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L-R: Senior Special Assistant to President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, Chief of Staff to President, Malam Abba Kyari, and Senior Special Assistant to President on National Assembly Matters (House of Reps.), Hon. Suleiman Kawu, during the presentation 2016 budget details to the Chief of Staff, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

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HOS urges MDA’s partnership to boost economy

By Ese Awhotu

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he Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita has called for active collaboration between the relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government in order to help boast the nation’s economy.

According to a statement signed

by Mohammed Manga, Assistant Director (Media Relations) for the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Oyo-Ita made the call in her opening remarks at the meeting of the Public Private Consultative Forum (3PCUF) for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government, held in Abuja recently.

She said that for governments all over the world to succeed in their efforts to explore new ideas to improve service delivery to the populace, there must be a robust synergy and active collaboration between the Public and Private Sectors of the economy which will serve as a platform for sharing experiences on what works, for

whom and under what condition.

Mrs. Oyo-Ita who re-affirmed government’s commitment to promoting Public Private Partnership(PPP) as a viable development model particularly as the change Agenda places a high premium on rapid modernization and expansion of the country’s infrastructure said further that her Office will continue to support the active collaboration between the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and all the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Units in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government so that the objective of the 3PUCF is achieved within the global National PPP Programme.

She said that Government approved the establishment of the PPP Units in all the MDAs in 2012 and since then, her Office has been working tirelessly to make PPP Units work for the development of the nation’s infrastructure and ultimate economic growth and job creation.

She added that a review of the global economic environment over the past two decades reveals

an unprecedented investment in infrastructure across the world driven by the realization that infrastructure is vital to sustained long term economic growth and to meet the world’s critical challenges, which she said include: lifting the over one billion members of the human race out of extreme poverty; coping with the challenges of rapid urbanization and the enormous and increased demand for energy, housing, water and sanitations as well as addressing the threat of climate change to agriculture and food security.

Mrs Oyo-Ita observed that the PPP space has become competitive; and this she said was as a result of the fact that the PPP Procurement option has become a preferred option for infrastructure development globally and therefore nations are putting up PPP Projects on the market and competing for the investment resources available in the international financial system.

Nigeria, she stressed further “must therefore attract credible and serious partners for all its projects and the only way she can do that

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L-R: Oyo state Deputy Governor, Chief Moses Adeyemo, Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Lagos state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, and Chairman, Vintage Press, Mr. Wale Edun, during the 1st National Forum on Economy by the Nation Newspapers, yesterday in Lagos.

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Comply with our guidelines, NAFDAC tells drug manufacturers

By Doyin Ojosipe

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he National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has urged stakeholders in the health sector, especially manufacturers of drugs and other health based products to develop the habit of making use of the NAFDAC guidelines in order to create room for Nigeria to compete favourably at the International market.

Speaking during the official presentation of the 2016 NAFDAC Guidelines in Abuja, the Acting DG of the agency,

Mrs Yetunde Oni, said the laid down rules are to ensure good pharmacovigilance practices for the pharmaceutical industry and also spell out good distribution of products in the year 2016.

She also added that the rules will ensure good manufacturing practices and provide guidance for pharmaceutical quality control laboratories among others.

Oni further said the guidelines could be adopted by individual sellers, “as long as Stakeholders achieve compliance with regulatory objectives.”

Also speaking at the event,

the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, assured the agency of federal government’s support in order for it to operate full capacity.

The Minister said, “In order to achieve its mandate, NAFDAC requires full legal and political backing, and the Federal Ministry of Health is always prepared to support the agency with relevant policies needed for its regulatory activities.In order to achieve its mandate.

He also commended the various development partners who had contributed to the success of the agency’s operations.

is to create the enabling climate, framework and capacities that can produce bankable projects, in order to attract investors both at home and abroad”.

Speaking earlier, the Director General, Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC)Mallam Aminu Diko observed the urgent need for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government to rapidly adopt PPP Procurement in order to accelerate national development and bridge the infrastructural gab in the country.

He said that the 3PUCF forum was initiated by the ICRC to provide a stakeholder engagement platform to accelerate knowledge and experience sharing among key PPP Personnel in the MDAs in order to help boast the nation’s economy.

N/East: NCC tasks CCC on strategies to tackle post crisis challenges

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he Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Dambatta has charged the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) to come up with effective resettlement strategies that will assist the government in managing the post-crisis period in the north east.

Professor Dambatta stated this when the Management of the Centre led by its Executive Secretary, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (Rtd), paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

According to him, apart from the debilitating condition which the hapless people who are caught up in the crisis in various parts of the north east are currently facing, a more formidable challenge will even come in managing the post-crisis resettlement and reintegration of the people in the affected areas. “Am interested in the kind of intervention you provide and I believe that there are certain voids which organizations like yours can fill in terms of managing the different levels of crisis in our country.

Your Centre should be able to come up with effective resettlement strategies that will assist government in managing the post-crisis period in the north east. You certainly have a big work to do in addressing the problem of the hapless Nigerians caught up in the Boko Haram crisis in the north east and elsewhere”. He said.

Earlier in his remarks, the Executive Secretary of the Centre for Crisis Communication, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (Rtd) said they were at the Commission to brief the EVC on its activities and to also seek areas of collaboration with the NCC.

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Yobe to scale up partnership with NTIC, NTNU

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L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, during the latter’s visit

Buhari receives 2016 Budget details

By Lawrence Olaoye

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resident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday formally received the details of the 2016 Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, signed and collected the 1,800-page document on behalf of the

President.

The document was handed over to Kyari by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang; and the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Samaila Kawu.

The presentation took place inside the Office of the

Chief of Staff.

After the submission, Kyari led Enang and Kawu to the President’s Office where they met briefly.

The three of them emerged from the meeting a few minutes after with Enang still holding on to the document.

Enang later told State House correspondents that with the formal submission,

the constitutional procedure would now follow.

He said, “The budget details has been transmitted to His Excellency, Mr. President today, the constitutional process begins thereafter.

“We have transmitted it to the Office of the President and the constitutional process of timing starts.”

NASS to oil coys: Comply with remittances to NDDC

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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he National Assembly has directed the oil companies operating in Nigeria to comply with their remittances to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as stipulated in the NDDC Act. This directive was given to oil companies in Nigeria, during a public hearing held over a petition brought to the National Assembly which accused the oil companies of failure to comply with the Acts establishing the NDDC. By this NDDC Act, the oil

firms are required to remit three per cent of their annual budget to the commission for development of the area, though the NDDC. Speaking during the event, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Peter Nwaboshi (PDP, Delta north), said the 8th Senate was determined to ensure that the people of Nigeria get what legally belong to them from the oil companies.

While pointing out that the lawmakers will not deal kindly with anybody that goes against the laws of the country, he urged the

oil companies operating in Nigeria to reciprocate the peace they are enjoying in the region by complying with their remittances.

He lamented that the 8th Senate takes exception to the reality that some oil companies have failed to make their remittances to the NDDC for six years.

He however commended some of the oil companies who have been up to date with their legal obligations to the host communities, even though he said the actual percentage of remittances which the oil firms are supposed to make to the communities through the NDDC is

yet to be legally determined.

Speaking also in response, some of the oil companies including Total, Conoil, Shell Petroleum Development Corporations, said they have complied up to 2015, adding that the outstanding remittances were because the budget is not yet out.

Also speaking, the Acting Managing Director of NDDC, Ibim Seminatarin, acknowledged that some of the oil companies have complied with their remittances, but more are yet to comply with the NDDC Act at all and have not made any remittances since past six years.

Rights commission partners NGO to address IDPs challenges

By Albert Akota

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he Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof.

Bem Angwe has restated the commitment of the Commission towards addressing the challenges of the Internally Displace Persons (IDPs) calling on the government and other stakeholders to take the issue of IDPs more seriously.

The Executive Secretary made this statement when the Coordinator and Directors of Kartu Library Foundation, an NGO led the President and members Children’s Government of Nigeria

to the Commission.

The Executive Secretary who was represented at the occasion by his Senior Special Assistant, Mr. Lambert Oparah told the visiting NGO and the Executives of the Children’s Government of Nigeria that the Commission has issues of women and children as one of its cardinal thematic areas of focus and would go the extra-mile to protect their rights.

He said that the Commission was partnering with other stakeholders like the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and UNHCR to ensure that victims of terrorism are taken

catered just as he commended the President of the Children’s Government, Miss Zainab Mohammed and her Executives for their concern about the condition of IDPs in country.

In the same vein, Prof. Angwe thanked Kartu Library Foundation and the Executive members of the Children’s Government for making him an Ambassador of Children’s Government even as he assured them of an enduring partnership that would ameliorate the condition of IDPs especially in the North Eastern part of the country.

In his remarks, the Coordinator of Kartu Foundation, (the NGO

that is piloting the Children’s Government), Mr. Patrick Ikpeme noted that there were about 300,000 children in various IDPs camps in Nigeria and that there was need for families in Nigeria to take steps towards adopting these children since the camps would one day close.

Earlier, the President of the Children’s Government in Nigeria, Miss Zainab Mohammed said that there was need for everybody to show commitment to the plights of the children in IDPs camps adding that providing them with food, medical care and education should be the priority of all stakeholders.

he Yobe State Government will scale up its educational partnership with the NigeriaTurkish International Colleges (NTIC) and the Nigeria-Turkish Nile University (NTNU) in order to offer more opportunities for Yobe students.

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam stated this yesterday when a delegation of First Surat Group, which manages the NTIC, NTNU and the Nigeria-Turkish Nizamiye Hospital, visited him in Abuja.

The governor noted with satisfaction the performance of Yobe students at WASC and JAMB at the NTIC Mamudo-Yobe and other NTIC schools across the country as well as at the Nigeria-Turkish Nile university, saying the progress the students are making was possible because the Yobe State Government has continued to stand by them.

The Governor asked the NTIC management to devote additional time to teaching students enrolled in their schools moral and religious values, observing that this is necessary to helping develop in the students a ‘sense of responsibility and moral discipline from the very beginning’.

Taking the governor through a series of PowerPoint presentations on the performance of Yobe students both at the NTIC and NTNU, Mr. OrhamKertim, the managing director of the NTIC schools says Yobe students are among the best performing students in the schools.

2 fake Policemen arrested for duping ‘black marketers’ From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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olice in Benin have confirmed the arrest of two persons who disguised as Policemen and ostensibly obtained the sum of N250, 000 to shield black marketers from arrest by security operatives.

The state Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, gave the names are, Paul Zubair and John Archibong who also abducted their victims at BDPA Estate area of Benin City, the state Capital.

Ezike, disclosed this during the parade of 75 suspected criminals at the state Police command headquarters, yesterday in Benin City.

He clarified that the two suspect’s n company with two others now at large, had impersonated as policemen from state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and abducted their victim, after accusing them of illegal sale of petrol.

He said the unnamed captives after parting with the sum of N250,000, escaped and raised the alarm which led to their arrest.

The suspects were paraded alongside 50 suspected cultists, 14 armed robbery suspects and 11 suspected kidnappers by the Police boss.

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Now that budget details have been made available

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he presentation, consideration and eventual passage of the 2016 budget by the National Assembly attracted controversies so much that the mutual distrust between the executive and the legislature has become even more apparently pronounced. The process of the passage of the Appropriation Bill was acrimonious and there are reasons to believe that the final word may not have been heard on the matter.

Going by the resolve made

by President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the document until the details submitted to his office yesterday are scrutinized to ensure that the contents tally with what he originally presented, it is safe to conclude that the cold war between the two arms of government has yet to be settled.

If the President actually meant that he would not assent to the bill owing to alteration of any sort by the lawmakers, then Nigerians should be prepared for a long drawn night. This is because the lawmakers in this clime, going by their antecedents, would never rubber stamp any appropriation bill without having to tinker with same.

Already, a ground for discontent between the two organs has been cultivated by the National Assembly which slashed the original appropriation of N6.077 trillion to N6.07 trillion with a differential of N17 billion.

Though the details have yet to be made public, chances are that allocations to sub-heads in the budget details must have been altered in the process of its consideration and passage.

There has always been altercations between the executive and the legislature over which of them actually possesses constitutional power over appropriation of the nation’s resources. Since the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo till date, there have been controversies over which of the organs has the final say on the nation’s appropriation.

While the parliament has consistently maintained that it has the final say over the nation’s purse, such power has been vigorously challenged by the Presidency which has always maintained that it reserved the right of implementation.

Therefore, what the people always get is an impressionable budget passed by the parliament but bogged

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down by non-implementation and haphazard releases of funds where both arms fail to attain compromise.

On several occasions, former President Obasanjo was threatened with impeachment on the account of nonimplementation of budget as passed by the parliament.

Similarly, the Presidency had had causes to send supplementary budgets and virement requests to the parliament in order to augment the appropriation bill passed.

But the delay in the passage of the budget is having a catastrophic effects on the

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masses. Those lofty policies of the President would not take off if the budget document is not signed on time. The ailing economy would continue to suffer hemorrhage as there would be no activity due to lack of economic direction should the bickering between the two organs over budget passage continue.

Now that the budget details have been made available to the President, it is expected that he would expedite action on the perusal of the document just as it is hoped that the areas of dissension would not be much enough for him to withhold

House Speaker Dogara

assent.

Going forward, the counsel given by the Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdumumuni Jubril, that the executive should comply with the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) which stipulates that the Presidency should present the appropriation bill some months to the end of the fiscal year to the parliament in order to allow ample time for its consideration, should come handy.

Also, with the determination of the President to run a corruption free government, those found culpable in the

ignominious budget padding allegation must not be spared.

This is notwithstanding the fact that some civil servants who were found to have disrupted the 2016 appropriation bill have been sanctioned.

On the issue of annual mutual distrusts between the executive and the parliament over budget, there is need for the Supreme Court to make pronouncement over their roles.

Until this is done, the masses would continue to suffer the effects of late presentation, consideration, passage and assent to appropriation bills in the country.

Making retirement attractive, State House style

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o some aspiring retirees in Nigeria, a date with retirement is always dreaded as they consider it as one with redundancy and inactivity. This has become so dreadful that most civil servants would go to any length to disrupt their service records by adjusting downward their ages annually.

Some others believe that leaving government services with all perquisites of office would seriously retard their economic powers and to continuously live a life of material bliss, they would have to embezzle as much money as available to them before their

retirement date.

All these must have been considered when the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Jalal Arabi, initiated a vocational and entrepreneurial training programs for those billed to retire in the next two years at the Presidential Villa.

With the ongoing training program, where retirees were adequately prepared for the transition ahead, it is believed that workers would no longer be looking forward to retirement as if they are waiting for a date with death.

The Arabi training would also prepare those without entrepreneurial experience to

begin to think of how to invest their benefits.

In the past, most retirees collect their benefits in lump sum and fritter it by marrying more wives or acquiring chieftaincy titles only to become bitter after exhausting their money.

With the training to be conducted by experts in so many fields, it is expected that those retiring in the next two years would engage themselves in profitable ventures which could, at the end of the day, generate more jobs for the unemployed in the society.

At the conclusion of the free training for the impending retirees, it is expected that their

perspective about retirement would have been positivised so much so that most of them would start one commercial activity or the other before their final dates in office.

By this, the retiring workers would have succeeded in planning for days ahead instead of just working blindly into a vague future facing the vicissitudes of uncertainty.

This training is recommended for all those preparing for retirement in all government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and others in the private sectors because any job with a date of appointment must always have a date of exit.

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Despite Kachikwu’s assurance…

Fuel queues linger in Abuja, Lagos

By Stanley Onyekwere Abuja and Suleiman Idris, Lagos

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espite assurance by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu that fuel queues will ease nationwide yesterday, investigations revealed long queues were still present at filling stations within Abuja city centre and along major expressways in Gwagwalada, Zuba, Nyanya and Kubwa axis of the nation’s capital while many outlets have not opened for business in weeks.

Our correspondent, who monitored the fuel situation in the city yesterday, observed that most filling stations were not selling as they closed shop to motorists, looking for the product.

Further investigations revealed that at a few major petrol outlets sell at the approved pump price, there are the ever lengthy unending queues while some others purportedly stockpile the commodity, and sell to black marketers at night.

It was also suspected that some of the major petrol outlets used the cover of darkness to sell the products to some desperate motorists at higher prices.

The situation has forced most of the motorists to park their vehicles at home while some residents have resorted to either stay indoors or trek during morning and evening rush hours to and from their various places of work.

Expectedly, there are fewer vehicles plying the road, and few commercial operators along the major routes inside and outside the FCT have doubled or even tripled their fares to various destinations.

And woes of commuters in the nation’s capital and environs have continued feeling the impact of the situation, as reflected in hikes in transport fares, as the scarcity keep widening.

Also, they have started experiencing difficulties on their usual route to work, as they had to wait for hours at bus stations for vehicles.

In Lagos, the queues have not disappeared either, but there are high hopes that the hitherto chaotic fuel situation in the State will abate, 24 hours after the Lagos state Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode appealed for patience and calm following weeks of erratic supply of the commodity.

The absence of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known petrol resulted in untold hardship to citizens across the country for over two weeks, even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other subsidiary agencies in charge of regulation, monitoring and distributions battle to ameliorate the situation.

In Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of the country, not only did prices of goods skyrocket, fares went through the roof for as much as 200 percent increase, with commuters trekking to work in some instance.

However, respite appears to have come close to town as findings indicate that distribution of the commodity has increased within Lagos and surrounding satellite settlement and communities.

Motorists expressed hope that

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with the present situation, the lingering scarcity could disappear

by Saturday.

But the artificial price is yet to go away as petrol filling station has imposed a 100 percent price increase while the crisis last, as the product, which official price is pegged at N86 and N87 for mega stations and independent

marketers, now oscillate between N180 and N300 depending on the station and location.

The NNPC for the umpteen time had assured Nigeria that the situation will improve before the onset of the weekend even as controversy trails the statements credited to the Minister of State for Petroleum who doubles as NNPC

GMD, Ibe Kachukwu recently.

However, Garbadeen Muhammed, Spokesman of NNPC told Peoles Daily yesterday that, “Queues don’t disappear just like that because they took time to form, but our position has also remained that by April the situation will disappear and we have already started seeing the

improvement,” He said, “There are fuel but the problem is with the logistic of supply which is being dealt with.

Cargoes have been delivering products 247, but the slight challenge is with the logistic of supply.”

He said pipelines have not been working, but are now being fixed and in a matter of two weeks fuel will be pumped to all locations and then products will be available.

L-R: Yobe state Governor, Malam Ibrahim Gaidam, in a chat with Managing Director, Nigeria-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC), Mr. Orhan Kertim, during a delegation from NTIC, Turkish-Nile University and Nigeria-Turkish Nizamiye Hospital visit to the governor, yesterday in Abuja.

Buhari’s to doctors: Don’t go on strike

By Lawrence Olaoye and Albert Akota

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resident Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike action and give the Federal Government more time to address the grievances of doctors.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, the President gave the commitment yesterday while speaking at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

Buhari gave the doctors an assurance that no agreements duly entered into by the Federal Government will be dishonoured by his administration.

The President called for greater understanding and support from doctors and all Nigerians in view of the present short fall in national revenue brought about by the decline of crude oil prices.

Decrying the adverse impact of the fall in oil prices on the Federal Government’s spending plans for health and other sectors, the President said that his administration will continue to do its best to address issues that are of concern to doctors and other Nigerians.

He also gave the NMA delegation

an insight into his administration’s plan to establish 10,000 primary healthcare centres across the country in the next two years with the objective of providing better healthcare for about 100 million Nigerians.

The President told the delegation led by NMA President, Dr. Kayode Obembe, that the National Health Act would soon be gazetted and a steering committee appointed to oversee its implementation.

The Minister of Health , Prof.

Isaac Adewole described the plan to establish more healthcare centres as “the single most ambitious health plan for the poor in the history of Nigeria”.

In his remarks at the meeting, Obembe called for the implementation of the report of the Yayale Ahmed Committee on better relations among professional groups in the health sector.

The NMA President also called for fast-tracking of the implementation of the National Health Act. At a separate meeting with the leadership of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Buhari promised that his administration will evolve and implement measures to curb friction and disharmony among the professional groups in the health sector.

He urged the PSN to work more

closely with the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to curb the sale of fake medicines in the country.

The President of the PSN, Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai assured the President that pharmacists in Nigeria were ready to work in harmony with other professionals in the health sector to help the Federal Government achieve its objective of improving healthcare services in the country.

In the same vein, Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Nwabueze Ngige has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to rescind its plan warning strike over the new electricity tariff in the overall interest of the nation, and as an earnest of the commitment of the organised labour to the supremacy of the rule of law which the Buhari led Federal Government has amply demonstrated.

“The dispute over the increment in electricity tariff is right before the National Assembly and it is only right that as law abiding social partners that all parties afford the National Assembly to arbitrate. The Chairman of NLC is not here but this occasion offers a crucial avenue for me to state government’s position on this hot button issue.”

The Minister advised investors in the power sector to provide decent working environment for

their staff members as his Ministry will no longer tolerate unfair labour practices, urging workers to give their utmost in promotion of productivity.

Sen. Ngige made the appeal in Abuja yesterday in his goodwill message at the 3rd Triennial National Delegates Conference of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC).

Speaking further, the Minister urged the Association to be committed to a productive change and the inculcation of sanity in the conduct of government business and hoped that the change mantra would instil discipline in the entire citizenry of Nigeria and promotes transparency, accountability and other good governance principles.

He stressed that the dialectical relationship between capital and labour should be played down and minimized in order to enable a viable environment for sustainable development and growth of the nation devoid of industrial actions.

Sen. Ngige said, “In tandem with the theme of your conference this year, I must state that the Federal Government is concerned with good governance in all sectors of the economy and the subsequent expansion of the infrastructural and super-structural.

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Verification: Bauchi sacks Perm. Sec, 2 others over death of pregnant teachers From Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi

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our top management staff of the Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board have been sacked following irregularities that led to the death of two pregnant teachers during screening exercise.

In a statement by the Press Secretary to Governor, Mohammed Abubakar, Abubakar Al-Sadique, said they were removed following a delay in the payment of salary of the local education authority and resultant restiveness.

According the statement, the sacked staff include the Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Ya’u.

Garba, Director of Administration and Human Resource Alhaji Haruna Bako, Director of Finance and account Alhaji Umar Jaja and the Internal Auditor Adamu Mohammed.

Meanwhile, the Bauchi State Police Command has arrested two staff of the Bauchi state Board of Internal Revenue over allegation of corruption charges just as four management staff of SUBEB have been sack The acting chairman of the

board, Yakub Isa confirmed the arrest of the officials while speaking to newsmen in his office on Thursday.

Isa said, “The police wrote us that two of our staff, one on level fourteen and the other on level ten have been arrested and being investigated”.

He said that he doesn’t have the details of what might have transpired leading to the arrest of the two officials saying that they are awaiting the outcome of the investigation.

Yakub said, that as board they value integrity and a

situation where the public will view a tax collector as a trust worthy people and pledged the loyalty of the Board to the current administration towards revenue generation by blocking all loopholes through which government revenue are flittered.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi state Command, Haruna Mohammed said he was going to confirm from the criminal investigation department whether the staff of the revenue board were in their custody.

No hiding place for cultists in Kwara – Gov Ahmed From Olanrewaju Lawal, Ilorin

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he Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has warned cultists and others who run fowl of the law that there would be no hiding place for them in the state.

The governor, who gave this warning in an interview with journalists in Ilorin, said everything would be done to ensure that the enduring peace in the state is not truncated by hoodlums.

Governor Ahmed advised parents and guardians to take proper care of their wards as the state government would ensure that those found culpable of disrupting peace and harmony with which the state is known would be made to face the law.

According to the governor, “the law is very clear on crime. Anybody who is caught under any guise will face the wrath of the law as cultism is unacceptable in Kwara State”.

Disease control: Expert urges Nigerians to practise regular hand-washing

D R-L: Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mrs. Ibim Sementari, Director of Finance and Supply, Mr. Jimoh Egbejule, Director Legal Service, Mr. Kalhingo Moljengo, and Executive Director Corporate GSR and Business Total Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kingsley Ojoh, during a public hearing on the reconciliation of account on 3% development level, yesterday at National Assembly, in Abuja.

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IBB varsity pledges support for other institutions in Niger From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna

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he management of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai has pledged to give adequate support and cooperation to tertiary institutions in the state, especially Fati Lami Institute for Legal and Administrative Studies, Minna to enable her become an excellent centre for learning.

The Vice Chancellor, IBBU Lapai, Professor Muhammed Nasir Maiturare gave the assurance when the management of the institute paid a visit to the principal officers of the university at Lapai.

Maiturare intimated that the decision of Niger state to reform the former College of Islamic and Legal Studies to an institution of the university was a laudable

development that would further boost the quality of tertiary education in the critical sectors of the state needs.

He appreciated the visit by the school management while reiterating the determination of the university in ensuring all necessary arrangements required for immediate take-off of the institution.

Earlier, the Provost of the

Institute, Dr Muhaammad Aliyu Busa said that the visit was informed by the need to enhanced collaboration with the management of the university.

He stated that the institute was faced with myriad of infrastructural, ecological and security challenges while appealing for the university’s support to surmount the problems so as to enhance qualitative learning environment in the institution.

Boko Haram: Buhari youth group drums support for military

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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undreds of youth under the banner of Buhari Youths Organisation (BYO) yesterday staged a rally in Abuja in support of the Nigerian military in the fight against insurgents in the North East.

The youth from across six geopolitical zones were at the Minister of Youth and Sports’ office, Solomon Dalung where they passed a message for onward transmission to the President Buhari.

Leader of the group, Comrade Murtala Garba said having come out from the epicenter of the insurgency,

North East youth were better placed to appreciate the role of the military and to call for their support.

He said Nigerians from North East region had faced an unimaginable security challenge like terrorism, kidnapping, cattle rusting and other forms of anti-social vices.

“This period under review recorded a lot of civilian and military casualties as a result of corruption, incompetence and lack of political will to deal with the prevailing security situation in the country.

Consequently, Nigeria became a laughing stock in the comity of nations.

“It is worthy of note that

since the inception of this present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, the army under the leadership of Lt. Gen. T.Y Buratai through dedication, sacrifice and robust knowledge of counter terrorism has reduced.

“We the youths of this country are living witness and cannot feign ignorance of the sacrifices and gallantry of the Nigerian army some of whom paid the supreme price to bring about peace and security we are enjoying today,” they said while presenting the letter to the representative of the minister, Solomon Dalung.

He said the rally was intended

to strengthen the bond between the military and the Nigerian youth, as they have been partners in the crusade through the Civilian JTF. Asked on the ongoing fight against corruption by Buhari government, Garba said corrupt public officials were the reason for the insurgency in the country, and should be punished according to the law.

The youth, wearing White T-Shirts and Green face-caps, hoisted banners like “Nigerian youth support Nigerian military,” “It’s time to support Nigerian military as our heroes,” “God bless Nigerian army in our country,” among others.

r Okechukwu Ossai, the Chief Disease Surveillance Officer in Enugu State, on Thursday urged Nigerians to wash their hands with soap and running water regularly to guard against disease.

Ossai told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu that regular washing of the hands has the capacity to prevent diseases from spreading through contact with the hands.

He said that the practice would help reduce the cost of managing community health as well as reduce the health bill of federal and state governments. ``Most contagious diseases could be transmitted by mere shaking of hands. ``There are some diseases that can transmitted through what we call fomites. ``You may touch clothes and think that the clothes are not infected. ``You might not know that some other persons, who have one disease or the other could have touched and infected the clothes and from there you could contract any form of disease. ``So, we say after touching anything, before touching anything, make sure you wash your hands with soap and running water. ``If soap is not available, we say you wash with potash. ``We advise that everybody should form the habit of washing of hands regularly.’’

Ossai, who is also the Director of Public Health in the state, urged people to report cases of suspected epidemic to a medical facility in order to help improve disease surveillance in the country.

He urged Nigerians to avoid selfmedication and always go to medical facilities for proper treatment. (NAN)

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Sokoto Customs intercepts fuel tanker laden with contrabands From Raji Bello, Sokoto

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he Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Sokoto, yesterday said it has intercepted a petroleum tanker laden with contraband.

The seizure was made known to journalists by the Area Comptroller

in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, Alhaji Sani Madugu during the physical examination at the area headquarters.

Our correspondent observed that the tanker which was designed for lifting petroleum product had no fewer than 100 bales of fairly used clothing materials in its

compartments.

Madugu explained that the truck was trailed from Kebbi state, through intelligent reports and was finally intercepted in Gusua, Zamfara state by a patrol team.

He noted that the Duties Paid Value (DPV) of the good could worth about N40 million.

The Customs boss said no arrest was made but added that, investigation has commenced to unveil the perpetrators.

Madugu however advised smugglers to engage in other legal businesses or they would continue to lose their investments to such operations.

L-R: Minister of Defence, BrigadierGeneral Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd), receiving a report from Chairman, InterMinisterial Committee on the Handover of Areas Liberated in the Northeast to Civil Law Enforcement Agencies, MajorGeneral Azagaku Umaru (rtd), yesterday in Abuja.

Photo: NAN

Edo expels 8 secondary school students over cultism From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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do state government has expelled eight secondary school students over cult related activities across the three senatorial districts of the state.

The state Commissioner

for Education, Hon. Gideon Obhakhan, on Tuesday said, over twenty other secondary students were also suspended in connection with cult related activities, ahead of full scale investigation by the Police .

Obhakhan dropped the hint at an interactive session with newsmen, yesterday in Benin

City, the state capital, where he assured that those culpable among the suspended students would be expelled from their various schools which he declined to list.

According to him, the ongoing clampdown by the state government was aimed at checking the wave of cult

activities now spreading across secondary and primary schools in the state.

He also dismissed rumours that the newly established Edo state University, Iyhamo, Etsako West Local Government Area in the state, was a creation of private/ public partnership.

Police arraign 5 for allegedly stealing cocoa beans worth N1.3m

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he police in Osun on Thursday docked four accused persons before an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing cocoa beans worth N1.3 million.

The accused : Sikiru Ileladewa, 46, Asimiyu Akinola, 45, Micheal Asaolu, 51, Peter Ayotoyebi, 70 and Yisa Ileladewa, 40 are facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing .

The prosecutor, Sgt Sunday

Osanyintuyi, told the court that the accused conspired together to steal cocoa beans valued at N1.3million, property of Racheal Adebayo and Job Adeyeye.

Osanyintuyi said that the offences violated Section 383 and punishable under Sections 390 (9) and 516 of the Criminal Code Cap 34, Col 11, Laws of Osun, 2003.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against

them.

The defence counsel, Mr Ben Adirieje, applied for the bail of his clients in most liberal terms, promising that they would not jump bail, but would produce reliable sureties.

Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode granted bail to the accused in the sum of N50, 000 with one surety each in like sum.

Ijiyode added that the sureties must swear to an affidavit of means

and should be residing within the court jurisdiction.

He added that each of the sureties must submit two of their recent passport photographs to the court’s registrar.

The magistrate also directed the court officials to verify the addresses of the sureties to ascertain that they were genuine.

The court then adjourned the case to April 25, for hearing. (NAN)

Fuel scarcity: NSCDC arrests Tanker driver over alleged diversion in Kwara

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he Kwara Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a Tanker driver over alleged diversion of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol.

The Public Relations Officer of the Command, Mr Kunle Bilesanmi, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in

Ilorin.

Bilesanmi said the transporter of the product was Conoil but that it belonged to Z.A. Imam along Sobi road in Ilorin East Local Government Area, whilst the product was allegedly diverted to Akkon Filling Station in Aboto Oja in Asa Local Government Area of the state. ``Our men acted on a tip-

off and we rounded them up on Wednesday. ``We are doing the needful by following the waybill and we have ensured that the product has been delivered to the rightful owner (Z.A Imam) today (Thursday). ``This is what has been happening that is causing hardship to the people of the state and we will not take it anymore,’’

Bilesanmi said.

He said the truck had a 33,000 litre-capacity, but that it was actually carrying 11,000 litres of the product.

The NSCDC spokesman said before the truck was apprehended, it had already offloaded 1,950 to Akkon, and that the remaining product had successfully been delivered to Z.A. Imam. (NAN)

Army repels Boko Haram attack in Madagali From Umar Dankano, Yola

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he Nigerian troops have repelled a fresh deadly attack by some fleeing Boko Haram insurgents in Izige town of Madagali Local Government Area in Adamawa State.

Reports from the area indicated that the fleeing Boko Haram terrorism lunched the attack in the wee hours of Monday allegedly killing three soldiers and two vigilante members but were forced to stage a retreat due to superior fire power from the military.

An eye witness who happens to be a vigilante member but declined identification in the print said the insurgents were forced to flee after losing many fighters in the encounter.

“They engaged the military for hours, killing three soldiers and two vigilantes members before they were finally over powered and fled through the connecting bush but they removed some corpses of their fighters”, he alleged Some of the fleeing residents interviewed said they could not confirm number of casualty as they could not return to the village to assess their lost and know the actual figure of causalities When contacted, the Army Public Relations Officer (APRO) in charge of the 28 Special. Task Force Battalion Mubi, Captain Bakare said actually there was a failed attack but promised to enquire for accurate details of the incident but could not call back up to the time of filling in this report

2 men docked for allegedly defrauding friend of N200,000

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wo men, who allegedly defrauded their friend, Friday Oshi, of N200,000 under the pretext of helping him to procure a China Visa, on Thursday appeared before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

The accused: Ibrahim Bakare, 40; and Olawale Opere, 36, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, fraud and theft.

They both denied the charge.

The Magistrate, Mrs Memunat Folami, granted each of the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum.

Folami adjourned the case till April 27 for hearing.

The Prosecutor, Insp. Philip Osijiale, had told the court that the accused committed the offences on May 3, 2014 at No. 6, Agbatira St., Lagos Island, Lagos.

Osijiale said that the accused obtained N200,000 from their friend, Oshi, with the pretext of helping him to get a China Visa but converted the money to their own use.

He said that the offences contravened Sections 285, 312 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. (NAN)

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New blueprint will revive agric sector – Ogbeh

R-L: Deputy Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr, Sharon OrieroOviemuno, Chairman, Ebonyi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Chief Hycinth Ikpor, UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr. Suleiman Dikko, Director, Office of the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Alhaji Aliyu Kardi, and Director Engineering Services of UBEC, Engineer Sadiq Saad, during the commission’s inspection of UBEC Federal Government newly constructed Special Vocational School, yesterday in Amachi, Abakalike, Ebonyi state.

By Ochiaka Ugwu

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he Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured Nigerians that the implementation of the new Agricultural Roadmap as conceptualized by the ministry would revive and transform the agricultural sector in Nigeria.

The Minister gave this assurance while declaring the National Agricultural Show open on Tuesday, 5th April, 2016 at the Abuja –Keffi Showground, Nassarawa State.

In a statement released in Abuja and signed by Director of Information of the ministry, Mr. Tony Ohaeri, Chief Ogbeh said the roadmap would help revolutionize agriculture in Nigeria by engaging all the key stakeholders, particularly State Governments, the organized Private Sector, Investors, Women, Youth Farmers’ Associations in the agricultural production and agro-export value chain.

The Minister stated that the goal of the Present Administration was to build an agribusiness economy capable of meeting Nigeria’s domestic food security requirements and generating exports to broaden the national revenue base. He said the administration would support sustainable income and job growth potentials through wealth creation, promotion of entrepreneurial activities, youth employment and enhance national productivity.

Continuing, Chief Ogbeh said,” No Nation can truly boast of being sovereign if she cannot feed her citizens on a sustainable basis”.

While emphasizing the need to put in place adequate measures for ensuring sustainable food security bearing in mind the anticipated population growth of 450 million people in 2050, he explained that the present administration would pursue the development of agro-exports in areas it had competitive edge in the past, mentioning Cocoa, Palm produce, Groundnuts, Cashew, Yam flour as such areas.

According to him, there would be improvement in the use of fertilizers for higher crop yields, Speaking earlier, the chairman, Board of Trustees of the National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN), Senator Adamu Abdulahi, said the objective of the agricultural show was to sensitize the people on the importance of agriculture.

Obj to NASS: I never signed budget without details

By Lawrence Olaoye

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ormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied ever signing any budget based on the transmission of its highlights without details to him in his eight years in office.

Obasanjo who paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari made the clarification yesterday while responding to questions from State House Correspondents.

The former President who said he came to share his experience with

Buhari also declined comments on the 2016 budget saying he would not talk about a document he had yet to see.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumuni Jibril, had said that it was not unusual for Buhari to sign the budget based on the highlights transmitted to him.

Buhari had last week refused to sign the highlights of budget document sent to him insisting on getting the details and vetting same

before assent.

On the claim by the National Assembly that he signed budgets without seeing the details, Obasanjo said “Eh en? I signed budget without details? Anybody who told you that, go and ask him again.”

Asked for his comments on the delay in the passage of the budget, Obasanjo said “The constitution allows you to continue with the budget provided you did not go beyond the previous year. That can be done up to the middle of the year.”

Asked to comment on the budget, he said “Before I will be able to tell you something about the budget, I have to read it and know what it contains and know what to talk about.”

On the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by the Code of Conduct Bureau, Obasanjo merely said “Eh en? What is wrong with him?”

On his mission to Buhari, “You know that not too long ago, I was out there. I have come to share some of my experiences with him.”

Money laundering: At last, EFCC arraigns NAMA MD, Abdulsalam, others From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

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ore than a month after his arrest alongside other staff of the agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Managing Director/Chief Executive, Ibrahim Abdulsalam at the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing N2.8 billion.

Also charged along with Abdulsalam is his predecessor Mr. Nnamdi Udoh who is alleged to still be at large, his Personal Assistant and General Manager procurement, Adegorite Olumuyiwa, General Manager Finance, Agbolade Segun, Director of Finance Clara Aliche, Adegorite’s wife Joy Ayodele Adegorite, and his companies Randville Invesment Ltd and Multeng Travels and Tours Ltd before Justice Babs Kuewumi on 21 counts charge.

The anti-graft agency narrated how on August 19, 2013, the defendants, with intent to defraud, conspired amongst themselves to induce NAMA to deliver the sum of N2,847,523,975.00 to Delosa Ltd, Air Sea Delivery Ltd and Sea Schedules Systems Ltd under the pretense that

the money represented the cost of clearing NAMA’s consignments.

The alleged offence it said is contrary to section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3).

The prosecution said the defendants conspired to deliver various amounts to Delosa Limited on different dates under the pretence that they were payment for clearing NAMA’s consignment.

EFCC said they paid the firm N274,021,452.00 between January 31 and April 15, 2013; and between August 19 and December 31, 2013, they paid it N151,136,320.

The defendants also paid the firm N403,485,057.70 between January 15 and December 17, 2014, as well as N285,906,834.10 between January 14 and September 16, 2015, the prosecution alleged.

EFCC said the defendants induced NAMA to pay Air Sea Delivery Ltd the sum of N409,010,344.70 under the pretense it represented the cost of clearing NAMA’s goods. EFCC said they also paid Air Sea N230, 585,636.20 between January 14 and September 16.

Another company EFCC said is Sea Schedules System Ltd, got N227,

634,567.20 between September 11 and December 15, 2014 under the pretence that it cleared NAMA’s consignments, and between January 14 and September 3, the defendants paid Sea Schedules the sum of N314,378,212.80.

All the defendants were also accused of conspiring amongst themselves on January 2, 2013 to convert N858,507, 609.56, property of NAMA, which was derived from stealing, contrary to Section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act. EFCC explained that between January 2 and December 17, 2013, the defendants allegedly converted N191,616,651.56 belonging to NAMA to themselves.

EFCC said they allegedly converted N728,870,158 between 2013 and 2015.

Part of count 13 reads: “That you, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, Adegorite Olumuyiwa, Agbolade Segun, Clara Aliche, Joy Ayodele Adegorite, Randville Invesment Ltd And Multeng Travels And Tours Ltd, between the 1st day of January and the 30th day of December, 2015 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit an offence, to wit: Conversion of the

sum of N336,803,308 property of NAMA, which sum was derived from stealing, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.” The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the counts. Their lawyers, who said they had filed bail applications, prayed the court to remand the suspects in EFCC’s custody where they had been held since February 12.

But EFCC’s lawyer Rotimi Oyedepo, who said he needed to respond to the motions for bail, urged the court to remand the defendants in prison custody.

“EFCC’s detention facilities are overstretched. Arrests are being made everyday. EFCC cannot afford to keep more detainees,” he said.

The commission also listed an initial 20 witnesses, including representatives of Stanbic IBTC Bank, Skye Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, United Bank for Africa Plc and First Bank Plc, who will tesfify during the trial.

The trial judge, Justice Kuewumi at the end of Thursday proceedings adjourned the case till the April 12 when he said the trial will commence.

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Varsity pensioners reject remitting of dues to union

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he Federal Universities Pensioners’ Association (FUPA) has kicked against the stance of Pension Transition Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) directing it to remit its members’ check-off dues to the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP).

The pensioners’ position is

contained in a statement signed by its national president, Dr Ayuba Audu-Kura, and made available to newsmen in Zariaon Thursday.

It described the move as ``illegal, unconstitutional and a violation of the Trade Union Act’’.

The statement said that

FUPA, as a registered association of pensioners under federal universities, has the right to freedom of association as guaranteed by Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ``Section 17 (a) and (b) of the Trade Union Act (CAP T14)

laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, which was repeated in 2005, specifically Section 4 of the Trade Union Amended 2005 gives us that right,” it noted.

According to the release, the PTAD’s decision to compel FUPA members to belong to NUP was illegal and has violated Section 12

(4) of the Trade Union Act. ``The law is clear; membership of a trade union by employees shall be voluntary and no employee shall be forced to join any trade union or be victimised for refusing to join or remaining a member. ``We advise PTAD to rescind its decision to coerce FUPA into any association it was not ready to belong. ``Our association also wants the Minister of Finance to intervene for the sake of peace between the two unions,” the statement said.

NAN recalls that PTAD had, on March 2, 2016, wrote a letter to FUPA, informing it of the stoppage of the remittance of check-off dues to the association from Nov. 2015, until an amicable resolution was reached with NUP as directed by the ministry. (NAN)

… As Delta varsity decries FRSC officer’s alleged harassment of staff From Osakhare Erese, Asaba

Chairman, Board of Trustees of NESO and Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya (right), Chairman, Advocacy Committe of NESO and, former Plateau state Deputy Governor of Mrs Pauline Tallen (left), Corps Commandant General (CCG), NESO, Comrade Sani Aliyu (3rd left), International liaison Officer between NESO and BORDERPOL (World Border Organization), Alhaji Idrisu Mohammed (2nd left), listing the EU Representative on BORDERPOL and Special Adviser on Africa, Mr. Serge Rinkel (2nd right), with his team, during a dinner organised by NESO in honour of the visitors to Nigeria, on Wednesday night at Nicon Luxury Hotel, in Abuja.

Photo: Bashir Bello

Gov. Akala, Arase, Waziri, others eulogise ex IGP, Adewusi From Olanrewaju Lawal, Ilorin

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minent Nigerians on Thursday eulogised the late former InspectorGeneral of Police, Chief Sunday Adewusi in Ilorin, Kwara state.

The service was held at Emmanuel Baptist Church, SaboOke, Ilorin.

While delivering his message at the service, the Minister in charge of the Church, Reverend Olawuyi James, said that those who engage in the criminal act fail to understand that life is ephemeral and that hereafter was more important.

He said that Nigerian leaders and other citizens who enrich themselves with resources of the country are not heaven conscious.

Rev. James, who cited the Bible’s parable of the Richman and Lazarus in his sermon, said that man at death would bid bye to existence of life, pleasure and pursuit of life without taking along any materials acquired to his next destination.

“Some people with the way they amass wealth look as if they want to live heaven on earth whereas they have little time to live on earth and they will not be able to take their wealth to heaven.

Heaven is a different place and to get there you must walk in the way of the Lord,” he said.

The cleric advised people to always remember that there is lesson in death and that everything is temporary in life.

He urged them to be cautious not to allow things they will not take along in their transition to draw their attention away from God. He cited a passage in the Bible, asking that, “What shall it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lost his soul?”.

The clergyman while stating that the deceased made positive impact in police in church and the nation at large urged people in position to use their position to “bless life, to touch people’s life.

He advised those who are frustrated by injustice and difficulties in the land and engage in ungodly activities to desist and endure in the way of the Lord to gain heaven.

In his tribute on behalf of the Kwara state government, the state Deputy Governor, Elder Peter Kisira, described late Sunday Adewusi as a man who worked for the unity and progress of the country.

The deputy governor, who described him as an illustrious Nigerian, noted that the elder statesman contributed immensely to the socio-economic growth, development, progress and stability of the state.

The deputy governor explained that the late Chief Adewusi as the then Commissioner of Police, Kwara State, the IG and much later as a senior citizen and elder statesman ensure the peace and tranquility of the state.

He noted that the late icon consistently assisted the State in her youth empowerment and

women employment programmes.

Kisira also described him as our hero, role model and a leader worthy legacies of discipline, hard-work, honesty, tolerance, perseverance and committed community man for posterity.

Other eminent personalities that gave tribute at the well attended service included the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase represented by AIG zone eight, Garba Yahaya Ando, the Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Nigerian Baptist Conference and the spouse of the sage, Mrs Funsho Adewusi.

The service was attended by eminent personalities in Kwara state and across the country including the former Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Christopher Alao Akala and his wife, Kemi, members of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Commissioners, permanent secretaries, retired Chief Judges and the former chairman of EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri.

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he authority of the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, has raised alarm over the alleged unabated harassment, intimidation and brutalization of members of staff of the university by men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) along Umutu/Obiaruku/ Abraka stretch of the Agbor/ Warri Road.

A statement issued by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the University, Mr. Eddy Agbure, on behalf of the institution, a copy made available to our correspondent on Thursday, expressed grave concern over the alleged continuous molestation of member of staff in the university community.

Agbure alleged in the statement that a lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Williams Obukohwo, was the latest victim of the FRSC brutalization in DELSU. According to him, Oduvbu was on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, beaten to a pulp in the presence of his sister in-law and two children, who were with him in the case, on the allegation of possessing a fake driver’s license in the presence of the Unit Commander at Ebede in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the State.

“Dr. Oduvbu committed no offence. He obeyed the FRSC officials by stopping when he was flagged down. He presented all the items demanded of him and when it was clear that he was a law abiding citizen, the FRSC men alleged that his driver’s license was fake, as it is usual for them to say in such circumstances.

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NGO, Civil Organizations urge timely release of immunization funds From Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi

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R-L: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, and Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Ambassador Bulus Lolo, during a news conference by the minister, yesterday in Abuja.

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Presidency commences preretirement training program for staff

By Lawrence Olaoye

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he Presidency has commenced a vocational and entrepreneurial programme to prepare its staff adequately for retirement.

In a statement signed by Mr. O.J. Abuah on behalf of the Special Adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, the workshop was declared open

by the State House Permanent Secretary, Mr. Jalal Arabi.

Declaring open a two-day workshop for State House staff who are about to retire between 2016 and 2017, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Jalal Arabi, said that the programme was designed to prepare them mentally and psychologically for retirement.

“What the State House has set out to do is to commence a

process of early pre-retirement training for potential retirees.

“This is in the firm belief that adequate planning for retirement will make life after retirement much more attractive,” Arabi said.

The Permanent Secretary said that the overall aim of the Presidency was to ensure that all staff undergo pre-retirement training at least 3-4 years before their retirement.

“This approach is based on the realization that it usually takes about three years to incubate and develop most business ideas,’’ he said.

Eighty-one prospective retirees are being trained on livestock, fisheries management, personal finance planning and other useful skills and vocations at the workshop which opened yesterday.

Zamfara monarch assures payments of land compensation at Gusau varsity From Ibrahim Sidi Muh’d, Gusau

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he Emir of Zamfara Anka who doubles as the state chairman Council of Chiefs (COC), Alhaji Muhammad Attahiru Ahmad and his counterpart of Bungudu emirate, Alhaji Ahmad Umar have jointly pledged meeting with the state government with a view to ensure the payments of lands compensations to the affected communities where the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) was constructed.

This was made known by the emir

of Zamfara Anka and his Bungudu counterpart separately when a team led by the chairperson Governing Council of the University, Mrs Funmi Beckersth, paid an advocacy visit in their Palaces towards the development of the University which is currently bedeviled with compensation crisis.

Alhaji Attahiru said, the state government was virtually worried with the delay for the outstanding payments of lands compensations owed to the affected communities as the establishment of the University

in the state would not only boost the education sector but would provide job opportunities to the teeming unemployed youth.

He commended the decision taken by the administration of the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Magaji Garba, on introducing the faculty of engineering which would embark upon providing adequate knowledge on legitimate methods of exploiting solid minerals to the mining communities in the state.

The monarch informed that,

his domain was marked as one of the mining potentials with high concentration of mineral resources which has currently witnessed the occupation and operations of about 35 mining places by numerous companies across the emirate.

Earlier, the Chairperson Governing Council, Mrs Funmi Beckersth has solicited for unreserved royal support and cooperation from all the 17 emirates of the state towards encouraging the management of the University in moving the University to the next level.

UNICEF partners Katsina to train 1,500 female teachers

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he Katsina State Government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the training of no fewer than 1,500 female teachers to be posted to their individual villages.

Alhaji Sagir Ibrahim, the Permanent Secretary, (PS), in the state Ministry of Education, disclosed this on Thursday at the inauguration of a one-day meeting for female teacher

training scholarship scheme.

He said that the state government was committed to the scheme which would produce female teachers to be posted to their individual villages.

Earlier, the UNICEF’s coordinator of training in the state, Alhaji Ahimed Garba, said that the organisation would provide scholarships for female students to obtain the National Certificate of Education (NCE) certificate.

Garba said each female student

from rural area studying under the scheme at Isah Kaita College of Education would be awarded a scholarship worth N50, 000.00 annually to boost their morale.

He lamented that only 400 female teachers were able to complete the three-year NCE course, with 900 having carryovers while 200 dropped out from the school.

The coordinator revealed that only 250 secured employment with the Katsina State Government while 150 were still

at home and unemployed.

He appealed to the state government to employ those who had completed their courses.

In his remarks, Alhaji Musa Usman, the Deputy Provost of the college, urged the government and UNICEF to continue sponsoring the programme so as to produce more primary school teachers.

Usman said that the primary schools in the rural areas needed additional teachers to provide the desired education for the pupils at the grassroots. (NAN)

n NGO, Community Health Research Initiative (CHR) in collaboration with Bauchi state Accountability Mechanism for MNCH (BASAM) have called on Bauchi state government to ensure timely release of routine immunization allocated funds.

They made the call at meeting organized for stakeholders on Routine Immunization Budget scorecard held at Bagari Suite, conference hall yesterday in Bauchi, saying that the routine immunization fund of 80 million naira released should be judiciously utilized for the purpose intend to be fully achieved.

A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting called on the state Primary Development Agency and Emergency Operation Center to ensure timely and regular meetings of Finance Working Group, with adequate representation of local CSOs/Media this will promote local ownership, openness, feedback and improvement of services.

Kebbi releases N314m for students’ scholarship

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he Kebbi State Government on Thursday said it had released N314 million for the payment of registration and tuition fee for indigent students in national and foreign institutions.

Dr Sahabi Yauri, the Executive Secretary of the state’s Scholarship Board, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday.

Yauri said that out of the amount, N147 million was for tuition, registration and tenancy for 30 indigent students studying medicine in Indian universities.

He added that N97 million was for the fees of 30 students studying medicine, dentistry and surgery in Sudanese universities, while N70 million was for 5,000 indigent students studying in tertiary institutions in the country.

The executive secretary said some of the beneficiaries were studying in the country in six institutions that included Federal University Birnin Kebbi, North West University Kano, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Alqalam Islamic University Katsina and Sokoto State Polytechnic.

He explained that the amount had been released to the bank accounts of the benefiting institutions, stressing that payment was approved after scrutiny of students to avoid misplacement of priority.

Yauri then urged the students to reciprocate government’s gesture by studying hard to justify the investment made on them and commended the conduct of the students, especially those who were studying abroad. (NAN)

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EDITORIAL

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Once beaten, twice shy

spirited effort by Senator that the bill was killed by senators opportunities.” However, he Biodun Olujimi, from who felt it challengdd their faith. was not sure whether equal Ekiti state, on March 15, The gender equality bill was not rights and opportunities for to get her colleagues in the attempting anything new. All Nigerian women should be Nigerian Senate to pass her Biodun tried to do was have through legislation. According gender equality bill fell flat on the senate domesticate the to him, this will happen with its face. It did not make the United Nations Convention on “time and education.” second reading in the male the Elimination of All Forms of No doubt, Biodun’s move was dominated Red Chamber.

Violence Against Women and an attempt ahead of its time.

Entitled “Gender Parity and Secretly, many senators Prohibition of Violence against are well disposed toward Women”, the bill sought to equal educartion and job given women equal rights in opportunities for women and key areas: marriage, education an end to violence against them. and jobs. On marriage, Biodun However, inheritance is an pushed for a woman to take emotive issue that does not sit custody of children in the event well with some, particularly the of her husband’s death, and majority from the Muslim North. also inherit his property.

In that sense, it was a mistake to Truth be told, it would have have put it in the bill. Secondly, been revolutionary had Biodun apparently, did not try the bill passed. Nigeria, in hard enough to get the support spite of the great strides it of influential male senator at has made in education and the preparation stage. The pro democratic governance, is still equality lobby was weak. The a very religious and traditional bill did not receive the support society; it is also chauvinistic. of civil society groups until after Even the United States of Americ the senate killed it. that has been ademocracy foe However, hope is not lost. over 200 years is yet to have its President of the senate Saraki first female president. believes there is a good Two senators who spoke during chance a reworked bill will plenary also said the minds pass in the senate. “There are of the others. Majority leader substantial parts of the bill that Ali Ndume said the proposed are crucial to the develoment legislation wqs an attack on of our nation”, he said. We religion and tradition. Senator suggest Biodun come with a Sani Yerima Bakura, already bill for equal education and job controversial for support opportunities for women and for early childmarriage, men first because it stands a the Protocol to the African Union said the bill negated. Sharia, better chance of being passed.

Charter on Human and People’s the Islamiclegal code, and The one on inheritance is more Rights. Its defeat in the senate, therefore, Nigeria’s federal controversial because of its expectedly shocked Nigeria’s constitution that, he said, religious implications. More womenfolk and their male recognises Sharia. A statement leg work will haveto be done sympathisers, among them deputy issued by the office of the to persuade religious to come president Ike Ekweremadu. He president of the senate Bukola board. This, to be sure, will not said“...those countries that doing Saraki afterward explained happen in a year ot two. well are those that give women

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However, hope is not lost.

President of the senate Saraki believes there is a good chance a reworked bill will pass in the senate.

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Opinion Oliseh’s self-delusions and uncouth talk-back at Nigerians

By Ahmed Oluwasanjo

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rom the days of Moses in the Bible, those who take responsibility – as public servants – have always had to manage and cope with their fans and critics. And of course, criticisms – be it constructive or destructive – could come from traducers or fans who desire to see one fail or excel.

Truth be told, tolerating criticism is very hard but it remains a good feedback for one to know how he/ she is performing or not, and more importantly to keeps one focused on self-improvement and getting better in whatever one has signed up for.

Of course, we all murmur about critics who are always finding faults in our very best efforts but not in the public, most especially when the critics are our employers. Always, the best response to give critics – be they haters or lovers – is good performance and nothing more.

All of these brings me to the outrageous outburst of Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, who said his critics are “insane”. At first, after the team he led to the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda crashed out, he politely apologised. That was okay.

However, his follow up outburst in which he said his critics are “insane”, came to many Nigerians as a surprise. Does Oliseh mean Nigerians – ardent footballer lovers – who kept supporting a non-performing Super Eagles

unanimously, irrespective of their obvious differences of opinion, are all mad? Does Oliseh mean that those whose taxes pay his salaries have no right to vent their displeasure on his performance as a coach?

If the later is the case, then he should pitch his tent with those in the National Assembly who are on the move to gag Nigerian social media users. But, as long as he remains the Eagles coach, it is the right of his critics – lovers or haters – to objectively or otherwise have their say on his performance, while it’s incumbent on him to deliver.

In another way round, Oliseh’s outburst and false apologies simply mirror how irresponsible politicians and public servants who earn a living from the taxes of poor Nigerians treat the same tax payers with contempt and abject disrespect. And the manner they cunningly come back like the biblical prodigal son, putting up all sorts of explanations forward to seek the public’s face and make up for their obvious malfeasance whenever their actions attracts public outcry.

The story of Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomole and the streethawking widow he verbally abused; the case of the governor of Nasarawa State, “Hell-Makura” and Ms. Iorvihi; and that of Abdulraham Dambazau and his shoe shining state security aide are examples to support my point.

Anyway, we cannot blame Oliseh

for taking a swipe at his critics, after all his appointment was due to cronyism and was not based on his track record as a soccer coach. This is brings me to his statement that “I didn’t want this job. I rejected it twice and I took the job after intense persuasion by an influential friend in government”, which reveals why he felt so arrogant and thought that exchanging words with his critics would be a good line of defence, when the best thing he could have done was to go back to the drawing board, get his team together and deliver in subsequent marches.

I’m sure Nigerians must be seeing the bad side of cronyism from Oliseh’s arrogance; but that’s a topic for another time. Let’s face it. If the better proven likes of Clemens Westerhof, Jo Bonfrere, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde, Amodu Shaibu, Austin Eguavoen, Lars Largerback, Samson Siasia and even Stephen Keshi – who Oliseh criticised serially, and nastily – never had the guts to say their critics were “insane”, who is Oliseh to have said so?! As at the last time I checked, Oliseh is definitely in no way better than any of these coaches, but the way he’s kept harping on his record of having led the national team into 14 games, most of which they won, as if that could pass for a trophy – particularly, CHAN – baffles me. Well, since he wants to be commended, I clap for him for his much cherished record.

However, he needs to be

reminded that yesterday’s record in football does not guarantee a coach’s job tomorrow – only today’s success does. Let me drive home my point with two examples: Keshi won the 2013 African Cup of Nations (AFCON), qualified and took the Eagles to the World Cup in 2014, but was fired for not qualifying for the 2015 African Nations Cup. Similarly, Jose Mourinho who led Chelsea FC to win the 2014/2015 English Premier League (EPL) was sacked the very season after he won the EPL. Sunday Oliseh must be full of self-delusion and feelings that he is the “Special One”. He appears to be highly skilled in putting up flimsy excuses and blaming his failures on those he could simply put to silence by subsequent outstanding outings. His outrageous reaction to his so-called critics reminds many Nigerians of his extremely short fused temper – even though he was indisputably a fantastic defensive midfielder in his playing career.

But, it’s too bad that his short temper is really disappointing at this stage in his career. Oliseh should not live in self-deception that some of his “ex-colleagues” are scheming hard to occupy his seat because he also rode on the criticism of his predecessor to his present position. So, if it was right the, for Oliseh to criticise Keshi, how is it wrong today for another person to criticise him? Besides, are his critics not part of the 170 million Nigerians he came back to

pretentiously apologise to or how does he separate his critics from other football-loving Nigerians who have also censured him on the same issue? In the second part of the explosive YouTube video of his rant, he said, “a contract was made out, I signed a contract with the NFF; if you’re not happy about it, Ok we come out and shake hands”(sic).

By this, Oliseh might be feeling he would probably be invited by Arsenal FC or Barcelona FC should he resign or get fired as the Eagles’ coach. But just before then, I would advise him to seek counsel from Jose Mourinho or better still, ask Keshi, how far? And if by chance Oliseh loses this big opportunity to garner practical experience in coaching beyond cheap studio talk and prove his critics wrong by delivering, he should not be surprised if calls to coach teams like Agege Bombers or Felele United do not come his way subsequently.

Of course, this piece might make me one of the “insane” critics of Oliseh, but then he would have to prove his own sanity first. If he takes my humble advice to heart, and works on his temper, puts his team on a better pedestal and starts delivering, he would be in a better position to truly earn his pay and position as the Eagles coach, while also winning the respect of Nigerians. I wish him well.

to take the law into their own hands anyways. People have pleaded for Boko Haram terrorists to be treated humanely, Ombatse cult members garnered some sympathy when they unleashed their murderous rage and even other groups that practically rose up against the state always have some interest appealing on their behalf as if no laws have been broken or that their victims are of a lesser caste.

In the Cross River – Akwa Ibom axis, to our national shame, there are extreme preachers that claim to be pastors who regularly subject minors to traumatic abuses in the name of ridding them of witchcraft.

In extreme cases these phonies have successfully incited parents to kill their own offsprings.

The foregoing is a prelude to the major trust of this write up. There is need to work on a legislation to prohibit the activities of radical and extremist religious leaders.

Not quite unlike Rev King, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) or Shiite Sect, Mr Ibrahim El-Zakzaky drove adherents of his sects to death when he facilitated the build up to a faceoff with the Nigerian Army. The result was the incident in Zaria, Kaduna state in December 2015 when the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General

Tukur Yusuf was reportedly the target of an assassination bid and the resulting military operation led to regrettable loss of life and property.

El-Zakyzaky might not have physically doused his followers with petrol and strike the match like Reverend Kings but his teachings and indoctrination primed their psyche to be willing fodders for his canon. Save for the differences in inscriptions on flags and choice of uniforms, videos depicting drills by IMN members is highly reminiscent of Boko Haram propaganda clips as far as inferred belligerence goes. So how does a sect leader brainwash his followers to that level of aggressiveness and not expect a catastrophic outcome in any resulting faceoff with the authorities in a secular state?

The legislation should also have provisions to keep the finances of preachers and organisation to which they are affiliated under watch. This is because some of these people preaching extremist views are merely puppets of greater interests that could sometimes be a rival nation or a country that has ulterior aims in Nigeria.

Apologists and beneficiaries of sectarian and religious extremism will be quick to point out that

legislation to curb propagation or preaching of extreme views will stifle the freedom to worship, association, and expression. But these apologists must ask themselves if it was also right that the Shiites, Reverend King and others deprive fellow Nigerians of their right in the course of living their extreme views.

In Germany, the Holocaust Denial Legislation is in place because they have decided that the right to free-speech must be balanced against the right not to be subjected to racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and a potential revival of Nazism. Austria, Hungary, and Romania have their own versions of the law.

In France, the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) has suggested that the country’s imams should be given a certificate - “like a driving licence” - that ensured they promoted a “tolerant and open Islam”. This of course tallies with what Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has in the works – only that the Kaduna State’s “A bill for a law to substitute the Kaduna State religious preaching law, 1984” will encompass all faiths.

That the Council in France came up with this suggestion is a testimony to the dire need to be decisive in caging extremism and propagation

of hate speech under the cover of religion.

This is why we must stand up to the time bomb called Shiite or IMN, those that kill children on the pretext of witchcraft or any other sect and faith that threaten the corporate future of Nigeria by seeking a law at the national level to ban the activities of questionable organisations.

Perchance, if we had such legislation in place, Reverend Ezeugo might not have had the followership that emboldened him to set a congregant ablaze and might just not be on the condemned list. But we still have that chance to set out a federal legislation to criminalise extremism now. We need to ensure that Mr El-Zakyzaky and IMN lose the capacity to continue using the pretext of preaching to incite hatred against the state of state officials.

For those who think this is an extreme suggestion for dealing with extremism they should ask themselves what role hate preaching extremists played in recruiting the army of murderers that became the killing machine called Boo Haram.

Ahmed Oluwasanjo is a Public Affairs Analyst.

Wanted: Legislation to prohibit radical, extremists religious scholars

By Israel Abiodun

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fter the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev King), the General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly, the Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) was quick to call on the Federal Government of Nigeria not to carry out the death sentence. NCSN leader, Chief Udo Udeogaranya defended this call with the logic that “This plea is premised on the ground that many Nigerians still hold Rev. Ezeugo as their spiritual leader even in various prisons”.

It doesn’t matter that Rev. Ezeugo on January 11, 2007 murdered one of his church members, Ann Uzoh when he doused her with petrol alongside five others and set them ablaze. What is important to those who want to see him escape the hangman’s noose is that he has a fanatical following that must not be allowed to die.

There is no ethnic undertone intended in using this example, it just happens to be the most recent case of pleading for people who had the benefit of thinking through their fanatical extremism before acting but still went ahead

Abiodun is a security strategist based in Lagos.

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Comment Anti-corruption drive and hypocritical agents of Rule of Law

By Ibrahim Abbas

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he successful transition of political power from the ruling to an opposition party on the 29th May, 2015 in Nigeria marked a significant step in the nation’s democracy. It at least juxtaposes the theoretical assumption that “democracy begins to mature only when electoral outcomes are uncertain as they are unpredictable, i.e. when today’s winners are tomorrow’s losers only then can we begin to talk about democratic consolidation in any society”. In essence, it further affirmed the commitment of Nigerians both at elite and mass level that democratic systems and structures must be respected behaviourally, attitudinally and constitutionally and that democracy becomes the “only game in town”.

The question that one may ask is that, why did the Peoples Democratic Party, the self-acclaimed largest party in Africa lost in the 2015 election?

The answer is obvious to many Nigerians given the last 16 years of PDP’s regime which produced nothing but hunger, poverty, unemployment, insecurity and above all corruption. Professor Achebe remains right till date when in his 1984 book he pointed out that the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership to lead by

personal example. Interestingly, since the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria’s development was practically stunted by corruption perpetrated by senior public officials with impunity thereby threatening the nation’s fragile unity, peace, security and overall national development.

Under Jonathan’s administration alone, there have been frightening scandals including; Oduahgate (N255 million), Police Pension Fund Fraud (N32.8bn), Oronsayegate (N163bn), Mainagate (N195bn), Oritsejaforgate ($15 million), Security Contract to Niger Delta Militants ($250 million), Abacha Reloot ($330 million), Malabu Oil Scandal ($1.1bn), Crude Oil Theft (£1bn lost monthly), Fuel Subsidy Scam ($6bn), NNPC Missing Fund ($20bn).

Former CBN governor and current Emir of Kano HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi became the first whistle blower of a

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grandeur theft in the country having reported a missing 20billion dollars. What later followed was an affirmation that “if you fight corruption, corruption will fight back” and in this case it was both a disappointment and a blessing as the rest is now history. Don’t ask me how.

It was evident in the immediate past administration that stealing was not corruption and therefore eyebrows must not be raised even for the disappearance of $20bn.

Such ridiculous situation in the country unfortunately developed a political culture of impunity, recklessness, indiscipline and overall abuse of power as corruption and corrupt practices were basically condoned and even promoted by the government in power without any recourse to the rule of law.

Despite all the alarming

evidence there were no prosecutions as some were even handsomely rewarded by the then government. Oduahgate till date remains a clear example that corruption was celebrated in Nigeria as Madam BMW was later rewarded with a Senate seat by her kinsmen. This is not fair.

It was therefore not surprising that in its recent 2015 report, the Transparency International rated Nigeria among the most corrupt nations in the globe positioned at 136th out of 175 countries.

Interestingly, despite its claims of being the biggest African economy more than 70% of Nigerians currently live below the poverty line. In terms of security, by March 2015 the ABC News Point rated Nigeria as the 3rd most dangerous nation in the world only safer than Syria and Somalia. On governance scale, the 2015

Oduahgate (N255 million), Police Pension Fund Fraud (N32.8bn), Oronsayegate (N163bn), Mainagate (N195bn), Oritsejaforgate ($15 million), Security Contract to Niger Delta Militants ($250 million), Abacha Reloot ($330 million), Malabu Oil Scandal ($1.1bn), Crude Oil Theft (£1bn lost monthly), Fuel Subsidy Scam ($6bn), NNPC Missing Fund ($20bn).

Ibrahim Index of African Governance rated Nigeria 44.9% as it could not even score the African average of 50.1% also far below Mauritius (79.9) and South Africa (73.0). It is no longer a point of contention that corruption in Nigeria is directly responsible for its multifarious problems today.

Indeed President Buhari understands that corruption incapacitates social, political and economic development and therefore renders public institutions impotent to deliver yearnings and aspirations of the citizenry. Baba Buhari as most Nigerians fondly call him is often quoted as saying “we must kill corruption, before corruption kills Nigeria.” To affirm his commitment, on 22nd December, 2015 while presenting his budget speech at the National Assembly President Buhari reechoed “we will recover everything that belongs to the people of Nigeria no matter where it is hidden and no matter how long it will take”. Banking on his promise, President Buhari also declared that “Nigerians will not regret that they have entrusted national responsibility to us.”

—Abbas is a Ph.D scholar of Politics and Government at the Universiti Putra Malaysia

The visage of employment in Nigeria

By Salim Umar Ibrahim

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he insipid hope for a better life in this day is usually associated with the kind of job or business one does for a living. But does it make any sense to be a reason why graduates and many of our job seekers satisfactorily blame the government and substantial employers? Unfortunately, it’s not that really! Employers mostly like candidates for their job openings with practical experience.

But sadly, to a very extensive limit, securing a government job now has become a thing of “Who you know” or “Who knows you”, not your qualification nor your eligibility. And at the same time, following the massive unemployed graduates and professionals who are just a step out of your office building waiting to be granted the opportunity to show up what they have to offer to their best. Low profile employee would likely produce the most outcomes expected because, they

don’t know the taste of money yet, and are always looking up to an opportunity.

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it” – Henry David Thoreau.

Thus it’s hard nowadays to find a trustworthy employee; it must also be a good point always considering his/her potentials.

“People will perform at their potential only when they know almost everyone around them” – Ricardo Sembler.

If only due process and eligibility would be considered when employing or promoting someone for a particular job, be it whatever type and its specifications, then there will surely come a very healthy and breeding of a competitive employee. And only when we take a glance at these prospects, then we will tread in the lane of sturdy and sound profiling personnel without contemplation and avoidance of mismatch.

Sequel to the above great

men quotations, it moves anxiety in the minds of fellow working class personage and at the same time creates a piece of egotistical feeling considering the hole process of employment and promotion is drowning into, which consequently is facing a great challenge today to an acute rising figure in the nation.

Promoting egotism is the main trail employment process and promotion is facing irrespective of the state of the nation in this day. When we look at our cosmic government parastatals/agencies, ministries and other government bodies, the issue of top ranking personnel mostly does not come from merit or eligibility. It’s only done in the way that; I, as a boss, I must satisfy my people, as well as my political godfathers with a fruitful appointments and contracts where they will go and get something before we all went out of the opportunity. Terrible!

It is there you will discern an employee who has gathered a vast experience in a particular

workplace for more than 20years of service but has not reached anywhere in his career, and retirement is on the corner. And these are the ones who train their superiors, show them round and how they will operate when someone is being appointed to that workplace, because, they knew nothing about the environment and the type of job they were sent to deliver. Why not the old employee who has known every single corner of the environment and the flows of the job? Just because the top ranks/ positions are reserved for certain individuals.

Only competitive companies and professional bodies like the media use this medium in their organizations. Promoting a staff on merit or based on his/ her commitment to the job.

SMEs and the NGOs keep this into consideration too. It’s really high time government agencies cultivate this habit and rub out venal attitude toward employees.

Just take a look at places like

the INEC and the likes; most of the top rankings at INEC are occupied with individuals who have no idea about what type of job is done there. When there are many there who have served the commission their entire lives and are yet to reach to those top positions. Some have been even retired while some are still there. Every now and then you will see someone being appointed to your station as your boss while he never worked with the commission. This is the main reason why we will never produce a quality staff and do the expected thing.

If only these types of appointments will stop, then a very reasonable part of corruption will be cut off in the nation, and our workplaces will be shaped in a manner by which Ricardo Sembler and Henry David Thoreau suggest.

Let and give power to everyone in his workplace to remain there and do his job!

Salim Umar Ibrahim is a freelance writer.

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News Group lauds Lasun’s empowerment scheme

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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he ‘Lasun Support Group has lauded the efforts of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff at alleviating the poor condition of people of his constituency.

The group in a statement signed by the secretary, Mr Azeez Mukaila said that Rt Hon Lasun kind of politics is what could eradicate poverty in the state.

Items distributed at the occasion include, 100 Tricycle popularly called ‘keke’, 100 sewing machines, 100 grinding machines and N6 million to beneficiaries to enable them start something meaningful.

The group noted that if this gesture to the four local government areas: Irepodun/ Orolu/Olorunda and Osogbo that constituted Irepodun federal constituency is extended to other constituencies in the state, poverty level would be something of the past.

“We are overwhelmed by the empowerment scheme of the Deputy Speaker to his people and we call on other lawmakers to emulate this noble idea by ensuring that their constituents enjoy the dividends of democracy”, he said.

One of the All Progressives Congress in the constituency, Pa Yellow Iloba praised the Deputy Speaker on the empowerment scheme, stating that this gesture would definitely bring people closer to their Representatives.

Olobu of Ilobu, Oba Ashiru Olaniyan who attended the first and the second empowerment programme expressed appreciation to what Rt Hon Lasun is doing to the community.

He said that this development would make would to be participating in politics unlike before when people showed nonchalant attitude to political events.

Deputy Speaker had earlier stated that people are the stakeholders invested in politics and it is compulsory for them to reap from their investment.

“It is a pay back time, they are entitled to anything that is given to them, it is a reward for attending political meetings and to encourage them to do more The empowerment scheme is an ongoing thing, so after the constituency, it would be extended to other areas so that nobody would be marginalised, it is way of compensating the people on their efforts so far”, he stated.

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Board to refund N41m to 2,374 pilgrims in Jigawa

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he Jigawa Pilgrims Welfare Board (JPWB) on Thursday said it would refund more than N41 million to Muslim pilgrims who performed the 2015 Hajj.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Alhaji Sani Alhassan, made the disclosure at a news conference in Dutse.

Represented by the Head of Operations of the Board, Alhaji Umar Labbo, the secretary said

that the money would be refunded to 2,374 pilgrims who performed last year’s Hajj.

He explained that the refund was of services not rendered to the pilgrims while in the Holy Land.

Alhassan said that the board

was directed by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to refund the money to the pilgrims.

According to him, each of the pilgrims will be refunded N11,247.52 at 13 designated centres across the state. (NAN)

FG urged to relocate CIPPO official secretariat to Gwagwalada

By Usman Shuaibu

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retired Deputy Superintendent of Immigration, Armayau Ninge Mashi, has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency intervene and secure the government official headquarters of the Civil Defence, Immigration, Prisons and Pension Office (CIPPO) which was initially

situated in Gwagwalada Area Council, now relocated to Garki, Abuja.

Mashi, who made the call in an interview with Peoples Daily on Wednesday in Abuja, alleged that the authorities of Pension Transitional Agreement Directorate (PTAD) as well as CIPPO were renting residential house at Maitama, Katsina-Ala street N0 28, Abuja as their Head

Office at the cost of N150 million per year.

He said that the former Chairman/Director of CIPPO, Abdulrasheed Maina was able to renovate the official head office of CIPPO in Gwagwalada before moving to Head of Service for special assignment as the Task Force chairman.

He frowned at the resources being wasted by

the management of CIPPO in renting a residential house at Maitama allegedly belonging to the former minister in Jonathan’s cabinet at the expenses of the government He, however, appealed to the government of the day to expedite action to probe the authorities of CIPPO to ascertain why the official Head Office was moved to Maitama.

Dr Altine Shehu (right), examining the ear of a patient during the visit of wife of Bauchi state Deputy Governor to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), yesterday in Bauchi.

Photo: NAN

Benue varsity VC denies allegation of fees increase

From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

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he Vice Chancellor, Benue State University, Prof. Moses Msugh Kembe has out rightly denied allegation making the rounds in some quarters that the university has increased its fees.

Prof. Kembe who made this denial yesterday during his maiden chat with newsmen in Makurdi, said the institution has only reviewed conditional fees for new and graduating students.

According to him, these categories of student are expected to pay the sum of 25,000 naira once during their stay in the university, maintaining that they got the approval of the state government to increase the conditional fees.

He further explained that the need to shore up the internally generated revenue of the institution so as to meet up with the ever increasing cost of running it on a daily basis, informed the decision for this action.

“Our Faculty of Law which is highly subscribed risk de-

accreditation if certain facilities like a mort court, library, hostels as well as the required number of staff are not in place. We require over 119 million naira for all these.

It is sad to note that under the immediate past administration, the sum of 100 million naira was paid for furnishing of the law faculty but nothing was done by the contractor who is still asking for a balance of over 59 million naira.

“In the same vein, we need over 100 million naira to do same for the College of Health Sciences including constructing a clinical service laboratory before we can graduate students from that college. So, with all these we had to look inward to generate funds instead of relying on government”, Prof. Kembe explained.

The new VC intimated that since assumption of office in November 2015, he has taken measures such as constitution of a management committee on ICT, ensured computerization of Departments, Directorates and Centre, ensured successful accreditation of

seven (7) programs, enhanced quality service delivery, ensured transparent conduct and handling of examination as well as timely processing and release of examination results and enhancing code of conduct of staff and students as steps towards

taking the institution to greater heights.

He therefore, passionately appealed to well-meaning individuals and corporate organizations to come to the aid of the university in the area of infrastructural development.

Edo records 30 auto crashes in March

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he Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday said 30 road traffic accidents were recorded in Edo in March.

The Edo Sector Commander, Mr Samuel Odukoya, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin that the figure was higher than the 10 cases recorded in the state in February.

He attributed the increase in crashes to speed limit violation and loss of control of vehicles, especially during the Easter period.

Odukoya also gave the figures of deaths and injuries arising from accidents during the month.

He said: ``Seven deaths were recorded in March compared to the six lives lost in auto crashes in February. `` Twenty-six persons were injured in February auto crashes while the figure rose to 69 in March.’’

Odukoya said that 1, 325 offenders were booked for 1, 561 offences in the month of March.

(NAN)

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Obj to NASS: I never signed budget without details

Tambuwal commiserates with PDP chieftain over fire

By Lawrence Olaoye

From Raji Bello, Sokoto

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ormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied ever signing any budget based on the transmission of its highlights without details to him in his eight years in office.

Obasanjo who paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari made the clarification yesterday while responding to questions for State House Correspondents.

The former President who said he came to share his experience with Buhari also declined comments on the 2016 budget saying he would not talk about a document he had yet to see.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumuni Jibril, had said that it was not unusual for Buhari to sign the budget based on the highlights transmitted to him.

Buhari had last week refused to sign the highlights of budget document sent to him insisting on getting the details and vetting same before assent.

On the claim by the National Assembly that he signed budgets without seeing the details, Obasanjo said “Eh en? I signed budget without details? Anybody who told you that, go and ask him again.”

Asked for his comments on the delay in the passage of the budget,

Obasanjo said “The constitution allows you to continue with the budget provided you did not go beyond the previous year. That can be done up to the middle of the year.”

Asked to comment on the budget, he said “Before I will be

able to tell you something about the budget, I have to read it and know what it contains and know what to talk about.”

On the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by the Code of Conduct Bureau, Obasanjo merely said

“Eh en? What is wrong with him?”

On his mission to Buhari, “You know that not too long ago, I was out there. I have come to share some of my experiences with him.”

Federal Capital Territory INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Jacob Jatau (left), isnpecting the sensitive election materials for the forthcoming area council elections, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Photo: NAN

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okoto State governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has commiserated with the state chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ibrahim Milgoma, over the recent fire incident that razed his residence.

The governor urged the PDP chieftain to take heart and consider what happened as act of destiny.

Tambuwal prayed to God to ensure such bad incidence does not occur again in the future.

While conducting the Governor round the burnt premises, Milgoma said the incidence has caused much damage to the building, however expressed gratitude to God for the safety of lives.

Assorted property believed worth millions was on Thursday razed down at the residence of the Sokoto State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ibrahim Milgoma.

Peoples Daily reports that the inferno which occurred last weekend affected a section of the building.

The fire which was said to have started at around 3.00pm was put out at around 5.00pm of the same day.

The fire was put out by the combined efforts of firemen from the state Fire Service and some residents within the vicinity.

Niger Govt partners Australia to develop its solid minerals From Yakubu Mustapha,Minna

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he Niger State government and Australia has agreed to enter a bilateral agreement on mutual partnership for the development of its solid minerals sector.

The Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Paul Lehmann disclosed this to journalists after an audience

with the governor, stated that his country would assist the state and further strengthen the relationship between his country and Nigeria.

Lehmann noted that this visit has provided opportunity for further synergy and collaboration between the two in the area of trade/investment, agriculture, health and education, especially Girl-child education as well as advancing the interest of women

and children.

Thanking Governor Abubakar Sani Bello for his leadership role in advancing the interest of women and girls, Mr. Lehmann stated that there are other possible areas that the two countries could work together.

“Our two states are far apart, but there are lots of things that draw us close together, there are some shared heritage, shared language,

vision for the future including economic relationship and our people to people links”, he added.

Responding, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello said the state government was ready to partner genuine investors for the overall development of the state adding that Australia was one of the biggest player in the global solid minerals sector.

Bello acknowledged the

pedigree of Australia in the area of solid minerals and assured that his administration would do everything possible to ensure that the partnership succeeded.

“The solid minerals are one of our areas of comparative advantage, therefore we need to develop the sector in our deliberate effort to diversify our economy and reduce over dependence on federation allocation”, he added.

Judge declines case against Sokoto CJ over inauguration of election tribunal From Raji Bello, Sokoto

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Judge of the Sokoto State High Court, Bodinga, Justice Bello Duwale has turned down a litigation instituted against the State Chief Judge Hon. Justice Aisha Dahiru,

by All Progressive Grand Alliance ( APGA) in the state.

The party seeking to restraint the Chief Judge of the state, all powers and privileges as regards to the inauguration of Local

Government Election Tribunal in the state, to entertain petitions from aggrieved candidates or political parties following the Local Government Council election held last month.

In a motion ex parte brought before the Judge, through its counsels; John C. Shaka & CO and Ummaru A. Shinkafi Law Chamber, the party argued that since the Chief Judge had attained the compulsory retirement age of 65 for judiciary officers on or

before March 3, 2016, as therefore ceased to be a judge of the High Court of Justice of Sokoto State.

The Appellant also sought for a declaration as thus; “From March 3, 2016, the 1st Respondent ceased to have powers of a judge of the High Court of Sokoto State.

“A fortori the 1st Respondent (CJ) has ceased to have the powers of a Chief Judge of the High Court of Sokoto State, including to the power to appoint or constitute the 4th-12 Respondents into

Local Government Election Tribunals for Sokoto State as the 1st Respondent purported to have done.”

In an affidavit deposed in support of the application, the APGA state Chairman, Alhaji Atiku Ibrahim, claimed that his party sponsored or nominated candidates that participated in the election, and as such intend to challenge some of the results returned at the said election before a tribunal constituted in

accordance with the extant law.

But in a letter signed by the court’s Principal Registrar, Justice Duwale advised the party that the matter should be referred to the National Judiciary Commission, Abuja.

He observed that his court or any High court’s in the state would be unable to entertain the matter saying “since it is the matter affecting NJC not any High court in the State.”

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Politics

Immediate past Chairman of Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, Hon. Ayuba Wandai Usman (middle), being welcomed by his supporters, during his resumption office as Sole Administrator of the council, yesterday in Nasarawa town.

Photo: Mahmud Isa

Kwara govt denies paying Saraki salary after leaving office as governor

By Eileen Ihemadu

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he Kwara State government has denied paying former governor of the state, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki salary after he left office in May 2011.

Secretary to the State

Government (SSG), Alhaji Isiaka Gold in a reaction to claims that the former governor was drawing salary from the state after he left office, explained that Dr Saraki’s last salary was N291,474.00 for the month of May 2011.

According to the SSG, “from

June 2011, former Governor Saraki started receiving his pension which was N578,188.00 as other past governors in the country”.

The statement added that after the review of pensions of former political office holders

by the state Pension Board, the former governor’s pension increased to N1,239,493.94 monthly from October 2014 to date.

“Kwara State Government, therefore, dismisses as false and misleading the allegation

that former Governor Saraki was receiving salaries after the expiration of his two-term tenure as governor of the state”.

Alhaji Gold advised interested stakeholders to seek clarification from appropriate authority to avoid misleading the public.

Edo APC women begin race for female governor From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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do state All Progressives Congress (APC), women’ wing has begun preparation to field a female Governorship standard bearer for the 2016 Governorship election in the state.

The state women Leader

of APC, Mrs. Ann Amadesun disclosed this yesterday in Benin City,when Mrs. Tina Agbarha, a frontline female Governorship aspirant for the 10th September 2016 election the state.

Mrs. Tina Agbarha gunning to succeed Governor Adams Oshiomhole, was accompanied with a large crowd of supporters and party loyalists to the state

Secretariat on Airport road in Benin City.

Amadesun said they have resolved to produce the first governor in Nigeria after the botched attempts in Taraba state failed, explaining that the female forks cannot continuously be playing second fiddle in Nigeria politics, hence they decided to field an aspirant. .

“My party leaders, as you can see here today, the Edo women are here in thosound in solidarity to our course of producing the first female Governor.

“The people you see here today are not just APC women, we have women across political line, including form PDP because their party too couldn’t feed any female aspirant. The market women,

even the men are also behind us in this struggle” she said.

Addressing the a crowd of supporters and party members at the party Secretariat on Thursday, Mrs. Tina Agbarha, said Edo women have decided to speak with one voice to bring about the change which she claimed begins with women irrespective of their financial status.

Niger Assembly passes 2016 budget of N85bn with adjustments From Minna

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Yakubu

Mustapha,

he Niger state House of Assembly has passed the 2016 appropriation bill of N85 billion into law, with a N10.3bn increase from the earlier N74.7bn presented by the state governor.

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello had in December presented a budget of N74.744bn for approval but the lawmakers increased it to N85. 092 billion at its plenary session yesterday.

The passage followed the presentation of the report of the Committee on Planning and Appropriation on the 2016 budget.

The budget which was tagged the budget of restoration set aside N41.433bn for recurrent expenditure as against N39.501bn and N43. 658bn as against N35.242bn provided.

Accordingly, the total expenditure provision of the 2016 budget stood at N85.092bn, indicating an increment of N10.347bn.

The Chairman of the Committee on Planning and Appropriation, Hon. Muhammad Lokogoma, representing Wushishi local government said the adjustments were made in critical areas with the believe of sourcing for more revenue to finance them.

Lokogoma intimated that the committee observed over expenditure in the 2015 budget without recourse to the House, adding that over N100 billion was withdrawn in 2015 which were not accounted for urging

for the recall of those funds as it would no longer be tolerated.

“The committee observed with dismay the over expenditure and extra budgetary spending in 2015 budget without recourse to the legislature.

“This is unacceptable to the principle of separation of powers and public finance management.

“The committee therefore recommended that this House call on the MDA’s to be guided by the appropriation law in the implementation of the budget to ensure budget discipline,” he

added.

He further charged the executive to present the budget early to the legislature to allow for proper scrutiny and timely passage at least by November of every year.

The speaker of the House, Hon. Ahmed Marafa in his remark, thanked the members for working tirelessly towards the passage of the law.

Marafa therefore directed the Clerk to forward clean copies of the 2016 budget to the governor for his assent.

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News

FCT councils’ poll: IPCR tasks politicians, voters on peaceful conduct

By Ochiaka Ugwu

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he Director General, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Professor Oshita O. Oshita has enjoined politicians and the voting public to conduct themselves peacefully during the FCT Area Councils elections scheduled for tomorrow.

In a press statement released in Abuja and signed by the Media Assistant to the Director General of the institute, Mr. Abu I. Michael, Oshita observed that elections violence has been responsible for the avoidable death of a number of persons in the country and that it was time for all well-meaning Nigerians to rise up against all forms of political violence in the country.

According to him, “democracy remains the country’s pride, politicians in Abuja should therefore maintain decorum in conducting their affairs in the FCT” He also encouraged politicians in the country generally to see election as a game meant to promote the improvement of the socioeconomic status of the people.

He pointed out that politicians instigating violence were not worthy of leadership and would not go unpunished.

Oshita appealed to political supporters and the youth not to allow themselves to be used by self-serving and greedy politicians no matter what. “As Nigerians, we must continue to respect the lives of all Nigerians and treat them as sacred rather than allowing evil-minded politicians and other actors to continue to use us against one another, and destabilizing the polity.”

Professor Oshita urged all Nigerians to work hard towards engendering peaceful atmosphere for the achievement of the laudable programme of the federal government for the benefit of all.

He stressed the need for the electorate to collaborate with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigeria Police and other security operatives for the success of the elections. As law-abiding citizens he added, “Nigerians should learn to uphold the constitution of the country no matter the grievances with the processes of the elections”.

Nasarawa LG sole administrator, Ayuba Wandai, assumes office amidst jubilations •••Promises to sustain development stride

By Ali Abare Abubakar

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he newly appointed Sole Administrator for Nasarawa local government area in Nasarawa State, Hon Ayuba Wandai Usman has assumed office yesterday amidst great jubilation, with hundreds of supporters and well wishers turning up to give him a rousing welcome.

The sole administrator in company of key council officials first stopped at Laminga town to acknowledge the large crowd of supporters who stood by the Keffi-Nasarawa boundary to

welcome him.

Joined by the crowd of supporters, Wandai then paid homage at the palace of the Sarkin Nasarawa, where HRH Hassan Ahmed II received him, before also detouring to pay homage at the residence of the Chief Imam of Nasarawa after which he assumed office at the council secretariat.

Addressing council officials, party officials as well as All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters at the council’s chamber, Wandai, who was returning to head the council for a record third time, thanked God for making it possible for him to

return and to head the Nasarawa local government area.

He expressed gratitude to Governor Umaru Tanko Almakura for finding him worthy of the appointment, promising to sustain the service delivery for which he was known.

Wandai also promised to promote the peoples oriented policies of the APC administration in the state, stressing that he will lead by example in the quest to alleviate the plight of the people of the area.

The sole administrator said he would take it upon himself to unite APC members in the council.

“I promise to leave Nasarawa LG better than I met it” Wandai said.

Earlier in his remarks, the Sarkin Nasarawa, Hassan Ahmed II, while showing appreciation on the appointment of Wandai as sole administrator, called on him to always put the people first while discharging his responsibilities.

Wandai, a graduate of law from the University of Jos, was first appointed Chairman, Transition Management Committee (TMC) in 2012, was elected Deputy Chairman, Nasarawa LGA in 2015 and became substantive executive chairman early this year.

L-R: Chairman, House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Hon. Nicholas Mutu, Chairman, Senate Committee on NDDC, Senator Albert Akpan, and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, during an interactive session with NDDC and oil companies working in Niger Delta, yesterday at the National Assembly, in Abuja.

Photo: Mahmud Isa

Bayelsa APC crisis: Ward chairmen seek party’s intervention

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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he All Progressives Congress (APC) ward chairmen in Bayelsa state have thrown their weight behind state chairman, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, just as they called on the national leadership of the party to intervene in the ongoing crisis in the state.

In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja and signed by the chairman of the forum, Jephtha Eyekoroghe, Secretary, Tamarapre Mirrin and the Publicity Secretary, Goodluck Faboke, the ward chairmen also condemned the former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva

for allegedly “giving out political appointments meant for the APC members in the state to non members.”

“It is not fair for Chief Sylva to turn his back on a party that gave him his current status. He has forgotten the grassroots, forgotten those of us who bled and sacrificed for him and has rather preferred non-party members for federal appointments. This is very unfair considering our individual labours for this party.”

The APC ward leaders while declaring their total support for the party’s state chairman Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, who they described as the “true man of the people” added that his visionary

leadership brought the party to enviable state in the state”.

The APC LGA chairmen therefore came down hard on what they termed “inconsiderable actions” of the former governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, against the real members of APC in Bayelsa state.

The statement said they were in Abuja to seek the APC national leadership intervention in the disagreement and ensure that the supremacy of the party is evoked.

“There was a large turnout of supporters and party faithfuls, including all the ward chairmen at the APC state secretariat yesterday in Bayelsa state. We all came out enmass to declare

our support for Chief Tiwei Orunimighe led state excos. We are solidly behind them and we are taking this massive support to the National Secretariat of our party in Abuja to tell the world of the true position of things in the state.”

Crises was said to have erupted between the state executive and the former governor when it was learnt that Chief Sylva was bent on cornering every single appointive slot at the detriment of party structures and faithful.

The party suspended Chief Sylva last week for allegations bordering on anti-party activities and varying forms of financial insincerity.

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Duhu scores Buhari Government high Interview

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ou have been in the opposition and worked for the emergence of Buhari as President. What will you say about his policies so far?

To honest with you, Nigerians must praise and give thanks to God the Almighty to have given us President Muhammadu Buhari at a time the sixteen years of PDP misrule has bastardized the economy and brought decadence to our collective infrastructure, with particular reference to the cash cow industries. Buhari’s coming is indeed God sent to Nigeria. As an indigene of the insurgency ravaged community in the North Eastern Nigeria, had President Buhari not elected, I wonder where the entire Northern part of Nigeria would have been today.

President Buhari’s approach with vigor to the fight against insurgency and corruption in particular is world class.

This is corroborated by the G-7 and other World Leaders at several fora, and indeed appreciated greatly by us the inhabitants of the insurgency ravaged communities and the international community. On the scale of one to ten, I will score President Buhari 8.5 so

Alhaji Umar Duhu was former FCT Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) as well as the National Vice Chairman, North East of the now rested All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with Ali Abare Abubakar, Duhu, spoke on the performance of the Buhari Administration among other issues. far.

Many stakeholders of the APC said they want you as the National Vice Chairman of the APC in the North East. What is your take on this?

Indeed, I lack an adjective to express my heartfelt appreciation for the groups and persons agitating for my return as the National Vice Chairman North East, which I was the pioneer occupant of the office.

The APC Family knows all the infractions that characterized the June 14, 2014 APC Elective National Convention, wherein a winner from Adamawa State emerged. Today by the special grace of God the Almighty, the occupant of the office of the National Vice North East has been appointed to an exalted Office in the Land, by the President and Commander in Chief, hence, the vacancy. Let further add for the benefit of Nigerians; despite being out of office, I had enjoyed an excellent relationship with the former occupant of the Office, and it is my resolve when elected, I will not only sustain all the good will that

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We must also act as patriots to expose corruption and all its tendencies, so that Mr. Fix Nigeria will apply the carrot and stick approach to fix Nigeria and totally eliminate corruption in Nigeria. I submit for Nigeria and for a better Nigeria I liv

Alhaji Umar Duhu flourish between us, but will remain his best ally. My quest to occupy the office of the National Vice Chairman North East is to exhaust the tenure of the former, and to continue all the goods wills associated to the Office. When the North East Zone graciously makes me its chairman, I will not administer the party in isolation but shall remain focused in close consultation with the Leaders of the Zone for an effective running of the affairs of the party.

You’ve always said Buhari is a good leader.

Will you want to work with him either on appointment or as a senior executive of

the party?

Like I mentioned in several of my statements on both print and electronic medium, President Buhari is God sent. Therefore, any leader that is God sent must not only be revered, but equally worshiped by the majority if not all. I have come to appreciate President Buhari since his days of Military rule.

I am an advocate of a though stance against corruption, and great consideration for the common person. President Buhari’s ideology is identical to mine and I do cherish him greatly to the extent, it will be the greatest honour to work with President Buhari is any

capacity, possible. The purpose of a participatory democracy is to reward excellence at the end of a daunting electioneering exercise? I have sacrificed my all to not only ensure that, the APC get to different parts of this country and accepted while I held forth as the pioneer National Vice Chairman North East of the ruling APC. I cannot quantify how much I spent during the APC mobilization days and campaigns, particularly when I contested for the National Assembly seat. In this regard therefore, my records are in the public domain to merit me any form of appointment

by His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR. What is your word to APC members and Nigerians at large?

The task before President Buhari to provide good governance is though, to the extent, all well meaning Nigerians must join hands with him to fix the foisted 16 years of PDP misrule on Nigeria. Several leaders have said, if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will certainly kill Nigeria. I also hold that, as civilized Nigerian, I offer myself for the enthronement of good governance and to ensure the total eradication of corruption in Nigeria, so that our children’s children will be proud of the Country called Nigeria. I call on all Nigerians to pray fervently for President Buhari to succeed. His success is the success of Nigeria as a State. We must also act as patriots to expose corruption and all its tendencies, so that Mr. Fix Nigeria will apply the carrot and stick approach to fix Nigeria and totally eliminate corruption in Nigeria. I submit for Nigeria and for a better Nigeria I live.

PDP Congress: Ndokwa East PDP Stakeholders To Resist Imposition From Osakhare Erese, Asaba

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he people’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Ndokwa East Government Area, Delta State, have resolved to resist imposition of any unpopular candidate as the next PDP Chairman in the area, contrary to the party’s guidelines.

The stakeholders in a statement signed by a PDP

chieftain in the area, Onyeama Atuware, on behalf of Concerned Ndokwa East PDP Stakeholders Forum,a copy of which was made available to our correspondent, said they were in support of either a consensus or open primaries for selection of the next chairman.

“We are also using this medium to inform our party chairman, Mr. Edwin Uzor the destructive plans by some party

leaders to use the governor’s esteemed name to impose an unpopular candidate as the next chairman”,they stated.

The stakeholders recalled that the governor had assured leaders and stakeholders that two approaches to the congresses are either consensus or open primaries and wondered why some leaders are using the governor’s name to thwart the efforts of an eight-man

committee set up to implement and ensure successful congress.

While saying that they want a democratic processes in the selection of party executives, they vowed to resist any attempt to impose candidates, warning those who have been recruited to sabotage the collective interest of the party members in the PDP to steer clear or be disgraced.

They threatened to mobilize

their members for a mass defection and e4nsure that the PDP does not win future elections in the area if they are ignored.

They hailed the governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, for his efforts at returning the party to observing democratic tenets, maintaining that the PDP should not be afraid to hold an open primary if consensus option does not work.

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L-R: Director General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr. Muda Yusuf; President, Dr Nike Akande, Deputy President, Mr. Babatunde Ruwase, during a news conference on the state of the economy, yesterday in Lagos.

Photo: NAN

NERC to rely on NAEE expertise for tariff review

By Etuka Sunday

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igerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said it would rely on the expertise of Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (NAEE) in the area of economic regulation to over come the issue of proper pricing for the power sector.

The Acting Chairman, NERC, Dr. Anthony Akah stated this while receiving Executive Council members of the NAEE at the Commission on a courtesy visit Abuja.

Dr. Akah said, inputs of NAEE would be required during tariff review to ensure proper pricing in the sector since it has expertise in that field.

“We are looking at having some of your inputs in our tariff making process because coming up with our economic regulation, the issue of proper pricing comes in and I know that you have the expertise in that field. And I will be delighted that as we undergo such process, be it prior or post review that this association will at the right time continue to make submissions to the commission for

our consideration,” he said.

Dr. Anthony Akah described the NAEE as the most strategic relevant association for NERC given the fact that the commission is tasked with both technical and economic regulations. He therefore, thanked the association for its pledge of supporting the commission actualize it’s mandate.

According to him, “In pursuance of that mandate, we’ll continue to ensure that we come up with regulations that would attract investors into the sector; enhance more investments in the sector based on prudency and

necessity of the cost element while at the same time protecting the consumers’ interests.”

Speaking earlier, the President of NAEE, Professor Wunmi Iledare, pledged the association’s support for NERC to ensure effective regulation of the sector.

“We have your back, if u do the right thing we will defend u as a member of. NAEE, and when u do the wrong thing, we’ll let u know.

Right now I think the vission is clear, how can we increase supply of electricity putting in perspective the balancing of the investment that is required and the ability of

the consumer to pay.”

Prof. Iledare advised NERC to make use of local engineers in achieving the desired results in the sector.

“I want to reemphasise that as u move on, u should try with the best of ur ability even if u want to depend on foreign experts, to make sure that resident experts are among ur foreign experts so that this knowledge could be domesticated. Models cannot be translated meanerly from one country to the other, it must be modified to suit determinants that are domestic,” he said.

Briefing the press after the meeting, the Managing Director, Unity Bank Plc. Tomi Somefun stated that following a success implementation of pilot phase of ABS in Kebbi State, plans were underway to extend it to Anambra, Ebonyi States and subsequently other geopolitical zones in the country.

She explained that under the project which was launched by

CBN last year, 78,000 farmers were enrolled in Kebbi State, an average of N210,000 was given to each for land acquisition adding that crops to be included were consist of maize, soya, wheat and sugar cane.

Anchor Borrowers Scheme (ABS) is CBN agriculture support programme aimed at diversifying the nation’s economy through agriculture to ensure less dependence on importation.

Also speaking, the director Supervision, CBN, Tokunbo Martin stated that as part of effort by CBN aimed at making financial services available at the nook and crannies of the country at affordable price has introduce two new super agents, Inter switch and Innovatives Ltd. These super agents Martin said will be responsible for recruitment of others agents that are suppose to distribute banking services adding

that they will commence operation immediately.

She further said that the youth entrepreneur programme which launched last month was targeted at 10,000 youth entrepreneurs comprising of the serving, post NYSC corp members and artisans.

Martin explained that targeted sector for the programme is the Agriculture, manufacturing, ICT and cottage industries.

CBN, DMBs support Kebbi State farmers with N16.3bn From Ngozi Onyeakusi, Lagos

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entral Bank of Nigeria and Deposit Money Banks under the project tagged Anchor Borrowers Scheme (ABS), yesterday disclosed that they have supported farmers in Kebbi State with N16.3 billion.

This, among others is the outcome of the bankers committee meeting held in Lagos.

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Nigerian Leaders must take tough decision to grow economy-Ambode From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

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agos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday said that for Nigeria’s economy to improve, its leaders must have the courage to take difficult and tough decisions.

Governor Ambode who spoke at the 1st National Forum on Economy organised by Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspapers, said the nation’s economy was at a critical threshold and thus, will require its leaders to think outside the box and come up with creative innovations that will trigger economic growth nationwide.

He lamented the fact that

previous governments at the federal level failed to take advantage of the oil boom to grow other sectors of the economy, saying that the fall in price in the international oil market coupled with many years of corruption has made the economy vulnerable.

“It is very unfortunate that we wasted the golden opportunity to deploy the trillions of dollars earned from our oil exports to develop the critical sectors of the economy including power, agriculture, industries, solid minerals, transportation infrastructure among others. No doubt, if we had done the right thing as some other oil producing countries did, keeping in mind that crude oil is a finite resource,

we would not be experiencing the devastating effect of oil price crash on the scale we are experiencing it now.

“We are now being forced to do, with pains, what we should have done with ease years ago. The task of charting a new direction for the economy is not going to be a tea party. Various policy options must be identified and assessed on the basis of our current situation and needs. Moving our economy forward requires thinking outside the box and doing things differently. We need creativity, innovation and the courage to take difficult and tough decisions.

“The leadership of the country at national and state levels must have the courage to take tough

decisions and make sacrifices in the near term which will, in the long run, make our economy stronger and sustainable and, consequently result in prosperity across all regions of Nigeria,” he said.

Recommending strategies to improve the economy, Governor Ambode said that the nation must begin to explore and expand the opportunities that abound in interState relations and strengthen regional competitiveness by maximizing economies of scale, regional optimization of assets and endowments and mitigation of afflictions and natural disasters.

He listed other viable areas for inter-State collaboration to include transport infrastructure

L-R: Deputy Comptroller General of Customs (Exercise and Tariff), Mrs. Banke Adeyemo, Oyo state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, and Comptroller General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali, during the visit of the CG to the governor, yesterday at the Government House, in Ibadan.

Photo: NAN

Profit taking: NSE market capitalisation loses N3bn

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rading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed on Thursday on a negative note with the market capitalisation dropping

by N3 billion amid price losses by blue chips.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the market capitalisation, which opened at N8.756 trillion, shed N3 billion or 0.34 per cent to close at N8.726 trillion.

Also, the All-Share Index lost 86.17 points or 0.34 per cent

to close at 25,369.52 against 25,455.69 posted on Wednesday.

Nestle topped the price losers’ table with a loss of N15 to close at N675 per share.

Dangote Cement came second with a loss of N2.01 to close at N169.99, while UACN dipped by 97k to close at N19.48 per share.

Stanbic IBTC lost 25k to close at N13.45, while Oando Oil declined by 21k to close at N4.07 per share.

Conversely, Seplat led the price gainers’ chart chalking up

N2.65 to close at N309.15 per share.

Okomu Oil garnered N1.41to close at N29.77 and Nigerian Breweries improved by 99k to close at N108.99 per share.

NAHCO appreciated by 17k to close at N3.89, while E-tranzact improved by 16k to close at N3.39 per share.

NAN reports that EquityAsure drove the activity chart, accounting for 79.02 million shares valued at N39.51 million.

It was trailed by Fidelity Bank

with 29.54 million shares worth 39.87 million , GTBank traded 23.54 million shares worth N332.64 million, while Sterling Bank exchanged 18.06 million shares valued at N28.88 million.

In all, investors exchanged 264.69 million shares valued at N1.31 billion in 3,033 deals.

NAN also reports that this was in contrast to the 202.99 million shares worth N885.63 million traded in 3,320 deals on Wednesday. (NAN)

to facilitate market linkages, education, market development, human capacity building, security and intelligence sharing, saying that it was high time to move away from an oil driven economy.

“Prior to the oil boom era, Agriculture was the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy and contributed about 65 per cent to the country’s GDP and represented close to 70 per cent of total exports. Through farming, Nigeria was able to feed its population while major cash crops were exported to earn foreign exchange.

“From the cocoa and rubber plantations in the West, the groundnut pyramids and cotton in the north, to palm oil in the east; each region was identified by its economic areas of comparative advantage which were collectively harnessed towards ensuring food security and inclusive growth across the country.

“Given our current economic challenge, I believe it is time we take a cue from our old ‘playbook’ for a viable ‘game plan’ to revive our national economy. States and regions must once again begin to leverage on their respective areas of comparative advantage by establishing partnerships towards establishing inter-State or interregional commodity value chain.

We must re-start inter-state/ regional cooperation,” he said.

Governor Ambode said that Lagos has already taken the bull by the horn with its recent partnership with Kebbi State aimed at developing a commodity value chain that will see the local production of 70 per cent of Nigeria’s rice needs with a multiplier effect that will ensure job creation, the development of ancillary industries as well as strengthen the Naira.

The Governor however added that for regional integration to thrive a functional modern rail and water transportation system must be in place, noting that movement of goods, materials and people by road was not only inefficient but fraught with risks, safety hazards and detrimental to the roads.

In his keynote address, Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo said the Federal Government would soon commence work on the LagosKano and Lagos-Calabar rail routes, as well as 31 major road projects across the country, just as he stressed the commitment of the current administration to give a quantum leap to infrastructural development.

The Vice President, however, commended the initiative of Lagos and Kebbi States in collaborating to ensure self sufficiency in rice production in the country, saying such collaboration between States will engender economic growth.

Earlier in his opening remarks, Chairman of Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspaper, Wale Edun said the forum was put together not just to lament the challenges facing the country but for government and members of the critical sectors of the economy to dialogues and chart a way out.

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Business L-R: Kaduna state Deputy Governor, Hon. Barnabas Bala Bantex, and Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, during the Kaduna State Economic and Investment Summit, yesterday in Kaduna.

BPE tasks NATCOM on quality services

By Etuka Sunday

T

he Acting Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Vincent Akpotaire, has tasked the NATCOM, owners of Ntel Network, on the need to come out with unique products and services, if they must make the desired inroad in the Telecommunications Sector.

He advised the Consortium to justify their emergence in the privatization process by deploying the right technology to turn around the sector.

A statement by the Head, Public Communications, Alex E. Okoh said, Dr. Akpotaire gave the advice when the representatives of Ntel management led by Mr. Osondu C. Nwokoro visited the Bureau to make presentation on

the post-privatisation roll out plan on Tuesday April 5, 2016.

The Ag D G expressed satisfaction with NATCOM’s post-privatisation roll out plans.

He assured the NATCOM team of the Bureau’s dedication to its responsibilities towards achieving the set objectives of privatising NITEL/MTEL. He said he was optimistic that NTEL would fill the position of a strong indigenous telecommunications service provider. To this, he pledged that the Bureau would work with the National Council for Privatisation (NCP) to resolve some outstanding issues in order to expedite the execution of the roll out plans.

Earlier in his the presentation, Mr. Nwokoro said NATCOM, the core investors of the defunct NITEL/MTEL with its outlined

post-privatisation plans and milestones achieved thus far, is well positioned to justifying the privatisation initiative championed by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

He said they are also set to distinguish Ntel as the preferred choice of telecommunications service provider in Nigeria under the name NTEL. Mr. Nwokoro said that significant milestones in the area of technological operating system had been achieved, noting that “NTEL network designed for the 900 Mhz (Band 8) and 1800 Mhz (Band 3) frequency bands equips it to operate as the most advanced 4G LTE network in Nigeria.”

He said, as part of its postacquisition plan, Ntel would be investing over $1 billion to

support roll out of commercial services starting in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.

“This milestone among others is geared towards making the dream of giving Nigerians a pure play advanced 4G LTE network offering mobile services across voice, data and video a reality”, he said.

Mr. Damian Udeh the Head, Government Affairs for Ntel added that the enterprise, being positioned as customercentric was prepared to offer unrivaled customer satisfaction by surpassing the stipulated customer service requirements

by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). He added that NTEL would operate on a virgin platform thus making it free of clutter and set to deliver speed and seamless quality of

service to subscribers.

Affirming NTEL’s position as an indigenous player in the sector, the team confirmed that all labour matters were being managed appropriately and that till date, all staff of the enterprise were of Nigerian nationality.

The company hopes to generate employment for over 4,000 Nigerians over the next five years.

At the end of the presentation, the Director, Post Privatisation Monitoring Department of the BPE, Mr. Chigbo Anichebe, informed the visiting team that the Bureau would soon commence verification of the all their deployed equipment across the country; and that the company would be communicated to before commencement. He said monitoring template would be sent to them accordingly.

Regional Operations: FAAN has exposed its hypocrisy, says Bi-Courtney From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

B

i-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), Lagos, has drawn the attention of the public and the relevant government agencies, particularly the Ministry of Aviation and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), to the open admission by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) that it was responsible for the wing tip brush incident involving two First Nation Airline’s planes at MMA2’s apron, last year.

A statement by Bi-Courtney, on Thursday, observed that during the incident, the wing tip of an arriving First Nation aircraft clipped the wing tip of another aircraft on the ground, while it was being marshalled to

the parking area by a marshaller of FAAN deployed in MMA2.

The firm noted that marshalling duties are handled by FAAN in all Nigerian airports.

It further stated that investigation had revealed conclusively that the incident was due to marshalling error by FAAN’s staff on duty, and not because of inadequate space on the apron of MMA2 to park the affected aircraft as touted by FAAN. According to Bi-Courtney, it was shocking to read recent media reports that FAAN had written a letter to the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, to oppose the commencement of regional operations at MMA2, on the ground that the size of the apron was inadequate for parking aircrafts and had cited that particular incident as the only justification for this “false and misleading allegation”.

Bi-Courtney said it was,

however, delighted to read further media reports that quoted FAAN’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Yakubu Dati, admitting that the agency is singularly responsible for managing all aprons and runways and also provides marshalling services in all the terminals. He also said “it is FAAN marshallers that also work to help pilots at the tarmac in all the terminals”.

The statement was contained in a report in the Leadership Newspapers of April 6, 2016, entitled, FAAN Confirms Talks With Medview Over Relocation To GAT, in which Dati was quoted as follows: “We are aware that Medview Airline is considering coming to GAT (the General Aviation Terminal) and we have had talks about it, but that is the only airline having such a plan.

We have enough space to welcome any airline and you know that we

manage runway and the aprons as it were. It is FAAN marshallers that also work to help pilots at the tarmac in all the terminals”.

Bi-Courtney said the statement credited to Dati had clearly exposed the hypocrisy in FAAN’s opposition to the commencement of regional operations at MMA2, while also questioning the agency’s motivation for going as far as concocting outright falsehood in a bid to mislead the honourable minister and the public.

The company further stated: “According to media reports, another excuse given by FAAN for opposing regional operations at MMA2 was that it does not have the personnel to deploy in MMA2 for the regional flights. It claimed its AVSEC and ARFFS staff are overstretched due to retired and retiring personnel. This is the same FAAN that signed a valid agreement with us for the regional operations

as far back as May, last year, after exhaustive negotiations with us. It is instructive to point out the fact that the current Managing Director of FAAN was part of the negotiating team and also that as far back as May 2015, the immediate past Minster of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka, had given FAAN the go ahead to hire AVSEC and ARFFS staff.”

“And it was on the strength of this agreement that we proceeded to make huge investments in the preparation for the operation. We, therefore, affirm that a statutory body like FAAN that executes an agreement and then turns round to state that it has no personnel to carry out its contractual and statutory obligations under the agreement cannot be regarded as acting in the public interest. This reason, as proffered by FAAN, is totally unacceptable,” the statement added.

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Business

FDC predicts inflation rate to stand at 12.1% A

nalysts at the Financial Derivatives Company Ltd. on Thursday, projected an increase of 0.7 per cent in the March inflation number to 12.1 per cent.

The company said this in its latest economic report in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the February rate stood at 11.4 per cent.

It noted that the month of March was unique as the fuel scarcity intensified and higher

transport costs filtered through to commodity prices such as beans, tomato and pepper.

“While our initial time series analysis projected an increase of 0.4 per cent, the severity and longevity of the prevailing fuel scarcity has distorted price levels.

“Our retail study showed that prices of many consumer goods have remained stubbornly high and in some cases increased in spite of consumers’ resistance.

It also said that that the factors

that contributed to the spike in inflation include season, cost push factors, money supply and forex shortage.

“These factors while transient in nature are becoming more permanent.

“As these factors grow increasingly embedded, they are making consumers panic.

“Anticipated inflation is more important because of the pass through effect of increased demand and expectations of higher prices

on current prices.’’

The investment company, however, said that the effect was that it had impact of a sustained level of high prices.

According to FDC, the dichotomy between urban and rural prices may persist given the impact of rising transport costs and exchange rate pressures on urban prices.

It also said that the price of diesel, a major determinant of food transportation costs, had increased

to N130 per litre. The report added that inflation would likely remain high in April as the exchange rate uncertainty continues; while the consumer prices were expected to remain high.

“In addition, with fuel scarcity expected to persist till next month in spite of NNPC’s April 7 deadline, transportation costs will continue to increase.

“Therefore, we expect inflation to still remain in the region above 11 per cent. (NAN)

L-R: President, Computer Professionals Registration Council, Professor Vincent Asor, Minister of Communication, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, and representative of the Vice-President, Mr. Akingbolahan Adeniran, during the 2016 Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Photo: NAN

Electricity Tariff : FG calls on NLC not to go on strike

T

he Federal Government has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), not to go on its proposed warning strike over hike in electricity tariff.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, made the call on Thursday in Abuja at the Third Triennial National Delegates Conference of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC).

The Conference has as its theme: ``Government and Labour Relations Towards Sustainable Growth and Expansion of the Power Sector in Nigeria.’’

On Wednesday, the NLC during its Central Working Committee meeting declared one-day national warning strike over the refusal of the Federal Government to reduce electricity tariff.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that strike is aimed at putting pressure on the government to reverse the 45 per cent tariff hike.

Ngige said the issue of the hike in electricity tariff was before the National Assembly and the court.

He said: ``the current state of electricity supply has become very worrisome in the country. ``In this regard, the Federal Government is resolved to ensure provision of regular electricity to Nigerians at an affordable rate. ``You are therefore called upon to support the government in its efforts to reposition and expand the power sector in Nigeria for effectiveness. ``Every bit of support from each one of you is worthwhile.’’

The minister reiterated the commitment of his ministry to provide level playing ground for all trade unions in Nigeria.

He said that government would ensure the protection and promotion of the welfare of workers as a productive force to be reckoned with in economic production.

Ngige said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s

administration was committed to productive change and inculcation of sanity in the conduct of government business. ``It is our hope that the change mantra will instill discipline in the entire citizenry of Nigeria and promote transparency, accountability and other governance principles. ``The Trade unions, as partners in progress, should therefore align themselves with the emerging paradigm shift and change mantra of the government by supporting and encouraging the dreams and aspirations of the government,’’ he said.

Ngige said dialectical relationship between capital and labour should be played down to enable a viable environment for sustainable development of the nation.

He urged the union to be steadfast in the development of the economy. ``That means the growth of the

economy largely depends on the extent of regular energy and power supply to drive entrepreneurship,’’ he added.

In lecture entitled, ``Employers and Labour Relation,’’ the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stressed the need for cordial relationship between employers and employees in various sectors of the economy.

He said that employers and employees must play their various parts for the development of the economy and society as a whole.

He said that due to the current down turn in the economy, the Buhari administration could not afford the N18, 000 minimum wage.

Fashola urged the labour movement to have a rethink before going for negotiation for a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. ``We should negotiate in the content of the reality of our economy as all the states do not

receive the same allocation or the standard of living the same,’’ he said.

In his remarks, TUC President, Bobboi Kaigama, called on the Federal Government to ensure that collective agreements are implemented to avoid industrial dispute in various sectors of the economy.

He called for sound relationship between employers and employees, saying that any industrial dispute could be resolved through dialogue.

The outgoing President of SSAEAC, Mr Bebe Opara commended the executive and members of the union for their support since 2009. ``It is therefore not out of place to be proud of all our achievements even though the journey has not been easy. ``We have made our mark and hope that the in-coming administration will do better,’’ he added. (NAN)

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Stock Watch: Thursday, April 7, 2016 Company

Previous Closing Price

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Low

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Trades

Volume

Value

Company

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Opening Price

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Low

Close

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Trades

Volume

Value

7UP 170 170 170 170 170 6 151,035 25,675,959.95

MBENEFIT 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

ABBEYBDS 1.25 - - - - 0 - -

MCNICHOLS

ABCTRANS 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

MOBIL 150 - - - - 17 10,350 1,521,554.60

ACADEMY 0.55 - - - - 0 - ACCESS 4.05 4.11 4.1 4.06 4.06 0.01 59 1,887,248 7,709,066.30 ADSWITCH 1.63 - - - - 0 - AFRIK 0.5 - - - - 0 - AFRINSURE 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

1.18 1.21 1.21 1.21 0.03 2

270,464 327,261.44

MORISON 1.73 - - - - 0 - MRS 49.66 - - - - 0 - MTECH 0.91 - - - - 0 - MTI 0.5 - - - - 0 - MULTITREX 0.5 - - - - 0 - MULTIVERSE 0.5 - - - 0 - -

AFRIPRUD 2.58 2.46 2.46 2.46 2.46 -0.12 26 979,264 2,412,030.84 NAHCO 4.02 4 4 4 4 -0.02 22 251,094 1,001,583.80 AFRPAINTS 2.59 - - - - 0 - -

NASCON 6.86 - - - - 9 80,100 560,610.00

AGLEVENT 0.77 - - - - 2 5,500 4,165.00

NB 99.99 99.94 99.94 98.5 99.9

AIICO 0.8 - - - - 6 62,998 50,338.15 AIRSERVICE 2.29 - - - - 1 4,588 10,001.84 ALEX 9.84 - - - - 0 - ALUMACO 7.75 - - - - 0 - ANINO 0.25 - - - - 0 - -

-0.09 68

293,234 29,196,308.21

NCR 11.02 - - - - 0 - NEIMETH 0.72 0.69 0.69 0.69 0.69 -0.03 5

518,000 357,600.00

NEM 0.73 - - - - 6 134,441 99,520.75 NESF 552.2 - - - - 0 - NESTLE 700 715.5 700 700 700 41 75,818 52,951,924.47

ARBICO 5.04 - - - - 0 - NIG-GERMAN 4.91 - - - 0 - ASHAKACEM 24 - - - 15 109,227 2,671,023.97 NIGERINS 0.5 - - - - 0 - ASOSAVINGS 0.5 - - - - 0 - -DUN-

NIGROPES 7.46 - - - - 0 - -

LOP 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

NNFM 6.65 - - - - 1 433 2,736.56

EKOCORP 3.72 - - - - 0 - ELLAHLAKES 4.26 - - - 0 - ENAMELWA 29.78 - - - - 0 - EQUITYASUR 0.5 - - - 0 - ETERNA 1.76 1.84 1.84 1.84 1.84 0.08 6 97,300 177,432.00

NPFMCRFBK 1.08 - - - 1 4,760 4,950.40 NSLTECH 0.5 - - - - 0 - OANDO 3.48 3.65 3.49 3.47 3.47 84 3,565,310 12,378,579.44 OKOMUOIL 30 - - - - 5 12,300 364,216.00 OMATEK 0.5 - - - - 0 - OMOSAVBNK 0.92 - - - 0 - -

ETI 15.6 - - - - 14 177,450 2,635,288.67 PAINTCOM 1.04 - - - - 0 - -

ETRANZACT 3.1 - - - - 0 - -

PHARMDEKO 2.14 - - - 0 - -

EVANSMED 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

PORTPAINT 3.36 - - - - 0 - -

FBNH 3.79 3.93 3.86 3.8 3.8 184 5,055,956 19,275,492.20

PREMBREW 2.95 - - - - 0 - -

FCMB 0.87 0.84 0.87 0.84 0.85 90 29,249,726 24,926,812.18

PREMPAINTS 10.93 - - - 0 - -

FIDELITYBK 1.21 1.22 1.22 1.22 1.22 0.01 12 128,900 157,724.34 FIDSON 2.69 - - - - 27 614,065 1,572,223.05 FIRSTALUM 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

PRESCO 34 35.7 - - - 5 11,400 412,350.00 PRESTIGE 0.5 - - - - 0 - PZ 21.9 - - - - 12 36,726 816,355.90 RAKUNITY 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

FLOURMILL 18.4 18.99 18.99 18.99 18.99 0.59 27 197,247 3,727,672.78 REDSTAREX 3.8 - - - - 3 12,500 49,875.00 FO 342 - - - - 6 15,200 4,938,480.00 REGALINS 0.5 - - - - 0 - FORTISMFB 5.15 - - - - 0 - RESORTSAL 0.5 - - - - 0 - FTNCOCOA 0.5 - - - - 0 - ROADS 6.6 - - - - 0 - GCAPPA 14.46 - - - - 0 - -

ROKANA 0.6 - - - - 0 - -

GLAXOSMITH

ROYALEX 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

24.17 25.37 25.37 24.99 29 501,798 12,648,111.26

GNI 0.5 - - - - 0 - GOLDBREW 0.97 - - - - 0 - GOLDINSURE 0.53 - - - 0 - GUARANTY 16.87 17.45 17.45 16.59 16.66 149 3,576,744 59,751,776.00

RTBRISCOE 0.5 - - - - 1 941 470.50 SCOA 3.96 - - - - 0 - SEPLAT 302.48 317.6 318 318 318 15.52 30

388,650 123,626,470.56

SIMCAPVAL 103.24 - - - - 0 - -

GUINEAINS 0.5 - - - - 0 - -GUINSKYEBANK 1.08 1.12 1.08 1.07 1.07 -0.01 39 1,959,858 2,104,852.11 NESS 118 - - - - 10 15,500 1,818,000.00 SKYESHELT 100 - - - - 0 - HMARKINS 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 2 5,004,000 2,502,000.00 SMURFIT 1.02 - - - - 0 - HONYFLOUR 1.37 - - - 4 20,000 27,916.00

SOVRENINS 0.5 - - - - 0 -

IAINSURE 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

-STACO 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

IKEJAHOTEL 2.89 - - - - 0 - INFINITY 1.42 - - - - 0 - INTBKPREF 13.5 - - - - 0 - INTBREW 20 20 - - - 6 14,700 284,197.00 INTENEGINS 0.5 - - - - 0 - INTERLINK 4.21 - - - - 0 - -

STANBIC 14.15 - - - - 5 37,001 523,343.90 STDINSURE 0.5 - - - - 0 - STERLNBANK

1.73 1.73 1.73 1.73

1.73

13

0

1,104,932 1,911,701.10

STUDPRESS 2.19 - - - - 0 - TANTALIZER 0.5 - - - 0 - THOMASWY 0.61 - - - 0 - -

IPWA 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

TIGERBRANDS 1.26 1.25 1.26 1.21 25 3,285,439,119 4,073,967,894.07

JAPAULOIL 0.5 - - - - 2 24,262 12,131.00

TOTAL 145 - - - - 3 3,296 480,630.96

3.51 - - - - 0 - JBERGER 41.5 42.73 - - - 12 31,470 1,386,784.78 TOURIST TRANSCOHOT 5.51 - - - 0 - JOHNHOLT 0.88 - - - - 0 - JOSBREW 1.51 - - - - 0 - JULI 1.75 - - - - 0 - LASACO 0.5 - - - - 0 - LAWUNION 0.67 - - - - 0 - LEARNAFRCA

0.81 0.85 0.89 0.85 0.08 12 610,400 526,304.00

LENNARDS 3 - - - - 0 - -

Top Gainers Company

Previous Closing Price

Opening Price

High

1.15 1.18 1.18 1.13 -0.02 57 6,563,730 7,435,456.87

TRIPPLEG 1.69 - - - - 1 500 805.00 UAC-PROP 5.2 - - - - 3 20,251 110,165.44 UACN 20.47 21.44 - - - 13 65,995 1,344,425.15 UBA 3 3 3 2.9 2.9 121 6,406,693 18,969,767.92 UBN 5.3 - - - - 8 24,412 126,491.00

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Value

SEPLAT 302.48 317.6 318 318 318 30 388,650 123,626,470.56 GLAXOSMITH

TRANSCORP

TRANSEXPR 1.21 - - - - 0 - -

24.17 25.37 25.37 24.99 29

501,798 12,648,111.26

FLOURMILL 18.4 18.99 18.99 18.99 18.99 0.59 207,732 3,926,887.78

Company

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AFROMEDIA 0.5 - - - - 0 - LENNARDS 3 - - - - 0 - RTBRISCOE 0.5 - - - - 1 941 470.50

WAPCO 80 80.5 80.5 80.5 80.5 19 14,337,554 1,154,154,991.51

DUNLOP 0.5 - - - - 0 - -

DANGSUGAR

ETI 15.6 - - - - 14 177,450 2,635,288.67

5.44 5.36 5.6 5.36 44 2,017,332 11,033,075.32

ETERNA 1.76 1.84 1.84 1.84 1.84 0.08 97,300 177,432.00

INTBKPREF 13.5 - - - - 0 - -

LEARNAFRCA 0.81 0.85 0.89 0.85 0.08 610,400 526,304.00

UBN 5.3 - - - - 8 24,412 126,491.00

UNITYBNK 0.6 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.63 0.03 501,617 316,018.71

PREMBREW 2.95 - - - - 0 - -

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Special Report

The children living with the world’s rarest diseases I

t took the Torrances three years to get their youngest son Dylan, now 12, diagnosed with Partial Triplication 15 - a mutation of his 15th chromosome.

It is an illness affecting only 19 people globally, and he is the only person to have this specific defect.

His mum, Janie Torrance, says she was pleased with the diagnosis “because it was doing my head in that no one knew what it was”.

The condition is so rare it hasn’t been given a name.

The received diagnosis is just a straightforward description of what’s happened to his chromosome.

“The first thing you try and do is find someone else with it - and to be told there was no-one was quite a blow.”

Each person has 23 pairs of chromosomes. On Dylan’s 15th, one of the pair is longer and that region has been triplicated. It’s this rare situation which causes all the problems.

Despite a normal

Imagine having a disease so rare it doesn’t have a name - or even another sufferer.

On the rarest of days - 29 February - three families mark Rare Disease pregnancy, Janie says her son would not feed, remained floppy and was uninterested.

As a baby, Dylan was different to his brother who was “like a ferret”.

If you’ve only got 50 people with a condition then research into that condition is much harder because you’ve got fewer people to work with Nick Meade, Rare Disease UK She says it took persistence to get a genetic test carried out which confirmed the disease when he was three.

“I’m positive about life.

Dylan attends a special school when he is well enough

Janie Torrance

I look at Dylan and I think ‘how can I moan about my situation’ when my son goes

through this every day? He’s so positive.

“At the moment there is no cure, but I’m hoping someone very clever will be able to work out something.”

Despite providing constant care, the family try to maintain some normality, with Janie working one day a week as a hairdresser and going to the gym, as well as ensuring their eldest son, 14-year-old Callum, does not miss out.

Dylan also has a busy life enjoying respite care at Haven House Children’s Hospice in Woodford, Essex and going to a specialist school when he is well enough.

Rare Disease Day is a chance to raise the awareness

of the 60 million people world-wide affected by 6,000 rare diseases.

Nick Meade, from Rare Disease UK, says the illnesses are clarified as those affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people - cystic fibrosis and haemophilia are included in this definition.

The low number of patients can impact the development of treatments and often there is no option but palliative care.

“If you’ve only got 50 people with a condition, then research into that condition is much harder, because you’ve got fewer people to work with.

The quest for a diagnosis can take up to 20 years.”

What defines a rare

disease?

• A rare disease is defined as affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people • 80% of rare diseases have genetic origins, whilst others are the result of infections, allergies and environmental causes • There are often no existing cures • 30% of rare disease patients will die before they are five years old Source: Rare Disease Day Currently there is no central database listing every rare disease, although Public Health England is developing one.

Meade says this will bring the

same level of surveillance as in the cancer world, and bring detail which will aid understanding.

In 2008, five-year-old Husna Naee was taken to hospital by her parents where they say they felt like they “literally lost her overnight”.

Her mother, Rahna Nabi, says: “She became unwell with a viral infection, she went into hospital for what we thought was dehydration and came out 10 days later in a wheelchair having forgotten how to lift a pencil.”

Diagnosed with the life-limiting Friedreich’s Ataxia disease, Husna is

experiencing progressive damage to the nervous system and heart and losing her mobility, eyesight and hearing. She also has diabetes and Asperger’s Syndrome.

Rahna says: “There is nothing worse than being told that your child will die slowly before your eyes.

“We were told Husna would gradually deteriorate, lose the use of her legs and arms, become blind, deaf, lose the ability to eat, swallow and speak - until eventually she becomes completely incapacitated.

“There was nothing we or anyone could do as there was no known cure.”

Khadija and her big brother Ismail

She describes her daughter as “very determined and high-spirited”, but says that most basic tasks are a “struggle” and now, aged 16, Husna understands what’s happening to her.

Rahna says her family can’t believe the situation, calling it a “crash course in the disabled world”. She describes it as “a dark grey cloud coming over your head and it’s not shifting”.

One of the greatest tolls, she says, was on Husna’s two brothers - one older, one younger - who went through a period of “mourning” for the sister they had once known and who now focus on creating positive memories

Alea Begum says Khadija’s illness did not become apparent until she was one

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Rare Disease UK are hosting events around the UK to raise the profile of the 6,000 rarest illnesses

of her.

“There was a lot of heartache because rare diseases mean you lose the child you thought you were going to have,” Rahna says.

“There’s literally nothing you can do except make them as happy as possible.”

She says the family try to focus on what Husna can do, not what she has lost, and credits the family’s faith in Islam with helping them remain positive.

Another parent who chooses to focus on the positives of a “shocking” situation is Alea Begum, from London, whose daughter Khadija was diagnosed with Argininosuccinic Aciduria at the age of one.

It causes ammonia to accumulate in the blood, which can become toxic if too many proteins are broken down in the body - affecting the nervous system.

She appeared healthy to her parents until she turned one and became progressively ill.

“She was vomiting, so I took her to A&E and they put her to sleep in a coma for two weeks as they found the brain had started to swell.

“When she came around, they said the back of her brain is damaged so she has no vision.

“It was hard, very hard, to accept because she was born normal and then one day it changed everything.”

As well as losing her vision, Khadija has permanent brain damage and epilepsy, and her development is delayed.

Alea says she went to counselling but found that talking about the situation did not help, as she was still “living it”.

“I was depressed, I was on medication and I’d have all these flashbacks, and as her mother I blamed myself.

Even now, every 5 March, when she went in to hospital, it’s like an anniversary and I have a relapse.

“It was hard to come around to the idea that my little girl is never going to see again.

“We do think a lot about her future - is she going to get married, have children?

Is she able to study or go to university?”

At five, Khadija is “happy” and at a mainstream school where she is learning Braille.

Her mother has qualified as a grief councillor and works for Scope supporting other families.

“When it happened I didn’t know anyone with this condition, so it’s nice to be in that position to help.

“I see families and they’re in pieces and I want to say to them ‘in two years you’re going to be standing’.

“I thought I was going to lose my daughter. but when it comes to Khadija I’ll fight with all my strength.”

Source: BBC

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Islam

How to set up a Muslim Home II Allah says: “And Allah had made your homes a place of rest for you …a comfort for a while” [alNahl:80] In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Praise be to Allah. We praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil of our own selves and from our evil deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides cannot be led astray, and whomsoever Allah leaves astray cannot be guided. I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah alone, with no partner or associate, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

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n this last part of our discourse, I intend to discuss on how to live in an environment that nourishes Islamic atmosphere thereby completing the bounties of of home serenity. The segment will talk about what happen in the house as whether the occupants are as well good Muslims in a house build and set to adapt with the building plan. This is to reaffirm that it takes the both the building plan and the readiness of the occupant of a house to live in accordance with teachings of Islam. We will delve more on what the occupants should do to live in the Islamic home. I will explain the roles of all the members of the home, their neighbours and visitors.

In an idle home the occupants are usually the father who is the husband, the wife or the mother, the children or the siblings. In modern houses you can get the housemaid, the driver and the guardsman. In a bigger house you may get more wives and more housemaids and servants.

Whatever is the number of the occupants; there are rules and etiquettes set by Islam for every member of the family to abide by.

The owner of the house, who is the husband or the father, must resolved from the onset to live in an Islamic home. This resolve is not as is the conduction of the affairs of the family towards the teaching of Islam. That means he must be conscious about his every action and utterances. His entire move must conform to the teachings of Islam. Thus, it is his precedence that will set the rules rolling.

However, to achieve this alone is not possible without the support of the wife or wives. Their support must be solicited freely, and with their understanding of the aims and the objectives.

Above this commitment is their resolve to live the way of Islam in hidden and open. They must be their own co-wives’ keepers without ill-feeling or hidden malice. Once their relationship is mutually cordial and pleasant, the entire members of the home will naturally follow without any difficulty.

Indeed, showing affection towards wife and children is one of the things that lead to creating an atmosphere of happiness and friendliness in the home. We must be aware that the Prophet (pbuh) used to treat his wife Aa’ishah, the mother of the

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believers with affection to the extent of taking bath with her, and not just eating or taking short strolling in the evenings together. She was reported as saying: “The Messenger of Allah and I used to do bathl together from one vessel, and he would pretend to take all the water so that I would say, ‘Leave some for me, leave some for me…”.

Thus, the fact that one is the head of the house does not make him a boss; one who terrorizes anyone around him. However, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), used to “sew his own clothes, mend his own shoes and do whatever other work men do in their homes.” Thus, one is expected to help his wives in the day to day running of the house.

Try to visit them in the kitchen and give them a helping hand, and some other impromptu assistance that may need your blessing occasionally. This type of relationship greatly helps in attaining happiness in the home; kindness is very beneficial between the spouses, and the children, and can bring results that cannot be achieved through

of the involved to settle them quickly and amicably.

Subsequently, one must know and realize that keeping the secrets of one another is very vital in the maintenance of healthy relationships amongst the members of the family.

It is very destructive for the husband to discuss with any of his wives the personal issues of one of his spouse with wives.

Nor should any of any of the wives discuss of what happened between her and the husband with any of her co-wives. Such discussions are abhorred by Allah. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) was reported as saying, “One of the most evil of people in the sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be a man who went in unto his wife and she went in unto him, then he disclosed her secret.”

When there are disputes between the wives, the husband must be bold enough to exert his power and a lot blames to the culprit, while consoling all them to respect each other.

The children must be taught their roles as members of the

information on its utilization.

Some families engage the services of nannies and housemaids in their homes.

While this is permissible in Islam, it is also very dangerous if left unchecked or devoid of observing the rules of the service. It is an open knowledge that many of such servants come fom either broken homes, irreligious family, socially bankrupt background or even Christians. If the employers are not up to their salt in regulating what they do with little members of the family, they will destroy them from the onset.

While the children are deprived of their mother’s love and care,

harshness, The husband must create a lively home founded on mutual respect, trust and joviality between him and the entire members of the family. As a husband he must find time to pass nice complements between your wives and cheerfulness amongst your children. The husband and his spouses should restrain themselves before their children to hid their grudges and resentments. They should try to settle their differences in closed door sessions. This effort alone has the capacity to maintain and sustain orderliness in the house. This is because quarrelling in front of children and other members of the family causes a home to easily break.

There is no converging of human beings absolutely free from any type quarrels and intermittent disagreement. But, what makes them healthy ones is the ability

family. The boys should be trained to dress boyishly and to handle mannish works, while girls should dress girlishly and learn their roles from their mothers or senior female siblings. Their relationships must be under close observations particularly their interest to punctuality in their daily prayers, weekly fasting, rehearsing or listening of the Qur’an and their relationship with one another in the home.

It is advisable to check their handsets, laptops and Ipads from time to time to be acquainted with their personal interests.

Equally important is what they love watching on the TV or video.

Thus, it is advisable to have a family library consisting of basic Islamic books, CDs (audio and video) with contributions from all the members of the family.

It must be kept up to date and tidy by all users, and with a log book consisting of necessary

which is an essential part of their upbringing and psychological stability, they are exposed to manners that are injurious to their future behaviours; certainly a servant cannot provide such basic requirements at such an important stage in one’s life.

Children should not be left with servant for the whole day only to be brought when they are asleep.

Such utter neglect has serious repercussion in the future habits of the children.

The husband also is in danger if the female servant are allowed to him freely and unattended by the wives. Some of them have mastered cunning and shrewdness in luring innocent husband into the unmentionable.

Similarly, some corrupt men can have their hay days if the wives are loose. In fact, whatever are the circumstances; the laws of Allah must be obeyed to the later as that is the only safety. So also

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One is required to pay extra attention as to who drives his family around. May Allah save us!

Nowadays some families like keeping pets in their homes such cats, dogs, birds and so on. Islam has forbidden taking dogs and bears as pets. But it has allowed the taking of cats and birds as pets. In doing so, utmost care must be taking as to their rights of livelihood; eating, drinking and freedom to around even in cages. Their health is paramount so as not to transmit the children diseases and bacteria.

The manner of receiving and interacting with visitors in one’s home must be accordance with teachings of Islam in order to be able to live Islam. Some visitors can cause havoc in a very short time if allowed uncensored.

Allah has issued codes of interactions with visitors; short or long visitors. Allah says: “Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; surely Allah is Aware of what they do.

And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their headcoverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! so that you may be successful”.

There must be strict observance of segregation between male and female visitors in every Islamic setting. Islam has strictly forbidden free mixing of males and females in the name of civilization.

Finally and not lastly, just it is permissible to receive guest in one’s home, one’s family is equally allowed to pay visit to her relatives and friends with strict observance of the Shari’ah.

Otherwise, it is more rewarding for them to remain indoor. Allah says: “And stay in your houses, and do not display yourselves like that of the times of ignorance…” [al-Ahzaab 33:33]

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ANALYSIS

By Marwan Bishara

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ver since the Syrian uprising started five years ago, Bashar al-Assad warned of the consequences of opposing him and threatened to remain in power at any cost.

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What can a Jewish folktale tell us about Assad?

And he delivered on his threat.

Unlike the Tunisian, Egyptian, Yemeni and Libyan autocrats who stepped down or were deposed, Assad held on tighter to his power.

He rejected all pleas for a new democratic transition, and confronted Syrian attempts at replacing his regime with extreme violence that plunged the country into civil war.

Inside Story - Can Syria’s opposition do a deal with the government?

Worse, he abetted and conspired in the creation of the worst case scenario in the form of ISIL, playing on Arab fear that is best summarised in the maxim: “Better one hundred years of tyranny than one day of chaos.”

It could be worse Assad’s strategy is best understood in the lesson learned from an old Jewish fable in which a Rabbi advises a man who complains about his bad fortunes to bring his animals into his home.

First the goats, then the sheep, followed by the dogs and finally the donkeys. When the situation becomes unbearable, the Rabbi suggests that the farmer remove the animals from the house. When he does so, the farmer feels relieved.

Did Putin trump Obama in Syria?

In the same breath, Assad now hopes, after the advent of foreign forces and foreign fighters to the country, that Syrians will look back with nostalgia at the good old days of “peaceful dictatorship”.

Only after the tragic bombings in Paris and Brussels, and the weakening of the Syrian opposition, did Assad and his allies begin to direct their attacks at ISIL positions, hoping to earn favour in the West as the guardians of Syrian stability.

Assad has brought in the Iranians, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Russian military when his massacres and barrel bombs failed to protect his regime from collapse.

They have wreaked havoc on the country, and focused their wrath on the “moderate” Syrian opposition, allowing the utterly repressive ISIL group to grow and control major parts of Syrian territories.

Only after the tragic bombings in Paris and Brussels, and the weakening of the Syrian opposition, did Assad and his allies begin

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [AP] to direct their attacks at ISIL positions, hoping to earn favour in the West as the guardians of Syrian stability.

Now he expects Syrians and Westerners to be grateful to him for clearing out the ISIL group from Palmyra and other areas of the country, and accept the utility and legitimacy of his rule.

Beyond cynical There is of course something terribly cynical about all of this, but some self-declared “realists” are buying into the dictator’s arguments.

What they miss is Assad’s psychopathy. He is utterly careless about the consequences of his actions and totally indifferent to the harm and hurt he causes his people.

More than 330,000 Syrians have been killed, and millions more have become refugees as most of the country laid in ruin. And for all the talk of peace, Assad clings ever harder to power regardless of the costs.

One anecdote in particular reflects his character best. After gazing at his people in 2013 and being forced to give up his chemical weapons to avoid US retaliation, Assad joked that it should have been he who received that year’s Nobel Peace Prize, not the

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [Reuters] And the joke continues.

Confusing problems with solutions The Russians and Iranians have succeeded in forcing Assad on the Syrians as a “peace partner” in the effort to roll back the very tragedies he helped to create.

Now, Assad is betting that the West’s frustration with the threat of ISIL and the refugee question will lead to expediency in dealing with the Syrian question.

A growing number of Western pundits are now preaching the gospel of stable autocracy to deal with insecurity and terrorism after

counter-revolutionaries recovered the initiative in Syria and other Arab states.

The Assad ultimatum Officially and in public, the consequential powers - the US, France and Britain - continue to make it clear that Assad has no place in Syria’s future.

But in reality, Western powers have compromised with the Russians on the practical steps needed to make the transition to a secular, democratic Syria.

Judging from the compromise over the UN Security Council resolution 2254 that mandated the Syrian Geneva talks, the US and its allies are no longer categorical about shunning Assad from the future plans for the country.

Fool me twice, joke’s on me

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Even prominent members of Assad’s own Alawite base are disassociating themselves from his actions, which further isolated their communities and deepened the sectarian tensions

Assad might take Westerners for idiots, but Syrians can be fooled no more. Yes they want peace and stability, but not a return to dictatorship. And they are not buying into Assad’s claim of patriotism and love of country, unless we add necrophilia to his other pathologies.

Anyone who thinks that after 40 years of Assad family rule, coupled with horrendous repression and unprecedented violence, the Syrians are going to forget about the atrocities, or to lay low and accept more of the same, is hallucinating.

Even prominent members of Assad’s own Alawite base are disassociating themselves from his actions, which further isolated their communities and deepened the sectarian tensions.

Yes, Assad might have regained the initiative thanks to Russian air power. But that will not ensure him the leadership. It will only prolong the inevitable, his departure.

Marwan Bishara is the senior political analyst at Al Jazeera.

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The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

Source: Al Jazeera

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Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir ‘to step down in 2020’

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udan’s President Omar alBashir has told the BBC he will step down in 2020, when his current mandate ends.

Mr Bashir also denied allegations of abuses perpetrated by the Sudanese forces in renewed violence against black African villages who took up arms in the country’s western Darfur region.

The president has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on counts of genocide and war crimes.

Mr Bashir has been in power since 1989. He won elections in April last year.

He told the BBC’s Thomas Fessy that his job was “exhausting” and his current term would be his last.

“In 2020, there will be a new president and I will be an expresident,” he said.

However, sceptics will say that he had already pledged to step down in the past and later went back on his word, our correspondent says.

The UN says more than 2.5 million people have been displaced in Darfur since 2003 - with more than 100,000 this year alone.

The president said that evidence of popularity in Sudan could clearly be seen the huge crowds that greeted him everywhere

President Bashir said that there was no reason for the UN peacekeepers and aid workers to stay in the troubled Darfur region.

He denied reports of recent abuses in the mountains of Jebel Marra where government forces launched an offensive in January.

“All these allegations are baseless, none of these reports is true,” he said.

“We challenge anyone to visit the areas recaptured by the armed forces, and find a single village that has been torched.

“In fact, there hasn’t been any aerial bombing.”

The president said that

people who fled the fighting had gone to government-controlled areas which was “proof that the government does not target citizens”.

President Bashir said that UN estimates that more than 100,000 people have been displaced in Darfur since January because of the fighting were “highly inflated and not real”.

“Only a very small number of people have been displaced and they have either reached our positions or [gone to] where the UN peacekeepers [Unamid] are deployed.

The president said that UN

forces and Unamid “have no vital role to play” in Darfur, “not even in defending themselves and their units”.

“As peace has returned to Darfur, I think that they have no role to undertake and that’s why we want them to leave.”

Likewise he said there was no role in the region for aid workers because there is no food crisis in Darfur.

He said that estimates that 2.5 million people were living in camps in Darfur were “much too inflated” and the true figure is closer to 160,000.

The president dismissed the ICC as a “politicised tribunal” and that evidence of his popularity in Sudan could clearly be seen by the huge crowds that greet him.

“These are the same crowds I’m accused of having committed genocide and ethnic cleansing against. This is why I’ve defied the tribunal, and [why] I’ve been travelling freely around the world.”

Mr Bashir was re-elected last year with about 94% of the vote in an election boycotted by the main opposition parties who said it was not free and fair.

Report blames media for xenophobic panic in S Africa

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ohannesburg, South Africa - A series of sensational newspaper headlines and the dissemination of false information on social media contributed to the deadly outbreak of xenophobiarelated violence last year, a new report says.

“The failure of media houses t o c o nt e x t u a l i s e t h e vi o l e n t occurrences sent shock waves across the country and around the world,” said the governmentcommissioned report released

on Tuesday that investigated the causes and consequences of the xenophobic attacks in KwaZuluNatal province.

Seven people were killed and about 5,000 others displaced in a wave of violence against foreign nationals between March and May 2015.

“The spreading of misinformation on social media platforms contributed to widespread panic at the height of the attacks in April 2015,” it said.

A probe headed by Judge Navi Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, took place over seven months and also found shortcomings by law enforcement agencies contributed to tensions between locals and foreigners.

China Ngubane, a Durbanbased activist and researcher who worked closely with victims of the xenophobic violence last year, said effective preventive action by officials and law enforcement

agencies is still missing.

“Even up to now there is a lot of fear among African immigrants given that on the streets there are continuous messages flowing indicating that xenophobia is still something that is alive,” Ngubane said.

The report found much of underlying tensions between foreigners and locals had roots in the xenophobia violence of 2008, when 62 people including South Africans were killed.

Deadly floods hit Ethiopia

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easonal rains have come early to parts of Ethiopia, causing deadly floods in places. The state broadcaster, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation told the Associated Press news agency that 28 people have been killed in two remote regions of the country.

Addis Ababa recorded more than a quarter of the April average rainfall earlier this week with 23mm of rain falling on Sunday. The entire month would normally expect 86mm.

Just 60km to the southeast of the capital, Harar Meda reported 54mm of rain in the following 24 hours.

Meanwhile, further south in the Great Rift Valley, Awassa had 49mm in the same period.

The majority of deaths occurred in the city of Jijiga in eastern Ethiopia where the river burst its banks. It left 23 people dead and 84 injured.

The intense downpours caused flooding in the drought-stricken region of Afar. Five people were killed as waters rose across what is the lowest point in Ethiopia and one of the lowest in Africa.

Showers remain in the forecast for the next few days. Ethiopian meteorology officials have warned that further floods are likely over the next few days and that the government is taking precautionary measures to assist people in the affected areas.

Giulio Regeni murder: Egypt to share findings with Italy

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gyptian officials are to brief Italian counterparts in Rome on the progress of an investigation into the torture and murder of student Giulio Regeni.

The Cambridge student’s murder outside Cairo earlier this year has shone a light on Egypt’s human rights record.

Egyptian police and prosecutors are expected to share initial findings of their investigation, which has faced strong Italian criticism.

Mr Regeni, 28, disappeared on his way to meet a friend on 25 January.

His body, mutilated and showing signs of torture, was found in a ditch on 3 February.

Giulio Regeni murder: Family in Italy expects Egypt answers The BBC’s Julian Miglierini in Rome says the case has strained the relationship between Egypt

Egyptian officials said they had found Mr Regeni’s belongings in a raid on a member of a criminal gang

and Italy, and expectations for the meeting in Rome on Thursday

morning are running high.

Our correspondent says that

there is a feeling in Italy that the Egyptian authorities are not moving fast enough in their investigation into the murder.

His family and the Italian government have been unsatisfied by the several contradicting accounts given by the Egyptian authorities of what may have happened to the Cambridge University student after he went missing.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said Italy would not settle for what he called a “convenient truth”.

“We owe that to Giulio, his friends, his mother, father, his little sister and we owe it to all of us.

We hope and we think Egypt can co-operate with our magistrates.”

Many in Italy think that Mr Regeni could have been targeted by the Egyptian intelligence services because of his research on trade unions and activism.

But Cairo investigators have suggested that Giulio Regeni was kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang, possibly posing as members of Egyptian police.

At the meeting in Rome, Egyptian investigators are expected to deliver evidence such as phone taps, CCTV footage and forensic analyses which could help the Italian team carrying out a parallel inquiry.

Mr Regeni’s mother, Paola Deffendi, recently told a Rome news conference that she and her husband had strong doubts about what the Egyptian authorities had said so far about the circumstances surrounding his murder.

Cairo deputy prosecutor Mostafa Soliman and another official are on Thursday due to be joined by police officers, including one from the Giza area where the young student’s body was found.

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Asia & Middle East

Bangladesh student Nazimuddin Samad hacked to death A Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online has been killed in the capital, Dhaka.

Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes at a traffic junction late on Wednesday and then shot, police said.

The 28-year-old was reported to have been an organiser of the Ganajagran Manch, a secular campaigning group.

A string of prominent secular bloggers have been attacked or killed by religious extremists in Bangladesh in the last year.

Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government has failed to properly address the attacks.

Who is behind the Bangladesh killings?

Police said three assailants on a motorcycle attacked Mr Samad and then shot him, The Dhaka Tribune reported.

Police have not named any suspects in the case nor confirmed a religious motive.

Mr Samad, a student of Jagannath University, regularly wrote against religious extremism on his Facebook page.

He had written “I have no

An attack on a Shia shrine in the capital Dhaka in October injured at least 80 people

religion” on his profile under religious views.

There have been several deadly attacks in Bangladesh in recent months, although it is not clear who is behind them.

Last year, four prominent secular bloggers were killed with machetes, one inside his own home.

They all appeared on a list of

84 “atheist bloggers” drawn up by Islamic groups in 2013 and widely circulated.

There have also been attacks on members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus.

Two foreigners, an Italian aid worker and a Japanese man, were also shot dead late last year, in

seemingly random attacks.

The so-called Islamic State group has said it carried out many of the attacks - but this has not been independently verified.

Members of another militant Islamist group, the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), were arrested over an assault on an Italian Catholic priest late last year.

India censors ridiculed over ‘scary’ Jungle Book rating

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ndia’s censor board has given Disney’s Jungle Book a U/A certificate, meaning that children will not be able to watch the film without adult supervision.

The head of the censor board, Pahlaj Nihalani, told Indian media that it was because the film was “too scary”.

The Jungle Book is a computergenerated remake of the 1967 animated film that was based on Rudyard Kipling’s book.

The film, which has been praised in early reviews, releases in India on 8 April.

Indian censor board chief says the film’s “3D effects are so scary that the animals seem to jump right at the audience”

Mr Nihalani told an Indian newspaper that the decision was taken because “the 3D effects are so scary that the animals seem to jump right at the audience”.

The music composer of the film, Vishal Bhardwaj, told a press conference that nothing about it warranted a U/A certificate.

“It is such a beautiful film.

There is nothing in it which will scare the kids, but let’s just accept the fact, these are the times,” he was quoted as saying by the media.

The decision has predictably led to some ridicule on social media.

Turkish town puts EU-Turkey refugee deal to the test

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ikili, Turkey - In Dikili, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, the harbour cafe is filled with locals drinking coffee and fishermen mending their nets. A fishmonger plies his wares by the pier, as ferries make their way over the sparkling sea. It’s the type of ambiance that has made this town of 40,000 a popular tourist resort.

But, a quick look at the docks and the mood changes abruptly. Men and boys are escorted one by one on to white coaches, driven through a corridor of yellow cordon tape, past police dogs, photographers and curious onlookers, their faces silhouetted behind tinted windows.

With one officer from EU border agency Frontex assigned to each of the 202 deportees on their departure

from Greece, blue tarpaulin masking registration procedures and strong police presence on the streets, nothing was left to chance.

As the town has grown into a major hub for migration to the EU, locals fear that its economy of hotels, cafes and other services catering to tourists would be jeopardised by the presence of a new refugee camp.

As the town has grown into a major hub for migration to the EU, locals fear that its tourism-based economy will be jeopardised by a new refugee camp [Nathalie Bertrams/Al Jazeera] On Monday, the EU’s first deportation of migrants to Turkey went smoothly, despite protests in Dikili over plans to build a refugee camp in the area the previous day.

The deportations are part of an EU-Turkey deal signed on March 18, in which migrants who have made it across the Aegean Sea to Greece are being sent back to Turkey.

In the case of those fleeing Syria, the EU is resettling one refugee for every deportation. In return, Turkey receives money, visa-free travel and fresh hopes of one day joining the bloc.

Both the UN and human rights groups have criticised the deal. The UN has questioned its legality, and last month withdrew its support for refugee camps in Greece, which it has labelled as “detention facilities”.

Troublingly, Amnesty International claims that the Turkish government has been sending back thousands of Syrians to their war-torn country - a violation of international

law.

In his defence, on the same day that the first deportations took place, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told humanitarian organisation Red Crescent in Ankara that, unlike European countries, Turkey had not “turned back Syrians”, rescuing 100,000 migrants from the Aegean Sea. While Syrian refugees may have received massive media attention since the deal was inked, only two Syrians, who had volunteered to return to Turkey, were on board the ferries. The other 200 included Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, all deemed economic migrants, all facing a stay at a camp in Kirklareli, near the Bulgarian border, before being deported back home.

The pride and fury of Australia’s Indigenous rappers

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orn in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope.

There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand singer who’s just signed a deal with Australia’s first Aboriginal-owned record label, Bad Apples Music.

His work is laced with the damnation and discrimination he endured as a boy, and the fiery determination to succeed that followed.

“The school I went to was super redneck - racist attitudes from the students, more so from the teachers. Yeah, [so I] wrote a song about them,” he told the BBC. “It’s just full of swear words.

You know, [I] felt better at the end of it, so I kept doing it whenever I felt angry or had something I needed to get off my chest. I was putting it all in a song.”

“We wasn’t expected to succeed. One of my teachers says to me, ‘Why are you even at school?

You’re not going to do anything with your life, you’re wasting your time here, you’re wasting my time by being in my classroom.’

“You know, all that was expected from us was drop out of school, get on Centrelink [the dole], get into crime or play football.”

His lyrics are unapologetically brazen; “I am destined for that greatness” and “I am the greatest” they crow, and they have made him a standard-bearer for indigenous rap in all its forms.

1MDB: Embattled Malaysia fund’s board offers resignation

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he entire board of a Malaysian state fund has offered to resign, after a parliamentary inquiry found it failed to carry out its responsibilities.

The inquiry identified issues in 1MDB’s financing and performance, saying it was “unsatisfactory”.

1MDB, which racked up billions of dollars in debt, was set up by PM Najib Razak to promote development.

1MDB has faced repeated allegations of corruption, but has previously denied all wrongdoing.

Mr Najib, who has also been accused of misappropriating funds, has been cleared by Malaysian authorities.

The political scandal has gripped Malaysia, which has seen protests calling for Mr Najib’s resignation.

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Europe & Americas

Panama papers: Iceland names PM replacement

Dutch firmly reject EUUkraine ties in referendum

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The leaked Panama Papers sparked angry protests in Iceland

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celand’s ruling coalition has named Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson as the new PM, with early elections to be held in the autumn.

Mr Johannsson, 53, is agriculture and fisheries minister and deputy leader of the Progressive Party (PP).

The move comes after PM and PP chairman Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson stepped down in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers.

The leaks, from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, showed Mr Gunnlaugsson owned an offshore firm with his wife.

It was not declared when he became an MP. Mr Gunnlaugsson says he sold his shares to his wife and denies

any wrongdoing. But he is accused of concealing millions of dollars’ worth of family assets.

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With protesters keeping up a steady drumbeat of pots and pans outside parliament, for the third day in a row, members of Iceland’s political parties held lengthy discussions inside.

The demonstrators sensed a deal was in the offing, and hurled eggs and fruit at the building as a mark of disgust.

For many of them, nothing less than the resignation of the entire government would do.

US university in Scalia law school acronym blunder

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fficials at a US university were left red-faced after their decision to rename a law school after late Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia prompted hilarity over its unfortunate acronym.

George Mason University in Virginia said its law school would be called the Antonin Scalia School of Law. The eagle-eyed immediately took to Twitter to point out that the acronym would be ASSoL. The university has since renamed it as the Antonin Scalia Law School.

In a statement to students, the university said the new name was a “logical substitute” after the initial name “caused some acronym controversy on social media”.

The renaming of the law school was a condition of an anonymous $30m (£21m) donation received by the university on 31 March.

The dean of the law school, Henry Butler, said the money would be received over the next five years and would be used to increase “the quantity and quality of students” over that time.

Antonin Scalia, one of the most conservative members of the US Supreme Court, died in February at the age of 79. He had been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

President Barack Obama has nominated moderate Judge Merrick Garland as a replacement.

But eventually came word that the two coalition parties, the Progressives and Independents, had reached agreement.

Opposition parties don’t like the deal and some are vowing to go ahead with a vote of no confidence. The government has a comfortable majority and it seems the crisis may be over, for now.

But polls suggest the Progressive Party has lost much of its support and that the tiny Pirate Party, founded just over three years ago, stands to make significant gains. Unless this government’s fortunes change, it could be out of power in a few months’ time.

Mr Gunnlaugsson is one of dozens of high-profile global figures mentioned in the 11.5 million leaked financial and legal records, which were first published on Sunday.

Pressure on Mr Gunnlaugsson to step down had been building since then, with thousands of people protesting outside the parliament building in the capital Reykjavik on Monday and opposition parties tabling a confidence motion.

Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Gunnlaugsson had asked President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to dissolve parliament and call an early election, although the president said he would need to talk to parties.

Brazil congressional probe favours impeaching Rousseff

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razilian President Dilma Rousseff moved closer to impeachment when the rapporteur of a Congressional committee said there were grounds for the Senate to put her on trial for manipulating budget accounts in 2014 to boost her reelection prospects.

Congressman Jovair Arantes told the 65-member lower house committee on Wednesday that there were “minimal indications” that Rousseff had committed an impeachable crime, but that it was up to

the Senate to judge the president.

The committee will vote on Arantes’ report on Monday and submit the result to the full house for a final vote, expected by the end of next week. If two-thirds of the chamber approve the motion, Rousseff will be sent for trial in the Senate.

In a boost for Rousseff’s chances of surviving impeachment, the centrist Progressive Party (PP) said on Wednesday it will remain in her governing coalition until the lower house votes on whether

to impeach the embattled leftist leader or not.

Rousseff, whose hold on power is threatened by a massive corruption scandal and Brazil’s worst economic recession in decades, has been negotiating government jobs to retain the backing of allies such as the PP after her main coalition partner, the PMDB, broke away last week to back her impeachment.

“It is clear a majority (of the PP) does not want to break with Rousseff,” party leader Senator Ciro Nogueira told reporters.

utch voters have rejected a key European pact with Ukraine in a referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, dealing an embarrassing blow to the government.

In a result swiftly hailed by eurosceptic groups, the Dutch news agency ANP said the “no” camp had won the day with 61.1 percent. Only 38 percent voted in favour of the two-year-old treaty with Kiev.

After initial doubts, ANP said that 32.2 percent of the electorate had turned out, meaning the ballot is valid and must be considered by the coalition government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

“It looks like the Dutch people said NO to the European elite and NO to the treaty with Ukraine. The beginning of the end of the EU,” far-right politician Geert Wilders said late on Wednesday.

Voters were asked if they supported the European Union’s association agreement with Ukraine, which aims to foster better trade relations with the wartorn country and former Soviet satellite.

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that his country would continue moving towards the EU despite the resounding rejection.

Poroshenko downplayed the importance of the referendum but said Ukraine should “take it into consideration”.

Many Ukrainian politicians feel their country deserves the treaty and are keen to show they have made progress in aligning their country with EU standards since the 2014 uprising that toppled pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich.

Bas Paternotte, a columnist for right-wing weblog GeenStijl, said Ukraine is not a suitable partner for the EU. “That country is not ready,” Paternotte told Al Jazeera. “It’s sad for all those young people who fought for their freedom during the revolution but the country is a mess. Government-sponsored mobs are walking around with swastika flags; (President) Poroshenko has been named in the Panama Papers. Ukraine is unfinished,” he added.

But organisers admitted the non-binding ballot was essentially about pushing a broader anti-EU agenda - humiliating at the very time that the Netherlands holds the rotating EU presidency.

The Dutch “no” poses a major headache for the European Union as it also gears up for the ramifications of a possible British exit from the bloc.

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FCT Councils’ Poll: Stakeholders advocate peaceful conduct

By Stanley Onyekwere

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he imperativeness of conducting a peaceful 2016 Councillorship/ Chairmanship elections slated for Saturday April 9, (tomorrow) across the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), dominated deliberations yesterday at a special pre-election stakeholders meeting.

Various speakers drawn from religious, political, traditional, civil society, women and youth groups amongst others at the meeting, organized by the FCT Administration at Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotels, in Abuja, opined that all and sundry must support the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) and security operatives to ensure peaceful atmosphere for the attainment of free and fair elections.

In his key note address, the FCT Minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, stressed that election is the bedrock of every democratic society, even as he reiterated the resolve of the FCTA, urging all candidates and their supporters to be good winners and good losers, as the case may be.

Bello assured that the government would do everything within its powers to ensure that peace continues to reign in the Territory as the residents go to the polls to elect those to deliver dividends of democracy to the people, saying elections is not door-die affair rather an opportunity for people to elect leaders of their choice.

He however warned that the

he FCT Minister exchanging pleasantries with some FCT indigenous Chiefs and other traditional title holders, during the stakeholders’ meeting on the Saturday’s FCT Area Councils elections. security operatives have been directed to deal decisively with troublemakers who might want to disrupt the process, and therefore enjoined residents to obey the law and move about without fear of intimidation.

Furthermore, the Minister delivered a message from President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the Governor General of the

FCT, urging all FCT residents to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner before, during and after the election.

Similarly, Minister of Defence, Brigadier-General Mansur DanAli, also urged the electorate to conduct themselves properly in a peaceful manner; saying that, Abuja is known for peace.

Stressing that the Army and

L-R: Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Senator Philip Aduda, FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, Minister of Defence, Brig. Gen, Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd) and Chairman, House Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, Hon. Zephaniah Jisalo, during the stakeholders’ meeting.

other security agencies are more than ever ready for the polls, DanAli reminded stakeholders that election is only a peaceful means of changing a government any democracy.

In the same vein, the Police Commissioner in charge of Election Security, Mr. Folunsho Adebanjo, who spoke on behalf of the security agencies involved in the process, warned all political gladiators in the FCT to advise their supporters to shun violence as the security agents will not condone any act of political violence.

Re-echoing similar view, the Senator, occupying the FCT lone seat at the Nigerian Senate, Philip Aduda, who is a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said there is no need for any violence during or after the elections.

Expressing optimism that Saturday’s election will come and go, and the people of FCT will remain one and united entity, Aduda, who is also Minority Whip of the 8th Senate, said politicians under the PDP remain loyal to the government of the day, in the interest of improving the welfare of the people.

On his part, the Chairman, House Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, Zephaniah Jisalo, warned that nobody should interfere with the election, saying persons

(irrespective of status), who are not registered voters in FCT should be allowed to be involved in the process, as only INEC has the responsibility to conduct free and fair polls.

Also, speaking at the event, Ona of Abaji, Dr. Adamu Yunusa, who is Chairman FCT Council of Chiefs, said the council has since resolved to support the electoral process, and urged INEC to ensure prompt and adequate distribution electoral materials, to reduce tension and confusion that could lead to crisis.

The monarch, who commended the effort of the FCT minister towards promotion of peace and unity, also advised politicians to caution their supporters to conduct and celebrate in a peaceful manner during and after the exercise.

In her goodwill message, Chairperson of the FCT Chapter, National Council for Women Society (NCWS), Nancy Bulus, while pointing out that the women are peaceful members of any society, said NCWS has mobilized and sensitized women in FCT to fully participate in the process.

According to her, “Though the NCWS is non-political group, democracy is not new to us. We sensitize our women to vote for the right person. We are peaceful mothers and silent achievers in our own way. We have sensitized the women to vote.”

She however called on the Minister of FCT to enjoin the council chairmen when elected to always carry the women along.

Earlier in his opening remarks, FCTA Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye designed told the gathering that the pre-election meeting was to foster peace and understanding amongst all stakeholders, to ensure that the elections are held without violence. during and after the 2016 polls.

Ajakaiye reiterated that the change mantra of the present Administration demands of Nigerians a clean break from the culture of violence, which is a product of political desperation and inordinate ambitions.

The Permanent Secretary noted that this desperation has always characterised and undermined the success of elections in some parts of the country.

Peoples Daily reports that some of the people that also spoke at the occasion include the Chairman of the FCT-CAN, Deputy Imam of the Abuja National Mosque and Chairman, InterParty Advisory Committee (IPAC).

Others were representatives of civil society and other pressure groups based in FCT.

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Elderly Gbagi women spinning wool, yesterday at Bwari, in Abuja.

A young girl hawking sachet water, yesterday at Nyanya Abuja.

A date fruit seller waiting for customers, yesterday at Durumi village, in Abuja.

A police officer drinking sachet water while on duty at Emir of Suleja palace, on Monday in Suleja.

A young mechanic apprentice running an errand for his master, yesterday at Apo Mechanic village, in Abuja.

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Metro

A beverages seller attending customers at Maitama near Merit House, in Abuja, recently.

Council boss restates resolve to open up Kuje

By Usman Shuaibu

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he chairman of Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Hon. Shaban Ishaku Tete, has reiterated his resolve to remain committed to the initiation and execution of developmental programmes in the area, so as to

ensure the rapid transformation of the entire council.

Tete, who is also the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship candidate in the 2016 chairmanship/ councillorship elections across the six FCT Area Councils, slated for tomorrow, made the assertion during a recent interview with

newsmen in Kuje.

According to him, if voted for second term in office, he would vigorously take the electorates along in the scheme of things, promising to continue operating government of participation in the interest of the masses.

He said that before the expiration of his tenure he would

carry out some developmental projects initiated by his administration, and urged the entire residents of Kuje to support him to move the council to the next level.

He therefore called on the residents of kuje to come out en masse to vote for him during this year’s chairmanship/

councillorship elections, to enable him continue with his good works.

Meanwhile, the Kuje PDP chairmanship candidate appealed to other political parties contesting along with him, to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship during and after the exercise, noting that politics is not a do-or-die affair.

APC agents urged to keep watch of votes cast

By Paul Efiong

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head of the Saturday’s Area councils election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwali Area Council of the Territory, Yahaya Aliyu Sheda has called on all the party agents, supervisors as well as supporters to ensure protect their votes during the exerciser, to avoid theft of their mandates.

Aliyu, who denied knowledge of other formidable political parties in his council, opined that his electorates in the area had generally decided to cast their votes for the APC as other parties have failed to provide them with basic necessities of life.

The APC boss further advised his party agents and supporters to work harder, in order to deliver their respective polling units,

stressing that in all the ten (10) wards of the council, APC agents and electorates had thoroughly been sensitized about what they should do at every given point, time when actual voting commences.

“I have a strong confidence in my agents as they will do everything humanly possible to defend and protect our vote,’ he expressed.

Earlier, the APC boss had described his party’s Chairmanship flag bearer for the Saturday’s polls Joseph Shazin as ‘a very humble and kind hearted man’ maintaining that his victory and that of APC during the exercise will turn the entire council around for good.’

In a related development, the APC had organized a sensitization workshop for all his party agents within the week. The workshop that was attended by all APC agents and supporters in Kwali

area council was tagged “operation deliver your polling unit’ and was aimed at educating party agents at wards and polling units.”

Ahead of the Saturday Area Council election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Minister of FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has enjoined all residents to conduct themselves peacefully during and after the coming election.

The Minister made this plea yesterday during the Federal Capital Territory Ministerial Town Hall Meeting with stakeholders on the forthcoming area council election held at Sheraton, Abuja.

The Minister noted that the election is not a do or die affair as there must be a winner and a loser in every contest. He therefore commend all the political aspirants for their conduct all the way as the opportunity comes once in three years.

“The opportunity comes in three years. I therefore congratulate all the candidates under all the political parties for the peaceful ways they have conducted themselves so far. I must remind you that in every contest there is always a winner or loser” He added that: “the message from President Buhari as the Governor General of the FCT is to urge the residents to conduct themselves peacefully during and after election” as “election is not a do or die affair,” he said.

He assures resident that the security agencies have been mobilized to conduct a peaceful election as security is paramount in the FCT. In his remarks the Minister of Defence, Brigadier Mansur Dan Ali, also urge the electorate to conduct themselves properly in a peaceful manner; saying that, Abuja is

known for peace.”

Senator representing FCT, Sen. Philip Aduda, on his part, urge all politicians to shun acts capable of tearing the country apart. He urge them to work for the progress and unity of the country irrespective of their political affiliations. He assures the Minister of the national assembly loyalty, adding that: “powers belong to God.” President, National Council for Women Society (NCWS), Nancy Bulus, pointed out that the women are already partners in progress of the government while calling on the Minister of FCT to enjoin the council chairmen when elected to always carry the women along.

“Though the society is non political democracy is not new to us.

We sensitize our women to vote for the right person. We are peaceful mothers and silent achievers in our own way. We have sensitized the women to vote,” she stated.

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Money Sense

How much money do parents spend on their kids’ clothes?

By Eliza Martinez

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aising kids is an expensive endeavour. Between their needs and wants, it can feel like money is leaving your wallet faster than your paycheck fills it. Clothing is something that all children need, but that doesn’t mean you have to shell out big bucks to keep your child clothed.

Understanding the average amount spent helps you prepare for the inevitable shopping trip when your child outgrows his wardrobe again.

1. Averages o Parents spend an average of six percent of their childrearing expenditures on clothing for their kids from birth to age 17, reported the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2011. This percentage varies depending on how many children are in the household and the salary of a child’s parents. Single parenting versus a two parent situation also influences how much money is spent on a child’s clothing.

Age o Your newborn doesn’t care what he’s wearing, but your teenager probably has vocal opinions about what he’s willing to put on. The amount of money that parents spend on their children’s clothing tends to increase as the kids get older. This might be because parents make more money as the years go by, but it’s also likely due to older kids having a say in what clothes they’ll wear, which is often designer and trendy items that peers are wearing.

Parents with multiple children tend to spend similar amounts on each, though younger kids often get older siblings hand-me-downs as well.

Income o Parents

with

higher

income brackets tend to spend more on clothing than parents with less money. In other cases, parents, even those without a lot of disposable income, are often more willing to shell out for accessories and clothing to keep up with other parents, according to a BBC News Magazine report from May 2011. When parents with more money spend it on fashionable and expensive clothing, children from

lower-income families put the pressure on parents to buy them the same items, even if it’s not in the budget. Many parents give in as they don’t want their kids to be left out or treated differently due to their financial situation. Another factor is parents who feel that their children are a statement of themselves, notes parenting expert and sociologist Frank Furedi.

Parents who worry that a child

dressed in cheap or used clothing reflects poorly on them are more willing to shell out for expensive clothing.

Type of clothes o Parents who share clothing among siblings, friends or cousins can save big bucks and are able to dress their kids in trendy items without spending

the money. Buying second hand is another choice parents make to save money. Because young kids outgrow their clothes so quickly, you can find quality items in thrift stores to satisfy your kids’ need for the latest trends without suffering the hit to your checkbook. Handme-downs are also an easy way to invest in more expensive items that several of your children can wear before you pass them on.

How to Use Money to Make Money

By Alicia Bodine

t’s almost impossible to make money out of nothing. That is why you need a little money to make money. You must be careful, however, when considering what you want to do spend your money on to make more money. There are companies out there just waiting to scam you. Stick to proven methods that have lasted the test of time.

The following steps will help you to learn how to use money to make money.

companies seem to be a big secret.

There is one company, however, that may work for you; Zaken Corporation. So how do you make money. First you buy 100 sunglasses at $.40 a piece for a total of $40. Then you resell them at flea markets, yard sales, or on eBay for $5.00 per piece profiting $460. The key is in picking a product that you know you can sell. Depending on the weather, you will have no trouble selling the sunglasses. Electronics are also great sellers.

Get a hold of a good wholesale company: If you have the right contacts than this, the task will be easy.

If you expect to find a good wholesale company by just doing a simple search you are going to be disappointed. Wholesale

Buy stocks: A great way to use money to make money is to invest it in some stocks. This is a tricky business and you can lose money so it is best to work with someone who is knowledgeable and don’t try to go it alone. Do a little research first

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to understand the basics and get some recommendation for some good brokers. Stock markets yield a much higher profit than just letting your money sit in a savings account.

Buy a few bonds: If the stock market scares you there is always the option of bonds.

Use your money to purchase bonds. The bonds that get the best interest rates are the ones that last about five years. You wouldn’t be able to touch your money until that five-year period was up without paying a penalty, but you will get really good interest and a higher return on your money. If you want to start out with a one-year bond to try it out go ahead. See how much more you make in that year than the same amount of money sitting in a savings account.

Become an eBay reseller: Keep in mind that eBay resellers do extremely well because they have researched what is selling and making money. Do a little research yourself and jot down the popular items that having huge bidding wars down to the last minute. One such big hit is Webkinz, stuffed animals that come with an online code. That code gets them a virtual pet. Hunt yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores, and other such places to find Webkinz really cheap. Most Webkinz sell for $10 and up. If you can buy some for $2 to $5, you can make a nice profit. Don’t stop at one item though. Get a list of the top 10 selling items on eBay and take the list with you everywhere you go. Note the price sellers are getting for the item and don’t purchase any that can’t make you

a profit.

Join an at home business: Most at home businesses require some start-up costs which means you will need money to make money. This is somewhat riskier than putting your money in to stocks, but it can pay big if you are successful. Be sure to thoroughly research the company first being sure to check them out with the Better Business Bureau.

Check work at home forums as well to find out what people have experienced with the company.

When you find a good company use your money to get started.

Follow the business plan and work at it like you would any other job.

After a few months you should have made your money back and begun to see a profit. www.eHow.com

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Strange

Dead gambler embalmed and propped up at the table for final game of cards with family and friends

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he dead body of a Puerto Rican man has been embalmed and placed seated on a poker table alongside friends and family.

Henry Rosario Martinez died aged 31 on January 19 in his home town of Barceloneta in the northern side of Puerto Rico.

The cause of death was alcohol consumption mixed with the taking of prescription drugs.

The family did not comment on the death, but local media reports it could have been a suicide.

Martinez used to sing reggaetton music, loved rooster fights, and was also a fan of gambling.

This is why his father contacted Jose Mendelez, the owner of a funeral service company, to ask him to prepare the body of his son in order to put it on a poker table instead of a coffin before his burial.

Jose Melendez, owner of Eterna Luz funerary service, said: ‘It’s the first time we ever did this here, but we take it as something normal because this kind of things have been done in other parts of our country.’

And so, to say one final goodbye to Martinez, his friends and family sat around the poker table with him.

A local artist and friend going by the name of ‘Kinki’ filmed a music video in his memory called ‘Rest in peace, my little brother’ in which they added images of

Henry Rosario Martinez died aged 31 on January 19 in his home town of Barceloneta in the northern side of Puerto Rico. Martinez used to sing reggaetton music, loved rooster fights, and was also a fan of gambling

the dead body sitting at the poker table.

It appears that embalming bodies and putting them in unusual settings has become a trend in Puerto Rico in recent years.

A former driver was seated in his taxi after death while a wrestler was embalmed and posted in a fighting ring.

Also, a senior woman was seated in a table having her favourite beer and cigarette while another man was dressed as a superhero.

Mailonline The group dealt Martinez two aces - a strong hand - for his final game among family and friends

His father contacted Jose Mendelez, the owner of a funeral service company, to ask him to prepare the body of his son in order to put it on a poker table instead of a coffin before his burial

A local artist and friend going by the name of ‘Kinki’ filmed a music video in his memory called ‘Rest in peace, my little brother’ in which they added images of the dead body sitting at the poker table

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Digest

Exercise is the fountain of youth

By Lisa Ryan

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e’ve long searched for the key to staying ‘forever young.’

Serums promise to keep our skin from aging, diets keep us looking trim and supplements help keep our bodies healthy.

Yet, the true secret to remaining youthful has been right under our nose the whole time - exercise.

Scientists say it is ‘superb’ fitness that keeps people young.

Experts from University of Guelph, in Canada, revealed elderly people who were elite athletes in their youth – or later in life – have much ‘younger muscles.’

The elderly people at the heart of the study still compete as master athletes in their old age, and have much healthier muscles at the cellular level than those of non-athletes.

The study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, compared world-class track and field athletes in their 80s with people the same age who were living independently.

There has been little research of aging and muscle weakening in master athletes in this age group – until now.

Lead study author Dr Geoff Power said: ‘One of the most unique and novel aspects of this study is the exceptional participants.

‘These are people in their 80s and 90s who actively compete in world masters track and field championships.

‘We have seven world

Scientists have discovered that elderly people who were elite athletes in their youth - or even later in life - have much healthier muscles at the cellular level than those of non-athletes, and suggest regular exercise and ‘superb fitness’ could be the key to remaining youthful champions. These individuals are the crème de la crème of aging.’

The elderly athletes’ legs were found to be 25 per cent stronger

on average than their non-athlete counterparts.

Elderly people who competed in track and field were found to have 25 per cent stronger legs and 14 per cent more muscle mass than those did not

Furthermore, the athletes also had nearly 14 per cent more total muscle mass.

They also were determined to have nearly one-third more motor units in their leg muscles than non-athletes.

More motor units – which consist of nerve and muscle fibers – mean more muscle mass and greater strength, the study noted.

With normal aging processes, the nervous system loses motor neurons – which leads to a loss of motor units, reduced muscle mass and less strength, speed and power.

That process accelerates substantially after the age of 60.

Dr Power said: ‘Therefore, identifying opportunities to intervene and delay the loss of motor units in old age is of critical importance.’

The scientist looked at muscle fibers in the same elite athlete and non-athlete groups in another recent study, as well.

‘Exercise is definitely an important contributor to functional performance,’ he said, noting that even non-athletes can benefit.

‘Staying active, even later in life, can help reduce muscle loss.’

But, Dr Power added, ‘We cannot rule out the important of genetics.’

He said additional research is necessary to determine whether muscle health in elite athletes comes from training or genes.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

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Desperate migrants plead to escape ‘hellish’ Greek camp This Syrian family is among those desperate to leave Idomeni and has so far waited for about a week

The desperate pleas of the migrants have been firmly stated on their tents

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rom a distance, the spring sunshine on Idomeni migrant camp gives it the look of a music festival campsite.

Thousands of multi-coloured, flimsy tents, clustered together in a farmer’s field, with food stalls selling chips and curried meat, and rows of portable toilets.

“This is a hellish Glastonbury, where everyone’s trying desperately to leave,” is how an aid worker has described the scene. Glastonbury is a performing arts festival in the British county of Somerset.

The camp has formed around a railway line, where there are two official routes from Greece into Macedonia - one for a train of passengers and freight - the other for migrants to be registered on entry.

But on Monday morning both routes were suddenly shut after an incident where migrant men threw stones at border guards.

The men then managed to breach a fence using iron poles as battering rams. The guards’ response was swift, firing tear gas directly into the crowd.

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The gates remained shut until 06:00 on Wednesday, when a small group of about 170 refugees from Syria were allowed through.

The gates are closed once again.

Since then there has been no access.

Several migrants say they have been told to come back at the same time tomorrow. Greek riot police are reinforcing the area, lining up across the train tracks, while young children play in front of them.

Well-trodden route Aid agencies estimate that between 9,000 and 10,000 migrants have now arrived here.

I see a steady stream of people continue to head across the corn fields to the border crossing, and some strange sights - migrant men wheeling trolleys, wheelie bins and prams full of clothing and essentials on this well-trodden route.

“Has Europe’s warm heart gone cold?” Farah, 37, a musician from Baghdad asks. She is sharing a bright pink tent near the border’s entrance with her husband and two sons.

“We’ve been here six days now.

We have registration papers to leave and we are genuine refugees

fleeing war, unlike some of the other people here who are ruining our chances.”

Farah points to other tents and complains that Moroccans, Pakistanis and Iranians are falsely claiming Syrian nationality on fake documents.

Aid workers from the Medecins Sans Frontieres aid agency are dishing out a breakfast of bread, rice and meat from a huge white marquee, with at least 2,000 people in the morning queue.

At the edge of the camp is a line of tents daubed in permanent marker with “Help us it’s cold” and “Open the borders”.

I find 23-year-old Mohammed from Damascus inside one tent.

He is teary eyed and tells me €200 (£155; $217) has been stolen from his tent as he left to find food.

“I have lost my money, my dignity and now I am losing patience,” he says. “My mother was supposed to be leaving from Damascus next week to join me.

I’ve told her to think twice. This is not the Europe I imagined.”

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Thousands of multi-coloured, flimsy tents, clustered together in a farmer’s field, with food stalls selling chips and curried meat, and rows of portable toilets.

“This is a hellish Glastonbury, where everyone’s trying desperately to leave,” is how an aid worker has described the scene. Glastonbury is a performing arts festival in the British county of Somerset.

The camp has formed around a railway line, where there are two official routes from Greece into Macedonia - one for a train of passengers and freight - the other for migrants to be registered on entry.

The border between Greece and Macedonia is for the most part firmly closed

At least 2,000 people queue for food every morning in Idomeni

Farah and her family fear that Europe’s heart has gone cold over the migrant issue

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Third term syndrome: The arrogance of power A

ll over the world there are some leaders who are reluctant to give up power.

The most striking current example is Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza who, amidst violent opposition, is campaigning for a third term in office despite the constitution saying he can only have two.

He argues that he was appointed, not elected, to his first term so it doesn’t count.

Many believe President Paul Kagame in neighbouring Rwanda is also looking to breach his twoterm limit.

But that would be a mere dot in time for President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia. “If I have to rule this country for one billion years I will,” he told the BBC in 2011.

Hanging on does not always work.

The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, was overthrown by popular protest last year for trying to change the constitution so that he could seek re-election.

‘Let him continue’ While some presidents attempt legalistic tactics to get around term limits, others reject them outright.

Seven-term leader President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe says they are undemocratic: “We put a rope around our necks and say leaders can only have two terms,” he told a summit of African Union leaders earlier this year.

“It is a democracy. If people want a leader to continue, let him continue.”

Some post-independence leaders in East Asia have been equally unapologetic about staying in office for decades.

Indonesia’s President Sukarno had 22 years at the top, while Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990.

“Lee Kuan Yew was an exceptional guy and at the end of his reign Singapore’s GDP was over a dozen times higher than when he took over,” Prof Kishore Mahbubani from the Lee Kuan

Pierre Nkurunziza is running in Burundi’s presidential election which is scheduled for 15 July.

Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore told Newshour Extra.

“You have to look at it country by country and not assume there is one Western rule for the whole world.”

Western idea?

Term limits are seen as a Western idea, in large part because of the United States’ two-term presidential rule.

It was introduced as the 22nd Constitutional amendment in 1951, six years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his fourth term in office.

Before FDR the two-term idea was merely a convention dating back to the example of George Washington.

Although the history of term limits can be traced back to ancient Greece, it is far from clear the idea is in fact a uniquely Western one.

Some European countries have no term limits, including the UK, Italy and Switzerland.

And elsewhere there is considerable support for a set period in office.

“If you look at the public opinion data we have on most African countries, a majority of people in Africa support presidential term limits,” says

Prof Nic Cheeseman of Oxford University.

“This isn’t simply something being pushed by the West.”

Hubris syndrome Some argue for term limits on the grounds that a prolonged period at the top can change a leader’s personality and damage his or her judgement.

Former British foreign secretary and trained psychiatrist, Lord Owen, argues that by the time they have been in power for many years, some leaders tend to become arrogant,

unwilling to listen and overly optimistic that their decisions will produce good results.

“Eight years is enough,” Lord Owen told Newshour Extra.

“Blair is the classic example of hubris and it had profound effects because he reinforced the hubris of Bush and Bush reinforced Blair’s and these two made terrible mistakes.”

Lord Owen believes acquired hubris is not limited to politicians.

“It exists in bankers,” he says.

“If you look at the roots of the 2008-9 crisis you see in many major banks that their chief

executives were making decisions based on a lot of the characteristics of somebody suffering from hubris syndrome.”

Some research gives backing to these conclusions.

“Excessive winning increases testosterone.

That increases [brain chemical] dopamine activity and the reward network,” says Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

“When you increase dopamine activity too much or for too long a time, you actually disrupt the judgement of the brain.”

Walk away?

Journalist Wilf Mbanga believes some the symptoms of hubris syndrome apply to Robert Mugabe.

Mbanga once knew Mugabe so well they would listen to Jim Reeves tracks together.

“I was a fanatical supporter of Mugabe and his party,” he says.

But today, he says, Mugabe has changed. “Now he believes he owns Zimbabwe. It is personal property now.”

A few politicians walk away from power.

Nelson Mandela, for example, stood down after just one term and the current British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said he won’t seek to carry on after the next election.

But hubris, or sheer ambition, drives many to stay on for as long as they can. And the advantages of incumbency mean many will manage to do so - even into their dotage.

Constitutional term limits don’t always work but for those who want to restrain power hungry leaders, they are perhaps the most effective tool available.

Source: BBC

Franklin D Roosevelt at his inauguration for a fourth term as US president in 1945

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All over the world there are some leaders who are reluctant to give up power. The most striking current example is Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza who, amidst violent opposition, is campaigning for a third term in office despite the constitution saying he can only have two. He argues that he was appointed, not elected, to his first term so it doesn’t count.

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Weekend Revue

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t number 3 is MAJEK FASHEK with the song ‘SEND DOWN THE RAIN’. Majek is Nigeria’s Reggea legend. He is also back in the music scene.

Fashek recently remixed his song ‘Holy Spirit’ featuring Tu Face Idibia.

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opping the chart of the throwback legends is MIKE OKRI with the song titled; ‘OMOGE’.

Mike Okri is one of Nigeria’s Afro Pop legend who made his mark in the 90s. The song ‘Omoge’ was released in 1988 and was a popular hit song that made waves in the 90s and is still making huge waves.

Mike Okri who currently resides in the United States of America recently visited the country to connect with his people.

t no 4 is RASKIMO with the song ‘RHUMBA STYLE’. He is Nigeria’s reggea / Dance Hall legend. Raskimono is still very much active in the industry and has released several new

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t number 2 is ALEX O with the song titled; ‘BANANA’. Alex O is one of Nigeria’s Pop legend who also made his mark in the 90s. He is also back in Nigeria after spending so many years abroad.

He has also made a comeback to the music scene and is currently working on some new projects.

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t no 5 is ONYEKA ONWENU, one of Nigeria’s best legendary female vocals with the song ‘ONE LOVE’. Onwenu has performed various songs recently and still remains one of the leading voices in the music industry.

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Weekend Revue Blac Chyna flashes diamond ring amid engagement claims

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lac Chyna has fuelled rumours she’s engaged to Rob Kardashian.

The pair, who started dating in January, have always moved fast in their relationship, even moving in together after just a couple of weeks.

And on Tuesday, Blac appeared to confirm allegations she is set to wed the reality star by posting a snap of the pair looking blissfully happy on her Instagram page.

The snap showed glamour model Blac flaunting a giant diamond on her ring finger, while squeezing the cheeks of her beaming beau. She captioned the picture with a simple: “YES !...!...!”

Fans were quick to offer their congratulations to the couple under the Instagram post.

The picture comes just days after Blac’s mother, Tokyo, flew to Los Angeles with her husband to meet Rob and spend quality time with her grandson, King Cairo, whose father is rapper Tyga.

A source tells TMZ.com Rob made a great impression on Tokyo, who believes the 29-year-old may be “the one”. The insider adds Blac’s mum was particularly enamoured

by Rob’s positive attitude, his good manners, and the way he treats her daughter “like a queen”.

Tokyo officially gave the relationship her seal of approval by showing off a photo of herself and the happy couple on Instagram.

It is not yet known if Rob’s mother Kris Jenner has had the chance to spend more time with Blac since the model, who was previously close friends with Kim,

became romantically involved with the sock designer.

During an appearance on Australian radio’s Kyle & Jackie O Show last month (Mar16), Kris insisted she harbours no grudge against Blac - she just hasn’t had the opportunity to get to know her.

“She seems like a really nice girl but I just haven’t been around her,” she explained. “I don’t know much about their relationship. I haven’t really seen her that much and I don’t know her as well as everyone else.”

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The only man ever linked to Ellen DeGeneres speaks out

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n a telling Reddit Q&A session on Monday evening, the only male celebrity ever linked to Ellen DeGeneres responded to rumours that he once dated the Emmy-winning talk show host.

Johnathon Schaech and Ellen DeGeneres were photographed looking loved-up on multiple occasions in the mid-90s before the host famously came out as gay in 1997.

But as the Legends of Tomorrow actor revealed in his tell-all Ask Me Anything, their relationship was strictly for the cameras.

Harry Styles’ air hostess ‘girlfriend’ says singer ‘blatantly lied’ to her over Kendall Jenner romance

“My manager asked me to accompany her to events,” the tall, dark and handsome actor revealed.

“She was scared people would not watch the show, her sitcom Ellen, because she was gay. It was an honor,” he explained.

“I grew up with two gay aunts and a gay uncle. My Aunt died of cancer. She was a proud woman and she didn’t get proper care because she didn’t want to be away from her partner. Hospitals didn’t allow partners the same rights as a spouse,” said Johnathon.

he air hostess secretly romancing One Direction pin-up Harry Styles has broken her silence over their fling, reportedly telling a pal their relationship ended after Harry hooked up with Kendall Jenner.

Megan Smith, 24, and Harry,

22, are believed to have met on board a plane while he was on the band’s On The Road Again tour last year between June and October.

When One Direction went on hiatus in January it’s reported the relationship became “really serious” – with Harry even referring

to Megan as his girlfriend.

So where did it all go wrong?

The 1D star is said to have cut off contact with Megan soon after she found out he had spent New Year on board a yacht with reality beauty Kendall.

According to The Sun, the blonde was devastated to find out he had been with the model just weeks before she visited him in London.

“I had two great days with Harry but as I was leaving at the airport on the way back I saw the shot of him and Kendall together on the yacht,” she reportedly told a friend.

“I was gutted. Literally, he had got off the boat with her and come to London to see me.

“He asked me what I did over New Years and I was like, ‘I was with family’ and he’s like, ‘I spent mine with friends and family.’ I was like ‘Oh, ok cool.’ He blatantly lied to me about it.”

The pair are thought to have enjoyed a nine month relationship before cutting ties earlier this year.

The budding romance developed even further when Harry became a shoulder to cry on for Megan when her mum suffered a stroke.

However, after finding out about the Kendall romance, Megan says she’s questioning whether she ever knew the real Harry Styles.

“Who is the real Harry? Maybe he doesn’t even know. Maybe I am the girlfriend for the quiet Cheshire boy and Kendall is the one for his rock star self — she fits that mould,” she added to her friend.

Mirror Celebs have contacted a rep for Harry for comment.

Suge Night claims Dr. Dre paid hitman to kill him

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fter their business affiliation ended in the mid-1990s, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre’s relationship has been notoriously contentious. That feud is set to escalate as the hip-hop heavyweight, and ex-Death Row honcho, has accused Dr. Dre of trying to kill him.

His allegations stem from a 2014 incident which saw Knight, who has cheated death multiple times with Oscar-winning flair, shot six times at a Chris Brown-hosted party in Hollywood. He was rushed to hospital and received life-saving surgery.

In the latest conspiracy linked to him, Knight (Marion Hugh Knight Jr.) claims that Dre (Andre Romelle Young) plotted with a former detective in a plot to kill him. In court documents, obtained by TMZ, Thaddeus Culpepper, Suge’s lawyer, alleges that sheriff’s deputy Henry Boyd was working at the 1OAK club in West Hollywood when he let the shooter inside the club. Surveillance video has allegedly corroborated with the assertion that Boyd let the gunman in shortly before shots were fired.

Although he made a full recovery, Knight suspects he was never meant to make it out alive.

Legal documents purport that the shooter confessed to Dre paying him and a friend $50,000 (£35,000) to take Knight’s life. In a bizarre twist – the sheriff’s department then released the shooter from custody.

IBTimes UK has reached out Dr. Dre’s representatives for comment and is awaiting a reply.

Some conspiracies claim that Knight, who ruled Death Row with an iron fist, also has blood on his hands. Long-standing rumours implicate Knight in the murders of Christopher ‘Biggie Smalls’ Wallace (Notorious BIG) and Tupac Shakur (2Pac) during the infamous 1990s East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry.

One of the officers who investigated Shakur’s death, former LAPD detective Russell Poole, suggested that Knight killed the rapper because Shakur wanted to part ways with Death Row.

Allegedly Knight then conspired in the murder of Wallace to divert attention from his hand in Shakur’s murder.

“Suge Knight ordered the hit,” Poole said in a 2001 interview with VH1.

In 2015, vintage footage of Knight emerged of him joking about NWA rapper Eazy-E’s death with the suggestion that injecting someone with HIV is the best murder technique. This led scores of fans to believe Knight murdered Eazy-E, real name Eric Wright, who died aged 31 in 1995 due to complications from HIV and AIDS. Knight is currently on trial for the murder of Terry Carter, and attempted murder of Cle ‘Bone’ Sloan. The deaths resulted from a hit-and-run, following an alleged argument on the set of a trailer for the film Straight Outta Compton.

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ports minister Solomon Dalung has fired a salvo at the president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, saying he should be more guarded about his public utterances.

Dalung was straight up with Pinnick during consultative meeting in Abuja in the wake of Nigeria’s successive failure to qualify for the AFCON. “The minister is no-nonsense, he simply told Pinnick to watch his public utterances, saying he appears to react to everything and everybody and it appears he does not have a spokesperson, who ought to be doing the talking on his behalf,” an official informed AfricanFootball.com “The minister says the frequent utterances by the NFF president have worked against his image and the way he is perceived by the public.”

It would also be recalled Pinnick lost his cool and called Chris Giwa unprintable names when the minister attempted to reconcile the two personalities and their group of loyalists.

On Tuesday, a group of protesters gathered around the venue of the consultative meeting armed with placards demanding Pinnick to step down as the country’s football boss after the Eagles latest failure under his leadership.

Meanwhile, more people are picking holes in the plan of the NFF to hire a foreign coach for the Super Eagles even as Emmanuel Ado, the brother of erstwhile Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, said the football administration in Nigeria was at his lowest ebb in recent times under the current leadership of the Amaju Pinnickled NFF board.

Ado said he would actually rate the past administration of Aminu Maigari far above the Pinnick board who he argues have shown very little to suggest they are competent enough to administer Nigeria football rightly.

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“Maigari had absolute believe in Nigerian coaches and he did his best for them with the resources at his disposal, he never talked down on them like we are seeing now.”

He continued: Incompetent sports administrators wake up and insult the intelligence of Nigerians, like Amaju Pinnick is about doing with his ‘you either allow me hire a foreign coach or I quit’ stance.”

For Ado, having been given the free hand to hire Sunday Oliseh who few months after quit the Eagles job in acrimonious manner, there was no need to allow the NFF go on with another wild goose chase that will only end in heart break for Nigeria football fans.

“Nigeria gave him a free hand to hire Sunday Oliseh and we all know how it ended. Why must we give him the free hand he is asking off to bring in ‘their oyibo’?” Ado queried He added: “A federation that is yet to pay the match bonus for Nigeria – Sudan match, how it can pay an oyibo?

“A Federation that is yet to pay Slyvanus Okpala the balance of his well deserved Court of Sports arbitration judgement sum – how does it hope to pay an oyibo?

“A federation that cannot furnish a building donated to it – how does it hope to pay an oyibo?

“With the billions Amaju Pinnick got as funding- what did he win with Wolves? Yet this is the man running our football. It’s a big shame,” Ado said.

While the NFF is seen as broke and perhaps unable to conveniently pay wages of a top notch expatriate coach, the Federation put up a defence that the salaries for the to-be foreign coach will be entirely shouldered by an unnamed private company sponsor.

Ado said if Nigeria actually needs a world-class foreign coach as the NFF is presently proposing, then it follows that the country should also go for world-class foreign administrators in the same Embattled NFF president Amaju Pinnick vein.

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Banjoko to make history with Handball Premier League – HFN

By Bashir Bello

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anjoko Oil and Gas has agreed to sponsor the National Handball Premier League in a turning point for the development of the game as attracted by the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN).

HFN President, Alhaji Yusuf Dauda expressed this during the media briefing t unveil the 2016 National Handball

Premier League at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium (ABS), Kaduna.

According to him, for almost 10 years, since Malta Guinness stopped sponsoring the Division 1 Championship, handball activities have not being witnessed much in Nigeria.

Dauda praised the CEO of Banjoko Oil and Gas, Alhaji Yakubu Suleiman (Tafidan Tudunwadan Zaria) for agreeing to sponsor handball’s top flight

league in the country, while reminding other corporate organizations willing to sponsor the Division One league not to shy away, as their doors remain open to negotiations.

He explained that a total of 25 teams will feature this season, comprising 13 male and 12 female teams, adding that from next season, it would be trimmed down to 18 teams; 10 male and 8 female.

The HFN President said that this

Nigeria slump to 67th spot in FIFA Rankings

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he downward slide of the Super Eagles on the monthly FIFA rankings continued yesterday as the Nigeria national football team dropped five places to 67th spot on the latest rankings released by the world football governing body.

The Super Eagles, who are three-time African champions, are now sadly ranked 14th on the continent to further drive home the declining trend in football in the country.

As reflected in the April Rankings, Africa’s top 10 are Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Egypt, Cape Verde, Tunisia, DR Congo, Guinea and Congo.

Cameroon, Morocco and Mali are also above Nigeria.

Already out of contention for a place in the 2017

Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the continuous slide by the Eagles is set to even put them even in a tough group as they go all out to make amends with qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

CAF has already announced that the June World Cup qualifiers draws will be based on the rankings of the 20 teams in contention.

The 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament for Africa will begin in October with 20 teams drawn into five groups of four teams each with the overall winners advancing to the final tournament in Russia.

Since making her debut appearance at the USA 1994 FIFA World Cup, Nigeria has only missed out on one edition; featuring in the 1998, 2002, 2010 and 2014 editions.

year’s league would be hosted in Kaduna, where all the teams will test each other’s might in a round-robin fixture.

In his remarks, representative of the sponsors, Abubakar Ahmed said that Banjoko is creating a synergy with HFN to take the game of handball to greater heights.

He explained that everything has been put in place in ensuring that the 2016 league is held successfully.

Musa vows to compensate fans with World Cup ticket

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uper Eagles vice-captain Ahmed Musa has shared his thoughts on the national team’s failure to qualify for the 2017 African Cup of Nations on the heels of the 1-0 loss to Egypt in Alexandria last month.

The CSKA Moscow frontman has stated that the Super Eagles will compensate the fans by qualifying for the World Cup which will hold in Russia in the next two years.

“We have not been able to beat Egypt at home after we conceded!

This is bad, but not terrible. Now Nigeria prepares for the World Cup qualifying tournament,” said Ahmed Musa to sport-express.ru.

“We really want to go to Russia. People ask me about my country, I tell them a lot. It’s a big goal, which we all are attracted.

“Nigerians are very fond of football. Our fans deserve to be pleased with their team.”

Ahmed Musa was named in the starting XI by interim coach Samson Siasia in both games against the North Africans.

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Super Falcons train in Dakar

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uper Falcons had it first training in Senegal yesterday evening; since their arrival to the West Africa country, ahead of the 1st leg of the AWC 2016 qualifier today.

Disclosing this, Team official, Harry Awurimibe said the Coaches had decided to train at the same kick off time in order to acclimatize well.

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Head Coach Florence Omagbemi led 18 players for the qualifiers while Assistant, Perpetua Nwkocha was put in charge of the team’s second batch of players in Abuja.

The team official explained that some players will not play nor return with the team for the reverse fixture April 12th.

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ream Team may open camp for the 2016 Olympics games on Monday, April 11.

Samson Siasia’s team reached the competition having won the 2015 African U23 Championship staged in Senegal, which served as qualifiers.

However, Siasia who led the country team to the football event of the 2008 edition is hoping to get the approval of the sports minister, Solomon Dalung and the Nigeria Football Federation.

“I have been parading the office of the minister of youths and sports Solomon Dalung as well as the Nigeria Football Federation to see the general secretary of the NFF, on this issue. Hopefully we may kick start our camping on Monday next week”, Siasia disclosed.

The Dream Team VI team handler is also hoping his players are released for the competition by their

respective clubs.

“August is when clubs in Europe would commence their leagues and experience has shown over the years that clubs in Europe are always very adamant to release players for Olympics competition,” he continued.

“So if there is no pressure and mutual understanding between these clubs and the Nigeria Football Federation we may be deprived of our best legs in the Olympics.

“That is the reason why I want us to start our preparations now so that we can assemble a better and stronger team than the one that won the Africa U23 championship in Senegal.

“We can’t rely solely on the foreign based players because they might disappoint us if their clubs fail to release them.”

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Balotelli must do more to earn permanent deal —Galliani

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C Milan CEO Adriano Galliani has stressed Mario Balotelli must improve in order to earn a permanent move to the Serie A side.

The 25-year-old joined Milan from Liverpool on a one-year loan deal at the start of the season, but has been unable to make much of an impact at San Siro due to injury.

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“Mario is feeling well,” Galliani said. “He is desperate to stay here at Milan.

“But like I have said before, he does not merit a permanent deal at the moment. We really like Mario, but he has to convince us to earn a permanent deal.”

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(7)Alh.Mudashiru Oloruntogun Yusoof THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE THE COMFORTER CHURCH FOR ALL NATIONS

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1,PASTOR DAISI BANKOLE SANMI, 2,EVANGLIST DAISI TAIWO FLORENCE, 3,DEACON OKUNOLA BAMIDELE, 4,DEACNESS ADEFISAN DEBORAH MOROMOKE, 5,MR AGBOOLA SUNDAY, 6,MR GANIYU KAZEEM BAMIDELE, THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL(THE WORD OF GOD)TO UTMOST END OF THE EARTH. 2,TO TEACH THE UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD IN ITS FULLNESS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

ABIE ATEDOGHU FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Abie Atedoghu Bob-Abbey Hart 2.Mercy Allison-Jibueze 3.Valentine Tamunotonye Atedoghu 4.Rossevelt Tamunoibim 5.Oluwagbeminiyi Ryan-Osoba Aims and Objectives: 1. To touch and change lives in a special way to make life beautiful by providing needed welfare support.

2. To help the needy and less privileged.

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

PUBLIC NOTICE NEWS PAPER VENDORS ASSOCIATION ABUJA

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

Old trustees : 1.Edmond arikpo 2.oyemike endurance, 3.okon udoh , 4.onwe gabriel, 5.mallam awolu sani, 6.adeleke kayode, 7.austine archibong 8.martines owonsishe THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE : 1.OFEM BENSON 2.EFFIONG OKON OKON 3.ONIPE HARUNA AJAYI 4.SANUSI LUKMAN 5.IBRAHIM KHALID 6.FESTUS OMOKHODION THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : RAPHAEL AGAMA ESQ

PUBLIC NOTICE KANO-PEOPLE ADVANCEMENT 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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MUHAMMAD MUNZALI JIBRIL - CHAIRMAN 2. TIJJANI MUHAMMAD LAWI 3.YUSUF MUHAMMAD ADAMU 4.MUHAMMAD AHMAD MAKARFI - SECRETARY 5.MOHAMMED HADI ZAREWA

6.HARUNA UNGOGO 7.MOHAMADU SADISU BUHARI 8.SULEIMAN HALILU IBRAHIM 9.MUSTAPHA ABUBAKAR 10.NASIRU IBRAHIM DANTIYE 11.MOHAMMED TAYYIB MUKHTAR

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONG PEOPLE OF KANO STATE. 2. TO CREATE A CHANNEL OF COORDINATING YOUTH ORGANIZATION IN THE SERVICE OF KANO COMMUNITY. 3.TO FACILITATE AND MOTIVATE THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTHS FOR PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : BARR TAYYIB MUKHTAR EL-TAYYIB & ASSOCIATES (MASALAHA CHAMBERS) NO 8 GWARZO ROAD KANO 08065574010

PUBLIC NOTICE

Rising Global Sports Foundation

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

PUBLIC NOTICE Ari’s Clean Livable and Safe Streets 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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) Oyinkansola Ogundipe (Chairman) (2)Marilyn Ayua (secretary) (3) Omoniyi Adenike Ogundipe (4)Damilola Oluwalase Ogundipe THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.To ensure cleanliness and maintain sanitation standards on the streets of lagos.Dirty streets will be made garbage free through this initiative.

2. To educate and disseminate accurate information on disease prevention and santization methods at a household/grassroots level in order to curb the spread of infectious diseases such as Lassa fever,Ebola etc.

3.To make the streets of lagos livable and safe for pedestrians,reducing traffic and carbon emissions by introducing and encouraging green practices as telecommuting ,car pooling etc.

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

PUBLIC NOTICE INITIATIVE FOR BETTER CHILD NUTRITION AND HEALTH

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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MOHAMMED IBRAHIM ABDULLAHI - CHAIRMAN 2. MANSUR MUHAMMAD - SECRETARY 3.FATIMAH LAILLAH HAQ COOMASSIE 4.FATIMA AMINU IBRAHIM 5.MUSA BALA DOGO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1 . PROMOTION OF HEALTH EATING PATTERN TO REDUCE THE LEVEL OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND INCREASE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES. 2.REDUCING THE GROWING PROBLEM OF HUNGER FACING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 3.CONDUCTION CANCER AWARENESS CAMPING FOR THE PURPOSE OF REDUCING CANCER INCIDENT BY EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND DICTATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : BARR TAYYIB MUKHTAR EL-TAYYIB & ASSOCIATES (MASALAHA CHAMBERS) NO 8 GWARZO ROAD KANO 08065574010

PUBLIC NOTICE WESLEY OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (WOSA) ABUJA BRANCH

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 Barr. Yinka Ogunode.

2. Mrs. Opeyemi Iretiola Ogunode.

3. Mr. Ajayi Babatunde.

4 Folorunso Ademola Samuel.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.AJE OGA OCHOCHE -CHAIRMAN 2.ADA ABECHI 3.ENE IYANA OKWA 4. EJEKELA EHI GIFT - SECRETARY

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : To promote sport men and women, promotion of sport development all over the world, for the welfare of sport men and women.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROTECT THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. 2.TO FOSTER UNITY AND CO-OPERATION AMONG MEMBERS.

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

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY.

PUBLIC NOTICE DIGITAL MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (CAC/IT/NO 70347)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSOCIATION OF CUSTOM AIR FREIGHT AGENTS OF NIGERIA

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INITIATIVE HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 OLD TRUSTEES: 1. ESTHER KELECHI AGBARAKWE 2. BANKOLE OLORUNTOBA 3. DAYO BENJAMIN LANIYI 4. MRS AMAECHI OZURUMBA 5. NNODIM ROSEBLOSSOM OGECHI

-REMOVED -REMOVED -RETAINED -RETAINED -RETAINED

NEW TRUSTEES APPOINTED 1. BABASOLA BAMISE -APPOINTED 2. MODIE OGECHUKWU -APPOINTED 3. ADAMU VICTOR HARUNA -APPOINTED AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE AMENDED TO REFLECT THE CHANGES IN TRUSTEES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE AND AMENDMENT SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. OLUWOLE OLANIPEKUN -CHAIRMAN 2. FATAI SHOBOWALE 3. SUNDAY ADEYEMO 4. KEHINDE AKINTOLA -SECRETARY 5. DOTUN SOBIYE

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

ADEWUNMI OLAJIDE ADETOLA ADEMOLA KINGSLEY OSUJI DESMOND ELLIOT MRS ADEOLA OBANLA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO ASSIST, PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS. 2. TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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PUBLIC NOTICE CHRIST REVIVAL FIRE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. Pastor Steve Paul Edidiong 2. Chikaodili Edidiong Steve 3. Gabriel udo oriuwa 4 . igwe mike chukwudi AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION Signed: BARR. RABO ISHAYA

PUBLIC NOTICE church of nigeria, anglican communion rc no cac\it\12951

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

NEW TRUSTEES ARE 1. most rev. nicholas d. okoh 2. most rev. christian o. efobi 3. most rev. george l. lasebikan 4. most rev. edmund e. akanya 5. most rev. benjamin a. kwashi 6. most rev. caleb maduoma 7. ven. pro. isreal c. okoye 8. most rev. ikechi n. nwosu 9.Most Rev Segun okubadejo OLD TRUSTEES ARE 1. barr. abraham yisa AIM AND OBJECTIVE remain thesame

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PUBLIC NOTICE

WORD OF CHRIST MINISTRY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. APOSTLE ERICONDA AMADI 2. MRS.VIVIAN AMADI 3. EVANGELIST JERRY GABRIEL 4. EVANGELIST NWOSU CHIKE ONYEKACHI AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION Signed: BARR. RABO ISHAYA

PUBLIC NOTICE

DOMINION STAR CLUB OF NIGERIA

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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. collins chijioke nwaiwu (chairman) 2. adimora christian obinna (secretary) 3. jose uche njoku 4.opara chibuike 5. Hycinth Kelechi Chukwuemeka THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.to forster unity amongst MEMBERS. 2.to help the needy and motherless homes.

3.to educate members on skill acquisition programs.

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

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

Signed: barr. chinelo anazodo 08033441339

SIGNED : SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE GREAT PERPETUAL FRIENDS CLUB OF ABUJA

This is to notify the general public that the abovenamed Club has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C.20, LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JAPHETH OHWOBETE 2. OTONYE NIMIEBOKA 3. NZE DANIEL IKECHUKWU 4. ADIMAN FRANCIS ABOIRALOR 5. EJIMOFOR KELECHI ANTHONY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE PROGRESS AND GENERAL WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent Maitama FCT, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: JAPHETE OHWOBETE

PUBLIC NOTICE

DYMAMIC SISTERS ON MISSION INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC NOTICE THE JESUS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE

This is to notify the general public that the above-named Centre has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C.20, LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AJIBOSO OMOWUNMI OLUSEYI 2. THOMAS ABIODUN MENSAH 3. MARY MODUPE MENSAH 4. CLIFFORD EZE ANUMAKA 5. DAVID OLANREWAJU ADELAJA

6. ADEBIMPE ADEDOJA ADELAJA 7. JOSEPH OLUWAROTIMI FASHAKIN 8. GODWIN TAMUNOBARABINYE BANIGO 9. ESTHER ADETOUN OSINUBI

PUBLIC NOTICE

KIDS DOING GREAT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OMOOBA ADEFOLAHAN IBIYEMI 2.MRS. OLAITAN TEMITOPE IBIYEMI 3.MR. ADEGORIOLA ADEGBOLA IBIYEMI THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN LAGOS IN PARTICULAR AND IN NIGERIA AS A WHOLE. 2.TO ESTABLISH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS TOWARDS THE REALIZATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED OBJECTIVE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : UYI WOGHIREN, ESQ. SOLICITOR

PUBLIC NOTICE

NIGERIA EVERY HOME CRUSADE The general public is hereby notified that the above named Ministry has re-constituted its Registered Trustees in accordance with its Constitution and the provisions of the Companies and Allied Matter Act. 1990 as follows: NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES 1. REV. OLANREWAJU DA-SILVA 2. PASTOR DAVID ONYENWE REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES 1. REV. JAMES BOYEJO 2. REV. GABRIEL OLU FAROMBI RECONSTITUTED TRUSTEES 1. REV. OLANREWAJU DA-SILVA 2. PASTOR DAVID ONYENWE 3. REV. (DR.) BISI OREBAYO Any objection therefore should be addressed to the Registrargeneral 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: Omonuwa Ogiemudia Esq. Solicitor

PUBLIC NOTICE ANIOMA VOICE WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION

This is to notify the general public that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, for Amendment of constitution and Change of Trustees under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, LFN 2004.

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKONNE EMMANUEL OKEY – REMOVED 2. ELUNOR CHIBUZOR - REMOVED 3. CHRISTOPHER OFONYE - REMOVED 4. IROROH FRANK - REMOVED 5. FRANK OFILI - RETAINED 6. KPAMIOSE VICTOR OSADEBE - RETAINED 7. SMART MADU AJAJA - RETAINED 8. ENUDI MARCUS CHUKWUNALU - RETAINED

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. EVANGELISM 2. WORKS OF CHARITY AND MERCY

THE NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PRECIOUS NWADIMUYA 2. JOHN AKUGBE 3. TABUGBO UZOMA

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent Maitama FCT, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

THE ENTIRE SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION ARE TO BE AMENDED.

Signed: MARK MAILUMO ESQ 08035909111

PUBLIC NOTICE

TRUFP VINTAGE HOMES OWNERS ASSOCIATION

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

THE 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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANG. (MRS) GOODNESS IHUOMA AKWARANDU 2.WISDOM CHIAZARAN EPHRAIM - SECRETARY 3.FORTUNATE AKUCHINYERE EPHRAIM 4.APOSTLE EPHRAIM OMEONU AKWARANDU

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NDUBUISI ENWEREJI - CHAIRMAN 2. PATRICIA MPIGI - SECRETARY 3.CHRIS ONUBOGU 4.BAYO ADEGOKE 5.RACHAEL OSA OBI

Any objection to the above change should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Maitama Federal Capital Territory, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE PEOPLE AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND OTHER VIOLENCE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. CHIDIEBERE CHIKWE - CHAIRMAN 2. PST. GRACE OLAMA CHIKWE - SECRETARY 3.CAPT (RTD) EDIRAN TESSY KARIRAN 4.EVANG HANNAH YABRIFA

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF TRUFP VINTAGE HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION.

Aims and objectives 1.TO PREVENT AND TO PROTECT VICTIMS OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND OTHER GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. 2.TO MOBILIZE NIGERIA /DIAPORA WOMEN AND MEN TO EFFECTIVELY STOP FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION /CUTTING AND OTHER RELATED VIOLENCE

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

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO TRANSFORM LIVES AND MAKE THEM USEFUL TO MANKIND EXPANDING GOD’S KINGDOM ON EARTH.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Global Power International Church

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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Gabriel Iko-Ojo Matthew- chairman.

2. Matthew Elizabeth Gabriel.

3. Friday Emmanuel Onoja- secretary.

4. Emmanuel Gabriel Fedoje.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To preach and propagate the gospel of our lord Jesus christ.

2. To win souls for the kingdom of God. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED :SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE Soul Restoration Church of Christ THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Akotenyan Matthew Nope - Chairman.

2. Akotenyan Jonah.

3. Akotenyan Micheal.

4. Akotenyan Lous.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. Signed: Popoola Grace. 07030889391.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Salem Education Trust Fund

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Dr Sam Amaga.

2. Dr Love Sam-Amaga.

3. Dr Chris Omeruo.

4. Joyce Sam-Amaga.

5. Isaiah Sam-Amaga.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. For the support of education in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.

2. To support vocational education.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Jesus Christ The King Evangelical Mission

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Jude Chukwukammadu Innocent - President/Founder.

2. Sarah Blosom Nwokpor - secretary.

3. Mark Elendu Ogbara.

4. Olivia Akudo Innocent.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To preach and propagate the gospel of our lord Jesus christ.

2. To win souls for the kingdom of God. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. Signed: Barr. Ebere A. 08034525276.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Lifeline International Rescue Chaplain

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE FAVOUR JOSEPH 2.FAVOUR PATIENCE PROGRESS THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To render help in time of emergences, famine and other disasters that likely affect people and Nations.

2. To minister to military, police, fire personel, retirees and their widows and orphans families.

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

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Alpha Gates Christian Centre

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Onabajo Adelaja Olusegun.

2. Onabajo Alice Favour.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus christ.

2. To win souls for Christ. Signed. Barr. Eucharia Iwule.

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

PUBLIC NOTICE Witty Kids’ Helping Hands Foundation

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mr. Meepetan Abu. 2. Mrs. Henrietta Meepetan Abu. 3. Mr Iroboudu Peter Abu. 4. Barr. Nath Obiokolie.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To empower the orphans and less privileged in the society through educational support.

2. To cater for the widows and the vulnerable.

3. To train, support and empower the youths and women in skill acquisition and agriculture.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED have applied Development HAS APPLIED for change of trusty TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

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 OF 1990.

TRUSTEES1. Tyoakaa Justin Vershima- chairman- Retained.

2. Vershima Eunice Mwuese- Retained.

3. Bur Michael Tarpav (Rev Fr.)- Secretary- Removed.

4. Iber Francis (Rev Fr.)- Retained.

5. Adimegwu Ameachi- Newly appointed.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. ADIBE ISHMAEL OBINWANNE (Chairman) 2. MR. NWOKORO MOSES AMAOBI (Vice Chairman) 3. MR. NWUDE PETER SUNDAY (Secretary); 4.MR. ONUEGBU CYRIL CHUKWUEMEKA (P.R.O) 5. MR. ORAH SUNDAY NESTOR (Treasurer) 6. SIR FELIX IFEANYI IKEH (Ex-Officio)

Aims and Objectives remain the same

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF IT’S MEMBERS AND TO WORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT /PROGRESS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

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

SIGNED: Alisi Ijeoma ESQ. (Solicitor)

Signed.

Mark O. Feese, Esq.

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PUBLIC NOTICE GOSPEL OF FAITH WORD OUTREACH

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR SAMSON BALOGUN -CHAIRMAN 2. PASTOR (MRS.) DEBBY AWEUKE BALOGUN -SECRETARY 3. PASTOR JOHN IRORO OBARO 4. PASTOR SAMSON UBOSHUKUKHIHI OBARO 5. PASTOR JOHN OLUWATIMILEHIN BALOGUN 6.PASTOR OLAWALE OLUSAYO ADETUNJI 7. PASTOR KEHINDE AKINRINOLA FAJEMILEHIN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

PASTOR DAVID IHEJIETO CLIFFORD 2.

PASTOR/MRS. MAUREEN DAVID 3.

PASTOR BENEDICT NWACHUKWU 4.

PASTOR BRIGHT CLIFFORD 5.

DEACON ROMANS OSIGWE 6.

AUGUSTINE CHUKWUEMEKA PRO

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS. 2. TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST ACROSS THE WORLD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATION 2.TO HAVE BIBLE TRAINING CENTER SCHOOL FOR PASTORS 3.TO CONDUCT CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IN CHURCH

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. HASSAN ISHAQ ALABI ......... CHAIRMAN. 2. OJERINDE ZAINAB KOFOWORO ...... SECRETARY. 3. KOMOLAFE HASSAN REMI 4. HASSAN WASIU OLA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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

PUBLIC NOTICE THE KINGS LIBERATION FAITH MINISTRY

ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, COOPERATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGER CRESENT, MAITAMA ABUJA. WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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PUBLIC NOTICE FUTURE SECURE SUPPORT FOR REHABILITATION AND 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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UCHE DOROTHY ONWUKA - CHAIRMAN 2. DR. GOLD AKUDO EMEREONYE - SECRETARY 3.RITA ONWUKA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO SECURE THE FUTURE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN SOCIETY THROUGH EMPOWERMENT IN THE AREA OF SKILL ACQUISITION ADULT EDUCATION AND SELF DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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DESTINY PEOPLE GOSPEL EMBASSY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR GEORGE ESSIEN OKU - CHAIRMAN 2. AKPAT MISSANG NDUMA 3.ELDER EMMANUEL ASUQUO 4.IMA OBONG PAUL 5.PASTOR EXCELLECE OBETEN - SECRETARY THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS. 2.TO EVANGELIZE FOR THE LOSS SOULS. 3.TO PROVIDE CARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE Winning Nations For Christ Ministry

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for the appointment of four new additional Trustees under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990.

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: (1) Pastor Nuhu Saje Adamu (2) Mrs Charity Nuhu.

THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE: To preach the gospel of Jesus christ.

Any objection to the appointment of additional trustees of the Association should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, P.M.B 198, Maitama, Abuja within Twenty-eight (28) days from the day of this publication.

SIGNED: Barr Daniel Machar

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.Rtd asst comm of police, Mr John A.Ambosun- president 2.Rtd asst comm of police, mrs dije Boka-member 3.Mallam Mohammed Mahmoud dauda-chairman 4.Mrs grace Binta dan'azumi-secretary 5.mr Christopher michael-treasurer AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.To bring to the outside world the peace unity and mutual coexistence that cohabit the Barrack youths 2.To be of help to every member in diverse way 3.Promoting the welfare of the members 4.To seek and exploit ways of enhacing growth in every members area of calling or profession ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI I RONSI STREET MAITAMA P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED secretary

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HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOUNDATION

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THE ROCK TRUST FOUNDATION

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR. HASHIM SAIDU - CHAIRMAN 2. ALH. USMAN NDAYAKO (MADAMI NUPE) - MEMBER 3. ALH. ABUBAKAR LUKAT - MEMBER 4. UMAR SAIDU MALAMI - MEMBER 5.BARR. SALEH DANGANA - SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUSEGUN IDOWU - CHAIRMAN 2.OLUSEYE AROWOLO - SECRETARY

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROMOTE HEALTH AWARENESS, DIETING, FITNESS AND RELATION HEALTH. 2. TO ESTABLISH DRUG REHABILITATION CENTERS AND RESORTS. 3. TO AIM AT ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. 4.TO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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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. Chief Chinasa Ifeanyi- chairman.

2. Dr Emma Enyinnia- secretary.

3. Dr Mike Okoro.

4. Barr Hyacienth Ikechukwu Mbachu.

5. Chief Adol Anokwute.

6. Hon. Princess Angela Ayanugo Okwara.

7. Chief Benmoor Nnadiekwe.

8. Chief Iyke Chioma.

9. Don Ohakwe.

10. Greg Nwadike.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE To promote unity among members.

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THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1.TO ESTABLISH AND ADMINISTER PROGRAMS GEARED TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 2. TO INITIATE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS THAT ADD VALUE TO TARGET SEGMENTS OF A POPOLATION. 3.TO ASSOCIATE AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHOSE OBJECTIVES OR PROGRAMS ARE IN TANDEM WITH THAT OF THE FOUNDATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

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COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 2004.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION .Pursuant to Section 458 of the companies and allied matters Act 2004 advertisement of special Resolution of voluntary winding up and Appointment of Albion marine co.ltd rc 635302 in the matter of Albion marine CO LTD in liquidatoin and in the matters of companies and allied matters Act 2004.Notice is hereby given that at a General meeting of members of the said company duly convened at its head office at plot 1106 redemption way Aminu kano way, wuse 11 Abuja fct.date of resolution 5/o4 /200I6The following special resolution was duly passed.

(I) that the company be wound up volutarily. (ii) tha Barr uche E uche o,be appointed for the purposes of winding up and distributing the affairs of the company, Signed.BARR. UCHE E. UCHE O.07035900086

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Messi denies tax evasion

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he family of Lionel Messi denied that he was involved in tax evasion after the Barcelona star emerged as one of many personalities accused of shady offshore dealings in the Panama Papers scandal.

The Messi family wants to make clear that Lionel Messi has not carried out any of the acts attributed to him, and accusations he created a tax evasion plot, including a network of money-laundering, are false and insulting,” it said in a statement.

The scandal erupted on Sunday when media groups made public a year-long worldwide investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm that exposed a tangle of offshore financial dealings by the elite.

Messi and his father are named as owners of a Panama company that had not previously been disclosed during a Spanish probe into their tax affairs.

Ibrahimovic to sue for doping allegations

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ino Raiola siad Zlatan Ibrahimovic will sue for defamation of character after former Swedish athletics coach Ulf Karlsson accused the PSG striker of doping.

Karlsson is reported to have said: “Zlatan put on 10 kilos in six months [earlier in his career].

I think he was doping, that’s how it seems to me.”

Ibrahimovic will make no comment on the allegations but his agent revealed he will look to take legal action.

“There are always people who hate. Maybe [Dr Karlsson] is a former athlete who failed.

Maybe he’s jealous.

“This man has made a big mistake. He will have had a life before this statement, and a life after it. He is spreading falsehoods.

“We had plenty of doping controls [during the alleged period]. Zlatan was tested between 15 and 20 times. He was tested all the time.

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The NAHCON reprieve for Nigerian pilgrims

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very Nigerian who paid to travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a pilgrim under the State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Boards, Commissions or Agencies during the 2015 Hajj can rejoice that part of the payment for the spiritual trip to the Holy Land is getting back to him or her.

The money is refunded for not travelling at all to the Kingdom for some reasons, or for services not rendered to them by the service providers contracted for the purpose by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON).

All service providers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia namely: Air carriers, excess luggage carriers, accommodation providers in Makkah and Madinah, food caterers, transport providers, tent providers, zamzam providers, amongst others are subjected to rigorous screening exercises by the Commission.

Agreements are signed between each service provider and the Commission on behalf of the Nigeria pilgrims and every bit of the contracts is clearly spelt out. NAHCON in most cases writes the contracts to favour the Nigerian pilgrim, thus the yearly refunds to the pilgrims through theirs state boards.

NAHCON has been making refunds to the pilgrims since its establishment in 2006 and first operation as a Commission in 2007, but the 2015 Hajj recorded the highest. Over 1.7 billion naira has been refunded. This does not only portray the highest Islamic spirit of the leadership of the Commission, but also exposes its fiscal frugality, patriotism and efficiency in the management of Hajj affairs. Though unlike other business slogans where the customer is the king, in NAHCON whose vision is to provide efficient and effective service delivery to pilgrims, its slogan is that Nigerian pilgrim should get “Hajj mabrur” with ease. No more Hajj with tears.

The irony in this is that it was a very turbulent Hajj exercise in recent years due to the twin tragedies the exercise witnessed: the crane mishap in the Grand Mosque of Makkah on September 11 and the unprecedented Mina stampede on September 24, a day after Arafat obligations. These two calamities posed a great threat to the smooth operations. Needless to discuss here the efficiency with which NAHCON handled the Nigerian side in terms of prompt information gathering and releases as well as responses to emergencies that erupted throughout the disasters.

Nigerians should appreciate the efforts of the Commission and pray, as always that such does not occur.

Altogether Nigeria recorded six deaths and six injured pilgrims to the crane misfortune, while with recent update on the Mina catastrophe 277 Nigerian pilgrims have been confirmed dead and 32 still term missing. The NAHCON in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in Saudi Arabia is pushing hard on the Saudi authorities to quicken the processing of the DNA analysis. The Commission had in December sent the member representing the Federal

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Abdullahi-Mukhtar-NAHCONMinistry of Health on the Board of the Commission to Saudi with blood samples of nuclear family members of the yet missing pilgrims for the DNA analysis. Technically, the Board member was the Head of the Federal Medical Team during the Hajj and has involved in all the measures mapped out by the Commission to account for all victims of the two unfortunate incidences. We pray to Allah to accept the souls of the departed Nigerian pilgrims, as well as those of other nationalities from these natural or manmade accidents. We also pray to Allah to grant quick recovery to all the injured pilgrims and to grant the leadership of the Commission the strength and wisdom to continue to protect the interest of the Nigerian pilgrims.

From the above, it is to be noted that the deceased pilgrims have more money to be refunded for services not rendered. Victims of the crane mishaps have been promised some compensations by the Saudi King but yet to be redeemed. One million Saudi Riyals are for each dead and permanent disability, five hundred thousand Riyals for serious curable injuries.

However, to the best of our knowledge, no compensation has been promised by anybody for the Mina stampede.

The Commission has reiterated its readiness to utilize all legal means in ensuring that the compensations of the crane crash victims reach the next of kin of the affected victims once the Saudi government releases them.

As for the 1.7 billion naira, the Commission has set up an internal mechanism that will ensure that the refunds reach the pilgrims. Zonal commissioners and coordinators of the Commission are to be involved.

State Boards, which may not need charge pilgrims for this service, are to provide evidences to NAHCON of actual refunds to each pilgrim. The Commission has produced jingles in all the main Nigerian languages run on national stations to enlighten the pilgrims on how to get their refunds.

Even if the pilgrim could not come for the refunds – because a large chunk of them are often from the rural areas and quite unread – it is the duty of the state boards to find them or their next of kin through their telephone numbers or guarantors. The end is that the money should reach its legitimate owner.

According to the chairman of NAHCON, Barr. Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad, the Commission is in line with the federal government anticorruption crusade, thus it has resolved to ensure that every kobo paid by the Nigerian pilgrim is accounted for, either by full provision of paid services or refunds to the pilgrim after every Hajj. He reiterated this stand when NAHCON met with State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Boards, while receiving recently the Muslim Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria, the Muslim Corpers Association of Nigeria (MCAN) and the Kaduna branch of National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the Board room of the Commission.

Barr. Muhammad insisted in one of the courtesy calls he granted his visitors that state boards have been directed to employ all possible means to refund the pilgrims in good time, even as he maintained that the Commission will not hesitate to sanction failure to comply with the directive, at least to the extent that the NAHCON (Establishment) Act permits.

Other government organs saddled with the responsibilities of enforcement, he averred, will be involved.

Sources from where the huge refunds were mopped up included meals that were not served to some pilgrims to and from the King AbdulAziz International Airport, Jeddah and Prince Muhammad bn AbdulAziz International Airport, Madinah.

Caterers were contracted to provide packaged meals for each pilgrim on the arrival and departure points of both airports. But some pilgrims were not served either because they arrived the airport late and began the screening processes immediately or that NAHCON compelled airliners to take pilgrims to hotels when they had spent the minimum stay of six hours without being airlifted.

There were also meals not served and bedding facilities not provided at the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifat. Meals that were not provided to some pilgrims while in their accommodations in Makkah and Madinah, deposits made by every pilgrim as guarantee to the Saudi Ministry of Hajj among others accounted for the refunds. Pilgrims who could not travel are refunded almost all their money including that for air-ticket.

While in Saudi, NAHCON

constitutes several committees to liaise with the state boards and service providers. These service shortfalls are identified by NAHCON officials in collaboration with the state boards.

Forms are endorsed by NAHCON and the service providers on the spot after each service is confirmed to be satisfactory rendered. Then after reconciliation at the end of every Hajj rite, NAHCON pays for the services provided and keeps the left money for onward refunds to the pilgrim on arrival back to Nigeria. In addition to this measure, NAHCON has gone further to create what is called Performance Status Report (PSR) which must be filled by each state pilgrims’ welfare board, agency or commission and returned to the Commission immediately after the Hajj activities.

The PSR requires the Hajj administrators, on behalf of their pilgrims, to assess all the service providers and identify shortfalls.

It provided the Commission all the necessary information which enables it to carry out the reconciliation processes with the service providers, thereby sorting out those services that could not be provided, even if to a single pilgrim.

In conclusion, it is very necessary to mention that the good legacy left behind by the immediate past Chairman of the Commission, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello currently the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, is being jealously upheld by the Commission led by Barr. Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad. The current leadership has vowed to sustain the great achievements bequeathed it by the past administration and in line with the philosophy of Mr. President in transforming all sectors the Nigerian economy, make Hajj trips easier, more spiritually uplifting and more economically rewarding for the Nigerian pilgrims.

Muhammad Ajah a writer, researcher, is reachable on e-mail: mobahawwah@yahoo. co.uk

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