need reiterating the fact that this remarkable event widely known and recognized as World Humanitarian Day was set aside to sensitize mankind on the cogent need for people to help one another, and for anyone to support any crusade that is targeted to promote lending hand to persons that are in need or victimized.

Since no one ever wishes to be in a community or society made up of only him or her, thus we ought to ensure that the sustenance of the well-being of our relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues, associates, or what have you, as the case may be, is at all times our civic responsibility. By so doing, we can boast of a peaceful society filled with thoroughly united individuals. Think about it!

Ruminating over Nnamdi Kanu’s choice

T William Bozimo

he leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra [IPOB] Nnamdi Kanu to remain behind bars has come as asurprise to many who had been calling for his release from detention.

‘I WOULD RATHER DIE IN PRISON THAN TO RENOUNCE BIAFRA’ he intoned recently.

He claimed it was an act from God for him to represent the indigenous peoples of Biafra to bring into fruition his dream of making the independent people of Biafra a reality.

Nnamdi Kanu may have born when the Biafra civil war raged from 1967- 1970. He was perhaps, flown into Britain during the war years and had become a British citizen.

Long after the civil war and long after the leader of the Biafra separatist movement in Col Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu made the historic pronouncement that he was no longer interested in prosecuting the Biafran independence struggle in 1982, he got a reprieve from President Shehu Shagari’s government.

Not so for Nnamdi Kanu. He would prefer death in prison than to renounce his commitment to free Biafra Republic.

Spirit- filled Nnamdi Kanu is a different kind of an Igbo. He is not

bothered about his personal freedom but the realisation of a separate country for his indigenous Igbo peoples of Nigeria.

No one knows what is driving him on in the lonely walls of Prison in Abuja but from his recent utterance that he would prefer death in detention to being made free by a government that is determined to see him either rot in jail or gain his freedom by simply saying ‘I NO LONGER WANT BIAFRA’ In his mid thirties, slim and looking frail with treads of grey beard sprouting under his chin, Nnamdi is defiant as ever.

For him living in a make belief world of a free Igbo in Nigeria is not his idea of real freedom. He understands that since the Biafran war ended some forty years plus and with some 2 million souls dead on both sides of the civil war divided, he strongly believes that the current freedom in which Igbos are living is like a living hell where politically, they are seen and labeled a conquered people.

For how long will Nnamdi Kanu sacrifice himself for the entire Igbo peoples in Nigeria?

His offence as we already know is the private Radio he operated which preaches hate messages against Nigeria and led to a series of anti Nigeria protests across the country for almost three months.

Some of the protesters were killed by security operatives in the Eastern axis of Nigeria because they believe Nnamdi Kanu stood for as a symbol of freedom without violence.

Living in a country where Nigerians love their lives and most Igbos seen their political survival as a matter that had gone out of their dreams thinking only God could come to their aid, it is perhaps, nearly impossible for either a Nnamdi Kanu and a few street protests to bring about the desired change for a Biafra Republic to emerge without fighting for it?

Nnamdi Kanu maybe a sacrificial lamb for the Igbo race but how much are the Igbo elites prepared to lend support to his non-violence approach.

Are the mainstream Igbos supportive of the Nnamdi Kanu dream republic of Biafra?

Every Nigerian leader, especially, former military heads of government had found it difficult to allow any part of the country to secede since they had sworn to ‘KEEP NIGERIA ONE AS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE’ Gen. Yakubu Gowon said this while prosecuting the civil war and long after him all military leaders had sworn to Keep Nigeria as an indivisible entity despite all odds against its continued unity.

Is Nnamdi Kanu swimming as

a lone ranger, who is swimming against the realities on the ground?

A majority of Igbo seems not too persuaded to be galvanized into another civil war. At least not for now.

There may be something going for him if Britain can take up the gauntlet and call for his release from captivity as its citizen? With the embattled Britain’s exit from Europe, can Britain summon the moral courage to prevail on the Nigerian government to release Nnamdi Kanu from continued incarceration by the Federal government led by President BUHARIA? Nnmadi Kanu may be divinely propelled to fight for the freedom of his people from Nigeria.

It does seem, in the present scenario of dwindling economy in the country, with the unrelieved Boko Haram activities in the North East and the prevailing Niger Delta pipelines bursting and reducing the level of gas and crude for export, the President may not want to be dragged not a diplomatic row with BRITAIN over Nnamdi Kanu’s Choice to make his deception centre a permanent home until death comes knocking at his doors.

Nnamdi Kanu’s Choice is not an enviable one by anyone. We pray for him to have a change of mind and when that will come is yet another matter.

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We work together to change prejudices Europeans hold about Africans – Princess Nwanne Campo in Spain

Tekno and the Boss Lady a.k.a the showbiz guru Princess Nwanne Campo after his vibrant performance

God’s Covenant Snr She is one of the biggest names rocking the social, cultural and business life in Spain. Princess (Mrs) Nwanneka Campo, actress and philanthropist gutsy and adventurous from Enugu, in Enugu State.

Nwanneka ventured into marriage with a Spaniard in a romance that started with love at first fight at the tender age of 19.

On the stormy years of her early life, Campo recalled the storm that almost broke up her young marriage in 1993 following the June 12 political unrest.

“Because of the cancellation of that presidential election, the Federal Government closed all borders and imposed a flight ban which caused foreign embassies to call back their nationals. My husband had to go and I found myself with a tough decision to make: “I had just matriculated for my final year and we hadn’t resumed because of the unrest; also my first baby, Julia, was only a few months old. My husband decided

he will leave with the baby and I, and if I won’t go, he will leave with the baby alone. I had to decide whether to stay back until things calmed down and finish my studies then join him and my baby later or follow him to Spain.”

It was her decision to make and for a 19 year old Ibo girl of that time it was indeed a tough decision. I had never left my country before and I was only 21, but in the end I decided to go with my husband and my baby.

How did she cope with the language?

“I learnt the language with great determination guage in six months; I had the best teachers – my parents in-law, but my main teacher was my father inlaw who’s late now. He was such a strict teacher that, if he spoke a word I didn’t understand, he would still repeat the same word with signs slowly and clearly as if I’m deaf and dumb; he wasn’t speaking English and didn’t even want to learn and because my husband was working in another state I had no choice but to be a

very attentive pupil and that did it: in six months I was at home with Spanish language.”

On the humanity of the Spaniards, Campo assures they are the best Europeans in the world.

‘Sure, I can tell you the best Europeans are the Spaniards; they’re very warm people, humanitarians who help foreigners a lot; their social welfare package to me is one of the best because even if you’re not working, government pays your hospital bills; we have people who have undergone surgery about five times and they never paid one cent.”

On the Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nwanne has great respect for the Nigerian spirit.

“The working class Nigerians in Spain paints a picture of tenacity, leisure and survival. ‘In big cities like Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, etc Nigerians are into God’s business like Churches, we have lots of them; also they are into operating business centres.

They are a force to reckon with in entertainment and nite club businesses. Another business you find lots of Nigerians is in small

eateries in the big cities. While in the area I live we don’t have even one restaurant but in mainstream Madrid you can find lots of restaurants in one street alone so they have great competition in the food business.

Meanwhile, news of distressed and stranded African immigrants entering Europe through water and desert, upset her humanity and she threw herself into identifying and meeting their needs.

As a voluntary worker in Cadiz, she was a life line, assisting these truamatised African immigrants coming into Spain through the sea from Morocco.

Under an NGO called Tartessos, Priness Campo was involved in bailing out immigrants from the police and helping them, especially their ladies with children and those that are pregnant; they kept the afflicted, hungry and exhausted immigrants in apartments, fed and clothed them and helped procure their legal documents. That was her preoccupation for a whole year.

Meanwhile, Princess Campo all the while, threw her young energy into organising conferences and lots of shows for the Spanish world - ostensibly to get them to know about Africans and Nigerians in particular so that they change some of the prejudices they hold about the black race.

Even while involved in all these, the Princess was all the while working hand-in-hand with the local authorities of the State of Pielago (also in Northern Spain), where she participated in intercultural projects.

In that forum, participants from other nations work to get Spaniards closer to their respective cultures. She represented Nigeria while her other colleagues represented their respective countries. She still recalls some of them like Abdul who represented Pakistan, Abiba from Morocco, Bella from Azadvejile; Mariokenia from Venezuela, and many more.

Of ‘Nigerians living in Spain’, (a Facebook group she created), Campo also used the platform as

a forum where they (Nigerians) feel at home, announce and discuss their businesses and problems and remind themselves of the necessity to be ambassadors of Nigeria while in Spain, and this is by keeping their lives and businesses within the bounds of the law. This, she said, is because they have great Nigerian based artistes, entertainers and comedians in Spain and they all belong to this forum; then of course, they share jokes and generally have fun.

It was no surprise that her name recently emerged as one of the nominees for Igbo women award, by a London based organisation, the high profile International Igbo Women (IWA) Conference and Awards Gala Dinner 2016.

While friends and fans rejoice with her for this recognition, another section of people in the Diaspora are celebrating the Princess for immeasurable benefits they have accessed through her unsung philanthropic works since over two decades she has stormed the Spanish world.

Our Princess Nwanne Campo is a Sociology Graduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) and is a recipient of the prestigious award of the African Diaspora Woman of the year 2013, organized by Voice of Achievers, Netherlands among others.

Only last week, Princess Nwanneka Campo the MC that anchored one of the greatest show in Bilbao (Northern Spain) exploded to fragments of colourful musicals that rocked the tourist’s city of delight on Friday.

The Tekno’s Concert, unarguably the most famous singer of Duro – besides his ecstatic thrills, paraded a galaxy of other artists that included Twist Ghana (the famous Afro dance artist), Mark Ido (afro hiphop) and Kazrich dance crew among others.

Princess Campo’s Manager and Photographer, young Miss Chelo Campo is younger of her two daughters.

What more can one say? Give it up for the Nigerian of Nigerians in the Spanish world.

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Clash of interests rock University of Calabar

University of Calabar

Edem Edem Calabar

It started as a commando exercise in the early hours of Monday, August 15, 2016 when students of the Institution were just finding their way into the campus.

Unknown to them, some administrative staff have prepared to stage a protest to complain about the highhandedness of the Bursar. Minutes after they entered the campus, pandemonium broke lose as thousands of the workers chanted war songs and waiving placards with various inscriptions.

Few hours later, vehicles loaded with suspected thugs took over the proceedings as the administrative workers and the security took to their heels.

Students scrambled for safety while television Camera man, Charles Ekpe and few others could not get away enough: they were beaten to pulp and camera was destroyed.

An eye witness Emmanuel Effiong told our correspondent that the clash was between the supporters of the Vice Chancellor, Prof Zana Akpagu and Bursar, Peter Agi. He said that the VC reneged from the gentleman agreement between him and the bursar and added that the duo had earlier agreed that the VC should employ about 40 persons but ended up employing over 200.

This action was said to have

affected the cash flow of the workers, making it impossible for both workers and contractors to be paid. “It was a multiple of problem” Effiong lamented, stating, that the mass protests became bloody when the protesters and some thugs hired by some of the principal staff of the University attacked each everyone at sight, including journalists.”

Hear him again, “The crisis started when the management of the institution led by a senior management staff (name withheld), attempted to remove the institution’s Bursar, Mr. Peter Agi from office. The Vice Chancellor, Prof Zana Akpagu, attempted to remove the Bursar, Mr Agi from office following complaints by some members of the staff over what they described as his ‘high handedness.”

Our correspondent who monitored the protest saw some students protesting against the alleged planned removal of the, but in an apparent move to counter this, another group led by one Godwin Inyam fought back seriously.

Inyam was said to have been on the side of the University’s workers against the bursar. According to a worker who gave his name as Bassey Etim, most of the workers were not happy with the bursar’s conduct for failing to pay them their allowances and other entitlements lately.

He alleged that the office of the bursar, on several occasions,

unilaterally slashed the worker’s salary without recourse to the VC, a development which most of the management staff frowned at. Etim who was obviously in support of the management’s decision to remove the bursar, described Agi’s conduct as the height of insubordination. He alleged that the Bursar went to induce some students to protest on campus; thereby disrupting academic activities.

“The bursar was accused of, among others, insubordination, not paying staff allowances; that’s the major cause of the problem and for the late payment and slicing of workers’ salaries. He has not being paying workers salary regularly. For over four months now, we have not been paid 100% salary” “All of these are some of the reasons why the VC wants to remove him, he went and hired thugs and alongside some students to resist his removal. He just blindfolded the SUG EXCO members and carried them along.” Meanwhile, in another group led by some lecturers in the university have accused the VC of witch-hunting the bursar after he (VC) reneged on a pack made by the duo, upon the later assumption of office as the institution’s Vice Chancellor.

The lecturer, who did not disclose his identity, said since the VC was unable to remove the Bursar using the instrumentality of ASUU, he now resorted to

the use of non-academic staff; through a protest against the bursar. He alleged that when the VC came on board, he and the bursar had an agreement to give the VC an employment slot of not less than 40 applicants, but somewhere along the line, the VC reneged on it and brought on board close to two hundred persons, thereby over stretching the institution’s finances.

Arguably, less than twenty four hours after the bloody clash between the various factions, Students, Administrative Staff, other unidentified people and hired thugs in the University of Calabar, the President of Student Union Government (SUG) has been suspended by the Dean of Students Affairs of the University.

Interestingly, security personnel in the University have overpowered some of the hoodlums, arrested them and impounded vehicles used in conveying the suspected thugs to the University.

The Concerned Staff of the University in a Press statement signed by Anthony Ukpong, said in part: “For the avoidance of all doubts, the crisis was precipitated by a spat between a senior staff of the University and the Bursar over non-payment of claims and entitlements. The Bursar’s intransigence caught the attention of other staff of the University who carried out a peaceful protest against the

Bursar.

“The protest was a spontaneous boil over against the Bursar over alleged high handiness, frauds, selective payment of contractors, discriminatory imprest payments, refusal to pay staff honoraria and a host of other grievances. The Bursar reacted by hiring thugs and secret cultists from town to disrupt the peaceful protests.”

Ukpong alleged that in the wake of the fiasco, the Bursar induced the SUG President and some miscreant non-students who attempted to stage a counter protest but were summarily rounded up

by University staff and security personnel.

“The other EXCO members of the SUG promptly disassociated themselves from the SUG’s escapade and the SUG President was duly suspended by the Dean of Students Affairs” The group said that the attitude of the Bursar has created so much tension and restiveness in the system and severely truncated the progress of the Administration.

The recent activities of the Bursar brought the tension to a climax. When our correspondent visited the office of the Bursar, he was not in the office, The Daily Times also visited his house at Bishop Monagh but all efforts proved abortive. It is unclear how the crisis would be resolved, but stakeholders advise a speedy peace so that academic activities will not be disrupted.

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New Law Report: Practice Digest launched in Lagos Titilope Joseph

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L-R: Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige; Chief of Mission, International Organisation for Migration, Enira Krdzalic; Deputy Head of European Union Delegation, Richard Young; and Director, International Labour Organisation’s Country Office, Dennis Zulu, during the unveiling of the National Policy on Labour Migration, in Abuja...on Thursday

Varsity admission: No alternative to PostUTME, ASUU, ASUP, Obaji, others insist Sam Nzeh

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in the education sector including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), former Minister of Education, Prof. Chinwe Obaji, Prof. Peter Okebukola, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, Prof. Rahamon Bello, on Thursday, vehemently kicked against the suspension of the postunified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the individual institutions, and opted for regulation instead of outright cancellation.

This position was taken on Thursday at a summit

organised by the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN), a body of reporters from the print, electronic and online platforms, covering the nation’s education sector.

The summit, which was themed; Integrity of Public Examinations and Admission in Nigeria, and held at the Julius Berger Lecture Theatre of the University of Lagos, was chaired by the Secretary of the Association of ViceChancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU), Prof. Michael Faborode.

Okebukola, who was the keynote speaker at the event, traced the foundation of the post-UTME to the degeneracy in the qual-

ity of admission seekers to higher institutions in the past, and suggested that the most important thing is to restructure the postUTME and not to scrap it.

Similarly, the National President of ASUU, Prof.

Biodun Ogunyemi, reiterated the union’s stance that it is the primary responsibility of the Senate of each university to admit and graduate students for the institutions, adding that ASUU would continue to fight the suspension of the post-UTME and that the fees charged by the institutions should be regulated.

Obaji, in her presentation, said she was bitter that the initiative she brought about as a re-

sponse to the loss of integrity in the public examinations including the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, among others, has been rubbished by the institutions by jettisoning the original idea behind the initiative.

Meanwhile, the communiqué issued at the end of the summit, submitted that the Federal Government should rescind the decision on the suspension of post-UTME, restructuring of the entrance examinations by the institutions and called for the implementation of the 2002 National Summit on Higher Education.

Buhari, Emefiele harp on repatriation of illicit funds Mathew Dadiya Abuja

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President, Muhammadu Buhari has sought for the cooperation of African Central Banks in the repatriation of illicit funds to Nigeria, even as the Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele said cross border banking supervision could also reverse the trend.

President Buhari said this in while declaring open a meeting of the association of central bank governors in Abuja also called for the

removal of all bureaucracies in returning the funds.

He said that the dwindling prices of crude oil in the international community paved way for African leaders to come up with policies that would help enhance both monetary and financial stability in the region.

Buhari reminded the apex bank governors at the meeting of the key role governments must play to change this narrative.

One of such ways, according to the President, is the repatriation of stolen

funds by government officials across the continent.

The Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said sound economic policies must be taken to transform the economy of the African continent, adding that cross border banking supervision could also reverse the trend.

Almost $2 trillion is said to have left Africa since 1970 through corrupt activities such as bribery and embezzlement, which constitutes three per cent of the funds, while criminal activities like drugs and smuggling

make up 30 per cent and commercial transactions from multinational companies make up 65 per cent of the funds.

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Lagos based legal practitioner, Mr. Adeyinka Kotoye, has unveiled two legal books with the aim of improving quality of lawyers’ briefs in the country.

The Law Report titled: “Judgments of Appeal Cases of Nigeria”, and a book entitled: “Practice Digest For Legal Practitioners,” was written and co-authored with Mr. Babatunde Adebayo Esq. after two years of legal research.

In his address, at the event which took place at the conference hall of NBA secretariat, Ikeja Lagos, Mr. Kotoye, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Report, said the book is out to report cases of appellate court of both the Court of Appeal from all divisions in the country and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

According to Kotoye; the

two books are concise up to date statements of the law, and contain almost three scores of relevant topics, including the position of the Supreme Court as it relates to the Nigeria Bar Association stamp and seal, contains legal practitioners Act Cap 1.11, 2004, rules of professional conduct, 2007 and comprehensive index.

He further said the books contained up-to-date statements of law in various areas of law that all members of the legal profession need in their legal research work.

The lawyers further stressed that they also contained statements of law as pronounced by eminent jurists in appellant courts on topics like action, arbitration, constitution law, company law, criminal law and procedure, damages, election cases and allied matters and jurisdiction.

TNFI commends Buhari on economic recovery, calls for patience Mathew Dadiya Abuja

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Nigeria First Initiative (TNFI) has extolled the leadership approach of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government in addressing the economic challenges bedeviling the country and the effort being taken to get Nigeria out of the present economic quagmire.

Director General of the organisation, Alhaji Abubakar Tsanni Mabudin Borgu, made the commendation during an interaction with journalists in Abuja.

Tsanni also commended Nigerians for their enterprise spirit, steadfastness and commitment to peace and development of the country, appealing to them to be patient as the change they voted for will be gradual. He said the past one year has been spent in laying a solid foundation for the country.

He noted that the spillover effect on the poor and

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less privileged, to say the least, is quite excruciating, adding: “Much more alarming is the fact that this unhappy development has thrown up despair everywhere, ripped apart otherwise peaceful families, shot up the crime rate in different parts of the country and turned many, especially among the poor, into beggars.”

He said through prudent management of resources and the introduction of creative ideas to block leakages, President Buhari is gradually reviving the economy, assuring that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel.

“This government, more than any government, has been working very hard because this is one government that genuinely believes in the people; it is one government that really cares for the poor.

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Point of View

Pillars of Hajj

Subair Mohammed

Continues from last week Tawwaf is the second pillar of Hajj. It is the action of circumambulating seven times around the Ka’bah in an anti-clockwise direction.

Allah Almighty says, “Then let them complete the rites prescribed for them, perform their vows, and (again) circumambulate the Ancient House.” (22:29).

In order to have the Tawwaf properly completed one must adhere to the following: Make intention for Tawaaf as an act of obedience dedicated to Allah alone; Cleanliness with Wudu as for prayer; Covering ‘Awrah - private parts - for both men and women; anything, which is considered a ‘Awrah cannot be displayed otherwise the Tawwaf becomes null.

The third pillar of Hajj is the Say’ee which is the walking between mount safa and marwa.

Describing the Hajj performed by the Prophet (S), Jabir (r) narrated, “Then, he - the Prophet (S) - got out from the door heading for As-Safaa, then, recited the above Qur’anic aayah: “Innas-Safaa wal-Marwata min Sha’aa’iril-Laah. Faman hajjal-Bayta awi’atamara falaa junaaha ‘alayhi an yattawwafa bihimaa.

Waman tattawwa’a khayran fa’inna Allaha Shaakirun ‘Aleem.”(2:158) Then, he (S) said, “We begin with what Allah began.” Then, he mounted as--Safaa until he faced the House and there he glorified Allah (i.e. raised his voice) saying “Allahu Akbar!” three times then” Laa ilaaha illa Allah wahdahu laa shareeka lah. Lahul-Mulku walahul- Hamdu wa huwa ‘alaa kulli shay’in Qadeer. Laa ilaaha illa Allahu wahdahu, Sadaqa Wa’adahu, wa nasara ‘abadahu wa hazamal-Ahzaaba wahdah!.”

“There is no god but Allah. He is One and has no partner, to Him is the dominion and all praise is due to Him. We are returning, repenting, worshipping, prostrating, and to Allah we are very grateful. Allah is true to His promise, He gave victory to His servant and defeated the confederates all by Himself.”

Arafah is the fourth pillar of Hajj which is also known as the Big Day of hajj and is on the 9th of dhul hijja. The Prohet (S) said: “Hajj is ‘Arafah.” [Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi].

The pilgrim must be at ‘Arafaat on the ninth of dhul Hijjah after Dhuhr time. Anyone, who misses Arafaat day, his, or her, Hajj is void.

All the scholars said in consensus that this pillar is the most important one. The Prophet said, “Hajj is only valid by attending `Arafah.” [At-Tirmidhi, anNassaa’i, Abu Dawud, Malek and adDaarimi].

Many Hajj groups recommend doing extra acts of worship during the day of Arafah, and the final days of Hajj, since indeed these are the most significant days in the entire journey.

And Allah knows best!

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Beggars exploit kindness of pilgrims in Madinah Beggars of different nationalities are using a variety of means and tactics to gain the sympathy of pilgrims in Madinah.

According to Arab News, beggars are reportedly swarming different locations that are frequently visited by Umrah performers and pilgrims, such as known Islamic and historic places in the city.

It was reportedly that these beggars normally take advantage of the compassion and kindness shown by the pilgrims and their

eagerness to give alms in this holy city, which they see as the best and quickest way of gaining money without any hardship.

They often resort to exhibiting some disability, most often, though, simply sitting on road and begging.

Arab News spotted a number of men and women beggars of Asian nationalities who took the top of Al-Rumat Mountain as a place to beg from, away from authorities’ control.

Hiding behind cloaks, the beggars chase pilgrims and ut-

SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET “The son of Adam will not pass away from Allah until he is asked about five things: how he lived his life, and how he utilized his youth, How did he earn his wealth, how did he spend his wealth, and what did he do with his knowledge.”

Source: Tirmidhi

ter certain phrases in their own languages, such as indonesian, Turkish, Urdu of African languages.

In one of the incidents, Arab News detected one woman beggar giving back change to one pilgrim. An Asian male beggar showed his disability to beg.

In a related development, Pakistani pilgrim Shuwaib Abdulrazzaq said beggars were chasing

pilgrims and insisted on getting money from them which, he said, is uncivilized.

Indian pilgrim Shakir Islamul-Deen said he saw many beggars on Al-Rumat Mountain bothering pilgrims and chasing after them everywhere.

Exploiting their kindness, beggars never leave pilgrims until they give them money, he pointed out.

Intensify peaceful co-existence in S’West, MSSN urges new NSCIA deputy president Stories by Subair Mohammed The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria has congratulated the newly elected Deputy President of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sakariyau Babalola, for his emergence.

The MSSN Lagos State Area Unit in a press statement by its president, Saheed Ashafa, charged the new deputy president to use his position to unite Muslims in South West.

Ashafa also urged the new NSCIA executive to intensify the peaceful co-existence and tolerance among Muslims and faithful of other religions in South-West.

The leader of MSSN in Lagos, who described Babalola as a philanthropist per excellence, appealed to him to be a voice against oppression of Muslims in his region and Nigeria at large.

He said, “We congratulate and rejoice with Alhaji Sakariyau Babalola and wish him a successful tenure.

Given his long term and wide service to Islam, we have no doubt that he would bring positive changes to the apex Islamic body in Nigeria.

“It is our expectation that he would complement the efforts of his predecessor and that of the NSCIA Secretary-General, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede in ensuring the rights of Muslims are guaranteed and not trampled upon in South West.

“We make bold to say that Muslims in South-West are persecuted, stigmatized and deprived of certain rights. Up till now, many of our adults are still disturbed from performing their civic responsibilities and enjoying social services and amenities provided for all citizens by the government which is not supposed to be.

Nolloywood actress Lola Alao now Rodiat at the parade of reverts recently held in Abuja

“We urge him to serve as a uniting force for all Muslims and contribute his quota to the development of Islam in this region and Nigeria as a whole. Apart from uniting Muslims further, the newly elected Deputy President should within all his capacity ensure that the peaceful co-existence enjoyed among Muslims and people of other faiths is strengthened.

“We pray that Allah guides his actions and utterances in his new office as he is to partner Shehu of Bornu, who is also the Deputy President-General of the Muslim apex body for the North.”

Ashafa also rejoiced with the NSCIA for a successful congress, saying the conduct of the congress was worthy of emulation.

It will be recalled that the NSCIA,

has elected Alhaji Sakariyau Babalola as its Deputy President-General, to replace the late Aare Musulumi of Yoruba Land, Abdul-Azeez Arisekola Alao.

Mr. Babalola’s election was announced at the General Assembly/ National Executive Council (NEC) of the NSCIA meeting held on Saturday at Imaguero College, Benin, Edo State.

‘Adherents of different faiths must learn to live as one’ Islam is one religion that preaches freedom from slavery and intolerance. The Holy Quran remains the only guidance for mankind. But as much as it is the code of morality and constitution for all Muslims, it does not allow for compulsion and imposition of one religion over the other or of one community claiming superiority over the other.

The need for Muslims to co-exist with people of other faiths was the focus of the Faith Unites Muslims

Charity Initiative (FUMCI), Lagos weekly lecture organised at the organisation’s secretariat in Lagos at the weekend.

Speaking at the lecture, Ustaz Muiz Zubayr, Amir, FUMCI discussed religious tolerance among different sects in the country.

He queried “Why are there wars and killings in the name of propagating Islam?

“Why is there intolerance among races in the world, even within people of the same religion?

“From the foregoing, it thus means that it was not by accident that Islam exists with other religions.

So, no religious sect or extremist can change that. But there will definitely be disagreement in the teachings, beliefs and doctrines of all the religions.

Therefore, the central teaching of this verse (Q 11v118) is religious tolerance. In other words, mankind must tolerate one another, shun violence and adopt peaceful means in the propagation of their respective religions” he said.

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to inform the general public for the loss of original deed of sublease of plot 260, block 15 G. R. A , Amuwo Odofin residential scheme registered as no 14 page 14 in volume 2061 Lagos state lands registry. All effort to trace the aforementioned document have proved abortive. Please if it is found , contact Mr Victor Adewale Banjo of plot 2021 femi Ogun Street, management village, Ikeja, Lagos or Barr. Oluremi Soetan( Mrs) on 08023068586

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YOUTHS OF WEST AFRICA EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

Public Notice LADDER OF GLORY EVANGELICAL CHURCH INT’L

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Club has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990.

The general public is hereby inform that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKANIRO CHIDINMA EUNICE 2 EBUKA EZEJI 3. TOBECHI NNEJI 4. NNESOCHI NWEZE ILOEKWE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANG. MONDAY UDO UDO 2. MRS. IDORENYIN MONDAY UDO 3. PASTOR IDORENYIN UDO EKANEM 4. BRO. INIOBONG ANTHONY TOM 5. EVANG. ETIDO IDORENYIN EKANEM

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To promote Youth empowerment 2. For Youth sensitization on empowerment issues.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Any objection to the 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: TRUSTEES.

Signed: EVANG. MONDAY UDO UDO

AUCTION SALES

JESUS WAY INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

BELIEVERS WAY OF SALVATION MINISTRY

THERE WILL BE AN AUCTION SALES OF MOTOR VEHICLES, MOTORCYCLES, KEKE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT THE DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS, THE NIGERIA POLICE, OMOKU DIVISION, RIVERS STATE. AFTER 21 DAYS OF THIS 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 N0. 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 N0. 1 of 1990.

1. ONE SCRAP BLUE FLAT BENZ REG. NO. BP 726 PHC. 2. ONE SCRAP MAZDA 323 REG. NO. ----3. ONE SCRAP DARK BLUE HONDA REG. NO. MC 241 KJA. 4. ONE SCRAP GREEN MAZDA 626 REG. NO. EKY 684 BQ. 5. ONE YELLOW TRI-CYCLE REG. NO. ---6. ONE RED KASEA MOTORCYCLE REG. NO. ---7. ONE RED QLINK MOTORCYCLE REG. NO. ---8. ONE BLUE QLINK 125 MOTORCYCLE REG. NO. --9. ONE SKY-GO MOTORCYCLE REG. NO. QD 876 EBM. 10. THREE SAWING MACHINES. 11. TWO WELDING CYLINDERS. AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; (1) ANYANWU HERBERT OKEY N. (2) ANYANWU HULDAH CHINASA.

SIGNED: ALH. UBALLO DANU AUCTIONEER

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. To preach the word of God Any objection to the 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.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Initiative is seeking for registration under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Part C., 2004.

TRUSTEES: 1. EJUMEDIA SIMON 2. CHIEF SUNDAY AKINTUNDE AKERE 3. DR. GODWIN OSEGHALE 4. MR. MONDAY THOMPSON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To provide assistance in the development of infrastructure in local communities.

2. To encourage community participation in the repair and maintenance of infrastructure in local communities.

3. To stimulate community participation in the repair and care of basic infrastructure in their localities.

4. To mobilise and galvanize communities towards ensuring the sustainability of infrastructure in their communities.

FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES OF GLOBAL HARVEST CHURCH

The general public hereby notified that the above named Church has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for Change of Trustees under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act. Cap 59 Law of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR VICTOR ADEYEMI - Retained 2. PASTOR JUMOKE ADEYEMI - Retained 3. PASTOR OLADIMEJI OLUBUNMI - Removed 4. DR. JOHNSON ODUGBEMI - Removed 5. MRS. JULIET ABDALLAH - Removed

The Aims and Objectives are remained the same.

SIGNED: Secretary

Signed: Chairman

Trustees: 1) Primate Adefioye Adekanmi obaoluwarotimi Michael 2) Adefioye Olaide Olusola 3) Adefioye Adelowo Samuel Aims: 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 N0. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. MS. VICTORIA AMU 2. LT. COL. ANTOINETTE ANNE EMECHETE 3. OGBHEMHE ROSEMARY 4. MR. FELIX FANIRAN 5. MRS. AKANLE OLUFUNKE AIMS: 1) TO SUPPORT HIGH STANDARDS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS PRACTICE AND EDUCATION; 2) TO SAFEGUARD AND PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY..

NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR FEMI BANIGBE - Newly appointed 2. MRS. OLAITAN ADEDEJI - Newly appointed 3. MR. AKINWANDE ADEMOSU - Newly appointed

Any objection to the application and approval should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Agusi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28days of this publication.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named is seeking for registration under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Part C., 2004.

Any objection to the 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.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

PUBLIC NOTICE

Any objection to this Registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General.

Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, P.M.B. 198, Maitama, Abuja within 28th days from the date of publication.

HOMIDIMIJE MOUNTAIN OF COVENANT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

SIGNED ; REV. LEO NWALODI EZIDI (PRESIDENT )

SIGNED ; ANYANWU HERBERT OKEY N.

COMMUNAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. REV. LEO NWALODI EZIDI - PRESIDENT 2. REV. MRS. CECILIA LEO EZIDI. 3. REV. CHUKWUDI PETER EZIDI - SECRETARY. 4. BRO. VITUS IFEROBIA. 5. PST PROMISE IHEDIKE. 6. BRO. MELODY CLINTON ADIEMEA. 7. BRO. BENNETH NELSON NWAKIRI. 8. EVANGELIST UZOMA EKEIGBO. 9. PST. UCHECHUKWU THOMAS.

Signed: Secretary

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 from the date of this publication.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY

EZINNE EMILIA IGWE HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The general public is hereby inform that the above named Ministry has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

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

Trustees 1,JULIE OMON UDE. 2BIBIAN CHINELO ESAN. 3EKAETE JOHNNY UMOH. 4MERCY OMONYE EHIAGUINA. 5MARCUS OGALA EWIOGBEMUATA. 6ADANMA CHINYERE IBEABUCHI. 7PRINCESS ALAMINA. 8 KATE OGUNGBADERO

Trustees.

1. DR. CYPRIAN AMAUCHE ACHUSIM - UDENKO. - CHAIRMAN. 2. DR. PATRICK OKECHUKWU IGWE. 3. ENGR. DR. JUDE CHIBUZO IGWE. - SECRETARY Aim and objectives 1. To facilitate the training of Nurses, Midwives and Health workers within umuobom Clan.

2. To engage in the research , Manpower and infrastructure developnment and scholarship in the Areas of Health sciences

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

Aims 1 To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Chrrst .

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 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 ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

Signed: Trustees

Signed Secretary

Signed: EZETULUGO AMARACHUKWU. ESQ

GODS OWN ZION HOLY TEMPLE DELIVERANCE MISSION

GOD’S SATELLITE AND RECOVERING MINISTRY

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

Trustees 1. EDIDIONG INI EDEM 2. ESTHER NSIKAN EDIDIONG INI

Trustees 1. PASTOR TIMOTHY ADAMA O. T 2. MRS GRACE TIMOTHY ADAMA

Aim and objective 1. To preach the Gospel of truth to the world.

Aim and objective 1. To preach the Word of God to the world

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

Signed: EKUWNIFE BLESSING. ESQ

Signed: EKUWNIFE BLESSING. ESQ

ASSOCIATION OF CCROWN ESTATE RESIDENTS, ABUJA. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES NAME ; FROM.; OLD NAME ASSOCIATION OF RANO ESTATE RESIDENTS,ABUJA. RC CAC/IT/NO 80681. NEW NAME.; ASSOCIATION OF CCROWN ESTATE RESIDENTS, ABUJA. AND REMOVED , RETAINED AND APPIONTED OF TRUSTEES OF THE REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

Trustees 1. OLWER OTONYO. - RETAINED 2. PASCAL ANEKE. - RETAINED 3. DR. DAVID DUROJAIYE. - APPOINTED 4. MR. TIWADAYO BRAIMOH. - APPOINTED 5. MR. EMMANUEL JAMES. - APPOINTED 6. ALAKIJA A. OLUSANYA - APPOINTED. 7. MRS. SHERRY O. WILLIAMS. - APPOINTED 8. MR. ABDULAZIZ A. ALIYU.- APPOINTED 9. MR. ANTHONY DICKSON OJIH. - APPOINTED. 10. NDUBUISI UCHENNA. - REMOVED. 11. JEGEDE PHILIP. - REMOVED. Aim and objectives : REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THE CHANGE OF TRUSTEES NAME AND REMOVED , RETAINED AND APPIONTED OF TRUSTEES 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: EKUWNIFE BLESSING. ESQ

Public Notice 22 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR FAMILY ENTREPRENEURSHIP The general public is hereby notified that the above named Centre has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR (MRS) BAMIDELE ANIKE WALE OSHINOWO 2. MR. ADEWALE OSHINOWO 3. MRS. FUNMI JULIANA OLUFEMI 4. DR. OLUGBENRO OYEKAN 5. MR. OLUWASEGUN ILESANMI 6. MRS. BUKOLA MORENIKE OGUNLEYE 7. MRS ADERONKE OPEYEMI ATOBATELE THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To be the Pioneer and leaders in the development and entrenchment of entrepreneurial competencies and activities in the field of entrepreneurship in Nigeria and across Africa Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Secretary

ABIA SHOE & BAGS DESIGNERS EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE CAC/IT/ NO. 86440

The general public is hereby notified that the above named, has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Additional Trustees under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: (ALL RETAINED) 1. NNAEMEKA PRINCEWELL OGBONNA - PRESIDENT 2. NKECHINYERE UKAMAKA - SECRETARY 3. EZE ONYENWEAKU 4. OBINNA VINCENT 5. IBEKA ELISHA 6. CHUKWUDI OWUMA 7. CHINEDU COLLINS CHOSEN THE NEWLY ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NNAEMEKA CHIOMA - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 2. KALU GRACE AMAZING - TREASURER THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT This is to notify the general public of the loss of original acknowledgment slip for the regularisation of right of occupancy with Old File No. MISC 3258 and New file No. MISC 56961in respect of plot No. FL 210 Cadastral Zone in Gaube Farm Layout of Kuje Area Council , Abuja.

Belonging to DECO Nig. Ltd All efforts made to trace the document proved abortive FCTA, AGIS, concerned authorities and the general public should please take note ONE WORLD HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE The general public is hereby notified that the above named Initiative has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Brigadier General JAHADI EZRA Jacko 2. Alhaji Ibrahim Gwaggo 3. Alhaji Jamilu Ibrahim Shinkafi 4. Quadri-adu Shakir Kehinde 5. Princess Isabella Oyemomi 6. Ejiofor Chukwuemeka Uju 7. Okayia Rita Ome 8. Udom Aniekan James.

The aim and objective: the association shall empower the less privileged in the society

Any objection to this Application must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Secretary

Signed: Secretary

CHANGE OF TRUSTEES APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES,AMENDMENT OF THE OBJECT/CONSTITUTION AND CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHILD RIGHTS ADVOCATES OF NIGERIA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANISATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,ABUJA FOR AMENDMENT OF ITS OBJECT/CONSTITUTION,CHANGE OF ADDRESS AND CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT,1990.

OLD TRUSTEES 1.PROF.PETER EBIGBO- RETAINED 2.DR.REMI OBINATU- RETAINED 3.DR.OMONUEME AMANKONFO-REMOVED 4.DR.SAMUEL ILEMONHA ABDULLAHI- REMOVED 5,PROF.SERAH OLOKO-REMOVED NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES -.MR.ARCHIBONG ANDERSON -.MRS.BETTY OLUTUNDE -.HADIZA BUHARI -.BARR.HAJARA KADIRI - MINISTER OF WOMEN AFFAIRS,NIGERIA CHANGE OF ADDRESS: ADDRESS NOW CHANGE FROM 6 GINDIRI STREET,GARKI 2,ABUJA TO FED.MINI. OF WOMEN AFFAIRS CRECHE,20,BOLA IGE ASOKORO,ABUJA. AMENDMENT: THE PREAMBLE,ARTICLES I.TO 10 OF THE CONSTITUTION ARE AMENDED AND 16 ADDITIONAL ARTICLES ARE INSERTED. NUMBER OF TRUSTEES AMENDED TO MINIMUM 5 AND MAXIMUM OF 10

ANY OBJECTION TO THE 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: TRUSTEES.

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

TRUSTEES. 1 ) Benedict Atason 2) Goodhope Atason 3) Andrew Smellie 4) Patrique Smellie 5) Kip McKean

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AFOLABI DEBORAH MOJISOLA - (GENERAL OVERSEER) 2. BAYEWU IFEOLUMAYOWA ESTHER - (SECRETARY) 3. BAYEWU IFEOLU’TAYO EMMANUEL 4. BAYEWU IFEOLUWADAYO JOHN 5. MARTINS THOMAS OLWATOFUNMI RHODA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) To preach JESUS CHRIST and the word of salvation to the whole world.

2) To prepare men and woman every where for heaven.

3) To gathered for worship and praise t Almighty God. 4) To pray and offered solutions to the proven of humanity.

5) To propagate the Gospel of Christ through every possibly means and to encourages Christian living.

Signed:

Secretary

HIGH STAR FRIENDS CLUB OF NIG The general public is hereby notified that the above named Club has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MMADU CHIGOZIE SABASTINE - Chairman 2. UGWU FRANCIS CHIBIKE -Vice Chairman 3. OKEZUONU CHINONSO FORTUNE - Secretary The aim and objective: 1. To promote the welfare of registered members.

Any objection to this registration must reach the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publicatiion SIGNED: J. E Anaekwe & Co.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. ADEDOYIN OLATUNJI 2. FREDERICK WEY 3.OLAIDE OSIFESO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. Encouraging women to be self Employed ANY OBJECTION TO THE 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 BY SECRETARY

FISHPLUS TOMBOLA CLUB, LAGOS

LIGHT HOUSE INT’L MINISTRY

This is to notify the general public that the above named CLUB has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Abuja, for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named MINISTRY as applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1cdre Hamis Osemwota Okunbor (Rtd) 2 Cdre Ediku Johnson Osabuohien (Rtd) 3 Mr Rex Amere Ejumudo4 4 Mr Ernest Nwabueze 5 Mr Ransoe Adolphus Dokubo THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES INCLUDE: 1. To cultivate the spirit of true and genuine friendship among members using games as a binding force 2. To inculcate the spirit of sportsmanship in members.

3. To strive to encourage the participation of members in community development and nation building as responsible citizens of Nigeria Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar – General, Corporate Affairs Commission – Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Garki, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: TRUSTEES

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SINA ODUNSI AYOMIDE BUSAYO, 2. BOYIGA BODINGA NUGA, 3. FOLORUNSO SAMUEL OLUSOGO

Aim and objective 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ

Aim And Objective: 1. To help in Eradicating polio, Among the upcoming young generation.

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 THE 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

Any objection to this application must reach the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission at Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. To propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all and to promote the spiritual and total wellbeing of members and the society.

2. Promoting the spiritual wellbeing of members regardless of age, ethnic origin, ability or political affiliation

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

STEP UP EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

SIGNED: ADEYANJU ABIODUN EMMANUEL,ESQ LEGAL PRACTITIONER 08060566650

Names Of Trustees: 1. James Ezuma - (General Overseer) 2. Suzan A. Ezuma - (Secretary) 3. Divine U. Ezuma

THE TRUSTEES REMAIN THE SAME

EVANGELICAL CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM CHURCH

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

CRYSTAL LIGHT ASSEMBLY

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Organisation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for the amendment of its entire Constitution under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 In line with Article 13 of the original Constitution.

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 1990.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE 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.

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 1990.

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANISATION CAC / IT/ NO: 33132

Signed: Trustees

The Trustees Are: 1)Pst peter olarinde oluwakunmi, 2)Adefemi Samuel Adetele 3)Femi Ogurinde Timothy 4)Tor-Ije Biakono 5)Ogbu Joshua Ode. Aim and Objective: 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, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Sign.Pst Peter Olarinde Oluwakunmi

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PIRTIM ANDREW BALI - CHAIRMAN 2. NDAM TIMCHANG ALFRED - SECRETARY 3. NANMA LABAR - MEMBER 4. BYENCIT NIMFEL - MEMBER 5. JACKSON NANDANG - MEMBER 6. JONATHAN NANGWAN JANFA - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To strengthen the bond of unity among the Tarok sons and daughters, both home and abroad.

2. To initiate and execute programmes, capacity building, human development and community development projects for the betterment of Tarok nation.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE 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: PIRTIM ANDREW BALI (CHAIRMAN)

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I, KINGSLEY OKEREKE C., wish to add, EMENIKE-PAUL, to my name. That I wish to be known and addressed as, OKEREKE KINGSLEY C. EMENIKE-PAUL. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

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OWERRE-OKPU GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORBA 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.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ODO THEOPHILUS NWEKE 2. OJOBOR AARON IFEANYI 3.

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PRECIOUS PEOPLE GLOBAL FOUNDATION This is the general public that the above named foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters (CAMA) Act, 1990.

Trustees are.

1,Pastor Francis Oladapo 2.Pastor (Mrs) Olaitan Yetunde Oladapo 3.Dr.Mathew Adegboyega Dada 4.Mr Abiodun lbikunle Ogunnusi 5.Mrs.Moninuola Ajoke Ogunnusi 6.Mr Babatunde Rafiu Asimi 7.Mrs.Olajumoke Florence Adeniyi .

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1 To carry out philanthropic and charitable activities and support disadvantaged people to have improved lives, With the ultimate aim of building a nation where no one is not disadvantaged.

2 To promote peace among people and nations.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Agunyi lronsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

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The General Public is hereby notified that the above named ASSOCIATION has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named ORGANIZATION has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) ALFO ZUBAIRU (2) BABAGANA IBRAHIM (3) ABDULLAHI ADAMU ABUBAKAR (4) UMAR AHMAD (5) LAWAN ABDULLAHI SANI (6) USSAINI A. SABO (7) ALI SALEH (8) BALA MUHAMMED SHAIBU (PRESIDENT) (9) MURTALA SHEHU (SECRETARY) (10) SALIU SULAIMAN

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) ALEXANDER ATASIE OSUCHUKWU (2) MARYTINA ULOMA OSUCHUKWU (3) ISAAC GOLD (4) QUEEN BEST (5) OLADOYIN OJOMU

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THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1)TO IMPACT ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS ON ITS MEMBERS THROUGH SEMINARS (2) TO SET UP DEMONSTRATION CENTRES WHERE SKILLS WILL BE IMPACTED PRACTICALLY ON ITS MEMBERS (3) TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCES TO ITS MEMBERS FOR THEM TO SET UP THEIR ACQUIRED SKILLS Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to 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 BY:BARRISTER TOBENNA DAVID NWAEBOH, NWAEBOH TOBENNA & CO NO.7 AKIN LAWANSON STREET BY CHARITY BUS STOP, OSHODI LAGOS STATE

This is to inform the general public that the above named organization has applied for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990 The trustees are: 1. REV. DR. OLADOYINBO OLATUNDE 2. MRS. TOKUNBO AYODELE 3. MRS. GANIAT ABIODUN INWEZERUA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. Rendering free medical community services to people in churches and local communities in order to foster physical wholeness and completeness.

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LIVINGSWORD APOSTOLIC NETWORK The General Public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE NAMES OF TRUSTEES ARE:(1) Rev (Dr) Olufunso Joseph Omidiran (2) Rev (Mrs) Bukola Mary Omidiran (3) Dr John Oluwole Akintayo (4) Dr Rufus Olusola Akinyemi (5) Mr Gbenga Oluseyi Akande THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

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BETHEL GOSPEL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES OF GLOBAL HARVEST CHURCH

The General public is hereby notified that the above named Ministry has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR VICTOR ADEYEMI - Retained 2. PASTOR JUMOKE ADEYEMI - Retained 3. PASTOR OLADIMEJI OLUBUNMI - Removed 4. DR. JOHNSON ODUGBEMI - Removed 5. MRS. JULIET ABDALLAH - Removed

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The general public hereby notified that the above named Church has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for Change of Trustees under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act. Cap 59 Law of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.

NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR FEMI BANIGBE - Newly appointed 2. MRS. OLAITAN ADEDEJI - Newly appointed 3. MR. AKINWANDE ADEMOSU - Newly appointed

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ 2. To bring back those who are in darkness to the limelight of our lord Jesus Christ

The Aims and Objectives are remained the same.

Any objection to the application and approval should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Agusi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28days of this publication.

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Delta Police raid cultists’ hideouts, arrest 100 suspects Nosa Ogiugo, Asaba

ÎÎÎFierce

war against cultists and other related crimes in the Delta State have continued to yield positive results following the arrest, by the police, of 100 suspected cultists who allegedly belong to different cult groups in the state.

Undoubtedly, the success recorded in the subsisting fight is the resultant outcome of the proactive strategies put together by

the state government and in tandem with the police command.

The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who confirmed the arrest of the suspects to journalists in Asaba on Thursday, said to win the war against persons who belong to the secret cult, was the reason why the anti-cult unit was inaugurated whose main mandate to tackle the menace of cultism across the state.

While the hue and cry

of cult related war continued to spread like wildfire in the state, the police boss explained that the police detectives assigned to the Anti-cult unit, combed every nook and cranny in Asaba, Kwale, Agbor, Ozoro, Obiaruku, Warri and Sapele known as flash points and arrested 100 suspects.

Noting that cult activities have been sources of disturbances in some communities in the state, the police commissioner said steps have been taken to curb the

menace.

His words: “We have arrested 100 suspects who belong to different cult groups across the state, we have also intensify campaigns to stop cultism”, disclosing that some of the suspects have been charged to court and remanded in prison custody.

Investigation revealed that cult related activities boom in Asaba and its environs, especially during night fall with marabous youths who often clad in

ruby dresses laced with red ropes and long chains of their necks. Popular among them all, is the Ake and Eiye confraternities regarded as the most dreaded with lay about youths as ‘capons’ allegedly armed with cut to sizes guns.

But Mr. Ibrahim said that the police will not fold their hands and watch criminals cause havoc, reiterating that the ongoing campaign against all forms of crimes will reduce cultism and other criminal activities in

the state.

The police boss however called on the youths involved in cultism and other criminal activities to desist as the long arms of the law will catch up with them on their refusal.

In another development the police in Ubulu-Uku town, Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday gunned down a robbery suspect alleged to be member of the notorious armed robbery gang.

Minister warns neighbouring states against defacing Abuja Idu Jude, Abuja

ÎÎÎThe

L-R: Chairman, Ona Iwa Mimo (Oke Ayo) Cherubim & Seraphim Church Ojota, Lagos, Gen. Apostle, Rev. Dr. Sunday Oyebola; Chairperson, Convention Committee, Gen. Mother, Aderemi Adigun and Founder Ona Iwa Mimo, Oke Ayo Nigeria & Overseas, Her Majesty Queen Capt. Gen. Dr. Maria Ogunyooye, during the press conference of Ogunyooye’s 70th Years Divine Call in Lagos… on Thursday

Military gun boats crush fisherman, daughter to death in Bayelsa Akam Jmaes, Yenagoa

ÎÎÎIndigenes

of Otuan community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Monday, were thrown into mourning following the crushing to death of a father and his eight-year-old daughter along the waterways of the community.

The sad incident which happened last week, reportedly occurred when two gun boats on escort duty with two other speed boats suspected to belong to workers of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), ran over a canoe used by the deceased and her daughter for fishing expedition in the area.

Community sources confirmed that the deceased

eight-year-old daughter, identified as Ebimoboere Doupre was on holiday with his father, Mr. Doupere Chukwu Doupre, before the incident.

Another eye witness simply identified as Sunny, confirmed to our correspondent that while the search for the corpse of the drowned father is still on, the corpse of the deceased girl was discovered by community divers on Sunday afternoon.

“The incident occurred on the August 12, 2016. They were two gunboats and two speed boats coming from Ogboinbiri to Oporoma axis. The deceased father and daughter were in the fishing boat along Otuan entrance by the River Nun. The military boats and the speed boat conveying Shell

workers were reportedly heading to the oil facilities in Ogboinbiri with food and other logistics supply”, the witness revealed.

Contacted on the development, the spokesman of the State Police Command, Asimin Butswat said though the report has not been brought to his attention, “we will investigate and get back to you.

Buratai

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has challenged states sharing boundary with the FCT to take advantage of their proximity with Abuja to develop the neighboring towns.

The Minister gave this challenge when the Emir of Keffi, Dr. Shehu Usman Yamusa led a high powered delegation of the Keffi Traditional Council to visit him in his office in Abuja.

Malam Bello urged the states to use the direct exchange of persons and businesses between these communities to ensure

rapid economic and infrastructural development of the neighboring towns.

The Minister remarked that Keffi as an emirate and as a city has served to ease the pressure on Abuja by providing accommodation and hospitality to the numerous staff of government and private organizations who commune from those areas to Abuja City Centre every morning and return in the evening.

Malam Bello reiterated the need for Keffi and other neighboring towns or cities to enjoy tremendous benefits from those exchanges, which definitely can be translated into economic and social benefits.

Kwara govt loses N400m to illegal recruitment Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

ÎÎÎThe Kwara State Gov-

ernment has lost over N400m since 2014 due to illegal recruitment of 516 employees by the State Teaching Service Commission.

This is part of the findings of an Administrative Panel of Enquiry instituted by the state Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, on the illegal recruitment into the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission.

The Chairman of the Panel, Alhaji Yusuf Kawu Daibu, while presenting the panel’s report to the State Governor, Dr. Ahmed, said the panel discovered that the State Teaching Service Commission illegally employed 965 employees instead of the 449 approved by the Governor in 2014.

He said the selection and recruitment were “haphardly done as there were no records of shortlisted candidates or record of an interview panel that should have formed the basis of the final list of those recruited.”

The panel recommended, among other things, that the recruitments should be reviewed and limited to the 449 by considering “the genuine need of the Teaching Service Commission for additional hands especially in Mathematics, the Core Sciences and English Language” On how to prevent future occurrence, the panel recommended that the enabling law establishing the Teaching Service Commission should be reviewed to take care of some structural defects and that the oversight function of the

Gov. Ahmed state Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development on the commission should be enforced.

It also recommended that an effective database should be established for monitoring of entries and exits from the employment of Kwara State Teaching Service Commission.

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, August 19, 2016

Insecurity: Oghara monarch bans idol worship in community, curses kidnappers Nosa Ogiugo Asaba

ÏÏÏDetermined to rid his com-

munity of all forms of fetish vices including kidnapping and armed robbery, the traditional ruler of Oghara kingdom, HRM Noble Oyibo Eshenutan Orefe III, on Thursday rededicated the kingdom into the hands of God and banned idol worshiping and sacrifices with blood.

Against the background of incessant kidnappings and robbery cases, the Monarch placed curses on its perpetrators, warning that those involved in such socio-vices capable of causing serious damage in the kingdom, should desist or face the wrath of God. Noting that God has the powers to do everything, the Monarch said that rededicating the Oghara kingdom to God remain the greatest achievement, adding that the reign of God in the kingdom would bring about peace and tranquility.

His words: “I pray for all those with challenges in this kingdom, and with God, Oghara kingdom will witness tremendous peace; I pray for our son, Chief James Ibori and others who are facing serious challenges.”

Last weekend, the traditional ruler and Oghara Christian Association (OCA) organized a

prayer session in the kingdom where they set on fire all evil acts.

Investigation revealed that Oghara kingdom had in the last few years been a melting point of sorts for kidnapping and armed robbery; a situation the traditional ruler described as pathetic and condemnable before he swung into action to rededicate the kingdom into the

hands of God. In another development, age long communal crisis rocking Umuseti-Ogbe and Emu Ebendo communities in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State was yesterday resolved.

Two communities: UmusetiOgbe and Emu-Ebendo, had been at war over alleged communal crisis and other related acts.

But the Ndokwa West Local Government Council boss, Mr. Ifeanyi Osakwe, told journalists that the reconciliation process with the two aggrieved communities was successful.

Stressing that the need for dialogue in resolving communal crisis, the council boss urged residents of both communities to shun acts capable of breaching the peace of the area.

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ÏÏÏCommunity

leaders representing various village districts within Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area in Plateau State on Thursday solicited the vigilance of security personnel in ensuring that tourist locations within their communities are adequately secured in other to boost tourism.

The appeal was made when the Commander, Special Task Force (STF), in Plateau State, Major General Nicholas Rogers, visited Kura Falls, a tourist heaven in Barkin-Ladi LGA. The village heads who assem-

Man arraigned for raping 17-yr-old

Lagos family petitions IGP over alleged attacks on members ÏÏÏTaiwo

bled in Kurra falls to receive the STF Commander, stressed that the incessant clash between farmers and herdsmen has hitherto brought a lot of security pressure in the general area.

While expressing appreciation with the effort of the Army so far in maintaining peace also appealed for sustainable policing of the area.

Responding, Rogers urged them to continue to be their brothers’ keepers as his Command will continue to do everything within its power to ensure that the current peace being enjoyed in Plateau is sustained.

Consequently, addressing

troops in Wase LGA, he tasked them to shun involvement in illegal Mining activities as any soldier caught will be dealt with.

During a visit to the Emir of Wase’s Palace, HRH Alh. Dr. Muhammadu Sambo Haruna, revealed the high rate of illegal Mining activities.

The Emir who was represented by the Waziri of Wase, Mamuda Badamasi, called on the Commander to step up security within the province to fight the criminal elements amongst them.

The Miners also appealed to the STF boss to help secure the area against criminals who carts away their products.

Buratai

Kosoko representing four families presently living at 115, Enu-Owa Street, Idumota, Lagos have petitioned the Inspector- General of police (IGP) Mr. Idris Ibrahim over the alleged constant attacks on their families and property by some persons in the community.

In a petition signed by Lookman Agboola and sent to the police chief, with copies to relevant authorities, the attackers were identified as Yusuf Giwa, Moshood Olawale Thomas, Oluwole Nosiru, and Jamiu Tijani (Godo) with various policemen they lure to their side to fulfil their dastardly act.

At a separate press briefing in Lagos, Kososko on behalf of their families said they are seeking the intervention of the Inspector General of Police on the matter.

“We seek intervention of the IGP to curtail the breakdown of law and order and the wanton abuse of police powers and office more so, where some policemen were manipulated to wrongly act in favour of yusuf Giwa, Moshood Olawale Thomas, Oluwole Nosiru, and Jamiu Tijani etc. He added.

“We appeal to the InspectorGeneral of police to ask them to leave us alone as we are the rightful owner of the property, we already occupy and taken possession of the property for over one hundred years and still living at the place NO. 115(A), Enu-Owa Street, Idumota.

“We lament the serious backing of policemen to this hoodlum in maliciously demolishing our building structures and also carting away valuables without any court order, he explained.

“Recently these land grabbers boasted that they will solicit the support of the Lagos Monarch the royal majesty Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwan Akiolu, to achieve their dreams of hijacking our property which we know that the Oba will never succumb to their evil plans”

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bour.

The accused, who was arraigned on a one-count charge, bothering on sexual assault, was said to have carried out this crime on the 7th August, 2016, at Orile Agege, Lagos.

Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi who presided over the case asked

the complainant if she does not have any other relationship with the defendant, other than the fact that they were neighbours, judging from their age proximity, the complainant said he was just a neighbour.

Counsel to the defendant, Olowa Akindele, appealled that

the he be granted bail on very liberal terms. This application was however not objected to by the Prosecuting Counsel, Simeon Imhonwa.

Magistrate. Bola Osunsanmi therefore granted the defendant bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties.

Ooni Of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, addressing participants during an empowermentpProgramme he organised for widows at his palace, in Ile-Ife...on Thursday

Army boss warns against illegal mining in Plateau Chijioke Kingsley

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terday arraigned before a Lagos state Magistrate court sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly raping a 17 year old (names withheld) girl, who happened to be his neigh-

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Art/Book & Review Æ s

Biafra genocide: Be objectivity and den Biko Agozino, a Professor of Sociology and African Studies, Virginia Tech, reviews a new book on the civil war, written and edited by Nigerian scholars, that is generating much heat in US and warns that it’s high time that intellectuals admit the objective history of the Biafran genocide

Ojukwu

Gowon

Writing The Nigeria-Biafra War, edited by Toyin Falola and his doctoral student at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, Ogechukwu Ezekwem, (2016, Woodbridge, James Curry), is a highly anticipated volume about a country in which authoritarian dictators banned the teaching of history, apparently, out of fear that such an academic discipline would, sooner or later, excavate the atrocities that they engineered in a genocidal war for opportunistic selfish gains in the guise of national interest.

The book is timely, now, as the masses agitate for the actualisation of Biafra, although, the book is silent on this raging mass agitation and ongoing extra judicial killings and detentions of non-violent protesters, sometimes, for waving the banned flag of Biafra which could have been permitted as a tourist attraction and as homage to the dead.

The chunky book carries the trademark, James Curry- polished-finishing with glossy hardcover. However, the choice of an abstract painting, ‘Niger Delta Militancy II’, by ‘dele jegede’, for the cover illustration is questionably historical and trivialistic given the theme of Biafra that is better illustrated with genocidal images of kwashiorkor

babies or with the bullet-ridden paintings or sculptures (‘Seeds’) of memories from the war by the scholar-activist artist, Olu Oguibe, for instance. I strongly recommend that the publishers should replace the cover illustration with more appropriate powerful paintings about Biafra by Obiora Udechukwu or Uche Okeke.

I could not wait to delve into the 491-page tome as soon as my review copy arrived from the publishers. I was impressed to see the high caliber and timber of intellectuals assembled in the book with essays from the eminent historian, Godwin Uzoigwe, and the Marxist literary theorist, Biodun Jeyifo, promising mouth-watering mussels of knowledge waiting to be carefully digested.

The book also, ambitiously, included chapters on fictional narratives (analysing fiction written by women such as Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwakpa, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) alongside chapters on ‘objective history’ to attempt a more ‘comprehensive’ coverage of the grammatology of the war.

Sadly, the intellectual cowardice that forced many into silence in the face of tyranny, as condemned by Wole Soyinka in his detention memoir, The Man Died, was too evident in the book about a

country where scholarship on the war was apparently censored and official archives were sanitised to erase much of the evidence, while the prolific documentation of the war in novels, memoirs and biographies by the Igbo survivors (such as Victor and Arthur

Nwankwo with their legendary Fourth Dimension Publishing Company, completely ignored in this book). These were suspected by some authors in the book of being ‘biased’, even when backed by newspaper reports CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

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Between nials Soyinka CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26

that some dismissed as ‘propaganda’

by Biafran and foreign journalists who witnessed the war.

I have always wanted to read accounts of the Nigeria-Biafra war from the perspectives of Nigerian intellectuals on the side of Nigeria during the genocidal war, but, this book will not quench that thirst. There is no contributor from the Northern part of Nigeria, where the genocide against the Igbo started and claimed an estimated 100,000 lives, leading to the secession, and then followed by the genocidal war in which another three million people were killed, mainly through what Obafemi Awolowo, unapologetically, tried to justify with the assertion that ‘starvation is a legitimate weapon of war’. Anthony Enahoro also bragged that Nigeria had only two choices; either to starve the Igbo into surrendering or to kill them in the battlefield, as narrated by (Chinua) Achebe in There Was a Country and by Ekwe-Ekwe in Biafra Revisited.

For some reason, the word genocide was not even mentioned in the index of the book, perhaps, because the editors were searching for ‘objective’ archeology of the sort that Soyinka mocked in Season of Anomy: Poke-

Agozino

poke, a dry bone here, poke-poke, another ancient fossil there; meanwhile, rivers of fresh blood were flowing across the country, while the so-called intellectuals indulged in the ‘rabid’ historian’s ‘professional disease of tidiness’, according to Uzoigwe (p.17). What sort of intellectuals would write a book about a genocidal war in which more than three million lives of their own brothers and sisters were wasted without even acknowledging in the index that the word ‘genocidal’ was used in the text by some authors to objectively describe the atrocities?

The chapters in the book can be grouped into three categories: (1). The chapters by Igbo intellectuals (Uzoigwe, for instance) painstakingly, identified the avoidable causes of the war and the regrettable genocidal consequences (p. 34). Akachi Odoemena also detailed the genocidist boasts of Nigerian officials (pp.186-192). Furthermore, Francoise Ugochukwu, in chapter 17, defended the objectivity of the gendered historical fiction of Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra, condemning the ‘pogrom’.

Adichie

Ogechi Anyanwu reviewed the sociological, economic and psychological conditions that led to the war against those that Ojukwu called ‘the foremost champions of unity in Nigeria’ before they were forced to secede due to state-sponsored genocidal killings in the North (p.49).

Raphael Njoku and Austine Okwu focused their chapters on the Ahiara Declaration of June 1969 and suggest that it was too little too late and that it may have discouraged western superpowers from intervening to save Biafra, despite the support of the Soviet Union for Nigeria, because of the ideological borrowing of ‘African socialism’ from the Arusha Declaration of Julius Nyerere, one year earlier.

Christian Opata compared the memoirs of Alex Madiebo, a commanding general in the Biafran Army, with that of Robert Collis, an Irish medical doctor in Lagos, who left the country after the war started and who saw Nigeria as an ‘artificial’ creation that the Igbo were planning to dominate.

Opata dismissed the allegation

Jeyifo

of Igbo domination plans and concluded that all writings, including history, are reflexive of vested interests. Though all writers may lay claim to degrees of objectivity, Madiebo was, obviously, more objective than Collis. Egodi Uchendu found that Nigerian authors reflected the impact of the genocidal war on women more than foreign ones. She quoted N.U. Akpan as reporting that Igbo women demanded revenge for the killings in the North. However, the remarkable thing is that the Igbo were not seeking revenge for the genocide; they were seeking justice.

(2). The chapters by Yoruba intellectuals displayed intellectual dishonesty in vain attempts to mitigate the course of the war.

Bukola Oyeniyi, for example, parroting rational choice or game theory, represented the state-sponsored genocide against the Igbo in the North before the war as ‘the spate of violence that erupted between Hausa and Igbos in Northern Nigeria following the first military coup of 1966’ (p. 111).

He went on to, childishly, accuse (Nnamdi) Azikiwe of ‘sowing the seed of disunity in Nigeria’ just because Zik chose to, selflessly, form a government as a junior partner with the Northern Peoples Congress rather than with Awolowo’s Action Group, which, allegedly, offered him the office of the Prime Minister (p.120).

Also, Olukunle Ojeleye dismissed ‘local authors’ as lacking in objectivity or historical ‘positivism’, supposedly, due to their ‘commitment to ethnic sentiments’.

Adetayo Alabi reviewed The Trial of Christopher Okigbo by Ali Mazrui and, superficially, concluded that it was an example of magical realism or science fiction. Unlike the dramatic chastisement of Mazrui

by Ekwe-Ekwe at a Harvard University symposium on his irresponsible condemnation of a fellow intellectual for his scholar-

activism, Alabi failed to offer a word of dissent against the ideological condemnation of the heroism of Okigbo, in giving his life to stop a genocidal war, as a crime against poetry, according to Mazrui.

Amazingly, even the otherwise Marxist Jeyifo condescended to use his verbose, self-opinionated, five-part serialised, newspaper book review of There Was A Country to describe that damning witness against genocide by Achebe as the work of a ‘propagandist, media apparatchik, and ideological zealot’ (p.246).

(3). The chapters by nonNigerian intellectuals appear more sympathetic to the plight of the Igbo, who managed to survive genocide in Biafra. Fiona Bateman’s chapter, for instance, highlighted the solidarity of Irish fiction writers, who shared with the Igbo, the oppressive experience of being colonised and exposed to artificial famine.

Hugh Hodges focused on the fictionalised childhood of Chris Abani in post-Biafra Graceland characterised by lawlessness reminiscent of Spaghetti Western films that children enjoyed watching in Nigeria without realising that they were based on the subtext of the genocide against American Indian Natives.

Meredith Coffey looked at the representation of ethnic minorities in Biafra in the works of Chukwuemeka Ike and Chimamanda Adichie in a way similar to the chapter by Cyril Obi on the neglected ‘blind spot’ of minorities in the history of the war, showing that they were seen as being more likely to support Nigeria. Jane Bryce and Ofure Aito focus on the historical narratives of the ‘pogrom’ from the perspective of the survivors in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra. These chapters were more compassionate than those from most fellow Nigerian authors, especially, those from Western Nigeria.

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State of Nigerian nation: So far, so what?

Olukoya Olaoluwa, Civil Servant

Nigerians, today, are unsure of where the current economic flip-flop is heading. While some believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel, some others are pessimistic about the future of the nation’s socio-political and economic situation. The Daily Times went to the streets to feel the pulse of Nigerians on their appreciation of this new government.

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Tunde Adebayo, Furniture Designer In terms of fighting corruption, the president has really tried. He has made everybody sit up. In the past, there were wastages in spending by successive government, but now we can see everybody is trying to manage the little resources they have.

On the issue of security too, I think we have seen a lot of improvements. Of course, economic hardship is biting hard on everyone. I believe if we are more patient, in a year’s time, things will improve; prices of commodities that are hitting the roofs now will come down.

Government should create enabling environment for them so that those of them that truly want to go into business can do it under a more decorum environment.

current government is doing its best.

We cannot expect magic after all the problems and corruption of the past. We all know how it had been in the last the past 16 years or even more. We cannot expect the current government to come in a year or two, and correct the wrongs that had been done for so many years.

I think they are doing their best to fix the country into a better one. As for the issue of economic hardship, no money, these are the sacrifices we all have to pay, and we just have to bear it as citizens.

Kinsley Monday, Taxi Driver

Tolu Oyedepo, IT consultant

Truly, the economy, right now, is very bad, and is not encouraging at all. I don’t even know where we are going. The current situation is worse than before. I don’t think Buhari can still do a good job. He has been there for almost two years now and we have not seen anything tangible that he has done. One is not sure anything good will happen soon. We pray God touches his mind.

The current government is working well trying to fix the rots of the past. Nigeria had passed through a lot of things, and the oil that we depend on is no more. I know this country is passing through a lot of things, before we get better, we have to start from somewhere, and that is what I feel is the course of the economic hardship that we all face today. I believe with more concentration, things will improve better as we move along.

Joseph Umuokoro, Sales Person I think the current government is a failure. Almost two years after taking power, there is nothing to show for their effort. There is no money. Though the President is fighting corruption, but Nigerians continue to groan. Everything in the market is high and unapproachable for the low class.

The poor can no longer afford good food, and irrespective of our level in the society the fuel increment affects us all, while the cost of transportation is unbearable. When you have a business, there is also no patronage from the people because of the price increment on goods. In short, the situation now is discouraging.

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Adejoke, Radio Presenter Actually, we thank God for this regime. What I believe is that God will surely make a way for everybody. Again, we have to exercise some patience, because this man (President Buhari) is trying his best. We should all realise that the former regime wrecked a lot of damage to the system, but this administration is trying to right the wrongs of the past.

So, we have to be patient as I believe that everything will come back to its normal, good selves.

Akinshiku Abosede, Street Trader I really don’t have any words for the performance of the current situation in the country.

Things are too expensive, we only pray that He helps the country because things are not easy for the less-privileged and people can hardly afford to survive. It will only create more room for thieves and criminals. We can only pray God helps our leaders.

Osas Monday, Accountant If you ask me, I think this government is not doing enough to improve the living standard of the people, especially the less privileged. For example, there is increase in dollar rate which has devalued our currency; it has caused inflation and government needs to create more opportunities for the people.

In actual fact, the hardship we are experiencing now in the country is as a result of the government’s wrong decisions. Buhari said change and I ask where is the change? If we are making progress, and there is true change, then there should not have been this level of economic hardships in the land. I think this government needs to change its style and carry the mases along in its programmes.

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he National Association Nigeria Professional Footballers have kicked against an order that players of Giwa FC on loan to various clubs should no longer be used, saying this is discriminatory and against the rules of both FIFA and the league.

The union argued that stopping the

players from being part of the league will impact negatively on their means of livelihood especially in a matter they did not cause.

“The LMC decision to exclude players procured on the expulsion of Giwa FC, from playing for their new clubs, while the league continues without them is in itself highly discriminatory and a

flagrant breach of both FIFA statute and its own NPFL Framework. ( See Article 3,4, 14 (i) 15 (c & e) and 4 of the FIFA Statute and The Preamble to the NPFL frame work 2016),” read the statement signed by the union’s legal adviser Malachy Ugwuanyi.

“The exclusion of these players from playing matches would bear

negatively on their livelihood, as most of them will not be paid, and are technically rendered clubless by this directive.

“Whatever events that led to this “policy summersault” were never the fault of these players, since their contract with Giwa FC became “RES EXTINTA”.

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elechi Iheanacho has extended his contract at Premier League side Manchester City till 2021 with manager Pep Guardiola saying he has been impressed with the Nigeria international.

City manager Guardiola said he hopes to help Iheanacho realise his full potential at the Etihad Stadium.

“Kelechi is a natural goalscorer. I knew about him before, but I’ve been really impressed with him since I arrived,” he said.

“I like his personality, his attitude, his ability - we hope to help him reach the highest level and to realise his full potential.”

Iheanacho said: “I can’t express how I’m feeling.

I’m very happy to sign my new deal for this club, I’m excited.

“I just need to keep working hard and express my feelings on the pitch, and work really well and do great things for the team.

“I’m happy and I appreciate everything the club has done for me so far at this point so I really need to help and work for them as well.”

Last season, Iheanacho netted 14 goals in 11 starts for City.

Iheanacho extends Man City contract

Rio 2016:

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Lawal bemoans U-23 Eagles loss to Germany

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igeria failed to repeat the historic feat of winning Olympic football Gold 20 years after because the team lost their focus, according to former Nigeria star Garba Lawal.

Coach Samson Siasia’s team will now have to battle Honduras for bronze on Saturday in Belo Horizonte after they were beaten 2-0 by Germany in Wednesday’s semi-final.

Garba Lawal was part of the team who made history by winning Olympic Gold in Atlanta in 1996 and he told AfricanFootball. com the country’s team ought to have focused on repeating this feat rather than be distracted from their goal.

“Not many people knew what we went through as a team when we eventually won Gold in Atlanta. We were not paid for several weeks and were at the mercy of the hotel we stayed at in Atlanta over unpaid bills. But we did not allow all that to take us away from our target, which was to be Olympic champions,” Lawal said.

“We all knew that once we won, all that we did not get, we will be given. And that was exactly what happened.

“It is rather unfortunate that the present team did not work like that and before you know it all

their problems were in the media.”

Lawal further revealed that the team will have to fight against less fancied Honduras if they were to leave Brazil with a bronze medal on Saturday evening.

NPFL: Nasarawa stun Pillars

with Agba’s late strike Nasarawa United needed a stoppage time Samuel Agba goal to beat Kano Pillars 1-0 in continuation of the Nigeria league on Thursday.

Pillars stayed in 10th place on the table with 42 points from 30 matches, while Nasarawa climbed to fifth on 46 points.

Agba came off the bench to grab the late match winner courtesy of an assist by Simon Zenke.

Both teams created various chances in a tension-soaked encounter with Nasarawa strikers Abdulrahman Bashir and Tayo Fabiyi guilty of throwing away openings for their team to win by a bigger margin.

Pillars goalkeeper David Obiozor also pulled off a number of saves to keep his team in the game, while strikers Hassan Adamu and Gambo Mohammed failed to make hay after Pillars stepped up their play.

Bashir

orld Cup winners Germany want to make more history by securing the Olympic double as their men’s and women’s teams battle for football gold.

This is the first time teams from the same country will contest both the men’s and women’s finals at an Olympic Games.

Two years ago, Joachim Loew’s Germany humiliated Brazil 7-1 in the semifinal on the way to winning the 2014 World Cup final at the Maracana.

The women’s team, coached by Silvia Neid, face Sweden today at the iconic Rio stadium in the Olympic gold medal match.

The men’s team for the Olympics – effectively Germany’s Under-23 team coached by Horst Hrubesch – play hosts Brazil 24 hours later with the Selecao eyeing revenge for their semifinal thrashing two years ago.

“Both teams have made history. That’s sensational,” Hansi Flick, the German FA’s director of sport, said.

“We have been worthy of representing German football at the Olympics. We have already partially fulfilled our mission.”

Neid and Hrubesch had joked before arriving in Brazil that they would see each other on the plane home with Olympic gold medals around their necks.

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Leicester ready for Arsenal test — Ranieri

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laudio Ranieri is confident Leicester City are ready to bounce back from their opening-day loss against Hull City when they take on Arsenal at the weekend.

The reigning champions were beaten 2-1 in their Premier League opener, whereas Arsenal were defeated 4-3 by Liverpool.

Ranieri realises his team awaits a tough task on Saturday, but he is hopeful they have what it takes to get a good result.

“We lost twice to Arsenal last season. We know they are a good team with a good manager, but we

are ready,” Ranieri said.

“I watched Arsenal’s first match.

They played very well in the first half, but then Liverpool scored three times in quick succession.

“Arsene Wenger is one of the best managers in the world for me. I have a lot of respect for him.

“We have to do everything right then accept what is our destiny.

Our strength is the same. We have good spirit and work well on the training ground.

“We won’t change our mentality. We are strong and we believe. We know we have to work hard.”

Klopp surprised by Mourinho

Moreno criticism

Ranieri sure of Mahrez stay Mourinho L expects Claudio Ranieri revealed he was always confident Riyad Mahrez would commit his long-term future to Leicester City. The Algeria international ended reports linking him with a move away from Leicester, by signing a new four-year contract at the club on Wednesday. Mahrez played a vital role in Leicester’s title winning campaign last season, scoring 17 goals and making 11 assists to be voted the PFA Players’ Player of the Year.

Chelsea set

to sign Eduardo Chelsea are set to complete the signing of Portugal goalkeeper Eduardo, according to Dinamo Zagreb manager Zlatko Kranjcar. Kranjcar revealed the 33-year-old, who had previously been linked with Sporting CP, was ready to join Antonio Conte’s

side after playing in the second leg of Zagreb’s Champions League playoff tie against Red Bull Salzburg next Wednesday. Eduardo was in his country’s squad for their victorious Euro 2016 campaign but did not play a match.

Injured Ayew out

for four months

West Ham have confirmed record signing Andre Ayew is facing four months out with a thigh injury. The winger - signed from Swansea City for £20.5million this month - had to be replaced in the first half of his debut in Monday’s 2-1 Premier League defeat to Chelsea after sustaining the injury. West Ham had previously revealed that scans had indicated Ayew, 26, would face “a significant rehabilitation period” and co-owner David Gold said on Thursday that the timeframe would be four months.

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ose Mourinho has little doubt that Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s career at Manchester United will extend into a second season.

Swedish great Ibrahimovic reportedly signed a one-year deal, with an option for a second, when joining United in July.

At the age of 34, Ibrahimovic has shown no signs of slowing down, scoring in both of his United performances so far, including a late Wembley winner in the Community Shield against Leicester City.

And Mourinho is confident that the veteran superstar has quickly settled to life in England, as well as on the pitch.

“I ask about his family, his wife, his kids - I know how important these things are to him - integration, house and everything is fine and everybody is happy,” Mourinho said before todays Premier League visit of Southampton.

“He has a very high motivation, so I see him here, no doubts, for the next two years.”

iverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has defended Alberto Moreno in the wake of recent criticism and feels the reaction to the Spaniard’s performance in the 4-3 win over Arsenal has been exaggerated.

Moreno conceded a penalty - which was subsequently missed - after bringing down Theo Walcott, before he was caught out of position for the England international’s goal a minute later.

The 24-year-old was heavily criticised for his performance, with some even suggesting Liverpool have little chance of qualifying for the Champions League with Moreno on the pitch, but Klopp refuses to point the finger at the former Sevilla man.

“If someone doesn’t perform too well we talk about it in a press conference? That’s cool,” Klopp said at a news conference when asked about Moreno’s display.

“I am not interested in criticism. Alberto played for a reason. Is the world not satisfied with our leftback?

“He was involved in a penalty situation and that’s something we spoke about. We’ve spoken about it. In my opinion, we could have avoided this situation and yes Alberto could have done better, that’s right. But I don’t understand what we are talking about.

Sissoko “We are talking about Moreno because he didn’t defend so well against Arsenal?

I don’t understand the conversation, maybe I should read more newspapers...”

Moreno is the o n l y Klopp genuine left-back in Liverpool’s squad, but Klopp has stressed they will only bring in another option if they find the right player.

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SPECIAL FEATURE “For reasons that no one has been able to explain to Nigerians, Mikel arrives at the national team level and wants to play as a number 10. He wants to be the playmaker when he clearly does not have the tools.” #ƏƆ ƌ jƆ ƌ y9 Ƌƈ Ɔ Ƒƍ ƄƆƇ ƏƆ Ɛ ƆƈƏ `ƈ ƾƠơÕ ƆƌƈƇƈ Ƌ Ƌ Ɛ 1ƆƏƌ ƕ zƆƗ Ɔ Ɨ ƕê

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or the record let me just say that I am an unapologetic fan of international football.

I place very little value on any football tournament that is of the age-grade kind and the Olympics Football event falls into that. By restricting it to the Under-23s, Fifa have also made sure nothing can rival the Fifa World Cup - that ultimate in football competition.

Just to get that out of the way.

By the weekend Nigeria will be battling Honduras for the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics after the defeat to Germany in the semifinal. As usual, Nigerians had placed a lot of faith in this team to repeat the gold medal feat from the Atlanta games of 1996.

Or perhaps equal the silver medal that Coach Samson Siasia got with his Beijing Olympics team of 2008.

Leave aside the entire off field issues that affected the team before and during the competition for a moment and let me see if this side are better than a bronze medal.

I did not watch their opening game against Japan live but saw the highlights later. I was genuinely aghast at the defending but I put it down to the travel arrangements and difficulties getting to Rio. I was able to watch the rest of their matches but did not see any improvement on their defending and so I was not surprised by the defeat to a much better organised and better coached Germany. After the Germany defeat I was probably too harsh in describing the team as “awful” on Twitter. However, this team, or squad from what I saw, played above themselves to get to this position. I am not in any way uncharitable to say that many of these players would never have made the 2008 squad in Beijing.

Samson Siasia is probably one of the luckiest Nigerian coaches alive. He rarely gets criticised in the press but for me this team he took to Rio bears a striking resemblance to the Under-20 team he took to Egypt in 2009.

Rio 2016: Dream Team VI not good for soccer gold In terms of a dearth of quality! Another failing of his was a lack of apparent style of play. To be perfectly honest, after such a long time in camp and many training matches before arriving in Rio, I expected a more cohesive and coherent tactical shape than I saw in the matches I watched.

The first of the two biggest failings of Siasia, for me, was the needless playing of Oghenekaro Etebo in the meaningless tie with Colombia, from which the forward got injured.

There was no need at all. Etebo was probably the only member of the squad who possessed the X factor that could translate into goals. He is one of those rare players who can sniff out chances and arrives just in time to gobble up gifts.

The second failing was one that many other Nigerian coaches have failed on in the past: John Obi Mikel. In the past 10 seasons in England there have been few better holding midfielders at that exact job - break up play, keep it simple and get your team back up on the front foot.

For reasons that no one has been able to explain to Nigerians, Mikel arrives at the national team level and wants to play as a number 10. He wants to be the playmaker when he clearly does not have the tools. It is instructive that only during the brief tenure of Sunday Oliseh - he that made that position his for many years for the national team no less did Nigeria have a coach who asked him to play

there or sit on the bench.

For the life of me I will never understand why the player thinks it beneath him to play that role for Nigeria. Against Germany,

“The first of the two biggest failings of Siasia, for me, was the needless playing of Oghenekaro Etebo in the meaningless tie with Colombia, from which the forward got injured. There was no need at all. Etebo was probably the only member of the squad who possessed the X factor that could translate into goals. He is one of those rare players who can sniff out chances and arrives just in time to gobble up gifts.”

just like the Bender twins were doing, Mikel should have sat deep on front of the back four and controlled how the team would play.

His experience would have been invaluable in a position he is fundamentally comfortable in.

There are those who will say there are players that were not released by their clubs for Nigeria. The Swedes and the Danes, who Nigeria beat, will say the same thing. The players we chose, though, were very limited in terms of talent while others like the tall Sadiq Umar are young and developing.

The AS Roma of Italy striker has the tools but will need to work harder to improve them. The centre-back Sincere Seth looks a natural defender and is one that would have benefited from proper coaching in a backline.

If some of these players are available for the full national team for many years to come then the purpose of the event would have been served. It is an age-grade competition anyway and qualifies for just one medal, despite the registered 18-member squads.

The Brazil v Germany gold-medal match will be a proper humdinger. The natives are baying for blood after the World Cup disgrace in Belo Horizonte two years ago. The Germans are cool. They are confident. Both countries are after a first gold medal in this event. The quality of Neymar could just swing it for the hosts. It will be a great watch! Ï ƑƋƋƆƗ ƇƏ ƌ ƍ ƏƐ ƍ ƏƐêƅ ƌ

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Ojo Maduekwe: ‘Nigerian Project’ personified bows out of time God’s Covenant Snr

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here has to be a way to fathom death… and tame him. The way he comes, whether expected or unexpected, can be upsetting; he just sneaks in, or badges in and breaks up a whole lot of things humans hold dear to heart.

That the former minister of many affairs died at 71 is not so much why the nation is mourning his passage, but he could have edged closer a little to 85, 90 or thereabout, couldn’t he? After all, hadn’t the man most powerful governments of the world love to hate - the unrepentant Fidel Castro, clocked 90, and still kicking? He has even outlived people who tried more than 600 times to assassinate him!

But like the Awolowos, whose legendary Matriarch passed quietly away last September while the children busied themselves costing and ordering things in preparation for her 99th birth day celebrations, the household of the Maduekwes, in a similar scenario, were all set for the birthday of Chief (Mrs.) Ucha Maduekwe, with just three days to go, when death sneaked in and left unseen with the man God created in His own image in Ohafia, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State - exactly 71 years ago.

Ucha’s birthday was due on Saturday July 2nd, a day God Himself set aside for celebration.

With her, it used to be a double celebration because she has a twin sister, Mrs. Nnenna Anigbo, both of whom were born within

minutes of each other 66 years ago, then death just barged in and took the anchor man away on June 29th. So, I ask you: if angel death had waited just a little while longer, would that had been asking for too much?

But there it is, folks; when he visits, in whichever way he chooses to, the fragility, emptiness and absolute nothingness of natural life, stare us all in the face.

The reason the living are uncomfortable about the angel of death is the manner he makes everyone realise that they don’t count.

No matter how much importance people attach to you, or how deeply you are involved in the most important project on earth, when he badges in, it is curtains: someone else will continue where you stopped.

he way to make life count is live it to the fullest, in uprightness, integrity and fear of the God you do not see.

Ojo Maduekwe stirred happiness in a great many people across the globe, even as he caused some disquiet in governance, but above all, he is as missed as everyone is eulogising since his passage.

Maduekwe is mourned as a consummate politician, diplomat, legislator, activist, administrator, father to all, a good scholar and husband - and these are not for saying sake.

When he was appointed Minister of Transport in 2001, one of his ideas to tackle the country’s transportation problems was to sell the idea of riding bicycles to work to Nigerians. He had apparently seen millions of Europeans, Chinese, Indians and other peoples trying to save both the planet and fuel by riding bicycles to their workplaces and wanted it replicated in the country.

So he advocated greater use of bicycles, although critics said that the roads were unsafe for cyclists and Maduekwe himself was pushed into a ditch by a bus, while he was cycling to work.

He was in 1983 elected into the National Assembly, a short-lived parliament that was dissolved by the military coup d’etat by the then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari on December 31 of the same year.

The late ex-minister had a gift of bringing people together and building consensus on thorny issues. Indeed, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which had been paralysed by crises since it lost last year’s presidential election, deeply mourned the exit of Maduekwe. He was the secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees and was widely regarded as one capable of bringing the contending factions in the party together.

Nigerians will always remember Maduekwe for his forthrightness and his nationalistic approach to politics. His unshaken commitment to the Nigerian project often got him into trouble with his Igbo kinsmen for his failure to support their agitation for an Igbo president.

In him, Nigeria lost a true nationalist and patriot.

May his soul rest in peace.

Business Times Daily Times Nigeria Friday, August 19, 2016

FG to launch Page B2 petroleum road map next week

OPEC omits world’s largest refinery, Dangote from list Page B2

Amendment of NLNG Act to cost Nigeria over $25b Opeoluwani Akintayo Outgoing Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NLNG, Babs Omotowa, has said any attempt by Nigeria to amend the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Act of 2004, will violate bilateral agreements with international

investors, as well as cost the country $25 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) and fines running in billions at the International Courts.

Omotowa said this in Lagos on Thursday at the 2016 National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) Annual Conference.

Omotowa, who was the Chairman at the event, has been the Managing Director for NLNG for some five years and will be handing over to incoming MD, Tony Attah, on September 1, 2016.

Speaking during his address to top executives in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria, Omotowa

said NLNG, through its expansion growth programme which involves the expansion of production capacity of the LNG plant in Bonny, Rivers State with a Train 7 and 8, could attract $25 billion, create 30,000 construction jobs, help to further reduce gas flaring, and generate over $1billion to $2 billion

FG concessioned NIOMCo to GINL to avoid $520m penalty – Minister

additional revenue to the country in taxes and dividend.

“In a period of huge youth unemployment and need for more revenue, this should really be a cause we should have all hands on deck for especially as NLNG has demonstrated its pedigree having attracted $15billion in foreign investment, grown from a 2 Train to a 6 Train plant, contributed to reducing gas flaring from 65% to below 20%, delivered $33billion to Nigeria from a $2.5billion investment.

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Adamawa Beverages makes N3.8b turn over in 2015 Tom Garba Yola

Henry Omunu & Emmanuel Iriogbe, Abuja The House of Representative Committee on Privatization was yesterday told that it was in a desperate effort to avoid payment of $520 million penalty to Global Infrastructure Nigeria Limited GINL, that the Federal Government hurriedly signed a Modified Concessioning agreement with the company.

This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Solid Minerals Abubakar Bwari when he appeared before the committee on privatization chaired by Rep. Admed Yerima and co- chaired by Rep. Babatunde Kolawole.

The minister revealed that GNLI had taken the Federal Government to the International

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L-R: Chairman, Promo Committee/Regional Bank Head, Apapa, Obaro Odeghe; Executive Director, Shared Services & Products, Chijioke Ugochukwu; Deputy Managing Director, Balarabe Mohammed; Executive Director, Corporate Bank, Adeyeye Adepegba, all of Fidelity Bank at the unveiling of ‘Get Alert In Millions’ savings promo held at the Bank’s head office in Lagos…on Thursday.

The Chairman Board of Directors Adamawa Beverage Limited, the producers of Faro Table Water and Juice, Akin KekereEkun,said the company achieved a turn-over of N3.8 Billion for the year 2015 as against N3.5 Billion recorded last year representing 10.5 per cent increase in turn over.

Ekun made this known to newsmen Thursday in Yola during an Annual General Meeting (AGM)of the company held at the company’s Board Room at Kofare Industrial layout.

Represented by Alhaji Adamu Mobiddo the Chairman noted that shareholders’ funds of the company had grown to N1.2 Billion with assets worth over N6.

Billion, adding that the company had attain optimum production capacity 40,000 bottle per hour of table water.

MTN records $70m from music distribution in Africa Tony Nwakaegho Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator, MTN, has disclosed it recorded $70 million from distributing digital music in Africa from January to June 2016.

The feat is said to be part of MTN’s diversification strategy as this has seen it delving into mobile money, telematics, cloud

computing, connected cars and telemedicine.

As part of its hunt for new revenue streams, MTN has been quietly conquering the digital music space.

There is nothing quiet about MTN Music generating more than R944 million ($70 million) in revenues in the six months to end-June 2016 from distributing music digitally in Africa.

For MTN, this performance in the digital music space is nothing but part of its diversification strategy to retain customers and differentiate itself from competitors.

Commenting on how MTN is differentiating itself in this space, Herman Singh, MTN Group chief digital officer said that MTN has built the capability to offer music to its custom-

ers in eight different formats: MP3 (full tracks), ringtones (true tones), Caller Ring Back Tones, Streaming (music on demand), radio streaming, IVR radio, music subscriptions and music videos. In addition, MTN Music offers a variety of exclusive local content.

MTN does not produce music, but earns income from music distribution through MP3, ring-

tones, caller ring back tones, music on demand and music subscriptions.

Singh said Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator has built a reputation in the music space and hit $70 million in revenues for the six months to-end June 2016.

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L-R MAN Gas Group Ex-Officio Mr Adekunle Olusuyi, Hon .Treasurer MAN Gas Group, Rev. Martins Olaomoju, Ex. Officio Prince Felix Oba Okojie,Chairman MAN Gas Group, Dr. Micheal Ola Adebayo and Ag. DG MAN, Mr. Segun Ajayi-Kadir at a press conference to decry astronomical increase in the price of Natural Gas to manufacturers.

Opeoluwani Akintayo The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has said the Petroleum Ministry will launch a Petroleum Road Map next week.

He made the revelation in a chat with Business Times on Thursday in Lagos.

According to the Minister,

FG to launch petroleum road map next week the Petroleum sector needs to come out with policies that will end the ongoing economic crisis in country.

He said the Ministry will launch three policies- the gas policy, Petroleum policy, and a Petroleum road map.

“We this point in Nigeria’s economy, we need to come out with polices that will drive positive changes especially in the Petroleum industry. There had to be a policy to bring about gas revolution. That is why we are going to be launching three pol-

icies- the gas policy, the Petroleum policy and the Petroleum road map. It would be unveiled next week.” he said.

Nigeria realises N110b from Bonds auction Joy Ekeke

OPEC omits world’s largest refinery, Dangote from list Opeoluwani Akintayo The Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has omitted Dangote refinery which is the world’s largest from its list.

The omission was made in the cartel’s latest report. Instead, OPEC declared Saudi Arabia’s 400,000 barrels per day Saudi Aramco, and Total joint venture refinery in Jubril Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest.

Dangote refinery and Petrochemical Company with a total capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, is expected to be fully operational by 2018.

OPEC said that besides Saudi Aramco, and Total joint venture refinery, other large new refineries are expected to come on stream in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, with several expansion projects under construction in countries like Lobito, Angola, Tiaret, Al-

geria, Manabi, Eucardo, Fujairah, UAE, Jazan Industrial City, Saudi Arabia and El Palito, Venezuela.

“The next addition will be in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, as a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and Sinopec which is designed for an operational capacity of 400,000 bpd targeting primarily ultralow sulphur diesel and gasoline as final products. Early 2015, an expansion of the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company’s existing facility in Ruwais, UAE, is expected to be fully operational.

This will put on stream another 417,000 bpd of distillation capacity in the region, “the report said.

According to available reports, the refinery and fertilizer projects of Dangote Industries Limited is expected to create a minimum of 235,000 new jobs, both direct and indirect jobs, as it becomes operational in the first quarter of 2019.

President of Dangote Group,

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with MTN’s role in the music industry, it’s a company that has created a niche for itself among musicians.

In the past few years, the mobile phone firm based in Johannesburg has grown into Africa’s biggest digital music distributor.

Singh said MTN Music now

has about 70 million customers in Africa, adding that on average there are 50 million downloads across all our music offerings each month.

The biggest region that downloads more music on MTN platform is the West Africa region, which consists of Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry and Guinea-Bissau.

Aliko Dangote, who revealed this, also stated that the projects would cost a minimum of $17 billion.

Dangote said the $12 billion refinery would have a capacity of 650,000 barrels a day.

When the projects fully take off in 2019, Dangote said it would help the country save $5 billion spent on the importation of oil into the country.

The refinery, petrochemicals and fertilizer in one spot according to him is the single largest stream in the world.

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday realised about N110 billion from bonds auction according to information released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).

The auctioned bonds are ex-

Speaking on gas flaring, Kachikwu said Nigeria has to transit from a gas flaring regime to flare Commercialisation.

pected to mature in 2021, 2026 and 2036, the DMO said.

The DMO’s auction shows that it sold N40 billion of 2021 paper at 14.50 per cent.

It also sold N30 billion of 2026 paper at 12.50 per cent and N40 billion of 2036 paper at 12.40 per cent.

The summary stated that an additional N109.5 billion of the 14.50 per cent July 2021 bonds was allotted on non-competitive basis.

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reduced gas flaring, etc is being put in jeopardy by attempts to renege on promises that Nigeria gave to foreign investors that enabled the historical $15billion investment historically attracted.

“Whilst the Executive has demonstrated full commitment to the need to keep the sanctity of the NLNG Act, the attempt by the Legislature to amend the clear promises made to investors will cost the country quite a lot. Apart from the relocation of investments in excess of $25billion to other countries, Nigeria will also be opened to fines running into billions of dollars in International Courts for reneging on agreements. Such incentives in the NLNG Act are

normal in the LNG world including in Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, Angola, etc. Even in Nigeria, more generous incentives are contained in legislation such as the Oil & Gas Free Trade Zone Act,” he said.

“This period of low oil price is not a time to jeopardize Nigeria’s long term interests by showing Nigeria as a place not to be trusted, and projecting our business environment as unconducive,” Omotowa added.

Analysing the unfortunate trend of declining oil and gas prices globally, he said the crisis was responsible for the recession currently experience in the country because of the mono-product structure of the economy which left development in the other parts of the economy stunted.

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Court of Justice at the Hague for breach of concession agreement entered in 2004 over the concession of Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Company and rehabilitation of Nigerian Iron Ore Manufacturing Company NIOMCO Itakpe for 10 years, also, the construction of Warri - Ajaokuta railway line as well as Delta Steel Company for

20years.

The minister further disclosed that the government of former President Umaru Yaradua revoked the contract in 2008 when it was discovered that the contract process was shrouded in mystery as entered into by the Obasanjo administration. Towing the same line, former President Goodluck Jonathan still refrained from endorsing an amended version of

the concession agreement.

The minister who was not eager to reveal the details of the Modified Concession Agreement recently entered into between GNLI and the Federal government, said that the Ajaokuta Steel Company and the Warri - Itakpe railway line has been removed from the GNLI while they will be expected to generate raw materials to Delta Steel Company.

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Briefs Ecobank wins best retail banker, other awards in Africa Ecobank has won Best Retail Banker in Africa award, Customer Relationship Management of the Year, Retail Risk Management Initiative of the Year and Best Business Model Execution in West Africa for 2016 at The Asian Banker’s 1st Annual West Africa Awards Ceremony held in Lagos recently.

The Best Retail Banker in Africa award went to Patrick Akinwuntan, Group Executive, Consumer Bank Ecobank Group.

The maiden Asian Banker’s West Africa Awards are acknowledged in the financial sector as a strong indicator of excellence among the financial services industry.

According to the organisers of the Awards, Ecobank was awarded for its customer relationship initiative through the commitment to provide convenient, accessible and reliable banking products and services to its customers; use of business intelligence tools and credit bureau information, to provide a secure banking environment to its customers, and its three tier

business model that focuses on customer segmentation, coverage, and channels to serve each segment.

While commenting on Akinwuntan, Group Executive, Consumer Bank Ecobank Group, who won the Best Retail Banker in Africa, the organisers observed that under his leadership, the retail business has witnessed substantial transformation, innovation and growth in all its segments and dimensions – customers, products and channels, adding that the retail banking which he supervises hasturned into a leader in the retail banking space across many of the countries that it operates in.

“The bank boasts a largest retail customer base in sub-Sahara Africa of about 11 million and works to promote financial inclusion through retail microfinance operations covering six countries serving over one and a half million micro-finance customers. The retail banking financial performance is impressive; revenues reached $481 million last year with balance sheet in excess of $5billion.”

L-R: Managing Director, the La Casera Company, Mr Roland Ebelt Consuming La Casera Apple Drink with the Nafdac Director General representative, Mr William Effiok and Director, Product Certification, Standard Organisation Of Nigeria (Son), Mr Bayo Adigun, during the factory tour of the La Casera Company in Lagos…on Thursday.

FG raises N219b in FGN bonds at higher yield-DMO Stories by Motolani Oseni Debt Management Office (DMO) on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria has raised a total sum of N219.58 billion in local currency denominated bonds with higher yields, at an auction on Wednesday, the Debt Manager disclosed on Thursday.

The DMO said it targetted N40 billion through offer for her monthly auction of FGN bonds, which will be matured in February 2020, and N50, 000,000 worth of FG Bond, an equivalent of 12.50 percent to be matured 2026.in January The debt office said it sold 40 billion naira of 2021 paper at 15.08 percent at Wednesday’s auction, compared with 14.50 percent at the previous auction

last month.

The DMO explained that it also sold N30 billion of 2026 debt at 15.28 percent, against 14.90 percent, and 40 billion naira of the 2036 debt at 15.53 percent against 14.98 percent.

Also, it sold N109.29 billion more than the initially advertised amount of N40 billion for the 2021 paper at the auction, with a total subscription at the auction stood at 210.29 billion naira, lower than the 231.76 billion naira demanded at the last sale.

Nigeria is in the middle of its worst crisis in decades as a slump in oil revenues hammers public finances and the naira.

Gross domestic product shrank in the first quarter and the central bank governor has said a recession is likely.

Meanwhile, the second largest

economy has earlier disclosed that it would borrow about N900 billion locally to finance part of the N2.2 trillion deficit in its 2016 budget, to plug shortfalls.

It is worthy to note that the federal government issues local bonds as part of measures to finance the government budget deficit and also help to manage liquidity in the banking system.

However, the nation’s currency, naira on Thursday depreciated against the dollar in a single interbank market trade of $1 million, Thomson Reuters data has showed.

The naira, traded at an alltime low of 365.25 to the dollar on Thursday, where interbank trading started two hours after the market opened and offered the currency sharply lower against the dollar.

Unity Bank boosts financial inclusion with salary earners product As part of efforts to boost financial inclusion, Unity Bank Plc has introduced a current account product-UnityMax, targeted at employees and salary earners in corporate organizations, multinational corporations, FMCGs, government parastatals, MDAs as well as SMEs. The bank said that the introduction of this new product was in line with its bid

to widen the base of products for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) innovation to enhance.

According to the lender, Unity-Max is designed to assist various categories of employees with financial planning in form of target savings, investment as well as accessing facilities at concessionary rates.

In a statement made available to our correspondent in Lagos on Thursday, the bank stated

that the Product is targeted at fixed income earners, from junior staff to executives, as the account empowers them to access various forms of financing to meet needs even before the next pay-cheque.

“For medium to large organizations, Unity-Max accounts also come with a specially designed Verve debit card that can be co-branded with the organization; the

cards can be designed with the identity card and passport photograph of the customer.

“The product is packaged to cater for all cadres of salary earners from across the segment in the public and private sector. Part of the initiatives to empower income earners is the flexible conditions for accessing benefits of the product”, the bank added.

As a bundle offering, holders

of the account are also able to access their account through Unity Bank’s e-business platform such as robust Internet Banking and Unity Mobile to enjoy even greater electronic convenience.

It would recall that the lender recently relocated its head office from Abuja to Lagos to deepen its offerings for financial inclusion in the retail market.

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MAN decries arbitrary increase, dollarisation of natural gas prices Stories by Charles Okonji Following the persistent increase in the price of natural gas; Gas Users Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) who depend on the product to power their plants and machinery has issued a save-our-soul (SoS) message to the Federal Government of Nigeria saying most factories are in a crisis situation over the non-supply of the product to power their operations.

This is even as the group bemoaned the current exorbitant and dollarisation of the product by the gas franchisers who have

priced it out of their reach.

According to the Chairman of the group, Dr. Michael Ola Adebayo; the manufacturing sector is facing a lot of challenges which is not unconnected with the economic realities currently facing the country and it became pertinent that the federal government and the general public is made aware of some of the challenges the sector is facing.

“The incessant increase in the price of natural gas which has persisted for some time now has reached a crisis dimension as most factories have stopped production and are about to shut down their operations due to the

non-supply of gas to power their operation and the current exorbitant and demand of foreign exchange to buy the product.

In fact some of our factories have been threatened with disconnection on account of their inability to pay the increased prices’’ he added.

Tracing the genesis of the imbroglio, Adebayo said problem started in 2008 when one of the franchisers of the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) increased the price of gas from N21.05 per Standard Cubic Metre (scm) to N67.63 per scm on a claim that the company was bench-marking the Petroleum Products

Price Regulations and Monitoring Agency (PPPRA) template to fix its prices.

After series of negotiation, MAN conceded to a 15 percent increase to enable the franchisers recoup their investments, which was to be the bane of MAN. Another faulty move by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources which bench-marked the price of natural gas to the movement of foreign exchange as published by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was fingered as the final nail in the coffin of the group. ‘’For the past one year, manufacturers have been confronted

with series of increase in the price of natural gas due to the unstable rate of exchange of dollars to naira’’ he said.

The group however called on government to as matter of urgency put effective measures in place to checkmate the excesses of some powerful people in order to enhance good governance and the sustenance of the economy.

The group also urged FG and CBN to look at the flagrant abuse of its directives that businesses transacted in the country should be transacted in the local currency, hence Natural Gas should be charged in Naira and not in dollars.

OPS frets over FG’s proposed 9% CST bill The Organised Private Sector (OPS) has lamented over the proposed plan by the federal government seeking to levy a charge of nine percent for the use of communication services, noting that this move would only succeed in stiffening the prevailing high cost of doing business in the country.

The operators said the economic implications of this bill would affect consumer purchasing power which they say negates the principle of neutrality, maintaining that it will also discourage investment and impede development of the telecommunications sector.

They posited that the bill potentially creates and raises the issue of double taxation since Value Added Tax (VAT) act already imposes tax of five percent on the supply of goods and services, calling for the suspension of the bill to allow for the rapid growth of the telecommunications sector in line with the Nigerian National Broadband Plan.

The Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, stated that bill which is before the Senate and House of Representatives have commenced the legislative process to enact the bill which he said has passed its first reading.

The Minister during the private sector dialogue session on the proposed communication services tax bill organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), stated that according to many schools of thought, the bill seeks to impose additional charges on users of electronic communication services in Nigeria.

Shittu stated; “Bearing this in mind, I therefore wish to consult extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the present issue of the bill and advise Mr. President on the voice of the people as well as the right and best global practice. That is why I chose personally to be here as I need to get first hand informed opinions from the relevant stakeholders.”

He added that the proposed national ICT roadmap is poised to set out the intent and commitment of the government to continue the development of the ICT sector and implement the sector policies and plans in an integrated, focused and innovative manner that aligns with the change mantra of the current administration.

He stated; “We all know that the introduction of new taxes without harmonising existing ones will put pressure on the Nigerian tax system making it unattractive to investors. This may be also counter-productive in the long run for our targets on broadband penetration.”

He noted that the ICT roadmap gives fresh impetus for implementing existing policies and reviewing any policy that is inimical to the growth of the sector, stating that the ministry’s focus on any tax regime will be to align any process that will stimulate the economy and also ensure that the tax system is efficient by widening the tax net and creating an effective framework for tax compliance to protect the poor and vulnerable in the society who nonetheless have to use telecom services for social inclusion and financial services.

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President, Lagos Chambers Of Commerce & Industry [LCCI] Dr Mrs Nike Akande, Minister Of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shitu, And, Chairman, Association Of Licensed Telecommunications Operators Of Nigeria , Gbenga Adebayo, At The LCCI Communication Services Tax Stakeholders Meeting, In Lagos, On Wednesday.

Erisco Foods commences expansion, lays foundation for multi – billion Naira farm As part of its commitment to aggressively create jobs against all odds, Erisco Foods Limited has performed the ground – breaking/foundation ceremony of its multi – billion Naira Tomatoes, Rice, Groundnuts, Maize farm and Tomato processing plant in Katsina State on the 9th of August 2016.

According to the President of Erisco Foods Limited, Chief Eric Umeofia, the driving force that brought about the expansion is the company’s backward integration scheme for the growth of the much needed foods and raw materials for use in their factories in Lagos and other parts of Northern Nigeria, including Katsina state.

Umeofia stated that the efforts of the company were geared towards diversification of the nation’s economy, save the scarce foreign exchange, earn foreign exchange and above all create jobs for our teeming youths.

He said, “Our strategy in formally commissioning the farm and tomato processing factory is to reinforce our policy of backward integration by making sure that we attain self-sufficiency in tomato production using local produce.

It will interest you to know that we are the only company in the whole of the country that currently produces tomato paste from fresh and dried tomatoes and the production

lines were recently commissioned by the Wife of the President – Her Excellency, Hajia Aisha Muhammadu Buhari on February 18, 2016.”

He commended the efforts of the President towards economic diversification of the country and advised that it is only Nigerians and genuine foreign investors who can look inwards and do what Erisco Foods Limited is doing to stop the wastage of over 75 percent of harvested fresh tomatoes in the country. He further said that with the right support and encouragement, in six – nine months, the effects of this ceremony will be felt nationwide.

Capital Market B6 Briefs

PZ Cussons posts PAT of N2.13 billion PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc has released its full year financial results for the year ended 31st May 2016, posting a N2.13 billion as the Profit After Tax (PAT) for the year. This represents a 54 percent decline from N4.6 billion posted as profit for the same period of 2012.

Embattled with the scarcity of foreign-exchange, soaring inflation and weaker consumer demand, the consumer goods company’s revenue dropped 4.9 percent to N69.5 billion.

The Lagos-based soap making company in its results published on the Nigerian Stock Exchange website also revealed that profit before tax fell 52 percent to N3.1 billion from N6.6 billion recorded for the 2015 financial year, trimming earnings per share to 47 kobo from N1.02 per share “The business environment for the fast-moving consumer goods sector was extremely challenging,” Chairman Kolawole Jamodu said in the statement. Operating conditions were tough largely because of the global slump in the price of oil, on which Nigeria’s government depends for about 70 percent of revenue, and a shortage of dol-

lars to pay for imports.

The company’s chairman remained optimistic that the central bank’s decision to ease capital controls and devalue the naira on June 20 should improve conditions.

“The challenges still exist in the economy, however, we are optimistic that the flexible exchange rate policy introduced in June 2016 will result in improved prospects,” he said.

Nigeria has been battered by the plunge in crude prices which have fallen more than 50 percent over the past two years, while capital controls imposed to stem the fall of the naira sent foreign investors fleeing. The International Monetary Fund forecasts the economy will shrink 1.8 percent this year, the first contraction since at least 1991. The inflation rate rose to 16.5 percent in June, the highest in almost 11 years.

Meanwhile, Directors of the company has proposed a final dividend of 50 kobo per share to be paid to its shareholders, with closure date set for 19th to 23rd September 2016, and payment date 7th October, 2016, after its AGM scheduled to hold at Transcorp Hotel in Abuja on the 6th October, 2016.

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Equities market relapses on profit taking, down by 0.6% Afolabi Adesola The Nigerian equities market reversed a three day gain as key market indices relapsed by 0.6 percent on the back drop of profit taking.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (NSE ASI) depreciated by 0.6 percent to close at 27,420.99 points compared to Wednesday’s appreciation of 0.18 percent when the ASI closed at 27,437.25 points.

Similarly, the Market Capitalization dropped by N5.6 billion to close at N9.418 trillion in contrast to previous day’s appreciation of N16.6 billion to close at N9.423 trillion.

Market breadth closed negative with 16 gainers to 18 losers.

The depreciation recorded in the share prices of Guinness Nigeria Plc which dropped by N3.51 to close at N89.99, Total Plc which lost N2 to close at N249 per share, Mobil that fell N1.73 to close at N167.94 per share, Guaranty which declined by 3 kobo to settle at N24.7 per share, and Cement Company of Northern Nigeria’s depreciation of 2 kobo to close at N5.81 per share were the top five stocks responsible for the decline recorded in the NSE ASI, increasing the Year-to-Date (YTD) losses by 4.26 percent.

WAPCO (Lafarge) Plc led the day’s advancing stocks with a

growth of 70 kobo to close at N56 per share, Zenith Bank Plc added 30 kobo to close at N15.3 per share, Stanbic IBTC Plc improved by 15 kobo to close at N14.1 per share.

Eterna Plc gained 12 kobo to close at N2.62 per share and Africa Prudential Registrars Plc depreciated by 9 kobo to close at N2.61 per share.

The total value of stocks traded on the floors of The NSE on Thursday was N3.603 billion compared to N2.29 billion worth of stocks traded on Wednesday.

The total volume of stocks traded in 2,883 deals was 313.3 million in contrast to 297.5 million shares exchanged in 3,438 deals previously.

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IOSCO consults on termination of investment funds The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions yesterday published a consultation report on Good Practices for the Termination of Investment Funds, which proposes a set of good practices on the voluntary termination process for investment funds.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) an association of organisations that regulate the world’s

securities and futures markets, recognises the importance for investment funds to have termination procedures in place from an investor protection perspective.

The decision to terminate an investment fund can have a significant impact on investors in terms of cost or their ability to redeem their holdings in a timely manner during the termination process.

Both retail and professional investors can be affected by the ulti-

mate value of their investment in a fund at the time of termination.

The report targets a broad range of investment funds including collective investment schemes (CIS) and other fund structures such as commodity, real estate and hedge funds.

Most regulatory regimes have certain criteria for the termination of investment funds in their jurisdiction, ranging from the overarching obligation to act in

the best interests of investors, to prescriptive requirements for liquidating the portfolio and the payment of final distribution proceeds. But legislation at a national level in most jurisdictions addresses involuntary terminations (for example, in the case of insolvency of an investment fund).

IOSCO’s work focuses on voluntary terminations with the objective to develop a set of good practices for the termination of

investment funds which take into account investor interests during this process. Voluntary terminations typically occur because an investment fund, although still solvent, is no longer economically viable or can no longer serve its intended objectives. The decision to terminate in these cases is taken by the responsible entity, although this decision may be based on factors outside its direct control.

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Day Aliko Dangote almost lost everything For Aliko Dangote, nothing is impossible. He shares his story in the article below, which first appeared in Forbes Africa.

“Nothing is impossible.

That is my mantra in life. No matter what you go through, just remember, nothing is impossible for you to achieve and you will overcome it.” These were his opening words at the interview Forbes Africa heard with him recently in his Lagos office.

Dangote, Africa’s richest man and the founder of Dangote Group, is dressed in a blue suit and purple tie. His demeanor is warm and welcoming, his gaze attentive. It is hard to believe this soft-spoken man is worth an estimated $14.4 billion, according to FORBES. Despite this wealth, the plaque in his office serves as a reminder of a day he almost lost everything. It all began with a wrong soil test.

“We were importing cement and we had an import terminal in Lagos and Port Harcourt. The government gave incentives to people who would make Nigeria self-sufficient in cement and so we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and build a cement plant. At the time, the entire production of Nigeria was less than two million tons but we decided that we were going to go ahead and build a [plant with] five million tons capacity,” says Dangote.

“So we brought in a contractor and we asked them to do the soil test and also the foundation test.

Then they gave us the wrong soil

test. Normally the northern part of Nigeria has very hard ground.

But they came back and said we just needed a shallow foundation with a maximum of two metres.

So the drawing and everything was done based on a two-metre foundation. As soon as we were three months into the job we realised it was more than this.”

This marked the beginning of a long battle to salvage the multimillion-dollar project. The group had hedged everything on the cement factory. In order to stay ahead of the competition, Dangote decided not to do a proper feasibility study so as to avoid attention to the new project. That decision came at a high cost.

“So now we had to go and do piling. We had to stop and change all the drawings and all of a sudden we were faced with 1,000 piles to be built and there were not enough rigs in Nigeria. So we had to order new rigs and even buy rigs for some of the contractors,” says Dangote.

To make matters worse, Dangote needed to finance the project.

“We needed to raise $480 million but the problem was 90 per cent of the banks at the time had a market capital of only $20 million.

In addition, there were no longterm loans, only short-term loans for about 90 days, so you could tell the challenge we faced. The project stopped, we had to change the

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FG TO RECAPITALIZE THE BANK OF AGRICULTURE Siaka MOMOH The Ministry of Finance has practically concluded plans to recapitalize and re-engineer the Bank of Agriculture, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Monday in Abuja, at the public presentation of ‘The Green alternative’, the Buhari Administration’s Agricultural Promotion Policy 2016-2020.

“We expect that before the end of this quarter, the Bank of Agriculture should be ready to give single digit interest loans to farmers,” he said.

According to the vice president, financing of agriculture is also a crucial policy. With double digit interest rate at the moment, we must develop some funding options in the short term. The Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme of the CBN has proved to be extremely useful.

“ Indeed the phenomenal success of the Kebbi State rice programme where the farmers move from 3.5 metric tonnes per hectare to 7.5 metric tonnes per hectare was largely because of the single digit interest rate extended by the Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme of the CBN which they used to purchase the right fertilizer quality and other inputs.”

He commended Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development for spearheading the effort of developing this roadmap which undeniably is our pathway to sustained and rapid progress in the agricultural sector. “Indeed, not only has Chief Audu Ogbeh developed this roadmap effectively and within a very short time but he has also conducted advocacy of the kind we have not seen in a long time in the agricultural sec-

tor,” he said.

Professor Osinbajo recalled that early in the life of the Buhari administration, Mr. President urged all Nigerians to return to the farms with an urgent call given on the need for us to liberate ourselves from the periodic cycle of boom interlaced with bust and meltdown. “It is an urgent call for our nation to embrace the truth that oil dependent economy would never provide enough for 170 million people and still grow in leaps and bounds. But Mr. President and Hon. Minister of Agriculture are farmers so they practice what they preach.

The rest of us are being slowly converted,” he said.

Bank of Agriculture Limited is the nation’s foremost agricultural and rural development finance institution. It was incorporated in 1972 as Nigerian Agricultural Bank (NAB), in 1978, the name

was changed to Nigerian Agricultural and Co-operative Bank Limited (NACB) to reflect the inclusion of co-operative financing into its broader mandate.

In October, 2001, following the Federal Government’s effort to streamline the operations of its Agencies, that were believed to be performing overlapping functions, three institutions Nigerian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank Limited (NACB), People’s Bank of Nigeria (PBN) and the risk assets of the Family Economic Advancement Programme (FEAP) were merged to form Nigerian Agricultural, Cooperative & Rural Development Bank Limited. In October 2010, following the rebranding of the Bank to reflect its institutional transformation Programme, the Bank adopted the new name Bank of Agriculture Limited (BOA)

drawings and we could not borrow too much money in the system. Borrowing short term and investing in a long-term business was so difficult.”

Another problem was infrastructure.

“We realised that we had to build a gas pipeline because the government who promised to build the pipeline in 1978 had actually not done anything, so we had to construct 92 kilometres of a gas pipeline. The water table was very bad in the area so we had to build a dam and over 100 houses because there was nothing there, so the challenges were coming one by one.”

For Dangote, failure was not an option.

“In my office, I had the project drawings on my wall but I knew that once this project fails the group is gone and that is what really kept me going. It was a major project for us because our size, compared to a project of half a billion then, was big money for us.”

Eventually, there was light at the end of the tunnel. The group received a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $479-million loan from a consortium of banks, led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). But the storm hadn’t abated yet.

“The most challenging was when we had the cost overrun.

Now we had finished the cement factory and the factory was not working and that was really when I went from black to red. I knew that we were really in trouble.

Sixth African Green Revolution Forum holds September African leaders are set to “Seize the Moment” in Nairobi, Kenya on September 5- 6, 2016 to transform agriculture into an engine for inclusive socio-economic growth and development.

Media is to register online at http://agrf.org/mediaaccreditation-form/ DEADLINE is 22 August 2016.

The venue is UN Complex, Nairobi.

Today across Africa, big things are happening in agribusiness and on the millions of small family farms that are Africa’s main source of food, employment, and income.

Siaka Momoh, a media consultant, is publisher of The Real Sector monthly digital magazine and Realsectornow.com. Contact:siakamomoh@yahoo.com; 08061396410

Entrepreneurship B8

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, August 19, 2016

Just resigned from an executive position, why not start a Consulting Business - Part 2 Continuing from where we stopped last week on the subject of how to take advantage of the opportunities in the consultancy industry.

Target Market Your idea may be the best one you have ever thought of, but there needs to be a market for your ideas. Someone must be willing and able to pay you for your expert advice.

In other words, who are your potential clients? Will you be marketing your consulting services to large corporations, or will you offer a specialty that would only be of interest to smaller businesses. Perhaps your services will be sought after by nonprofit organisations. Whatever the case, before you go forward, make sure you spend time preparing both a business plan and a marketing plan. You won’t be disappointed with the results, especially when clients begin paying you.

Why an organisation wants to hire you Studies have it that the top 10 reasons organisations hire consultants are A consultant may be hired because of his or her expertise. This is where it pays to not only be really good in the field you have chosen to consult in, but to have some type of track record that speaks for itself. For example, I mentioned earlier the people who want to become an expert as fundraising consultancy through their working experience at the nonprofit organisations. Every client who hire this people was doing so partly on the basis of their track record alone. After all, if you are a nonprofit organisation that needs to raise say $1 million or its equivalent, it makes sense to hire someone who has already raised millions for other organisations.

A consultant may be hired to identify problems. Sometimes employees are too close to a problem inside an organisation to identify it. That’s when a consultant rides in on his or her white horse to save the day.

A consultant may be hired to supplement the staff. Sometimes a business discovers that it can save

BUSINESS thousands of U.S. dollars a week by hiring consultants when they are needed, rather than hiring fulltime employees, or similar to the outsourcing strategy in HR. Businesses realise they save additional money by not having to pay benefits for consultants they hire. Even though a consultant’s fees are generally higher than an employee’s salary, over the long haul, it simply makes good economic sense to hire a consultant.

A consultant may be hired to act as a catalyst. Let’s face it. No one likes change, especially the Nigeria business class. But sometimes change is needed, and a consultant may be brought in to “get the ball rolling.” In other words, the consultant can do things without worrying about the corporate culture, employee morale or other issues that get in the way when an organisation is trying to institute change.

A consultant may be hired to provide much-needed objectivity. Who else is more qualified to identify a problem than a consultant? A good consultant provides an objective, fresh viewpoint, without worrying about what people in the organisation might think about the results

A consultant may be asked to teach employees any number of different skills. However, a consultant must be willing to keep up with new discoveries in their field of expertise and be ready to teach new clients what they need to stay competitive

and how they were achieved.

A consultant may be hired to teach. These days if you are a computer consultant who can show employees how to master a new program, then your telephone probably hasn’t stopped ringing for a while. A consultant may be asked to teach employees any number of different skills. However, a consultant must be willing to keep up with new discoveries in their field of expertise and be ready to teach new clients what they need to stay competitive.

A consultant may be hired to do the “dirty work.” Let’s face it: No one wants to be the person who has to make cuts in the staff or to eliminate an entire division.

A consultant may be hired to bring new life to an organisation.

If you are good at coming up with new ideas that work, then you won’t have any trouble finding clients. At one time or another, most businesses need someone to administer “first aid” to get things rolling again.

A consultant may be hired to create a new business. There are consultants who have become experts in this field. Not everyone,

though, has the ability to conceive an idea and develop a game plan.

A consultant may be hired to influence other people. Do you like to hang out with the rich and famous in your town. If so, you may be hired to do a consulting job simply based on who you know. Although most consultants in this field are working as lobbyists, there has been an increase in the number of people entering the entertainment consulting business.

Location and Employees Your consulting business will probably not require a large capital investment at first. In fact, if you are able to, you should consider operating out of your home.

(Certain deed restrictions and local laws may prohibit you from doing this; check with an attorney before you proceed.)

There are many advantages to having a home office. Among them are: Low overhead expenses - You don’t have to worry about paying rent or utilities for an office; you will appreciate this feature until you establish a regular client base.

Flexibility - There is little doubt that operating as a consul-

tant at home gives you a great deal of flexibility. You can set your own hours and take time off as you need it. For anyone who has had to commute to and from a job during rush hour, this will be a welcome change of pace.Your home office space will most likely be tax-deductible. The FIRS has relaxed the rules for people who work at home, but check with your account or income tax preparer to see if you qualify for this deduction.

Employees - When you first open the doors to your consulting practice, you may be able to handle all the operations by yourself. But as your consulting business begins to grow, you may need help handling administrative details or help completing the actual consulting assignments.

You need to make some important decisions. For example, do you have the time it will take to make labels and insert your brochure into 1,000 envelopes. Can you afford to spend time doing administrative tasks when you could be using that time effectively marketing your services and signing up new clients.

There are many options when it comes to the issue of time; to decide if you need help with your paperwork. For example, a quick look around will reveal that there exists a number of small secretarial support firms. The rates will depend on a variety of factors, including how large or small an organisation it is and what types of services it provides.

While it will pay you to shop around for these types of services, don’t select a secretarial service just because it happens to have the lowest prices in town. Instead, ask for references, preferably from other consultants who have used their services, or from small-business owners. A good, reliable support service is worth the price in the long run.

There will come a time, however, when you may find it more cost-effective to hire someone to work in the office with you. Hiring a good administrative support person can sometimes mean the difference between success and failure, between obtaining more clients or constantly losing clients.

“When you first open the doors to your consulting practice, you may be able to handle all the operations by yourself. But as your consulting business begins to grow, you may need help handling administrative details or help completing the actual consulting assignments” 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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Friday, August 19, 2016

Movies Romance Channel 107

Studio Universal Channel 112

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VLJennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart Star in this touching movie. A self-help author meets a woman at one of his seminars. She could unexpectedly help him, but the timing is wrong. Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston.

(2009) Brandon Camp

23:30 American Crime 00:30 Made In Hollywood 01:15 Zoo 02:00 American Crime 02:40 Behind The Scenes: No Good Deed 03:00 Code Black

04:00 A Most Wanted Man 06:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:00 MasterChef Australia 07:42 Behind The Scenes: Walking On Sunshine 08:00 Mom 08:30 Made In Hollywood 09:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:30 Preggoland 12:30 Modern Famiy 12:53 Behind The Scenes: The Theory

13:00 MasterChef Australia 14:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:46 Behind The Scenes: Chef 15:00 Blue Bloods 16:00 Sarah Graham's Food Safari

152 Africa Magic Epic 23:27 Ojebe The Servant 00:45 Healthy Snacking

00:55 King Akubueze 02:55 Enuma The River Goddess 04:40 Africa Rising: Behind The Scenes

05:32 Behind The Scenes: The Place 05:38 Behind The Scenes: Secret Room 06:01 Rings Of Fire 07:25 The Burning Ring 09:10 Sorrows And Tears 10:42 Joy Of My Destiny 12:10 Secret Adventure

14:50 Mama Bomboi: Murderer 15:00 Seat Of Wisdom 16:39 Seat Of Wisdom

18:15 Royal Contest 21:41 Royal Contest

Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved Mr. Bean gets his first movie. More hilarious and bumbling antics ensue when Bean is dispatched to LA to deliver and extremely valuable painting.

Peter MacNicol, Burt Reynolds, Rowan Atkinson.(1997) Amelia Bryn Smith.

120 BBC Brit Entertainment

118 Telemundo

23:40 The Face Of Destiny 00:30 Elena's Ghost 01:20 Cruel Love 02:10 For Love And Justice 03:00 The Face Of Destiny 03:50 Fearless Heart 05:20 Elena's Ghost 06:10 Husband For Hire 07:00 The Face Of Destiny 07:50 Fearless Heart 08:40 For Love And Justice 09:30 Cruel Love 10:20 Husband For Hire 11:10 The Face Of Destiny 12:00 Fearless Heart 12:50 For Love And Justice 13:40 Cruel Love 14:30 Husband For Hire 15:20 The Face Of Destiny 16:10 Fearless Heart 17:00 For Love And Justice 17:50 Cruel Love 18:40 Husband For Hire 19:30 The Face Of Destiny 20:20 Fearless Heart 21:10 For Love And Justice 22:00 Someone's Watching 22:50 Someone's Watching

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101 M-Net West

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128 SONY MAX

23:00 Most Shocking 23:25 Top Gear's Ambitious But Rubbish

10:20 Ducks Quacks Don't Echo

23:45 World's Wildest Police Videos

00:18 An Idiot Abroad

11:05 Would I Lie To You?

00:35 World's Wildest Police Videos

01:06 The Cube

11:40 QI

01:25 Freakshow

01:54 Police Interceptors

12:10 The Cube

01:55 Extreme Reality Clips

02:40 David Beckham: Into The Unknown

13:00 Top Gear

02:20 Rude Tube

14:10 Police Interceptors

03:31 Undercover Boss USA

02:45 Sexy Car Wash

15:00 Undercover Boss USA

04:15 Pointless

03:15 Sexy Car Wash

15:50 Would I Lie To You?

05:00 The Cube

03:45 Video Zonkers

16:20 QI

05:45 Would I Lie To You?

04:10 South Beach Tow

16:55 Pointless

06:15 QI

04:35 South Beach Tow

17:50 Top Gear

06:50 Police Interceptors

05:00 World's Wildest Police Videos

19:00 Wastemen

07:40 Top Gear

05:45 World's Wildest Police Videos

20:00 8 Out Of 10 Cats

08:45 Pointless

06:35 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking

21:10 8 Out Of 10 Cats

09:30 Undercover Boss USA

07:25 Video Zonkers

22:25 Dragons' Den

07:50 South Beach Tow

155 AfricaMagic World 23:50 Music On Africa Magic 00:51 Behind The Scenes: The Place 01:05 Good Morning Africa 02:05 53 Extra 02:33 Star Gist 03:15 Star Gist 03:45 Jara 04:20 Jara 05:00 Goodmorning Africa 06:00 Deal Or No Deal SA 07:00 53 Extra 07:30 Star Gist 08:00 Jara 09:00 Good Morning Africa 10:00 Lies That Bind 10:30 Lies That Bind 11:00 Lies That Bind 11:30 Lies That Bind

08:15 South Beach Tow 08:40 Most Shocking 09:35 World's Wildest Police Videos 10:30 World's Wildest Police Videos 11:30 Baywatch 12:30 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking

13:30 South Beach Tow 14:00 World's Wildest Police Videos 15:00 World's Wildest Police Videos 12:00 Deal Or No Deal SA 13:00 Music On Africa Magic 14:05 Music On Africa Magic 15:00 Music On Africa Magic 16:00 Star Gist 16:35 Deal Or No Deal Sa 17:25 53 Extra 18:00 Jara 18:30 Tinsel 19:00 53 Extra

16:00 Most Shocking 17:00 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking

18:00 South Beach Tow 18:30 South Beach Tow 19:00 Baywatch 20:00 Escape Or Die 20:30 Escape Or Die 21:00 XXX; State Of The Union 22:45 Sexy Car Wash