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L-R: Chief of Air Staff, Air ViceMarshal Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Ibok Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-General Tukur Buratai, and Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, after their decoration with new ranks

by President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

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oved by incessant killings arising from communal clashes, the Plateau state government yesterday announced the imposition of a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas.

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CONTENTS Buhari to Service Chiefs: End Boko Haram in 3 months News 2-11 Editorial 13 Op.Ed 14 Letters 15 Politics 16-18 Business 19-22 Stockwatch 23 S/Report 24-25 Int’l 27-30

By Lawrence Olaoye

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resident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed Service Chiefs to end Boko Haram insurgency in three months.

President Buhari gave the directive while swearing them in at the Presidential Villa on Thursday.

He reminded them of the impending task of stopping the Boko Haram insurgents saying “You are all aware of the various security challenges facing our ation. These challenges include the activities of Boko Haram terrorists, armed banditry, kidnapping, militancy of various forms to mention a few.

“The activities of these misguided groups and individuals have resulted in wanton destruction of lives and properties of our citizens as a disruption of social economic lives of millions of Nigerians. The increasing incidence of attacks, destructions, perpetrated by these insurgents have led to the deployment of various

instruments of national power in bid to contain their activities and restoring law and order in every part of the country.

“Rightly the armed forces have been in the vanguard of the fight against terrorism.

While commending the efforts of the armed forces so far, you need to brace up and continue to team up with other stakeholders to come up with a well coordinated joint effort which will bring a desired end to hese insurgencies within three months.”

He reminded that that he had been to several countries in his administration’s efforts to eradicate terrorism in the country including the establishment of the MNJTF. He also charged the newly appointed service chiefs in the country to be accountable for the men and equipments under their commands and ensure that the morale of the men is always at the peak.

The President who gave the charge also told the service men that the welfare of their troops

should be uppermost in their minds.

Buhari said “In the course of carrying out this assignment you must be accountable for all men and equipment placed under your command. Your troops welfare must be uppermost in your mind, take care of them and make available what is due to them.

Concerted efforts should also be made to make judicious use of resources that are available to you in search for solution to these challenges. On our own part we shall be ready to give you the needed resources to achieve this feat.”

He charged the servicemen to re professionalize and ensure that they provide their troops all required trainings just as he urged them to be ready to compliment the efforts of the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the North eastern part of the country.

Buhari reiterated that the appointment of the service chiefs was based primarily on

merit even as he expressed the confidence that they have the required capacity to deliver on their mandates.

In a separate interaction with State House Correspondent, the Chief of Defence Staff said “We are already strategizing on how to handle most of the challenges since we were appointed a month ago.

And all these strategies we are beginning to put them in place, so we just put in more efforts to ensure that we achieve the desire of the President.”

On whether three months were enough to crush Boko Haram, he said “the President has given a presidential directive.”

Those sworn-in yesterday after being decorated with their new ranks include General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin as Chief of Defence Staff; Lt. General T.Y. Buratai as Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral IbokEte Ekwe Ibas as Chief of Naval Staff and Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff.

hostilities, took up arms against each other early this week. The situation is said to be escalating.

A statement signed by Mr Rufus Bature, the Secretary to the State Government on Thursday said that, ``the curfew starts 6 p.m. and ends at

6 a.m.,’’ It said that enough security personnel would be deployed to protect life and property, and cautioned against actions that could worsen the security situation in the area.

The Special Task Force, STF,

in charge of security in Plateau has confirmed that many have been killed in the past few days, said it is on top of the situation.

The STF said that its personnel had been deployed to affected areas to restore law and order.

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Reps query non-implementation of 2015 budget

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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ouse of Representatives yesterday resolved to setup an Adhoc Committee to investigate the extent of implementation of the 2015 capital projects as enacted into law in the 2015 appropriations act.

This resolve emanated from a motion raised as an order of privilege by Hon. Patrick Asadu seeking to investigate the extent to which the 2015 budget had been implemented and its effects on the nation’s economy.

In a motion entitled “NonImplementation of Capital Projects as Contained in the 2015 Appropriation Act; Federal Government Budget and Serial Breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act by the Federal Ministry of Finance and Threats to my Effective Representation of my Constituents” noted that the 1999 constitution, sections 80-83 clearly stipulates how monies belonging to the federal Republic of Nigeria can be kept and spent and clearly vests in the National Assembly the powers to appropriate monies for expenditure by government.

“By sections 81 and 82 of the 1999 constitution as amended, the

Federal Government expenditures must be either as direct charges on the constitution, as contained in the Appropriation Act or supplementary Appropriation Acr where applicable or as may be specifically prescribed by the National Assembly, while section 30(1) of the Fiscal Responsibility Act clearly mandates the Hon. Minister of Finance through the Budget Office to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the annual budget, and assess the attainment of fiscal targets and report thereon on a quarterly basis to the Joint Finance Committee of the National Assembly and to also publish same in the mass and electronic media not later than 30 days after the end of each quarter of the financial year”.

“Since there has not being any constitutional amendment adjusting the financial year by the National Assembly nor has any public been made by the Ministry of Finance in any mass and electronic media on the implementation of the budget and attainment of fiscal targets, “ he said.

House Leader, Rep Femi Gbajabiamila (APC Lagos), in a point of order challenged the motion saying that the President has a period of 3 months before information on budget

implementation can be made available urging the House to suspend the motion and give the President time.

Rep Leo Ogor, House minority leader further challenged Gbajabiamila saying that he should have allowed the sponsor of the motion to advance his argument before seeking leave of the Speaker who would still allot time for arguments “for” and “against”.

Ogor’s point of order was sustained by the Speaker. He therefore submitted that the motion was in order and in line with the Fiscal Responsibility Act as cited by the House Leader.

On his part, Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Suleiman Lasun said the debate has some historical precedents and methods of handling such scenarios.

In Lasun’s argument, he said that the the motion may have been under-estimated by members as it goes beyond budget implementation.

He said that the motion sought to deal with the entirety of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the scope of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework as well as examining the way budgets have been implemented with regards to releases and project roll-overs from the previous to the present

Fiscal year.

The Deputy Speaker explained that budget implementation by the previous PDP-led governments since 2011 had never achieved up to 50percent budget implementation just as he added that budget performance in 2014 was even worse in areas of the capital allocations.

He urged members to take a second look at the requirements of the motion and apply the same method adopted by the 7th Assembly where a retreat had to be called for the purpose of studying the scenario of budget implementation to be able to take an informed position.

According to him, if that method was adopted the House would have to take seriously the issues of monitoring and oversight on the level of implementation and compliance.

The Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara intervened saying that the prayer of the motion if granted would take care of the modalities necessary for required actions adding that the House has official mechanisms of obtaining necessary information from MDAs without difficulty.

The motion however passed amidst controversy it was generating amongst members of the House.

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aving carried out rotary wing flight operation in Nigeria for sixty years in Nigeria, first civilian helicopter transport company to work in the oil and gas industry, Bristow yesterday confirmed the crash of its helicopter even as it said investigations has commenced into the cause of the crash.

Two missing bodies of the pilot and co- pilot were yesterday recovered when rescue operations began on Thursday morning at the crash site in Owonroshoki area of the Lagos lagoon.

Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NAMA) the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA) alongside local divers in the area

Bodies of crashed helicopter pilots recovered

helped combed the depth of the lagoon for the missing victims before they were discovered.

The company also confirmed six survivors and six fatalities with an American among the dead.

American company said it is mobilising full resources of incident response team and committed to providing assistance to family members while also fully cooperating with Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Federal Airports Authority

of Nigeria and Police.

Furthermore it said “Bristow personnel are currently working to confirm the number of people on board, their identities and the extent of any injuries. Bristow will continue to release additional information as soon as it is confirmed.

Also, LASEMA confirmed that four male bodies were recovered and six victims rescued.

At the Gbagada General Hospital, hospital authority said

four of the rescued victims were in stable condition and responding to treatment, another two receiving treatment at a private hospital in Oworonsoki, where the accident occurred.

The survivors include Solomon Ude, Joshua Emekema, Chukwudi Onah, Dolu Epiejura, Ononode Ojeite and Iniala Opaimi” “Our thoughts are with those affected by this accident and we are committing our full resources to

help.” Bristow’s Regional Director for Africa, Duncan Moore told reporters in an electronic email.

“The aircraft, a Sikorsky S-76C+ was returning from a drilling rig off shore. Preliminary information indicates that the aircraft carried 10 passengers and a crew of two, subject to confirmation.

The company said it is in the process of collecting pertinent information and will release more details as soon as it is available.

Senate okays Oshiomhole’s N14.7b World Bank loan request

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (middle), Moderator, Synod of the North , the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Rev. Ini Ukpuho (3rd left), Senator Ita Enang (3rd right), and other members of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria during their visit to the vice-president, yesterday in Abuja.

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NICA President calls on Indonesia to relax visa regime

By A’isha Biola Raji

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he President of NigeriaIndonesia Commercial Association, NICA, Dr. Ken Giami has called on the President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, to relax the country’s Visa regime, which has continued to serve as impediment to economic growth between Nigerian businesses and their Indonesian counterpart.

Giami made the call while receiving the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, His

Excellency, Harry Purwanto, who paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Abuja, Nigeria.

Speaking during the meeting, Giami maintained that Indonesia is in a place to play a big brotherly role to Nigeria, noting that they both share a lot of similarities.

In his words: “Indonesia has fought terrorism to a standstill, while Nigeria is currently doing same; Indonesia has a large population and market for goods, Nigeria has same.”

He however added that the

stringent visa requirements for businessmen travelling from Nigeria to Indonesia, has remained one of the major albatross to the increase in trade and commercial activities between both countries, as genuine businessmen and women willing to patronize Indonesian products due to quality are denied entry into the country, due to these stringent requirements.

He therefore called on the Ambassador to intervene and ensure that

something is done to correct the anomaly.

The Ambassador in his response thanked Giami for his efforts towards promoting Nigeria and Indonesia trade relations over the last few years, while assuring him that Jakarta is happy with the progress that the organization is making under his leadership. He also reiterated his commitment towards supporting any initiative that would promote the growth of trade and economic activities between both countries.

he Senate has approved the request for a N14.7 billion loan from the World Bank by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole.Recall that President Mohammadu Buhari, had in a letter to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Urged the Senate to approve for the Edo State government, a World Bank credit facility of $75million ( N14.7billion ).

This was sequel to adoption of the report of the Kabiru Gaya led Senate Ad- Hoc Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, which was set up to examine the propriety or otherwise of this request last week.

Adopting the report of the committee, the Senate noted that the approval was in recognition of the fact that the loan request was part of N44.1billion ($225million) total credit facility for the state which the Upper çhamber had already approved in 2012.

Chairman of the Senate ad hoc committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya ( APC Kano South) while presenting the report to the Senate, said “Funds from the loan facility will be used to finance key programmes of the state to stimulate internally generated revenue, develop key infrastructure that will attract private investment and of course increase employment opportunities.

FG contracts KPMG, PwC for forensic audit of revenue agencies

By Lawrence Olaoye

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he Federal Government has contracted two notable audit firms, KPMG and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) to conduct forensic audit of all revenue collecting agencies in the country.

This disclosure was made yesterday at a briefing by the committee of five governors empanelled by the National Economic Council (NEC) to probe the management of Excess Crude Account (ECA) under the administration of former

President Goodluck Jonathan.

Those members of the ECA probe panel are the governors of Akwa Ibom, Emmanuel Udom, Edo, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Gombe, Ibrahim Dankwambo, Kaduna Nasir elRufai and Lagos, Akinwumi Ambode.

Edo state governor, who spoke on behalf of the committee, said members realized the technicalities involved in their assignments and resolved to hire professionals in order to do a thorough job.

According to him, the

panel had met with all revenue generating agencies including the NNPC, FIRS, NIMASA, CBN, DPR, Finance, AGF, and Customs amongst others.

Oshiomhole said the panel engaged the representatives of all the revenue generating agencies in order to hear them out on their remittances into the federation accounts.

Oshiomhole said, “We have listened to some and will still listen to the remaining one.

We need a professional approach.

We have decided to hire two

audit firms, KPMG and PwC to carry out the audit of all the agencies and government will decide what to do.

“We are doing this because we are sitting governors. The interaction has been quite interesting. We have heard from them and they understand what the issues are. Many of them are new by virtue of the recent changes.

“We are convinced that the audit firms will do a professional job and help the government.”

He said that considering the enormity of the task before the

audit firms, they were not given any time frame to submit their reports.

The Edo state governor however said they have been charged to discharge their assignments as quickly as possible.

Asked what becomes of the reports initially submitted to former President Jonathan by the PwC, Oshiomhole explained that the probe then was limited to the NNPC. He added that certain agencies like the CBN and NPDC refused to cooperate with the PwC.

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News Lagos farmers tasked to register co-operative societies, unions

By Usman Shuaibu

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he national co-ordinator of Agro-allied CSP Nigeria limited, Prof. Queen Victoria Abike Adesuyi, has called on the farmers as well as business

moguls at Badagry in Lagos state to deem it necessary to register their co-operative societies as well as unions with the state ministry of commerce, industry and tourism to enable them to obtain the certificates/bye laws of

their cooperatives or organizations there.

She also urged the farmers to register their co-operative groups/ unions limited with Nigeria Export Promotion Council, as according to her, the Agro-allied CSP ventures

is highly insured, guaranteed and it partners with the presidency in revamping of our National Economy in all ramifications.

Adesuyi, who made the call while presenting a speech during the sensitization programme of

FMC Yola inaugurates committee on free medical services fund From Umar Dankano, Yola

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he management of Federal Medical Center (FMC) Yola has inaugurated Paupers Fund Committee with a sole aim of providing free medical services to prospective indigenous patients in the state.

Chief Medical Director of the center, Professor Muhammad Auwwal Abubakar speaking during the inauguration, said

that the measure is a flat form intended to accord indigenes on emergency cases to have access to free medication whenever the need arises.

He noted that the amount being dispensed in taking care of the medical bills of indigent patients has been eating deep into the lean finances of the hospital making other vital services to be affected.

Abubakar added that the

paupers fund committee which is manned by senior and respected members of the society will aid the hospital source for funds from well-meaning members of the society in order to take care of the less privileged ones who may not have enough funds to take care of their medical expenses.

He appealed to well-meaning members of the society to support the committee in order to salvage the needs of the less

privileged as he noted that sometimes some of the indigent patients find it even difficult to purchase drugs that cost as low as N500.

In his remark, the newly inaugurated chairman of the Paupers Funds Committee, Alhaji Sulaiman Abdullahi promised to do his best to discharge their assigned responsibilities as their contributions to alleviate the sufferings of indigent patients.

Reps move to restore ban on exportation of Agric produce with EU

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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he House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committees on Commerce and Agriculture (when constituted) to liaise with relevant stakeholders to work on resolving the issues and concerns raised by the European Union Food Safety Authority in other to bring an end to the ban on Nigeria’s agricultural produce.

The House also mandated the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the National

Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ensure that food produce are well processed in order to meet the standards of the European Union before export.

In a motion entitled “need to investigate the ban of exportation of some Nigeria’s food items by the European Union” sponsored

by Hon. Jerry Alagbaoso noted that European Food Safety Authority had said that some of the food items contain high level of pesticides while others were suspected of lacking proper

storage.

“The EU authorities had previously warned the Nigerian authorities that the banned items are hazardous and had issued about 50 notifications to relevant Nigerian authorities since 2013.

“The Director - General of NAFDAC had blamed the exporters of those products of being responsible for the ban due to their non - compliance with regulatory requirements for semi - processed and processed commodities, “he said The law maker worried

that the impact of the ban will negatively affect income of the farmers of those products and the middle men who trade on them as well as the foreign exchange that accrues to Nigeria through those exports.

He added that this is happening in a period when the Federal Government is working on diversifying the economy from oil based to agro based.

The motion was agreed on by the House which was presided over by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.

L-R: Delta Commissioner for Environment, Mr. John Nani, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Nana Fatima, Director-General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, Mr. Moses Beckley, and Benue state Commissioner for Water Resources and environment, during a news conference on 2015 floods agenda, yesterday in Abuja.

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Flood: Delta govt advises coastal residents to relocate to safer places From Osakhare Erese, Asaba

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esidents of the coastal line in Delta state have been called upon to start making plans on how to relocate to safer places to avoid being enveloped by the impending flood to be occasioned by the gradual release of excess water from the Lagdo dam in

Cameroon.

The Delta State Deputy Governor, Barr Kingsley Otuaro was reacting to the warning raised by the Federal Government about the impending flood that will be witnessed across the country especially in coastal line states like Delta.

Otuaro, who spoke through

his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mrs. Doris Warri-Aboh, said relocation was apt to avoid recording high level of casualty when the flood sets in, emphasizing that the state was able to evacuate people to internally displaced camps in 2012 He said the state government was not ready to lose a single soul to the flood; hence

the need for people to be at alert, especially esidents of areas affected by the flood of 2012.

While expressing worry with the way some people had erected structures on waterways and canals, thereby blocking the water from flowing into its route, he pointed out that the outburst of flood may have severe consequences.

the farmers at Badagry, said that if the farmers registered their cooperatives, it would enable them to secure the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) loan of N220 billion of the Federal Government.

According to her, out of these N220 billion the Federal Government has granted the request of the Agro-allied CSP Nigeria limited of the Agroallied Commodities Cooperatives Entrepreneurship Multi-purpose Societies and Unions Limited in the six geo-political zones (N50 billion). She advised the farmers as well as other business men to open their account for the disbursement of the loan with the screened micro finance banks as was redirected by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the Agro-allied CSP Nigeria Limited.

NGO donates block of classrooms to Kwara village From Olanrewaju Lawal,Ilorin

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he ActionAid Nigeria, a Non-Governmental Agency has handed over constructed classrooms along other learning facilities to Tungan Maje ,a village in Kaiama local government area of Kwara state.

The NGO’s gesture was part of its Strengthening Women Empowerment to Deepen Girls’ Education (SWEDGE) programme in the area.

The classrooms comprises of head teacher’s office, separate toilets for male and female pupils, a furnished library, a hand-pump borehole and play sets among others.

The donation by the ActionAid was in partnership with the Kwara state, Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the wife of the Kwara Governor, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed said that the step would endear an unprecedented development in education sector in the area.

The Governor’s Wife, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB), Mallam Musa Dazuki said the thrust of public-private partnership in developing education in the state was working.

He said that, “no government can single-handedly finance education. I believe it is in this spirit that the Actionaid has embarked on the project.

“I commend the gesture of the ActionAid and urge other NGOs that wish to carry out impactful social service to see the state as a safe haven”,.

She urged residents of the community to take ownership of the property by guarding and protecting it from destruction.”

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54% pass English, Maths in NABTEB examinations

From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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he National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), on Thursday, announced the release of the May/June 2015 National Business Certificate (NBC) and National Technical Certificate (NTC) Examinations.

A total of 75,468 candidates sat for the examinations, according to

the Registrar/Chief Executive of NABTEB, Dr. Olatunji Aworanti who disclosed this at a news conference yesterday at the National headquarters of the Examinations on Benin.

Aworanti said 40,821 candidates scored five credits and above including English and Mathematics, representing 54.09 percentage passes, while, 53,016 (70.25%) candidates had

five credits and above, with or without English Language and Mathematics.

The Registrar said a total of 1, 435 (1.9) candidates were involved in 2,079 incidences of examinations malpractice during the examinations which 76,821 candidates enrolled for.

He called for the establishment of Federal/State Technical Colleges across the 774 Local

Government Areas in the country as proposed by the National Council on Education.

He decried the lukewarm attitude of the Nigerian public towards Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET), and suggested aggressive sensitization of (TVET) to be adopted as model for sustaining development though advanced strategy.

A breakdown of the results

Oba Sijuwade’s legacies will endure for generations – Atiku

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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ormer Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the deceased Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse (II) as a traditional ruler whose lofty legacies on the thrown will endure for generations.

The former Vice President, who is also the Aare Adimula of the Source said in a condolence message released by his media

office in Abuja yesterday that Oba Sijuwade’s reign was epochal and in a class of its own.

“Oba Sijuwade’s 35 years reign on the royal stool of Ife is unquestionably a source of pride to every Yoruba son and daughter and everyone who cherishes the culture and tradition of the Yoruba people,” the Turaki Adamawa said.

According to him, “Oba Sijuwade’s wealth of experience in the corporate world, his wisdom

and the royal candour he exuded combined with the historical preeminence of his stool made his reign a defining one as we knew it to be.

“His lofty legacies as the Ooni of Ife will endure for several generations after him. His depth in the richness of Yoruba’s culture and tradition will also remain a source of attraction not only for admirers of Yoruba ethos, but for scholars with bias for African cultures and

royalties.”

The former Vice President also acknowledged that the demise of the Ooni of Ife is a loss not only to the royal family, people and government of Osun State, but Nigeria as a whole.

He prayed for the royal family to have the fortitude to bear the loss of the outstanding Oba (ti o wo’aja) who has gone to meet his ancestors and for peace to continue to reign in Ile-Ife.

Vice Chancellor, Modibbo Adama University OF Technology, Professor Kyari Mohammed (right), addressing a news conference on activities for the 18th, 19th and 20th convocation ceremony of the university, yesterday in Yola.

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Group hails FRCN boss

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna

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he Hope Alliance for Credible Democracy in Nigeria HACDN has lauded the efforts of the Director General Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria FRCN, Mallam Ladan Salihu in steering the affairs of the premier radio station in Nigeria, describing his resolve to improving the professionalism of FRCN and guaranteeing it’s sustainability in the digital era broadcasting as outstanding and worthy of emulation.

In a press statement issued in Abuja on Friday and signed by the National Coordinator of

the Alliance Alhaji Muhammadu Ibrahim and Secretary General Dr. Polycarp Obi. The Alliance stated that FRCN under Ladan Salihu has witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in its news content and service delivery, adding Radio Nigeria should be praised for its professional coverage of the just concluded election by all Nigerians.

It stated that viewing the FRCN right from when Salihu took over as its Chief executive , we came to the conclusion that he has indeed built a radio station that is wholly professional and predicated on the platform of Knowledge, experience and excellence.

The statement further noted

that, the importance of radio in any society can never be over emphasized and the undeniable race for radio coverage by politicians in local and national radio stations reaches its peak during electioneering campaigns, as such a lot of things happen during these periods.

“We are conscious of the expectation of Nigerians before, during and after the last general elections, and we are familiar with what FRCN did at that time, we are therefore in a better position to state that the federal radio station played a key role in the stabilization of the country as anything contrary would have been disastrous for the

nation”.

The Alliance noted with enthusiasm the giant strides recorded by the leadership of FRCN under Salihu among which are improving the revenue base of the radio station, sustaining capacity building for its ranks and files as well as opening of more frequency modulated stations across the length and breadth of the country all in a bid to ensure Nigerians get the best of news at all times.

The Director General of FRCN is a thoroughbred professional who knows his onion, he rose from the ranks to attain his present position as such campaigns of calumny and frivolous petitions against him would not stand the test of time.

The Alliance also recalled that during the 2015 General elections

indicate that 19, 000 candidates representing 25.18% were certified as craftsmen, just as 15,848 (21%) sat for Engineering Trades.

Construction Trades had 1,710 (2.27%), while, Business Trade recorded a total of16,818 candidates, representing 22.29% in the examinations conducted across 1590 centres nationwide between Monday 4th May and Friday 5th June 2015.

Operation Lafiya Dole: Nigerian Airforce deploys more combat aircraft to N/east

By Mashe Umaru Gwmna

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n a renewed drive to crush the fighting will of the Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) group, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed additional combat platforms to North East in support of the ongoing counterinsurgency operation codenamed ‘OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE’.

The new deployment came on the heel of the recent visit of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq B. Abubakar to the operational areas. The newly deployed platforms include the F-7Ni fighter aircraft, Mi24/35 attack helicopters, Agusta 109 LUH, Supa Puma Combat Support helicopter and ATR42 surveillance aircraft which hitherto had been away for scheduled maintenance.

A statement by Air Commodore Dele Alonge, Director of Public Relations & Information Nigerian Air Force on Thursday said that the e provision of additional platforms in the North-East is in line with President Mohammadu Buhari’s mandate to bring an end to insurgency in the North-East.

The new deployment is aimed at boosting existing military efforts to defeat the Boko Haram Terrorists. It is also expected to enhance the capability of the Nigerian Armed Forces to fight in a more proactive and efficient manner.

the DG Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria FRCN stood his ground and rejected several commercial scripts targeted at the person of the President Muhammadu Buhari as he believes most of those scripts were against the ethics of the profession.

The likes of Ladan Salihu are really the Ambassadors of change noted the statement, and Alliance believed the FRCN boss would be a great asset to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

With his intimate knowledge of broadcasting, long service record, deep industry connections, and the respect of the authorities, the Alliance therefore passed a vote of confidence on the Director General FRCN and urged him to continue rendering his selfless service to his fatherland.

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Gov Okowa meets Buhari, wants Escravos basin dredged

By Lawrence Olaoye

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elta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and requested that the Escravos basin be dredged to allow bigger vessels to berth at the Warri port.

The Delta state governor, who spoke with newsmen after the meeting, stressed that with the resumption of activities at the Warri Refinery, there would be need to expand the port facilities to serve as the hub for the South-south, Southeast and North-central regions.

He also told the President on the need to continue the Gas City project

in Ogidigben in his state.

Okowa equally told Buhari the need to intensify efforts in the construction of the Second Niger Bridge.

He said “We came to thank Mr. President for the appointment of the GMD of NNPC. Mr. Ibe Kachikwu who you know is from Delta State even if you know he got that appointment by merit he is still a Deltan. And we thought we should appreciate that.

“Then beyond that, we are all aware of the Gas City Project in Delta State at Ogidigben, in the excravous and we thought that we needed to bring it to the knowledge of Mr. President that that project, which is

a public private partnership (PPP) project, is something that would create a lot of jobs for Nigerians and thought that there was the need for that project to be given some strength and we believe it is in the interest of Nigeria and Delta state that that project t is carried out.

“Beyond that too, you are also aware that the Warri Port has come alive and even with the refinery that has started, the Port activity has improved, but there is a problem because of the excravous basin.

The centation that has been going on for some years. It is quite some problem, and because of that, we have a low drought. We believe that the dredging of the excravos

bar would help to improve the port activities and improve the size of cargos that come to the Warri port and Warri port is very personal to the rest of the South-South, the South East and the North Central and we think that it will turn to an economic hub, if we are able to dredge the excravos bar.

“We also reminded Mr. President about the second Niger bridge which is also another PPP arrangement and the need for the federal government to ensure that, that PPP arrangement is strengthened.

Though work is currently ongoing but we needed to ensure that it is brought to the knowledge if Mr. President, and he has told us that

he is receiving information about that and we hope that activities in the field of the second Niger bridge is heightened in the next few weeks.

“There is also an intersection of road between Benin through Asaba to Onitsha, by Igbuzu road. It is quite problematic for us. Sometimes you can experience traffic gridlock in that place; sometimes, you find out that the accident rate on that road is much and we thought too that the best way forward is to have an interchange at the point and being a federal government road, we do need to seek for Presidential approval even if it may have to be at our own cost and that was brought to the attention of Mr. President.”

Foundation donates support items to disable in kebbi From Ahmed Idris Birnin Kebbi

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he Beautiful Gate Handicap People Center Foundation in collaboration with the Joint National Association of Persons with Disability, Kebbi State chapter have donated 50 tricycles, 15 clutches and 5 walkers to the state disable persons across the 21 local governments.

Presenting the items yesterday at the premises of the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the chairman of the foundation, Mr. Emeka Okafor said that the gesture is to assist the disable people in order for them to continue with their western education.

He said that the gesture would reach all northern states in the country while kebbi state is the first state that benefited from the exercise.

The chairman of the foundation further explained that the foundation was based in Jos, Pleatue State with aim of assisting the disabled people and less privileged, adding that over 80 percent of polio survival and people with disabilities have benefited so far in some part of the north.

Speaking earlier, the representative of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs, Executive Secretary Security Welfare Fund, Mohammed Nasiru Sheahu thanked the foundation while urging the beneficiaries to use the items judiciously.

Also in his remarks, the State Chairman Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities, Abdulahi Aliyu Usman expressed satisfaction over the donation, admonished its member not to use it for begging but for purposes such as education and any hand work.

Security and rescue team, with two more bodies recovered from the Lagoon where an helicopter crashed at Oworoshoki, yesterday in Lagos.

Photo: NAN

Customs seizes N50m Indian hemp in Kebbi

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he Nigeria Customs Service, Sokoto/ Kebbi/ Zamfara Area Command, on Thursday announced the seizure of Indian hemp and other contraband valued over N50 million.

The Controller, Mr Muhammad Kabir, who made the announcement at a news conference on Thursday in

Sokoto, said all the items were seized at the Kamba border post in Kebbi.

He listed the goods to include 250 parcels of compressed and processed Indian hemp, 598 cartons of mosquitoes coils, eighteen bales of sports wears, 396 cartons of nescafe and other prohibited items.

Kabir stated further that

an articulated vehicle with registration number, XR 911 MUSHIN, LAGOS, was impounded.

“Two other suspects, the driver and one other person, are also in our custody and we will dig further to get the real owners of the seized goods.

“This feat was recorded sequel to serious intelligence

gathering and surveillance, coupled with inter-agency synergy.’’

He asured that the command would continue to protect Nig e ria’ s bord e rs u n d e r it , Nigeria becomes ``smugglingfree and a better country for all’’ in line with the vision of the new administration under President Muhammadu Buhari.(NAN)

Ooni’s death, irreparable loss to Oodua race – Gani Adams From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos

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he death of Ooni of Ife, His Royal Eminence, Oba Okunade Sijuade, Olubuse 11, has been described as a monumental and irreparable loss to the Oduduwa race.

The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and Convener of the Oodua Progressives

Union (OPU), Otunba Gani Adams, made the remark while reacting to the transition into eternal glory of one of the foremost monarchs in Africa.

According to Otunba Adams, “The enigmatic and wondrous deity of the Yoruba in human form, Oonirisa Olubuse 11 has completed his mission as assigned to him by the owners of the world. He has

gloriously relocated to the ancestral abode of his progenitors, to feed them back after a memorable peregrination odyssey on the face of earth and the completion of his assigned role as the renderer and protector of the ancestral stool of the Yoruba.

“Ooni Olubuse has gone to eternally dine and wine with his

ancestors and to give the feedback to those who sent him to tender their stead. “ Otunba Adams called on all the scions of Oodua to pray for the repose of the soul of the late Oba and use his death as a contact of reunion and re affirmation to the ideals of Oodua, the progenitor of Yoruba.

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Tax Alert

Tax Payment Made Easy…

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lectronic-Taxpay is an online self-service tax payment system which gives taxpayers the opportunity to pay their taxes through their banks’ online payment portals. It is an initiative of FIRS in collaboration with Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS).

It is meant to facilitate payments of taxes from the comfort of taxpayers’ offices or homes.

Taxpayers can pay using the electronic channels provided by their banks such as the banks’ internet banking platform, branches and mobile banking platforms.

Conditions to be met by taxpayer before using e-Taxpay platform • Register and obtain your Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) • Have an account with any bank of your choice and subscribe to the internet banking function of your bank.

• Have sufficient funds in the account to cover the tax liability/transaction.

Steps to take to make payment through e-Taxpay platform Having registered and received a TIN, an active internet banking account and sufficient funds, then; • Decide the channel to use; • If you decide on internet banking channel, log on to your bank’s internet banking platform e.g. GTBank Online Banking, FirstOnline, etc; • In the case of GTBank Online Banking, select the “Payment” option in the menu; • Then select “NIBSS E-Bills payments” under the “Payment” option; • Select the account to debit from, to continue; • Once inside the NIBSS E-Bills payments, select “New Request” to start a new payment. This will take you to the NIBSS platform; • Then select “FIRS e-Taxpay” from the displayed list services that the NIBSS platform provides, in order to start the tax payment in particular; • You then enter your TIN (FIRS/JTB-TIN) or the TIN of the taxpayer you want to pay for; • Click “verify” to validate that the TIN belongs to the taxpayer making the payment; • A pop-up will appear with the TIN details. If ok, then go to the next stage; • Select the tax type (e.g. Company Income Tax, Pre-Operation Levy, Value Added Tax, etc.); • Enter the amount to be debited (tax sum being paid); • Accept service charge for the bank (if applicable); • Confirm that all the information provided are correct and valid; • Submit the request.

After a successful transaction, the system will generate an ‘e-acknowledgement’ which can be printed online, or sent to a specified e-mail address. The ‘e-acknowledgement’ is a confirmation of the transaction of payment of tax to FIRS which would be presented to FIRS field office for the issuance of statutory FIRS receipt to the taxpayer. A TAXPAYER SHOULD PLEASE ENSURE THE ‘e-acknowledgement’ IS SUBMITTED TO THE TAX OFFICE OF DOMICILE TO GET A GOVERNMENT TAX RECEIPT FOR THE PAYMENT MADE. Real time notifications: The platform also notifies the taxpayer and FIRS through SMS alert and real time email. FIRS can view payment transactions and reports online, in real time.

Tax types that can be paid using the e-Taxpay channel: e-Taxpay can be used to pay all tax types and levies collected by FIRS. They include:  Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT)  Education Tax (ET)  Companies Income Tax (CIT)  Value Added Tax (VAT)  Personal Income Tax (PAYE for residents of FCT and non-Residents)  Withholding Tax (WHT). This requires a schedule to be uploaded on the platform;  National Information Technology Development Fund Levy (NITDEF)  Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

 

Pre-Operation Levy (POL) Stamp Duties (SD) and late filing penalty

FAQs (Frequently asked questions) on the use of the FIRS E-Tax Pay Solution 1.

What is the FIRS E-Tax Pay Solution?

Answer: The FIRS E-Tax Pay is an acronym for FIRS Electronic Tax Payment Solution.

2. What is the specific function of the E-Tax Pay? Answer: The FIRS E-Tax Pay is an electronic tax payment platform thatenables individual and corporate taxpayers effect tax payments via their respective bank accounts using selfservice channels provided by any Nigerian Bank. It is based on the recipient’s account and would place a debit on the recipient’s account while applying the credit to FIRS CBN’s account real-time.

3. How does the e-tax pay solution work?

Answer: The e-tax pay solution is hosted on the internet banking platform and bank branches of commercial banks and will be available to any taxpayer who has access to the internet via PC, or handheld devices such as mobile phones. It will enable the bank customers who are registered for internet banking make their tax payments online and also via bank branches.

4. Will a taxpayer be charged for using the e-tax pay solution?

Answer: No, there is no additional cost to the taxpayer for using the e-tax pay internet banking solution. Only the normal bank charges such as Commission- On –Turnover agreed between the customer and the bank would apply.

5. What is the specific requirement of a potential taxpayer to use the e-tax pay solution?

Answer: Taxpayers that intend to use the e-tax pay solution must have registered and obtained a valid TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number) from any FIRS or JTB office and would have done their respective self-assessment in order to use the e-tax pay to pay their tax liabilities. The e-tax pay solution prompts for a valid TIN upon Login and performs a system validation with the TIN before populating with the taxpayer’s records.

6. Can a taxpayer use the e-tax pay to pay all FIRS taxes?

Answer:Yes, the e-tax pay can be used to pay all FIRS taxes. It has a drop down menu list showing all FIRS taxes. The taxpayer simply has to select the tax type he intends to make payment for.

7. Would a taxpayer receive confirmation if the transaction is successful?

Answer: Yes, the taxpayer would receive a confirmation that the payment is successful and a system generated reference ID would be issued. The system would also generate an e-acknowledgement confirmation to the taxpayer which he can use to obtain his tax payment receipt/credit notes from FIRS office.

8. Does the e-tax pay solution send notification?

Answer: Yes, the system would send an e-notification immediately the transaction is successful. The taxpayer would also receive a debit notification via email and SMS from his bank confirming the payment.

9. Can taxpayers use the FIRS e-tax pay solution to make tax payments online now?

Answer: Yes. The solution has been implemented in all commercial banks. All bank customers that have their valid i-banking tokens and have registered for i-banking can access the e-tax pay under their internet banking menu under the NIBSS ‘e-billspay’ service and select FIRS e-tax pay as their tax payment channel and follow the prompts towards making the payment. They also have to have valid TINs. 10. What are the specific self-service payment channels under the FIRS e-tax pay solution?

Answer: The specific channels wherein a taxpayer can make payments are: internet/ online banking, mobile banking and bank branches. For internet and mobile banking platforms, a taxpayer can access these self-service channels using PCs, Laptops, notebooks, smart handheld devices and mobile phones.

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News Restaurant operator seeks IGP, FG assistance over alleged military harassment From Osakhare Erese, Asaba

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gahra-restaurant operator, Lady Lucky Waka has drawn battle line with the men f the Nigerian army attached to Pan Ocean Company in Oghara Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State over the alleged shooting, intimidation, molestation of customers patronizing her in her restaurant especially on Sundays.

She has petitioned the InspectorGeneral of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase and President uhammadu

Benin Republic to investigate extortion allegation against border officials

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he Benin Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Muhutalo Laleye, on Thursday pledged that his country would investigate allegations of extortion against its border officials by Nigerians.

Laleye made the promise when he visited Tsamiya border settlement along with Kebbi Governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the visit was part of efforts to amicably resolve the two countries’ boundary disputes.

The allegations were made by Nigerian policemen manning the border, sequel to complaints by residents of the area.

He also promised to work closely with the Kebbi Government to adopt measures toward ending the border disputes, stressing that the disagreements would not be allowed to deteriorate.

The Kebbi Governor had earlier appealed to the border communities to live peacefully with one another, assuring that the disputes would be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.

NAN reports that the governor and the ambassador were accompanied by Dr Mohammed Ahmed, Director-General of Nigeria’s Boundary Commission.

They were in the area on the instructions of President Muhammadu Buhari, to meet with officials of Benin Republic on ways to amicably resolve the border disputes between the two countries.

NAN observed that police and military personnel had been drafted to the disputed areas as a proactive measure to forestall any breakdown of law and order. (NAN)

Buhari over incessant harassment, molestation, intimidation and threat to her life.

Speaking to our correspondent, she explained that the men of the 19 Battalion of the Nigeria army attached to Pan Ocean Company laid siege on her restaurant, through alleged shooting, harassment, molestation and arrest of customers who came to her restaurant for relaxation.

The Managing Director of the popular “lady warm up Restaurant & Bar” maintained that our

several occasions; the soldiers had swooped on innocent customers; to harass, beat up and arrest with rude warning never to go to lady warm up restaurant and bar or risk their livers.

The restaurant operator accused Capt. Wakiline of alleged sabotage, who according to her, led the troop to her inn in one of the raiding, brimming stones and fire to kill her.

She also informed newsmen that Capt. Wakiline had on several occasions warned her customers

to go and patronize other two restaurants (name with held) close to the “Lady warm restaurant and Bar” along the ever busy Okurho road, leading to Chief James Ibori residence for relaxation or risk their lives.

She called on the InspectorGeneral of police and President Mohammadu Buhari to save her life from the men of the 19 Battalion of Nigeria army attached to the area; and investigates Capt. Wakiline dubious deeds.

She said that she had concluded

plans to institute a case against the Nigeria army in the law court, lamenting the huge sum of money lost during the harassment by the soldiers urging all her esteemed customers to be free and patronize her inn.

Effort to speak with Capt.

Wakiline, who is in charge of the area, was unsuccessful as none of his men was ready to volunteer his cell phone for comment as the time our correspondent visited their Pan Ocean base neither volunteer comments on the said allegations.

he Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) says it has arrested eight persons for allegedly selling pirated materials in Kano.

The commission’s North West Zonal Manager, Alhaji Hassan Usman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Kano that pirated copies worth N6 million were

siezed from the suspects.

He said that the suspects were arrested at different locations in Kano metropolis while selling pirated films, books and other materials in violation of the Copyright Act. Usman urged the public to always purchase original copies from vendors in order to encourage local artists and send

pirates out of business.

He said that pirates were crippling local industries and depriving owners of the property the appropriate income that ought to have come to them through legitimate sales of their works.

The NCC manager, therefore, urged the general public to join the commission

in the fight against piracy by divulging useful information on the activities of pirates across the country.

Usman assured that the commission would continue to rid the country of pirated works of art and ensure prosecution of culprits. (NAN)

NCC arrests 8 in Kano over piracy, recovers N6m materials T

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R-L: Kebbi state Governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, welcoming Prime Minister of Benin Republic, Mr. Lionel Zinson, during inspection of border settlement, yesterday at Illo, in Kebbi state.

Photo: NAN

Police recover 42 rustled cows in Plateau

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he police in Plateau on Thursday said it recovered 42 of the 500 cows rustled in Kadunung village in Mangu Local Government of the state.

The Command’s spokesman, DSP Emmanuel Abu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Mangu that the recovery of some of the rustled cattle was a herculean task. ``Officers and men in conjunction with other security operatives in Mangu made

We are not ritual killers, says African Religions’ practitioners

stringent efforts since the rustling incident of Monday and made tremendous success. ``Out of the cattle carted away, 42 cows were recovered with one seriously injured and slaughtered for meat by the owners; that is aside 40 sheep also recovered,’’ Abu said.

He, however, said calm and normalcy had returned to the troubled Kadunung community which was deserted following another incident that led to the

death of two persons on Tuesday.

The Council Chairman, Mr Titus Bise, visited Kadunung community on Thursday to assess the situation and commiserated with the bereaved families.

Bise, who went in companied of his management team, called on the people to take solace in God who is the giver of life and property.

He called on called on those who deserted the community in wake of the incident to return

because security had been beefed up in the area.

The Ardor of the Community, Mr Umaru Buba, had told Bise and his entourage that his 300 cows and 200 others were rustled.

Buba said two of the boys that were rearing the cattle were machete and killed by the rustlers.

NAN reports that the remains of the herdsmen had since been buried.

he Association of African Traditional Religion, Nigeria and Overseas (AATREN), on Thursday said that contrary to public perceptions, its members don’t indulge in ritual killings.

Mr Ifasegun Elegushi, the President of the association, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the public should, therefore, not always attribute ritual killings to his members. ``We are not responsible for ritual killings, we are traditionalists ,’’ he said.

Elegushi said that those who indulged in ritual killings were ungodly people but traditionalists were people who believed in propagating the African Traditional Religion (ATR).

Also, Mr Lekan Ajirotutu, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of AATREN, condemned the assertion that its members used to engage in ritual killings. ``Herbalists could be anybody, irrespective of religious belief,’’ he said Ajirotutu said that the Nigerian Constitution allows every Nigerian to hold different religious beliefs and practices same.

According to him, the Nigerian Constitution recognizes: Islam, Christianity and the ATR. ``The ATR is the way of life of our predecessors, before the advent of the two other religions. ``Therefore, no religion should be condemned at the expense of the other. Everybody should be allowed to practise his or her own religious beliefs in a free atmosphere’’, Ajirotutu said.

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10th August 2015 The Managing Director, United Bank of Africa Plc. UBA House, 57 Marina, Lagos.

The Editor, Punch (Nig) Limited, No 1 OluAboderin Street, Onipetesi, Ikeja – Lagos.

The Editor, Thisday Newspapers Limited, Plot 1, Sector Centre B, Jabi Business District, Solomon Lar Way, Jabi North East, Abuja.

Dear Sirs,

LETTER OF DEMAND THAT YOU RETRACT YOUR DEFAMATORY STAEMENTS MADE AGAINST HIGHLAND MARKETING LIMITED, BASHIR DALHATU, MOHAMMED DALHATU AND NASIR DALHATU. We act as Solicitors to the above named persons (hereinafter called “Our Clients”) on whose definite instructions we write this letter of demand.

By an advertorial which appeared at page 42 of “THISDAY NEWSPAPER” of Thursday August 6th, 2015 as well as at page 28 of “The Punch Newspaper of Thursday, August 6th, 2015 and other onlines media groups, you falsely and maliciously Published, printed and caused to be printed and Published that Our Clients are indebted to your bank to the tune of “N459.28m”. It must be stated that by the last statement of account of your bank sent to our Client, the entry as at 6th August 2014 reads thus: Tran. Date

Value Date

06-08-2014

06-08-2014

Chq. No.

Withdrawal 5, 000, 000. 00 Dr.

Deposit

Balance 5, 700, 093. 27 Cr

Neither our first client (Highland Marketing Limited) nor any of its directors listed by your bank borrowed any money from your bank thereafter. Copy of the said Statement of Account (Transaction Inquiry) of 21st February 2014 is annexed hereby and marked as exhibit A. It should be further noted that the matter is subjudice in Suit No. M/6961/2014 between U.B.A. Plc.Vs. Highland Marketing Ltd and 3Ors.stillpending before the FCT High Court of Justice. A copy of the motion filed by Highland Marketing Ltd and 3Ors challenging the jurisdiction of the court in ordering the execution of judgment of Kaduna State High Court within the FCT High Court is annexed hereto and marked as exhibit B. By the writ of attachment issued at your instance and dated 6th August 2014, your bank admitted that Highland Marketing Ltd owedyour bank the sum of “N19, 127, 000. 00 (Nineteen Million One Hundred and Twenty Seven thousand naira) only which our clients vehemently denied owing the bank in that sum or any other sum and also as at the 6th August 2014 our clients’ account with your bank was in the credit of N5, 700, 093. 27 when the writ of attachment was issued. A copy of the Writ of Attachment is annexed hereto and marked as exhibit C. It is our thought that the matter beensubjudice, your bank and the twonewspapers ought to have conducted an investigation as to the position of the case before the names of our clients are listed and published as debtors of the bank. In the instant matter, the court case was initiated by the bank before the Kaduna State High Court of Justice.After the s judgmentsum was liquidated by our clients, the bank wrongly and illegally applied for the execution of the judgment of Kaduna State High Court before the FCT High Court even though the bank from its own statement of account is aware that the judgment sum has been liquidated.

It is shocking that even the newspapers published the names of our clients without verification from them, a good journalist would have undertaken an investigation by verifying the facts from the other parties before going to press. In the instant case, our clients were never contacted by the bank or the two newspapers before their names were listed and published as debtors of the bank. Both the bank and the two newspapers misled the public into believing that our clients are indebted to the bank in the sum of “N459.28m”.

TAKE FINAL NOTICE that unless; i.

Each of you retract all your said defamatory statements against our clients in those newspapers and in other onlinesocial media groups, you might have published the said defamatory statements; ii.

Publish a written apology atthe front page of the said newspapers as well as in all the electronic and other online social media groups; and

iii.

Pay each of our Clients the sum of N1, 000, 000, 000. 00 (One Billion Naira) only as damages,

allwithin 7 (Seven) days of the receipt of this demand, we shall be constrained to perfects our clients’ instruction by instituting an action in court of law for redress without further recourse to you.

Yours Faithfully YunusUstazUsman (SAN) PP: YunusUstazUsman (SAN) & Co. Cc: 1. The Governor of Central Bank,

Central Business District, Abuja.

2. Bashir Dalhatu (WalinDutse).

3. NasiruDalhatu

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News

PEOPLES DAILY, friday, august 14, 2015

Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board pays N12m for intending pilgrims’ rams

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he Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board said that it had deposited N12 million with Jaiz Bank in Bauchi, Bauchi State.

Alhaji Aliyu Suleiman, the Executive Secretary of the board, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Bauchi, capital of Bauchi State.

Suleiman said that the amount was paid by some intending pilgrims from the state for the rams they would slaughter during the forthcoming 2015 Hajj.

He said that the Islamic

Development Bank had approved Jaiz Bank as the bank to receive the deposit to discourage intending pilgrims from carrying liquid cash for their rams to the Holy Land.

Suleiman said that under this arrangement, the pilgrims would withdraw the money while in Saudi Arabia to buy their rams and slaughter them in line with the Islamic rite.

Suleiman urged the each intending pilgrim who was willing to be part of the new development to deposit N26,000 with the bank for each ram.

He also said that the National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM) had

approved Max Air and Top Brass as shuttle airliners that would transport 2,828 pilgrims and 14 officials from the state to the Holy Land.

Suleiman said that the board had provided facilities such as : accommodation, catering services and others that the intending pilgrims would need in both Madina and Makkah during the pilgrimage.

He said that the intending pilgrims would be served two meals daily while in Madina and Makkah during the operation.

Suleiman warned them against missing their flights, stating that “ once a pilgrim has missed his or

her flight, such has also missed the pilgrimage as there will be no alternative flight. “ There will be no refund for pilgrims that miss their scheduled flights as all transactions will be done on-line. It will not be easy to retrieve money after it has been remitted.

“The exercise will commence on Aug. 23 in Kaduna while Bauchi State and others will cue in,” he said.

T h e s e c re t ary u rge d t he intending pilgrims to cooperate with the state officials so as to have a hitch-free exercise.

(NAN)

L-R: Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr. David Paradang, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, President Muhammadu Buhari, and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Alhaji Mohammed Magaji, after briefing the president on the activities of the ministry, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

Photo: Joe Oroye

Kogi guber aspirant decries backwardness of Igalaland From Ahmad Ibrahim, Lokoja

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n aspirant for the Kogi state governorship election which comes up in November, Barrister James Ocholi (SAN) ,has decried the high rate of poverty among the Igalas despite the ethnic group producing three governors that have governed the state since its creation more than 20 years ago.

Barrister Ocholi who is seeking the nomination of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, whose governorship primaries

come up in Lokoja on August 29, told the party’s delegates who will represent Omalla Local government at primaries on Wednesday attributed the underdevopment of the Igala-speaking area of the state to these leaders’ greed and pursuit of personal and narrow agenda.

The APC governorship aspirant accused these leaders of pauperizing their people with diversion of the commonwealth and execution of white elephant projects which have little or no bearing on the welfare of the people.

Ocholi who incidentally hails from the Igala-speaking area of the state lamented:” I am at pains over the backwardness of my people.

This part of the state cannot boast of a viable industry, it has no hotel of national and international repute; or any visible development one can point at. Rather these sons of Igala extraction who have ruled the state have houses in Europe, America and elsewhere. This is no doubt a great waste. How many days are they going to stay in these houses?”

He promised to give attention to

programmes and projects that will uplift the welfare and standard of living of the Igalas and other ethnic groups in the state.

Barrsiter Ocholi said that although he is a successful lawyer having risen to the position of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, he was not born with a silver spoon.

He described Ocholi as epitomizing the new face of change, and he assured that his people will give him the required support to realize his dream of governing the state.

Buhari to NASENI: Publicize your inventions

By Lawrence Olaoye

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resident Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to do more to publicize its inventions for the benefit of Nigerians.

Speaking after a presentation to him of NASENI’s recent work,

President Buhari observed that unless the agency’s inventions are adopted and further developed by manufacturers, the country and ordinary Nigerians will not enjoy the fruits of its good work.

The President, who was impressed by the achievements and inventions presented to him at the Presidential Villa, also

directed NASENI to explore ways of working with the Defence Industries Corporation, Kaduna to manufacture the light weapons it has designed.

“Looking at your work…, the laboratory equipment, the weapons designs…., these are things that can save us resources if you can coordinate with existing

specialist agencies and work together,” President Buhari told the Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Professor M. S. Haruna.

Apart from the light weapon designs and laboratory equipment, other NASENI inventions presented to President Buhari included new energy-saving LED lamp products.

Nasarawa govt, Singapore sign technical agreement on youth, women training From Gambo Ahmed, Lafia

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he Nasarawa state government said it has signed a technical agreement with the Singaporean government to provide technical equipment’s and further enhance the quality of training of women and youths in various skills that will snowball into industrial development.

Governor Tanko Al-makura stated this yesterday during the occasion of public presentation and launch of project documents on youth development and reproductive health needs in conjunction with the Nigerian academy of science, university of Lagos held at Ta’al conference hotel Lafia the state capital.

According to him, “we are happy Nasarawa state is one of your project implementation state in the country in addition to Ekiti state. your choice of Ekiti state in the south west and Nasarawa state in the North central, is not a mere coincidence but a reality of Nigerian situation as the two states share common identity laving been created the same date and are usually the last on the federation account table. This has reflected in efforts by various administrations to bring about development in order to catch up with other states of the federation” The governor added that realizing the importance of youth development in the society is enormous which according to him the state government has been able to equipped the four skills acquisition centers located in Doma, Wamba, Nasarawa and Lafia with the view to provide technical training to the youths in the state.

He f u rth e r sa i d tha t th e state government also built model primary and junior secondary schools which have been adequately equipped with manpower and instructional materials for teaching and learning; adding that tertiary institutions in the state are also given priority attention.

Al-makura also maintained that government will pay special attention to the provision of reproductive health services and adequate information on sexuality education; stressing that recently mobile clinic vans were procured and put into use for the provision of quality health services particularly to women and youths in the rural areas.

In his remarks, the president of the Nigerian Academy of science Professor Oyewale Tomori commended the Nasarawa state government for partnering with the academy as well as promised to effect the implementation of the document.

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EDITORIAL

Save our roads from truck crashes even days.

Apart from the indiscipline of tanker drivers, most of them drive under the influence of alcohol and other drugs, there is the problem of lack of maintenance of the trucks by their owners. Very shocking is a recent revelation by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) that over 80 percent of the trucks that ply the highways are not roadworthy. If so, why are they

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igeria of late has recorded several oil tanker crashes, resulting in hundreds of deaths and destruction of buildings, roads and bridges. Add to this carnage the killings by the terror group Boko Haram and we have a serious cause for worry. In June alone, we had almost 10 tanker fires all over the country. The first occurred in Anambra state’s commercial hub Onitsha. A tanker laden with petrol crashed spilling its content. The fire started by the spilled fuel killed over 100 people.

A Few days later, another oil tanker fell off a bridge in Lagos, starting a fire that razed down buildings and destroyed several vehicles; there were no reports of death in that incident. Following immediately afterwards was the crash in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos.

Reports said 34 houses and 70 shops were destroyed by fire from a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of diesel.

The Governor of Lagos state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode blamed the frequent tanker accidents in the state on indiscipline on the part of truck drivers.

This indiscipline manifests in truck drivers’ indiscriminate conduct on the road, without regard to traffic regulations. Long stretches of highways have been turned to parking lots. They have even ignored facilities built for them by the government off the highways. Often where the authorities move against them, their union protests violently, blocking highways for hours and

A functional rail system should replace tankers as a means of moving flammable fuels from one part of the country to another.

It will also increase the durability of the roads. not pulled off? FRSC says it cannot do much without help from the states.

Unfortunately, apart from Lagos and Ogun, all the other 34 states do not have the mechanism for testing vehicles for roadworthiness. This is another shock. What has happened to the vehicle inspections offices in the states in those years of the military?

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We appeal strongly to those states to quickly set up this mechanism to stem the carnage that poorly maintained trucks cause.

Then there is the problem of our poor road network. Almost all federal and interstate roads in the country are derelict. Some have remained unrepaired 20 years after they were constructed. FERMA whose job it is to keep federal roads in good order is unable to do maybe because of paucity of funds. It is even worse in the case of state roads. No wonder the rate of accidents on our roads is on the rise. How, under this circumstance, would one explain the recent naming of FRSC as Africa’s most successful road safety organisation? It is simply inexplicable.

How do we curb the tanker crashes?

Two ways: firstly, the Buhari-led federal government should pursue vigorously the rail rehabilitation started by its immediate predecessor. A functional rail system should replace tankers as a means of moving flammable fuels from one part of the country to another. It will also increase the durability of the roads. Secondly, the nation’s refineries which have fallen into disuse should be rehabilitated. Because they are not working, the nation has resorted to importing fuel. And the result has been a high fuel price and an import cabal that the government is unable to control. We believe that working refineries will bring down the fuel price, destroy this cabal and take many of the tankers carrying death in their bowels off the highways.

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Opinion Issues President Buhari must tackle

By Okonkwo Peter Chigozie

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resident Muhammadu Buhari not rushing to appoint 36 ministers till now does not make him “Baba go slow”. It could have been disaster continua if he still saddles Nigeria with over-bloated 36 ministers without first streamlining the ministries and parastatals inline with “Oronsaye’s Report”.

Taking off with “business as usual” of 36 ministers with bogus salaries and allowances without adding value of services will contravene Section 16 of our Constitution which demands prudence in management of the Nations Resource to enhance maximum output under good governance.

The President can also make use of some heads of Prime Agencies and Parastatals as Executive Cabinet Members designating them Ministers thereby attaining the Federal Character Structure demanded by Section 147 of the Constitution.

Diligence as a virtue supports Mr. President in his calculated steps once it is not over stretched. This notwithstanding, the President is supposed to have appointed a Chiefof-Staff, Attorney-General, Secretary to the Federal Government and Minister of Finance within 30 days of assuming office as a helping tool to his due diligence steps.

The President as “Baba Diligence” is supported by the Word of God in Luke 14:28….. Where, Christ admonished on the need to evaluate costs before embarking on a project.

REMOVAL OF PETROLEUM SUBSIDY AND THE ROT IN NNPC

By Salim Umar Ibrahim

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he joint admission and matriculation board (JAMB), which introduces the computer based test once held in March 2015, has indeed marks a rebirth of a new examination system in Nigeria for the first time ever, emerging as a sudden nightmare to candidates all over the nation.

It was quoted the registrar of the joint admission and matriculation board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde saying; “the computer based test is introduced to curb examination malpractice” as to wash out most of the challenges faced by the pen and paper system of examination.

Everyone believes that examination malpractice is an act that if measures are not taking to swab it out, the educational system can never achieve standard. Yes! But to be realistic and faithful to candidates in Nigeria, this is a nightmare and a hard shot on them because; if we look at the massive number of candidates who registered for the examination, JAMB needs to go back to the board and redesign the schedule.

Taking an analysis for this exercise is very crucial. If we classify the number of the candidates into categories we can simply identify that; Out of hundred percent of the candidates who registered for the examination are of average of seventy percent not having any idea about what a computer is. Why because, this enormous number are candidates whom falls out from the poor family and those from the rural areas managing their ability to obtain a certain educational criteria.

Some of these candidates have never seen a computer system; some have

Removal of Petroleum Subsidy is a sensitive issue that touches on the raw nerve of Nigerian people as the President rightly pointed out during his last visit to the United States. As volatile as this is, it requires either a statesman’s decision or a populist decision. A statesman is a Leader that cares for the present and future generation, while a Populist is a Leader of the moment satisfying only his popularity ego caring less if there is no Nigeria tomorrow.

Petroleum subsidy is a cesspool of corruption likeable only to a cancerous tumor. It must be cutoff and save Nigeria the unbearable criminality of a few that continue to deplete our commonwealth. Any one assuring Mr. President that this paper fraud can be effectively checked is only day-dreaming.

Some people in this great nation of innumerable good citizens have an unimaginable capacity to compromise any system.

The current problem the oil market provides a leeway to cut off this cancerous lump of fraud called subsidy. It will diminish this presidency if this fraud continues unabated. As a paper document based fraud, it is difficult to police.

NNPC is a citadel of fraud that cannot be allowed to fester any longer or it will consume and ruin our entire commonwealth. Any Agency of government that can spend un-appropriated billions of Dollars nicknaming the fraud overhead and administrative costs is just a citadel of corruption.

It is gratifying to know that the unbundling and reorganization of NNPC is top on Mr. President’s agenda of action.

AMNESTY PROGRAMME

AND CRUDE OIL THEFT The President’s recent appointment of Brigadier P. T. Boroh (rtd) as the coordinator of the Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta Militants is spot-on and timely. The caliber of Boroh further distinguishes Mr. President as “Baba Diligence” who looks before he leaps.

General Boroh should promptly tackle all outstanding issues and allowances to keep the peace of Niger Delta running. Nigeria cannot afford another dislocation in our oil production at this critical juncture.

Crude oil theft in Niger Delta is a well organized crime run by a cartel with intimidating financial arsenal. This cartel corrupts and compromises all commanding security structures and JTF Commanders in Niger Delta. This organized criminal organization which is aided by top officers operates in most on-shore and off-shore terminals of both multinational and indigenous oil platforms. Segun Adeniyi of Thisday Newspaper has written extensively on this national tragedy. His writeups on this matter will provide reasonable insight on solution.

A National Ad-hoc Committee is urgently needed to study the modus operandi of this cartel and proffer solution on how to arrest this rape of our commonwealth.

Dear Baba Diligence, your integrity was attested to and proclaimed to the whole world by President Barack Obama during your recent visit to the United States. You must not disappoint on this challenge which requires the full manifestation of your strong character.

PRIVATE SECTOR DRIVEN ECONOMY AND STRONG GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS Dear Baba Diligence, any pressure on you to expand government businesses should be resisted to the last. What you owe Nigeria is primarily to reorganize and rebuild her government institutions and make them capable of regulating our system equitably where no one is above the law.

It is better for Nigeria that hundreds of Dangotes, Adenugas, Elumelus, Ovies, Dantatas e.t.c are driving our economy under strong government institutions with total adherence to the rules of the game.

China is gradually expanding her global economic frontiers after diluting their obsolete socialist system and allowing individuals the flexibility to grow and nurture the economy. Russia is equally enlarging her economy through private hands.

The fact remains that the thriving economies of the 21st Century are those that are individual driven in free and open market with strong government oversight.

Avoid the temptation of building new government refineries no matter the level of pressure. Please refurbish our existing refineries and promote a conducive climate that will enable private hands to build new ones. The remaining phase of privatization should be pursued vigorously to logical conclusion.

Moribund government businesses like Nigeria Airways, NITEL, PHCN, Nigeria Railways to mention just a few have proved beyond reasonable doubt that government in this part of the world is not good in managing businesses.

As a would–be-father of new

Nigeria, the greatest legacy you can bequeath us is strong government institutions and entrenched rule of law above the leaders and the led.

The only power that can checkmate any roguish President after you is strong government institutions entrenched during your tenure with ability to hold leaders accountable.

Our electoral system need to be further reorganized to ensure free and fair elections as the greatest tool of fighting corruption. You must expand on the foundations laid by President Jonathan and Prof. Jega. In the South East where I come from, electoral process is still plagued with endemic fraud and impunity. The last elections were massively rigged with Card Reader as the only restraining factor in preventing outrageous inflation of figures. During election in the South East, State Governors and their Local Government Chairmen act as electoral Commissioners and E.Os of various Local Government Areas with Army and Police as their chief tugs. Candidates of other Parties are chased away from collation centres where they cook their figures.

Our criminal justice system is obsolete and can no longer serve the need of the 21st century digital world. Any fight against corruption without overhauling our criminal Justice system is a total waste of time. The Vice President as an erudite Advocate and professor of Law should be handy in urgently restructuring our criminal Justice system.

Barr.

Okonkwo Peter Chigozie (Ohamadike) served in APC National Merger Committee and can be reached on gozieohamadike@gmail.

Jamb cbt vs Nigerian candidates seen it but never in their entire lifetime feels the texture of a computer mouse or keyboard. How could such candidates get to administer to meet up in scoring the required marks needed to get them admission to the next level? And they will fail not because they lack the ability to score their marks, but for the reason of the computer system they were entangled to use.

If we went back to the remaining thirty percent, twenty percent among them do have a little idea about what a computer is, how to operate the basics but not familiar with the system.

Only the remaining ten percent have an idea and can operate the machine subsequently. And these are the sons and daughters of the affluent. Visit a roadside computer school which has the provision of enough computers for practical when they admit new students and see how the students struggle to get familiar with a computer mouse. Most of them suffer from hand shaking on the mouse before they get to be familiar handling it.

He was quoted once again saying; “obtaining a degree is not the only way to make it to the top” says Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the registrar JAMB. What does he has to say openly about this statement? We all know that thousands of graduates are out there jobless on the streets struggling from one firm or government organization to another seeking for a job.

Thousands of Nigerian candidates are also out their struggling to get admitted into reputable institutions with their good grades obtained from WAEC, NECO and NABTEC respectively,

but efforts are highly abortive due to JAMB body of technique. Thanks to the almighty for the restriction of cut-off mark (180 for universities and 150 for polytechnics) it has just introduced.

Speaking, the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan while he endorsed the CBT in 2015, addressing the officials of the Netherlands examination body known as (CITO) Holland, says; “The introduction of CBT marks a new examination regime that will revolutionalize the education sector” Also the co-coordinator of the JAMB at Osun state was quoted saying; “ the fallen standard of education in the country requires urgent attention, and the rest most critical step to take in the quest to save the sector is to rid of any of sharp practice, which the CBT has put paid to”. He said this while speaking with the news agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Yes, indeed it has mark a new examination regime and will revolutionalize the education sector, but very poorly, because this system will never produce the right students in tertiary institutions. Everyone can get lucky on objective questions and score high points, and among will be many who are not eligible to be there.

Meanwhile, the urgent attention it requires does not supposed to be a nightmare, let’s crawl first before we can think about running on our feet, Nigeria’s educational sector does not reach up to that level, but as the saying; “gradually, gradually an elephant can dance” We pray and hope for this kind of standard, but not this way.

If pencil paper based test should be scrapped out, then it has to be drawn

gradually, at least five years of practice is supposed to be given for the both systems to be practiced as a choice to students. If one wishes to choose the CBT, then he/she should go for it, if one wishes to go for the pencil paper test, then it’s a choice. Gradually candidates will be familiar with the system and one day after the practice for about three or five sequential years, it can be made permanent on one system without any grief upon someone. When was computer science even accredited in the primary and secondary level? When do WAEC, NECO and NABTEC even accredited computer science in their examinations.

JAMB has not prepared for this computer based test. The former president once again made a statement saying; “adequate finance has been made to establish the centers to conduct the CBT”. if that is the case, we all know that INEC does not have any source of income except from the government while compared to JAMB, which has an income from the government as a body, support through the ministry of education and the vast amount of money it generates from selling of registration form, online result checker, the green card provided for correction to any omission in the registration process.

If INEC can provide nationwide the provision of its own in-house computers to register over a hundred million Nigerians, then JAMB needs to establish its centers in each of the 36 states of the country with its own computers, servers and adequate internet connections and uninterrupted power supply meant only for its yearly exercise.

Having its centers established with recommended computers mainly for the purpose of the examination will reduce the old computers problem faced by most students in the process of slow booting at various centers. It must provide its servers and adequate internet connection to prevent the loss of time in the process and internet servers’ failure.

This exercise has exposed students and parents to extreme danger as of the moment of insecurity in the country, by prompting people to go out as early as possible to meet up examination time at 6am in the morning. Some even have to travel far out of their geographical zone before they get to sit for the exam.

Candidate has to be split into batches due to inadequate computers to sustain them. I was there and witnessed it at one of the centers at Kano state, candidates sitting for the 6am where split into two batches. I was with my sister who happens to fall into the category of those sitting for the 10am batch. We were at the venue since 8.30 to avoid unpunctuality, but to most of our surprises, the batch B of the 6am did not even entered until 11.30am and came out at 1.30pm.

That’s when the 10.00am batches were screened to enter for their exam.

I spent all day from morning till 4.30 waiting for her to come out complaining that they were rushed and even threatened if not submitted the questions they have already answered, the server will be rebooted and they will lose everything. Pathetic!

Salim Umar Ibrahim is a freelance writer and can 0703 2965 551

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Zaria demolition: A right thing done the wrong way

Olalekan Adigun

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here these people that have been displaced would go or be taken to is the question on the lips of many whom since El-rufai assumed duty as governor of Kaduna State, added the state in their “states to watch” list since the beginning of this dispensation. This could be why the man is for now being overzealous in discharging his responsibilities.

The displaced persons may not be able to build other houses because they spent all their lifetime savings to build these that have just been demolished.

Would they camp in a corner of the town and constitute nuisance to the society? The action may lead to restoration of government’s lands and fast track beautification of the town(s) but the government should be aware that she has added the number of the poor and probably increased the population of the BAGGERS she recently had sent packing from the streets. It is interesting to know that the frightening number of those without shelter which is why governments in collaboration with international agencies have been trying to reduce or if possible, eradicate, has risen.

Reason why concerns are always raised when people are internally displaced or take refuge in another state is because it has multiplier effects. Shelter is no doubt, at least for Africans, one of the basic necessities of human living and should a man go without shelter,

he then poses serious challenge to a sedentary society such as ours.

A man wandering around without shelter can easily become criminal-commits crime and disappears without trace.

Displaced people are a vulnerable bunch, thus can accordingly become an obstacle to coexistence and are the easy recruits when there is crisis of terror like we have now-- because, as victims of social injustice, they have already hated the society. For family institution, the foundation of any society, to thrive there has to be adequate shelter. Marriages will seize to take place when there is no shelter to house the family and that will lead to having a so disorganized society.

The environment will suffer, the economy will stagnant and government will have to spend more to control the menace.

Drastic actions are taken with caution-- else a vicious circle could be created. Going by the state of our economy, it may take a citizen his entire life saving to be able to build a house whereas thousands die without even owning one as also hundreds of thousand live in rented houses and likely have accumulated months or years of unpaid tenancy dues to settle. This may be why there is need for mass housing rather than demolition.

This doesn’t not however mean that following rules and regulations; demolition of structures erected at wrong places and making people to respect law and order aren’t on the other hand as much important in determination to having an organized society, but doing it in

such a way it creates a long term social distress is our argument here.

When then an administrator found himself in this kind of situation it is only ideal for him to underscore a middle course.

Before, people are only internally displaced by disaster(s) but today for those who are into Refugee Studies have a thing to learn about displaced persons-- a state making its citizen an internally displaced lot. Urbanization, Elrufai should have known has social consequences that must be taken into consideration when the need for either (re)designing or restoring a town plan arises.

If you are conscious of what development is all about from social science perspective, as a leader, you won’t make the state appear as if she is enemy of the society or set one against another, for it is the symbiotic relationship between the two parties—state and society, that brings the desired development.

Collectively, not one doing it all alone, civilization is built. It was never built by either society without leadership nor was it ever achieved with leadership without the society.

Not only the two need to come together but there has to be a smooth relationship connecting them.

Between State and Society is a contract which terms each is obliged to respect; discharge its aspects of the agreement accordingly for development in the society to flourish; leading it all the way to establishing an enduring civilization. And to make sure the relationship is cordial, state carries the high percent of the responsibility

having have control of the structure guiding the compass of the society.

The relationship ensures justice and eliminates social injustice, the harbinger of crisis in any given society. But when the relationship is sour all you should expect is chaos not development. Forget about development in this kind of instance.

Before you become a leader of any society, you don’t only need to belong to it but also study it thoroughly (all its aspects of life). Because if you do not know your society you won’t be able to know its needs, strengths and weaknesses, and without knowing all these well you can’t bring to it any sustainable development because all your policies will be in sharp contrast with its needs and aspiration thus the beneficiaries of the policies will certainly be either an imperial power or certain class of people in the society while the overall development of the society suffers serious setbacks. The largest percent in the society, the poor, will be at the receiving end and hence become an endangered species and hold to ransom the progress of the society.

It is this display of ignorance of what society means and chronicles of its preference that makes some leaders more often than not as it was the case in Katsina in the past eight years-- apply a cause of a problem as solution. Development may seem to many as universal: that what is applicable in say London is as well applicable to us here. With this thought as a leader you may get it all wrong. Bringing development to a society has different approaches.

Which approach to adapt to bring

the desired result to a particular society requires the knowledge of that given society. Our leaders need a thorough knowledge of social science of the community they aspire to or are lead(ing).

What Kaduna State Government has done wasn’t by itself, in my opinion, wrong but done the wrong way. By this action we can say the government will achieve only one goal-- restoring land belonging to government but may create long run social impacts. After all, demolition of structures for a state that had been so badly managed economically for that long might not be her topmost priority.

In this occasion we have seen a case involving two parties—those who sell off (the lands), and the poor people who ignorantly or deliberately bought the parcel.

But only the latter was punished promptly for wrong doing while the former, the real culprit, might be left go free. Government could have considered compensating these people; give them a fresh area of land to develop; prosecute those who sell off the lands and recovered public money from them. Or since the two parties are both culprits the latter could be given adequate notice of at least five months to vacate before the demolishing exercise commences and in the end punish the two parties swiftly.

Justice could be tempered with in respect of the latter party else It appears like Them, the poor, versus Us, the rich.

Baba-Bala Katsina can be reached on bababalakt@ gmail.com

work well elsewhere don’t work in Nigeria?” I was a Senior Lecturer/ Consultant at the Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM, not chartered at the time, and my answer to IBB in my Monday column in Vanguard, almost twenty four years ago, remains as valid today with regard to SURE-P, as well as the Rice Policy being pursued under Jonathan. Like IBB, Jonathan is not an economist. I don’t blame a President for anything outside his area of competence – except when he fails to listen to dissenting voices outside his administration.

By 1990, Nigeria was not the only country undergoing structural adjustment. The oil boom, which started after the 1973 Yum Kippur war between Israel and the Arab countries, resulting in oil embargo and skyrocketing crude prices, had substantially run its course.

Most of the oil producing countries, like Nigeria, were not highly industrialized nations; so the windfall they made from escalating crude oil prices had led to global hyperinflation. The boomerang effect was the rapid rise in the prices of manufactured goods from the developed countries. On the eve of our own SAP, a Peugeot 504S/R/AC, could be purchased officially for N15,000 and unofficially for not more than N17,000.

I should know, I bought one six days from the announcement of SAP for N14,468. I sold it, ten years and 560,000 kilometres after for N99,000. And, the buyer considered it a gift because by then a new model was going for N2.7 million. The question is: how did we get there? The answer is: too many officials of governments, especially Ministers, were not telling the Head of

Sate the truth.

Unfortunately for us, one of the lessons of history is that people never learn from history. People who lived among us; who, at one time, joined us in complaining that Presidents don’t listen to people outside their group of advisers, on reaching office, repeat exactly the same mistakes. It was not as if IBB had no dissenters to the introduction and execution of SAP, he just trusted his advisers totally – until it was too late.

Millions of lives were necessarily ruined on account of Nigeria’s brand of SAP. Why have I gone all the way back to IBB’s administration to draw the example? Because, Babangida also introduced two food policies during his regime – the Sugar Policy and the Rice Policy – just as Jonathan had done.

The first, we were told would make us self-sufficient in sugar production and the second in rice production by the year 2000. On account of the rice policy, I left the brewery and headed for Sokoto to engage in rice farming, buying, milling and marketing. One cardinal aspect of the rice policy, at the time, was the introduction of high tariff to discourage imports and the promise of incentives – including low interest loans, development of several varieties of rice which were best suited for our different ecological zones and assistance with human resources development. Then, as now, the entire policy programme was accompanied by unprecedented hype by some of the most gifted con men who ever wore designer suits to government office.

It did not take long before those of us who invested heavily in that government’s promise to realize we

had been “robbed”. First, the high tariff introduced did not stop a single bag on Thailand rice from entering Nigeria.

A whole generation of Customs men and women became enormously rich by encouraging or undertaking rice smuggling themselves. On one night in December 1989, I watched helplessly as over fifty trailer loads of rice entered Nigeria through Ilela into the Sokoto and Kebbi markets.

As if that was not betrayal enough, the government soon “discovered” that Nigerian rice producers could not satisfy the aggregate demand in the country.

So, an exclusive import licence was issued to one company – that launched one of the greatest personal fortunes in the world today because the same company soon received exclusive sugar import licence as well. So the dreams of self-sufficiency in rice and sugar production died in the hands of the government which started them.

Today, another experiment with self-sufficiency in rice production is underway. Like its predecessors, it has been associated with more fiction than fact and like the farmer who planted fifty tubers of yam, while claiming to have sown two hundred, will, after eating fifty yams, eat lies for the rest of the year. Now, what are the truths being suppressed by official falsehood promoted by the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Adesina.

First, Nigeria does not now grow enough rice to be self-sufficient. In fact, we are so far from adequate supply, we still import close to 85 per cent of our rice needs. The rest comes from imports and mostly, now, from smuggled rice.

Neighbouring African countries are

experiencing a boom in landing fees collected from ships laden with rice bound for Nigeria. Another generation of Customs staff is now becoming rich on account of official self-delusion.

The options are very clear. If we stop smuggling (a mission impossible) large scale scarcity will result and famine will follow because we don’t produce enough of any substitute to fill the gap. If we fail to stop smuggling, the latest attempt will end like the first – after struggling and losing their shirts and underwear, the investors will close shop and we will be back to Thailand.

Incidentally, the development of several varieties of rice is a sword cutting two ways. Positively, it increased the potential acreage which can be brought under cultivation nationwide. The problem comes with parboiling and milling. Most mills can handle, very well, one or two varieties of paddy rice and not at the same time for optimum results. Unfortunately, the aggregate national yield of any variety of rice is so small, millers are forced to mix varieties – a wasteful approach to milling rice.

That is why local rice is more expensive than imported rice; even if the exporting countries are not subsidizing their farmers and millers.

With nationwide drought in 2014 a distinct possibility, production of food in general at anywhere near the levels of the past three years will pose a challenge. Food prices will climb and making rice more expensive will result in unintended consequences – widespread famine.

The famine this year —1

By Biola Sobowale

“The time is a quarter to midnight.”

-Dr Walter Borlough, the father of the Green Revolution.

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OTE: This column was written in 2013 when President Jonathan was persuaded by Dr Adesina, the Minister of Agriculture that we were almost self-sufficient in rice production.

That lie exploded in everybody’s face as fraudulent waivers had to be granted to rice importers to hide the fact that the Jonathan administration’s rice policy was a failure and how it is going to worsen the food shortage in 2015 and 2016. PMB has a problem on his hands.

Please read on.

One of the biggest problems Presidents and Prime Ministers face, virtually all the time, is who to believe among their Ministers and Advisers – especially those who are recruited from international organizations.

President Ibrahim Babangida, IBB, had nothing less than four Nigerian economists who had worked for the World Bank before coming on board to help midwife the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, which was later to give his administration, the bad name it has failed to shed till today. SAP was introduced in 1986; and by 1987 claims about the gains of SAP were being made by all those who sold IBB that poison pill. But, by 1990, a bewildered military President, who could see clearly that all was not well with the Nigerian economy; that the gains of SAP were becoming increasingly elusive; asked publicly.

“Why is it that economic policies which

Biola Sobowale is a Public Affairs Analyst

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Group mourns Ooni, chides Aregbesola’s attitude towards Obas From Ayodele Samuel, Lagso

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L-R: NAWOJ President, Mrs Ifeyinwa Omowole, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Press Council, Mr. Nnamdi Njemanze, NUJ National President, Mr. Abdulwaheed Odusile; Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, and UNDP Communications and Reporting Advisor, Ms Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, during the public presentation of Reportage of 2015 Elections: A Monitoring Scorecard of Print and Online Media, yesterday in Abuja.

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Saudi,Yemen hostilities will not affect hajj exercise-NGO From Olanrewaju Lawal,Ilorin

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he National Coordinator of Eagle Eyed Hajj Monitors,Alhaji Nurudeen Gasali has assured intending pilgrims from Nigeria that the ongoing hostilities between Saudi Arabi and Yemen would not affect free hajj exercise.

The National Coordinator of the Non Governmental Organisation(NGO), who stated this while speaking with Journalists in Ilorin said all measures to ensure the annual rite recorded success have been put in place by various States Pilgrim Boards .

It could be recalled that Saudi

Arabia has led the war against Yemen in the last few months to restore legitimate government dethrone by ethnic group.

Gasali, noted that Almighty Allah has always guide the holy land from any aggression stressing that “ we are optimistic that it will not affect the hajj exercise. All measures to ensure the exercise is sucessfull have been put in place.

“It would not affect it. It will never by the special grace of Allah.”

He disclosed that the recent pronouncement by most state governments that they would not sponsor intending pilgrims would assist National Hajj Commission to screen out bad eggs among intending pilgrims

Gasali said the Eagle Eyed since it started working for NAHCOM,it has reduced numbers of corrupted pilgrims from being airlifted while those caught cheating during hajj were apprehended and sent back to the Commission for proper penalties.

He said that the NGO has continue to protect the image on Nigeria from being tarnish by desperate pilgrims stressing that some non-muslims sponsored outside Islamic religion were always identified and flush out from the rite to prevent image of Islam.

Gasali recalled that few of none-Muslims sponsored

by State Government from the

Eastern part of Nigeria were prevented after identified during the screening stressing that his NGO would continue to assist Hajj Commission to sanitise the exercise.

While speaking on the contribution of the NGO to the Hajj exercise,Gasali who said the Eagle Eyed has being in operation for the past 26 years stressing that it always distribute Nigeria medicine drugs free to sick pilgrims.

He added that Medical Doctors among the Eagle team also render free medical service to Nigeria Pilgrims who might down with any sort of illness during hajj exercise.

Ambode commiserates with helicopter crash victims From Suleiman Idris, Lagos

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agos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has commiserated with the victims of the helicopter that plunged into a lagoon around the Oworonshoki area of the State on Wednesday afternoon, expressing his deep regrets over the unfortunate incident.

The Governor who was represented by his Deputy, Dr. Oluranti Adebule said that the government dispatched its emergency team to the site upon hearing of the accident, adding that top officials of the government were at the site on the directive of the governor to get first hand information on the accident and offer necessary support and assistance.

The Deputy Governor was also

at the Gbagada General Hospital where four of the survivors were brought for medical attention, offered words of encouragement to the injured passengers, assuring them that the best of medical care will be made available for them at the hospital.

Dr Adebule while briefing journalists after the visit said that another two survivors were taken to a private hospital around the site of the crash for first aid attention, noting that they would be moved to the government hospital once their condition is stable.

“We have four of the survivors at the Gbagada General Hospital while two others are at a private hospital, Afolabi Medical Centre, where they are being attended to as a sort of first aid pending when their condition improves

and they will be transferred to the General Hospital also”, the Deputy Governor said.

Information gathered at the site indicated that there were 12 passengers on the ill-fated flight.

So far, four persons have been confirmed dead and their bodies recovered and deposited at the mortuary, while six persons who sustained injuries were rescued.

Efforts are still on to find the remaining passengers as well as the debris of the helicopter.

Flood alert: Agency advocates dredging of rivers, construction of artificial lakes The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has urged the Federal Government to dredge more rivers and construct artificial lakes within the floodprone areas as one of the major measures to mitigate flood.

The NIHSA Director-General, Mr Moses Beckley, gave the advice in Abuja on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

NAN recalls that NIHSA had recently alerted the country during the presentation of its 2015 ``Annual Flood Outlook’’ in Abuja that 12 states might experience high flood.

Beckley said, besides constructions of dams across the country, rivers in Nigeria could also serve as instruments to check the excess of water during the rainy period in order to prevent flood.

He explained that most of the rivers in the country that were meant to serve as storage for excess water from the hinterland were covered with sand, thereby reducing their storage capacity.

he Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) has commiserated with the state Council of Traditional Rulers over the demise of its Permanent Chairman, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.

Besides, the group said it grieved with the people of IleIfe and the Olubuse Royal family over the death Oba Sijuwade who joined his ancestors after reigning as the town’s monarch for almost 35 years.

According to CSCEO in a statement signed its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman, the association noted that the late Ooni who also served as the CoChairman of Nigeria National Traditional Council made a great impact towards the growth and development of the country.

The group stated that Nigeria would miss the wisdom and robust contributions of Oba Sijuwade towards issues affecting the state and Nigeria at large but urged the kingmakers to ensure a smooth process when picking the late monarch’s successor.

“As we bid our dear father, the Ooni of Ife farewell, we are bound to call the attention of the world to the shoddy treatments many traditional rulers in the state had suffered in the hands of the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.

“Today, under Aregbesola’s government, the state Council of Traditional Obas has become moribund. For over four years, the council was barred from holding its meetings while the venue allocated for them at the State Secretariat has been re-allocated to CHARM, the consulting firm handling the payment of workers salary.

“Pathetically, Aregbesola created a huge division among the monarchs by selecting few of them believed to be sympathetic to his party for special treatment while others are being treated with disdain and like lepers.

“We have it on good authority that many of these traditional rulers are crying and dying in silence.

The state government has refused to pay them their entitlements for months even as some were being victimized for what they stand for”, he said.

While highlighting roles of Obas, Sulaiman said, “Apart from being custodians of tradition and culture, these monarchs ensured the maintenance of peace and harmonious relationship among people in their various communities and helped government in many other ways in reaching out to their subjects when needed.

However, the coalition urged the state traditional rulers to abstain from politics and be neutral in all their activities by playing noble functions expected of their positions.

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Group applauds Buhari’s style of leadership

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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roup, Muhammadu Buhari Osinbanjo (MBO), Dynamic Support Group has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration approaches to burning national issue, saying the president is steadily promoting, enhancing the prosperity as well as repositioning the country.

The group in a press conference to mark the 72 days of Buhari’s administration in Abuja yesterday

stated that the President has achieved a lot within the past two months he spent in office.

Addressing the press conference, National Coordinator of the group, Hon. Usman Ibrahim said the President has proven that his slow pace is not a sign of failure but a calculated and steady road to great success.

“Many Nigerians in their quest for speedy manifestation of the change project have accused Mr. President of being too slow in fulfilling his

electoral promises. But in fairness to Mr. President and going by his achievements in the critical sectors of the nation; it is unimaginable the volume of his achievements within this short period. And we make bold to say that what his predecessors failed to achieve in 72 months, he has achieved in 72 days.”

The group said that the President has done a lot especially in the areas of his fight against corruption; security and economy which he promised to give more priority

during his campaign.

It added that the relocation of the command and control centre to Maiduguri to effectively tackle insurgency as he promised in his inaugural speech has helped in the current achievement recorded by the Nigerian military against the insurgents.

The group also stated that the reforms he introduced to provide a financially prudent system by directing MDAs to respond promptly to audit queries as well as the directive

Sokoto state Governor, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (6th right), in a group photograph with members of UNICEF’s High Level Women Advocacy Group, during their visit to the governor, yesterday in Sokoto.

to all revenue generating agencies to remit monies into a Treasury Single Account (TSA) will aid accountability and transparency.

It also commended the reforms he introduced in the oil sector and the appointments made in the NNPC which the group said is commendable.

It also added that the functioning of the country’s refineries has cut down subsidy payment on petroleum products importation by 40 percent while eliminating fuel queues across the country and the President has clearly stated that the trial of people who looted Nigeria’s treasury will start soon.

The group also said the implementation of the UNEP report for the cleanup of Ogoni land and the restoration of Nigeria’s image in the world which fetched 5 million dollars grant from the US to fight insurgency and wooed investors who promised to invest in Nigeria’s economy is another giant achievement by the President.

“Beyond the listed achievement, it is observed that Nigeria is back on track and the wheel of its progress is rolling at a speed faster than expected” the group stated.

INEC Acting Chair urges workers on financial discipline

By Doyin Ojosipe

Isiaka berates Amosun’s sack of civil servants From James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta

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eactions have continued to trail the sudden sack of six civil servants by Ogun State government over what it called “offensive examination question”, for secondary school students in Ogun State.

The state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the April election, Gboyega Isiaka described the sack as an “act of wickedness, strange to a democratic setting”.

The sack was also described as a continuation of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun led-administration’s antiworkers policies that had seen many civil servants and teachers frustrated and sent out of service.

Isiaka, who expressed shock that Amosun was gradually turning out to be a fascist, also condemned that spate of demolition of property

across the state for cosmetic projects, turning many into homeless and depriving them of their livelihood.

He, however, urged the people of the state to be vigilant and watchful of subsequent draconian policies that could further destroy the sterling legacies of the state and impoverished the common man on the street.

Isiaka, who spoke through his spokesperson, Ifekayode Akinbode, however, advised the government to review its decision and recall the sacked workers.

Akinbode noted that in a civilised clime where sane people are at the helm of affairs, the contents in the said ‘offensive’ article would be dissected to assist government in policy formulation but “what we noticed in Ogun State was that instead of looking at the message they went after the messengers. This is unfortunate”.

The affected workers were officials of the Ministry of Education,

Science and Technology which included two directors on Grade Level 17, Mrs. Folashade Oresegun (Director, Education Support Services) and Deacon Rotimi Ganiyu Odunsi (Director, Curriculum Development and Evaluation).

Others are Mr. Oluwole Majekodunmi (Deputy Director, Curriculum Development and Evaluation on Grade Level 16), Mr. E.O Asegbe (Desk Officer) Grade Level 10; Damilola Taylor (Proof Reader) on Grade Level 8 and a secondary school teacher, Mr. Joel Adegbenro, who set the English Language question.

The two directors were asked to proceed on compulsory retirement while others were dismissed from service after they had appeared before a panel set up at the Bureau of Establishment and Training.

Akinbode noted that the article contained no new information that was not known to the general public,

considering the rate at which people withdraw their wards from public schools because of poor funding, dilapidated infrastructure, obnoxious policies and lack of welfare scheme for teachers.

He said: “We have read the article which only stated the obvious about the rots in the education sector in Ogun State but these are facts known to all parents. Will this government deny the fact that secondary school students in Ogun State sat for the first term examination in the middle of second term and could not write second term exams before Easter vacation because of government huge debt to its printers that refused to release question papers? Will this government deny the fact that it has stopped giving running cost to all secondary schools or dispute the obvious of decline in the standard of education in the schools which has forced those with wherewithal to take their wards to private schools?

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he Acting Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Amina Bala Zakari has advised Directors within the Commission to stick to budgetary provision in the course of the discharge of their duties.

Speaking at a meeting with the directors, recently, the Acting Chairman maintained that for the commission and its processes to continue to function, it must be within the ambit of the law and budgetary provision, adding that this will ensure financial discipline as well.

Zakari who emphasized on discipline and productivity and productivity charged the directors to ensure timely discharge of duties by staff.

She finally directed internal meeting with directors be held monthly as it will assist in the review and implementation of plans, pending when a new constitution including a standing committee is put in place.

In her words, “we need to remind ourselves that routine internal processes should continue and stick to budgetary provisions to encourage expenditure with financial discipline.”

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Kaduna assembly approves bill to establish new logo for state

L-R: Chairman, Transition Committee, Professor Sonni Tyoden, presenting the committee’s report to Plateau state Governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, on Wednesday in Jos.

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Mark to testify before tribunal next week From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

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mmediate past senate president Sen. David Mark is expected to testify next Tuesday at the National Legislative and State Assembly Election Petition

Tribunal sitting in Makurdi.

Sen. Mark’s election for the fifth term at the upper chamber of the National Assembly is been challenged at the tribunal

by Comrade Daniel Onjeh who contested under the platform of

the All Progressives Congress, APC. Comrade Onjeh closed his case last weekend after testifying before the tribunal that the election was marred by irregularities. Mark opened his case this week and

has so far called more than 10 witnesses.

Onjeh told newsmen that he is confident that as the case draws to a close, he will emerge victorious, insisting that the election was manipulated by his rival Mark.

Lack of self confidence bane of youth effectiveness in governance From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

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ldest son of Kaduna State Governor, Bello El-Rufai yesterday identified lack of self confidence on the path of the youth as major bane responsible for the youth’s effectiveness in government.

Speaking as the guest speaker during the celebration of 2015 International Youth day organized

by Aid Foundation in Kaduna yesterday, he said the youth lacks self confidence and this is responsible for why they don’t engage in the government as expected.

He said until the youth make bold steps and build on their confidence they won’t make any meaningful contributions in the state.

Other factors El-Rufai identified as problems responsible for ineffectiveness of the youths in government include inaccessibility and finance.

He urged the youths to make themselves available and key into the government of the day particularly that Governor El-Rufai is interested in youths full of ideas that it can tap from.

Similarly, the Team Leader,

State Accountability and Voice Initiative, SAVI, Mrs. Rebecca SakoJohn tasked the youths to seize the opportunity to effectively engage the government.

She said though for the youths to engage the government it requires that they are well educated and skills for informed, effective and participatory citizenship.

“However in Nigeria, youths seem not to have been mainstreamed into governance as expected. We still find persons fifty years and above representing youths while millions of youths are denied their yearning to contribute their

quota in National development and cut their teeth at leadership.

“Civic engagement begins with education of youths and others to understand their rights and responsibilities in this complex country of ours. Civic engagement also requires skills for informed, effective and participatory citizenship. Youths need to keep themselves well informed on happenings, trends, policies and how government operates to engage effectively especially in explaining and analysing issues when mobilising for change,” she said.

Yobe: Tribunal admits report of election irregularities against Gaidam

By Aisha Raji Bello

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he Yobe State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja yesterday received in evidence, a report of a key witness in the petition challenging the election of Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, Alhaji Mamu Mohammed containing details of alleged irregularities showing inconsistencies in accreditation of voters for the April 11, governorship election.

The said report, now in evidence also contained the number of

people accredited for the election, card reader and manual register and recorded number of Form EC 8.

The document further contained detailed analysis of the number of ballot papers used for the election which the author claimed were less than the total votes cast.

It would be recalled that the tribunal on Wednesday, admitted into evidence, the report of the Financial and Economic Crimes Commission (EFCC), on the N15 million bribery allegation against

the Yobe State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC).

A witness from the EFCC, Mr. Emmanuel Aremo who tendered the report said he was an investigation officer who investigated the matter and that some persons attempted to induce the state REC to favour the incumbent governor.

The tribunal had last Thursday admitted the testimonies of two witnesses who told it how N15 million was allegedly paid into the account of the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Yobe state shortly before the April 11 governorship

election in the state.

Two senior personnel of two new generation banks had testified before the tribunal last Thursday the lodgement of N8million and N7million into the accounts on April 8, 2015.

But Malam Yusuf Ali (SAN) counsel to the state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam described the allegation as baseless saying that the petitioner was only out to entertain the court.

According to the witnesses, only N23, 000 was in the account before the money was deposited.

aduna State House of Assembly yesterday passed a bill to introduce a new official logo for the state. The bill cited as “the Kaduna State Logo law, 2015” however the assembly warned that any official document or correspondence of government that does not bear the official logo shall be invalid.

The bill which was passed into law at the House plenary sitting yesterday followed the adoption of a report by the Chairman, Joint Committee of Youth and Sport, Commerce and Industry, Tourism and Justice, Barrister Kantiok Irimiya Ishaku after third reading of the bill on the floor of the House.

It would be recalled that the assembly after deliberation on the bill at it second reading referred the bill to the joint committee to look into it and report back to the House on Thursday (yesterday).

According to the law, all official communications, correspondences and transactions by government establishments shall bear the official logo.

“All the Government official documents or and correspondences of government issued or done before the commencement of the law shall be deemed to have been done pursuant of this law.”

The law also said all persons in the employment of government shall ensure strict compliance with the provisions of the law.

The distinctive features of the new official logo include, Motor: “work and worship”, Green Vegetation which stands for agriculture, economy, abundance and conservation. Crocodile depicts strength, resilience, indestructible and ancestry while cattle imply fertility, abundance and nourishment.

Other features includes, Nok which stands for history, culture, arts and tourism; Crop means agriculture and economy; Water Body implies life, purity and recreation; Book stands for education, knowledge, centre of learning; Northern knot which means history, tradition and culture while the Kakaki implies culture and history; Banner stand for history, way of life; the decorated black horse means dependence, culture, history and tradition and Shield implies safety and protection.

Meanwhile, the purpose of creating the logo was clearly to identify and encapsulate the policy thrust of the government by articulating the direction and focus of the key sectors constituting its fulcrum.

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Adamawa assembly approves N8.7 bn loan for projects

Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara (left), Chairman, North East National Assembly Caucus, Senator Danjuma Goje (2nd left), Vice Chairman, Hon. Mohammed Munguno (middle), and other members of the caucus, during the inauguration of the North East Caucus of National Assembly, yesterday in Abuja.

From Umar Dankano, Yola

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damawa State House of Assembly has granted an approval to the state government to secure credit facility of N8.7 billion naira for construction of urban, rural roads and rehabilitation of hospitals in the state.

The House resolution was informed as a result of an official letter written by the state Governor, Sen. Muhammadu Jibrilla Bindow to the legislature in that regards which was read at the floor of the House by the Speaker Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa at yesterday’s plenary session.

In the letter with reference No GHA/S/528/S1/351 dated 11th August 2015, the funds would be used for urban and rural roads construction as well as rehabilitation of hospitals and other developmental projects which have direct bearing on the citizenry in the state.

“The term loan (N8.7) would be consolidated and restructured with the state’s existing term loan obligation of N11. 7 billion with Zenith Bank Plc. “In view of the urgency of this restructuring exercise by the Federal Government of Nigeria, we hereby seek your kind understanding and consideration for the issuance of a House resolution approving the N8.7 billion term loan”, the letter reads.

The House Deputy Majority Leader, Hon Mohammed Mutawalli representing Girei constituency, moved the motion for the approval which was seconded by Mallam Abubakar Abdulrahman representing Mubi South.

Thereafter, the Speaker directed the Clerk of the House to communicate the House approval of the loan to the executive arm with immediate effect.

Commenting on the express approval granted the request by the House, Abubakar Abdulrahaman who is the House Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Finance and Budget, said the request was in order and that as APC members they lawmakers were committed to support any move by the APC led government in the state to fast-track development in the state.

“We promised change and will never hesitate to support our party led government in its effort to bring change.

The House at the plenary also approved the executive request to restructure all commercial loans into Federal Government bond.

Photo: Mahmud Isa

Don’t truncate fight against corruption - APC warns From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos

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he All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned against any attempt to truncate the ongoing fight against corruption under any guise, while also expressing total support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s determination to end the scourge of corruption in the country.

In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party appealed to all Nigerians, especially opinion leaders, to ensure that their actions and utterances do not give comfort to those who have looted the commonwealth. ‘’Our party promised Nigerians change, but the change that we promised and which Nigerians desire so much cannot be achieved if we allow the resources that belong to all Nigerians to be appropriated

by a few. How do we upgrade our decayed infrastructure and provide jobs for our people when the money meant for that has been squirreled away by a few? ‘’President Buhari has promised to break the vicious cycle of corruption that has held Nigeria down. How can he do that if he allows those who have looted the treasury to escape justice, and then use their ill-gotten wealth to fight the government? How can he do that if he turns a blind eye to the monumental cases corruption in all sectors? ‘’We know that fighting corruption in a society where the cankerworm has eaten deep into its fabric will not be easy.

We know that corruption will always fight back. But there is no other choice than to confront and destroy this monster once and for all, lest it destroys Nigeria,’’ it said.

APC said the President’s sincerity of purpose can be seen from his statement that any of his party member who is found to be corrupt will not escape justice. ‘’Therefore, those who are shouting themselves hoarse by saying the Buhari Administration’s fight against corruption is selective or is a distraction are only seeking to sabotage the epic battle. ‘’If they have any case of corruption against any member of the APC, they should forward their evidence to the appropriate anti-corruption agency. But to take to the airwaves and the pages of newspaper to use their paid agents to launch a campaign against the anti-graft fight is to fight against the very existence and survival of Nigeria. ‘’The danger in truncating the fight against corruption is that it will consign Nigeria to poverty, insecurity and unemployment

in perpetuity. That is why we are restating our unalloyed support for the President, and urging him not to be deterred or distracted by those hiding under sophistry to weaken the fight,’’ the party said.

It said those who are engaging in nitpicking on the anti-corruption fight are simply implementing a well-oiled plan to make enough noise by accusing the Buhari administration of being selective, and hope to create enough confusion and distraction to hoodwink unsuspecting Nigerians. ‘’We are glad that most Nigerians have lent their support to the government’s fight against corruption, going by their interventions on the Social Media which has now become a people’s parliament of sorts, and other fora. We urge them not to relent in their support, irrespective of the antics of the naysayers,’’ APC said.

Defamation: Yuguda sues APC chieftain, demands N10 bn damages From Ahmed Kaigam, Bauchi

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ormer governor Mallam Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has slammed a N10 billion suit before the Bauchi State High Court 9 against the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Alhaji Sani Shehu for alleged defamatory utterances against his personality and his administration Counsel to the plaintiff, Barrister Okechukwu Nwaeze in a chat with journalists in Bauchi yesterday, said the former

governor Isa Yuguda is seeking N10 billion damages in an action against Sani Mallam over the allegation that Isa Yuguda is corrupt and fraudulent during his tenure as the governor of Bauchi State.

Barrister Okechukwu said the plaintiff’s complaint of the APC chieftain over reckless and defamatory public comments on his personality and past administration on two radio stations, Ray Power and BRC in the state.

The counsel alleged that the

Sani Mallam who was the former ANPP chairman in the state, accused Yuguda “for performing woefully, that the former governor rather engaged in excessive looting of public treasury, calling him names such election rigger and manipulator, all those statements tempered with the reputation and personality of the former governor” “It is not right to persecute people in the media If the man is guilty of any fraud, the defendant should provide the proof or otherwise focus on his political

activities,” Nwaeze said.

The counsel to the former governor said “our prayers are that the court should issue an order for the defendant to tender apologies in two national dailies and two online papers, the defendant should also be banned from featuring on such a political program in media houses and pay the sum of 10 billion naira damages to the plaintiff.”

The presiding judge, Justice Muazu Abubakar has since adjoined the case to 6 October 2015 for mentioning.

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Ekiti govt debunks APC claims on allocation, says state got N4.1bn in June

Delta state Governor, Mr. Ifeayi Okowa (middle), answering questions from journalist after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

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Kogi guber: Buhari support group backs Maiyanga

By Muhammed Usman

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he Buhari Support Group has thrown its weight behind the aspiration of Alhaji Idris Usman Maiyanga, for the governorship of Kogi State.

The group, in a statement by its leader, Engr Ahmed Zakari, said that with the large deposit of mineral resources, the state requires a credible hand to lift it from its present position.

“We believe that Kogi State, being the gateway to the hinterland of the country, with large deposits of mineral resources, including iron and steel, coal field, oil deposit and green field, requires a credible and competent hand with sound human management and financial intelligence to handle,” the statement said.

The group appealed to the leadership of the All Progressives

Congress (APC) to ignore the call for power shift, as such would work against the chances of the party winning the state in the November 21 governorship election.

“We plead with the people to step down the issue of power shift or anything that will not allow APC to win the state, they should be avoided for the interest of the party in the state,” it said.

The group explained that the call for Maiyanga to run for the race was based on his integrity and consistency, having run for the position twice in the past under the Action Congress (AC) in 2007 and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011.

The group said it is aware of pranks being played by some spoilers sponsored by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to sabotage the effort of APC so that the people will have

no choice but vote PDP candidate in the election.

“We are also aware of those who were indicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and are under investigation by the commission, who ought to have stepped down honourably, but, still went ahead to buy form and dare the probity of President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of APC, knowing that PMB has agreed with Nigerians not to tolerate anyone with signs of corruption. It is on these bases that we are settling for Alhaji Idris Usman Maiyanga,” it said.

The Buhari Support Group said Maiyanga was found to be more reliable than any other when it comes to developmental programme of the state.

The group said: “We believe in those who persevere and are loyal to the leadership of APC and

PMB. In 2011, Maiyanga singlehandedly established CPC in Kogi Sate by conducting congresses and establishing its structure. It is on the basis of consistency, trust and belief in the capacity of PMB that the council of elders, led by Alhaji Yusuf Idris Tawari, of Western Senatorial Zone and Prof Y.O Aliyu of Central Senetorial Zone, we came together and presented Maiyanga as the coordinator of PMB. “It is on this basis that we decided to draft him into this race, with the view to anchoring promises made by the APC and PMB to Kogi State in particular and Nigeria in general,” the release said.

It however said that Maiyanga’s aspiration was also supported by groups that cut across PDP, APC, traditional rulers and women groups, amongst others.

Benue assembly approves second loan worth over N5 bn for Ortom From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

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enue State House of Assembly, yesterday approved the request of Governor Samuel Ortom to obtain a loan of over N5.5billion to finance some counterpart fund projects in the state.

The approval followed a debate on a letter titled “ Request for a House resolution to obtain a loan for counterpart funding” signed by the Governor, Samuel Ortom and read on the floor by the Speaker, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange.

In the letter, the governor

stated that the World Bank and other donor agencies such as the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC have over the years been involved in financing various programmes and projects in the state.

“Some of these programmes involve the provision of infrastructure for primary education under Universal Basic Education Board matching grant scheme, community projects, water and sanitation, agriculture programmes and control of HIV/ AIDS among other projects”.

He further said that the

funding scheme involves the state government contributing 50 per cent matching grant of whatever amount of money the donor agencies have for the state in respect of each programme or project.

It noted however that these programmes have been stalled since last year due to the state’s failure to make her counterpart funding, adding, “ I have observed the need for these programmes and projects, but at the same time have found it difficult to raise funds from the federation account and internally generated revenue to

finance them” A breakdown of the projects and programme and counterpart funding required for them is as follows; MDGS, 600 million Naira, Community and Social Development Projects, 197 million Naira, FADAMA, 217 million Naira, Water and Sanitation, 1,175,850,511.50, IFAD-VCDP, billion naira N166, 500, 000.00, Universal Basic Education, N3,200,000,000.00, totalling #5,556,350,511.50.

It should be noted that Governor Ortom’s had earlier obtained a N10 billion for the payment of workers’ salaries.

kiti State government has debunk claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the State got a total sum of N8.5bn from the Federation Account in June, saying that the State got a total sum of N4.1bn while the 16 Local Councils got N2.7bn.

Reacting to claim by the APC, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Idowu Adelusi said lying has become the first name of the APC, urging Ekiti people to ignore them as they have always done.

He said; “In June, Ekiti State got net allocation of N1,958,432,714.17 and in July, the State got a sum of N2,687,536,884.88.

“The breakdown for June allocation is as follows; Gross Allocation (N1,815,552,424.75), Value Added Tax (N536,678,738.75) and Exchange Rate Gains (N171,236,640.31).

“The following deductions were made from the allocation, Foreign Loan (N42,260,280.19), Contractual ObligationsISPO (N397,196,808.00), Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (N23,120,001.44) and Bond Issuance Programme 2 (N102,458,000.01), totaling N565,035,089.64.

“If N565,035,089.64 is deducted from the gross allocation of N1,815,552,424.75, it will leave a sum of N1,250,517,335.11 and this added to VAT and Exchange Rate Gains will be N1,958,432,714.17.

“In June also, Ekiti State got N2,173,624,315.39 from the Liquefied Natural Gas proceed while the 16 Local Councils got N1,259,124,010.15, totaling N3,432,748,325.54.

“Addition of the State’s June allocation of N1,958,432,714.17 and the LNG Proceed of N2,173,624,315.39 will be N4,132,057,030.

“The local councils total allocation for June of N1,455,018,959.92 added to the N1,259,124,010.15 LNG Proceed will be N2,714,142,970 and if this is added to the State total June revenue of N4,132,057,030, it will amount to N6,846,200,000.

“The facts as laid bare here is that Ekiti State and the 16 Local Councils got N6.8bn in June.

“Our question then is, where did the APC liars get their own voodoo June Federal Allocation of N8.5bn from?”

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How we saved cost through downsizing-NNPC

By Etuka Sunday

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he Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said it was able to save cost from the recent downsizing of the 38 top management staff of the corporation.

The Corporation explained that the downsizing which saw the exit of all senior managers who were billed to retire between now and December 2016 is also a cost-saving measure.

“The exercise, apart from gearing the Corporation in the

direction of a leaner and more efficient organization, has enormous cost-saving benefits”.

In a related development, the Group Managing Director, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, with the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari, has appointed new Group General Managers (GGMs) to man some of its Divisions.

Some of the new GGMs include Mr. Mele Kyari, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD); Mr. Ahmadu Sambo, NNPC Oilfield Services; Dr. Surajdeen Bola Afolabi, ITD/SAP; Mr. Zubair Aliyu, NNPC Capital; Mr. Dafe

Sejebor, Nigerian Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS); Mrs. Kemi Akitoye, Human Resources Division; Mr. Godwin C. Okonkwo, Finance; Mr. Bello Rabiu, Corporate Planning Division; Mr. Anibo Kragha, Treasury; and Mr. Dalhatu Makama, Shipping (Nidas & Nikorma).

Others appointed are: Mr. Samuel Ndukwe, GGM, Power; Mr. Mike Balami, GGM, Accounts; Mr. Yusuf Matashi, GGM, LNG; Mr. Rabiu Suleiman, GGM, Engineering & Technology; and Dr. Olubunmi Oyetunde; GGM, Medical.

…Appoints new GGMs Meanwhile, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has commiserated with victims of the helicopter that crashed into the Lagoon at Oworosonki area in Lagos yesterday.

In a statement by the Corporation, the GMD was quoted as saying that he was touched by the sad news of the crash of the helicopter that was ferrying oil workers from an oil installation offshore.

“This is particularly sad for me because it involves workers in the oil industry who were returning home to their families and friends after a period of hard work in the very difficult terrain where most of the operations in the industry are located.

“My heart goes to the victims of the crash and their families. It is my prayer that God should give the departed sweet repose, their families the fortitude and grace to bear the loss, and the lucky survivors speedy recovery”, Dr. Kachikwu stated.

-R: Managing Director, Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) Plc, Mr. Alf Karlsen, Chairman, Board of Directors, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, Company Secretary, Mr. Ahmed Aliyu, and a Director, Alhaji Kabiru Rabiu, during the 2014 Annual Report and Account of CCNN, yesterday in Abuja.

Photo: Mahmud Isa

Cement output to increase as refineries begin production ...As Sokoto Cement pays 35k dividend to shareholders

By Etuka Sunday

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hairman , Northern Cement company of Nigeria plc (sokoto cement), Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu has expressed optimism that the energy challenge facing cement industry will be overcome as local refineries begin operations.

He gave the assurance yesterday in Abuja at the 36th Annual General Meeting of the firm conveyed to lay before the shareholders, annual

report and financial statements for the year ended 31st December , 2014.

During the year under review, the company recorded a turnover of N15, 119,050,874 as against N15,311,003,677 recorded in 2013. The company profit after tax was N1,918,361,854 as against N1,559,030,547 in 2013.

The board recommended payment of gross dividend of 35 kobo per share compared to 70 kobo per share it paid last year

which he attributed to cash crunch occasioned by harsh business operating environment in the country.

Addressing the shareholders , Rabiu said : “ The market as you know is quite challenging but we are quite hopeful . You know sokoto cement uses fuel, the LPO and diesel to power the plants. Its a big issue for us but having said that it’s promising to note that some of the refineries have started working. We believe that the cost of our energy

consumption is going to come down and we are very optimistic that, with the new plant we are putting which should be ready by next year, what you have seen today is just the beginning of good things to come. By next year we are going to be commissioning our 1.5 million line in Sokoto. This will include the coal which will power the entire plant”.

He said the firm experienced a longer maintenance stop for a planned replacement of a new kiln shell segment during the year under review adding that “ the production stopped together with a somewhat

weaker demand for cement in the second half of year caused a small reduction in the sales volume compared to previous year”.

On Okpela cement in Edo state, which the group company, BUA acquired a controlling stake , the chairman told shareholders that the plant had commenced production. “ We have commenced production this week. Its looking good, we started with about 2000 tonnes a day and is progressing .

We are expecting to be producing about 8,000 tonnes a day by end of this month. Okpella is a success story “ , he said.

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NSE: 89% firms file audited accounts From Ngozi Onyeakusi, Lagos

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he Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday confirmed that as at August 3, 2015, 89% of the active listed companies have filed their audited accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014.

The Exchange therefore wishes to again remind the affected companies of their obligations under the Listings

Rules (Section 19.5 of the Amendments to the Listing Rules).

During the last two years, NSE has granted all listed companies a month’s grace after their respective regulatory filing dates noting the regulatory challenges of adopting the International Financial Reporting Standards by the listed companies and socio-political uncertainties that prevailed in the country in recent

times.

The Exchange believes that the extended filing period was therefore adequate and Issuers should have no reason for failing to file their audited financials as at when due.

Tinuade Awe, Head of Legal and Regulation Division of the NSE stated that “late filing has the potential to adversely affect the market and their shareholders.

It creates grounds for avoidable

doubts regarding companies’ performances.

The Exchange is monitoring the compliance status of these companies very closely and is engaging the affected companies accordingly.

We encourage investors to always check the X-Compliance Report and Released Financials on our website for full details of the compliance status of listed companies before making

investment decisions”.

For failure to file audited reports timely the NSE sanctions range from penalties to regulatory delisting of the securities from the Daily Official List of The Exchange. These penalties accrue on a weekly basis and further depletes the bottom-line of the companies’ earnings.

These penalties are also expected to be disclosed in the annual reports of the companies.

L-R: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Mr. Mohammed Bashir, representative of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Ambassador Danjuma Sheni, Secretary General, Ministry of Transport, Niger Republic, Mr. Abdoulaye Aignime, and Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Hassan Bello, during the Nigeria-Niger Joint Commission for Cooperation’s workshop on facilitation of transit trade in Nigeria, yesterday in Abuja.

Photo: NAN

Defunct Afri-Bank Shareholders beg Buhari to intervene

By Ahmed Aabubakar

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he shareholders of the defunct Afribank Plc whose investment in the shares of the bank has been hanging since the collapse of the bank in 2009 occassioned by alleged financial misappropriation and fraud by the estwhile executive directors of the said bank have pleaded for President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene.

The call was made in statement issued by the Executive Director,

Nigeria Transparency Network, Barr Aliyu Ibrahim.

The statement said, in 2009 the economic and financial crimes commission began the prosecution of members of the management staff of the bank over alleged complicity in the issue of financial dealings that led to the collapse of the bank.

According to the statement, “the prosecution by the EFCC under the leadership of the former Chairperson, Mrs Farida Waziri was ongoing when suddenly

certain intrigues that affected the smooth prosecution of one of the accussed persons, Alh Jibrin Isah who was allegedly converted to a prossecution witness during the trial.

It also stated that, “the EFCC whom had earlier told the court that the said Alh Jibrin Isahj was no where to be found in 2010 suddenly re-appeared and was seen campaigning as a gubernatorial aspirant of the PDP”.

The statement alleged that the accused was subsequently made

to be the prosecuting witness in an alleged financial mismanagement he personally supretended over while serving as the executive director of the bank, an action that other accused persons challenged.

“We also recalled that we have written a letter of petition to the current chairman of EFCC dated 31st of July, 2015 and a copy of it published in an advertorial in tone of the national dailies (not Peoples Daily) of Monday 3rd August, 2015 requesting for the Chairman of the commission to revisit the matter

with a view to properly investigate and begin a fresh prosecution in the general interest of justice and particular interest of the shareholders.

It is also worthy of note that the current administration under the astute leadership of President Muhammodu Buhari has promised a zero tolerance to corruption, a feat we hope, the EFCC will uphold in order to support the objectives of government as it relates to corruption.

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Nigeria, Kenya, others to launch ETFs cross listing From Ngozi Onyeakusi, Lagos

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nvestors in Nigeria, Kenya, Johannesburg and South Africa are in top discussions to launch cross listing of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) across African Exchanges, a move that will earn investors exposure to shares listed on exchanges of said countries.

The move which will improved liquidity on Africa’s exchanges, will equally see increased cross listings of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) on the larger exchanges on the continent.

There is a concerted effort from ETF issuers in various markets

to cross list new and existing ETF’s on to other exchanges, and the exchanges themselves are working to ensure that the right frameworks are in place to enable this.

ETFs are a collection of equities, commodities or bonds bundled together in a fund to ensure that investor risks are evenly spread across this range of securities. ETFs are only written off specific index-related securities that are listed on a stock exchange, and this makes it possible to invest in a diverse range of securities through a single exchange traded product.

The concept of cross listing an

ETF is the same as cross listing a share, or listing it on more than one exchange. It provides domestic investors with access to opportunities from another market, in the convenient and cost effective form of an ETF. According to the Director, Capital Markets at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, (JSE), Donna Oosthuyse, by cross listing ETFs on African exchanges, investors will be given access to liquid company shares tracked by indices such as the FTSE/ JSE Top 40; the FTSE/ NSE Kenya 15 Index; and the MSCI/Nigeria. “ETFs are one of the fastest growing asset-

class categories in the world.

By collaborating with Africa’s largest stock exchanges, we hope to spearhead this trend in Africa,” The cross listing of ETFs will fulfil two main functions: Investors will have exposure to a diverse range of top performing Nigerian, Kenyan and South African companies in a convenient and cost effective way; and the cross-listings of ETFs will also improve the liquidity of Africa’s largest stock exchanges.

Oosthuyse explains that the advantages for companies included in the ETF indices, and for the exchanges from whence

Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, addressing journalists after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

Photo: Joe Oroye

they come, are that ETFs need to be ‘fully covered’. “This means that the asset manager that is managing the ETF portfolio has to buy and sell the underlying shares on the home exchange, depending on the activity of buying and selling of the ETF.”

Buhari to NASENI: Publicize your inventions

By Lawrence Olaoye

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resident Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to do more to publicize its inventions for the benefit of Nigerians.

Speaking after a presentation to him of NASENI’s recent work, President Buhari observed that unless the agency’s inventions are adopted and further developed by manufacturers, the country and ordinary Nigerians will not enjoy the fruits of its good work.

The President, who was impressed by the achievements and inventions presented to him at the Presidential Villa, also directed NASENI to explore ways of working with the Defence Industries Corporation, Kaduna to manufacture the light weapons it has designed.

“Looking at your work…, the laboratory equipment, the weapons designs…., these are things that can save us resources if you can coordinate with existing specialist agencies and work together,” President Buhari told the Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Professor M. S. Haruna.

Apart from the light weapon designs and laboratory equipment, other NASENI inventions presented to President Buhari included new energy-saving LED lamp products.

Senate calls for Fixed Charge removal due to protracted power supply -Igali

By Etuka Sunday

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he Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Dr. Godknows Igali yesterday attributed the recent call by the Senate for the removal of electricity Fixed Charges from tariff to protracted power supply in the country.

He however disclosed that power supply is heading towards 5,000megawatts (mw).

Igali who spoke at a renewable energy training for the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) in Abuja , Igali said “We are discussing

...Says electricity heads for 5,000mw

with the Senate. There are areas of misunderstanding and when things are not too clear, you dialogue and try to explain. We are closely with the Discos and we assure Nigerians that on short term, power supply will be reliable.”

On fixed charge tariff component, he said: “if we have to have a full power supply, there must be investments in critical infrastructures like meters and transformers. For that to happen, they must charge people. But the good thing is that light has been

stable now and we are going towards 5,000megawatts (mw).”

At the presentation of the approved draft National Renewable Energy Action Plan policy document for a Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) said President Muhammadu Buhari had at the power agencies’ meeting, Wednesday directed the ministry to work in a concerted effort to develop the power sector.

The ministry said only Renewable Energy (RE) can guarantee sustainable power

supply especially on the nation’s rural electrification strategies including the use of solar.

Igali noted the usefulness of solar, wind, biomass and coal as sources of renewable energy saying it would reduce the technical losses incurred from using thermal and hydro power plants.

“For sustainability, we have solar which every part of Nigeria can sustain. Solar Photo Voltaic (PV) has come to stay as it can be sustained in every part of Nigeria all year round. If countries like

Germany, Finland or Russia which are very cold can depend on solar technology for a good part of their energy, what about us where the sunlight is a little bit too much.

He said, the ministry is in talks with state governors to look beyond thermal and hydro sources for energy. “Let land be available so that investors can come in because solar plant consumes a lot of land. A megawatt takes about a hectare of land and their availability is an issue in the states,” said Igali.

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Kano Disco tasks power users on prompt payment of bills

By Etuka Sunday

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he Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has debunked the rumour making the rounds that all customers on its network will not be paying their monthly electricity bills this month.

In a statement issued

by Mohammed Kandi, the

Communications Coordination in KEDCO, urged the customers to disregard any allusion that the Federal Government had already settled their monthly bills in a part or as a whole.

Kandi also informed that the rumour had emanated from erroneous news broadcast on an indigenous Radio station in Kano, misinterpreting its news

source while trying to translate the original message from English to Hausa language.

He explained that, “We met the management of the Radio Station in question yesterday (Wednesday) and they admitted their fault and went further to apologised.”

“In fact, they gave us the privilege of making more clarifications and dispelling

the speculations in one of their programs in Hausa and we appreciated that gesture,” the company’s spokesperson said.

According to Kandi, “there was no need for that misconception in the first place because the Senate was very clear in its message.

The Senate only advised the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to prevail on the

DISCOs to consider abolishing the fixed charge component in the tariff order, not stopping customers from paying for the bills which they already consumed.”

The KEDCO spokesperson described the incident as “unfortunate” calling on all customers to continue paying their electricity bills as quickly as possible.

L-R: Director General, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Engineer Muhammed Haruna, presenting made in Nigeria bulbs to President Muhammadu Buhari, during his visit to the president, yesterday at the State House, in Abuja.

Photo: Joe Oroye

NICON to sell properties to pay gratuity From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

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he National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON), has advised pension union of National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA) to sell off some of its (NICON) developed properties to enable the Corporation to pay them their outstanding gratuities.

The chairman of the Pension Union of (NSRMEA) Mr Babatunde Adeyemo, who disclosed this while speaking to the media in Kaduna yesterday, said, the Federal Government paid into Deposit Administration account with run by NICON, the

sum of 118.27 million Naira for 39 pensioners for the purpose of settling their gratuities.

He further explained that the Deposit Administration account is exclusively for the settlement of the benefits of the agency’s retired staff which makes it possible for them to receive their benefit not later than three months.

“But unfortunately since the privatization of NICON the new owners, dip their hands into the Deposit Administration account and used the money for other purpose and when contacted by the pensioners who some of their outstanding dated back to 2005,

the NICON advised the union to look for buyers of some of their properties especially those in Kaduna which include the three storey office block at No. 24 NBC Road Kaduna and two block of eight flats located at No 8A Sokoto Road, Kaduna.

“We see this as an insult as senior citizens who have served and retired meritoriously only for an organization trying to turn us into a estate agents in order to get our right,” he said.

Giving credence to this the general secretary of the pensioners union, Mr. Emeka Anche said, the union has written severally to NICON on the matter

and what transpired in NICON is nothing by fraud, because the Deposit Administration account was established by the Federal Government and kept in the custody of NICON and not for the corporation to spend.

Anche further explained that an an insurance company, NICON should know that money in his deposit can be claimed by the owners at any time and more insulting now is the corporation asking the union to look for buyers for some of his properties in Kaduna, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.

“We call on President Muhammadu Buhari led

administration to investigate to what happened to the Deposit Administration account with NICON and why citizens who have served this country are now being made mockery of by asking them to look for property buyers in order to get their entitlements.

“Some of our members from 2005 to date are late and they have not received any money from NICON as gratuity. This is sheer wickedness because the corporation is supposed to be the administrator of their defined benefit scheme and unless the government take a decisive step the hope of senior citizens like us remains bleak,” he said.

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Special Report

The ultimate comeback: Bringing the dead back to life A

radical procedure that involves replacing a patient’s blood with cold salt water could retrieve people from the brink of death, says David Robson.

Scientists have developed a new technique to regrow human corneas.

“When you are at 10C, with no brain activity, no heartbeat, no blood – everyone would agree that you’re dead,” says Peter Rhee at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “But we can still bring you back.”

Rhee isn’t exaggerating.

With Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland, College Park, he has shown that it’s possible to keep bodies in ‘suspended animation’ for hours at a time. The procedure, so far tested on animals, is about as radical as any medical procedure comes: it involves draining the body of its blood and cooling it more than 20C below normal body temperature.

Once the injury is fixed, blood is pumped once again through the veins, and the body is slowly warmed back up. “As the blood is pumped in, the body turns pink right away,” says Rhee. At a certain temperature, the heart flickers into life of its own accord.

“It’s quite curious, at 30C the heart will beat once, as if out of nowhere, then again – then as it gets even warmer it picks up all by itself.” Astonishingly, the animals in their experiments show very few ill-effects once they’ve woken up. “They’d be groggy for a little bit but back to normal the day after,” says Tisherman.

Tisherman created headlines around the world earlier this year, when he announced that they were ready to begin human trials of the technique on gunshot victims in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The first patients will have been so badly wounded that their hearts have stopped beating, meaning that this is their last hope. “Cheating death with ‘suspended animation’” is how CNN put it; “Killing a patient to save his life” was the New York Times’ take.

Hyped up The news coverage has sometimes offended Tisherman’s cautious

The boundary between life and death is increasingly unclear (Thinkstock) sensibility.

During our conversation, he comes across as a thoughtful, measured man, who is careful not to oversell his research. He is particularly wary of using the term ‘suspended animation’.

“My concern isn’t that it’s inaccurate – it’s that when people think of the term, they think about space travellers being frozen and woken up on Jupiter, or Han Solo in Star Wars,” he says. “That doesn’t help, because it’s important for the public to know it’s not science fiction – it’s based on experimental work and is being studied in a disciplined manner, before we use it to stop people dying.” Rhee, who came to global attention after treating congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after a shooting in 2011, tends to be bolder: he says he wouldn’t rule out longerterm suspended animation, in the distant future. “What we’re doing is beginning part of that experiment.”

Tisherman’s quest to bring people back from the brink of death began at medical school, where he studied under Peter Safar. It is an inspiring dynasty: in the 1960s Safar had pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the now familiar procedure of applying pressure to the chest cavity to try to massage the heart back to life.

Safar’s work began to change our perceptions of death – blurring the point that is meant to mark the end of our

lives. “We’ve all been brought up to think death is an absolute moment – when you die you can’t come back,” says Sam Parnia, at the State University of New York in Stony Brook.

“It used to be correct, but now with the basic discovery of CPR we’ve come to understand that the cells inside your body don’t become irreversibly ‘dead’ for hours after you’ve ‘died’… Even after you’ve become a cadaver, you’re still retrievable.”

Blurred line Tisherman now thinks of death as the (admittedly subjective) point at which doctors give up resuscitation as a lost cause – but even then, some people can still

make a remarkable comeback.

Last December, a paper in the journal Resuscitation caused a stir by suggesting that 50% of surveyed emergency doctors have witnessed ‘Lazarus phenomena’, in which a patient’s heart has begun beating again by itself, after doctors had given up hope.

Kick-starting the heart is only one half of the doctor’s battle, however; the lack of oxygen after a cardiac arrest can cause serious damage to the body’s vital organs, particularly the brain. “Every minute that there’s no oxygen to those organs, they start dying,” says Tisherman. His former mentor, Safar, came up with a solution

Some people have come back from the dead, even after CPR has stopped (Thinkstock) to this problem too, with ‘therapeutic hypothermia’, a procedure that involves cooling the body, typically to around 33C by placing ice packs around the body, for instance. At lower temperatures, cells begin to work in slow motion, reducing their metabolism and the damage that could be caused by oxygen starvation.

Combined with machines that can take over circulation and pump oxygen into the blood stream while the heart is being revived, this has helped open the window between cardiac arrest and brain death.

One hospital in Texas recently reported that an 40-year-

The procedure involves replacing all blood in the body with saline solution (SPL)

old man had survived, with his mind intact, after threeand-a-half hours of CPR. His treatment involved a constant rotation of medical students, nurses and doctors taking it in turns to perform the chest compressions.

“Anybody in the room who had two arms was asked to jump in,” says one of the attending doctors, Scott Taylor Bassett. Such cases are rare, however: Bassett, points out that they were only motivated to continue because the patient regained consciousness during the CPR, despite the fact that his heart

was still not functioning.

“During the chest compressions he would speak to us, showing he was neurologically intact,” says Bassett. “I’ve never seen it before or since – it was the defining moment of the entire decision making.”

Buying time Such long-term resuscitation is currently impossible for people whose cardiac arrest is accompanied by injury from trauma – such as gunshot wounds or automobile accidents. At the moment, the surgeon’s best option is to clamp the arteries leading to the lower body, before opening

the chest and massaging the heart, which pushes a little blood flow to the brain while surgeons try to stitch up the wounds. Unfortunately, the survival rate is less than one in 10.

It is for this reason that Tisherman wants to plunge the body to around 10-15C, potentially giving the doctors a window of two or more hours to operate. Although this level of deep hypothermia is sometimes applied during heart surgery, Tisherman’s project is the first time that it will have been be used to revive someone who had already ‘died’ before entering the hospital. Perhaps most astonishing of all, the team drain the blood from the body and replace it with chilled saline solution. Because the body’s metabolism has stopped, the blood is not required to keep cells alive, and saline solution is the quickest way to cool the patient, explains Tisherman.

With Rhee and others, Tisherman has spent two decades building a substantial portfolio of evidence to prove that the procedure is safe, and effective. Many of the experiments involved pigs inflicted with near-fatal injuries.

Mid-operation, there was no doubt that animals were about as far beyond the realms of the living as it is possible to go and then return. “The pig is as white as you can get,” says Rhee. “It’s just pale, refrigerator meat.” If the animals had been cooled

Seeing light at the end of the tunnel is not necessarily the closest to death you can get (Thinkstock)

quickly enough, however – at around 2C a minute – nearly 90% recovered when their blood was returned to their bodies, after having lain in limbo for more than an hour.

“It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back,” says Rhee.

Once the animals had returned back to more regular activity, the team then performed several tests to check that their brains hadn’t been damaged. For instance, before the procedure, the researchers trained some of the pigs to open a container of a certain colour, where an apple was hidden inside. After they had been revived, most of the animals remembered where to fetch their treat.

Other pigs that hadn’t been trained before the operation, were instead taught the procedure soon after their recovery. They managed to learn just as quickly as the others – again suggesting that there had been no effect on their memories.

Needless to say, gaining approval for human trials has been a struggle. Earlier this year, Tisherman was finally allowed to set up a pilot trial in Pittsburgh to treat patients suffering from gunshot wounds. The hospital sees about one or two such patients a month, meaning that some have already been treated with the technique since the trial began – although it is

too early for Tisherman to speak about the results yet.

He is also setting up a trial in Baltimore, Maryland, and all being well, Rhee will later be able to begin work at Tuscon’s trauma centre.

As with any medical research, there will be some challenges in the transition from the animal experiments to the human trials. The animals received their own blood at the end of the operation, for instance – whereas the patients in this trial will need transfusions that have been sitting in blood banks for weeks. And while the animals were under anaesthesia at the time of injury, the patients won’t have been which could change the way their body reacts to the injury. Tisherman remains optimistic, however. “We generally think that dogs and pigs respond to bleeding in a similar way to humans.”

Other doctors are watching with interest. “It’s very brave,” says Parnia. “Many of us feel that in order to preserve the brain, we have to cool the body a lot more than we’ve done traditionally. But people have been afraid.”

If the trials go according to plan, Tisherman would like to extend the approach to other kinds of trauma. Gunshot victims were chosen for the initial trial because it is easier to localise the source of blood loss, but he hopes eventually

to treat internal bleeding from an automobile accident, for instance. It may even, one day, be used to treat people suffering from heart attacks and other kinds of illness.

Success could also pave the way for investigations into other forms of suspended animation. Some scientists are looking into whether a cocktail of drugs added to the saline solution pumped into body could further reduce the body’s metabolism and prevent injury.

One promising candidate was hydrogen sulphide – the chemical that gives rotten eggs their smell – but although it has been found to reduce the metabolism of some animals, there is little evidence that it improves their chances of survival after a cardiac arrest.

Tisherman instead thinks it will be better to find some potent anti-oxidants that can mop up the harmful chemicals that cause injury.

For Rhee, the need for better treatment is all too urgent. He points out the fate of a patient he saw at the hospital only the day before we spoke. “He was shot in the epigastrium, right under the chest in the middle of the belly,” he says. The hospital staff tried everything they could, but he still died. “It’s exactly the kind of patient we hope we could repair if we’d been able to work in a less rushed fashion.”

Source: BBC

Peter Rhee (right): “It’s the most amazing thing to witness – when the heartbeat comes back” (Thinkstock)

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Islam

BEFORE the divorcement...please!

Allah says: “If a wife fears cruelty or desertion on Her husband’s part, there is no blame on them if They arrange an amicable settlement between themselves; and such settlement is best; Even though men’s souls are swayed by greed.

But if ye do good and practise selfrestraint, Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do.Ye are never able to be fair and just As between women, Even if it is your ardent desire: but turn not away (from a woman) altogether, so As to leave Her (as it were) hanging (in the air). If ye come to a friendly understanding, and practise self- restraint, Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.But if They disagree (and must part), Allah will provide abundance for all from His all-reaching bounty: for Allah is He that careth for all and is wise.”[anNisa’: 128-130]

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n the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. All Praise is due to Allah! We praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our evils and bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Allah is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, the Only One without any partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and final messenger to mankind. May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon His last and final Apostle, his Household, his companions and all his followers till the end of time.

Marriages and divorces are synonymous with human existence and development. From time immemorial, man has been getting married and at the same time getting divorced. However, the instant of later is usually characterized by sorrow rather than happiness.

Allah, the Most High has decreed the lawfulness of divorce though He distastes it. In a hadith narrated

by Muharib: The Prophet (pbuh) said: ‘Allah did not make anything lawful more abominable to Him than divorce’. Another one was reported also by Abdullah ibn Umar in which the Messenger of Allah was reported to have said:‘Of all the lawful acts the most detestable to Allah is divorce’.

These two traditions of the Messenger of Allah have gone to teach us that even though divorce could mean the best solution to some marriages’ problems, it is still disliked by Allah the Most High. It is an empirical fact that divorce like marriage, will continue to come about as long as we live on this earth. Today’s discourse will be more concerned with both the spates and rates at which divorces occur today around the worlds of Muslims, is not only alarming, but, seriously distressing. It has become, in many nations, a social pandemic, as well as cultural dilemma that is defying every available solution.

However, for the purpose of illustration, I will limit the scope to Northern Nigeria experiences for the meantime. Even though the northern part of Nigeria is predominantly Muslims populated, the widespread

of divorce has almost reach the level of social plague. With its spate and high level in some major cities such as Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Zaria,Gombe,Yola and Maiduguri, just to mention few of them, one is but discombobulated on both the causes and of workable solutions that could be effective. The phenomena is both distressing and worrisome!

Though one can get over 1001 reasons from someone who divorced his wife or her husband, the chief reasons may not be unconnected with economic or sexual dysfunction factors. I remember very well in the year 2009 there was a clamour from a Kano based NGO which organized a one million divorcees march in protest and revolt against their neglect by the society; but was immediately undermined and averted by the authority of the day.

Consequently, divorcees began to form unions in many states, to write home clearly the ugly states of the social curses. Unfortunately up till now neither local nor state government has correct update statistics of divorcees and the causes of their plights, let alone is prepared to deal with it. To escape castigation from some state government, kano and kaduna states have made frantic efforts to alleviate the aftermath ills of divorce. I do not know of any effort or project of minimizing its spate or its swiftness at which it is done!

I personally prefer to prevent that to cure!

Thus, problems of arbitrary divorces cannot be properly tackled unless their causes are collected, studied carefully and tackled before they are spelt. Therefore, the objective of this discourse also is try to find out the root causes in order to collectively nib them on the buds. In northern Nigeria, a lot of people get marry not because they need it, and are financially and physically competent to undertake it. They in most cases venture into it for the fun of it and or for the cultural reason. This is because culturally, men especially with more than one wife enjoy some respect from the locales. Some Muslims men due to their stark ignorance of the provision of the Shari’ah went wild to consider marriage as simply a casual spree. Compounding the matter, the parents of probable victims women due to hard-hitting poverty, usually submit to any request from just any contender instantaneously as a relief for them. This is not healthy at all as it exposes our collective weakness as a nation, depreciation of our pride, deficient ability, and constraint of community leaders as well as the silence of our Ulamas. The persistence of these shortcomings will eventually consume all of us entirely if not arrested decisively! May God forbid bad thing!

Another reason for the widespread divorce according to many men I discussed the issue with, is the disobedience and naughtiness of the women folk to their husbands, either due to social status or age disparities. The men complain of uncontrollable and excessively arrogance, while the women complain of incompatibility.

Agreed there are disobedient and mischievous women around, but such behaviours are usually aided

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By Husain Zakariyya Yawale +234-8052952900 (sms only) islamexplained35@yahoo.com and abated by the husbands due to either their inexperience or unresponsiveness to their demands, or both. Another possibility is the fact that Islamic rules of family life are seldom observed by the couple.

Someone told me that usually when condition deteriorates or temporary setback sets in, the woman asks for outright or irrevocable divorce; and there she dumps the husband!

In Islam, a woman who compels or demand her husband to divorce her for no legitimate reasons is not only cursed by Allah the Most High, but, will smell the fragrances of Jannah!

On the authority ofThawban, The Prophet (pbuh) said: ‘’If any woman asks her husband for divorce without some strong reasons, the scent of Paradise will be forbidden to her.’’

Consequently, whatever are the causes of the divorce; let its finalization be sanctioned by the Shari’ah from competent courts, and must never again be left to the absolute prejudice of the individual ‘culprit’ husband! I call them so because unless an opening is created, a damaging intrusion cannot be achieved.

I want advocate that based on the tradition of the Messenger of Allah which was reported by Malik bin Anas on the authority of IbnShihab who said, “Every divorced woman has compensation.” And that Imam Malik commented further thus, “There is no fixed limit among us as to how small or large the compensation is.’’ Allah has decreed thus: “And for Divorced women maintenance (Should be provided) on a reasonable (scale). This is a duty on the Righteous.”[al-Baqarah: 241] That is to say every case should be treated on its merit or circumstances of occurrence. If there is no legitimate reason for divorce, it should be thwarted or demand for huge settlement compensation from the wealth of the mover family is legally made and paid. Otherwise marriage life continues under the supervision of the courts.

Consequently, the Shari’ah has taken care of a situation where a woman asks for her divorce.

What I want emphasises here is a scenario where for no Shari’ah sanctioned reason a woman is sent home parking! My campaign is that any divorce that was executed from either must be screened and sanctioned by Shari’ah courts and payment of substantial monetary or material compensation is made to whosoever’s right is violated.

There is an urgent need of a fatwah and legislation of ‘reciprocal khul’i’ or what can be called ‘conditioned divorced’ based on

support payment, upon objective assessment of the socio-economic standard of the victim. However, where children are involved, a good line of communication should be maintained after the divorcement.

Allah says: “And if ye divorce … and do not forget Liberality between yourselves. for Allah sees well all that ye do.”[al-Baqarah: 237] Conversely, Malik went further to mention exceptional instance that Abdullah ibn Umar said, “Every divorced woman has compensation except for the one who is divorced and is allocated a bride-price and has not been touched. She has half of what was allocated to her.”

Such legislation, proving the dynamic nature of Islam, was done during the caliphate of Umar bin Khattab concerning ‘three divorces in one instance’ was considered as same. Malik related from IbnShihab that Marwan ibn al-Hakam decided that if someone made three pronouncements of divorce, he had divorced his wife irrevocably’. That means by analogy, if people decide to undermine a given injunction or circumventing it, a more dynamic by-law is legislated to tackle the incident.

Therefore, a stringent legislation was invoked based on the ruling which was related by Said ibn al-Musayyab who said, “There are three things in which there is no jest; marriage, divorce, and setting a slave free’. Nonetheless, an exemption to this ruling was related

by IbnShihabthus, “When a man who is terminally ill, divorces his wife three times, she must inherit from him.” Furthermore, Malik said, “If he divorces her while he is terminally ill before he has consummated the marriage, she has half of the brideprice and inherits, and she does not have to do an idda (a waiting period of four months and 10 days). If he consummated the marriage, she has the entire dowry and inherits. The virgin and the previously married woman are the same in this situation according to us.”

There are also divorces that are pre arranged, immediately before the commencement of the waiting period or before the solemnization of the marriage. This is a situation where someone is chartered to marry a woman who was irrevocably divorced in order to legalize her for re-marrying by the previous husband; making illegal lawful once more. This group of culprits are also arealso cursed. The Prophet (pbuh) said:May Allah’s curse be upon the one who marries a divorced woman with the intention of making her lawful for her former husband and upon the one for

whom she is made lawful’. Similarly, the Shari’ah in very strong terms forbade any woman to cause other women to be divorced for her to marry her husband.

There is also another reason of divorce which concerns the men of affluence in our societies. There are also some peculiar types of ‘marriages that are totally abhorred and punishable by the Shari’ah.

They include but not limited to ‘experimental sexual extravaganzas’, sexual exploitations through the semblance of marriages, sex sensationalism or sensualists and sexual or lustful adventures; all disguised as real marriages. There are women who indulge in the same offenses for financial exploitation, dead or alive. Just are there some men and women who out of wickedness to humanity and in defiance to Allah’s laws marry severally just to spread the dreaded HIV/AIDS. They call it marital victimisation.

Henceforward, I want advocate that every state house of assembly should legislate revised laws of divorcement and ‘extra marriages’ of more than one wife to seek for both financial and physical fitness clearance, henceforth. This is because it is not only financial capability that should only be the determining factor for additional wife or wives.

The Sunnah is full of such examples and illustrations. In addition too, the historical background of an unfamiliar person coming to marry a woman in any community must be thoroughly screened by the senior members of the families concerned. I may sound fairy but these are of the trueness ways to tackle the plague of divorces in our societies. All culprits and violators no matter their social or political status or royalty or spiritual eminence, must face the full wrath of the law.

All hand must be on deck to save this divine institution on which the quality of the future generations depends. At this instance, it will be right we bring into memory the words of Allah where He says, ‘Verily Allah does not change the affairs of a people, un they (themselves) change their condition’. Based on this premise and with strong commitment to both attitudinal and behavioural changes focus on positive change, hope is never lost.

If sincerely we are upset by what we read daily on the sad incidents of raging divorce cases and the souring number of helpless divorcees and grass widows in our society, then we better started something tangible to alleviate the threat.

Finally if these advocacies are carefully implemented, I am hopeful that these two important religiocultural heritages will be saved from those savages who disrespect them. Similarly, all future marriages and divorces will be performed only when they are unavoidably essential, and will be respected and protected from corruptions. This is all for our generation to tread on the path of honour and dignity, loved, raised and nurtured by their parents.

Husain ZakariyyaYawale.

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Turkey’s summer of mayhem

Istanbul feels a bit like Gotham in the unsettling Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight.

ANALYSIS

By David Lepeska

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he political earthquake that shook Turkey on June 7 had been little felt in the lives of every day Turks when a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bombing in the border town of Suruc on July 20, killed 33 young activists planning to deliver aid to the besieged, mostly Kurdish city of Kobane, across the border in Syria.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant group that has battled Ankara for more than 30 years but agreed to a ceasefire with the government in late 2012, responded by renewing its attacks, blaming Turkey for ISIL’s aggression.

Ankara declared war on ISIL and the PKK, which the US and EU view as a terrorist group, and began rounding up suspects of both those groups, and of the Marxist outfit, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

It also began bombing PKK camps in the Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq, and later agreed to let the US fly anti-ISIL sorties from its military bases in the country’s southeast.

Bloody Monday Then came bloody Monday, in which a car bomb exploded outside an Istanbul police station, followed by a firefight, a shoot-out outside the US consulate in the city’s Sariyer district, and several PKK attacks in the country’s southeast.

By day’s end, nine people were dead, including six members of Turkey’s security services.

Turkey struck by series of

attacks Three groups have since raised their hands to claim the Istanbul attacks - the DHKP-C (US consulate), the PKK (police station bombing and shootout), and the little-known far leftist group the People’s Defense Units.

Who’s in danger these days? A better question is who’s not.

In the past week, assailants opened fire on officials of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Alevi leaders, American diplomats, and a top footballer driving down the street.

PKK attacks have killed about 30 members of Turkey’s police and security forces.

Turkey’s bombing campaign against the PKK has killed nearly 400 militants and at least eight civilians, according to local residents.

Warnings of possible attacks The UK has advised Britons to avoid all buses and trains in Istanbul.

City police have warned all security units of possible terrorist attacks on Istanbul’s metro system. ...Turkey’s government has, over the past 18 months, purged hundreds of police and intelligence officials

linked to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, significantly weakening its security apparatus.

Ankara has detained more than 1,000 people since July 20, and nearly 850 of them are linked not to ISIL, the DHKP-C, or the PKK, but to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) - the Kurd-rooted political party that received 13 percent of the vote in the June 7 election.

The HDP’s unprecedented entry into parliament pushed the AKP from its roost and shook Turkish politics to its core.

This tension, between the AKP and the Kurds (both the HDP and PKK), lies at the root of the recent spurt in violence.

HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas has repeatedly called for both sides to “silence their weapons”.

But on Sunday he urged the government to keep its distance from ISIL and accused the AKP of using the war to reverse its electoral defeat.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for investigations into the HDP’s links to “terrorist groups” and sued Demirtas for a perceived insult in regards to the Suruc attack.

Creating a false dichotomy

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Erdogan has long used polarising rhetoric to create a false dichotomy, of us (those who are for the AKP and for Turkey’s continued rise) and them (an amorphous group of people who are supposedly against it).

Suddenly there are a half dozen “thems”, a vague, fearful “us”, and little between the two.

To live in Turkey today is to experience a creeping sense of dread, a dawning sense that the animals have the run of the zoo.

Why can two Kurdish militants carrying a grenade launcher and an AK-47 stroll up to a police station in broad daylight in a small city in southeastern Turkey and stage a brazen assault?

Why is it that gunmen are able to ambush an Istanbul bomb scene investigation and kill a police chief?

Perhaps because Turkey’s government has, over the past 18 months, purged hundreds of police and intelligence officials linked to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, significantly weakening its security apparatus.

Or because the country is simultaneously at war with antiIslamist Marxists, separatists, and

Erdogan has long used polarising rhetoric to create a false dichotomy, of us (those who are for the AKP and for Turkey’s continued rise) and them (an amorphous group of people who are supposedly against it).

radical Islamists, even as its elected leaders (purportedly) try to stitch together a government while facing a slowing economy and some two million refugees snatching up jobs and housing.

Path towards chaos One friend, a successful young professional, is avoiding malls and public spaces like Taksim Square.

A college student worries about a snowball effect - that the violence and hate will continue to increase.

A public servant wonders if a government will be formed soon, and whether it will even help.

On Al Jazeera: Turkey’s precarious peace with the Kurds Older Turks see visions of the late 1970s, when horrific violence - such as the gunning down of 34 people on Taksim Square - was commonplace.

The result was martial law in much of the country and, ultimately, a military coup.

In Istanbul these days, the sun is high. The days are long, humid, and lazy. But there’s mayhem all around.

It feels a bit like like Gotham in the unsettling Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight.

Just as everything begins to fall apart, the Joker explains the best way to terrorise a society: “Introduce a little anarchy... Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.”

Turkey’s established order has been upset. A little anarchy has been introduced. Barring cooler heads, chaos awaits.

David Lepeska, is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul. His work focuses on Turkey and the Middle East.

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Guinea-Bissau president dismisses government

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outh Africa should not consider additional tax instruments, such as a windfall tax for the country’s mining sector, a commission set up to look into taxes in Africa’s most advanced economy said in a report published on Thursday.

The Davis Tax Committee, established by the Treasury, also recommended that the government should revamp its gold tax mining regime but do so in a manner that would not jeapordise jobs in the industry.

“The Committee takes the view that new tax instruments are not necessary,” said the report, a copy of which was sent to Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene.

Senior officials in the ruling African National Congress had called for windfall taxes to be imposed during the recent commodity boom.

The committee also said that while it preferred that the tax regime applied to gold producers be brought into line with other companies in the mining industry, it recommended the status quo be maintained for existing mines to protect jobs.

“In order not to precipitate further decline in employment, particularly in marginal mines, the Committee recommends that the mining formula be retained for existing gold mines,” it said.

Most mining companies are taxed at a standard 28 percent corporate income tax rate but taxes paid by gold firms are linked to their profit margins, a measure meant to cushion an industry facing its sunset years.

The mining industry, which contributes around 7 percent to South Africa’s economy, is struggling with sinking commodity prices, rising costs and labor unrest and a number of firms have announced plans to reduce jobs.

he president of the West African nation of GuineaBissau has dismissed the government led by Domingos Pereira, the prime minister.

Jose Mario Vaz made the announcement on a national radio programme late on Wednesday, after months of political infighting between the two leaders.

The African Union had suspended Guinea-Bissau following a coup in April.

The World Bank and the African Development Bank suspended millions of dollars of aid, increasing the pressure on coup leaders to hand back power to civilians.

Since gaining independence in 1974, Guinea-Bissau’s army and state have remained in constant conflict, and no president has completed a full term in office.

Three have been overthrown and one assassinated.

Sweden Ikea knife attack: Suspect ‘faced deportation’

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he main suspect accused of killing two people at an Ikea store in Sweden faced imminent deportation and attended a meeting on his asylum status just hours before the knife attack, officials say.

The 35-year-old Eritrean, who was found at the scene with serious knife injuries, had earlier met to discuss his failed residency application, the Swedish Migration Agency said.

A mother and her adult son died in the attack in Vasteras on Monday.

A second man has also been detained.

On Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office said that investigators were still holding the 23-year-old who was staying at the same centre for asylum seekers as the injured man.

He has denied any involvement in the attack.

Police say the reason for the stabbing is unclear, but they do not believe it was politically motivated.

Migration officials said the 35-year-old had attended a meeting at the agency on Monday morning about plans to deport him to Italy

after his residency application was rejected last month.

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has reported that CCTV images show the suspect grabbing two knives from the kitchenware section of Ikea just before the two shoppers, a 55-year-old woman and her 27-year-old son, were attacked.

“The attack ends when the alleged murderer stabs himself in the stomach,” the report said.

Police chiefs have not confirmed the footage or whether knives on sale in the shop were used.

The 35-year-old has not yet

been interviewed due to the serious nature of his injuries.

Police increased security at refugee accommodation centres in the region this week after confirming they had arrested two Eritrean asylum seekers over the murders.

Local officials feared a backlash from “dark forces” who wanted to exploit the case, police chief Per Agren said.

The store in Vasteras, which is about 70 miles (115km) west of the capital Stockholm, is one of the largest in the country.

Zimbabwean state broadcaster fires hundreds of workers

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The Voice of Zimbabwe radio station appears to have closed

he state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has fired almost 300 employees, including managers and journalists, state-run media report.

Unions say there have been 20,000 job losses in the country since a Supreme Court ruling on 17 July which made it easier for companies to sack employees.

The ruling allows employers to fire any worker without any benefits as long as they are given three months’ notice.

The Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions has described the ruling as “madness”.

ZBC will close a TV channel,

according to the Zimbabwean news site the Daily News.

In addition, the offices of the state radio station Voice of Zimbabwe have also closed, reports Voice of America.

Last week the Daily News reported that state-owned newspapers had fired hundreds of workers.

This, it added, was despite the state-owned media “leading a crusade against scores of other companies, including media organizations”, that have laid off staff.

Local media reported that over the weekend heavily armed police blocked the country’s main workers’ union from protesting against the recent wave of job losses.

Tui Group counts cost of Tunisia attack

T A mine worker looks on underground in Modderfontein east mine, outside Johannesburg, in a file photo. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Since gaining independence in 1974, Guinea-Bissau’s army and state have remained in constant conflict [AFP]

ravel operator Tui Group has announced how much its business will be affected by the beach attack in Tunisia in June.

Of the 38 people who were killed in the incident, 33 were on Tui holidays.

Announcing its third quarter results, the firm, which owns Thomson and First Choice Travel, said the attack and subsequent warnings about travel to Tunisia would cost it about £20m this year.

Tui is also worried about the effect of migrants on its Greek business.

Since the attack in Tunisia, the

Foreign Office now advises against all but essential travel to the country.

“This is the most tragic event and loss of human life that I have ever had to deal with or my company and we remain deeply shocked in terms of the loss of life, those customers that were injured and all the trauma that our customers had to go through, through these terrible events,” Tui Group chief executive Peter Long told the BBC. “We were 100% focused on making sure that our customers were looked after and that was our number one priority.”

He also said that the company was reliant on Foreign Office advice on when to resume offering holidays in Tunisia.

The company said that in the three months to the end of June the attack had caused repatriation and cancellation costs of about €10m ($11m; £7m).

Tui also said it had been hit by the continued economic turmoil in Greece, which made withdrawing cash from banks more difficult.

Mr Long said he thought it was time for other European governments to help Greece deal with migrants

arriving at Greek islands, especially from Syria.

“We know that tourism for Greece is so important, their economy is fragile and what we don’t want to see [is] a deteriorating demand from our customers going to the Greek islands.”

However, Tui said that business had been resilient and that summer bookings were still ahead of last year’s level.

The company reported a group profit of €49.4m for the quarter, compared with a loss of €5.6m in the same period last year.

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Myanmar ruling party chairman Shwe Mann ousted

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yanmar’s parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann has been ousted from his role as chairman of the ruling USDP party, amid a power struggle.

Security forces surrounded the USDP offices on Wednesday, preventing officials from leaving.

Myanmar is holding elections in three months, its first since democratic reforms began in 2011.

Shwe Mann had been rumoured to be discussing an alliance with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to do well in the 8 November elections, while many believe the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) will perform poorly.

However, Ms Suu Kyi is barred by

the constitution from contesting the presidency, so negotiations between the NLD and USDP could help determine who ends up leading Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Shwe Mann have often expressed that they have a mutual understanding for future co-operation.

One likely area of is thought to be amendment of the constitution, which prevents Ms Suu Kyi from running for the presidency.

But for conservative forces in the ruling USDP party and the military, constitutional change is seen as a threat - because the constitution gives the military an automatic 25% of seats in parliament, and safeguards the traditional alliance between the USDP and the armed forces.

This latest move means an inner circle of the president’s has come out on top. It could also worsen the relationships between the ruling elites and the opposition.

Until last night Shwe Mann, one of the most capable generals in the old military regime, had been seen as a likely successor to President Thein Sein, the BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports.

Thein Sein and Shwe Mann are said to have had a tense relationship, with both men suggesting they would accept the role of president.

The two also disagreed over potential election candidates, reports said.

Sources say Shwe Mann has now been replaced by a conservative

known to be close to Thein Sein and formerly military ruler Than Shwe.

Security forces could be seen outside his home on Thursday.

“Shwe Mann isn’t the chairman of the party anymore,” a USDP member told Reuters. “He’s in good health and at home now.”

A nominally civilian government was introduced in Myanmar in 2011, ending nearly 50 years of military rule.

President Thein Sein introduced reforms including freeing hundreds of prisoners and relaxing media censorship.

However, the military still maintains massive influence in Myanmar’s politics, with a quarter of seats in both parliamentary chambers reserved for the military.

ISIL claims deadly truck bombing at Baghdad market A

t least 55 people have been killed and 200 others injured in a massive truck bomb attack in Baghdad, police and sources have said.

The attack on Thursday morning took place in a crowded vegetable market in Sadr City, a Shia district in the northeast of the Iraqi capital.

“A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6am [03:00 GMT],” police officer Muhsin alSaedi said.

“Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings.”

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a statement online claiming the attack.

A l Ja z e e r a ’s M o h a m m e d Jamjoom, reporting from Baghdad. described the attack as devastating and said the death toll was expected to rise.

“We are being told that a suicide bomber drove into the busy market and detonated himself,” he said.

“The attack happened in a predominantly Shia neighbourhood similar to an attack in Baquba city two days ago that also killed dozens of people.

“It is obviously an attack with a

Iraq is experiencing an upsurge in instability with the government struggling to contend with ISIL [AP] sectarian nature.”

“We hold the government responsible, fully responsible,” witness Ahmed Ali Ahmed told the Reuters news agency, calling on the authorities to dispatch the army and

Shia fighters to man checkpoints in the capital.

Iraq is experiencing an upsurge in instability with the government struggling to contend with ISIL. ISIL overran large parts of Iraq in

June 2014 and also holds significant territory in neighbouring Syria.

Iraqi security forces and militias are fighting ISIL in Anbar province, the sprawling Sunni heartland in western Iraq.

Death toll soars after huge blasts hit China’s Tianjin

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xplosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin have killed at least 50 people, including at least a dozen firefighters, and injured more than 700 and sent shockwaves through the city.

Chinese state news said the blasts started late on Wednesday after a container of “hazardous material” exploded in a warehouse around midnight local time.

On the ground: China industrial zone blast in Tianjin

Photos on state media outlets showed a sea of fire that painted Wednesday’s night sky bright orange in Tianjin [Reuters]

The city government said the death toll from the explosions stood at 50, adding that were 701 hospitalised and 71 seriously injured.

At least 36 firefighters were initially reported missing by the state news agency, Xinhua.

The blasts knocked doors off buildings in the area and shattered windows up to several kilometres away.

There were no indications of what caused the blasts, and no immediate signs of any large release of toxic chemicals into the air.

Beijing News reported on its website that there was some unidentified yellow foam flowing at the site.

Police in Tianjin said an initial blast occurred at shipping containers in a warehouse for hazardous materials owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it is properly approved to handle hazardous materials.

China’s National Earthquake Bureau reported two major blasts

in Tianjin’s industrial zone before midnight on Wednesday [Reuters] Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown, reporting from Tianjin early on Thursday, said: “Close to the disaster zone, dazed people are wandering about the streets, many carrying what possessions they could grab before fleeing their homes.

“Others are sitting at roadsides, many clearly in shock. Those who can get out are fleeing.

“In the distance, smoke is still billowing from the scene of the multiple blasts. Scores of nearby buildings have had their windows punched out.

“The streets are littered with broken glass and stones. The air is acrid. That no one knows what they are breathing is adding to the anxiety here.”

State media said senior management of the company had been detained by authorities, and that President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.

Asia & Middle East

India court lifts government ban on Maggi noodles

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he ruling came a day after India said it was seeking damages of nearly $100m from Nestle India for ‘unfair trade practices’ [AP] An Indian court has overturned a government ban on Nestle’s hugely popular Maggi noodles brand, but ordered further tests before the product can go back on sale.

In its judgement on Thursday, the Bombay High Court called the ban “arbitrary” and said it violated the “principles of natural justice”.

“We have examined the evidence in great detail. Since the petitioner Nestle has already agreed not to make and sell Maggi until the food authorities are satisfied, we see no reason to allow any relief to food authorities,” Justice Vidyasagar Kanade told the court.

“We direct that Nestle send five samples from each batch of Maggi for testing to three labs and only if the lead is found to be lower than permitted will they start manufacturing and sale again.”

Nestle had gone to the court to challenge the nationwide ban ordered

by India’s food safety watchdog in June after tests by some states found lead levels exceeded statutory limits.

The Swiss food giant has always maintained the product is safe to eat, and has continued to sell it in other countries.

The ruling came a day after India said it was seeking damages of nearly $100m from Nestle India for “unfair trade practices” in relation to the noodles, one of the country’s most popular convenience foods.

Meanwhile, the US’ health regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said on Thursday that their tests showed that the lead level in the popular instant food was within acceptable levels for US consumers.

An FDA spokesperson said testing did not find any levels that present a public health concern for US consumers.

In April, laboratory tests ordered by some state governments found the noodles contained far higher levels of lead than legally allowed. The tests also detected the flavour enhancer chemical monosodium glutamate, or MSG, which is not mentioned in the product’s list of ingredients.

In a statement on Wednesday, Nestle said the company has “a stringent programme” to test the ingredients in its noodles.

“In recent months, we had over 2,700 samples of MAGGI Noodles tested by several accredited laboratories both in India and abroad.

Each one of these tests have shown lead to be far below the permissible limits,” the statement said.

Maggi noodles are a hugely popular snack and Nestle’s “twominute” advertising campaign stressing the ease of preparing the food have made it a household name in India.

The noodles were Nestle’s fastestselling food item in India, accounting for about 15 billion rupees ($240m) in sales annually.

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Greek ruling party edges toward split before bailout vote Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers his speech as he attends a news conference after a meeting at the Greek Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks in Athens, Greece, August 12, 2015. Reuters/Christian Hartmann Greece’s ruling Syriza party edged toward a formal split on Thursday, hours before rebel leftist lawmakers have promised to vote against a new bailout deal to keep the country afloat.

With opposition support, the government is asking parliament to approve a 85 billion euro bailout deal that Greece needs to avoid defaulting on a debt repayment next week.

The parliamentary vote, expected in the early hours of Friday, will test the strength of a rebellion by anti-austerity Syriza lawmakers, which could raise pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call snap elections as early as September.

The rebels’ leader, former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, took

a step toward breaking away from Syriza, a coalition of leftist groups which stormed to power in January on promises to reverse austerity policies demanded by the euro zone and IMF creditors.

“The fight against the new bailout starts today, by mobilizing people in every corner of the country,” said a statement signed by Lafazanis and 11 other Syriza members posted on the far-left faction’s Iskra website.

The statement called for founding a “united movement that will justify people’s desire for democracy and social justice” though it did not explicitly call for a new party or a split from Syriza.

Parliament, however, is expected to approve the bailout agreement by a comfortable margin since opposition parties have promised their backing for the government to ensure Greece does not return to financial chaos.

Tsipras has faced a rebellion among about a quarter of his 149 lawmakers since agreeing last month

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers his speech as he attends a news conference after a meeting at the Greek Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks in Athens, Greece, August 12, 2015. Reuters/Christian Hartmann to the bailout deal under the threat of a banking collapse and euro zone exit.

Earlier, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili criticized the rebels, saying a government without a majority

“cannot go far” and raising the possibility of early elections.

Gerovasili said that after the parliamentary vote, the focus would shift to a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Friday who must also back the bailout, Greece’s

Jimmy Carter, former US president, reveals he has cancer

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Jimmy Carter has remained active since leaving the White House in 1981

ormer US President Jimmy Carter says recent liver surgery revealed that he has cancer and it has spread to other parts of his body.

The 90-year-old statesman underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver earlier this month.

He said he would reveal more “when facts are known, possibly next week”.

Mr Carter will undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.

President Barack Obama wished Mr Carter “a full and fast recovery” in a statement released on Wednesday.

“Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you,” Mr Obama said.

The White House said Mr Obama spoke to Mr Carter on the telephone on Wednesday.

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, posted on Twitter: “President #JimmyCarter is in my thoughts & prayers. May the Lord heal, comfort & encourage this extraordinary

servant-leader to the world.”

Leaving the White House in 1981, Mr Carter has remained active carrying out humanitarian efforts with his Carter Center in recent years.

He founded the centre, which focuses on human-rights efforts and political mediation, soon after he left office.

He was later responsible for negotiating a 1994 nuclear disarmament pact with North Korea and has visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent years.

A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was elected president in 1976.

He won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives and his promotion of economic and social programmes.

The BBC interviewed Mr Carter in February about his efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease and in the South Sudan and Mali and river blindness in both Africa and Latin America.

Australia mulls joining Syria air strikes against ISIL

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ustralia is considering joining air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.

Since October last year, Australian jet fighters have been striking ISIL targets in northern Iraq from a base in Dubai. Previously, Australia sent warplanes and military advisers into the Iraq campaign at the request of the US and Iraqi governments.

Australia however, refused to launch air strikes in Syria, although the government does not recognise President Bashar al-Assad’s administration.

Abbott said on Thursday that although “no formal request has been made and no formal decision has been taken,” the matter had been raised.

“While the legality is different, whether these air strikes are taking place in Syria or Iraq, the morality is the same,” Abbott said.

While the opposition Labor Party supports Australian involvement in Iraq, it questioned the legal basis of Australian air strikes in Syria.

The opposition spokeswoman on foreign affairs, Tanya Plibersek, said: “Without a clear legal basis for Australian involvement and without a clear plan like, what does victory in Syria look like? I think it would be very dangerous to send Australian personnel into one of the most dangerous places on Earth right now.”

The government can send fighter jets into Syria without seeking the parliament’s permission, although a political squabble could damage public support for any campaign in Syria.

Abbott also said in a press conference: “It’s critically important that Australia and our partners, our Western partners and our Middle East partners, continue to work very strongly to disrupt, degrade and destroy this death cult.”

Abbott stressed the importance of working ‘very strongly to disrupt, degrade and destroy this death cult’ [EPA]

Europe and Americas

Julian Assange ‘disappointed’ as sex assault case dropped Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into sexual assault claims against Julian Assange because they ran out of time to question him.

The Wikileaks founder said he was “extremely disappointed” and said the Swedish prosecutor had avoided hearing his side of the story.

The Australian journalist and activist denies all allegations and has said they are part of a smear campaign.

He still faces the more serious accusation of rape.

Mr Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, fearing he would then be sent to the US and put on trial for releasing secret American documents.

He remains in the embassy and has previously said he will not leave, even if the accusations of sex crimes were dropped.

Under Swedish law, charges cannot be laid without interviewing the suspect.

“There was no need for any of this.

I am an innocent man. I haven’t even been charged,” said Mr Assange.

“From the beginning I offered simple solutions. Come to the embassy to take my statement or promise not to send me to the United States. This Swedish official refused both. She even refused a written statement.”

He added: “I am strong but the cost to my family is unacceptable.”

However, Sweden’s director of public prosecution Marianne Nye said a request to interview Mr Assange inside the embassy had been submitted but permission was yet to be granted.

She said she hoped to arrange an interview as there were “ongoing negotiations” between Sweden and Ecuador.

A statement from Swedish prosecutors said Ms Nye had discontinued her investigation into alleged sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.

An additional alleged incident of sexual molestation will be “time barred” - that is, time will have run out to question Mr Assange - on 18 August.

The Swedish statement also said an allegation of rape was due to expire on 17 August 2020, but that investigation would continue.

The alleged events took place in August 2010.

“Julian Assange has spent more time incarcerated in the small rooms of the embassy, with no access to fresh air or exercise and contrary to international law, than he could ever spend in a Swedish prison on these allegations.”

Julian Assange, pictured here in 2014, remains in the Ecuadorian embassy in London

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Checkmating perennial floods on Abuja roads Feature

By Stanley Onyekwere

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here is no doubt that most eruption of floods on major roads in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) often than not remained intrinsically occasioned by either blocked drains or poor water channels, especially when the rainy season reaches its climax.This underscores the need for urgent actionagainst the seemlyperennial floods in the Territory.Also, it is particularly important, as the rainy reason can be challenging period to city management and public health, due to speedy putrefaction and possibilities of urban flooding.

Although, the rainy season is considered as a period of blessing, but the reverse is the case for most Abuja residents especially motorists plying major routes, both within the city andsuburb areas, during or after heavy down pour during the period, as the outburst of flood has become a recurring seasonal feature, causing a lot of discomfort to them.

Often than not, many motorists complained that much-needed rain perpetually soaking the road during the rainy season, making many roads very impassable, as the situation was frustrating, because it damages the engines of their vehicles.

This week, a heavy downpour reportedly left many parts of Giri community, in Gwagwalada area council of the FCT flooded, caused heavy traffic gridlock the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, with motorists trapped for hours, asit covered the entire stretch of the highway. In the same connection, whenever it rains, flood occurs on the busy Jabi road-Arab road, near the popular Jabi Primary School, in the Territory. And these flooding of major roads have continually subjectedmany motorists to avoidable nightmarish experience commuters.

Also, recently a heavy downpour at the weekend left an entire lane of a section of the road, connecting Airport road, Life Camp (Gwarinpa District) and Kado Estate, covered with rain water, thereby forcing motorists to drive through on a slow pace.

The flood affected human and vehicular traffic in both area, as vehicles were virtually submerged in the flood, with many motorists avoiding the water-filled road by driving on the pedestrian walkways and hedges in the area.

Flood on Jabi road, after a heavy down pour in the area, recently.

It was observed that at one point, getting through the waterloo road was estimated to take 10 minutes, even at that some vehicles engines after succeeding to get through the flood turned off, and had to be worked on by mechanics.

However, most of the motorists, who narrated their ordeal, attributed the cause of the flooding to blockage of drainage and sewage systems in the area, due to negligence by city managers and residents, calling on the relevant authorities to do something to find lasting solution to the perennial flooding in the area during rainy season.

A motorist, Uko James, who was seen stranded in the flood, described the state of the road whenever it rains as very difficult, as he and other motorists go through a lot of nightmare, pushing through the waterloo.

He said the situation has remind a serious source of a lot of discomfort to their lives and

vehicles from the obvious negative impact of having to pull through the water-filled road, with their car engines soaked with water.

Similarly, a taxi driver, Aypodele Kingsley, who described the situation as unfortunate feature making commuting along

the ever busy road very stressful, said it requires urgent action by the relevant authorities, before the situation worsens, as the rains keep pouring.

Even though the FCT has not recorded any serious flood, since the one that occurred in

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Kubwa in 2006 and 2007 that ransacked many homes in the affected areas, but these accounts and traces of flooding on roads/ streets in Garki I District, Asokoro District, Central Business District and Wuse II District amongst other parts of the Territory, no doubt requires urgent strategic measures, in order to forestall check the development.

To this end, the FCT Administration through the Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC),commenced the removal of obstructions on water channels, as a precautionary measure, to ensure that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to a level, when it will wreak havoc on the residents.

The exercise, which appears as a belated response to the avalanche of calls for urgent action by relevant authorities to Continued on page 33

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Photo Splash

Some motorcycles seized by the security operatives, at Federal Secretariat in Abuja, recently.

An overloaded pick up with a passenger, along Keffi, Abuja road.

A scavenger filled up his truck with the valuable use in Mararaba Nasarawa state.

Two shoe shiners out for business in Mararaba Nasarawa state.

Evening business at Federal Secretariat in Abuja.

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the reoccurring dangerous trend, the FCT Administration assured will ensure that the chances ofmajor flooding in any part of the FCTespeciallysuch disaster prone areas will be reduced to its barest minimum, despite the intensity of the rains.

But, to achieve its target, the FCTA charged residents in the nation’s capital to key into its ongoing execution of precautionary measure against outbreak of major flood in the Territory. This, according to the Public Relations Officer (PRO ), of Department of Development Control, Kalu Emetu, would bolster the ongoing effort to forestall such disaster.

Emetu, while taking newsmen on inspection of some areas in Wuse zone 2, 5, and other adjourning places, having traces of flood in the city, noted that officials of the Department had started removing obstructing structures in the environment and other flood prone areas, He stressed that after the flood in Kubwa , the Department had to intervene, by opening up all the channels, and that’s why up till today we have not had such devastating flooding again.

“Like in Garki 2, we have deployed our machines to working on the area, and it is so with other places; because when we notice that there is any blockage, in any part of the FCT, we move in immediately to clear such obstruction, to ensure that we avert any disaster like flood that may arise from such situation.

“So, we are making sure that anything (both built structure and any natural feature) that could cause flood in FCT is removed; as there is a way we would keep quiet, and the one that happened earlier ( in 2006) will be less than what would occur, that’s why we are making every effort to forestall such disaster.

“We have been sensitizing the public, making them realize that it is not only government that would protect from natural disaster, but there is the need for them to know that there are areas they need to come in, such as taking precautionary measure against any disaster like flood,

Checkmating perennial floods on Abuja roads

A deep gully on the edge of a bridge in the area caused by a flood on the Jabi road. that threatens lives and property in the society.

“We also tell them don’t dump refuse in the drainage or waterways, don’t do one or the other that would block the drainage or degrade the environment, thereby paving way for flood or any other disaster to occur.

“When you see a crack on your wall; there is the need for you to call building professionals

Another road covered by flood in Abuja

immediately, for them to take control of it on time, because the way it affects your perimeter fencing wall, it can also affect your main building.

“And when buildings begin to fall on people, is also a natural disaster, that’s why must try to prevent any situation that may led to this,” he added However, it could recalled that the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), had

earlier in the year cautioned residents against emptying the content of their waste bins into the drains during rainstorms, as it could lead to flooding and other preventable environmental disaster in the Territory.

AEPB’s Head of Information and Outreach Programme, Joe Ukairo, explains that “Now that the rains are here, the residents need to cooperate with the agency, in keeping the city clean; but when we throw our trash from our cars on the floor, it affects the environment and when rains fall it pushes all the bottles, pure water sachets to the drainage.

“And blocking the drainage that is the commonest way of urban flooding, so residents need to key in more this rainy season, to maintain a clean green environment.” he stressed.

Then, Ukairo added that so far, it appears that the rains will be heavier this year, as some areas within the Abuja city like Garki hospital axis and some places in Wuse have been experiencing whenever it rains.

“The waste will be heavier now and the matter of evacuation will be slower, for instance if a given truck can do two rounds, it cannot be able to do that with the rains, and there will be a backlog of waste.

“If residents are receiving two service in a week , it may turn

out to be only one services; and when the service providers do not come at the right time ,residents should not empty their trash, rather they should be able to package it properly,” he stressed.

It is therefore pertinent to note that beyond the renewed advocacy for residents to ensure they adopt precautionary measures against occurrence of flood in the nation’s capital as being championed by the FCT Administration, special attention should be given to areas prone to the disaster irrespective of the season.

Also, to ensure in furtherance to the ongoing efforts towards de-flooding roads/streets in the FCT and environs, there should serious commitment to safeguard drainages from the activities of undesirable elements vandalizing Manhole and Gully inlet covers in the Territory.

Furthermore, in preparation for the next rainy season, all drainages should always be cleared and maintained to deflood the roads and streets within the Territory. In this connection, there should be more synergy between the government and various existing neighbourhood or community based mechanismsto enable them participate in maintaining all the public facilities in the Territory for the common good of all.

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Money Sense Five high-growth, high-paying careers

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hese $75K+ careers are projected to experience rapid growth from 2012 to

2022.

Thinking about pursuing a new career, but not sure where to start?

Following your heart has its rewards, but going after jobs with high growth and pay potential may prove the wiser choice if you’re looking to pay the bills.

To help you sift through all the options, we looked through the U.S. Department of Labour data to identify some career paths that are projected to grow by at least 16 percent through 2022 and have a median salary of at least $75,000 per year.

Career 1: Information security analyst 37 percent If you have excellent analytical and problem solving skills and are a stickler for detail, you might be cut out for a career as an information security analyst.

According to the U.S. Department of Labour, these folks carry out security measures to protect an organization’s computer networks and systems from hackers and other cyberattacks.

Why they’re in-demand: The increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks have made it necessary for companies to seek protection, according to the Department of Labour.

You’ve seen the headlines about hackers getting the personal data of online shoppers at Target. “Employers are seeing the implications from what happens in the news, and their own IT people are telling them about how easy it is to break in

(to a computer system),” says Leto Papadopoulos, director of training and development for King & Bishop, a talent acquisition and human resources firm, in Waltham, Mass.

How to prepare: Most information security analysts have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, programming, or other related field, according to the Department. Sometimes, employers prefer applicants who have a master’s in business administration (MBA) in information systems. There are also a number of certifications that information security analysts could earn which many employers want job candidates to have, according to the Department.

Career 2: Civil Engineer 20 percent Those with strong leadership and decision-making abilities and a firm grasp of mathematics may be a good fit for civil engineering.

Designing and supervising large construction projects for infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, and sewage treatment systems, are among the responsibilities of civil engineers, according to the U.S. Department of Labour.

Why they’re in-demand: Civil engineers are in demand for a variety of reasons, depending on the specialty, writes Erin Bushnell, SPHR, director of human resources at Pennoni Associates Inc., an engineering and design consulting firm based in Philadelphia, Pa. Among the top reasons is the need for improvements in the United States.

“For example, transportation engineers are highly sought after due to an increase in funding in

many states,” Bushnell says. “We have an aging infrastructure and engineers are critical to making those much needed major improvements.”

How to prepare: Civil engineers need to have a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or one of its specialties, according to the Department of Labour. To work as a professional engineer, one must be licensed, which means their degree must be from an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited program.

Career 3: Medical and health services manager 23 percent Analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills are as critical as the abilities to communicate and interact well with others for success as a medical and health services manager. If that sounds like it plays to your strong suit, then you might consider this role.

Also known as a health care executive or administrator, these managers coordinate medical services either for an entire organization, such as a hospital, or a sector, according to the U.S. Department of Labour. They must also be able to adapt to evolving health care regulations and technologies.

Why they’re in-demand: “Hospitals and doctors need someone to stay on top of the changes both in the law and technology, such as electronic records,” says Papadopoulos.

“They need someone to move them into the new century.”

How to prepare: Requirements for this type of position vary by facility, according to the Department of Labour.

Prospective managers should have a bachelor’s degree in health administration. Master’s degrees in health services, public health, public administration, long-term care administration, or business administration are also common, according to the Department.

Career 4: Software developer, systems 20 percent If you’re a creative type with strong analytical, communication, and problemsolving skills, you may be cut out for software development.

According to the U.S. Department of Labour, systems developers design computer programs, like the ones that allow you to do a specific task or run a device or network.

Why they’re in-demand: It makes sense that in an age when just about everyone has a smartphone and computer, this occupation is projected to experience high-growth.

“There’s a big grab for talent because of the speed of change in the field and the level of skill required,” says Papadopoulos.

How to prepare: The Department of Labour states that software developers usually earn a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, though some employers might prefer a master’s degree. They must be skilled at programming and understanding new tools and computer languages.

The Department tells us that developers will also be expected to have knowledge of the industry in which they work. For example, one who develops bank software programs should have at least a basic understanding of finance.

Career 5: Financial analyst 16 percent Are you good with numbers and a great communicator, someone who is decisive and detail-oriented? Then you might be a match for a career in the financial industry.

According to the U.S. Department of Labour, financial analysts study the performance of stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments to help individuals and businesses assess potential and current investments.

Why they’re in-demand: Employers are looking for those who understand changing regulations, which are designed to prevent the type of crisis that happened in 2008 from recurring, says Greg Menzone, executive manager of the financial division of Professional Staffing Group in Boston, Mass.

Organizations, in particular, want people who can help them be as lean as possible but still have the necessary resources for growth, says Menzone.

“Companies want to hire the best of the best among financial analysts, so they can stay nimble and get ahead of the game,” he adds. “They’re demanding analysts who can give them a crystal ball to prepare for 2014, 2015, 2016, and beyond.”

How to prepare: Most of these professionals must have a bachelor’s degree. However, different fields of study could provide appropriate preparation for this position, including accounting, finance, engineering, economics, statistics, or math, according to the Department of Labour. www. usdepartmentoflabour.com

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Strange World

The WalkCar, a Japanese gadget designed to make walking obsolete problem because the device easily fits into handbags or backpacks.

Made from aluminum and powered by lithium batteries, the slender device comes in two versions – indoor and outdoor – weighing between 4.4 and 6.6 pounds. It takes three hours of charging to get the device to run for 7.4 miles, at a top speed of 6.2 miles per hour.

The thin aluminum transporter is apparently stronger than it looks, taking on loads of up to 120 kilograms.

We’ve seen other transportation devices in the past such as the Segway and Toyota’s Winglet, but none of them were as portable or convenient as the

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hanks to Japanese engineer Kuniako Saito’s new invention, walking could soon become a thing of the past. He’s created a portable transportation device called ‘WalkCar’, which he describes as the world’s first ‘car in a bag’.

The WalkCar is about the size of a laptop, and is somewhat similar to a skateboard in terms of functionality. According to Saito, the gadget is very easy to

use – just stand on it and it starts, step off it and it stops. To change directions, users simply have to shift their weight towards the left or right. Uphill or downhill travel can be achieved by applying pressure forwards or backwards.

26-year-old Saito said that his fascination for electric motor car control systems inspired him to create the WalkCar. “I thought, ‘What if we could just carry our transportation in our bags, wouldn’t that mean we’d

always have our transportation with us to ride on?’” he said.

“And my friend asked me to make one, since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems.” So he went ahead and started working on a prototype with his team at Cocoa Motors. They’re now planning to raise funds for the project by starting a Kickstarter campaign.

It’s definitely faster than walking, and parking is never a

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paint, which she guarantees will last at least two years. Another feature that stands out is the floral theme present in all her artworks.

She never plans her artworks in

advance, instead making them up as she goes along.

Agnes does find it difficult to paint sometimes, given her age. She finds winters especially

WalkCar, and Saito believes that makes his invention truly unique.

“Maybe I just see it that way, but it seems to me that the U.S. is always the one which invents new products and Japan is the one which takes those products and improves on them to make a better version of it,” Saito said. “But here in this case, the WalkCar is a totally new product I have started from scratch. So I also want to show the world that Japan can also be innovative.”

The WalkCar will be available for pre-order in October this year, through Kickstarter. Priced at around 100,000yen ($800), it is expected to start shipping by May next year.

This 87-year-old woman loves painting houses and she’s incredibly good at it hey say age is just a number, and Agnes Kasparkova, a grandmother from the Czech village of Louka, in South Moravia, is a perfect example. At age 87, the adorable artist still spends most of her free time doing what she likes most – hand-painting her neighbors’ houses with traditional motifs.

Agnes Kasparkova retired from her work in agriculture 30 years ago, and has been painting houses ever since. Despite her frail hands, she manages to brighten up every building she works on with intricate ultramarine designs. “I’m just doing what I like,” she says, humbly. “I try to help decorate the world a bit.”

Agnes added that she cannot imagine a life without work, be it at home, in her garden, or painting houses. She apparently learned the craft from another woman named Manakova, and when she passed away, Agnes decided to carry on her work.

One of the most striking features of Agnes’ art is the ultramarine blue paint, which works splendidly in contrast with the white walls of Moravian houses. She makes sure to use expensive, good quality

difficult, but that doesn’t stop her from keeping at it. Every May, she spends 10 days decorating the freshly whitewashed walls of the village chapel, even climbing up

ladders to reach the top!

Agnes’ style, although slightly simpler, is reminiscent of the beautiful house paintings of Zalipie, in neighboring Poland.

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Digest

Why does coffee make you want to go to the loo? increases stomach acid levels.

‘This boost in acidity (illustrated) can cause the stomach to dump its contents more quickly into the intestines,’ ot said, perhaps explaining why some people feel a need to ‘go’ after drinking a cup of joe It also said that coffee contains a compound called chlorogenic acid that increases stomach acid levels.

‘This boost in acidity can cause the stomach to dump its contents more quickly into the intestines,’ perhaps explaining why some people feel a need to ‘go’ after drinking a cup of joe.

Research has shown that coffee affects the large intestines within four minutes of ingestion, in a similar way to a large meal.

Research has shown that coffee (stock image) affects the

large intestines within four minutes of ingestion, in a similar way to a large meal While it’s known there are 1,000 different compounds inside a cup of coffee, and one or more have a laxative effect, experts have yet to identify them.

However, they have worked out how the mystery chemicals affect the gut.

Coffee boosts the production of the hormones cholecystokinin and gastrin which help digest food, enhancing their effects.

Gastrin ‘gets the colon up and running at full speed’ by activating perostalsis - the relaxation and contraction of muscles that happens in waves to help move waste to its final destination, while Cholecystokinin causes the release of digestive juices and bile.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

Coffee contains a compound called chlorogenic acid that increases stomach acid levels. ‘This boost in acidity (illustrated) can cause the stomach to dump its contents more quickly into the intestines,’ ot said, perhaps explaining why some people feel a need to ‘go’ after drinking a cup of joe

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any of us grab a cup of coffee to wake us up in the morning.

But as well as making us feel mentally stimulated, the drink also stimulates the acid levels in our stomachs.

This in turn creates a chain reaction in the intestines which makes us need a poo, and chemists have created a video revealing how this reaction takes place.

The American Chemical

Society’s video (screenshot shown) explains that it may be coffee’s acidic nature that has an effect on some people’s stomachs that causes them to want to go for a poo, rather than the ‘laxative effect’ previously thought At first scientists thought caffeine may trigger the laxative effect, which is experienced by around three in 10 people.

But they found that decaf coffee produced the same effect, while Diet Coke did not, suggesting it’s a chemical found in

coffee that is to blame.

The American Chemical Society’s video explains that it may be coffee’s acidic nature that has an effect on some people’s stomachs.

‘It causes the stomach to secrete a heightened level of gastric acid, which is the acidic fluid that helps the body break down protein,’ it explained.

Reactions looks at why coffee make you need the bathroom?

Coffee contains a compound called chlorogenic acid that

Research has shown that coffee (stock image) affects the large intestines within four minutes of ingestion, in a similar way to a large meal

How a bad night’s sleep is as big a risk to your health as smoking:

A study shows that people with sleep disorders who get less than seven hours a night are four times more likely to suffer a stroke than those who regularly get a good night’s shut-eye (file picture)

By Julian Robinson seven hours a night are four times more likely to suffer a stroke than bad night’s sleep can be as those who regularly get a good big a risk to your health as night’s shut-eye (file picture) smoking - and increase the The study, by the World Health chances of a stroke or heart attack, Organisation, suggests that a experts have warned. sleep disorder might be as bad for Research shows that people triggering a heart attack or stroke with sleep disorders who get less as smoking or failing to exercise. than seven hours a night are four Professor Valery Gafarov times more likely to suffer a stroke said: ‘Sleep is not a trivial issue. than those who regularly get a Sleeping disorders were associated good night’s shut-eye. with greatly increased incidences And those that tossed and of both heart attack and stroke. turned were more than twice as ‘Poor sleep should be likely to have a heart attack as considered a modifiable risk factor those who slept soundly. for cardiovascular disease along A study shows that people with with smoking, lack of exercise and sleep disorders who get less than poor diet.

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‘For most people, good quality sleep is seven to eight hours of rest each night and people who are not sleeping well should speak to their doctor.’

Part of the WHO’s MONICA programme looking into the causes of cardiovascular disease, the study involved 657 men aged 25 to 64 with no history of heart attack, stroke or diabetes in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Sleep quality was assessed when the study began in 1994 using the Jenkins Sleep Scale and patients with a rating of very bad, bad or poor were considered to have a sleeping disorder.

They were then assessed for occurrences of heart attacks and strokes over the next 14 years.

Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of participants who had a heart attack also had a sleeping disorder.

presented the findings at the EuroHeartCare conference in Dubrovnik, added: ‘Mortality from cardiovascular diseases accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the total mortality among the population.

‘Nearly 80 per cent of deaths from cardiovascular disease are due to myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke which means that today we are talking about an epidemic of cardiovascular disease.

‘It is therefore necessary to engage in intensive prevention of risk factors leading to the development of cardiovascular diseases.

‘Sleep disorders are very closely related to the presence of cardiovascular diseases.

‘However, until now there has not been a population based cohort study examining the

A bad night’s sleep can be as big a risk to your health as smoking, new research has revealed Men with a sleeping disorder had a risk of a heart attack that was 2 to 2.6 times higher and a stroke risk that was 1.5 to 4 times higher than those without a sleeping disorder between just 5 and 14 years of follow up.

Sleeping disorders are closely associated with anxiety, depression, hostility, vital exhaustion and are a manifestation of social stress in the population.

Professor Garafov, who

A bad night’s sleep can be as big a risk to your health as smoking, new research has revealed

impact of sleep disorders on the development of a heart attack or stroke.

‘In our study it was associated with double the risk of a heart attack and up to four times the risk of stroke.

‘We also found that the rates of heart attack and stroke in men with sleeping disorders were related to the social gradient, with the highest incidences in those who were widowed or divorced, had not finished secondary school, and were engaged in medium to heavy manual labour.

He said previous research showed that sleeping disorders were ‘very closely connected’ with depression, anxiety and hostility.

‘Guidelines should add sleep as a risk factor to recommendations for preventing cardiovascular disease,’ he added.

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The woman who adopts dead babies Twelve years ago Bernarda Gallardo saw a headline in the local paper that changed her life. After reading the story about an abandoned baby she decided she had to help.

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hey killed and dumped a newborn baby on the rubbish heap,” read the headline.

The little girl was found on 4 April 2003 - her body had been put in a black rubbish bag and thrown in a bin which was later emptied and its contents taken to the local dump.

There are people who make a living recycling rubbish from the dump in the southern Chilean town of Puerto Montt, and it was one of them who found the body.

Gallardo was horrified.

She immediately decided to give the baby a proper burial. She was in the process of adopting a child at the time and immediately felt a connection - this could easily have been her baby and she wanted to do something for it.

“If you get a baby that is alive you clothe it and feed it and put it in a cot. If your baby arrives dead you have to get a coffin and give it a decent burial,” she says.

But she also knows that some mothers don’t want to keep their children, and even feels a connection with them.

“These are young women, often no more than girls who are victims of rape and incest. If it is their father or stepfather who rapes them, they are too frightened to speak out.

The rapists are often the

ones who are providing for the family,” she says.

Gallardo was raped by a man in her neighbourhood in 1976 when she was 16.

She became pregnant and had the baby, a daughter, whom she loved and brought up herself.

“After I was raped, I was lucky enough to be able to move on because of the support I got from my friends. But if I had been left on my own, perhaps I would have felt as helpless as they do.”

Another reason babies are abandoned is poverty.

“The women simply can’t afford to feed another baby,” says Gallardo.

It’s difficult to estimate how many babies are dumped in Chile. Official statistics show that about 10 are found each year, but the real figure could be much higher - most dumps are closed to the public so it’s possible that there are more bodies that have never been found.

Gallardo’s desire to do something for the baby in Puerto Montt was the start of a long and bureaucratic process.

She decided to name the girl Aurora after the Roman goddess of dawn, and in fact the baby did bring light to the darkness.

But getting hold of Aurora’s body so it could be buried wasn’t easy. In Chile if a body isn’t claimed by a member of the family

it’s classed as human waste and disposed of with other surgical waste - Gallardo managed to step in quickly enough to stop this happening.

Doctors have to prove that a baby lived in order for it to be registered as a human being and thus allowed a proper burial - so they had to examine Aurora’s body.

Often doctors prefer to say a baby died at birth because they want to protect vulnerable mothers.

Abortion is illegal in Chile and if a mother is caught abandoning her baby, even if she leaves it at a hospital, she can face up to five years in prison.

Gallardo also had to adopt Aurora in order to bury her, even though the child was dead.

Initially the judge in charge of the case had his doubts about Gallardo.

He thought that she was Aurora’s biological mother and that she only wanted the body because she was feeling guilty about dumping her.

Once she convinced him of her good intentions, he told her it was the strangest case he had ever come across and that no-one in Chile had ever adopted a dead baby before. But he believed she was doing the right thing.

It took many months to get the medical tests done and the paperwork sorted

Bernarda Gallardo burial one of the adopted dead babies

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It’s difficult to estimate how many babies are dumped in Chile. Official statistics show that about 10 are found each year, but the real figure could be much higher - most dumps are closed to the public so it’s possible that there are more bodies that have never been found.

The grave where Aurora and three other abandoned babies are now buried out but finally Gallardo was allowed to take Aurora’s body for burial. Fivehundred people came to the funeral - they had been following Aurora’s progress in the local newspaper where the story was originally published.

Gallardo says the atmosphere was like a big birthday party - a celebration of Aurora’s life. There were children, doctors, nurses, the local press, people from the countryside and the judge.

They sang songs, read poems about Aurora and played music.

It was important to Gallardo that so many people came to the public ceremony. “I wanted to get my local community to think about what was going on. Why are babies being left to die when there are least four families ready and waiting and in the right condition to adopt an unwanted baby?” she says.

“Instead of killing the babies give them up for adoption!”

The very day after the funeral another body, a baby boy, was found dumped. Gallardo was

upset and couldn’t believe that all her work had seemingly been in vain.

By then she was wellknown locally. People told her she had done the right thing for Aurora - and then asked her what she was going to do about the boy.

Eventually she decided to stick posters on all of Puerto Montt’s rubbish dumps telling people.

“Don’t throw your babies in the rubbish,” and reminding them that two babies had been dumped in recent months - Aurora and then Manuel.

She thinks things are starting to change with better education about domestic abuse and more advice on family planning.

But Gallardo feels the law in Chile still victimises women who are poor or have been abused.

By coincidence, her own family history reveals another connection with babies who have been abandoned.

Her great grandmother was found on the steps of a nunnery in Italy.

Gallardo wants women in Chile who aren’t able to look after their babies

to be able to leave them in safe places too - she suggests dedicated areas in hospitals.

In the 12 years since Aurora’s funeral, Gallardo has adopted and buried three more dead children - Manuel, Victor and Cristobal.

She’s currently in the process of doing the same for another little girl, Margarita. She wants to give them “their dignity and for them to have somewhere to rest in peace”.

Gallardo’s story inspired Chilean director, Rodrigo Sepulveda to make a film about her. Named after Aurora, the prize-winning movie is currently being shown across Chile and at film festivals around the world.

Gallardo often visits the graves of the babies she has buried and sometimes notices that other people have left flowers.

She wonders whether some may be from the biological mothers and takes comfort from the fact that they are able to mourn knowing that their children are at peace.

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Weekend Revue

With Tobias Lengnan Dapam lovelengz@yahoo.com 07036990957

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t no 2 is Lil Jessica, feat Lil Mickey - with her song, ‘My mummy’. The 9 year old is really gaining more recognition in her young musical career. The song is making impact and is dedicated to all mothers in the world.

In the wake of the new face of the Performance Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN), in the country, several artistes have been registering their presence in every part of the country. Some of the songs that stood out were those under the Diamond Music Entertainment (DME). The songs which force music audience to remain glue to their set included the following:

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eading t h e c h a r t is the N i g e r i a n duo group, Addiction, with the song ‘Be with me’. The song is an easy going tune with catchy lyrics .It is currently making waves now and getting massive airplay on radio and TV and also on social media.

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Nigerian gospel Artiste, Phil Roberts with the song ‘Be the change’.

The classic RXB tune features Julietta aka queen of pop and Femi.

The song is about caring and showing love to the less privilege.

t no 4 is Gully Rider with the song ‘Zogale’, (Moringa leaf). It is an alternative dance hall tune song making a ‘bang bang’.

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t no 3 is Jayson Gold with the song ‘Say hello to Jesus’. The artists distinguished him in the industry this week with two songs on the platform.

The hip hop rap tune is trending on Diamond Hitz platforms and making waves across the country.

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Weekend Revue Entertainment industry can generate 6 trillion in a year – PMAN President

The place of K-Pop dance among young Nigerian artists

L-R: Abuja PMAN President, Julietta Ofuyeta, National President, Pretty Okafor and Media Coordinator, Zakky Azzay, during the event.

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

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resident of the Performance Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Pretty Okafor has revealed that the entertainment industry in the country was capable of generating 6 trillion in a year.

Okafor who gave this revelation yesterday in Abuja while addressing the new Abuja Excos and members of the PMAN, headed by veteran Pop artiste, Julietta Ofuyeta said the industry has a lot to contribute to the country’s economy.

He recalled that the industry was responsible for the recent boom of the country’s economy and urged artistes in the country to key in to the new vision of the PMAN. The PMAN president said the new vision will create platform for artistes in the country and weed

the activities of pirates who deny bar so many artistes from reaping the fruits of their labour.

“We are going to join the new wave of change in the country and we are going to do things different.

All artistes in the country are going to register and we are already in partnership with the bank and other stakeholders who are going to ensure the due process in the registration. Members are also going to be ensured and have a pension account from their registration”.

Okafor said at the end of the registration members are going to have cards from the bank through which they would access all the funds gotten from their music.

“We are doing it in such a way that when you release music online, you will directly get the money in to your account once someone click download on the music”.

Also speaking, PMAN media

Coordinator, Zakky Azzay, said artists have been treated with disdain in the country. He said several artists died without any recognition talk more of benefit, assuring that the new leadership will restore the dignity of artistes in the country.

He regretted that the association is known for the wrong reasons and appealed for cooperation amongst artistes in the country.

On her part, Abuja chapter president of the association, Julietta Ofuyeta, said the National President has done a lot in trying to revive the industry.

She noted the declining of the industry which she said prompted her to venture in to other businesses.

The Pop star said she groom young artistes and help them to stand tall in the industry regardless of the challenges.

nighttime for the next day, like 10 pm at night.”

The suit is seeking class action status and estimates up to 40 past and present interns could join.

Lalani’s responsibilities during her 50-hour weeks included: “inputting data into spreadsheets, making tech sheets, running personal errands for paid employees, organising materials, photocopying, sewing, pattern cutting, among other related duties,” according to court papers.

Lalani added in the filed

documents: “When we weren’t doing something, they’d be like, ‘Organise the buttons in the back by colour code.’ You don’t get a set 15-minute break.

“You’re like an employee, except you’re not getting paid.

They’re kind of mean to you.

Other interns have cried. I’d see a lot of kids crying doing coffee runs, photocopying stuff.”

A spokeswoman for the Olsens’ company told The New York Post that Dualstar was not aware of the suit.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen sued by interns

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ary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are being sued by their former interns for “wage

theft”.

A lawsuit - filed in Manhattan Supreme Court - has been brought against the 29-yearold fashion designers’ company Dualstar by interns, who claim they weren’t paid for their work, the New York Post reports.

The lead plaintiff, former design intern Shahista Lalani, said in court documents that although the Olsens were nice when they came into the office of fashion label The Row, she was overworked by their head technical designer during her time there in 2012.

She said: “They [Mary-Kate and Ashley] are really nice people. They were never mean to anyone. They’re business people. “[But the head technical designer] was very demanding.

I was doing the work of three interns. I was talking to her all day, all night. E-mails at

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

1st price winner of the 4th K-POP dance competition 2015- with Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Noh Kyu Duk and spouse.

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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he grand finale of the 2015 K-Pop dance, which held at the Nicon Luxury Hotels Abuja, witnessed a large turnout of participants quite unprecedented since the début of this popular Korean dance.

One of the most spectacular and interesting fact about this year’s K-pop dance grand finale was the vicarious participation by the young Nigerian artists, including students derived from across the country.

Before the commencement time of 1: PM, the Conference Hall of the Nicon Luxury hotels, where the strange dance competition was staged, had witnessed a surge of young people, who thronged the arena to either showcase their potentials or catch a glimpse of this new dance style in Nigeria.

Participants arrived from the schools within the Federal Capital Territory, as well as from the other states in both the northern and southern part of the country, including Edo, Kaduna, Delta, Kaduna, among others.

An event, which was aired live by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), kick-started with an address of welcome by the South Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Noh Kyu-Duck, who expressed overt gladness that the K-Pop dance has become one of the most appreciated music genre among the young folks.

According to Kyu-Duck, Nigeria is not only growing rapidly, but is also leading the development of the entire continent in variety of areas, including politics, economy and culture.

“Today, I have also witnessed

plenty of hope for Nigeria on the ground in the incredible passion and enthusiasm demonstrated by the younger generation of Nigeria”, Kyu-Duck said, just as he commended the fifteen finalists, including seven secondary school students team eight adult teams, all of who advanced to the final round.

Speaking on the K-Pop dance, he said it has now expanded far beyond the borders of Korea, adding that it has become a global cultural trend that is enjoyed by a huge number of people around the world on diverse digital platforms.

He therefore promised that the Korean Cultural Center Nigeria (KCCN) in Abuja would sponsor the first place contestants on an all expense paid trip to Korea for another round of the K-Pop dance competition in the country.

In this year’s K-Pop dance competition, about twenty two dance groups participated and competed for the ticket to Korea, but interestingly by young people of teen and early twenty bracket of age.

Shortly after the speech, the roll call of the participants came. The competition proper was divided into groups such as junior and senior school category, male and female category, as well as adult and non school category, among others for easy management.

The first participants who opened the floor was k-popians dance group from Gwagwalada secondary school, whose wonderful dancing steps involved more of acrobatic and athletic display, which left the crowd gazing in utter amazement.

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Ramos agrees new Real Madrid contract

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Odemwingie out with hamstring injury as Babatunde joins Dnipro

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eter Odemwingie will miss Stoke City’s clash away to Tottenham Hotspurs at White Hart Lane on Saturday after sustaining a hamstring injury in training, manager Mark Hughes revealed in his pre-match press conference.

The Nigerian, who came on for the last ten minutes as his side lost 1-0 to Liverpool last weekend, could be out for up to a month according to his manager.

“Unfortunately Peter has got a hamstring strain and is likely to miss the next couple of weeks,” Hughes said.

“It’s disappointing for him because he has worked tremendously hard throughout pre-season.”

Meanwhile, Hughes is hoping to have winger Marko Arnautovic and defender Marc Wilson available for selection against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.

The duo was absent from the squad in last Sunday’s curtainraiser at the Britannia Stadium after suffering injury setbacks in the build-up to the fixture with Liverpool.

In another development, Super Eagles midfielder Michael Babatundehas has signed a deal with last season’s Europa League finalists after quitting Volyn at the end of his contract The Nigeria midfielder

signed a three-year deal with last season’s Europa League finalists Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk after canceling his contract with Volyn.

The 22-year-old, who has spent five years in Ukraine, will wear the jersey No.9.

Babatunde who turned down top teams that failed to meet his valuation disclosed that the conversation he had with manager Bohgdanovych Markevych swung the decision for him.

“There were discussions with nearly all the top clubs,” Babatunde said.

“I have played against Dnipro in the past and he has wanted me ever since but the teams I played for (Krybass and Volyn) never wanted me to go,” “Teams from France, Spain and Germany but none of them were ready to meet my valuation and in the end Dnipro came out on top.

“I spoke to Markevych and he totally convinced me. He gave me the feeling that I was very important for him. Not only as a player but also as a person and then it was clear that I would sign for Dnipro.”

Babatunde, who is expected to make his official debut for the club in the Ukrainian League against Shaktar Donetsk, also admitted that the prospect of featuring in the Europa League was another reason he joined.

Peter Odemwingie

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Katsina, Abeokuta to host semi finals of Federation Cup

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Sport Katsina, Abeokuta to host semi finals of Federation Cup

By Albert Akota

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he semi final matches of this year’s men’s Federation Cup competition will hold at the Karkanda Stadium, Katsina and the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta on Wednesday, 19th August, 2015.

The brand new Karkanda Stadium, which was commissioned a couple of months ago with a match involving the Super Eagles B and a Katsina Selected Side, will play host to the clash between five time champions Enugu Rangers and Lobi Stars of Makurdi. The Makurdi giants have also won the competition two times.

Lobi Stars and Enugu Rangers are the two former winners of the

Federation Cup left in this year’s race.

In Abeokuta, Nasarawa United of Lafia will slug it out with Akwa United of Uyo. Akwa United prevailed over Niger Tornadoes Feeders on penalties after a 2-2 draw, while Nasarawa pipped FC IfeanyiUbah 1-0 in the quarter finals played on Wednesday.

In the women’s Federation Cup, Kogi Confluence Queens, who sent packing Cup holders Rivers Angels in the quarter finals, will tackle Bayelsa Queens at the Oleh Township Stadium.

Nasarawa Amazons, who decisioned Osun Babes, will take the pitch against Sunshine Queens (victors over FC Robo) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.

LMC wants Nigerian firms to sponsor domestic leagues

By Albert Akota

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owards curbing capital flight from the nation’s football industry to overseas, the League Management Company (LMC) has revealed that it intends to work with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) to push the Federal Government for the enactment of a legislation by the National Assembly that will make it mandatory for Nigerian companies entering into sponsorship deals with European Clubs to pay some percentage of the net worth of the deal to the domestic league.

Chairman of LMC, Mallam Shehu Dikko disclosed this at the inaugural sportspro.ng/Lagos Business School workshops which held at the Pan Atlantic University and also re-echoed the LMC’s position at the recent World Leagues Forum inaugural meeting in London which sought a percentage of European Leagues’ broadcast and other commercial partnerships deals secured from Nigerian organizations for the airing of live games and other activations in the territory.

He lamented that investable

Mallam Shehu Dikko

funds that would have accelerated the development of football in the country are being channelled to foreign Leagues/club deals while the domestic league and clubs are left to struggle.

“Our biggest challenge is the struggle for the hearts of our fans and the proliferation of European football on television and promotion of foreign clubs contents by Nigerian companies.

The intrusion of these broadcasts has made it more expensive to go to the stadium as just about N50 can get the average fan into a viewing center to see the foreign league and we are saying they should pay development grants in the forms of solidarity payments to us as they do to the lower leagues in their country”, argued the LMC boss.

His position was supported by the three Guest Speakers: Dr. Jim Pulcrano, a visiting Professor and member of EMBA Teaching Team, Mr. Kelvin Roberts, Editorial Director, Sports Business Group and Robert Matsauki, former Technical Director of Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).

Roberts acknowledged that European football is devastating the development of football in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, saying “the position of the LMC is reasonable and it is something that could be put on the table and negotiated but it is also important that you identify opportunities in the industry and utilize them”.

Eight NPFL Club officials and some staff of the League Management Company (LMC) participated in the workshop which was moderated by Dikko.

He said that continuous training and capacity development for stakeholders in the league is a deliberate policy to ensure that everyone is on the same page in the reforms initiated since 2013 to improve the league.

Lobi Stars of Makurdi

FC Ifeanyi Ubah, Rivers Angels bundled out of Federation Cup

By Albert Akota

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lo NPFL side, FC IfeanyiUbah has been thrown out of this year’s Federation Cup competition after a tough duel with Nasarawa United at the Kwara Sports Complex, Ilorin.

The Lafia kings reached the semi finals with a 1-0 win, and will now play fellow Glo NPFL side Akwa United in the semi finals.

Akwa United were stretched to the rubber by surprise packets

FC Ifeanyi Ubah

Niger Tornadoes Feeders.

Feeders had booted out top division club, Dolphins FC on penalties in the Round of 16 and again came close, before losing 3-4 on penalties after a battling 2-2 draw at the Aper Aku Stadium in Makurdi.

In Lokoja, Lobi Stars also shoved out another surprise package, BJ Foundation of Benin 2-1. A tantalizing semi final is on the cards as Lobi get set to battle Enugu Rangers.

In Abuja, Enugu Rangers’ march to a sixth title was

sustained with a 3-0 thrashing of El-Kanemi Warriors.

In the women’s event, champions Rivers Angels were eliminated by Confluence Queens in an interesting contest. The Kogi Queens edged the game 2-1, and will now tackle Bayelsa Queens, 2-0 winners over Edo Queens in the semi finals.

Also through to the semi finals are Nasarawa Amazons, who whipped Osun Babes 3-1, and Sunshine Queens, who defeated FC Robo 2-0 in Oleh.

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Prince Anthony Duru (chairman) 2. Barr Chris Chigozie Okegbe (Secretary) 3. Amaechi Okezie (Financial Secretary) 4. Charles Orisakwe. (Treasurer) 5. Alphonsus Onwuemeka. (Patron) 6. Ichie Innocent Ezike. (Patron) THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.To foster love, unity and to enhance the general welfare of 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, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. CHRIS OKEGBE (SECRETARY) 08034704290

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TOTAL LIBERATION GLORIOUS ASSEMBLY

YAR YARO WOMEN & CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

MUKADAM ABUBAKAR KEJEBU AGBAJI FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Gloria Cosmas 2. Pastor Cosmas Mamah 3. Jude Onoh 4. Remi Shittu 5. Obinna Cosmas Excellent THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations.

2. to bring salvation and deliverance to souls under bondage.

3. To organize and hold conferences, seminars and conventions to enhance spirituals growth of Christians wolrd wide.

This is to inform the general public that the above namedhas applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pharm. Hauwa Ibrahim Bature (JP) 2. Nuradeen Ibrahim Bature 3. Aliyu Ibrahim Bature 4. Rahila Ibrahim Bature

THE TRUSTEES Are 1. Alhaji Aliyu Otta Uthman 2. Hajia Mulikat Mojirayo Shuaib 3. Mrs. Ibrahim Abdulrahman 4. Alhaji Kamal Deen Abdulbaqi

Aims and Objectives: 1. To reduce poverty and improve equity for sustainable development through instrument of advocacy, gender budgeting in northern Nigeria.

Aims and Objectives are: 1. To cater for the general welfare of its members and the less privileged in the society.

2. To do charity to the needy in the society.

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

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

SIGNED: P. U. EKWUEME 08035068768

Signed: RAHILA IBRAHIM BATURE

PUBLIC NOTICE

COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT FOR ETHICS AND VALUES INITATIVES

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

Aim and Objective: 1. To provide for the less privileged in the society.

2. To provide good morals, ethics and values on our youths for the advancement of the society at large.

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

Signed: BARR. GLADYS JOEL; 08053581188

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 Days of this publication.

Signed SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

FREE HANDS INITIATIVE

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING GEETHICS NIGERIA

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

- Chairman - Secretary

Aim and Objective: 1. Providing a hob for volunteers, donors and stakeholders and a platform for exchanging ideas and other related information.

2. Hosting and coordinating charity events that can easily be reproduced in multiple locations all over the country.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Arinze Harrison Ikwumelezeh 2. Odunze Onyewuchi Felix 3. Aishatu Adamu Ahmed 4. Ettu Obasi 5. Hillary Ezeh 6. Uchechukwu Nzekwe

- Chairman - Secretary

Aim and Objective: 1. To promote geoethics values and principles through international cooperation.

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

Signed: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

- Chairman - Secretary

PUBLIC NOTICE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Anthony Dafenune Awoefe 2. Ayomide Fawole 3. Paul Ofulue

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Vera Sadoh 2. Choice Eronmommene 3. Betty Olaye Adun 4. Kate Imasuagbor 5. Godson Eronmommene

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

Signed: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

HIS GRACE LIBERTY APOSTOLIC MINISTRY

ALTARS AND HIS VOICE GLOBAL MINISTRY

The general public is hereby informed that the above named association has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1 of 1990

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

LIFE FULFILMENT CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev’d Ajayi Oluseye Joshua 2. Evang. Ajayi Mary Olukemi 3. Adetokun Abiodun Adewuyi 4. Babatunde Oluwafunmilayo Aduke 5. Adeniyi Salami Oluwafemi 6. Ajayi Olusola John

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev. Pastor Edward Igbodalo Iregbeyen 2. Pastor David Eja Ehichioya 3. Aizighode Godday Osetalefoh 4. Etoh William Esekhaigbe 5. Akhibi Solomon 6. Mrs. Maria Iregbeyen 7. Akaane Comfort 8. Mrs. Blessing Omokhomion

- President - Vice President - Secretary - Treasurer - Member - Member

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the of our Lord Jesus Christ to the whole world.

2. To preach and Minister salvation, healing and deliverance.

3. To prepare people for the heavenly kingdom.

4. To pray and deliver people from the oppression of the devil.

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

IKE AMAENU ASSOCIATION

The general public is hereby informed that the above named has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1 of 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Asogwa Dominic Obetta 2. Eze John Bosco Chikata 3. Asogwa Ikechukwu Sebastine 4. Barr. Eze Emeka Basil 5. Okwume Evelyn Abumchukwu 6. Ugwu Ogomegbunam 7. Enete Edwin Nwazuluoke

- President - Secretary

- Treasurer - Secretary

Aim and Objective: 1. To reach the people with the purpose of the death and his resurrection of Christ Jesus.

2. To prepare souls for the second coming of Christ.

3. To raise up heavenly citizens.

4. To raise up ambassadors for Christ.

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

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

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

Signed: BARR. LADI OCHUGBOJU-ABIDOYE

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COMMUNITY AID NOBLE AMBASSADORS ASSOCIATION

LYDIA BOSEDE FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration Under Part “C” of the companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

The Trustees are 1. Eric Seaman 2. Hadiza Seaman 3. Tommy Jeffery Seaman 4. Stanley Gumut 5. Gloria Yahaya

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To promote the welfare of Amaenu people.

2. To promote peaceful co-existence among Amaenu 3. To empower Amaenu youth to be self reliance.

Aims and Objectives 1. To render humanitarian services and to promote good behaviour by rewarding excellence in character.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar- General Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 Tigris crescent Off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Garkia, Abuja within 28 days of this publication

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Bliss Uchenna Enyinnaya 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Enyinnaya 3. Success Oluchi Enyinnaya 4. Udoka Hopewell Nwachi 5. Obinna James Okorie

Signed: HELEN O. OKHIRIA 08060415732

SIGNED: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

- Chairman

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mr. Bamidele Bamijoko 2. Mrs. Abigail Ebunlomo Aina 3. Mrs. Alice Bamgbola 4. Mrs. Roseline AdukeIge 5. Mrs. Comfort Ige 6. Mrs. Eniola Olufunke Awosika 7. Mr. Tokunbo Aderinola 8. Mr. Alasi Oloruntobi 9. Mr. Ale-Daniel Olaoluwa Esq 10. Mr. Shola Abejide

- President - Vice President - Treasurer - Asst/Treasurer - Secretary - Asst/Secretary - Fin/Secretary - Member - Legal Adviser - Member

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To assist the less privileged in the society.

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

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JESUS WORLD CHANGERS APOSTOLIC MISSION

CHURCH OF LIBERTY PRAYER BIBLE INTERNATIONAL

AKPAKA RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATION,GRA, ONITSHA

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: I.PASTOR (DR) OLUBAYODE A WOSIKA-PASTOR/VISIONER 2.PASTOR (DR) MRS AJORITSEDERE AWOSIKA 3.DR FRANK ERIBO 4.DR (MRS) LYNDA ERIBO 5.PROF BABAJIDE ELEMO 6.DR (MRS) GLORIA ELEMO 7.PROF TOLU ODUKOYA 8.DR SHEM ZAGBAYI NUHU - SECRETARY 9.ENGR JOHN AYODELE 10.CHARLES AZUBUIKE NGOKA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2.TO DEMONSTRATE PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY AND CHANGE THE MARKET PLACE FOR JESUS CHRIST. 3.TO TAKE THE KINGDOM OF GOD WHERE EVIL IS STILL ENTRENCHED IN ORDER FOR JESUS CHRIST TO BUILD HIS CHURCH. 4.TO ELIMINATE SYSTEMATIC POVERTY BY PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.PST. MATTIAS U. OKORO 2.EUNICE UZOIGWE 3.BRO. BEN ESOWE 4.SIS. ANDALINE IROHAM 5.SIS. IJEOMA EMENIKE 6.EKECHI IROHA 7.OKEZIE NWOKE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. EDMOND C. BEN 08037362048

SIGNED: N.A WEYINMI & Co (08033544839)

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INTEGRATED MINERS ASSOCIATION KANO

deh international peace centre , elele

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.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.IBRAHIM ISA ABDULLAHI - VICE CHAIRMAN 2.ALI AUWALU IBRAHIM- P.R.O 3.YAMUSA ABUBAKAR - CHAIRMAN 4.ADO MUHAMMAD 5.UMAR DANSULEKA 6.PROF. GARBA 7.NUHU SANI BABURA - SECRETARY 8.SAAD RIRUWAI 9.MUFTAU ABDUL IDRIS - TREASURER 10.ABDULLAHI MAITURARE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.TO PROVIDE JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO THE YOUTH. 2.TO BRING PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AMONG THE SOCIETY. 3.TO PROMOTE MINING FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev fr.Emp Edeh OFR- Chairman 2. Rev .fr Jude okenyi 3. Rev.fr pius abuchi 4. Brother Leonard chukwu -secretary

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF CALLISTUS OGUGUO NJOKU-Founder/President 2. LOLO (MRS) GERTRUDE CHINYERE NJOKU -Secretary 3. MR. PETER OPARAH -Member 4. MR. MICHAEL OGUCHUKWU NJOKU -Member 5. MR. MIKE ANAYO IHEJIETO -Member 6. DR. EUGENE AKUWUDIKE ONU-member 7. MR. ANDY UCHE OKORO-member 8. REV. SIS. BEATRICE CHINASA IROEGBU-member 9. REV. BRO. EMMANUEL OGUCHI OGU-Member THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.To provide economic empowerment to indigent persons in the society.

2.To provide educational empowerment to the less privileged in the communities.

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

Signed: Barr. Emmanuel Nwagwu

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. Dr. Mercy Ovuokerie Ogbe- president.

2. Mr. Elohozino Efue.

3. Rev. Wellington Ekawele Ogbe.

4. Mr. Ogbe Oyiye I. Emmanuel.

5. Arc. Esther Ewoma Wellington - secretary.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1. To drive a culture of excellence in thinking and performance through the development o critical and creative thinking as core social values and key organising concepts for all educational, social and attitudinal reforms in africa societies.

2. To carry out research and programs that will promote critical and creative thinking in africa.

Any objection to the Registration should be forwarded to the Registrar general, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED. SECRETARY.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SUNDAY UCHENNA ADANI ESQ 08063271600

PUBLIC NOTICE CHIEF BETHRAND OKOLI NWANGWU FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Everist Nwangwu 2. Theodore Nwangwu 3. Uchenna Nwangwu 4. Ugochukwu Nwangwu 5. George Nwangwu

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

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

SIGNED: BARR LEO OHAGBA.

CHANGE OF NAME

Signed: BEM ATETAN 08065640604

CHANGE OF NAME

I, formerly known as Cynthia Oyonghe Echija now wish to be addressed as Mrs. Cynthia Oyonghe Bakare All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

I formerly known as Mrs. Chinelo Maureen Igbokwe now wish to be known and addressed as Miss. Chinelo Maureen Nwatarali. All former documents remain valid. INEC , University of ABUJA and the General public please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME

I formerly known as MISS ESTHER ENEZE AUDU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ESTHER ENEZE CHRISTOPHER. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME I formerly known as BELLO BABAN KAWU now wish to be known as LAWAL GAMBO all former documents remain valid Bauchi State Judiciary and General Public take note

CHANGE OF NAME I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MOHAMMED TUKUR KAOJE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADRESSED AS ZAYANU MOHAMMED. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I,FORMALLY KNOWN AS OLOWU JESUGBAMILA ADETOUN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS ADEFUNMILAYO JESUGBAMILA ADETOUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. ALL AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PUBLIC NOTICE Centre for critical and creative thinking development in africa (CCCTDA)

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.TO CREATE A FORUM FOR ASSISTING MEMBERS. 2.TO FOSTER UNITY, LOVE, COOPERATION AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AMONG MEMBERS. 3.TO SET PEACE IN A REPUTABLE AND CMMENDABLE MANNER IN AKPAKA COMMUNITY AND ITS ENVIRONS.

The Aim and Objectives: 1. To assist the less privileged

PUBLIC NOTICE SPERO CARE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.SIR DUNU BEN - CHAIRMAN 2.MR. UGWU LAZARUS - SECRETARY 3.SIR. ENENDU NELSON - MEMBER 4.SIR. OKONGWU JOHNSON - MEMBER 5.LADY AYOLUGBE VIRGINIA - MEMBER 6.SIR. EZEH OKEY - MEMBER

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.Achieving peaceful eradication of conflict and violent extremism and promotion of peace in the world.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

This is to inform the general public that the above named FOUNDATION has applied for Registration to the Corporate Affairs Commission under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

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HAPPYFEET INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED foundation HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990.

The trustees are.

1. George Ochieze.

2. Babatope Omokafe Aliu.

3. Victor Ochieze.

4. Oluwole Asalu.

CHANGE OF NAME

CHANGE OF NAME

I formerly known as Zainab Onawani now wish to be known and addressed as Zainab Muhammad Elegu. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME I formerly known as MURNA YARO Now wishes to be know and address as MURNA LAMI ONUH. All former documents remain valid. genera public should please note.

5. Clifford Ananaba.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To Carry out humanitarian services in the society Any objection to the Registration should be forwarded to the Registrar general, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED. SECRETARY.

CHANGE OF NAME I formerly known as HADIZA MUSA now wish to be known and addressed as HADIZA ENEHUWA SALIU. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

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CAUCUS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS CLUB ANAMBRA

LA’ CREAME WOMEN FOUNDATION

BANJOKO FABRICS & TAILORING MATERIAL TRADERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. COMRADE OFOEGBU UCHENNA KINGSLEY 2. MR CHARLES OKWUOSA

3. BARRISTER IZUCHUKWU UMEIKE 4. MR OBUMNEME IKEMONU 5. EMMANUEL NNAKA 6. MR ESOMCHI UGWUJA 7. MR TONY AYOGU 8. MR IFENNA NWOSU 9. MR ARINZE NGOBIDI

- PRESIDENT - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS AND WELFARES OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. TINUOLA ELIZABETH YUSUF 2. OLUDI JUSTINA EJIRO 3. JENNIFER MAIYAKI 4. IRIVBEMI FRED AGHOMON 5. OGUNBAYO OLUGBENGA 6, IBIRONKE ATTAT 7. ADOGO FRIDAY IWODI

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO FOSTER & HELP IMPROVE THE SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL & ECONOMIC WELFARE STATUS OF WOMEN & CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TINUOLA ELIZABETH YUSUF CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: BAR. KAYODE LAWANI 08065336644

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PASSION AND CONCERN FOR WOMEN WELFARE AND EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

INDEPENDENT RAFFLE DRAW PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INITIATIVE HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMAKA OLUCHUKWU ENEMO 2. UDUAK DANIELS 3. MR ALBAN ANNONYUO 4. DR. CHUKS ANYIKE 5. PAUL UMOH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND CATER FOR THE AS WELL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: AMAKA OLUCHUKWU ENEMO

PUBLIC NOTICE

MMAULO WORLD ASSOCIATION This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Okoye Uju Loveth - President 2. Rev. Mbah Peter Amaechi - Secretary 3. Umeibe Roseline Obianuju - Treasurer 4. Nwaonuma Ugochi - Financial Secretary 5. lgwe Raphael Uchenna - Member 6. Hon. Okoye Cletus - Member Aim and Objective: 1. To protect the interest of members.

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

Signed: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

MIND OF CHRIST PRAYER AND PREACHING MINISTRY

The general public is hereby notified that the named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Abuja for the registration under part C of the companies and allied matters Act No I of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev. (Dr.) Joshua Ade Dada 2. Deacon Stephen Olusola Dada 3. Mrs. Christiana Abosede Dada 4. Pastor Jacob Moronfade Taiwo 5. Mr. Isaac Olatunde Dada AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To reconcile souls to Christ through his message of hope.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 Tigris cresent off Aguyi Ironsi street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Sign: SECRETARY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SUNDAY IGWE 2. MICHAEL OGBUZURU 3. CHUKWUDI OKAFOR 4. EMMANUEL UBAH 5. FRIDAY ENEKE SIMEON

6. PAUL NWANKWO 7. ANIUGO EVERISTUS OBIORA 8. OKWUCHUKWU GILBERT 9. IFEDIORA HYACINTH 10. COSMAS CHINWEUBA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FORM A FORUM FOR ASSOCIATING AMONGST OUR MEMBERS AND WITH THE SOCIETY. 2. TO CATER FOR THE INTEREST OF OUR MEMBERS. 3. TO ENSURE THAT NO MEMBER USES THE BUSINESS TO DEFRAUD THE PUBLIC. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SUNDAY N. OKONTA ESQ S.N OKONTA & CO UGWUOGENE CHAMBERS, SUITE B5/B6, DANSARARI PLAZA, WUSE ZONE 4.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ERNEST IZUCHUKWU 2. MALACHY OGBODO 3. CYPRIAN UDEKWE 4. EKENE EZE

5. JUDE-MARY NWACHUKWU 6. REMIGIUS OGBULIE 7. SUNDAY EGWUATU 8. SOLOMON NWAKONOBI

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DAIMEON IREBO OSUJI FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MEL OSUJI DAIMEON 2. SUSANNA KECHINYERE OSUJI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CREATE A FOUNDATION FOR OSUJI FAMILY AND THEREFROM PROPAGATE THEIR LEGACY. 2. TO EMPOWER CITIZENS IN THE AREAS OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECO NOMIC WELL BEING. 3. TO ENGAGE YOUTHS IN DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES AND SPORTS RECREA TION. 4. TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF WOMEN AND GIRL CHILD RIGHTS IN THE

SOCIETY. 5. TO RUN CHARITABLE SCHEMES AND CATER FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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WINNING GOOD FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

MISSIONARY SISTERS FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKWUDILI JACOB IFEDIORAH -CHAIRMAN 2. CHUKWUANI MONDAY EMEKA -SECRETARY 3. NNAMANI BARNABAS CHUKWUDI Aim and Objective: 1. TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: CHAIRMAN

The general public is hereby informed that the above named has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev. Sr. Oresoa Selo-Ojeme 2. Rev. Sr. Patricia Ogober 3. Rev. Sr. Felicia Jabial 4. Rev. Sr. Gloria Yariok 5. Rev. Sr. Maryfrancis Brai

- Chairman - Secretary

AimS and ObjectiveS: 1. To identify with the poorest of the poor and take up their cause.

2. To shelter, clothe, feed and care for the destitute, orphans, street children, the aged and the hopeless.

3. To educate and rehabilitate those they serve, helping them to return to their families and to God. Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED: REV. SR. GLORIA YARIOK SECRETARY

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LIVING GLORY SOCIAL CARE FOUNDATION

ENDLESS LOVE EMPOWERMENT CENTRE

The general public is hereby informed that the above named has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1 of 1990 NAME OF TRUSTEES 1. Idele Alile Pius 2. Barr. Harry Ilawole Ekun 3. Mrs. Mary Idele Alile - President 4. Idele Alile Osaretin - Secretary AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. Social care, welfare and empowerment of children and youth.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar- General Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 Tigris crescent Off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Garkia, Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed: BARR. JOSIAH KINGSLEY 08038823363

The general public is hereby informed that the above named has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1 of 1990 NAME OF TRUSTEES 1. Emmanuel Olufemi Akinlawon 2. Mrs. Ibiyemi Akinlawon AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To facilitate and assist small and medium enterprises access to loans to support their businesses.

2. To ensure access to financial services for the economically active poor and in particular, market women.

3. To build a more and more human society.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar- General Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 Tigris crescent Off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Garkia, Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed: SECRETARY

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great liberty youth empowerment association

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Christopher Effiong 2. Enobong Effiong

3. Talent Jumbo Sunday 4. Utibe Daniel Willson

- Chairman - Secretary - Member - Member

Aim and Objective: 1. To promote the welfare of the less privileged.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Christopher Effiong 2. Enobong Effiong

3. Talent Jumbo Sunday 4. Utibe Daniel Willson

Aim and Objective: 1. To promote the welfare of the less privileged.

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

JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL COHESION The general public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs. Commission for the Registration under part “C “ of the companies and Allied matters ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev .FR. John Keane (SMA) 2. Rev. FR Andrew Batare 3. Dr. Sir, Patrick Bogoro (KSM) 4. Sir. John Maina (KSM) 5. Chief Mrs Loise Igwe AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 To increase food security through sustainable integrated Agriculture .

2 To increase community awareness and enhance their capacity to respond to effects of

climate change and reduce possible impacts on their livelihood through sustainable alterna tive adaptation measures; 3.To improve standard of living of women and youths through income generating activities towards self reliance and better livelihood ; 4. To promote and encourage sustainable, portable water and sanitation through organic farming, provision of Boreholes/wells and awareness on sanitation and Hygiene towards improved health and standard of living of All; 5. Empower women to participate fully in the development of their communities ; 6. Promote peace by creating awareness in communities ; 7. Promote justice for the marginalized ; Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 320 Tigris Crescent ,off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from this publication.

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PUBLIC NOTICE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA RC NO: CAC/IT/NO 21893 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED FOR AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTTION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES REMAIN THESAME. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN MODIFIED. THE AMENDMENT ARTICLES OF THE CONSTITUTION: 1.THE COVER PAGE. 2.ARTICLES 1-16 WERE AMENDED AS WELL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

Leverkusen sign Chile midfielder Aranguiz

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ayer Leverkusen has completed the signing of sought-after midfielder Charles Aranguiz from Internacional on a five-year deal.

Chelsea and Arsenal were among the clubs linked with the Chile international, who played his part in his country’s recent Copa America success on home soil.

Aranguiz also caught the eye in Brazilian club Internacional’s run to the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores and Leverkusen chief executive Michael Schade rates the signing of the 26-yearold as a considerable coup.

Aranguiz revealed that Bayern Munich new boy Arturo Vidal swayed his decision to move to the BayArena.

SIGNED: REV.FR.ANDREW BATARE (SECRETARY )

Everton sign Holgate from Barnsley

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verton have signed Barnsley defender Mason Holgate for an undisclosed fee on a five-year deal.

The 18-year-old made 22 appearances for the League One side after making his debut last December.

B o u r n e m o u t h , Manchester United and Newcastle were all linked with moves for the player

this summer.

“With Mason, an opportunity came up and we didn’t want to lose out.

He is a young man with an impressive future,” Toffees boss Roberto Martinez said.

Holgate joins up with former Tykes academy graduate John Stones, who joined the Premier League side from Barnsley in February 2013.

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Wikki Tourists, others benefit from NPFL clause on youth players

By Albert Akota

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ikki Tourists, Bayelsa United, Sunshine Stars, Heartland and Enyimba International took advantage of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) regulation that encourages clubs to graduate youth team players to the senior team without affecting the regular season’s 35 squad member cap. The five teams collectively injected a total of 11 young bloods into the league this season.

Clubs in the league are permitted in Article A.2.1.2 to register up to five such players aged 16-18 and issue them jersey numbers 36-40 in addition to the regular 35 players allowed for a season. The players can also be withdrawn at any stage in the season and replaced by another player of their category.

Sunshine Stars topped the list with four players, one goalkeeper and three forwards including the son of Enyimba’s Coach Khadiri Ikhana. Bayelsa United, Heartland and Wikki Tourists promoted two players each to their senior team squad.

Azeez Ikhana who was born on September 18, 1996 joined the list of Sunshine Stars goalkeepers that presently has Olympian, Ikechukwu Ezenwa as the first choice between the sticks. The others are Gbaluwe Taiwo who took time of University degree pursuit to further his football career, Oluwole Tolulope and Ajibade Abiola.

Players promoted to the senior squad at Bayelsa United this season are Itoko Kariowei Ezekiel who was born on July 16, 1997 and Newman Doubra with the birth date of May 27, 1998.

For Wikki Tourists are two midfield players, Ezekiel Emmanuel born on December 3, 1997 and Abdulkareem Guindo who was born on July 26, 1997.

Heartland upgraded midfielder Ekezie Chukwuwuike who was born on December 29, 1998 and defender Ewulum Alex born on September 10, 1998.

18 year-old Alloy Browne scored in his debut for Enyimba on Match Day 21 against Akwa United. Browne upgraded to the Enyimba squad during the midseason transfer window is of a Nigerian mother and a Liberian father and plays in the midfield.

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Character and leadership: The Buhari example

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ll through history, the most essential ingredient for leadership has always been character. Although other ingredients such as empathy, toughness, knowledge and intelligence are frequently mentioned, these traits are all too often really subordinate aspects of character. Encarta English Dictionary defines character as a set of behavioural qualities that make a person distinctively attractive.

Such qualities are listed as honesty, sincerity, humility, forthrightness and integrity. These are essential aspects of character, which Dwight Eisenhower, the 30th president of the USA, described as “the supreme quality for leadership”, without which no man is fit to lead others. Because leaders hold not just the lives of the people but even determine the destiny of society, it is supremely important that people trust those who lead them. And trust is earned through character.

As we all sometimes in our affairs experience, it is always frustrating and disappointing if people betrayed the trust we put in them; it is even worse if these people are elected public figures who cook up phantom political expediencies as justification for their personal character flaws.

A fundamental flaw of character is dishonesty. This can come in several forms. For example, a person who cheats, or who cuts corners in executing an affair with the intention of depriving someone else of their rightful claim to something so that the executioner will have all or more than his fair share of it can rightly be adjudged as dishonest. A person who is given public trust or holds a public office and leverages on that office to increase his personal benefit against public interest, or gain undue advantage over others, can also be categorized as dishonest. In other words, the person is corrupt; for corruption is also defined as a deliberate alteration of a rule with ultimate negative effect to the system. Dishonesty can also come in a form of deceit – that is a person who portrays to another person or people what is actually not in his mind with the intention to get something which otherwise he wouldn’t have gotten if he told the truth or kept quiet about it. Such a person too can be listed as dishonest.

In other words, a dishonest person cheats, manipulates, deceives and/ or lies; whatever the person does is aimed or meant to deceive, defraud, or trick people with the intention to serve a selfish end.

When this flaw ultimately becomes open and known to the other person, or to the society, then that person loses his integrity and becomes a person of lowly character.

Automatically, his behaviour becomes morally repugnant and liable to make him lose respect of others. He will also be viewed as an

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President Buhari unjust person, and concomitantly loses the trust of the other person or the society. This distinctively becomes even worse if that person is in a position of leadership.

It is against this backdrop that Nigerians seem to appreciate the strength of character of Mohammad Buhari to have made them elect him over and above other candidates, first at the primary and then at the general elections levels, as their president. The enthusiasm for change became so discernible as to convince men of good standing that Nigerians are no longer willing to accept men of lowly character to superintend over their public institutions.

To validate Buhari’s strength of character, let’s take his integrity for comparison with his peers in the Nigeria’s leadership cycle. It is an indisputable fact that most of his known peers, some even lower to him in rank and position, are stupendously wealthy or died stupendously wealthy in the real sense of the phrase. But President Buhari is nationally acknowledged to be poor, relative to his peers.

Interestingly, his peers who are of public service background went into the public service and milked the system dry. They made their stupendous wealth by leveraging on their respective public offices (i.e. trading on official influence) and investing the proceeds, thereby guaranteeing them undue advantage and control over certain sectors of the national economy and living a stupendously wealthy life thereafter. None of them went into public service wealthy; all of them went in as poor men from very poor backgrounds but came out as stupendously wealthy men.

In contrast to them all, Buhari went into public service poor and came out relatively poor. Amazingly, Buhari held more strategic and lucrative public positions capable of turning him, if he so desired like others, a stupendously wealthy or even wealthier man than each and every one of them. He was governor of Northeastern state for almost a year; Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC Board for three and half years; Head of State and Commander -in-Chief for almost two years; and he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund, (PTF) for three years. All these were public offices that could turn a man into a multi billionaire overnight for life, but President Buhari went into them and came out of them without leveraging on them to amass wealth for himself or for members of his immediate family. This is a clear proof that he had given honest leadership in the offices he held. He has proven that he can be trusted with public office; a fundamental solution to the current crisis of leadership in Nigeria. And, as the universal dictum goes, honesty is the best policy. Nigerians, faced with the dear challenge of nationbuilding, realized that they will be better off with a bit of honesty, in accessing their potential leaders, in fielding them up into public offices and in them rendering trustworthy leadership. Hence on March 28, they refused to be misguided by sentiments, emotions or selfish interests, or by rains of naira and dollars, and went headlong to elect Buhari based on his strength of character in the belief that he will bring positive change to their lives.

With his election, Nigerians have revived interest in personal character as the basis for leadership for achieving rapid development.

They must have been convinced that the world today see more clearly the essential role of personal forces in shaping destinies of nations and societies. They must have realized that modern social science has proven Frederick Taylor wrong that the impersonal forces of matter, rather than the personal forces of individuals, are the key determinants of shaping and directing societal progress. Indeed, the country’s latest experience in the Obasanjo’s and Jonathan’s Economic Teams lay bare the false assumption that the assemblage of persons with superb knowledge of ‘systems analysis and quantitative abstractions’, would

turn around the socio-economic fortune of the country solely on spun quantitative models. The result, as being seen today, is a colossal disaster; both our economy and our politics have been worst off for it. Persons of high knowledge no doubt have their place in leadership and development designs, but they are no substitute for persons of high character.This must have informed why Nigerians elected Buhari, a person of high character (even with an alleged ‘forged certificate’)into position of leadership as president.

Yes, Nigerians had before elected Shehu Shagari on account of character, against Ibrahim Waziri, Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikwe who were wealthy men by the standard of their day as landed property owners. Nigerians also elected Obasanjo on account of integrity against Olu Falaye. But both are nothing compared to the 28th March election of Buhari. All too sudden, in 2015, nothing seemed to matter in Nigeria but one man.

To many, Buhari is like a light in the darkness; and over the past three months of his sole stewardship, the darkness is beginning to lift.

He managed to both convey a clear direction of where he wants to take the nation and a steely resolve of how to get there. He has projected strength and vigour despite his age. In all these, his integrity and solid character are his power, and so far he is wielding both skillfully.

By his clarity of goal, his sincerity of purpose and dedication to duty he transformed the national mood even before he left Eagle Square, the venue of his inauguration ceremony.

Whether or not he will ultimately meet the high expectations of Nigerians by the end of his term, time will tell.

Umar Ardo, Ph.D., is a public affairs commentator

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