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LEFT: #BringBackOurGirls group staging a protest yesterday in Abuja, demanding to see President Goodluck Jonathan over the abduction of school girls in Chibok, Borno state. RIGHT: Policemen blocking the major road leading to the Presidential Villa.

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Alleged bias: Reps stop presidential scholarship awards

By Lawrence Olaoye

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he House of Representatives yesterday ordered a halt in the process of awarding foreign scholarship for the 2014 batch of candidates for the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID).

Chairman, House Committee on Education, Rep Aminu Suleiman, made the pronouncement after interacting with the PRESSID Chairman, Professor Julius Okojie, who also doubles as Executive Secretary of the National Universities' Commission (NUC).

Based on widespread criticisms against lopsidedness in the list of the 2014 successful candidates released by PRESSID, the committee summoned the NUC executive secretary to answer questions on the matter.

The committee chairman, in his comments, noted that 17 northern states were sidelined in the exercise, with the region pro-

ducing only seven out of 100 successful candidates qualified for the scholarship this year.

According to the analysis presented by Rep Suleiman, those seven qualified candidates were taken from the North-central while none was deemed to have qualified for the award from either the North-west or North-east regions of the country.

This, according to the chairman, portrays the President Goodluck Jonathan in bad light, and should be remedied before a greater harm was done.

According to the committee, the list of the qualified candidates for the scholarship scheme offended the Federal Character provisions in the nation's Constitution.

The committee chairman ruled that since the list of the successful candidates billed to proceed on the scheme for 2014 in 25 top rated universities across the world did not comply with the constitutional provisions of Federal Character, it has become null

and void and of no effect whatsoever.

The committee also ordered that the PRESSID should show proof that it obtained exception certificate from the Federal Character Commission (FCC) to support its claim that the programme was based solely on merit.

Okojie, in his defence, told the committee that the scheme was designed for candidates with First Class degree below the age of 30, in some specified areas including Medicine, specialized Engineering fields, amongst others.

He said due process were routinely followed and only those found qualified were short listed and screened.

But members of the committee were not convinced as they expressed disbelief that nobody from seventeen states of the North could make the list.

They also argued that no policy, no matter how well intended, should jettison the constitutional provision of Federal Character.

The lawmakers maintained that

there was the need to strike a balance between merit and geographical spread, in the interest of equity and unity in the country.

The leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), had in 2012 condemned the criteria being used for the PRESSID. The ACF's spokesman in a statement then wrote: “It certainly enabled the NUC to ignore the national consensus on inclusiveness and balance of competing demands among groups and areas of the country.

“If the NUC had permitted itself to be guided by the need for balanced development of Nigeria, it would not have nominated a preponderance of candidates for this vital programme from Southern states to the near exclusion of the North”, it said, calling on the Commission to correct its mistake, if it was indeed a mistake.

“As presently implemented, it is a disservice to the very objective for which the scheme was set up and to our aspirations as a people”, the Forum said.

Jonathan evades #BringBackOurGirls protesters

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resident Goodluck Jonathan yesterday tactically avoided facing members of the #BringBackOurGirls group who had sought to meet him and inquire about his administration's efforts to return the over 200 missing Chibok school girls to ther parents.

The group, which has been campaigning for the rescue of the abducted schoolgirls by Boko Haram, had declared its resolve to march on the Aso Rock Villa yesterday to take its message to President Jonathan, despite repeated warning by the police that it should shelve such plan.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, who had refused to receive previous notification letters for the group’s protests, had summoned some leaders to intimate them that the team will not be allowed to march to the Villa.

Mr. Mbu, according to one of the protesters, said the team will not be allowed to march beyond the Federal Secretariat, and suggested that the group meets with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, instead of the president.

But members of the protest group rebuffed the police chief's proposition and insisted on marching into the Villa.

A statement issued earlier by Coordinator of the group, Hadiza Bala Usman, said the planned procession to Aso Rock was sequel to similar marches to the National Assembly, the Defence headquarters and the Borno state

Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.

“Therefore, as the President and Chief Security Officer of the country, this movement deemed it necessary to take its cry and demand to His Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan,” the statement said.

But the hundreds of protesters seeking to pressure the federal government to act and rescue the remaining 233 schoolgirls kidnapped, were yesterday denied entry into the Presidential Villa.

The #BringBackOurGirls protesters met stiff resistance from the heavily armed special security forces stationed at every strategic position leading to the Villa, as they were told that only workers or invited guests were allowed access into that area.

Unable to access Aso Rock, the protesters agreed to be received at the federal secretariat by a delegation led by Anyim, the FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zainab Maina, Special Adviser to the President on Media, Reuben Abati and Senior Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, among others.

“We went out of our way that we must have this meeting with Mr. President. And the answers we have received is inadequate,” one of the leaders of the group, Oby Ezekwesili said.

“Please let Mr. President know that the answers we received is not enough. Tell him also that he also missed a colossal opportunity to address his citizens on a crucial issue.

“Our proposal is: that we will demand of Mr. President another opportunity of addressing the issues that the citizens have put

before him as the commander-in -chief. We also want the delegates to tell the president that we hold the office of the president in very high esteem,” she said.

Meanwhile, protesting students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) yesterday detained the convoy of President Jonathan in Ile-Ife, Osun state.

The convoy, led by a Toyota bullet proof SUV with ‘Presidency’ inscription and registration number, FG902-B02, tried to drive through the students who were protesting an increase in fees by the university management.

The university management was sad to have increased the fees from about N17,000 to over N100,000.

Security details attached to the convoy allegedly shot to dis-

perse the crowd and were said to have injured two of the protesting students in the process.

The students alleged that the convoy was escorting an ex- Niger Delta militant, High Chief Okubo Robert.

They said one of the soldiers identified as Idris Ajisesin with number 448318 shot four students.

The protesting students said that Robert, who was being driven in a jeep with registration number, PRESIDENCY FG902B02, angered the students when he ordered that the soldiers shoot tackle the students.

Our correspondent learnt that the students nearly lynched the soldier who fired the shots, but for the intervention of some residents.

NEITI lists oil block beneficiaries in Nigeria

By Etuka Sunday, with agency report

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he Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), said plans have been concluded to release the names of oil block beneficiaries in the country.

This it said, was to enable it work in line with the revised reporting standards that were recently unveiled by the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

NEITI said, the details of crude oil blocks licence-holders would be contained in its yet-tobe-released 2012 audit of the oil and gas sector.

Once that is done, it would put to rest the unanswered question of licence-holders of crude oil blocks and those at the forefront of oil and gas business in Nigeria.

The Chairman, National Stakeholders Working Group of NEITI, Mr. Ledum Mitee, who made the disclosure yesterday, during a workshop organised to educate civil society organisations in the extractive industries on the new standards, said it would enhance greater transparency and accountability in crude oil production and revenue receipts.

He said the listing, which would be tagged: ‘disclosure of beneficial ownership’ would also form part of the revised EITI natural resource audit reporting standard.

“The revised standards require, for instance, disclosure of production figures, revenue flows to state, local and other accounts, as well as disclosure of ownership of the licence holders (disclosure of beneficial ownership),” he said.

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News Again, Boko Haram razes Borno village, kill 29 From Mustapha Isah Kwaru, Maiduguri

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uspected Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday night launched another attack in Chukungduoa village, Ngala local government area of Borno state and killed 29 people.

Similarly, hundreds of people were rendered homeless as several houses, shops and vehicles were burnt by the rampaging gunmen.

The latest attack occurred within 48 hours after similar incidents in which the insurgents

also killed 29 persons, when they stormed stormed two villages in Damboa and Askira Uba local government councils of the state.

Sources said, the attackers, who were armed with sophisticated weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices ( IEDs) drove into the area around 11pm in 15 vehicles and several motorcycles.

They have reportedly started burning houses and opened fire on all those that rushed out to escape, killing 29 villagers on the spot, while several others were wounded.

It was learnt that some of the victims died of gunshots while, others were allegedly crushed to death by the insurgents' vehicles.

A resident, Malam Bakura Mustapha Alhaji, who spoke to newsmen on phone said they were amazed by the attack as it came barely 10 days after the security earlier deployed to the area had withdrew.

He said, the whole buildings in the village were completely razed down with only three structures remained untouched.

According to him, 29 dead

bodies were still lying on the streets, as most of the villagers who are supposed to perform burial rites for them have fled.

"Presently, we have counted 29 dead bodies who still laying the streets. The whole houses and shops were razed down; the village is deserted with no any presence of security operatives.

"Some of our people have fled to Gamboru-Ngala tiwn, while others fled into neighbouring Cameroon villages. We are calling on government to consider our plight and came to our aid".

L-R: Former Edo state governor, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Muktar, and Director-General, Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Professor Epiphany Azinge, presenting a book on Justice Muktar, during the institute's lecture, yesterday in Abuja.

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Soldiers bomb insurgents’ camp in Bauchi From Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi

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n its efforts to get rid of insurgents in the country, the Nigerian military is reported to have bombed insurgents camps located in parts of Bauchi State, local and security sources have disclosed.

Our correspondent gathered that, as early as 6 o’clock in the morning, people in the com-

munities of Darazo local government area of Bauchi state said that they heard loud sounds of explosives towards the forest where insurgents camps were reportedly located.

A reliable security source in the state confirmed that the army has started operation in the forest but did not give details of the operation adding that the exercise was carried out

without creating panic among the inhabitants of the forests Some of the locals in the forest communities who pleaded anonymity for security reasons said the vibration shock the buildings of their houses to their very foundation adding that shortly after the explosive sounds were heard they saw military aircraft bearing Nigerian flags hovering in the sky.

It could be recalled that, it has been reported that a sizeable number of gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect have been operating in the Balmo forests in Darazo, Burra in Ningi, Soro in Ganjuwa and Yugda forests between Zara-Miya, while another camp is believed to exist around the Bauchi –Gombe border, in Alkaleri.

Probe of Diezani begins June 17

By Umar Muhammad Puma

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he House of Representatives has said it has set aside June 17, 18 and 19 for the commencement of the probe of the alleged charter private jet scandal by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which was saddled with the responsibility of the probe, has so far collated evidences from Jet Hanger and Vistajet, two private companies connected to the

jet charter deal.

It has also received memos from undisclosed whistle blowers, who have indicated interest to appear before the committee to testify.

Chairman House committee on Media and Public Affairs, Rep. Zakari Mohammed (APC, Kwara) disclosed these to journalists yesterday. He said fresh sets of invitations have been prepared and will be sent out to invitees ahead of the period slated for the hearing in about two weeks.

Other stakeholders expected to appear before the committee are Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authorities (NCAA) and other relevant agencies in the aviation industry.

He assures Nigerians that there is no need for them to develop cold feet over the conduct of the probe and its outcome, saying the committee will turn in its report on the floor of the House before the House goes on recess for annual break by the end of July.

Rep. Zakari, however, rejected allegations that the House has been compromised and cannot carry on with the probe, saying "these are imaginary aspersions about favours exchanging hands.

But I want to say the House is clean."

On whether or not the Minister will show up for the probe hearings, Mohammed said the House is not out to witch-hunt her. "If you were to appear and you refuse, under the law, we will subpoena you," he noted.

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Dangote to invest N40bn on Jigawa sugar factory From Dutse

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Abubakar,

he Chairman Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has promised to spend $250 million dollars (N40 bn) for the construction of a sugar refining company in Jigawa state.

Alh. Dangote, while speaking shortly after he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the company and Jigawa state government, said he has taken over 20,000 hectres of farm lands for the production of sugarcane, which would further be refined by the proposed factory.

He explained that, when completed, the factory would provide job opportunity to over 23, 000 people, in addition to the provision of 60 megawatts of electricity, which he said, is twice the electricity currently shared in Kano state.

According to him, "We proposed 250 million US Dollars as the initial capital of the factory and we are hoping to be on the site by September; and it would not take us long before the actual production would start".

"The factory would produce at least 150, 000 tonnes of refined sugar daily, while it would also produce ethanol, animal feeds and paper".

In adding to the initial job opportunity for junior staff, the company would provide jobs for at least 1,300 permanent staff that are going to be engaged fully for the company”.

Dangote maintained further that 8,000 workers are to be engaged as seasonal workers, 9,300 workers are going to be engaged during the farming season.

The Chairman noted that 10,000 farmers are going to be allowed to farm for the company of whom their produce would be bought over.

He also stated that the parent community would get schools, a hospital and clinics as part of the company's hospitality to not only the staff of the company but also the residents of the area.

Governor Sule Lamido, on his part, assured the Dangote Group of an enabling environment to operate. He also urged Jigawa citizens to cooperate with Dangote in order to benefit from the dividend.

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United Nations blacklists Boko Haram

By Evelyn Okakwu with agency report

T L-R: Managing Director, Abuja Enterprises Agency (AEA), Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, member, AEA Board of Directors, Dr. Monday Ewans, representative of Minister of State for FCT, Mr. Uche Nwafor, and representative of the Chairman of AEA Board, Hajiya Nana Tsokwa, during the 2nd FCT Entrepreneurship Conference and Merit Award, yesterday in Abuja.

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Jos explosions: Residents besiege hospitals to search for missing relatives From Ado Abubakar Musa, Jos

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hree days after the Jos twin bomb blasts which claimed over 100 lives, a good number of people in the state have been trooping out to various hospitals to search of their missing relatives who have left their homes since the day of the incident.

The search of the missing relatives, which began since Tuesday, has continued till yesterday at different hospitals in the city.

According to Sabo Adam Abubakar, his wife, Maryam Ibrahim was among those missing during the blasts.

When asked at the Plateau Specialist Hospital mortuary how Maryam got missing, he narrated that: “About 2:30p.m.,

of Tuesday, we went to Zenith bank together and withdrew money.

“Before we parted, I told her that I would be going to Maternity Hospital to her sister, who visited a patient and she then told me that I should come back as she would prepare my food on time, so I should not waste time.

“Not more than five minutes later the bomb blast occurred.

I have been round to various hospitals since Tuesday to see if I could even see her corpse but couldn’t; and her cell phone number was not available.

“Our marriage is months old now. She was kind and obedient.

I cried on the day of the incident.

If she is no longer with us, may Allah show mercy on her”, he added.

Another resident, Aliyu

Maigida, who searched for his missing cousin, also said, “My cousin, Iliyasu went out Tuesday, but did not return. We went to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) mortuary, Jan Kuwanu and other hospitals but could not find him; but we will continue searching. We are not given up now.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal, Alex Badeh, yesterday said the recent efforts by the Nigerian military to fighting insurgents and restoring peace in the country, particularly in the NorthEast,had made insurgents to employ new tactic in their action.

The CDS said this in Jos, when he visited the state to see for himself the destruction of the Tuesday twin bomb blasts.

He said, “The military have been mounting serious pressure on the insurgents and that is the reason they have started moving out of the area.The Nigerian soldiers are highly capable of fighting the insurgents and very soon the issue will be addressed.”

He appealed to Nigerians to patient and supports the military with vital information about the insurgents.

He warned the public against rushing to bomb scenes, as there was the likelihood of another explosion, saying, “People should desist from rushing to the bomb blast scenes, as there is always the possibility of the another explosion’’.

The CDS offered his condolence to the people of the state and Nigeria at large resulted to from the heave twin bomb blasts.

Alternative Medicine Bill passes INEC calls on voters to verify second reading in Senate registration status

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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bill for an act to establish the College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nigeria, yesterday passed second reading in the senate, even as the sponsor, Senator Clever Ikisikpo recommended the sum of N3.9 billion as take-off fund for the establishment, if passed into law.

In his explanatory note attached to the lead debate, Senator Ikisikpo noted that the take-off grant of N3.9bn would cover consultancy, capital costs, personnel emoluments, and cost of specialised training for staff, among others.

Presenting the lead debate on the floor of the senate, Ikisikpo noted that the bill was aimed at providing constitutional framework for more effective operations of the Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, created as an agency under the Federal

Ministry of Health in 2007.

He explained that providing legislative backing for the college would ultimately complement federal government’s efforts at encouraging alternative medicine practice which had already been embraced by medical practitioners in most European, Asian and African countries.

The college, he said was saddled with the responsibility of training and retraining alternative medicine practitioners in the health-care delivery services.

Ikisikpo also explained that the institution will carry out clinical and research, as well as provide an alternative method of treating ailments.

He assured Nigerians that the institution was capable of increasing life expectancy in Nigeria from 45 to 75 years, based on the quality and effective healthcare services it was capable of providing.

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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s the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commences the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) today, the Commission has urged every registered voter in the 10 states under Phase One to visit the polling unit where they previously registered in order to ascertain their registration status.

In a statement, issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, the Commission said the distribution of PVCs will last till Sunday in Taraba, Gombe, Zamfara, Kebbi, Benue, Kogi, Abia, Enugu, AkwaIbom and Bayelsa.

It also said persons whose data have been appropriately captured will be handed their PVCs at the polling units in accordance with set procedures, adding that those with defective data, for whom PVCs have not been produced, will have the opportunity to re-

register during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) that holds from Wednesday, May 28, to Sunday, 1st June.

“There will be a display of the valid Register of Voters at the polling units where the PVCs will be distributed. It is, thus, important for every voter to visit his/ her polling unit from Friday, 23rd May to Sunday, 25th May, 2014, to ascertain his/her registration status; contrary to suggestions that persons in so-called ‘zero polling units’ need not show up”, the statement said.

It further explained that the CVR is for persons who turned 18 years after the last registration, persons who were 18 years at the time but did not present themselves for registration, persons whose data were not adequately captured previously and for whom PVCs have not been produced.

It further said the exercise is not for people wishing to transfer their registration data from where they previously registered.

he United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which has carried out a wave of deadly attacks and the recent abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

According to the Voice of America (VOA) report yesterday, Nigeria had asked the committee to add the militant group to the list of al-Qaida-linked entities that are subject to asset freezes, travel bans and an arms embargo.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power welcomed the council’s action, calling it “an important step in support of the government of Nigeria’s efforts to defeat Boko Haram and hold its murderous leadership accountable for atrocities.’’

In Nigeria, gunmen killed at least 29 people in an attack late Wednesday on a remote village in the northeast. It was the third major attack blamed on Boko Haram this week.

On Thursday, teachers across Nigeria took to the streets in a one-day strike to protest Boko Haram’s kidnapping of the schoolgirls, who have been missing for more than a month.

Several countries have pledged to support Nigeria in its effort to find the girls. On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama deployed 80 U.S. military personnel to Nigeria’s neighbor Chad to help in the search.

The U.N. is also backing efforts to find the girls, including preparing a “support package” for the girls and their families.

Boko Haram has said it wants to establish a strict Islamist state in northern Nigeria.

In recent weeks, the group has stepped up the frequency and intensity of its attacks. Nigerian officials believe the militants are responsible for twin bombings in the central city of Jos on Tuesday that killed at least 118 people.

The militants are also blamed for attacks on three Borno state villages overnight Tuesday in which 48 people were killed.

Earlier this week, lawmakers extended a year-old state of emergency in the northeast, where Boko Haram has been most active.

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News Families of 6 slain Borno teachers in custody of Boko Haram – NUT From Mustapha Isah Kwaru, Maiduguri

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orno state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), yesterday disclosed that family members of six slain teachers of Government Secondary School Dikwa, killed by members of the Boko Haram members sect, two months ago are still in the custody of the insurgents.

Deputy Chairman of the union, Comrade Bako Lawan disclosed this to Governor Kashim Shettima,

while leading his members to the Government House in Maiduguri, to protest the abduction of over 200 Chibok schoolgirls.

Comrade Lawan told Governor Shettima that after the insurgent attacked the school and killed six teachers in the middle of March, it was later discovered that the assailants had abducted families of their victims.

He said since the incident, the whereabouts of the kidnapped families of the slain teachers remained unknown.

He also said that no fewer than 170 primary and secondary schools teachers were so far killed

by Boko Haram in various parts of the state.

He decried the continuous closure of schools in the state due to the activities of the Boko Haram sect.

Comrade Lawan called on the Federal and the Borno state government to provide adequate security in all schools or teachers will remain at home even when the schools are re-opened.

He also called on the state to compensate the fallen teachers and also delivered a protest letter on the abduction to Governor Kashim Shettima to be delivered to the president, Goodluck Jonathan.

While addressing the teachers, Governor Shettima said the 170 teachers died fighting the right cause.

“Education is the fundamental right of each and every child in this country and in this world, it is so sad that in this century so people want us to backslide into primitive,

Gunmen kill police Inspector, 2 others in Edo From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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he Officer in charge (OC) Anti-Robbery, Inspector Yakubu Dikko, attached to Okhoro Divisional police Station, Egorlocal government area, was on Wednesday night shot dead by suspected gunmen.

Dikko, 33 year-old was reportedly attacked by the hoodlums while returning home at the neighbourhood of Ugbowo in Benin City, the Edo state capital.

The victims were said to have trailed the father of four children from an unidentified location to his private residence, where the late Dikko was killed.

Similarly, a thrift collector and a tricycle operator were at separate locations in Benin,shot dead by suspected gunmen yesterday morning.

The tricycle operator, identified as Kingsley James was said to have been killed at Uwelu community at his residence.

The alleged murderers of the 31-year-old victim were said to have burgled two doors leading to the two room apartment of the victim and dragged him out of his bedroom before shooting him.

A police source said the middle-aged female thrift collector,whose name was not given, was shot dead at a popular Business District by the suspected murderers,and dispossessed of undisclosed cash in a bag.

The source did not disclose if the victim whose body was yesterday afternoon deposited at the Central Hospital’s morgue had struggled with the hoodlums which resulted to the gunfire.

Policemen attached to Ogida Police Division took the lifeless body of Kingsley James and father of two children to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) mortuary for possible investigation.

Edo State police command, Public Relations officer, DSP Nobel Uwoh, who confirmed the incidences, however said he was yet to get details as at the time of filing this report.

The Police spokesman was quoted, in a statement in part, that ``members of the public are also advised to inform the police and other security agencies of any suspicious movement of activities of persons within the state’’.

they want us to be using hoes and cutlasses.

They want us to go back and be using only herbs for medication but ironically these lunatics are using guns and ammunition’s produced using modern technology to kill innocent souls, what a contradictory” he said.

He called on the people to remain focus saying that “our goal now is how to get back our girls safe and alive”.

NMFUK condemns bombings, calls for rescue of abducted students

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R-L: Newly appointed Emir of Ngelzarma, Alhaji Muhammad Mai yeri Isa III, speaking during a thank-you visit to Yobe state Governor, Malam Ibrahim Gaidam, yesterday in Damaturu.

Terrorism: Jonathan meets Zuma, others in S/Africa today

By Yakubu Yaki

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resident Goodluck Jonathan will fly to Pretoria, South Africa today, for high-level discussions with other African Heads of State and Government on combating terrorism in Africa.

According to a press statement issued yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr.

Rueben Abati, the continent’s five regions will each be represented by two heads of state and government at the talks which will focus on collective action to effectively roll-back the scourge of terrorism in Africa.

Others expected at the talks which will take place ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration for a new term in office include the leaders of Gha-

na, Republic of Congo, Chad, Angola, Rwanda, South Africa, Mauritania, Algeria and Ethiopia.

President Jonathan, who will be accompanied by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali and some key aides will return to Abuja after attending President Zuma’s inauguration on Saturday.

Muslims to hold national prayer on peace, security Sunday in Abuja

By Chris Alu

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he Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs is organizing a one-day prayer session on behalf of the country as part of concerted efforts aimed at overcoming the current security challenges bedeviling the country. This is com-

ing days after Christian prayers that took place last week Friday in Abuja.

The one-day prayer session, which comes up on Sunday, will hold at the National Mosque, Abuja, with the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111 being the Chief Host and Spiritual Fa-

ther of the day and His Excellency Arc.Mohammed Namadi Sambo will serve as the Special Guest of Honour, while all the Muslim governors are expected to be in attendance, as well as Ministers, Members of the National Assembly, Traditional leaders, Sheiks, Imams and leaders of various Islamic groups .

he Nigeria Muslims Forum in the United Kingdom (NMFUK) has joined millions of Nigerians and campaigners worldwide in condemning the abduction of over 200 students from Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State last month.

It also condemned the continued violence and bombings targeted at the civilian population in parts of the North.

The Forum, in a statement issued yesterday, said it is clearly the height of cruelty which has no place in Islam.

It, therefore, condemned and rejected the sect’s claim that its actions have a basis in Islam, either through the Qur’an or teachings of the noble Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

“While we pressure the government to act and ensure the girls are rescued and returned to their families, we wish to also draw attention to the plight of similarly abducted girls and conscripted boys in the past. There is a need for the government to act to rescue these victims who are vaguely remembered,” said the Amir of NMFUK, Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed.

He also called on the international community to put pressure on the government to take the safety of the lives and property of Nigerians seriously.

Meanwhile, the Forum has, on its part, sought audience with the Nigerian High Commissioner Dr Dalhatu Sarki Tafida in a bid to contribute ideas towards stemming the Boko Haram crisis and rescuing the missing students.

The Forum said it has written to the House of Commons’ AllParty Parliamentary Group on Nigeria urging it to support the effort to bring back the missing students and to be consistently involved in finding sustainable solutions to the intractable security problems in Nigeria.

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News

Thunder kills pregnant woman, barber in Benue

From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

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eavy thunder and lightning yesterday struck and killed a pregnant woman and a barber in Gboko local government of Benue state.

A resident of the area Mr. HaanyaAondoakura said the incident happened at the Average Hotel located around St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church, Gboko west.

According to him, the pregnant woman (names withheld) met her

untimely death while she was in the kitchen pounding food, adding that the barber identified as Mr. N Nyajo had just finished attending to a customer and was in the process of closing his shop when he was struck down.

The chairman of Gboko LGA, Mr. NahanZenda, who spoke to newsmen yesterday on phone confirmed the incident, saying that he would see the family of the deceased to commiserate with them on the sad incident.

15 passengers feared dead in Edo auto crash From Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Benin

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n auto crash on Ewu hill Benin/ Auchi Road in Esan Central Local Government area of Edo State on Wednesday claimed15 lives.

The accident was said to have occurred when an articulated vehicle crashed into an 18 seater Toyota Hiace bus marked LFA 137 XB, killing 15 passengers, while three survivors.

As at the time our Correspondent visited the scene, combined efforts of the men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Police and the Ni-

gerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to dismember the mangled bus to retrieve the survivors and dead bodies.

The incident caused a hectic traffic gridlock for several hours as the police tried frantically to control the long queue of vehicles on both sides of the busy expressway through the only narrow passage that was leftfree.

Bewildered sympathisers called on relevant authorities to find lasting solution to frequent vehicular mishaps on Ewu Hill, stating that several lives have been lost since the construction of the road in 1973.

FRSC defers enforcement on new number plates

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

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he Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it has deferred enforcement on the new number plates.

The deferment was occasioned by the decision of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) suspension of the 30th June, 2014 deadline for a change to the enhanced motor vehicle number plate and driver’s license and separate court judgments from Lagos and Abuja, the FRSC Public Education Officer (PEO), Jonas Agwu, said yesterday, in a statement.

It added that the JTB after its recent 129th meeting held on 23rd and 24th April, 2014 at its headquarter in Edo State Internal Revenue Services in Benin resolved that; “In the light of the Court judg-

ment against the FRSC, the Board decided to suspend the 30th June, 2014 deadline earlier announced for a change to enhanced Motor Vehicle Number Plate and the Driver’s License pending the outcome of the appeal by the FRSC. “The States Internal Revenue Service, the FRSC and the Vehicle Inspection Offices (VIOs) have been encouraged to put all necessary logistics in place to improve Motor Vehicle registration and issuance of Driver’s License in order to build a comprehensive database”.

Meanwhile, the FRSC directed its Commanding Officers to explore all available platforms such as motor park rallies, advocacy visits and other forms of public engagement in keeping with its 2014 strategic goal of improved public communication and road use education.

Civilian ‘JTF Corps’ seek to provide security in motor parks From Muhammad Ibrahim, Kaduna

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ollowing the twin bomb blast at a Jos Market, a group, called‘Civilian JTF Corps’said it would partner with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to provide 24 hours security surveillance in motor parks across Nigerian states.

The group said the effort was to assist the security agencies with useful information that will lead to arrest of evils perpetrators in the society.

The group also agreed to partner with Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN) to end insecurity bedeviling the country, particularly northern states.

Speaking with Peoples Daily in

Kaduna, Assistant Chief Warder (rtd), ACW Umar Maccima, who is the National Coordinator of the Corps, said the group will engage about 50 youths from each Local government Area for community, boarder and motor parks patrol in the country.

He said they have also already met with the leadership of the NUTRW in Kaduna with regards to finding ways to provide enough security at motor parks.

He added that the Civilian JTF corps will soon launch a new programme that would enhance sustainable security system at homes, boarders and motor packs across the nation all with the aim of securing Nigeria.

He called for a full support and cooperation from Government for the group to succeed.

Borno state Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), demonstrating over the abduction Chibok school girls, yesterday at the Government House, in Maiduguri.

Photo: Mustapha Kwaru

NSGF blasts Labaran Maku, FG over stance on insurgency From Yakubu Mustapha,Minna

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he Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF, has flayed the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku over his comments on the insurgency in the north-eastern part of the country, describing the statement credited to Mr. Maku after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday as ‘unfortunate’.

Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger state, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, reacting to the statement by Mr. Labaran Maku at the opening of a one day meeting of Federal and State Government’s Security Administrators in Minna yesterday, said if the views expressed by the Minister was the opinion

of the Federal Government ‘it is very uncharitable, it is more than unfortunate.

Maku had been quoted in the media as saying that Governors in the northern part of the country were not doing enough to contain insurgency in the region.

Governor Aliyu, while reacting, stated: “As chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, I can say that no governor can be accused of not doing enough, it is part of the circumstances we find ourselves’.

“How can we do enough, when people like Labaran Maku would play politics with a serious matter; I think the statement came out because of what is happening in Nasarawa, his home state, and he now generalizes it to the whole region’.

“Why would we not be accused of not doing enough when even the children that were kidnapped some people were trying to make it look as if nothing happened?

“Iam not aware of any governor invited by the National Security Adviser and told of what to do and he did not do it I am not aware of that.

“We, as Northern Governors, set up a committee that went round all the states we sent our report and recommendations to the Federal Government and what did the Federal Government do they set up another committee which went round and plagiarized the report of the Northern governors.”

“We need to stop this blame game and start to find solution to what is happening”

among ethnics and religious believes has today been divided into ethnic and religious lines thereby drawing a battle line between people who hitherto has lived as neighbours.

“This idea of people of particular ethnic and religion settling in one particular area with the belief that they will be protected is a wrong idea, because in time of crisis, they will be vulnerable to any attacks.

“In times of any misunderstanding, either religious or ethnic, the opposite force know where to go to and wreak havoc on the community.

“I am appealing to Nigerians especially those in Kaduna State to come back to their former way of life by integrating with each other. It is safe to live as neighbours than dividing ourselves on ethnic or religious lines.”

The DG, who said his team was in Kaduna as part of the national campaign to re-orientate and make Nigerians to believe there is no country like Nigeria and the insecurity challenges currently being witness in the country is a threat to everybody. “So, all hands must be on deck to find solution to the problem”, he stated.

Stop dividing our cities on ethnic and religious lines – Omeri From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

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he Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mike Omeri has expressed dismay over Nigeria’s cities being divided along ethnic and religious lines, saying this is dangerous and unhealthy for the nation. He stated this in a media interaction with media men in Kaduna yesterday.

Mr. Omeri, who was represented by the Director, Administration and Human Resources, Mr. Solomon Ado said a city like Kaduna where in the past exist unity and peaceful coexistence

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News

2 illegal oil dealers bag 3 years jail term

By Joy Baba

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Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo state has convicted and sentenced Idris Abubakar and Ibrahim Hassan to three years imprisonment each without an option of fine for illegally dealing in petroleum products.

The term starts from the date of their arrest.

A statement signed by the Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wilson Uwujaren said the convicts were among eleven suspected illegal dealers of petroleum products

arrested by men of the Joint Task Force, 4th Brigade, Nigerian Army, Benin sometime in January, 2012 and handed over to the Commission for further investigation and prosecution.

The statement said they were subsequently arraigned before Justice A. M. Liman, on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and illegal dealing in petroleum product.

“After diligent prosecution, the court found the sixth and the eight accused persons, (Idris Abubakar and Ibrahim Hassan), guilty on count four which borders on uttering of forged waybill and

convicted them accordingly.

“The judge said the convicts cannot be said to be ignorant that the waybill was forged since they are not new in the business.

“The other accused persons - Mohammed Yusuf, Adamu Mansur, Sani Rabiu, Murtala Mohammed, Yahaya Usman, Yahaya Mohammed, Hamisu Kamba (diseased), Aminu Ibrahim, and Ibrahim Ahmed were discharged and acquitted on counts one, two and three.

“The deceased, Hamisu Kamba, was struck from the charge”, the statement noted.

Uwujaren also said the

prosecution made an oral consequential application pursuant to Sections 1(17) (a) and (b) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act; 25 and 30 of the EFCC Act; Order 3 Rules 6 and 9 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2009 and the inherent jurisdiction of the court, that the conveying truck and its content be forfeited to the Federal Government.

“The trial judge then ordered that the prosecution counsel to make a formal application subject to judicial enquiry since the items are still exhibits of the court” the statement added.

Court remands man, 64, charged with attempted murder

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Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun, on Wednesday ordered that a 64-year-old man, Paul Igboke, be remanded in prison custody pending receipt of legal advice.

Igboke, who lives at No. 26 Shobo Street in Ota, was charged with one count of attempted murder of one Okoh Charles, a trader.

The magistrate, Mrs Titi Bello, who gave the order, also directed the prosecutor, Insp.

Peter Molokwu to forward the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

Bello adjourned the case until May 30.

Earlier, the prosecutor told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 6 at Power Line in Ifesowapo Akute Ajuwon area of Ota. He alleged that Igboke attempted to kill Charles by pinning him down and stepping on his head and body with his shoes, inflicting grievous injury on him.

Molokwu said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 320 (1) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

(NAN)

Salesman arraigned over alleged theft of 94 cartons of chicken

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Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (left), sympathising with a victim of Jos bomb blast, yesterday at the Jos University Teaching Hospital.

Photo: NAN

Court remands 5 in prison custody over alleged murder, N4.5m theft

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n Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded five men, who allegedly murdered a man after robbing him of property valued at over N4.5 million in prison custody.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Eniola Fabamwo, ordered that the accused should be kept at Kirikiri Prisons, pending an advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.

The accused are Gbenga Ojo,

28; Sheriff Abolaji, 20; Yusuf Isiaka, 32; Michael Ayinde, 21; and Segun Asiye, 25.

They are facing a five-count charge of conspiracy, murder and armed robbery.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, ASP. Samson Ekikere, told the court that the accused with others currently at large, committed the offences at 8.00 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2013 at 1, Otunba Jobifele Way, Central Business District, Alausa, Ikeja.

He said the accused, who were armed with a pistol and other dangerous weapons in the course of their operation, shot one Mr. Sesan Ogunro to death.

Ekikere said that the accused also robbed the deceased of a Toyota Yaris car with number plate, APP 120 AA, worth two million naira, belonging to his wife.

The prosecutor also said that the accused snatched a Honda Odyssey space bus with number

plate AAA 329 BA, valued at N2.5 million, property of one Mrs. Adeoti Balogun.In addition, Ekikere alleged that the accused robbed Balogun of her phones worth N40, 000 and N10,000 cash.

The offences, he noted, contravened Sections 1 (2) (a), (b) and 5 of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Laws of the Federation, 1990.

Fabamwo adjourned the case until June 23 for mention. (NAN)

3 butchers docked for fighting in public place, constituting nuisance

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hree butchers on Monday appeared at the Upper Area Court in Karu, Abuja for fighting in a public place and constituting a nuisance.

The police arraigned Aminu Mohammed, Isah Ibrahim and Buhari Yusuf for joint act and causing public disturbance.

The prosecutor, Insp. Stephen Eimoga, told the court that Mr. Jibrin Mohammed, Chairman of the Butchers Association at Karu

Market in Abuja, had lodged a report against the accused.

He said the report was lodged at the Karu Police Station on May 15.

Eimoga said the accused persons, who are also members of the association, disobeyed a 2013 order of the Karu Magistrates’ Court to maintain peace in the market.

He said the accused persons fought in the market, knowing

full well that there was an order to maintain the peace in the market.

The prosecutor told the court also that the offence contravened the provision of sections 79 and 113 of the Penal Code.

After the charges were read to them, the accused persons pleaded not guilty.

The presiding judge, Malam Hassan Ishaq, admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N20,000 each with one surety

each in like sum.

Ishaq ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and also present their national identity cards or driver’s licenses to the court registrar.

The judge also ordered each of the accused to write an undertaking to maintain peace within the Karu market area from May 2014 to June 2015.

He adjourned the matter until June 19 for hearing.(NAN)

30-year-old salesman, Zidon Esen, on Thursday appeared before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged theft of 94 cartons of chicken.

The accused, who resides at No. 3, Agelasho Road, Ajara, is facing a count charge.

The Prosecutor, Insp Innocent Uko, told the court that the accused stole the cartons of chicken worth N357,200 from Mrs Tosin Akande on May 4 at about 45p.m. at Agbalata Market, Badagry.

Uko said that the accused went away with the goods given to him by Akande to deliver to a customer.

“The accused was supposed to deliver the cartons of chicken to a customer, but he disappeared,” the prosecutor said.

Uko submitted that the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011, and punishable with three years imprisonment.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Abiodun Etti, granted him bail in the sum of N500, 000 and a surety in like sum.

Etti ordered that the accused must show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

He adjourned the case till June 3 for further hearing. (NAN)

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Photo Splash

#BringBackOurGirls group yesterday took its protest to the Presidential Villa to see President Goodluck Jonathan over the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno state. But the group was stopped by the police led by the FCT police commissioner at the Federal Secretariat, where they met with the government’s delegation.

Our photographers Mahmud Isa & Justin Imo-Owo covered the protest march.

One of the coordinators of the group, former Education Minister, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, registers the protesters’ displeasure for not being allowed to see President Jonathan, to government officials.

Protesters with placards marching towards the Presidential Villa.

L-R: Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, Minister of State for Agriculture, Hajiya Asabe Asmau Ahmed, Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zainab Maina, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Ayim Pius Ayim, Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, PDP Women Leader, Mrs. Kema Chike, and Minister of FTC, Senator Bala Mohammed, all listening to the presentation of the protesters.

FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, coordinating his men to stop the protesters.

Two protesters consoling each other

PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

National Conference rejects minority report

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elegates at the National Conference yesterday unanimously rejected a minority report presented by a member of the Devolution of Power Committee, Ms. Annkio Briggs.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Briggs submitted her report in Abuja immediately after the committee’s report was submitted by the Co-Chairmen, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie and Obong Victor Attah.

Attah, who spoke after submitting the report, said the committee had no doubt that the report would generate a lot of interest.

Briggs, a Federal Government delegate and member of the committee, said she was submitting a minority report. ``I am a member of the committee, unfortunately, I happen to be a lone-voice that

does not agree with a very critical aspect of the report of Devolution of Power Committee. ``I hereby seek to present my minority report on the issue of derivation,’’ she said.

NAN reports that the submission of the report generated a heated argument as majority of the delegates said the report should not be accepted or considered while few others said it

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should be accepted.

Dr. Bello Muhammed, representing Kebbi State, called on the conference not to accept minority reports.

Muhammed said that the conference rule did not give room for minority reports but decisions that were reached either by consensus or 70 per cent vote. ``If we accept this report, it may encourage other delegates

who also want to submit minority reports after a decision had been taken by this conference. ``This is because it is not everyone that will agree with everything that we agreed on. ``If the committee has decided either by consensus or by 70 per cent the report of a committee, every reasonable member of the committee should be bound by that report,’’ he said. (NAN)

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Women delegates in the National Conference carrying placards, calling for the release of abducted Chibok school girls, yesterday at the conference’s venue, in Abuja.

Photo: Mahmud Isa

Confab adopts some recommendations of Land Tenure and Boundary C’ttee report

By Hassan Haruna Ginsau with agency report

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he National Conference yesterday adopted some recommendations of the Land Tenure and National Boundary Committee report.

The conference voted on issues ranging from compensation for Bakassi, land use and national boundary, among others.

Delegates voted in favour of the establishment of a National Boundary Tribunal to adjudicate

on boundary disputes.

They however voted against the payment of compensation in perpetuity to Cross River and every community in Nigeria that had lost territories to other countries.

The conference also put the

adoption of the recommendation to expunge the Land Use Act from the constitution on hold, as it could not reach consensus on the matter.

The conference thereafter adjourned plenary until 9 a.m. on Monday, May 26.

...resolves contending issues, adopts Citizenship, Immigration Committee report

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he National Conference in Abuja yesterday resolved contending issues and adopted the amended report of the conference committee on Citizenship, Immigration and Related Matters.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the report was on Wednesday suspended over contentious issues which centred on the provision and funding of grazing reserves and new technologies for herdsmen.

The committee had recommended that grazing reserves and new technologies such as hydroponic fodder solution for feeding cattle be promoted by government.

It also recommended that dedicated funds for the acculturation and acclimatisation of herdsmen should be provided for herdsmen for them to settle at designated grazing reserves.

Confab: Akinyemi harps on proper conduct by delegates at plenary

While some of the delegates believed states where herdsmen came from should be responsible for providing and funding grazing, others said that it should be the responsibility of the host government.

The adoption of the committee report was preceded by a motion sponsored by 14 delegates and read

by Mr Festus Okoye representing Civil Society Organisations, which resolved the contending issues.

The motion, which contained three prayers sought that an integrated development and livelihood modernisation programme be implemented.

Okoye said the motion addressed settling of nomadic herdsmen into communities based on establishment of cattle ranches with fodder development technologies; including abattoirs, processors and other businesses along livestock value chain.

``That the programme should be funded by both Federal and State Governments where such settlement are allowed and established. ``That the integrated programme should be undertaken and wrapped up within five to 10 years after which such settlement should have become self-sustaining.

“It added that this must be with the full integration of the nomadic community into modern Nigeria political economy,’’ he said.

Okoye said that the prayer became necessary to build on the innovative and transformative recommendations, citizenship and residency rights adopted by the conference.

He added that the motion was to create the environment that would reduce and prevent conflict arising from the encroachment by herdsmen into farmlands and competitions over land use between herdsmen and farming

communities.

Dan Nwanyanwu, of Labour Party, seconded the motion which was unanimously accepted by the conference.

Chief Mike Ozekhome, a Federal Government delegate, however, moved a motion that the amended report of the committee be adopted.

Ozekhome’s motion was seconded by Justice Balkisu Aliyu, a delegate representing Zamfara, which was unanimously accepted by the conference as well.

The Deputy Chairman of the conference, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, ruling on the committee’s report said that ``the majority has it more than consensus’’.

NAN reports that the committee report was the first to be adopted by the conference while deliberation also commenced on the Land Tenure Matters and National Boundaries Committee. (NAN)

buja, May 22, 2014 (NAN) Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, Deputy Chairman, National Conference has advised delegates to the conference to conduct themselves properly, given their status in the society.

He gave the advice on Thursday following intermittent use of contentious words by some delegates over some issues at the plenary.

Akinyemi reminded the delegates of the importance of the conference adding that most Nigerians were watching the proceedings emanating from such a national assignment.

The deputy chairman who commended Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd), Chairman of the conference for his “forbearance and wisdom in handling issues at plenary”, Akinyemi also urged delegates to remain civil in their utterances. ``Civility is not an act of weakness and crudity is not a sign of strength; let us keep that in mind. ``You have rules of procedure, if you refuse to be governed by what you approved, then what do you want to be governed by,” he said.

Reacting, Chief Mike Ozekhome, a Federal Government delegate, said that delegates had behaved themselves well, given the magnitude of the conference.

He said delegates ought to be commended and not reprimanded following the manner in which they had conducted themselves irrespective of disagreement over certain issues. ``I commend the leadership of the conference but I want to disagree with those who are giving the impression that we are unruly here. ``I have watched parliaments across the world including Nigerian parliament, where people have disagreed with passion. ``We have not conducted ourselves badly at all. I think we need to be commended for behaving well in spite of the feelings over some issues,” he said. (NAN)

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News

Kebbi govt delivers 1,000 tricycles, buses to 21 LGAs From Ahmed Idris, Birnin Kebbi

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he three thousand units of tricycle, one hundred new buses and one thousand power tillers purchases by State’s Subsidy Re-investment Empowerment Programme, [SURE-P] yesterday Kebbi state Government has taken the delivery of the items across the 21 local

government areas of the state.

In a press statement issued by the press secretary to the Governor Alhaji Abubkari Muazu Dakingari and made available to newsmen in Brinin kebbi, says that the purchase of the vehicles is to reduce the suffering of the people and ease travel difficulty of the commuters in the state. ‘’the vehicles will convey

commuters from the state capital to all the 21 local government areas of the state on dailies basis with designated areas as bus terminal across the state’’ the statement stated.

He however, explained that the programme has touches the lives of the people most especially at the rural areas, pointing out that shelter belt

of various economic trees were also established by the state government, covering the length and breadth of the state in order to curtail and check the desert encroachment and enhance the production of citrus fruits.

He then urged the beneficiaries to judiciously make use of the vehicles by good delivery and maintenance.

L-R: Members, House Committee on Education, Hon. Jerry Alagbaoso, Hon. Ini Udoka, and Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, at a meeting on Education at National Assembly, yesterday in Abuja Photo: Mahmud Isa

Abducted girls: Niger cancels Children’s Day, Democracy Day Celebrations From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna

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iger state governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has said that the 2014 Children’s and Democracy Day celebrations will not be celebrated with the usual pomp and ceremony, as a mark of respect to those affected by security challenges currently confronting the nation.

The Commissioner of Information, Communications and Strategy in the state, Danladi Ndayebo told reporters in Minna yesterday, that Children’s Day and Democracy Day celebrations would be marked in the state with prayers for the nation.

According to him, “Owing to the security situation in the country, Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has directed that this year’s Children’s Day and Democracy Day be used to seek God’s face and intervention for the nation.”

Ndayebo said the Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development will on Children’s Day mobilize children from across the state to pray for the release of the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State.

He said on Children’s Day, children, both Muslims and Christians will pray for Nigeria.

They will pray for the safe return of their colleagues who were abducted from school on April 14, 2014; and on May 29, we will pray to God to bring an end to terrorism and to restore peace in the troubled North East region and Nigeria at large.

He urged all stakeholders to remain steadfast in prayers for an end to the senseless killing of Nigerians and further urged people living in the state to be vigilant and report any suspicious movement to security agencies, stressing that security for all is the responsibility of all.

Mass attack, sign of victory over terror - CAN

By Evelyn Okakwu

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he National President of the Christian Association Of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has said that the various attacks on the masses in Nigeria by the Boko Haram Terrorist group is a sign that the insurgents are clearly loosing grounds in the country.

The CAN president said this

yesterday, in a statement, to commiserate with the victims of the bomb blasts in Kano and Jos, this week.

According to the statement, Pastor Oritsejafor said the recent attacks in parks and other popular places was a sign of a gradual overthrow of the terror group. ‘lt is now obvious that the insurgents are losing grounds hence their resolve

to hit soft targets such as innocent women and children in market places. This is clear in the recent attacks in both Kano and Jos.” The CAN president described the acts as an evil that ravages communities and productive sectors of the economy.

He noted that the war against insurgency was a matter of concerted efforts.

“I will like to state again for clarity sake; this war is not for the military alone, soldiers don’t go to war, it is a nation that goes to war, so we must understand our roles as citizens in this fight’.

Pastor Oritsejafor called on Nigerians to remain vigilant and prayerful for the country.

“My call on Nigerians, especially Christians, is to remain vigilant,

supportive of government and most importantly remain prayerful; I don’t want us to succumb to the wishes of these criminals”.

He however reiterated his call for further involvement of government and the Military in the fight against Terror in Nigeria The CAN president enjoined Christians across the country to continually pray for peace and Unit.

Defarmation: Al-Mustapha withdraws suit against Islamic cleric From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

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he former chief security officer to late Head of State, late Gen. Sani Abacha (rtd), Major Al-Mustapha has withdrawn the case of defarmation of character and spreading of wrong information on his person brought against a Kaduna based Islamic cleric Sheikh Sanusi Khalil at the Upper Shari’ah Court sitting at Daura Road, Kaduna.

Addressing the court yesterday, counsel to Major Al-

Mustapha Barr.

Garba Sadau said the withdrawal of the suit came after several interventions by prominent Nigerians who call on the two parties to mend their fence and follow the Islamic injunction the court should be the last source of justice; but were settlement can be agreed parties should follow such part.

“May I announce to Your Honour that we are withdrawing our suit before Your Lordship because we have arrived at a decision and agreement based on

the Defendant’s public retrieval of his earlier statement accusing my client of training some snipers to kill one thousand Nigerians.

“We humbly asked this Court to strike out this earlier suit based on this mutual agreement “.In his response, counsel to the Defendant, Malam Aminu Dikko said the defendant has no objection to the call for withdrawal and strike out of the suit by the Plaintiff.

According to him, the defendant initiated the reconciliation process, when he

announced in the same mosque, where he earlier in his sermon accused Major Al-Mustapha of training snipers, that he erred in a statement and subsequently apologized.

Speaking outside the court premises, Major Al-Mustapha said, as a Northerner and a former military officer, he respects senior authority and when some prominent Nigerians approached him and pleaded with him to see reason and withdrew the case, he succumbed and instructed his lawyer to file

application for withdrawal before the Shari’ah Court.

Major Al-Mustapha however, warned this might not be the end of the road in this suit between him and Sheikh Sanusi Khalil as according to him, he is aware that the Sheikh has written a damaging letter to the Human Right Commission damaging his character and he’s only waiting for the investigation by the Human Right Commission before deciding on the next step to take, which according to him may still be another legal tussle.

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PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

Money Sense How you can easily get a job W

hether you’re looking for your very first job, switching careers, or re-entering the job market after an extended absence, finding a job requires two main tasks: understanding yourself and understanding the job market.

Presuming you’ve already chosen a career and are currently searching for jobs, here are several ways to actually get a job.

Build your qualifications: Revise your resume before you start job hunting, make sure that your resume is as complete and up-to-date as possible.

Your resume is an important distillation of who you are, where you come from, and what you can offer. Here are a few tips to consider: Be honest. Never lie on your resume: It will come back to haunt you later.Use active verbs.

When describing what you did at your last job, make the sentence as tight and active as possible. For instance, instead of saying “Served as patient contact for getting bills and contacting insurance,” say “Liaised with patients and insurance companies, and managed financial transactions.

Proofreadyour resume several times for grammatical or spelling errors. Even something as simple as a typographic error, could negatively impact your ability to land an interview, so pay close attention to what you’ve left on the page. Have one or two other people look at it as well.

Keep the formatting clean: How your resume looks is almost as important as how it reads. Use a simple, classic font (such as Times New Roman, Arial or Helvetica), black ink on white paper, and sufficiently wide margins (about 1” on each side). Use bold or italic lettering sparingly if at all, and ensure your name and contact information are prominently displayed.

Develop your personal elevator pitch: Many structured interviews, particularly those at large companies, start with a question like “Tell me about

yourself.” The interviewer doesn’t really want you to go back to grade school and talk about your childhood. This is a specific question with a right answer: in two minutes or so, the interviewer wants to get you to relax and loosen out your vocal cords, understand your background, your accomplishments, why you want to work at XYZ Company and what your future goals are.

Keep it short between 30 seconds and two minutes — and have the basics of it memorized so that you don’t stammer when you’re asked to describe yourself.

Technological ability: Most job openings will require people who are IT or computer literate or know how to operate different machines and office equipment, whether it’s a PC or multi-function copier and

scanner. This doesn’t mean that employers need people who are technology graduates, knowing the basic principles of using current technology are sufficient.

Communicate effectively: Employers tend to value and hire people who are able to express their thoughts efficiently through verbal and written communication. People who land a good job easily are usually those who are adept in speaking and writing.

Network: The best companies to work for tend to rely heavily on employee referrals. Make a list of all of your friends, relatives, and acquaintances. Contact them one by one and ask them if they know of any openings for which they could recommend you. Don’t be too humble or apologetic. Tell

them what you’re looking for, but let them know you’re flexible and open to suggestions.

Volunteer: Internships may fall into this category. An internship is a great way to get your foot in the door, as many companies prefer to hire from within. Even if you’re far removed from your twenties or your college days, the willingness to work for little or no money shows companies that you’re serious about putting in the work, learning the skills, and getting ahead.

Cold call: Locate a specific person who can help you (usually the human resources or hiring manager at a company or organization you’re interested in). Call that person and ask if they are hiring, but do not become discouraged if they are not. Ask

…and how to increase your income

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f you want to be the best and learn how to become a millionaire, you must first find out what the top people do and then do it yourself. They look upon everything that happens in their companies as though they own one hundred percent of the stock. They take everything personally. They feel personally responsible for sales, quality, profitability, distribution and cost effectiveness. They are totally engaged with their work and with their products and services.

Would you like to make more money? Well, go to the nearest mirror and negotiate with your boss. The person in the mirror

is the one who determines how much you earn and how well you do in your profession and how much you get paid for it. This is the first step towards learning how to become a millionaireand becoming financially independent.

Here’s an exercise for you to help you make more money: On the first day of each month, take your own personal check book and write out a check for the amount of money you want to earn that month and date it for the last day of that month. Make it payable to yourself. Sign it.

Then, for the rest of the month, you concentrate on figuring out

how you are going to make payroll, just like a company president. If you have to increase your sales in order to increase your paycheck, your job is to figure out how to do it. You are the president. As the president of your own professional sales corporation, your current employer is your best client.

By making the decision to go from employee status to being the president of your own organization, you have made the critical decision to become the primary creative force in your own life and the ability to make more money. You no longer see yourself as a victim or a passive

recipient of what happens in the economy. You are an active agent. You are in charge. You go out into the work place and you make your own life and your own living. You sell your services to the highest bidder and you deliver the very best services of which your personal sales corporation is possible. Instead of waiting for things to happen, or hoping that things will happen, you instead make things happen.

Second, break your monthly desired income down into daily and hourly rates of pay. Make sure that everything you do pays you your desired hourly rate.

what kind of qualifications they look for or if they have apprentice or government-sponsored work programs. Ask if you can send your resume indicating what field you want to go into.

Tweak your mentality Change your attitude: There’s a difference between making phone calls and going to interviews thinking “I’m looking for a job” versus “I’m here to do the work you need to have done”.

When you’re looking to get a job, you’re expecting someone to give something to you, so you focus on impressing them.

Settle down: If you’ve moved around a lot, be prepared to offer a good reason for it.

Otherwise, you’ll need to make a good case for why you want to stick around in the area where the job is located. A company doesn’t want to hire someone with wanderlust who still wants to relocate.

Be prepared to outline why you are where you are today, how long you intend to stay there, and why. Give specific reasons like, “This city has the best school systems in the entire country.”

Fit the job to the skills rather than the other way around: Many people search for jobs, then try to see how they can tweak the way they present their own skills and experiences to fit the job description. Instead, try something different. Instead of this top-down approach, start from the bottom up, make a list of all of your skills, determine which kinds of businesses and industries need them most (ask around for advice if you need to) and find businesses that will benefit from having you and your skills around. You might find that you get more satisfaction and enjoyment out of a career that wasn’t even on your radar to begin with.It’s important the nature of the job fits your personality and salary requirements; otherwise you’ll have spent a significant amount of time to find a day job you dread getting up for every morning.

Money Tip: If you are doing a thorough job search, you will get rejected sometimes.

If you’re not getting rejected, you’re not putting yourself out there enough and if you don’t learn to see rejection as a chance to improve your approach, then you’ll have a very difficult time getting a job.

Quote The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools– Confucius

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EDITORIAL

Jos tragedy: The price of complacency killed some 20 people.

As usual, there has been a flurry of condemnations, condolences

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win bomb explosions Tuesday at a bus terminal and market in Jos, the Plateau state capital, killed 118 people and wounded a dozen others, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The busy terminal and market are right in the heart of the ancient tin city where Nigeria’s northern and southern regions meet.

According to eye-witnesses, the second bomb went off 30 minutes after the first, killing some of the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, which was obscured by billows of black smoke. “It’s horrifying, terrible”, Mark Lipdo of the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian charity based in Jos, who described the sickening smell of burning human flesh to a foreign news agency, Associated Press (AP).

Three days after, no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings, the first in Jos since the last one in 2012. However, they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, that has been waging an insurgency against the Nigerian state since 2009. The Jos blasts came exactly a month after the sect exploded two bombs near Abuja that killed over 100 people and the abduction over of 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno state. Two days earlier, a bomb attack in Kano

There is one thing, however, that makes the Jos attacks different from the rest. An opportunity presented itself, which if taken, would have aborted the tragedy altogether or minimized the scale of it and assurances from the nation’s political and religious establishments. President Goodluck Jonathan, in a statement put out by his media spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, the same Tuesday, condoled with the bereaved and assured of his government’s determination in “winning the war on terror”. He added, “This administration will not be cowed by the atrocities of enemies of human progress and civilization”.

It is significant that these latest Boko Haram deadly strikes have come, barely a week after the Nigerian government accepted outside help in the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls and a request

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for the United Nations to add Boko Haram to its black list of international terror groups. They were an unmistaken message by the sect that it could strike at targets and at times of its own choosing.

There is one thing, however, that makes the Jos attacks different from the rest. An opportunity presented itself, which if taken, would have aborted the tragedy altogether or minimized the scale of it. According to Mark Lipdo, “a white van that held the first bomb was parked for hours in the market place, raising suspicions of vendors and others who reported it to the authorities, but nothing was done”.

Besides, he told AP that there was an earlier warning of impending attack. “A man with explosives strapped to his body was arrested on Saturday”, he said, who told police that many militants had instructions to plant bombs in churches and public areas in Jos. Why the authorities, particularly the security forces, failed to act on the intelligence provided by locals cannot be explained. These are the same authorities that say they are not receiving enough support from the Nigerian public in the fight on terror. This time they got enough of it but instead went to sleep.

With this type of attitude, it is not hard to see why the insurgency is waxing instead of waning.

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Opinion MINTs and mayhem: A tale of two Nigerias

By Kate Meagher

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mid the media storm surrounding the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, it is hard to remember that just a couple of months ago that same media was celebrating Nigeria’s stellar growth performance and investment potential. Despite lingering structural problems, Nigeria has emerged from the disastrous years of the 1980s and 90s with renewed gusto. High oil prices, improved economic diversification and a massive consumer market estimated at 170 million people have been turning the heads of foreign investors.

Yet this same Nigeria is now a poster child for sectarian terrorism, inept governance, kidnapping and mayhem. In just over a month, the infamous Islamic insurgents known as Boko Haram (Western education is sinful) have kidnapped and held over two hundred school girls, bombed the same neighbourhood in the nation’s capital Abuja not once but twice killing and maiming scores of bystanders, blown up bridges in the north-eastern states, burned two towns to the ground slaughtering hundreds in the process, bombed the northern commercial city of Kano, and committed numerous other less dramatic acts of terrorism and destruction that haven’t made the international news.What is even more alarming is that events like this have been going on for five years across the northern states of Nigeria. Drive-by shootings, suicide bombings and coordinated attacks on police stations, churches, schools, beer parlours and even the UN Headquarters in Abuja have taken the lives of at least 10,000 people since 2009, both Muslims and Christians alike.

The current narrative is that Boko Haram is the product of a destructive cycle of poverty, illiteracy and extremist Islamic values in the north of the country. The Economist has highlighted the astonishing levels of social and educational

deprivation in the north-eastern Nigerian heartland of Boko Haram, where barely 20% of women can read and write, something Boko Haram seems set to perpetuate. It is difficult to reconcile the image of dynamic MINT economies with this dire scenario of poverty and mayhem.

Yet proponents of the MINTs contend that investment and creative entrepreneurship can turn Nigeria’s unruly young population from a threat into an opportunity. Global economic engagement with Nigeria’s vast labour force and consumer markets promise to replace poverty and terrorism with job creation and consumer satisfaction.

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the bulk of the population in a world of collapsing services, physical insecurity and jobless growth. Unemployment figures have nearly doubled since 2000, reaching 24% by 2012. A meaningful focus on job creation in a country the size of Nigeria requires more than shopping malls and vocational training.

With a young population still growing at 2.8% per year, Nigeria is confronting a demographic tsunami that puts 1.8 million new entrants into the job market every year.

The pressures of restructuring and globalization that have made Nigeria so attractive to global investors have exacerbated rather than eased long-standing patterns of regional inequality.

The problem has less to do with Islamic attitudes to education than deeper dynamics of historical marginalization.

At least, half of the population of the booming south-western states are Muslim. Conversely, many educated youth in northern Nigeria struggle to find work in the collapsing northern economy. In the once vibrant northern cities of Kano and Kaduna, young men with post-secondary qualifications can be found working as load carriers and hawkers

attractiveness to global investors may be part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

The long years of punishing economic restructuring have brought a recovery riven with inequality. Despite robust growth performance, poverty has actually increased from 52% of the population living on less than US$1 per day in 2004 to 61% in 2010.

While investors focus on expanding markets for champagne and luxury cars among Nigerian elites, little of this exuberant growth is trickling down. Instead, decades of public sector downsizing and de-industrialization have trapped

A history of educational disadvantage in the Muslim north has left the population poorly equipped to seize the new opportunities created by Nigeria’s economic resurgence. This is as much a legacy of colonial policy, which kept Western mission schools out of northern Nigeria, as it is a product of Islamic resistance to Western education.

To make matters worse, the northern Nigerian economy has been particularly hard hit by global economic restructuring.

In the post-independence period, employment in the educationally disadvantaged northern states was dominated by agriculture and formal sector

employment, both of which have declined dramatically over the past two decades.

Pressures of high population growth, recurrent drought and a lack of investment in smallscale farming have undermined the agricultural economy, haemorrhaging youth into the urban centres.

At the same time, the north’s urban economy has been gutted by deindustrialization and reductions in public employment.

The textile industry, once the nation’s largest industrial employer, was concentrated in the northern states of Kano and Kaduna. Decaying infrastructure and import competition has reduced the number of textile and garment firms from 175 in the mid-1990s to fewer than 25 in 2010, with a loss of over 110,000 jobs, and little to replace them beyond chancing it in a saturated informal economy.

By contrast, the Nigerian south-west has been better placed to benefit from the opportunities of a globalizing economy. Historically higher levels of education and a more diversified economic base have fostered more successful engagement with Nigeria’s emerging service economy in banking, telecommunications and entertainment. This has resulted in massive regional inequality in the gains of globalization. Unemployment in the northern states is three times the levels in the south-west of the country. Poverty levels in the north are 40% higher than those in the south west.

The problem has less to do with Islamic attitudes to education than deeper dynamics of historical marginalization.

At least, half of the population of the booming south-western states are Muslim. Conversely, many educated youth in northern Nigeria struggle to find work in the collapsing northern economy.

In the once vibrant northern cities of Kano and Kaduna, young men with post-secondary qualifications can be found working as load carriers and hawkers. There is a simmering sense of frustration and resentment as polished graduates

from elite schools snap up the few available jobs while leaving even comparatively educated northern youth to fend for themselves in demeaning informal activities.

This does not turn unemployed and under-employed northerners into terrorists – quite the contrary, the northern Nigerian informal economy has been a resilient sphere of inter-religious solidarity – but it unleashes dynamics of exclusion, rage and desperation that have pushed a few over the edge.

In a recent interview, the Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, insisted on the need to change the narrative if we are to understand Nigeria’s current plight. The dignified campaign of Nigerian civil society to ‘bring back out girls’ has triggered an internal debate about whether the narrative should revolve around girls’ education or untenable governance failures. At the global level, the depredations of Boko Haram have challenged other framings of Nigerian development.

In particular, it highlights the need to rethink the MINT narrative of high-return investment and developmental impact. The vision of a Nigerian investor’s paradise focuses attention on the easy pickings, concentrating investment and state attention on the people and parts of the country that can afford new consumer lifestyles, rather than on those who can’t. In the process, structural tensions and social divisions are reduced to calculations of risk and profit potential, without much consideration about who will ultimately bear those risks.

The kidnapped Chibok school girls are a sobering reminder that when high return investment engages with developing countries still plagued by structural problems of corruption and instability, sometimes the risks are the only thing that trickles down.

Dr. Kate Meagher, an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, has expertise in the informal economy, and non-state governance in Africa.

Fagge, the devil and Al-Mustapha

By Saadah Sanusi

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find it really disturbing how lately people resort to namecalling and spew venom at fellow beings who have every right to ventilate their views on all issues under the sun. I’m even more disturbed when some critics cast aspersions on the personality a person(s) without any evidence to substantiate their claims. One of such critics I have spotted lately is Mohammed NasirFagge who has taken on the personality of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and his family, for no good reason.

Though I’m a lay person, I found it highly unethical and quite unprofessional to run such high wire slander and libel against an

entire family.

I also found it reprehensible for Fagge, whose identity gives him away as a Muslim, to utterly disregarded all known moral standards and etiquette required by the Islamic religion in dealing with the dignity of fellow human beings so much as to attempt to soil the sanctity of marriage which calls for the strictest proof of allegations of infidelity and the independence of a family as an institution.

As a mother, I am greatly touched by the author’s total neglect of decency, decorum, and simple civil conscience in making those allegations, not even minding the concomitant effect it would yield in the psyche of Al-

Mustapha’s innocent children.I wonder how the writer would have felt if his own children were to be subjected to such wicked trauma.

It takes an inhuman and ungodly soul, in my opinion, to mete out such humiliation on innocent children by concocting evident lies against them that even touch on their paternity.

Fatima (Mimi) and AlMustapha jnr are friends and schoolmates of my own daughter, whom I can defend with my life from the mischief of the wide, wild, and wicked world as accurately symbolized by the author of the libelous article in question. It is apparent that I refuse to refer to the author by the names he used, and that is merely because it makes me

sick to my stomach to associate the noble name of the beloved Prophet of Islam who came as a mercy to the world with a slanderous soul of satanic words. Jamil Gaya, a legitimate child of late Dr Gaya,as well as Fatima (Mimi) and AlMustapha jnr have completed their undergraduate studies and are currently pursuing their various fields of passion.

All the above-mentioned children, are ambassadors of humility, decency, and respect and should serve as role models for others. I shed motherly tears when I read the articles at the thought of what the family as a unit must be going through with all this persistent persecution. However, typical of Fatima( Mimi), when my

daughter put a call to her to tell her that she felt her pain, she sounded unruffled.

Perhaps emboldened by years of persecution and seeking refuge with the Creator, Fatima (Mimi) simply said, ‘HasbunAllahwani’malwakeel’. And I believe that every mother that reads the wicked slander would not only feel the pain of these children but would also agree with Fatima (Mimi) that Allah is sufficient for them and all those who persecute them deliberately out of envy or sheer hate.

Saadah Sanusi, a mother of three, wrote this from Kaduna and could be reached at saadatumaina@ ymail.com.

PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

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Opinion

Why what women wear matters

By Lewis Akpogena

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e recognize that nothing a women wears can prevent a man from lusting after her. We also take a firm stance that personal responsibility must be taken for a man’s sin toward a woman (be it lust or rape). That being said, ladies can be either a tremendous help or a tremendous hurt to the men in their lives. Here is one man’s perspective. Um, ladies? Can we talk? It’s not like we guys don’t appreciate how you look in all of these flattering summer fashions you like to wear. We know that currently, to be stylish is to show a lot of skin. We also know that since we’re supposed to control our sexual urges, and we’re supposed to let you wear whatever you want… or don’t want… we’re supposed to keep our opinions on this matter to ourselves.

Frankly, however, it’s all very convenient for you, but not so much for us. Because even if, in our silence, you think we don’t see all of that skin you’re showing us, don’t be mistaken: we do. And more often than not, it’s causing us to stumble into sexually impure thoughts. We’re now into the dog days of summer, and this year, the styles for women seem to rely less and less on fabric and more and more on exposed flesh. After all, the less we wear, the more comfortable we feel in the heat.

We get it. If we could get away with wearing shorts and tank tops to church, we would. And it’s not like we men would prefer that you dress like shapeless, dour prudes.

But please understand: you’re not doing us or yourselves any favors with some of the stuff you’re wearing. Or, not.

Rules or Responsibilities?

Sure, this sounds like the same

old sermon about “nice girls” you’ve probably heard from some curmudgeonly old preacher, or maybe your own strict parents, or maybe some domineering former boyfriend. And sometimes, people make rules simply to have rules, so they can evaluate how obedient everybody is. Some religious sects force their women to wear anklelength skirts and long-sleeved blouses, regardless of the weather, but even then, modesty is relative, isn’t it? If men really want to undress you with their eyes, we have an amazing ability to do so no matter what you’re wearing.

Inversely, however, have you ever wondered whether guys who appreciate the “less is more” philosophy in women’s clothing truly have your best interests at heart? The more they see, the less their lustful brains need to work. Why bother trying to attract guys like that? So this isn’t about rules, or rulers for measuring skirt length. What women wear has been a topic of conversation in practically every generation since God introduced Eve to Adam. In some cultures, women literally wear practically nothing, but then again, the same goes for their men.

It’s less a matter of modesty or immodesty, and more a primal accommodation for climate.

But does that mean our summertimes in North America provide the perfect excuse for seeing how little fabric we can get away with in public? You ladies may think so, but then again, you may not fully appreciate how visual men can be. Particularly in our sexually charged culture. On the beach, of course, things are somewhat different, even though relative modesty should still be a virtue. Unless you attend a church whose Sunday services take place

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Email: opinion@peoplesdailyng.com SMS: 08134607052 on a beach, however, we rarely confuse corporate worship with the frivolity of swimming. Yet how many men at your church are met each Sunday with amazingly short skirts, provocatively deep necklines, and sheer fabrics of the thinnest materials which cling ever so delicately to, well, your most delicate spots? Swimsuits may hide the bare essentials, but some of the things some of you wear to church don’t really cover up much else. You expect us to be men of God. You hope that we be chaste, as well you should. After all, you know what lust is. You know that just looking lustfully at somebody is a sin. Might you be contradicting yourselves, meanwhile, when you wear what you wear and then get upset when we sin with our eyes? What is the extent of your culpability when we men lust after you? Are we men supposed to simply look up at the ceiling when you walk by? How fair is it for you to figure you can dress however

you want to dress, and it’s up to us men to deal however we can with the sin it causes us?

The writer of Proverbs 11:22 put it bluntly: “like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.” In other words, even if you’re drop-dead gorgeous by anybody’s standards, if you lack modesty, you’re demonstrating a lack of integrity.

And even though our society tends to reward people regardless of their integrity, doesn’t God expect us to hold higher standards? We’re supposed to be brothers and sisters in Christ. Maybe in your family, growing up, you didn’t care how you looked in front of your male siblings, but now that you’re grown up, how appropriate is childish behavior?

Dress for True Success: When you’re shopping in the mall, or surfing clothing websites by yourself at home, perhaps the allure of trendy fashions tends to displace more rational evaluations

of what styles are appropriate for public exposure. Retailers don’t want you to think about modesty; they want you to purchase what they have to sell. And they probably don’t lower prices just because what they’re selling these days features less and less fabric.

Unless, of course, you genuinely do intend to seduce men in your church by what you wear and the way you wear it? If that is the case, then perhaps the man you end up seducing will match your ambitions. But that will be a pity for both of you.

Indeed, men, how much of this problem is perpetuated by those of us who shamelessly flirt with women who dress immodestly?

Maybe it’s a chicken-and-egg kind of thing; do women dress immodestly to gain attention, or do the attention women receive simply by being a woman feed even a subconscious desire to stoke their allure? After all, women have been known to dress to impress other women, but men can encourage such fashionista posturing for their own benefit and disguise it as female empowerment. Not that covering one’s entire body like a babushka readying for winter is the appropriate response here, either. Feigning piety is as much a sin as men lusting and women causing us to lust.

We are not our own; we’ve been bought with a price. Doesn’t this mean that being clothed in righteousness never goes out of fashion for believers? Some of us men will be more grateful than others, ladies, if you take our request to heart. Even so, who should you be hoping to please more than any of us? You are blessed for life.

Dr. Lewis Akpogena via akpogena@yahoo.com

Has government a right to lie?

By Emmanuel Onwubiko

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n immediate unintended consequence of the just concluded World Economic Forum for Africa (WEFA) was the unprecedented scale of interest of the global media in Nigeria. A major area of focus of the international media was the kidnap by armed Islamic insurgents of some two hundred plus school girls from the government girls High School in Chibok, a hitherto unknown media territory in Borno State.

Borno state is the epicenter of the ongoing campaign of violent terrorism by the armed rebels known as Boko Haram.

The United Nations has already stated that the abduction and sexual slavery of these school girls amounted to a crime against humanity. Locally, the vocal group known as Christian Association of Nigeria has reacted to the internet video circulated by the armed Islamic insurgents in which most of the girls were shown renouncing their Christian religion to embrace the religion of the sectarian violent leader. To this group of Christian leaders as well as other leading Islamic Scholars,

what these insurgents have done constitute a war crime.

On their own part, the hierarchy of the Nigerian military has issued instruction restricting media coverage of the epicenter of the attacks by these armed insurgents and according to a press statement, the Nigerian military can only allow authorized media coverage by the global and local press.

This instruction on limited media coverage of operational areas whereby the Nigerian military are said to be waging anti-terror war has been called an attempt at censorship of the media which contradicts section 22 of the Nigerian Constitution.

The Defence Headquarters said it has noted the presence of a large number of tourists, journalists and adventurers of diverse interests moving about in areas where security operations are currently ongoing especially in Adamawa and Borno States without the necessary security cover or clearance, a trend which constitutes not only an unnecessary risk to the persons especially the foreigners involved but is also an undue obstruction to operations.

What has emerged based

on the peculiar local situation in Nigeria is that government has the legitimate right to keep operational secrets of the military away from the prying eyes of the media but it has no right to refuse to allow the media both from local organizations and global media outlets to monitor how the war on terror is proceeding and to criticize the counter terror war if and when it deviates to war in error. A good example was the shameful revelation that the military commanders in Borno State capital got four hours notice of an impending attack of the armed insurgents targeting the Chibok’s girls’ secondary school, but did nothing to stop it.

The international media with specific reference to the Atlanta, United States-based cable News Network [CNN] sent her crew of reporters few days after the kidnap of the school girls, and local people including anonymous military sources informed them that the military commanders in Borno state capital were pre-informed of an imminent attack of the girls school in Chibok by the armed insurgents but for four hours, the military failed to stop it. Amnesty international

(AI) a United Kingdom-based non-governmental body did a comprehensive report and issued a media statement making the same claim but the Nigerian military authority denied it.

Most Nigerians believe the version told them by the global media more than the claim of the spokesman of the Nigerian military who has once deceived the World into believing that majority of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls were already rescued few hours after this dastardly kidnap incident. But when overwhelming contrary opinion emanated from the parents of the missing girls, the military spokesman accepted that his earlier claims were based on false intelligence. It is therefore in the self enlightened interest of the Nigerian government that credible media reportage of the counter terrorism war is encouraged while the military hierarchy endeavors to professionally identify the saboteurs within their rank that always leaks operational secrets to the armed Islamic insurgents.

Those who leak operational military information to the insurgents should be treated as enemies of Nigeria and must be

severely punished in accordance with extant military law in Nigeria.

On the other hand, the Nigerian government should cultivate greater transparent media coverage of the antiterror war but at the same time keeps all information that may endanger the lives of the troops within the secret confines of the highest governmental levels bearing in mind that even the government is said to have being infiltrated by the armed insurgents.

While the media is termed a constructive friend of Nigeria in our ongoing counter terrorism offensives, media owners must provide the necessary enabling environment like life insurance policies for their workers and all information received from official government circles without independent verification must be carried with a caveat so consumers of media information are aware that information reaching them were never independently verified and authenticated.

Emmanuel Onwubiko via linkedIn

PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

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Comment The king’s speech and PDP selective amnesia

By Olumide Agoro

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he hypocrisy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is on full display and the world should join me in a collective act of SMH (Shaking My Head). The selective amnesia of the ruling party is pathetic, shameful and highly embarrassing. They are like the executioner who is always afraid to see a scabbard in the hands of a colleague. The fear of a beheading is mortifying to the man in whose hands many have fallen.

When the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, stood in front of hundreds of Lagosians and expressed his personal views on the leadership of Lagos and his position on who should be the next Governor of Lagos state, one would have ordinarily thought that was a victory for democracy.

There was a time that being that ‘forward’ would have earned you a visit from the boys in green.

But, I guess we still have some of those boys cloaked in the colours of the green, white and red, because the venom inthe retort by the PDP was ultra-poisonous.

One must ask, “Where is the fire?”

Forgetfulness is a sad thing but thank God for Google.

Precisely on April 25th, the internet went wild when the Oba of Benin, OmoN’ObaErediuwa, at

the Edo State capital, endorsed the sitting president for a second term. Speaking through his through his special envoy and the crown prince, Ambassador EhenedenErediuwa, the Oba gave the president a pass mark in his ‘Transformation Agenda’ and told him to shun all distractions and run for another election with his blessing. This took place at the Presidential Villa. Pray, where was the reaction by the Opposition? I can’t remember one. Neither could Google. But, I do remember the Oba has rights and can support whoever his heart pleases. I also know the Oba’s palace is not far from the

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office of the Governor of Edo state, who is himself a member of the APC. Did we hear of any backlash for the pronouncement?

My Google is still searching.

The problem of the PDP, and a few of their sponsored elements within the Lagos APC, is they are totally undemocratic and deeply resentful of the freedom of speech. They have no thoughts of their own and are simply loudspeakers for their masters in Abuja. It is rather depressing to see them play out the script written for them by an equally inept collection of rotten eggs in the Villa. The Yorubas have always been respectful and are

prided the world over for been deeply knowledgeable. The Lagos PDP must be a bunch of pretenders, an embarrassment to the Yoruba Race. They neither have respect for their elders and the throne nor the wisdom to think independently.

But, KabiyesiAkiolu is not like them. He demonstrated courage and spoke from his heart. And – this can’t be overemphasized – he had the right to endorsed whomever he wants. Yes, he is the Father of all Lagosgians. But even parents have favourites amongst their children. Any child that acts like a bastard will get a bastard’s reward and the

The problem of the PDP, and a few of their sponsored elements within the Lagos APC, is they are totally undemocratic and deeply resentful of the freedom of speech. They have no thoughts of their own and are simply loudspeakers for their masters in Abuja. It is rather depressing to see them play out the script written for them by an equally inept collection of rotten eggs in the Villa

good one will be invited to enjoy the goodies of the father’s inner sanctum.

If these pretenders are unhappy with Oba Akiolu’s choice, they should act like the Prodigal Son and find their way back to the father’s heart.

Throwing tantrums and calling names will only earn them a meal at the pigsty.

No one man can put a governor in the Round House, not even the one they call the Lion of Boudillion. He only has one vote; Lagos has 6.2 million registered voters. Instead of the current hyperventilation and unnecessary hullabaloo, why not try to sell the PDP and its agenda (if ever it has one) to the people? Tell them how you intend to keep them safe like the poor people of Nyanya and the girls in Chibok. Tell them how you will keep the schools open like our polytechnics have been for close to a year now. Tell them how you will keep the roofs over their heads like the leaky ones at our airports. Tell them how you would make them enjoy constant electricity like we currently do.

Do that and see how votes will go your way. In the meantime, stop crying over spilled milk. The Oba has spoken. He who has ears, let him hear!

Olumide Agoro wrote in from Lagos

The Maiduguri mutiny: Matters arising

By Uzodinma Nwaogbe

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n Wednesday, 14th day of May, 2014, reports went round the country that an army general, the General Officer Commanding, GOC of the 7 division of the Nigerian Army in Borno State, Major General Ahmed Mohammed’s official vehicle was attacked by irate soldiers while he was visiting the Maimalari cantonment to boost the morale of the soldiers. The reports had it that the soldiers already had bottled up anger against their GOC and the way the high command in the army is handling their welfare. When the slain bodies of four of their colleagues who were ambushed and killed in the Chibok area by the Boko Haram militants arrived their barracks they went wild, shooting sporadically while some aimed at the official vehicle of Gen. Mohammed and shot at it in anger.

It is still unimaginable, worrisome that soldiers could aim at their superior officer for the kill when it is obvious that the said GOC did not organize for the killing of these fallen heroes. Though, the Nigerian Army has instituted an inquiry to ascertain what really transpired.

But, we must look beyond that to do a complete appraisal of the police and military. Our junior soldiers and police are not quite happy with their senior officers,’ several cases are bound why they are not. Not long ago, the

Borno State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shettima reported that the Boko Haram fighters are better remunerated, cared for, equipped than men of the Nigerian soldiers. Yes, agreed he should not have said such in public but the message is already clear and understood. So, this should necessitate an enquiry from the Presidency because we cannot fight the insurgents of this nature when our soldiers are not well motivated.

Lots of funds had gone into our security that no officer of the military or police should complain of lacking in anything especially in this Boko Haram challenge. We are then wondering where all the funds had gone into? We need answers from the

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Defence chief, Army, Air force, Navy, Police Chiefs. It has set tongues wagging why our army cannot flush these boys away in a matter of days, suspicion from all corners whether this present army is indeed our strength? This is not to cast aspersion on our military but embracing reality.

For a state chief executive to have spoken on the unimpressed motivation of our army, then few weeks later, a GOC of a unit almost slaughtered by his junior officers calls for serious concern from the presidency and defence headquarters to act fast. Why would these boys not be paid their real entitlements, provided with enough food, water, modern gadgets to aid their operations in the field?

It is not a hidden fact that our security men are not properly cared for and that has a serious negative implications on the security of live and properties in the country. We have argued at different fora that the security man dispatched to the street to prevent criminals from operating, protect lives, properties from dangerous people, ensuring that suspected criminals are dully punished; the ones sent into the battle field to fight against both internal and external aggressors must be well catered for, compensated, protected during and after service. We cannot run away from it, it is the tonic needed for these men to triumph in the battle field. No security agent would be willing to die for

Lots of funds had gone into our security that no officer of the military or police should complain of lacking in anything especially in this Boko Haram challenge. We are then wondering where all the funds had gone into? We need answers from the Defence chief, Army, Air force, Navy, Police Chiefs. It has set tongues wagging why our army cannot flush these boys away in a matter of days, suspicion from all corners whether this present army is indeed our strength? This is not to cast aspersion on our military but embracing reality.

his country when he is sure that his death will become pain to members of his family. Patriotism cannot be at the expense of foolishness. One of the major reasons government officials loot the treasury is because of the abuse and neglect of retirees after service. Today, what has happened to police pension scam case? To fight corruption we must be encouraged to protect our retirees from neglect and abandonment.

We have faced terrorism in this country before, this is not the first time and, some of those who fought terrorism in this country are still alive and kicking. In situations like this, we needed to have searched and brought them to make contributions on how we can quell the insurgency but, because we have politicized everything, with sycophants having a field day at the corridors of power, we are on our knees because of some under-aged, unschooled boys holding the country to ransom. Mr. President must immediately move in to arrest this ugly situation as this might possibly spread causing serious challenges in the military and country as a whole. The reason for the mutiny tells the story of monumental corruption and mismanagement amongst the senior officers of the military, a demoralized force, uninspired men, an army that is not one.

Uzodinma Nwaogbe is Twitter:@uzodinmanwaogbe

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Doctors organise free health promotion exercise for residents

Son of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mr. Bem KastinaAlu (right), presenting cash to the correspondent of New Nigerian Newspapers, Mr. Thomas Edechi (on bed), who was a victim of Nyanya bomb blast, yesterday at Wuse General Hospital, in Abuja.

With them is Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wuse Ward, Alhaji Baba Karshi (left).

By Stanley Onyekwere

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Life Camp residents bemoan delay in completion of roundabout

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ome residents of Life Camp, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have complained about the delay in the completion of the roundabout being constructed in the area.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the roundabout, which construction has taken four years, is being handled by Julius Berger Construction Company.

Some residents of the area told NAN on Thursday in Abuja

that the delay was causing traffic congestion.

Miss Joyce Yakpe, a worker of JG Affaires, a private company, who resides in the area, said the delay was hardships to the public.

A resident, David Ndayisa, of Elipalm Ventures, who also resides in the area, expressed appreciation to the FCT administration for embarking on the project.

He, however, stated that the delay was adversely affecting

economic activities in the area through loss of man hours.

He appealed to the FCT authority to complete the project on time.

Reacting to the complaints, Mr. Isaac Njoku, Operation Staff of Julius Berger, attributed the delay to inadequate funding.

“Work on the roundabout will be intensified by the company if sufficient funds are released by the government,’’ he said.

He said that the management of the company was making efforts to complete the project on time.

A supervisor working with Berger, who sought anonymity, appealed to the residents to be patient, saying the roundabout was being constructed to ease traffic flow in the area.

“A flyover was the initial plan but was shelved because it will lead to demolition of structures in the area,” he said. (NAN)

Housing: Akinjide commissions Olympia Estate in Kaura

By Stanley Onyekwere

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inister of State for the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA),Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, yesterday, commissioned 44 housing units at Olumpia Estate, in Kaura District, beside Games Village, Abuja, calling on real estate firms to increase investment towards developing the housing sector in the Territory.

While commissioning the estate developed by the Oasis Reality Limited, the minister urged private estate firms to invest more on the housing and infrastructural sector of the FCT, to help tackle the growing housing deficit in the Territory.

Represented by the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Micah Jiba, she said this addition to the housing stock in the Territory was a welcome development that should be emulated by investors.

The Minister noted that the housing deficit in Nigeria is estimated at 17 million housing units out of which the FCT is said to account for between 5 to 10 percent of the shortfall, due largely to the massive influx of people into the FCT. “Figures from the 2006 census puts the FCT population at about 1.6 million and today, that population has grown to about 5 to 6 million, with only 11 districts developed in the three and a half decades of the existence of the territory.

“However, a recent forecast estimates that the population growth of the FCT is expected to hit 10 million by 2025.”

Akinjide, however disclosed that:“the vision of the administration is to build a capital that will be among the best 20 cities in the world by the year 2020. ““However, to achieve this we will need the help of the private sector. I therefore use this

opportunity to call on reputable real estate firms to emulate the good example of the Oasis Realty by investing in housing and infrastructural sector of the FCT. “All over the world, the provision of affordable housing is recognised, not only as an important intervention to improve the living standards of the people, but also as a catalyst for socio-economic transformation of the town.”

Earlier in his welcome remark, the Group Managing Director of the Oasis, Wale Adegbite, said the idea of developing the estate goes beyond just business purpose, but to deliver quality and affordable houses for its clients.

“We were driven by a passion to deliver spacious homes for our subscribers in such ambiance that gives a sense of joy and fulfillment at every thought of returning home from the day’s tasks,” he said.

According to him, the housing units of the estatesited on a land

area of about 17, 100m2, consists of 16 semi-detached houses of 4 bedrooms, 12 terrace houses of 3 bedrooms and 16 luxury flats of 3 bedrooms.

The GMD however harped on the need for continuous deployment of infrastructure in the FCT to provide the necessary incentive for deployment of housing units to bridge the housing gap especially in the FCT which continues to experience an influx of new residents as the developing city it is.

He says: “As the planning authorities seek to increase the population density, it is important that existing facilities are not stretched and slums are not allowed to develop in any way so as to preserve the appeal of the FCT.” He therefore assured the subscribers and home ownersin the Estate, of their commitment to ensuring that the ambiance in the estate is preserved.

n demonstration of commitment towards providing quality healthcare delivery in the society, the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) and the Society of family Physicians of Nigeria (SOFPON) have kicked off a 5-day health promotion exercise, in Abuja.

The exercise is part of the two bodies’ activities organized in celebrating this year’s World Family Doctors’, during which, they would conduct health awareness programme, scientific sessions and free medical service to residents in designated private hospitals.

It would be recalled that this year’s World Family Doctors Day with the theme: ‘Universal Healthcare Coverage: The role of the family doctor, was observed by all member countries of the World Organisation of Family Doctors.

According to the AGPMPN’s president, Dr. Dafen, a total of 100 residents of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), benefited from the free medical service, including surgery.

AGPMPN is the official body made up of the organised private sector health care delivery in Nigeria and it is a member of World Organisation of Family Doctors.

He said that the Family Doctors’ day provides as an opportunity for the stakeholders to recognize the important role of the family doctor in the healthcare system.

He noted that the organisation is aimed at promoting health and allied services, to promote the welfare and integrity of its members for the overall improvement of all medical profession.

Also, Dr. Akin Moses of SOFPON, there would be lectures on affordable healthcare financing, community based health insurance scheme, achieving efficient and effective healthcare delivery services, inter-sectorial collaboration for universal healthcare coverage and achieving universal healthcare coverage through people-centred integrated care.

He added that family physicians in primary healthcare play a key role in achieving an efficient and effective healthcare delivery to the people.

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Metro

Young men relaxing after off-loading bags of gari, yesterday at Garki market, in Abuja.

Old women waiting for alms, yesterday at Karu village, in Abuja.

A tomatoes seller loading his goods into a car, yesterday at Kubwa, in Abuja.

Meat sellers waiting for patronage, yesterday at Nyanya, in Abuja.

A young boy hawking sachet water, yesterday at Bwari, in Abuja.

Photos: Justin Imo-Owo

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Drama in court as counsel, accused argue over fees A

mild drama unfolded at a Senior Magistrates’ Court in Mararaba, as a counsel, Mr. Mike Dembe, disagreed with his client, an accused over nonpayment of legal fees.

The accused, Ifeanyi Ifegeme, is charged with two counts of criminal intimidation and threatening to kill a housewife, Mrs Maria Ayuba.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that when the matter was called, Ifegeme told

the court that he had engaged the service of another counsel, Mrs. Uche Okonkwo.

However, it happened that just as the case was about to go on, Dembe opposed Okonkwo’s representation.

He told the court that he was the lawyer the accused contacted to represent him in the case when he was arraigned on April 8.

“My lord I am confused about this. I am the one the accused hired to represent him in this

case, as I am talking my lord, he has not paid me my fees.

“I will hands off the case, when the accused settles all my fees,” Dembe said.

He prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him to settle the issue of payment of his fees.

The prosecutor, Insp. Joseph Ahua, objected to the prayer for adjournment.

Ahua said that he was ready to go on and would not wait for

another date.

“My lord, the two counsels are learned gentlemen. They should wait to settle themselves out there before coming to court,” he said.

In a ruling, the presiding judge, Mr Habila Abundaga, warned the two counsel not to disrespect the court.

Abundaga ordered the accused to settle with his counsel and adjourned hearing in the matter until June 19. (NAN)

A refuse dump almost at the same height with living homes in Gishiri village, adjacent the rosy elite structured settlement, Maitama District and beneath the rising edifices of Katampe District, Abuja.

Photo: Stanley Onyekwere

Man docked over unpaid rent

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he police yesterday arraigned a 45-yearold man, Emmanuel Etubong, in a Mararaba Senior Magistrates’ court over his failure to settle his N200, 000 annual rent.

Mrs. Patient Samson, 50, a businesswoman living in Mararaba, had dragged Etubong, who is her tenant at Aso B, to the court for allegedly refusing to pay his rent.

Counsel to the plaintiff, Mr. Benjamin Ediga, told the court

that the last time the accused paid his rent on the one-bedroom apartment he occupies was on January 2, 2013.

He said the accused’s rent had now expired for about five months and Etubong had since then refused to effect payment.

Ediga also told the court that this was the third time the matter had appeared before the court and the accused did not appear in court. ``Sometime in January this year, when the matter was first

mentioned, the accused did not come to the court. When the case again came up in March, the accused sent a lawyer to represent him.

“Today again, the accused was not in court and has no legal representative. He only sent his wife to represent him,’’ he said.

However, Mrs. Yetunde Etubong, who stood in for the husband, refused to crossexamine the plaintiff when she was asked by the court whether she was ready to.

The presiding officer, Mr. Habila Abundaga, later told the accused’s wife that his (the accused’s) lawyer had abandoned the matter for more than three months now. “I will not allow this to continue, ’’he said.

Abundaga then foreclosed the right of the accused to crossexamine the plaintiff since his wife who represented him had said she was not ready to crossexamine the complainant.

Abundaga adjourned the case till June 6. (NAN)

Artist gets 1 week imprisonment for stealing chewing gum

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Magistrates’ court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, yesterday sentenced an artist, Adamu Abdullahi, 34, to one week in prison, for stealing a pack of chewing gum containing 14 packets.

The Senior Magistrate, Mr. Chukwuemeka Ubari, sentenced Abdullahi after he pleaded guilty

to the one-count charge of theft.

Ubari, however, gave the convict an option to pay N100 fine.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Cpl. Umar Ango, had told the court that one Akpama Micheal, of Care Angels Pharmacy, Abacha Road, Abuja, reported the matter at the Wuse Police Station on

May 9.

He said the convict trespassed into the pharmacy and stole a packet of `Orbit complete sugarfree gum valued at N1,200.

Abdullahi, who pleaded for leniency, said it was the devil that pushed him into committing the crime.

“I have a wife and two

children. I stole the packet of Orbit chewing gum to sale on the street to get some money.

“I am an artist. My art works were seized by the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency. I am the only one taking care of my family.

“I will not do it again,’’ he pleaded. (NAN)

Court dissolves 2-year old marriage over threat, lack of peace

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n Upper Area court, in Mararaba, has dissolved a two-year old marriage between Enogela James and Enenu over quarrels, threat and lack of peace.

The Presiding Judge, Mr. Vincent Gwahemba, dissolved the marriage as requested by both parties.

Gwahemba said: ``this irreconcilable difference is making it impossible for the two to remain together and the best thing to do at this juncture is to dissolve it,’’ he said.

He ordered that the respondent should take custody of the child until the child becomes of age.

James, a civil servant, who resides in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, told the court that he was no longer interested in the marriage.

The petitioner said he married Enenu sometime in April 2012, adding that although the marriage was blessed with a child, there was no peace between him and his wife.

He said the marriage had been characterised by serious problems, quarrells, threat and lack of peace.

The respondent did not deny the allegations, but urged the court to dissolve the marriage because she was no longer interested in the union. (NAN)

Man bags 14 months for stabbing, theft

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n Upper Area court, in Zuba, Abuja, yesterday sentenced Chukwuma Nwafor, 25, of no fixed address, to 14 months in prison.

The presiding judge, Malam Aminu Sa’ad, passed the sentence after Nwafor pleaded guilty to a four-count charge of joint act, criminal force and assault, causing hurt and theft.

Sa’ad, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N50,000, and also ordered him to pay N66, 800 to the complainant as compensation.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Haruna Danlami, told the court that sometime in October 2013, the convict and his gang slapped Rasheed Suleman, of Abacha Barrack, Abuja.

The prosecutor said Nwafor also stabbed Suleman in the chest and left hand with a nail and then made away with his N60, 000 that he kept inside his vehicle.

He said the complainant was rushed to Diamond Hospital where he spent N6, 800 on treatment. (NAN)

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Fuel scarcity looms as Petroleum Tanker Drivers strike in Lagos over member’s death -Pg 20

TAX implication of mergers and acquisitions -Pg 21 Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, (middle), Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke (right), and Chairman, House Committee on Gas Resources, Hon. Eko Ewa Bassey (left), during the opening ceremony of the 2nd National Gas Summit, yesterday at Transcorp Hotel, in Calabar, Cross River state.

Power investment: BPE faults rumour on collapse of banks

By Etuka Sunday

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he Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr Benjamin Dikki has faulted claims of the collapse of commercial banks in the country over their exposure to the power sector.

Dikki who spoke at an allparties meeting on Wednesday, in Abuja at a presentation to the owners of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Successor Companies (SCS), noted that the fears by some of the eminent takeover of SCS due to the purported non servicing of loans or about the prospect of stress to the banks due to their

exposure to SCS, were misplaced as the Successor Companies did not borrow directly from the banks for their own books.

A statement by the Head, Public Communications, BPE, Chigbo Anichebe, quoted the DG saying that, “no assets of the SCS were pledged as collateral.

It should be noted that it was the acquiring companies or SPV’s that borrowed based on their cash flows and accounts. The SPA signed also requires that the consent of the BPE is obtained before the Core Investors can borrow.

“The banks lent to the Core Investors based on their capability to pay. The investors are supposed to have made adequate provisions

to take care of their obligations to their financiers from the outset.

They knew that they were not going to make profit immediately on takeover of the SCS. Their financiers also were aware of this”, he stressed.

It would be recalled that Nigerian banks had expressed concern over the possibility of losing about N1 trillion they invested in the acquisition of the privatized assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Successor Companies (SCs).

The banks expressed fears that they may be unable to recoup their investment following the myriad of problems facing the sector.

FG tasked on effective supply of gas to power plants From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos

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n ensuring effective and stable power supply across the country, Mr Lanre Siddiq, the Chairman, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Egbin branch, on Thursday tasked the Federal Government on effective supply of gas to power plants in the country.

Siddiq stated this at the said at the NSE Egbin branch 2014 Engineering Week Celebration in Lagos.

He said that lack of gas supply had affected power plant from generating energy, adding that this has resulted worsen power supply.

“Gas supply is causing a great problem for power plant.

“By now power generated will have increased a lot but due to

insufficient gas supply, the power generation is dropping.

“Here in Egbin, for the past two weeks, we have been managing the little we have and that is why there is drop in power generated here,” he said.

The chairman said that if the government could improve on gas supply to all the power plants in the country, there would be a tremendous improvement in electricity supply.

He urged the government to expand the existing grid so that it could be able to evacuate energy generated from all the power plants.

“Government should work in the area of National Grid expansion.

“For a long time now the grid has been very weak, it needs to be expanded so that it will be able

to effectively evacuate energy generated by power plants,” he said.

Siddiq said that the Council for Regulation of Engineering (COREN) had signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with EFCC to phase out quackery in the system.

The chairman said that NSE Egbin Branch was known for her dynamism and was well represented in national activities.

“We promote engineering learning and practice in our environment.

“The branch has also made great contributions in developing the technical capabilities of Egbin staff through workshops and seminars,” he said.

Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Bank Plc, Dr. Alex Otti, had at a power investors’ forum in Abuja, said that as at 2013, the banking industry had invested well over N750 billion in the power sector and that they were ready to do more.

Consequently, the banks called for an increase in electricity tariff and in the price of gas, saying it would boost the revenue profile of the power companies and their ability to repay their debts. Some of the chief executives of banks, who spoke at the just concluded Seventh Lagos Economic Summit, tagged Ehingbeti 2014, complained of the revenue profile of the recently privatized power companies, saying it is not meeting the expectation of investors.

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MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY To manage your workload, defer early and often

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ou can make the greatest contribution to your organization by focusing on your own highest-value work.

If you find yourself taking on an increasing number of projects and/or people, deflect tasks that someone else can do — even if you could help — before they ever hit your to-do list.

Deferring is different from delegating. Delegating is handing off your responsibilities; deferring incorporates delegating, but also involves passing activities on to another appropriate party before

they ever hit your to-do list. For example, if someone asks you an IT question, direct them to the Help Desk. If you’re invited to attend a meeting where you may offer some insight but other attendees could probably offer something similar, consider not going.

Deferring shows respect for others’ competency and allows you the bandwidth to get done what only you can do, which is what your team really needs.

Source: Harvard Business Review

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Business Insecurity: We will continue to invest in Nigeria, foreign investors From Ayodele Samuel Akilani Abdullah, Lagos

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espite raising insecurity in Nigeria Foreign Investors have continue to express confidence in the Nigerian economy.

Business Delegations from United State, China and Swisszaland said Nigerian economy is stronger than ever before despite reports of security challenges.

United States Secretary of Commerce, Ms. Penny Pritzker, speaking at a bilateral meeting with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, in Lagos yesterday said Nigeria is currently a destination of choice for American investors, the She saidthat Nigeria currently had enormous investment opportunities which American investors were willing to explore.

Pritzker, who led a delegation of about 25 US investors (mainly in the power sector) to Nigeria, said, “About 100 American businessmen indicated interest in coming with me on this delegation to Nigeria but we couldn’t accommodate all of them. We’re aware that there is an Industrial Revolution going on, which is a very good development.

We would like to know more about it so we can be part of it.”

She commended President Goodluck Jonathan for initiating the NIRP, noting that American companies would leverage on it to invest in Africa’s biggest economy.

Speaking separately during an official visit to Aganga,the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Switzerland, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, who led a delegation of Swiss investors said more Swiss companies were willing to invest in Nigeria on the back of stronger macroeconomic indices.

She said, “When we asked our business community and investors where we should go this year, the answer was very quick that we should go to Nigeria. Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa with an impressive growth rate also driven by internal demand.

“It is an economy with a lot of young people, which is the big difference between the Nigerian economy and many economies in Europe. The Nigerian economy is the type of economy we in Switzerland will like to have stronger ties with in terms of trade and investment.”

The Vice-President, State Grid Corporation of China, Mr. Cheng Wei, who also led a business delegation said China was not disturbed by the current security challenge in Nigeria.

“Nigeria’s investment potentials far out-weigh its minor security challenge,” he said.

In his remarks, Aganga said the growing interest of foreign investors in the Nigerian economy was a testimony of the positive impact of Mr. President’s Transformation Agenda.

He said, “This is the first time the American Secretary of Commerce is visiting Nigeria in 22 years. Over the years, Nigeria has had a good economic relationship with the US, but today, it is more of how we can have a stronger, strategic and long lasting trade and investment partnership with the United States.

Fuel scarcity looms as PTDs strike in Lagos over member’s death P

By Etuka Sunday

etroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Branch of NUPENG has planned to embark on strike in Lagos Area from next week to protest against the unwarranted killing of a member comrade Olalekan Lawal by men of Operation messa in Lagos last April.

A statement signed by its National Chairman, Comrade S.A. Oladiti and National Secretary, Comrade Sunday Ochibejivwie, said the Union has already instructed its members from Lagos Zone to stop loading from

Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

The statement further said failure of the constitution authority to heed to its demands and request for compensation as well continued excesses by military men at check point demanding for samples of products from drivers ranging from 10 to 20 litres at various points, would result to further actions.

The union has similarly directed all members Nationwide to carry green leaves in a show of solidarity and protest of the slain Tanker Driver with effect from Thursday, 22 May 2014.

“In an earlier circulated to security agencies and other concerned authorities, the union condemned the brutal killing of its member by men of operation messa under the NNs bee croft Naval Base as command on April 25th 2014, at Apapa Tin Can Island Exprressway Lagos. Operation messa as presently constituted comprise of Navy and police officers, who have in recent time been extorting money from PTD members demanding five hundred or one thousand Naira from Tanker Drivers.

“The refusal of late comrade

Lawal to part with the one thousand Naira demanded led to his death and if not for the intervention of the zonal officers who were at the scene of the event, the situation would have degenerated to crises.

“The union has since the incident demanded for the sum of Thirty million Naira (N30m) as compensation to the family of late comrade Olalekan Lawal and equally demanded the prosecution of the killer officer concern to serve as deterrent to other whilst the twenty one (21) days ultimatum issued had elapsed,” the statement concluded.

L-R: Director and Project Coordinator, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Henry Otowo, Chief Executive Officer of NEPC, Mr. Olusegun Awolowo, and ITC Export Quality Expert, Mrs. Ludovica Ghizzoni, during a workshop on expanding export of sesame seed and sheanut butter from Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja.

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Samsung Academy to train 10,000 engineers in Africa

By Chris Alu

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amsung Electronics has promise to train 10,000 electronics engineers across Africa by 2015 in its “Samsung Engineering Academy.”

Brovo Kim, managing director, Samsung Electronics, West Africa, disclosed this in Lagos at the graduation of the academy’s first set of 72 technical students.

He said that the academy was a part of the Global Samsung Hope for Children Outreach programme,

which offered one year, free training courses for beneficiaries.

Kim said that the outreach programme was aimed at improving the quality of technical education in public secondary schools across Africa.

He said that the pilot phase of the Samsung Engineering Academy programmes started in South Africa in 2011.

According to him, it is also running in Ethiopia and Kenya, with plans to extend the initiative to more African countries by 2015.

As Samsung expands into Africa, we are striving not only to act ethically, but to positively impact the communities where our consumers live.

“We believe we will have the greatest impact by connecting our CSR initiatives to our history and core business.

“Skilled graduates are key to helping us reach our business goals, providing us with a workforce of technicians and exclusive service experts needed to differentiate Samsung as a quality

service-oriented company,” he said.

Kim said that the 72 graduate students drawn from Government Technical College, Agidingbi, Ikeja, had successfully completed one year specialised training at the academy.

The chief executive explained that they were trained to repair and service modern digital electronic devices such as LCD TV’s, Smartphones, refrigerators, air conditioners and laptops, among other appliances.

Capital market indices appreciate by 1.15%

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quities transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) maintained an upward trend yesterday as the market indices improved by 1.15 per cent.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the appreciation was due to price gains by major equities. As result of the bullish trading, the market capitalisation closed higher at N13.060 trillion when compared with N12.911 trillion posted on Wednesday.

Equally, the All-Share Index increased by 450.23 basis points

or 1.15 per cent to close higher at 39,553.00 against the 39,102.77 achieved on Wednesday.

Forte Oil led the gainers’ table

by N5.70 to close at N169.20 per share. Nigerian Breweries came second with N3.81 to close at N173.01, while Cadbury Nigeria appreciated by N2.89 to close at N73.84 per share. Oando advanced

by N1.69 to close at N18.28 and Nestle gained N1.02 to close at N1,071.02. On the other hand, Beta Glass led the losers’ chart by 89k to close at

N17.07 per share. Caverton trailed with a loss of 82k to close at N7.76, while Ecobank Transnational Incorporated dropped 50k to close at N15 per share. UAC Property dropped 48k to close at N16.57, while PZ Cussons lost 47k to close at N34.83 per share. However, the volume of shares traded dropped by 68.58 per cent as investors staked N3.18 billion on 267.78 million shares transacted in 3,937 deals. This was against the 852.31 million shares worth N10.22 billion traded

in 4,689 deals on Wednesday.

Transcorp emerged the most traded stock, accounting for 44.49 million shares worth N164.59 million.

GTBank followed with a total of 37.92 million shares valued N1.04 billion, while Learn Africa exchanged 21.90 million shares worth N39.81 million.

FBN Holdings transacted 19.29 million shares valued N263.09 million, while Wema Bank sold 13.99 million shares worth N13.09 million. (NAN)

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Business

TAX implication of mergers and acquisitions M erger is defined as ‘‘any amalgamation of the undertakings or any part of the undertakings or interest of two or more companies or the undertakings or part of the undertakings of one or more companies and one or more bodies corporate’’.

Simply put, a merger is a combination or integration of existing companies to form a single company.

Acquisition on the other hand, is known as take-over.

It is the take-over of by one company of sufficient share in another company to give the acquiring company control over that other company.

Statutory Requirement under Companies Income Tax Act (CITA) The CITA in Section 29(12) Cap (21, LFN, 2004) provides that ‘‘no merger, take-over, transfer or restructuring of the trade or business carried on by a company shall take place without having obtained the Service’s direction under sub-section 9 of this section and clearance with respect to any tax that may be due and payable under the Capital Gains Tax Act’’. The implication of this provision is that the approval of the Federal Inland Revenue Service is a necessary condition for the completion of the process in a merger or acquisition bid.

Therefore, no merger or acquisition bids would be fully consummated without the companies involved having obtained consent from the FIRS. Procedure for Obtaining the Service’s Approval From the start, the merging companies are required to submit to the FIRS, copies of the scheme of merger and scheme of arrangement on the consolidation request for its study and proper evaluation in order to ensure that taxes which may result from the companies’ transactions are correctly assessed and collected.

Herein lies the relevance of the Service’s powers under section 29(9) (i) to require either of the companies directly affected by any direction which is under the consideration of the Service to guarantee or give security to its satisfaction for payment in full of all tax due or to become due by the company which is selling or transferring such asset or business.

Tax Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions A merger may result in any of the following situations: • Formation of a new company.

• Continuation of the consolidated business by one of the merging parties, in its name or under a new name.

• Cessation of business by the other merging parties.

In acquisition, there is only an acquiring company (ies) and the company being acquired.

as an existing company. (iii) The surviving company will not be allowed to claim investment allowance on the assets which were transferred to it and will also not claim initial allowance on such assets. (iv) The surviving company may however claim annual allowance only on the tax Written down Values (TWDV) of the assets transferred to it. (v) The surviving company may not inherit the unabsorbed losses and capital allowances of the merging companies, except it is proved that the new business is a reconstituted company. (vi) All fees payable on merger bids or consolidation will be liable to VAT and WHT just like it is applicable on the emergence of a new company.

Stamp duties will be paid on the increase in share capital and the company will have to obtain its own staff pension scheme approval from the JTB.

Emergence of a New Company Rendition of Annual Returns Where a new company emerges from a merger process, then, the new company is expected to file its returns, in line with the provisions of Section 55(3)(b) of CITA. The section provides that “every new company shall file with the Service, its audited accounts and returns within eighteen (18) months from the date of its incorporation or not later than six (6) months after the end of its first accounting period as defined in section 29(3) of this Act, whichever is earlier’’.

It should however be understood that a mere change of name does not make an existing business entity a new company.

Such companies will continue to be treated as old businesses on an on-going concern basis.

Basis of Assessment Commencement rule as provided under Section 29(3) will apply to the new company, except where any of the underlisted circumstances arise: (I) Where the merging parties are connected parties, the Service may direct that commencement rule be set aside, in which case, the new company will file its returns as an on-going concern and its assessment will be determined on preceding year basis.

(II) Where the new business is a reconstituted company, taking over the trade or business formerly run by its foreign parent company.

Claim of Allowances Companies Income Tax Act (CITA) did not categorically address the value at which assets may be transferred for the purpose of capital allowances claims. However, International

Accounting Standard 22 prescribes that in merger accounting, the assets, liabilities and reserves must be recorded at their carrying balances, implying that merger process does not permit the recording of assets at their fair value in the event of consolidation. The new company will therefore not be entitled to any investment allowance claim or initial allowance on the transferred assets; it will only be entitled to claim annual allowance on the Tax Written Down Values (TWDV) of the transferred assets.

Unabsorbed Losses and UnUtilized Capital Allowances Brought Forward The new company may also not be permitted to inherit the unabsorbed losses and capital allowances of the absorbed companies, except under the following circumstance: (i) where a reconstituted company is carrying on the same business previously carried on by this company and it is proved that the losses have not been allowed against any assessable profits or income of that company for any such year; in that case the amount of unabsorbed losses shall be deemed to be a loss incurred by the re-constituted company in its trade or business during the year of assessment in which the business commenced.

Taxes and Deductibility of Related Expenses (i) Stamp Duties Duty payment will arise on the share capital of the new company, subject to the provisions of Section 104 of the Stamp Duties Act, in relation to capital and duty relief. (ii) Consolidated Expenses

Fees paid to statutory bodies such as SEC, NSE, CBN, Land Authorities etc, including professionals like accountants, stockbrokers, issuing houses, and solicitors are regarded as capital in nature and will therefore not be allowed as deductible expenses by virtue of Section 27(a) of CITA. (iii) Taxation of Consolidation Fees: Fees paid to professionals for services rendered in connection with consolidation will be subject to VAT and WHT at the rates of 5% and 10% respectively.

4.3.1 T a x Indemnification Section 29(9)(i) of CITA provides that the Service may require the new company to guarantee or give security for payment in full, for any tax due or that may become due by any of the ceased companies.

4.3.2 Approval for Pension Scheme The new company will need to obtain a Joint Tax Board (JTB) approval for its staff pension scheme.

Status of a Surviving Company in Relation to Taxation It is a possibility that one of the merging companies survives and its old name or a new name to inherit the assets, liabilities, reserves and entire operations of the merging parties. Where this happens, the following points must be noted: (i) The surviving company must file its returns in line with the provisions of section 55(3) (a) of CITA. (ii) Commencement rules under section 29(3) of CITA will not apply to the surviving company, as it will be regarded

Ceased Businesses The merger or consolidation exercise may also result in cessation of business for any of the merging parties. In this case, cessation rule as applicable under section 29(4) of CITA will apply to any of the merging companies which have now ceased business permanently, except if any of the following circumstances occur: (i) Where the merging companies are connected.

Here, the Service may direct, in line with its discretionary powers, under section 29(9) of CITA that the cessation rule may not apply. (ii) Where a reconstituted company is formed to take over the trade or business formerly run by its foreign parent company. (See Section 29(10) of CITA. Capital Gains Tax Shares or Cash Received Section 32A of Capital Gains Tax Act (CGTA) Cap 121LFN 2004 provides that a person shall not be chargeable to tax under the Act, in respect of any gains arising from the acquisition of the shares of a company, either merged with, or taken over or absorbed by another company, as a result of which the acquired company has lost its identity.

However, where shareholders are either wholly or partly paid in cash for surrendering their shares in the ceased business, the gains arising from the cash payment will be subject to CGT. Effect of Taxations on Consolidation Acquiring/ Acquired Companies The tax implications of consolidation on an acquiring company or acquired companies are similar to those of mergers.

Acquisition expenses are nondeductible while fees paid to professional bodies are equally subject to WHT and VAT.

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Business

‘Powering Science and Technology for Africa’s Economic Transformation’ A

By Makhtar Diop

frica has achieved exceptional economic growth over the past decade, averaging 4.5 per cent a year and underpinned by prudent macroeconomic management.

Now we must achieve economic growth that is accompanied by significantly less poverty and greater prosperity for all the people of the continent.

With new discoveries of oil, gas, and minerals seemingly every month, we need to be able to extract, market, and invest the new-found earnings from these resources in higher quality education, health, and other vital development priorities.

As Africans move to cities in ever-growing strength, we must also address unprecedented rates of urbanization and new needs for housing, infrastructure, and agricultural productivity to feed urban residents as well as increase food security in rural areas.

On the environment front, Africa, which has contributed the least to climate change, is bearing its disproportionate impact in terms of droughts, floods, rising sea levels which in turn bring economic losses and hardship.

At the same time, these challenges also bring opportunities for joint research that would benefit scientists across the world as well in Africa. There is scope for similar research collaboration between African and foreign scientists in medicine and biodiversity, irrigation, engineering, mining and other fields.

But here is the challenge. We will only achieve these exciting research coalitions in Africa if we correct a longstanding imbalance in our education systems. Today, our stock of graduates is still highly skewed towards the humanities and social sciences, while the share of our students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) averages less than 25 per cent. Further, women are under-represented in science and technology-related courses and professions on the continent.

Thanks to Africa’s recent progress in school enrolment, more and more students are completing primary and secondary school. This new generation of young Africans must be equipped with the modern skills and knowledge they need to find African solutions to Africa’s challenges. Earlier this year, at a High-Level Forum on Higher Education for Science, Technology and Innovation hosted by the Government of Rwanda and the World Bank in Kigali, participating countries and partners called for a bold target—to double the share of African university graduates in

L-R: Kebbi state Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari, discussing with Chief Executive Officer, Idris Power Distribution Consortium, Alhaji Idris Danlami, during his visit to the governor, on Tuesday in Birnin Kebbi.

Photo: NAN

science and technology fields within a decade, by 2025. This is key to transform Africa into a knowledge-driven continent within a generation.

So how can we do it? There are proven steps that can be taken to realign higher education with the needs of the 21st century economy and to brighten the career prospects of young Africans today. Partnership is the operative word, between academic institutions both in Africa and abroad, between universities and the private sector, and with new investment partners in Asia and Latin America. Systemic reforms are also necessary, particularly to improve the quality of education across all levels of the education system, and to make higher education more relevant to the needs of would-be employers.

African universities have much to gain from joining forces with universities abroad, such as through the University of Michigan’s STEMAfrica initiative which has nurtured young scientists and advanced research networks with institutions in Africa, and also their work in training mathematicians and doctors on the continent.

In fact, the African Diaspora can play a very critical role in advancing science and technology in their countries of origin by

helping generate new interest in supporting the STEM fields in Africa. We must mobilize a wide alliance of supporters including policymakers, international financial institutions such as the World Bank Group, and academics, both in Africa and abroad.

At the same time, universities in Africa now need to achieve the next level of homegrown excellence.

A number of US and European universities have campuses and programs overseas, notably in Asia and the Middle East—and the next frontier is Africa. One US University has opened a campus in Rwanda, and the first cohort of students from this centre will graduate later this year. By building campuses in Africa, such programs bring quality education that is adapted to local cultural norms and requirements. Universities that move quickly will be at a significant advantage as this is a growing market that will only become larger as Africa continues its robust economic growth.

Students must also be able to apply what they learn once they graduate and look to cross the threshold of the jobs market. This requires innovative partnerships and coalitions, as well as targeted reforms. Following the example of countries like Kenya and

Senegal, ministries responsible for higher education should aim to boost private representation on their university boards and engage with the private sector to strengthen links with employers, including on curriculum design.

Private sector partners in Africa can also offer apprenticeships, internships, and certification programs, to help bridge the gap between what is being taught in universities and the realities of the job market, and to invest in the next generation of technicians and corporate recruits.

The World Bank is working with eight African governments and the Association of African Universities on the Africa Centres of Excellence initiative, which will strengthen 19 centres of excellence in West and Central Africa. This initiative aims to build and sustain excellence in higher education in Africa, particularly in science and technology, by fostering regional specialization, concentrating limited toplevel faculty and generating knowledge “spillovers.” This sort of cooperative action is vital to maximise the impact of limited resources and achieve greater regional integration.

Africa’s new partners— countries such as Brazil, China, India and Korea—can play an important role in building

human capital in Africa. These countries have rich experience in developing higher education programs that serve the needs of modernizing economies, and have much to offer by way of lessons learned and active partnerships. The World Bank is working towards building a Partnership for Skills in the Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (“PASET”) that brings together new partners and African policymakers, to catalyse this process especially in high-potential sectors.

Partnership among all of these networks will commit us all to a coordinated, faster approach to advancing science and technology in Africa and helping Africans young people achieve their aspirations. It will also help companies to find young Africans with advanced skills and knowledge locally, allowing them to compete and thrive in international markets.

As more than 11 million young Africans try to join enter the job market every year over the next decade, we need to make strategic investments in their education and other development prospects in order to drive and sustain Africa’s economic transformation.

Makhtar Diop, is World Bank’s Vice President for Africa.

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Special Report

Caring for sick babies: The dilemma facing China’s poor W

hen Liu Jiaomei gave birth to her daughter Miaomiao in March, she was forced to leave the hospital an hour after her labour was over. Ms Liu and her husband, both poor migrant workers, had no money to pay for extra care.

Ms Liu and her husband brought their newborn home, but they knew their child was seriously ill.

Miaomiao has serious hip and leg deformities.

A large hole in her mouth makes it difficult for her to swallow. Now six weeks old, she’s clearly losing weight.

“I wanted to look after Miaomiao myself,” Liu Jiaomei, explains, tears streaming down her face.

“But my husband asked: what if our daughter dies because we can’t care for her?”

With no money and no government healthcare, this couple faced a heartwrenching choice: hold on to their daughter or hand her over to the state where in theory - she would receive treatment.

“No-one wants to abandon their child,” Miaomiao’s father, Lei Zebao says. “But if we gave her away, at least she would have a slim chance at life.”

Baby Miaomiao’s parent faced the dilemma of whether to give their sick daughter away to an orphanage

They decided to take her to a “safe baby hatch” not far from their home. In January, the hatch opened beside the local orphanage, offering parents a place to anonymously abandon children they couldn’t care for.

On the evening of 16 March, the couple wrapped their daughter in blankets and travelled to the orphanage gates.

Fate intervened.

Overwhelmed with sick children, the baby hatch had stopped accepting new babies

hours before the family arrived. Miaomiao stayed in her mother’s arms.

“I was secretly hoping they wouldn’t take my girl, though I didn’t know if we could keep her alive,” Liu Jiaomei admits. “I was torn.”

Pressures remain. The family is living inside a concrete garage space next to a busy road. They’re struggling to pay for basics like baby formula and nappies, let alone expensive medical care.

In March, the closure of Guangzhou’s baby hatch

Left with no other option, Cheng Bangjian has taken to the streets of Beijing to beg for help

drew international attention.

In the six weeks the hatch was open, an average of five children a day were dropped off there.

In total, 262 children had been surrendered to the state, officials said. All of them had serious health problems, including congenital heart defects and severe cerebral palsy.

Are baby hatches a good idea?

The Chinese government has decided to open baby hatches in cities across the country. It is illegal to

abandon a child in China, but these hatches allow parents to anonymously drop off a child without facing legal punishment.

“I think it was really seen as progressive because they were acknowledging a problem,” explains Naomi Kerwin, a children’s advocate with years of experience working in Chinese orphanages. “They were putting the health of the child first.”

Not everyone agrees.

Lumos, the UK-based children’s charity founded and chaired by JK Rowling, advocates the closure of baby hatches.

“The baby hatch is effectively smoothing out the process of ‘admission’ to an institution, making it a sort of conveyor belt,” explains Lumos CEO Georgette Mulheir. “It heralds the institutionalisation of children on an almost industrial scale.”

Chinese officials have defended use of the baby hatches, arguing that children abandoned on the street have a 30% chance of survival. Children placed in baby hatches survive 90% of the time.

However, Lumos argues China’s focus on baby hatches should be redirected. “What is needed is investment in

services that help children remain with their families,” Ms Mulheir adds.

Some of the children were as old as five or six. Those who work with seriously ill children say that by that age, adults who are caring for children on their own find it difficult to physically lift them. That’s when parents often give up, believing local welfare institutes can provide the care they can’t.

The vast majority of children in Chinese orphanages are seriously ill or they’re suffering from a disability that requires special care that poor migrant

workers cannot offer.

“I’ve never seen a healthy child in a government orphanage,” explains Naomi Kerwin, an American expatriate who has worked as a child advocate for years inside China. “But I’ve seen quite a bit of spina bifida, I’ve seen cleft palates with heart problems and lots kids with genital issues.”

To be fair, China has made great strides in maternal and infant health in recent years.

Maternal mortality - the likelihood a woman will die during pregnancy or childbirth - has plunged

“

I think it was really seen as progressive because they were acknowledging a problem,” explains Naomi Kerwin, a children’s advocate with years of experience working in Chinese orphanages. “They were putting the health of the child firs

Despite advances in medical technology, poor Chinese families are still struggling

Lei Zebao (L) and Liu Jiaomei (R) are struggling to make ends meet

more than 13% a year in China since 1990, the fastest drop in the world according to a new global study from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

A related study showed that children in China are also much more likely to live past the age of five than in previous decades.

But all of these numbers mean little to poor families who are struggling to keep their children alive, despite empty bank accounts.

One desperate father is getting attention for his radical campaign to fund his daughter’s medical care.

A retired soldier from China’s central Sichuan province, Cheng Bangjian regularly parades in Beijing’s streets holding a

sign that reads: “I will work the rest of my life for anyone who funds my daughter’s medical care.” Few ever make eye contact with him.

Cheng’s nine-yearold girl, Siyi, has a blood disorder. Following years of expensive treatment, a bone marrow transplant is her only hope and a donor has been found. The entire family relocated to Beijing because it has the country’s only hospital that can treat Siyi’s condition. But her parents can’t pay for the $96,000 (£57,000) operation.

“I’ve already borrowed from all my relatives,” Cheng Bangjian weeps. “I’ve even thought of jumping off a bridge. If I died, my daughter could be saved because more people would care for us.”

In the future, there is hope

that other families won’t be driven to the same desperate lengths as Miaomiao’s family in Guangzhou and Cheng Siyi’s family in Beijing.

Some promising initiatives lie on the horizon. Many charitable organisations are trying to address infant health concerns early on, preventing some congenital disabilities by handing out free folic acid to pregnant women, for example. Other groups are trying to reach struggling families with sick or disabled babies, offering them early support to help them care for their children at home.

Others in China are lobbying the government to introduce national health insurance for children up to the age of 18. Every year since

This baby hatch in Guangzhou was suspended in March after it became overwhelmed with hundreds of infants

2009, children’s advocate Melody Zhang has submitted a proposal for a children’s health insurance plan to China’s parliament through a slew of parliamentary representatives.

It’s difficult to know what happens to the proposal behind the scenes, explains Ms Zhang, the founder and executive director of Children’s Hope Foundation, one of China’s largest charitable organisations offering medical help to orphans. However, she’s optimistic a plan like the one she’s proposing is inevitable.

“More and more cities are coming up with their own medical insurance plans, so coverage is spreading,” she explains. On average, only a few of China’s 300 million children would need access to expensive medical care, so her proposal for 100 renminbi (£9.50; $16) annual insurance is realistic, she says.

Until then, millions of parents in China are struggling to hold on to their children, while also keeping them healthy.

In desperation, nineyear-old Cheng Siyi’s family recently took out a shadowy high-interest loan. They needed a $40,000 deposit to fund her bone marrow surgery before time ran out.

“Of course what we have gone through is worth it,” Siyi’s father explains. “Once our kid is healthy, she’ll grow up just like a normal girl.”

BBC Asia

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Islam

No compulsion in religion

“Let there be no compulsion in religion: truth stands out Clear from error: Whoever rejects evil and believes In Allah hath grasped the Most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks, and Allah heareth and knoweth all things.”[al-Baqarah: 256]

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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.

I am writing on this topic because am compelled by the circumstances in which the whole world is lamenting the incredible security hiatuses in Nigeria resulting in the Boko Haram insurgents an unprecidented ‘exploit’.Actually my column was set to discuss on the success journey on vaccination on poliomyelitis in Nigeria. But, for the current mind stunning and mystifying situation, this topic has no relevance at present. However, I accept to the demand of the day, and in Allah I put my trust, and from Him I seek for help!

Allah (SWT) is the Creator of everything and everybody living in all the planets and elsewhere.

He creates, sustains and provide for all suitable their own fashions and ways. He created men and made them very special species by subjugating all their needs within their environment, and gave them control in phases and times. He controls their destinies to a larger extent from where He is eternality.

He says: 2. It is He who has created you; and of you are some that are Unbelievers, and some that are believers: and Allah sees well all that ye do.”[at-Taghabun: 2] Then in His infinite mercy and notwithstanding the criterion, He made a universal call to all mankind until the end in the following awe-inspiring words.

He says: 21. O ye people! Adore your Guardian-Lord, who created you and those who came before you, that ye may have the chance to learn righteousness.”[al-Baqarah: 21] He made another inspirational call, and says: “O mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women; reverence Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (that

bore you): for Allah ever watches over you.”[an-Nisa’i: 1] In another chapter of the Qur’an, he majestically announced loudly, thus; “It is Allah who creates you and takes your souls at death; of you there are some who are sent back to a feeble age, so that They know nothing having known (much): for Allah is All-knowing, All-Powerful.’[an-Nahl: 70] In essence, Allah rehearsed to mankind that the life between creation and death is not for no reason or purpose. That is to say there is no creation without purpose and intention. Therefore, the objective of the creation of man and all other creatures was solely to adore Allah and to worship Him in manners and fashion assigned

by Him alone! He says regarding the purpose of the creation of man and jinn, thus; “I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me. No sustenance do I require of them, nor do I require that they should feed Me.”[ adh-Dhariyat: 56] Allah, indeed, the Lord of Islam and the Muslims does not eat bread, drink wine, let alone get drunk! He is “Allah is He on Whom all depend!The Eternal, the Absolute”!

Buttress His reasons for the creation of this wise and intelligent animal, called man, He chose over time few wiser men amongst them, made them His messengers and burdened them with both the trust and responsibilities of teaching and guiding the rest of men on how to worship Him; alone! He raised many prophets and Messengers at different times and spaces.

According to Islam, Allah sent 25 principals Messengers to the entire mankind, beginning with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Jesus and terminating with Muhammad [pbu-them] within a specified time and space.

Fundamentally speaking, there are differences between a Messenger and a Prophet. The commonest difference is that a Prophet is one who receives Revelation from Allah, but he is not commanded to propagate it, but, to practice it himself, without being called upon to disseminate it. A Messenger is one who receives Revelation from Allah and he is called upon to propagate it and to act upon it. Thus, every Messenger is a Prophet, but not every Prophet is a Messenger. The Prophets are greater in number than the Messengers, such that no one their exact number. Allah, the Most High says: “And indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad) Of some of them We have related to you their story, and some of them we have not related to you their story. And it was not given to any Messenger that he should bring a Sign except by the leave of Allah.”[al-Ghafir: 78] “Messenger who gave good news as well as warning, that mankind, after (the coming) of the apostles, should have no plea against Allah; for Allah is Exalted

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The understanding from the meaning of the word “Islam” itself makes it clear that there is no way that you could force someone to do something that requires them to do, out of their own free will and harmony. If someone were forced to convert to Islam, then his would not be accepted and acknowledged as genuine conversion; a condition that must be freely made on choice and peacefully.

Forcing people into Islam is totally illogical and certainly not accepted, neither in concept nor in practice.

In power, wise.’[an-Nisa’I; 165] Thus, Allah did not leave any chance for any nation to complain thatHe did not send any admonisher to them. In an instance where Allah stops raising Messengers, He commands the learned amongst his servants to continue with the propagation of his chosen religion (Islam) to the whole world in the most peaceful ways. He says: “Invite (all) to the way of Thy Lord with wisdom and preaching; and argue with them In ways that are best and Most gracious: for Thy knoweth best, who have strayed from His path, and who receive guidance.”[an-nahl: 125] And: “O mankind! There hath come to you a direction from your Lord and a healing for the (diseases) In your hearts, - and for those who believe, a guidance and a mercy.”[Yunus: 57] They should call to His way with humility and modesty all men; the knowledgeable and the peasants. He says: “And the servants of ((Allah)) Most gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, “Peace!”[al-Furqan: 63] When all procedures are observed in the processes of calling and inviting to the way of Allah, the inner conviction of the persuaded and covinced is left to Him to guide the person to accept Islam or not.

He says: “Those whom Allah (in His plan) willeth to guide,- He openeth their breast to Islam; those whom He willeth to leave straying,- He maketh their breast close and constricted, As if They had to climb up to the skies: Thus doth Allah (heap) the penalty on those who refuse to believe.”[al-An’am: 125] Similarly, for the fact that He made the understanding of the message of Islam very easy to comprehend and grasp, He thus, abhors compulsion, coercion and use of force in converting people.

“Say: “With Allah is the argument that reaches home: if it had been His will, He could indeed have guided you all.”[al-an’am: 6] For these reasons, Allah has simplified the work on da’awah; propagation.Allah has been so

much simplified most especially to the fortunate people whom He has wills to embrace it The understanding from the meaning of the word “Islam” itself makes it clear that there is no way that you could force someone to do something that requires them to do, out of their own free will and harmony. If someone were forced to convert to Islam, then his would not be accepted and acknowledged as genuine conversion; a condition that must be freely made on choice and peacefully. Forcing people into Islam is totally illogical and certainly not accepted, neither in concept nor in practice.

In order to keep the proscription to the optimum, Allah has warned Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] never to compel, coerce or force anybody to accept Islam out of enthusiasm or eagerness. Allah says: “If it had been Thy Lord’s will, they would all have believed, - all who are on earth! Wilt Thou then compel mankind, against their will, to believe!”[yunus: 99] Thus, genuine and acceptable Islam is the one that is founded on persuasion and leniency. The following verse shades more light to the principles of Islam of patience and endurance. Allah says: “Say thou: “This is My way: I do invite unto Allah, - on evidence Clear As the seeing with one’s eyes,- I and Whoever follows Me, glory be to Allah and never will I join (other) gods with Allah.”[Yusuf: 108] The evidences and proofs regarding the clarity of Islam, and the strength of its arguments on all scientific references superannuated all other religions in history. Allah says: “And say: “Truth has (now) arrived, and falsehood perished: for falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish. We send down (stage by stage) In the Qur’an that which is a healing and a Mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.”[al-Isra’i: 81-82] Similarly, the Sunnah has condemned anybody who abducts a free man, and enslaves or sells him into slavery. Allah has promised to cast him into the blazing hell fire on the day of

resurrection.

In essence, anybody or group of people that forces defenseless and innocent people to accept Islam, such a person or group is NOT representing Muslims nor working for the sake of Allah! Allah has proscribed that action, Islam has forbidden it and Muslims condemned it in its entirety!

Such people are not only fighting Christianity and Christians, but, also waging an unholy war against Islam and Muslims! All true main stream Muslims have unanimously and equivocally condemned such atrocity and detest conditional release of the school girls and all abducted people.

The botherations and the anguishes the Muslims are undergoing the world over as a result of this heinous crimes perpetuated by the insurgents is severer than that of the parents and the CAN, which they tread in the pages of newspapers. These are people who are misguided with no sensible person around them to admonish! They are people who are concocting lies and aberrations against Allah and his Apostle with nobody close to stop them! These are people that maim and kill all and sundry, regardless of sex, irrespective of age, heedless of religious inclination, mindless of tribal affiliation and with total disregard to race or nationality!

We are all in stark dilemma and quandary as to think, say or do to end this predicament! We are powerless and dumbfounded and devoid of any‘makhraj’ (exit) in sight! I this we close to position once mentioned in the Qur’an, where Allah tells us: “Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden (of bliss) without such (trials) as came to those who passed away before you?

They encountered suffering and adversity, and were so shaken in spirit that Even the Messenger and those of Faith who were with Him cried: “When (will come) the help of Allah.” Ah! Verily, the help of Allah is (always) near”! [alBaqarah: 214] May the help of Allah come as quickly as possible!

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here is a popular saying, “Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance”. This oft-quoted statement might sound lofty and uplifting, but, alas, it is patently false. As experience of the 20th century politics demonstrates well, it is quite possible to organise a state in a way that precludes the existence of any visible resistance - at least, for a long, long time.

A good example of such a resistance-less regime is the Soviet Union at the height of Joseph Stalin’s rule, from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.

While the government was highly repressive and executed about one million real and alleged political criminals (not including the many who perished in prison camps), the Soviet Union of this period saw no organised resistance to speak of - the uprising of the national minorities on the distant periphery was the only exception.

Many were unhappy, but they were seldom willing to express their hostile attitude to the state.

The same is applicable to North Korea. It might be the only country in the modern world in which there is no domestic political opposition whatsoever.

Not a single dissenter, let alone an opposition group, is known to exist inside North Korea - even though quite discontent seems to be on the rise in recent years.

How did the hereditary dictatorship of the Kim family, in control since early 1946, manage to achieve this? How do they keep their people so passive and so obedient? It is often assumed that the main reason for this obedience is the relentless application of political terror, ie the government’s ability (and willingness) to imprison, torture and/or shoot every and any opponent of the regime. Things are not that simple, however.

There is little doubt that political terror plays a significant role in maintaining the internal political stability of the Kim dynasty. North Korea has the highest ratio of political prisoners.

Around 80,000-100,000 North Koreans are incarcerated for political crimes. The number of political prisoners as a proportion of the population is roughly similar to that of the Soviet Union in the twilight of Stalin’s rule - and well above the level we can see in any other modern dictatorship.

In a sense, the North Korean approach to thought policing is reminiscent of the zero-tolerance crime fighting policy of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani insisted that in order to prevent serious crimes, the police had to fight minor crimes too.

However, terror alone does

patriarchal country, does not look at extramarital sex for women with any lenience).

The North Korean people are constantly under the watchful eye of the state, and they are very conscious of this fact not explain the remarkable staying power of the regime in Pyongyang. The presence and role of daily surveillance must not be underestimated. North Koreans have good reason to believe that even a minor deviation from the officially approved political line will be noticed and punished by the authorities. Punishment, like the misdemeanour itself, might be quite mild. However, it is the ubiquity of surveillance which is important.

In a sense, the North Korean approach to thought policing is reminiscent of the zero-tolerance crime fighting policy of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani insisted that in order to prevent serious crimes, the police had to fight minor crimes too. Giuliani believed that a broken window is the first sign of emerging problems, so vandalism and other petty crimes should be exterminated before these activities create a fertile ground for greater deviation. In their efforts to maintain obedience and instill fear, the North Korean authorities take the same approach - of

course, they care about political dissent, not common crimes.

Ramped up neighbourhood watches Perhaps, one should first mention the neighbourhood watch groups, known as the inminban (literally, people’s group). Each inminban consists of 15-30 families living side-by-side in a village, urban block, or multistory building. Such a group is headed by a junior official, whose task is to look for all suspicious activities within her (this is always a woman’s job) jurisdiction. She is also charged with the registration of overnight visitors because one cannot stay overnight even with friends or relatives without giving prior notice to the authorities.

The official is required to have intimate knowledge of all families under her jurisdictions: their occupation, income level, family relations and even work routine.

At their briefings with police, the inminban heads have always been reminded that they should know “how many chopsticks are in any given household” - and this oftrepeated sentence is not a joke.

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Another responsibility of the “people’s group” and its head is to ensure that no forbidden items are kept in private houses. The list of such items includes, above all, tunable radio sets and DVDs of South Korean as well as some Western movies.

To ensure that nothing improper happens, the head of the “people’s group”, together with the police, is required to make random midnight checks of every household from time to time.

The frequency of such searches varies greatly, but typically, every North Korean house is searched 2-4 times a year (nobody bothers with such legal niceties as a search warrant). They look for forbidden items, but also for people who stay overnight on the premises without prior registration. Their usual catch are visiting relatives from the countryside, but sometimes an unlucky couple of lovers can be apprehended as well. This is not a trivial matter, since the couple’s employers are notified about the transgression, and a humiliating public criticism session is likely to ensue (and North Korea, as a

To make the spread of dangerous ideas and forbidden knowledge even more difficult, the government has, for many decades, worked hard to keep people isolated from each other

China dismisses UN report on N Korea ‘crimes’ Indoctrination galore Another important institution is “organisational life”. Every adult North Korean is a member of some “organisation” in his/her workplace. Exactly to which group one belongs depends of his/her age, gender and perceived loyalty towards the regime. There are strict and clear rules defining one’s affiliations. To simplify things a bit, North Korea youngsters below the age of 30 belong to the Youth League, the chosen few are party members, while the vast majority of workers are part of the Trade Union network and for the full-time housewives their organisation is the Women’s Union.

Low-level cells of all these groups are required to arrange ideological education sessions which are normally held two times a week. During these sessions, the participants are lectured on the greatness and virtues of the Kim family, superior qualities of the Korean nation, the bestial nature of the US imperialism and other hostile forces. Attendance is obligatory.

Apart from that, once a week, every North Korean is required to participate in self- and mutual criticism sessions, also arranged by his or her “organisation”.

During these sessions he or she is required to publicly admit to misdeeds committed in the previous week. Self-criticism is followed by equally obligatory speeches delivered by fellow co-workers who are required to criticise one another. Once again, this weekly public ritual seldom helps to unmask serious deviations. But it still helps to make sure that most people, being constantly watched by their fellow workers, will follow official prescriptions.

To make the spread of dangerous ideas and forbidden knowledge even more difficult, the government has, for many decades, worked hard to keep people isolated from each other, as well as cut them from uncensored information from overseas. Apart from the aforementioned ban on tunable radios, the North Korean authorities have also banned the Internet completely (only a tiny group of senior officials, foreign trade specialists and intelligence operatives have access to the world wide web). Last, but not least, domestic travel is strictly controlled as well, so any trip outside one’s native region requires prior police permission.

Courtesy;Aljazeera

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International African Union condemns terrorist attacks in Jos

By Edoamaowo Udeme

Mali leader calls for ceasefire with Tuaregs

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ali’s president has called for a ceasefire after a number of soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Tuareg rebels in the country’s north.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appealed for an “immediate ceasefire” in the fighting in Kidal that had left “several wounded and caused the loss of human life,” the a government spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday.

Keita’s plea was “in line with requests by the UN secretary general and [made] in the name of the international community,” said the statement read on public ORTM television by Mahamane Baby.

National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) spokesman Moussa Ag Assarid told the AFP news agency that Kidal was now being held by three armed groups.

“We took several towns from where the army fled without a fight,” he added, citing the towns of Anderamboukane, Menaka, Aguelhoc, Tessalit and Anefis.

Mohamed Ag Rhissa, a leader within MNLA, told AFP by telephone his group had taken “control of the whole town of Kidal” and that “we have prisoners”.

The fighting first broke out during a visit to Kidal on Saturday

by Prime Minister Moussa Mara, whose government is backed by French soldiers who have helped dislodge the rebels.

The government has said that the MNLA is being backed in Kidal by fighters from alQaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and others.

“Our men are still on the ground fighting the joint forces of AQIM, MUJAO and other militants. That’s all we can say at the moment,” a Malian defence ministry source had said earlier.

Alghabass Ag Intalla, secretary general of the High Council for the Unity of Azawad, said his group and the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA) had also played a key role in the fighting.

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he African Union (AU), strongly condemns the abhorrent terrorist twin bombings which took place on Monday 20 May 2014, in a market place in the central city of Jos in Nigeria, killing dozens of people and injuring many.

In a press release signed by The

Chairperson of the Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, she expresses AU’s heartfelt condolences where to the bereaved families and to the people and Government of Nigeria, and wishes those wounded, strength and speedy recovery.

She reiterated AU’s full support to the efforts of the Nigerian Government aimed at combating

terrorism while welcoming the operational conclusions of the 5th Meeting of Heads of Intelligence and Security Services of the Countries of the Sahelo-Saharan Region, held in Ouagadougou on 19-20 May 2014, which provides for a set of measures aimed at enhancing collective regional action against terrorist groups, including Boko Haram.

Dr Dlamini-Zuma underscores the need for all AU Member states, in partnership with the International Community, to redouble efforts to address the scourge terrorism while recalling the relevant AU instruments and existing regional initiatives which provide an appropriate framework for increased cooperation among Member States.

Malawi poll marred by rigging, says President Joyce Banda

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alawi’s elections have been marred by “serious irregularities”, including voterigging and computer-hacking, the president has said.

Joyce Banda called for an immediate manual audit of the results.

Mrs Banda faced a strong challenge in Tuesday’s election from three other presidential candidates, including exForeign Minister Peter Mutharika.

Earlier, a minister killed himself at his home in the capital, Lilongwe, police say.

Deputy Local Government Minister Godfrey Kamanya was found shot dead inside a locked bedroom.

His spokesman denied reports that his suicide was linked to him apparently losing his parliamentary seat.

However, Mrs Banda released what she said was Mr Kamanya’s suicide note which stated that he took his life because he feared being killed by members of Mr Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Mrs Banda also accused a party, which she did not name, of infiltrating and hacking the Malawi Electoral Commission’s (MEC) counting system.

The MEC should address these concerns by doing a manual audit of the entire process, she said.

“I appeal to all Malawians to continue with their commitment to peaceful co-existence and to remain calm until the Malawi Electoral Commission determines the outcome of the poll results,” the president said.

Eleven candidates ran against Mrs Banda, but her main challenger is seen as Mr Mutharika, the brother of former President Bingu wa Mutharika who died in office in April 2012.

Voting buckets MEC chairman Maxon Mbendera denied their computer system had been

Voting was delayed at many polling stations

been hacked.

“Our electronic counting system has crashed, yes, and last night we migrated

to our Plan B - manual counting of the results, so I wonder why the People’s Party [of Mrs Banda] is complaining

since we have not announced any results yet,” Mr Mbendera said.

“We are going to give the official results after we have finished tabulation.

We expect that in the next two to three days we should have a clear picture,” he added.

Voting was still going on at two polling centres in the commercial capital, Blantyre, and one in Lilongwe, two days on from election day, says BBC Malawi reporter Raphael Tenthani.

Voting was disrupted at these centres because of delays in distributing election material, he says.

Frustrated voters set alight one polling station and smashed election material at another.

In some places, voting boxes or lids did not arrive so officials used buckets and plastic wrap, correspondents say.

...Deputy Minister shoots himself after losing a parliamentary seat

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alawi’s immediate former deputy minister of Local Government and Lilongwe losing Lilongwe Msodzi North Parliamentary elections member of parliament Godfrey Kamanya has this morning shot himself dead.

Mr Kamanya had contested his seat but lost the election during the on-going counting of ballot papers.

Former Minister of Transport Ulemu Chilapondwa confirmed the death of the minister in an interview this morning.

His body was taken to Kamuzu central hospital in Lilongwe around 04hours this morning.

However, Mr Chilapondwa said Mr Kamanya left a suicide note explaining that he was has taken his

own life because of a debt he owed some government officials.

Mr Chilapondwa said the people he owed money had been threatening Mr Kamanya with death hence his action to kill himself.

Mr Chilapondwa explained that the note also outlines how his estate must be shared among the family members including his wife and mother.

He said the death of Mr Kamanya is unrelated with the election loss.

Meanwhile, Malawian President Joyce Banda has held her first press conference since casting of her vote to demand an immediate recount of the ballot papers.

Dr Banda alleged that she has concrete evidence that the elections have been rigged by one of the leading

opposition parties.

The Malawian Electoral Commission (MEC) is yet to announce the results of the elections. Dr Banda also alleged massive irregularities in the conduct of the elections.

The fifth presidential elections have seen the emergence of three strong opposition leaders keen and determined to unseat Dr Banda who has led Malawi for two years following the death of her predecessor, Bingu Wamutharika.

Latest unofficial being announced on the national radio stations have shown that clergy man and leader of the liberation party, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera is way ahead alongside Peter Wamutharika, the brother of the late President.

South Africa’s EFF MPs dress as maids miners

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outh Africa’s new left-wing MPs attended their first parliamentary session dressed as maids and miners.

Most of the women wore red coats and aprons, and the men overalls and hard hats - to show they intend to represent the interest of workers.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has 25 MPs in the 400-member parliament elected on 7 May. It was the first election contested by the EFF, led by the firebrand Julius

Malema.

He formed the EFF last year following his expulsion from the governing African National Congress (ANC) in 2012.

The EFF won 6% of the vote after campaigning on a promise to partially nationalise mines and seize whiteowned farms.

The BBC’s Pumza Fihlani in South Africa says its MPs made quite a statement in parliament in Cape Town with their outfits.

Other MPs wore traditional suits

and fancy dress.

Outside parliament, EFF MPs sang and danced around the bronze bust of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela, as photographers snapped pictures.

“The working class and poor now know they’ve got representatives in parliament. There is no other organisation which associates itself with the struggles of the poor,” EFF MP Floyd Shivambu said.

Our correspondent says the EFF is expected to contribute to robust

discussions in parliament, but it does not have the numbers to deliver on its radical promises.

The ANC won the election with 62% of the vote, followed by the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) with 22%.

The ANC has governed South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994.

The parliamentary session was held to swear in MPs. President Jacob Zuma is due to be inaugurated for a second term at a public ceremony on Saturday.

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Army takes control of government in Thailand T

hailand’s army chief has announced that a military commission that imposed martial law on Tuesday will now take control of the country’s government.

Thursday’s announcement on television came after a second

day of negotiations in the capital Bangkok between the army, political groups, senators and members of the election commission failed to resolve the country’s political crisis.

A 10pm - 5am curfew was imposed immediately after the

military announced they had seized power.

“It is necessary for the Peace and Order Maintaining Command - which includes army, navy, armed forces and police - to take control of governing the country,” General

As the announcement was made, hundreds of troops surrounded the venue of the talks

Prayut Chan-Ocha said, flanked by the heads of the armed forces.

As the announcement was made, hundreds of troops surrounded the venue of the talks from where Suthep Thaugsuban, who has been leading more than six months of anti-government protests, was taken away. Thais swifty reacted to news of the coup. Kriengwut Tantragoon, 34, told Al Jazeera the imposition of an indefinite 10pm curfew was unsettling.

“I think Thai people were doing well until five minutes ago when the curfew was announced. People like me who like to go out to the pub or club, what are we going to do? Now we’re stuck at home,” Kriengwut said.

Al Jazeera’s Scott Heidler, reporting from Bangkok, said: “They [the army] are in control. “There has been a very tense state in this country for the last six months.

“The army [now] controls everything in the government. We do not know what is going to happen to the leaders of the Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts.”

India anti-corruption campaigner jailed

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ndia’s anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to jail for refusing to pay a bond, just hours after declaring he was ready to fight fresh elections in Delhi to revive his Aaam Aadmi Party’s fortunes.

A Delhi court ordered Kejriwal be taken into judicial custody for refusing to pay 10,000 rupees ($170) in bail after he was sued for defamation by a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won the just concluded parliamentary elections by a landslide.

On Wednesday, Kejriwal’s supporters protested outside Tihar Jail, where he is being detained, Kejriwal included BJP leader Nitin Gadkari in a list of politicians

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orth and South Korean warships exchanged artillery fire in disputed waters off the western coast, South Korean military officials said, in the latest sign of rising animosity between the bitter rivals in recent weeks.

Officials from the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defence Ministry said on Thursday that a South’s navy ship was engaged in a routine patrol near the country’s disputed maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea when a North Korean navy ship fired two artillery shells.

The shells did not hit the South Korean ship and fell in waters near it, they said.

The Associated Press news agency

released earlier this year that he branded the country’s most corrupt.

The list also included Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and the then finance minister.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) denied that his refusal to pay the bail after appearing in court was a publicity stunt, shortly after saying he would seek a new round of polls for the Delhi state assembly.

“Yes, this is a case against corruption. How else will we fight corruption? If we have to pay this price (going to jail), it is OK with us,” AAP leader Ashutosh, who goes by one name, told news channel CNN-IBN. Gained a reputation Kejriwal, who has gained a

reputation for taking on the country’s political and business elite over corruption issues, will remain in jail until Friday when the next court hearing is scheduled.

His AAP party won only four seats in general election, in a dismal showing after securing mass support last year for his fight to clean up graftridden politics.

The former tax-official-turnedpolitician, who personally failed to win a seat, admitted on Wednesday that he had made a mistake in quitting as Delhi chief minister to contest the general election.

“We made a mistake by quitting earlier and we apologise for that,” Kejriwal told reporters. “We told them to get ready for the (state)

elections. We will go to the people in the city and tell them about the situation and also seek their forgiveness.”

Aam Aadmi

Koreas exchange fire in disputed waters quoted unnamed Seoul officials as saying the South Korean ship then fired several artillery rounds in waters near the North Korean ship.

South Korea was trying to determine if the North Korean ship had attempted to hit the South Korean vessel but missed, or if the shells were not meant to hit the ship.

Officials said that residents on the frontline Yeonpyeong Island were evacuated to shelters, and fishing ships in the area were ordered to return to ports. In 2010, North Korea fired artillery at the island, killing two

civilians and two marines.

The North’s military had threatened on Wednesday to attack South Korean warships “without any warning” if there was even a “trifle” violation of the maritime border.

The threat came a day after a South Korean naval ship fired warning shots to stop an incursion by three North Korean patrol boats across the sea.

The South’s navy urged the North to stop “absurd threats” and warned: “We will mercilessly punish any provocative actions by North Korea”.

The North does not recognise the Yellow Sea border, the scene of brief but bloody naval clashes in 1999, 2002 and 2009.

In addition, in November 2010, North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong island, killing four South Koreans and briefly triggering concerns of a full-scale conflict.

In March the North fired hundreds of shells in a live exercise near the sea boundary. About 100 shells dropped into South Korean territorial waters, and the South responded with volleys of shells into North Korean waters.

Asia & Middle East

Syrian troops break Aleppo prison siege

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he sprawling Aleppo Central Prison, which holds an estimated 4,000 inmates, has witnessed deadly clashes between government and opposition forces for the past year.

Rebels had repeatedly barrelled suicide car bombs into the front gates and fought guards and troops holed up inside.

Government troops bombarded rebel positions around the prison after taking over a strategic hill nearby on Wednesday morning, Syrian state television reported.

“This is a major blow for rebels,” Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said. “They besieged the prison for 13 months, trying to free prisoners.

“But the siege has caused a humanitarian crisis in the prison.

Regime troops had to airlift some supplies to the guards and the prisoners.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist monitoring group, said there were fears that government forces might kill some of the inmates and “claim that they died during the rebels’ siege of the prison”.

Aleppo has been carved into rebeland government-controlled areas since opposition fighters launched an offensive in the north in mid-2012.

The Syrian army appears intent on taking opposition-held parts of the country’s major cities before the country’s June presidential election.

The prison lies on a highway about six kilometres north of the city of Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial capital.

The civil war devastated the city, leaving rebels controlling the east and the forces of Bashar al-Assad, the president, holding the west.

“The air raids were astonishing,” said Ibrahim Saeed, an activist based in Aleppo province. “The air force tipped the balance of power. More than 100 barrels bombs struck the area around the prison.”

Saeed said the next target of government forces appears to be the nearby town of Handarat, then the Kindi Hospital, in an attempt to close rebel supply lines from the countryside into Aleppo.

He added that after the capture of the prison, Assad’s forces are now close to a command centre of the Islamic Front alliance, a coalition of seven rebel groups fighting the government.

The centre is in an army infantry base that was captured by rebels two years ago.

Activists say more than 160,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in March 2011 which saw largely peaceful protests against Assad’s rule deteriorate into civil war.

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emarks attributed to the Prince of Wales likening Vladimir Putin’s actions to some of those of the Nazis are “outrageous”, the Russian embassy says.

Deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko is due to meet Foreign Office officials to ask for official clarification.

The alleged comments were made during a conversation with a former Polish war refugee during a royal tour to Canada.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said “the remarks did the prince no credit, if he really said this”.

He said it was better, as one British Labour politician had been quoted as saying, for royalty to be seen and not heard.

A spokesman for the Russian embassy in London said: “The minister-counsellor of the Embassy, Mr Alexander Kramarenko, will meet this afternoon the representatives of the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] to discuss a range of bilateral issues.

“The outrageous remarks made

by Prince Charles in Canada will be among the questions raised. The embassy asked the FCO for official clarifications on that yesterday.”

The prince - who has left Canada - is due attend D-day

Europe and Americas Ukraine crisis: Donetsk sees deadliest attack on troops

Prince Charles’s Putin remarks outrageous – Russia

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Prince Charles in Canada

commemorations in June alongside President Putin Following the Russian embassy’s statement, Clarence House said it had “no further comment to make at this stage”.

Prince Charles has been largely

supported on the issue by the leaders of Britain’s three main political parties.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said he would not comment on a private conversation. His deputy, Nick

Clegg, said the prince was “free to express himself”.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said Prince Charles “has got a point”, suggesting many Britons shared his concerns about Mr Putin’s actions in Ukraine.

Voting underway for European Parliament

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oting has begun in Britain and the Netherlands for European Parliament elections in which Eurosceptic parties stand to be the likely beneficiaries of a disillusioned and apathetic electorate.

After two months of campaigning that opinion polls suggest has largely failed to inspire the electorate, up to 380 million Europeans will vote in 28 countries, choosing 751 deputies to represent them in the European Parliament.

In Britain, the UK Independence Party, which wants tighter immigration controls and to

withdraw from the EU, is predicted to win the vote, pushing the governing Conservatives into third place behind Labour, according to opinion polls.

A similar story is expected in the Netherlands, where the antiIslam and anti-EU Freedom Party - which plans to forge an alliance with France’s far-right National Front - is expected to win with up to 23 percent of the vote.

The Netherlands will release exit polls on Thursday evening, but Britain will only announce its results late on Sunday, once voting

has finished in all EU member states.

Consolidated results, including the allotment of seats in the parliament, will be announced at around 2100 GMT on Sunday.

The bulk of countries will vote on May 25, when the trend towards the political extremes may become clearer, particularly in France, Denmark, Hungary, Italy and Sweden.

‘On the last day of campaigning, Jean-Claude Juncker, the top candidate for Europe’s centre-right political group, urged people to vote, but not to throw their votes away.

“Do not give your votes to extremist xenophobes or fascists,” he said at a rally in Brussels.

“If you want Europe to function and to serve its citizens, we should vote for people who will work hard in the next European Parliament.”

Since the first direct elections to the European Parliament were held in 1979, turnout has fallen every time, dropping to 43 percent in 2009. That is expected to continue, falling to about 40 percent this year, pollsters say, a factor that will tend to boost the vote for radical parties.

McDonald’s vacates headquarters due to worker protests

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h site he i off the h planned l d protest was changed after McDonald’s vacated its headquarters in the US state of Illinois after consulting with police.

Protesters want the fast food giant pay a minimum wage of $15 (£9) per hour, double the US federal minimum wage.

The company’s annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for Thursday.

The closure affected one of five McDonald’s corporate buildings and about 3,000 employees.

Protesters - which included a few hundred McDonald’s workers - said they were seeking to highlight how low wages have exacerbated income inequality in the US. The protest was planned before the annual shareholder meeting, where a vote is expected

i pay. on executive Protesters were demanding McDonald’s raise the minimum wage paid to workers to $15 per hour Last year, chief executive Don Thompson was paid $9.5m.

Shareholders in Mexican fast-food chain Chipotle recently rejected an executive pay plan for the firm’s co-chief executives, Steve Ells and Monty Moran, who earned $25.1m and $24.4m, respectively, last year.

Fast-food workers and labour organisers have been protesting since 2012 in an effort to boost wages and win worker rights, such as paid sick leave.

Last week, they organised a global walk out in more than 250 cities to highlight what they say are the difficulties facing lowpaid restaurant employees.

US President Barack Obama has pushed Congress to raise the

ffederal d l minimum i i $ wage to $10.10 per hour from $7.25, however he has faced stiff opposition from Republicans.

According to the Bureau

b S i i f f d off L Labor Statistics, fast-food workers in the US earn about $8.83 per hour, or $18,400 per year if they are working a full 40-hour work week.

Thousands of protesters marched on a McDonald’s campus that houses its Hamburger University training facility, demanding higher wages for workers

dawn attack on a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine has left at least 14 soldiers dead, in the worst loss of life for government forces to date.

Heavily armed militants attacked the checkpoint in the Volnovakha area, in one of four attacks reported overnight in eastern Ukraine.

It is unclear who attacked the checkpoint, with one Ukrainian officer telling the BBC it was not separatists.

The attacks come just three days before Ukraine’s presidential election.

Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, has called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council, saying he has evidence of Russian involvement in the violence.

Russia appears to be withdrawing troops from its border with Ukraine, easing fears of a military intervention like in Crimea in March.

Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a tweet that Russian troop activity near the Ukraine border might suggest that some Russian forces were preparing to pull back.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops near the border to withdraw to their bases earlier this week. Correspondents say removing the troops - estimated to number 40,000 - could help de-escalate the Ukraine crisis.

Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president but voting in Donetsk and Luhansk has been seriously disrupted by the insurgency there.

The election was called after the last elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, was deposed in February amid mass protests against his pro-Russian policies.

Photographs taken by an Associated Press news agency crew show bodies lying in a field or inside a car outside the village of Blahodatne, which is near the town of Volnovakha.

Three charred armoured infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned lorries could also be seen.

Residents told AP the attackers had used an armoured bank lorry which the unsuspecting Ukrainian soldiers had waved through the checkpoint. The attackers then reportedly shot down the soldiers at point-blank range.

BBC journalists who reached the scene were not allowed to film by Ukrainian soldiers. The BBC’s Olga Ivshina found 27 wounded survivors at the central hospital in Volnovakha.

Local people said fighting had erupted at 05:00 local time (02:00 GMT). They said they had heard explosions and gunfire, and some spoke of seeing many wounded later.

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Strange World Village affected by mysterious condition that causes people to fall asleep for up to 6 days

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esidents of the almost abandoned Soviet town of Krasnogorsk and the areas around Kalachi village, in Kazakhstan, are prone to a mysterious ‘sleeping beauty’ syndrome. The bizarre condition has people suddenly dozing off for as long as six days at a time. It’s like a bad horror film – the illness has gripped these regions and no one knows the reason behind it.

Scientists and experts are truly perplexed by the phenomenon.

The weird sleeping illness isn’t prevalent all the time. Instead, it comes in waves – the first one occurred in March 2013 and the second in May 2013. There have been three more since then – around New Year 2014, just after the winter holidays this year, and now again in May. A total of 40 to 60 people have suffered in the scarcely populated region.

In most of the cases, the sleep is accompanied by temporary memory loss.

One of the first victims of the syndrome was Maria Felk, a 50-year-old milkmaid from Kalachi. “I was milking cows, as usual, early in the morning, and fell asleep,” she said. “I remember nothing at all. Only that when I came around, I was in the hospital ward. The nurses smiled at me and said, ‘Welcome back sleeping princess, you’ve finally woken up.’ What else do I remember?

Nothing. I slept for two days and

two nights. The women in my ward said that I tried to wake up several times, saying I urgently needed to milk my cows.”

Interestingly, the strange disease is not limited to locals.

It extends to visitors as well, like 30-year-old Alexey Gom, who was visiting his mother-in-law in Kalachi. “I came with my wife to visit my mother-in-law,” he said.

“In the morning I wanted to finish my work. I switched on my laptop, opened the pages that I needed to finish reading – and that was it. It felt like somebody pressed a button to switch me off.”

“I woke up in the hospital, with my wife and mother-in-law by my bedside. The doctor found nothing wrong with me after a series of tests he performed. I slept for more than 30 hours. But it never happened to me before, never in my life, or to anyone from my family,” said Alexey.

I’d say Alexey and Maria were actually lucky. There have been reports of people falling asleep for almost a week. And it is rumored that one man might have been mistaken to be dead and buried alive! Some people have had repeated episodes, like Lyubov Belkova, a clothes seller at the local market. She has been a victim of sleep no less than seven times. Her daughter suffered twice, and her 15-year-old granddaughter, once.

And her co-workers at the market have all fallen asleep at different

times as well.

It’s quite baffling that some families are repeatedly affected, while others seem completely immune to the illness. The only common factor – it seems to happen mainly to ethnic Russians and Germans. There’s no knowing when the disease will strike, so the villagers always have a packed bag at hand, in case they need to be rushed to the hospital.

When the first epidemic occurred in 2013, doctors thought

it was a case of bad quality vodka.

But it turned out that none of the six people who fell asleep back then had consumed any alcohol. Some locals believe that the problem crops up after a sudden rise in the atmospheric temperature. Another theory suggests that water from a nearby unused Uranium mine is seeping into the local rivers, and being consumed by locals.

Several scientists have visited the remote backwater region, seeking explanations for the sleep

Cave Nightclub in Cuba D isco Ayala, in Trinidad, Cuba, is not your average party destination. It’s located on the outskirts of town, in a natural cave that was once the home of a notorious serial killer.

After walking down the dusty street leading up to the tiny cave mouth, revelers take the stairs leading down to the gated entrance to one of the most unique discos on earth. You pay CUC$3 for entry and a drink, and go down the stairs, and then down another flight through a tunnel. Up to this point, the place looks like a normal cave, apart from a large banner that reads ‘Disco Ayala’. But nothing can really prepare you for what lies within.

As you step out of the narrow tunnel, the sight that awaits you is nothing short of spectacular – a large marble dance floor is set up in the middle of a large cavern, the bright light from a rock-carved bar catches your eye and the colorful lights dancing on the stalagmites will leave you speechless. Not to mention the loud latino music and the crazy performers. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

Ayala has a total of five dance floors and three bars. Seating is limited (first-come-first-served), but the cave itself is large enough to accommodate about 3,000 to 4,000 people at once. The place is

open seven days a week, between 11:00 pm and 3:00 am. Most of the drinks are quite cheap at just CUC$3 for a mojito, a Cuba libre or a beer.

But there’s more to Disco Ayala than dancing in a natural cave.

At precisely 1:00 am, the place comes alive with performances that include snakes, eating broken glasses, acrobatics, walking on fire and several other such amazing feats.

The place tends to get pretty hot, the more crowded it becomes, but it’s still a great place to spend a night dancing to disco-salsa tunes as colored lights ricochet off the stalactites, and the large hole in the roof does let some fresh air in. It also maintains the cave’s structural integrity, as without this opening, the sound waves would bring the place down on everybody.

But the cave disco of Trinidad isn’t always associated with fun and dancing. In fact, it is named after the most famous killer in Trinidad’s history. Carlos ‘Coco’ Ayala is still a popular figure in Cuban culture, who abducts children, takes them to a cave and kills them. Some say he was a deserter during the War of Independence who found refuge in the cave where he committed

many crimes. Legend has it that his exploits were finally put to a stop when the locals captured and beheaded him. For years, Cuban mothers have been getting their children to behave with a single warning: “Be good or Carlos Ayala will come looking!” He is now

considered somewhat of a legend, but historical evidence shows he actually lived there at the end of the nineteenth century, and committed several bloody murders in the cave.

Some locals were actually surprised by the disco’s unusual choice of name. Since the real-

epidemic. They conducted about 7,000 experiments on the area’s soil and water, on the victims’ blood samples, hair and nails. They discounted underground gas and local cell phone signals. They tested homes for the presence of radon gas, high radiation levels, heavy metal salts, bacteria and viruses.

All the tests proved inconclusive.

At one point, Krasnogorsk was a secret town run directly by Moscow, with 6,500 residents who worked on the Uranium mine.

life Ayala was believed to be a psychopath and a murderer, people have pointed out that the name is a strange contradiction for a disco. But Mayte Garcia Sanchez, the head of recreation at Disco Ayala, was quick to dismiss these statements. “The Legend of Ayala is not recreated,” she insisted. “We do not sell his story, we’re just a nightclub in a cave with natural attractions, and that’s what tourists like.”

Photo © Alain Sojourner

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Weekend Revue

WITH TOBIAS LENGNAN DAPAM lovelengz@yahoo.com 07036990957

Patience Ozokwo makes Kannywood debut

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eteran Nollywood star, Patience Ozokwo, popularly known as Mama G, has made a nollywood debut, Nigeriafilms.com has said.

The movie icon, who is well known for her ‘wicked mother/ mother-in-law’ roles in movies, has decided to take her trade to the Northern part of the country where she was featured in a recent movie titled ‘Hassana Da Hussaina.’

The movie was produced

by Uzee Concepts and directed by Hassan Giggs.

The movie is about an army general who arranged for his troublesome twin sons (Rabilu Musa Ibro and Suleiman Bosho) to get married.

The boys got married to another pair of twins (Patience Ozokwo and Saratu Gidado), who prove to be even more troublesome than they were. This led to a bigger trouble in the family.

R-L: Rabilu Musa ‘Ibro’, Patience Ozokwo and Suleiman Bosho

Renny Harlin to direct Jackie Chan, Seann William Scott’s 'Skiptrace'

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enny Harlin is in talks to direct ‘Skiptrace’, an action adventure movie starring Jackie Chan andSeann William Scott, Hollywood Reporter has said.

It added that the movie was made by China’s Talent International Film Co. and Dasym Entertainment.

Exclusive Media was previ-

Renny Harlin

ously behind the movie but since its disintegration, parent company Investment Strategies B.V. has moved it to subsidiary Dasym.

The newly launched sales company Bloom, run by former Exclusive executive, Alex Walton as well as Ken Kao, now is running point on the film at Cannes.

Harlin replaces Sam Fell, who directed the animated film Paranorman and was to make

his live-action debut on the English-language action comedy.

The story, based on an idea

by Chan, centers on a good cop (Chan) whose niece (Fan Bingbing) gets into trouble with a crime syndicate run by a man the detective had been chasing for a decade. The cop was forced to track down the one person who could help save the niece -- a fasttalking American gambler (Scott) -- and bring him to Hong Kong.

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Weekend Revue

The music of rhythm and immorality

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

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o say that today's Nigeria music is a recorded rhythm devoid of meaning and a major means of campaigning for immorality is no news. In fact, it has even stripped a lot of young ladies today who walk naked in the street in the name of fashion of their dignity.

The industry as viewed by observers has abandoned its sole responsibility of reflecting societal values to create rhythm and corrupt the moral behaviour of its audience, especially the youths.

Nigerian youths have today

key in to the most of the characters in the musical video they watch. The video which usually showcase naked dancing women to the tune of un lyrical music has changed the psyche of their ardent viewers.

Speaking to Peoples Daily on the style of music in the country, Abuja based music artist, Beatrice Ugwu, said the industry is full of garage music.

"99% of our music these days are purely garage music. There is no meaning, no inspiration and nothing to learn. In other climes, music is meant to reveal the societal ills. For instance, music about corruption, hatred,

“

99% of our music these days are purely garage music. There is no meaning, no inspiration and nothing to learn. In other climes, music is meant to reveal the societal ills. For instance, music about corruption, hatred, love must covey those lyrics to the people. People should know what the lyrics are all about.

2Face love must covey those lyrics to the people. People should know what the lyrics are all about.

"However, our case here are quite strange. There is nothing to learn from the music. They only record rhythm to make their audience to dance. Songs like 'Skelewu' 'Carolina' and a lot of others do not have any meaning. They are just aimed at making people to dance".

While comparing Nigeria music with other foreign music, the artist said Nigeria has a long way to go before it will meet up with other countries.

"If we really want to sing and produce quality music, we have a long way to go. Presently,

there is no basis for comparism between our music and foreign music. Americans have gone far, producing music with quality lyrics that are remembered even year's after the death of their singers" "The likes of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and a host of others have died that their music remain fresh as if sang yesterday.

Meanwhile in our own case, the music doesn't last two months".

Also speaking, Emmanuella Dikkos,attributed the crase for rhythm in the music industry to the dominance of Yoruba music which has taken over the style of music in the country.

"Everything in the music in-

Bill Clinton to receive award for jazz

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ormer President Bill Clinton will get a chance to play his saxophone when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honours him with its Founder's Award in November.

The Monk Institute announced recently that Clinton will receive the award on November 9th, 2014during all-star concert at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater, featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater and others.

The proceeds will support the institute's free jazz education programs worldwide.

Hancock, the institute's chairman, said Clinton honed "his creativity on the tenor saxophone" in public school music programmes and had been "a jazz advocate for decades."

The concert will include the finals of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, which this year is devoted to trumpeters.

Bill Clinton, right, performs with his saxophone for Arsenio Hall, left, on the Arsenio Hall Show.

dustry now is about the Yoruba culture. Musicians in the country always force themselves to sing in Yoruba whether it makes sense or not. The western culture has a lot rhythm, and now it has become the major symbol of the Nigerian music.

"Almost all the artists who are not Yoruba presently use the language in their music because of its rhythm. And most times you discover that the music does not have any lyric aside showcasing of naked video and repetition".

On who stands out in the music industry, the artists single out 2face Idibia, she said the Benue state born artist stands out among others.

"2face is naturally talented.

His music has meaning and he does not key in to what others do.

His style of music is very unique.

African queen for instance is still a music to behold anywhere any time. If others were to sing like him, we won't be having this issues of dry and meaningless music- where the musician leaves the audience to wonder about the meaning of the song".

Based on the public rating, observers believe that the music has lost track with the realities in the country. They call for a total revolution in the music industry to reflect values and respect for human dignity.

The music should imitate the likes of late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who used his music to mobilize Nigerians against corruption by the military.

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Tribute

Balarabe Musa Kallah: Unforgettable uncle

By Fahad Garba Aliyu

“Every soul shall have taste of death; in the end to us shall ye be brought back” The Holly Qur’an (29:57)

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o you have a day in your life that you would like to erase from your memory? I do – May 23rd 2011, is the day I long to forget. I lost my dearest Uncle that day, who was very special to me and all our family members.He was such a great human being - so strong, bold, jovial, a rare largerthan-life kind of character - a pillar that supported our whole family!

Such huge loss has definitely created a vacuum in my life, one that suffocates me every time I think of him. We remember him daily and pray to Almighty Allah to have mercy on his soul and to reward him with the highest of Jannahs.

I remember how I received the phone call that I wished I never did, my cousin called to tell me that he had an accident on his way to Abuja and that people were saying that he had passed away. I didn’t believe it at first, I thought it was just a bad dream that I would wake up from and all would be well and life will go back to how it was, but that wasn’t the case.

I finally came to the realization that he was’nt coming back when I heard siren of the ambulance that

brought his body back to Kano a day after, that was when everything sunk in, that was when I saw my dad crying for the first time. I saw people that weren’t his family by blood crying because they had lost someone that was part of their family through love. They had lost a rare gem, a man that they had always counted on for advice and guidance.

His real name was Auwalu Musa Kallah but he was known as Balarabe Musa Kallah. He was born on 22nd September 1976 to Musa Kallah and Rahama. He attended Gandun Albasa Special Primary School from 1981 to 1987; from there he proceeded to Government Secondary School Sharada from 1988 to 1993 where he did his secondary school. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from the Bayero University Kano in 2000 where he studied Geography. He had two Master’s degrees, both from Bayero University, one in Land Resource Development and the other in Business Administration.

He loved community work since he was young, the reason he formed, headed and participated in a number of NGOs. He was the president of National Association of Geography Students Bayero University from 1999-2000, he was the Chairman and Founder of Kumbotso Local Government Students’ Association. He served as the Financial Secretary of National

Late Balarabe Musa Kallah Youth Caucus, Kano State Chapter from 2001-2006. He was CoFounder of National Association of Kano State Students (NAKSS National Body). He served as Acting Chairman of Northern Youth Congress from 2000 to 2001. He is a member of Youth Consultative Forum Kano. He was the Acting Secretary General of Women Trafficking & Child Labor Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) Kano State Chapter,

from 2004 to 2006. He was also the Secretary General of Tudun Maliki Youth Advancement from 2006 until he passed away in 2011. He was a member of Youth Partnership for MDGs from 2004 till his death in 2011.

As a family, we knew what he represented in our lives and the lives of those who came across him but we never knew how much he impacted on the society until his death. We discovered that he used to donate blood monthly at the hospital, he would visit private schools in his community and plead with them to give at least two less privilege children in the community scholarship and he would take up the responsibility of paying for their books, uniforms and any other expenses. Sometimes he would prevail on his friends to do the same.

For me, he had a special place in my heart as he was the third person after my parents who offered my advice and to say that I benefitted from his wealth of experience is an understatement.

The last time I saw him was when I was chosen to be part of our then Governor-elect’s ICT transition committee. I had gone to show him my appointment letter and to get advice from him but had to leave early because he was busy and many people where waiting to see him, so I told him I was going to go back to see him.

That was the last time I saw this remarkable human being that am also fortunate to have had as an uncle. He left a vacuum that’s yet to be filled and cannot be filled by anyone in our family.

My mum and grandma still remember him with nostalgia so I try not to engage them in any conversation about him for more than few minutes.Losing a loved one is hard to bear, we loved him but Allah loves him the more. He is survived by his wife Hajiya Rahima and three wonderful children (Sultan, Ihsan and Mahmud). We find comfort in verses of the Holy Quran.

On no soul doth Allah place a burden greater than it can bear.

(2-286) He (Allah) created death and life that He may test you, to see which of you is the best indeeds.

(67:2) May Allah in His infinite mercy grant him rest, may his grave be a part of Jannatul Firdaus and an abode of light. May Allah make him pass successfully in all the stages of the life after death. May Allah have mercy on the souls of innocent Nigerians we have lost over the past few years to terror attacks and May Allah return our Chibok sisters that were kidnapped over a month ago safe and sound. Amin.

Fahad Garba Aliyu wrote from Kano, @fahadaliyu, fahadaliyu@gmail.com

Feature

The media and the war against malnutrition

By Femi Ogunshola

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ashirat Saliu, a two-year-old patient of Children Specialist Hospital, Ilorin, needs no introduction to visitors at the hospital’s emergency unit.

The girl, who is she is suffering from acute malnutrition, looks frail, skinny and she could barely sit on her own without the aid of her mother.

However, Bashirat’s mother is always willing to tell any inquisitive person that her daughter’s health condition worsened just about 14 months ago.

But the girl’s condition aptly reflects the plight of several other malnourished children, as malnutrition has increasingly turned out to be a serious health problem in Nigeria.

Malnutrition has been a major health challenge facing the country and efforts to tackle it require the collaboration of the government, its agencies and private sector organisations.

Dr Florence Oni, the Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Office in Kaduna State, stressed that malnutrition accounted for over 50 per cent of under-five mortality rate, adding that five of every 10 deaths of under-five children were caused by malnutrition.

She said that malnutrition was directly responsible for the death of more than 300,000 under-five

children every year in developing countries, while contributing indirectly to over half of all children’s deaths worldwide.

She said that the physical symptoms of malnutrition in children included red hair, enlargement of the head, swollen stomach and tiny legs.

She, however, conceded that a lot of people did not have access to basic information regarding nutrition issues, adding that the development was somewhat responsible for the rising cases of malnutrition-induced deaths.

Oni said that the causes of malnutrition included inadequate dietary intake, insufficient household security, inadequate maternal and child care, insufficient health services and unhealthy environment.

She, nonetheless, underscored the need for the citizens to have access to basic information on different aspects of nutrition, irrespective of their social standing.

However, Oni stressed that journalists had a vital role to play in promoting the “We are what we eat’’ campaign.

The UNICEF nutrition specialist noted that worst-affected areas in Nigeria in terms of malnutrition were located in the North-West geopolitical zone of the country; attributing this to poor feeding patterns.

Nevertheless, Oni underscored

the importance of exclusive breastfeeding in efforts to arrest malnutrition, adding that breastfeeding of infants for six months exclusively was necessary in plans to stem child mortality.

She said that exclusive breastfeeding could also facilitate the disengagement of umbilical cord stumps from babies, weeks after birth.

Besides, Oni said that exclusive breastfeeding would forge a closer bond between mother and child, adding that it would also make the child more intelligent and friendly, while reinforcing the baby’s language acquisition ability.

The UNICEF nutrition expert said that exclusive breastfeeding reduced child mortality by 13 per cent, adding, however, that child mortality was higher in rural areas due to the paucity of good health care facilities in rural neighbourhoods.

Oni urged the media to become more involved in efforts to sensitise the people to the dangers of malnutrition and how to address them.

Sharing similar sentiments, Hajia Tamani Yusuf, the Managing Director of Kaduna State Broadcasting Corporation, said that over half of all child deaths could be associated with malnutrition, which usually weakened the body’s resistance to illness.

She also said that poor diet, frequent illness, and inadequate or

President, Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Femi Adesina inattentive care of young children could lead to malnutrition.

“If a woman is malnourished during pregnancy, or if her child is malnourished during the first two years of life, the child’s physical and mental growth may be slowed. :This cannot be rectified when the child is older; it will definitely affect the child for the rest of his or her life,” she said.

“Children have the right to a caring, protective environment and to nutritious food and basic health care, so as to protect them from illness, while promoting their healthy living and development,’’ she added.

Yusuf, nonetheless, conceded that malnutrition in children could

not be entirely blamed on food intake.

She stressed that malnutrition could also be caused by lack of access to health services, lack of quality of health care for pregnant women and newborns as well as unhygienic practices.

She, however, argued that girls faced greater risks of contracting malnutrition than boys because of certain societal factors.

Yusuf said that malnutrition in children and women was one of the greatest health challenges facing the northern parts of the country, stressing that malnutrition was a major threat to the survival and growth of children.

She, however, said that increased public awareness and improved feeding practices in households would play a critical role in plans to improve child nutrition.

Yusuf said that pragmatic efforts should be made to address salient health issues such as women’s wellbeing, care of pregnant mothers and under-two children, breastfeeding, balanced nutrition, maternal and child health, as well as routine immunisation.

She stressed that media had a great role to play in the fight against malnutrition, adding that journalists, as part of their agendasetting roles, should strive to promote the evolution of a healthier, hunger-free and educated society.

Source: NAN

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PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

Digest Do tomatoes give you body odour?

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ut out tomatoes to avoid body odour. That’s the message from a chemist and physician, who had a personal reason for embarking on a ground-breaking study of a process worth around £640 million to the UK deodorant industry.

In a paper published in the journal Medical Hypotheses, Dr Charles Stewart explains how body odour is determined partly by genetics which control the degree of sweating from the armpit glands and the amount of sweat, and by the presence of bacteria such as Corynebacterium that live on the skin.

As he explained to the Mail: ‘We have long known that these bacteria turn armpit sweat into foul odours - by breaking down proteins in the sweat into smelly compounds.’

Some people are fortunate that their genes stop their armpit sweat glands working in this way, so they do not smell. ‘This is common in the Far East, especially Korea.

However, most Westerners sweat from their armpits, and may smell.’

But he believes it’s not just genetics and poor hygiene that are to blame. It’s tomatoes.

Dr Stewart has worked for more than two decades with drug companies developing treatments

Body odour is determined partly by genetics which control the degree of sweating from the armpit glands

for skin conditions ranging from eczema to cancer. His tomato discovery was prompted by the 2007 heatwave - when colleagues would open windows wide if he was there.

Embarrassed, he knew the problem was his body odour, but he couldn’t shift it despite using generous quantities of soap. Then he noticed that tomato stalks are filled with an oil that smells like sweat and wondered if they were the culprit.

The oil contains terpenes, substances that give fruit and vegetables such as oranges, lemons and hops their smell and flavour.

When Dr Stewart stopped eating tomatoes his problem disappeared.

In 2013, he added tomatoes and other terpene-rich foodstuffs to his diet.

In one experiment he ate four large tomatoes and found that the under-arm odour had reappeared, despite sticking to the same personal hygiene regimen. The odour lasted for seven days. ‘It is really surprising the odour can last so long, after one meal,’ says Dr Stewart. ‘But it means people who eat tomatoes and tomato products always have a risk of smelling when they sweat.’

While he doesn’t know how much they’d need to eat a day for this effect, as little as 50 to 100g might be enough. He is yet to investigate if cooking the tomatoes makes a difference.

The oil contains terpenes, substances that give fruit and vegetables their smell and flavour He believes the reason terpenecontaining compounds may play a role in body odour is due to the way they are broken down by enzymes, producing chemicals that act on the antioxidant compound lycopene, found in tomatoes. This in turn produces other chemicals known to contribute to how the body smells.

A report published in the journal Experimental Dermatology in 2012 concluded that certain chemicals

linked to body odour were caused by specific foods. The report analysed previous studies showing that a compound in fish oil was linked to body odour.

Dr Stewart says that one outcome of his work is that cutting out tomatoes and paying attention to good personal hygiene could eliminate need for deodorants.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

Being infertile ‘is as bad for health as smoking’

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en who are infertile because of defects in their semen are also at much greater risk of dying young, a new study has revealed.

Researchers found men with two or more abnormalities in their semen were more than twice as likely to die over an eight year period as men who had normal semen.

The study’s lead author Dr

Michael Eisenberg, assistant professor of urology at Stanford University, said smoking and diabetes - either of which doubles mortality risk - both get a lot of attention.

However he added: ‘But here we’re seeing the same doubled risk with male infertility, which is relatively understudied.’

Infertility is a widespread medical complaint in developed

countries, with about one in seven couples affected at some point.

But Dr Eisenberg said his is only the third study worldwid e to address the question of a connection between male infertility and mortality.

Dr Eisenberg and his colleagues, whose findings were published online by the journal Human Reproduction, examined records of almost 12,000 men aged 20 to 50 who had visited one of two centres to be evaluated for possible infertility between 1994 and 2011.

Dr Eisenberg said: ‘We were able to determine with better than 90 per cent accuracy who died during that follow-up time.

‘There was an inverse relationship. In the years following their evaluation, men with poor semen quality had more than double the mortality rate of those who didn’t.’

While no single semen abnormality in itself predicted mortality, men with two or more

such abnormalities had more than double the risk of death over the eight year period following their initial fertility examination compared with those with no semen abnormalities.

The greater the number of abnormalities, the higher the mortality rate, the study found.

Of the 11,935 men who were followed, 69 died during the follow-up period - a seemingly small number.

Dr Eisenberg said this reflects, first and foremost, their relative youth with an average age of 36.6 years.

However, he said it also reflects the fact that men who get evaluated for infertility tend to have a higher than average socio-economic status and have accordingly better diets, education and access to health care.

And Dr Eisenberg said men who are concerned about infertility are men who want to have children.

He added: ‘If you’re trying

Being infertile increases a man’s risk of premature death as much Men with abnormal sperm are much more likely to die young than as smoking those with normal semen, research shows

to have a child, you’re probably reasonably healthy at the moment and in mental shape to be planning for your future.’

He said, within this select group, the difference in death rates between those who had semen abnormalities and those who didn’t was statistically significant.

However, those with two or more semen abnormalities were more than twice as likely to die during the follow-up period as those without any.

Dr Eisenberg said: ‘It’s plausible that, even though we didn’t detect it, infertility may be caused by preexisting general health problems.

‘But we controlled for this factor as best we could, and while that did attenuate the measured risk somewhat, there seems to be something else going on.

‘Could it be genetic, developmental or hormonal factors? Or could it be that something about the experience of having and raising kids - even though you may sometimes feel like they’re killing you - actually lowers mortality?’

Now Dr Eisenberg and his colleagues are trying to figure out why this is happening.

He added: ‘Is their blood pressure rising? What about their blood sugar, or other measures?

‘We are starting to do prospective data collections now, through a collaboration involving several centres.’

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

2015: Lame’s posters flood Bauchi From Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi

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ampaign posters of former Police Affairs Minister, Dr. Yakubu Ibrahim Lame, for Bauchi state governorship election in 2015 have flooded the state capital.

Inscriptions on the posters suggested that they were printed by Project Bauchi State 2015, suspected to be a group supporting Lame candidature for 2015 governorship poll.

The group asked the minister to come out and contest for Bauchi guber seat in 2015, under the platform of any party.

Addressing news men yesterday in Bauchi, the Chairman of the group, Abubakar A. Jahun and the Secretary, Aliyu Ladan said Lame is the only indigene of Bauchi state who invested in the state. According to them, he built schools, hotels and other businesses to reduce unemployment in the state.

They appealed to Bauchi electorates to vote for a leader who has the interest of the state at heart.

Lame’s posters, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were sighted in Nassarawa street, Emirs Palace, Central Market and the Round about.

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Politicians aiding bombings in Nigeria, says Maku

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

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inister of Information, Labaran Maku, yesterday said unguarded utterances of politicians was helping the terrorists to increase their spate of bombings across the country.

Maku said this yesterday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

He said the politicization of the Boko Haram activities in the

country only embolden them.

The minister said that the FEC condemned the continued bombing, particularly in the Northern part of the country, and called on politicians to guide their actions and utterances.

“Varieties of opinions among the political class feed into the confidence of terror groups because the objective is to divide public opinion and conveniently penetrate the Nigerian society and destroy it.

“So, we will continue to appeal to politicians to begin to think again and understand that the

challenge is not to the advantage of anybody. Politics aside, we must save our country and protect Nigeria first before we can realise our dream within the society”, he said.

Maku also called on the 19 Northern governors to reorganise and sensitise the people in their various states on how how best to deal with terrorism.

“This means that today to deal with terror, every of the 19 Northern states must reorganise their people from the smallest unit of the smallest village to hamlet, to wards, to towns, to districts.

PDP condemns Kwankwaso for attacking Jonathan, Akpabio

By Lawrence Olaoye

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2014 Poll: Police urge Osun politicians to be peaceful

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r Ibrahim Maishanu, the Commissioner of Police in Osun, has warned governorship candidates as well as their supporters against any breach of peace.

Maishanu gave the warning at a meeting with representatives of all the political parties and security chiefs in Osogbo.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled the state governorship election for Aug. 9.

Maishanu advised the politicians against any acts capable of undermining the Electoral Acts.

He said that all the security chiefs had agreed to abide by the rules and regulations on security issues before, during and after the election.

The police chief assured politicians that the security agencies would do everything possible to maintain law and order.

Maishanu urged politicians to avoid all forms of violence such as killing, maiming, arson to ensure peaceful election. (NAN)

L-R: All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, Ekiti state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, his wife, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Head of State and APC National Leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, during APC mega rally, on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti.

Photo: NAN

Jos blasts: Group slams APC over Ekiti guber campaign

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

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political non government organisation, Democratic Advancement Option (DAO) yesterday took a swipe on the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) for trooping out en masse to observe the Ekiti governorship campaign, despite the killing of about 118 Nigerians on Tuesday by Boko Haram insurgents through a twin bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau State.

In a statement issued by the National President of the DAO, Abdullahi Garba, the group said “We were amazed to witness not only the greatest Owambe (Party) of our time, but the singing and fanfare by

those who claimed to care and saw themselves as credible alternatives to the ruling party”.

It further appreciated the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for shelving its own campaign already billed for the following day, due to the blasts, even as it described the decision as patriotic.

The group also pointed out that the earlier attacks on President Goodluck Jonathan by APC for attending the Kano PDP rally despite the kidnapping of Chibok girls, was just to score cheap political points.

“Apart from having the who-iswho in the party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) still goes ahead with their Ekiti Gubernatorial Campaign as if there was never any national

calamity or disaster subsisting.

“We are convinced that the vituperations and actions of the APC are merely to score cheap political points and not in sympathy with the national tragedy”, the statement said.

DAO noted with regret that the crux of APC’s campaign was to politicise those national tragedies and calamities that had befallen Nigeria, instead of sympathy with the souls of those that died.

It therefore condemned in strong terms, the actions of the APC, even as it called on the party to apologize to Nigerians for their ‘shameful and untoward behaviour’, saying “those who live in a glass house should not throw stones”.

Ekiti guber candidate makes case for public private partnership

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r Adeniyi Phillips, the candidate of the United Democratic Party (UDP) in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti, says he will run the state through Public Private Partnership (PPP).

Phillips told the News Agency of

“There must be a proper organisation of communities for proper information about movement of people and activities that could lead to destruction of lives and property”, he said.

He said the federal government and the security agencies have been working assiduously to tackle the challenges.

The minister said the role of the state governors was important in tackling terrorism because the terrorists were operating at the local level.

Maku also reiterated that the war against terror belonged

Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti recently that previous administrations in the state failed because they refused to partner with those who would help develop the state.

According to him, most of the industries and companies hitherto

operating in the state folded up because the administrations failed to partner with the private sector.

Phillips, who promised to influence the establishment of new industries, lamented the high unemployment rate in the state.

He vowed to generate new jobs through modern agricultural practices while extending development to all nooks and crannies of the state.

Phillips called on voters in the state, who were yet to obtain their permanent voter cards, to do so.(NAN)

he Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday condemned Kano state governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, for attacking President Goodluck Jonathan and the Akwa-Ibom state governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio.

The party, in an address by its National Secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo, also alleged that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is using the Kano state governor to cause disaffection among its members and destabilize the party.

He equally decried the Kano state governor’s attack on PDP governors, saying that it was wrong of him to have described them as ‘vultures’.

“Our attention has been drawn to the recent outburst

by Kano state governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso wherein he poured vituperations on President Goodluck Jonathan and governors elected on the platform of our great party.

“Of particular note is his direct attack on the Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, Governor Godswill Akpabio and other southern governors who accompanied the President to our unity rally in Kano state recently.

“We wish to inform Kwankwaso that the PDP and our teeming supporters are aware of the plot by the APC to use people like him to cause disaffection among our leaders and destabilize our party, a plot which has already failed”, the PDP scribe said.

Governor Kwankwaso’s spokesman, Ibrahim HaliluDantiye, did not answer calls made to his line, and also failed to respond to an SMS sent to his phone seeking reaction to the PDP’s attack on his boss.

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PEOPLES DAILY, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

Politics

APC to PDP: Stop playing politics with human lives

By Muhammed Umar-Puma, Abuja & Samuel, Lagos

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he All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, saying it was wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable to seek to make political gains out of the worsening and deadly terror attacks in the country.

In a statement issued in Gusau, Zamfara State yesterday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Nigerians are too discerning to be hoodwinked by PDP’s ceaseless finger-pointing and name calling, as exhibited by the party’s overly-exuberant and rarely-introspecting spokesman.

It said Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the APC rally in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday saw how the party, left with no choice than to proceed with the rally in view of the suddenness of the Jos twin bombings and the fact that INEC cannot be prevailed upon to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls, made it as somber as possible under the circumstances. ‘’Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDP’s spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self.

‘’Mr. Olisah Metuh is definitely eager to act like an opposition spokesman rather than the spokesman for the ruling party.

This is not a problem as his party is definitely fighting hard to trade places with the APC as the main opposition party come 2015. We can only appeal to Mr. Metuh to wait for a few more months and, in the meantime, start learning the ropes as an opposition spokesman,’’ APC said.

The party reminded the PDP that the Ekiti rally was not the same thing as the illegal rally in Kano, where President Goodluck Jonathan led other PDP leaders to engage in Azonto dance, less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the first

Nyanya bombing.

It also said the Ekiti rally cannot be equated with the failure of leadership, the cluelessness and the callousness exhibited by PDP leaders, including President Jonathan and Mrs. Kema Chikwe, in the aftermath of the abduction of school girls in Chibok; or the fact that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces is so afraid of a band of terrorists that he has failed to live up to his presidential billing by visiting Chibok. ‘’It is therefore hypocritical, insincere, thoughtless, insensitive and uncaring for the PDP - a party without soul or conscience, a party under whose watch over 12,000 Nigerians have been bombed

into smithereens by Boko Haram alone - to be seeking to paint the APC in its own warped and grossly distorted image,’’ APC said.

The party said while the PDP has said it cancelled its rally in Ekiti because of the Jos tragedy, the PDP-led Federal Government, AKA Protectors of Nigerian Posterity, has continued to run its shameless adverts on TV comparing President Jonathan with legends of their time like Martin Luther King Jnr; Nelson.Mandela; Lee Kuan Yew and Barrack Obama, even as Nigerians continue to die daily due to the President’s globallyacknowledged incompetence, ineptitude and cluelessness!

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ekiti state Governorship candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose, leading party supporters mourning victims of Jos bomb blast, yesterday in Ado-Ekiti.

Photo: NAN

PDP assures Adamawa lawmakers of equity From Umar Dankano, Yola

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he Adamawa State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)has assured the three lawmakers who defected from the All Progressives to the party of equal treatment, fairness alongside its old members.

The state chairman of the party, Chief Joel Madaki, who received the three legislators said “The party is happy to receive you into our fold as members of PDP. Irrespective of the fact that you are new entrants to

the party, you will be treated equally with the old PDP members,” Madaki assured.

He disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, were supposed to be in Yola sometimes back to receive defectors from other political parties into the PDP ,but postponed it because of the security challenges in the northeast.

He however said that adequate arrangements had been made to receive the three legislators and

their supporters as well as the former Military Administrator of Lagos state, General Mohammed Buba Marwa, the former ACN gubernatorial candidate in the state, Engineer Markus Gunduri along with their supporters.

Madaki expressed happiness that Adamawa State is one of the states in the country that all their legislators are members of the same political party, pledging not to discriminate against new entrants and their supporters.

According to Leader of the

Assembly, Ishaq Bala, the defecting legislators had come to register their loyalty and unalloyed support to PDP with the teeming members of their constituencies and would be ready to receive and comply with all directives to be issued to them for the progress of the party and the state.

Bala said with the defection of the three lawmakers, all the 25 lawmakers of the Adamawa State House of Assembly are now PDP members, and all of them have pledged to be faithful and loyal to the party.

INEC to distribute 1.6m permanent voter cards in A/Ibom

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he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday said that it would distribute 1.6 million permanent voter cards in Akwa Ibom.

The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Gabriel Ada, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo that the three-day exercise

would commence on May 23. ``If all registered voters in 2011 will turn up, we are expected to distribute permanent voter cards to 1.6 million persons in the state”, Ada said.

The commissioner said apart from security operatives, the commission had engaged 3,311 personnel to handle the

distribution across the state.

Ada disclosed that the distribution would take place in 2,980 polling units in the 329 wards of the state.

He said that people were expected to exchange their temporary voter cards for the permanent ones from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily for the three days.

Ada said the register of voters would be displayed at each polling unit and those whose names were found on the register would collect the permanent voter cards. ``The permanent voter cards will be given to those with temporary voter cards. There shall be no collection of permanent voter cards by proxy”, Ada said. (NAN)

Lawmaker calls for stiff penalties against violators of federal character

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en. Dahiru Kuta, Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, has called for stiffer penalties for violators of the federal character principles.

Kuta said this at a one-day sensitisation workshop organised by the Federal Character Commission (FCC) Committee on Agriculture in Abuja yesterday.

The workshop is organised for over 30 ministries, departments and agencies under the commission’s Committee on Agriculture.

The theme of the workshop is: `` Federal Character Commission and sustainable development: The need for synergy.’’ ``There are no enough powers to take people to court when they default on the principles of FCC. ``Those who think we are promoting mediocrity are wrong.

Many members of staff are putting their best in their various agencies but are not recognised. ``All these we want to put behind us to ensure there is equitable distribution of positions in the country,’’ Kuta said.

Prof. Shuaibu Abdulraheem, Chairman of FCC, said the commission’s principles had often been misunderstood and in some cases seen as promoting mediocrity above merit. ``This has in effect resulted in pockets of resistance often experienced by the commission in the fulfilment of its constitutional mandate,’’ he said.

Abdulraheem said the workshop would provide an opportunity for constructive deliberations by the participants to broaden public understanding on the application of the federal character principles.

Mr Jude Rex-Ogbuku, Secretary, FCC, said there were challenges in the implementation of the commission’s principles.

He said from the nominal rolls of some agencies, one could establish the state of origin of the Chief Executive because it would be full of names of people from that area.

Mrs Magaret Icheen, the FCC Commissioner for Benue, said the commission would only fulfil its constitutional mandate through network and partnership.

Icheen, who is also the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, said the workshop was apt as efforts were being geared towards achieving sustainable development in the nation.

Prof. Malachy Akoroda, the Executive Director, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Ibadan, promised to enforce the principles of FCC in the agency.

He said it was pertinent to share posts across the six geo-political zones of the country, to avoid marginalisation. (NAN)

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NGO gives 120 persons free eye treatment in Bauchi

Sokoto state Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (left), with a beneficiary, during the distribution of 150,000 livestock to 500 aged and less privileged people organised by the state Zakat and Endowment Committee, yesterday in Sokoto.

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Insecurity: Nigeria will emerge stronger-Tambuwal ...As FOMWAN urges urgent action

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peaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has declared that Nigeria would emerge a stronger nation from the current spate violent attacks being perpetrated by the Boko Haram sect.

Addressing the Federation of Muslim Women Associations (FOMWAN), who paid him a courtesy call in his office, the Speaker prayed for God’s guidance in the efforts at rescuing the over 200 schools abducted by the sect in Chibok, Borno state.

Earlier, FOMWAN Deputy

National President, Hajiya Farida Sada Yusuf, urged the House to do all they could “to stop this carnage and the killing of children and their husbands”.

Farida Sada said their hearts were heavy, and bleeding with the continuous shedding if innocent bloods of Nigerians, and the escalation of violent attacks. “It behoves on all decent people to speak out against a wrong that has been camouflaged in various cloaks,” she said.

Citing several verses from the Holy Qur’an in denouncing the activities of the terrorists as contradictory to Islam, Sada said the group joins other Nigerians in

Niger Republic commends Lamido on education of 27 Fulani nomads From Ahmed Abubakar, Dutse

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delegation, under the Maradi state Deputy Governor, Malam Sidi Mahamman has commended the Jigawa state Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido for sponsoring the education of 27 Fulani nomads.

Stating this yesterday, while on

a courtesy visit to the state governor, the Maradi deputy Governor of Niger Republic said what Sule Lamido did in sponsoring the Fulani education was unprecedented, which would remain in the memories of the people of Niger.

Malam Mahamman said the Jigawa state governor had already paid N7 million for the education of

lamenting “the portrayed inability of security agencies and elected representatives of the people to explain the phenomenon, apprehend culprits and halt this deadly trend.”

The group, therefore, demanded that government mobilize enough resources to fighting the insurgents, gainfully engage the youths through job creation, release the reports and White Papers from the various committees set up in the wake of the insurgency, and that lawmakers from the North-East identify with the people through visits and material supports amongst others. stranded Fulani nomads that had never had the opportunity to further their education in the past.

He said the Governor of Maradi had deemed it necessary to send the delegation under the deputy governor and education Commissioner to thank the Jigawa state governor for the gesture.

On his part, Governor Sule Lamido had explained that supporting Fulani in Niger is no different from supporting same in Nigeria.

Dele Belgore mourns Prof Jimoh From Olanrewaju Lawal, Ilorin

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he former gubernatorial candidate of defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Kwara State in 2011 general election, Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN) has described the death of Prof. Shehu Jimoh as great loss to the nation.

Belgore, in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr. Rafiu Ajakaiye on Wednesday, noted that the late university don has

contributed a lot to the education development of Nigeria.

“We receive with sadness the passing of Emeritus Professor Shehu Jimoh. The first doctor of philosophy (Education) graduate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1977, Professor Shehu Jimoh was a great educationist whose achievements inspired many people in Nigeria especially in Kwara, his home state.

“The death, at this time,

of this illustrious teacher and psychologist is a great loss to Nigeria as a whole and to Kwara state and the Ilorin community in particular. It is painful because it comes at a time that such important voice is needed to silence ignorance and needless indoctrination.

Belgore stated that for many years,he was a lecturer in the University of Ilorin and until his death the chairman of the Governing Council of the Kwara state Polytechnic.

Non-Governmental Organisation in Bauchi state called ‘KAURA Community Elders Initiative’ founded by the minister of the Federal Capital Territory [FCT] Senator Bala Mohammed has offered free eye surgery to about 120 blind and visually impaired people in Ningi local government area of the state.

The Chairman of the KAURA Community Elders Initiative, Alhaji Musa Galadiman Gora, made the disclosedyesterday, during the closing ceremony of the exercise.

He explained that the gesture was part of efforts by the NGO to bring succour to the visually impaired, who cannot afford eye operation thereby remaining helpless and to live with blindness.

He disclosed that the charity organisation has spent the sum of N3 million for the exercise, which

lasted for 10 consecutive days, promising that the gesture would be extended to all the 20 local government areas of the state.

Also speaking, the supervising surgeon, Dr. Hadi Bala Yahaya explained that among those the doctors operated on included a four year-old boy, Hussaini Usman and a 16 year-old girl, Ramatu Madaki, both of whom were born with blindness, adding that the patients can however see after the successful surgery.

In an interview with some of the beneficiaries, Binta Alhassan, 80 year-old and Habiba Usman 30, they expressed gratitude to the NGO for the gesture, confirming that before the operation, they had never thought that their sight would be functional again.

The surgery, which took place at Ningi General Hospital, was carried out by specialists from the Bayero University Teaching Hospital, Kano.

Zamfara commissioner resigns to join politics From Ibrahim Sidi Muh’d, Gusau

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amfara state Commissioner for Agriculture, Malami Aliyu ‘Yandoto, on Wednesday tendered a resignation letter from the state government service as Executive Council Member (ECM).

The letter, which was submitted through the office of the Secretary to the state government (SSG), Tijjani Yahaya Kaura, explained that, the decision to voluntarily resign was followed by careful consultations made by the Commissioner.

It further contained that, the resignation will put to record effect from today (Friday), adding that the reason for the

action remained very personal, as he assured the state governor, AbdulAzeez Yari Abubakar of his highest regards, both in government and politics.

The letter read in part: “The decision to resign was followed by careful consultation with my family, political associates and well-wishers to enable me to concentrate fully on my political activities”.

Sources from the state All Progressive Congress (APC) headquarters however, leaked that the resignation by the embattled Commissioner may not be unconnected with the party’s denial for him to contest the post of Senator Zamfara central against the incumbent Kabiru Garba Marafa.

NICO blames western education on Nigerian cultural decline From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna

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he National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) has lamented over the rate at which western education has eaten deep into the lives of Nigerians, which has affected the cultural heritage of the people in the country.

State Coordinator of NICO, Mrs. Funke Ndukwe, who stated this yesterday in Minna, at the event to mark the 2014 World Cultural Day celebration, jointly organized by NICO and Niger state Council for Arts and Culture, said we must speak our local dialect, especially to our children.

She said “world culture is

about appreciating culture, knowing what your culture is all about. Looking into our lives today, you will find out that western education has eaten deep, especially into the lives of our children, that they do not know anything about their cultural heritage.

“We must speak our local dialect especially to our children because children are the ones that needed the culture, it is said that anybody that losses his culture has lost his identity”, she stated.

She suggested the establishment of NICO cultural clubs in all primary and secondary schools, so that children will be able to learn and speak and write their native languages.

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Members of Oyo state retired teachers protesting over non payment of their gratuity, yesterday in Ibadan.

Imo state branch of Nigeria Union of Teachers protesting over abduction of Chibok school girls, yesterday in Owerri.

Photo: NAN

Students of Government Senior Secondary School, Agege, protesting over abduction of Chibok girls, yesterday in Lagos.

Photo: NAN

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Kwara Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed (left), interacting with pupils of Jubilee Nursery and Primary School, Ilorin, yesterday at the Ilorin International Airport.

Photo: NAN

L-R: National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Zamfara state Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, jointly cutting tape during the commissioning ceremony of newly constructed road, yesterday in Gusau. Photo: Ibrahim Sidi Muh’d

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Adebayor backs Nigeria to excel at World Cup

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mmanuel Adebayor has tipped Nigeria to be the best-performing African nation at the World Cup after claiming Cote d’Ivoire’s chances will be hampered by a lack of “togetherness”.

Nigeria has been drawn in Group F alongside Argentina, Iran and Bosnia, while Cote d’Ivoire have to face Colombia, Greece and Japan in Group C. The Togo striker is confident the Super Eagles have the ability and cohesion to succeed in Brazil, thanks largely to the experience of Coach Stephen Keshi.

Adebayor told the Daily Express: “Out of these teams, [my choice for which of the African teams will go the furthest] would be Nigeria because of their concentration. Because of Stephen Keshi - he knows a lot about football and everything. He has been there as well as a player for

Nigeria.

“And they have got Victor Moses, who is a great friend of mine, and I like the way he plays.

Jon Obi Mikel played a lot for Chelsea this year and showed how good he is. Their goalkeeper is very good.

Adebayor was less complimentary about the Ivorians and believes the egos in their talented squad will hold them back.

He added: “I never trust them. They are the country that will always let you down. I know all of them from the bench to the manager. Sabri Lamouchi [their coach] is my very good friend.

“How come for the last four or five years have they not won the African Cup of Nations?

They have got the best striker in Europe in Didier Drogba. They have got the best midfielder today, Yaya Toure.

“You’ve got one of the best

strikers in the league today, the one that plays at Swansea, Wilfried Bony. You have all of those players.

“But the thing is, are they going to be collective enough? I don’t know. I am not an Ivorian.

They will be talking, laughing and enjoying themselves but when the time comes, they will forget about their job.

“There’s no togetherness.

Everyone wants to be the hero.

Everybody wants to be the one to finish on a high so the folks remember them for what I have done, not for what we have done as a generation, nor for what we have done as team. Everyone wants to be like a hero and that is what is killing Ivory Coast.”

Algeria, Cameroon and Ghana make up the African contingent at the finals.

Emmanuel Adebayor

FCT FA charges Bwari council to emulate Gwagwalada’s football development

By Albert Akota

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he Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Football Association (FA) has charged Bwari Area council football committee members to emulate its counterpart Gwagwalada Area council football committee members for their strong effort to development football in the territory.

The chairman of the association, Alhaji Musa Talle who gave this charge yesterday in Bwari during inauguration of it

committee members, revealed that few months after inauguration of Gwagwalada committee, it had introduced two different leagues to sever as an avenue of discovering young talents players for FCT as well as Nigeria.

“We have inaugurated Gwagwalada, Kuje, AMAC now Bwari, We want Bwari to emulate Gwagwalada Area council because they are doing extremely well, they have be able to introduced two different leagues where young talented players can be discovered for

FCT. “We want them to being transparently in organizing any of their leagues, we also want Bwari Area council to sponsor some of it good players to FOSLA football academy where they can play football and school.

“We still want to charged them for speedily development of football both infrastructure and technical assistant to officials of the game, Telle noted.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Bwari Area council, Hon. Peter Yohanna who was repre-

sented by the council secretary, Mr. Luka Zamuche promised to give maximum financial support to the committee.

He noted that the council has identified it effort to encourage sports development at the grassroots level in order to engage youths from all the wards of the council.

The committee members were Dr. John Shekwoga as chairman, Emmanuel Musa, Felix Samson and Jacob will serve as secretary.

NNL: Wikki Tourists vow to sustain lead in second stanza

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he Spokesman of Wikki Tourists FC of Bauchi, Abbas Usman, yesterday said the club would sustain its lead achieved in the first stanza of the 2013/2013 Nigeria National League (NNL).

Usman told newsmen in Bauchi that the club was leading the table as at the end of the first half of the season with 31 points.

He said they were being followed by Adamawa United with 26 points.

Usman said that with the current development, the management and technical officers of Wikki were hopeful that it would return to the Nigerian top filght.

“As at the closure of the first half of the season, Wikki Tourists FC is leading the table with 31 points.

“The nearest to us is Adamawa United with 26 points and we will make sure that we sustain the lead when the competition resumes next week,” he said.

Usman further said that with the calibre of players in the club, it would continue to hold to its advantage to get more points.

He added that the initial advantage the club recorded in the opening of the season in Jigawa boosted the morale of the players who had continued to sustain it.

Usman said the players were now more determined and tactically ready to face any club in the competition and emerge victorious.

Wikki Tourists were relegated last season from the Globacom Premier League due to poor performance that was attributed by some to the negative behaviour by its supporters.

The behaviour of the supporters during the last season led to the banishment of the club to play some of its matches in an empty stadium.

Wikki Tourists FC

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Supreme Court FC unveil new technical adviser

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ess than 48 hours to the first match in the second stanza of the Nigeria National League (NNL), Supreme Court FC of Abuja have unveiled their new technical Adviser, Fatai Osho with a charge to improve on the club’s overall performance.

At the unveiling ceremony in Abuja yesterday, General Manager Mr Tolulope Oguntimehin who remained optimistic of the Abuja-based side in grabbing premier league ticket at the end of the season assured that no effort would be spared in getting the team to its desired position.

Mr Oguntimehin who was in charge when the club gained promotion from the Nigeria Nation-wide League (NNWL) to NNL last season maintained “we are still on course towards achieving our aspiration which is to finish top by the end of this season.

“Our coaches are still with the club. The appointment of Coach Fatai Osho is to bring in his depth of experience to bear having done it with some other clubs he worked with. The management

of the club will continue to do its best to ensure that logistics are in place.

Responding, Coach Osho while taking a critical look at the club’s level of performance in recent times added “my target is not different from what the club wants. My aim is to make the team to come up and be among the contenders.

“Actually, the position at which the club is now is not that bad. All we need to do is to work out modalities to make things improve. With the philosophy I’m going to bring, the team will no doubt dominate their opponent at every point in time.”

Meanwhile, Supreme Court FC will on Saturday engage Kwara United in a return leg encounter in Ilorin.

The crucial game which is slated by 4pm is one of the first games to be decided in the second phase of the country’s division two league side.

The first leg match between Supreme Court FC and Kwara United ended 2-1 in favour of the Abuja-based team.

Stories by Albert Akota

bright note defeating Makblo 3-1.

Mark edged out Unity Bank by 4½ to 4 goals to lift the Guards Trophy last year.

The annual competition which is in its fifth edition, has been tagged the ``Centenary Unity

Supreme Court FC General Manager Tolulope Oguntimehin(left) and Technical Adviser Fatai Osho (right)

Centenary Unity Polo: Mark begins campaign brightly

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he defending champions of the Guards Brigade Trophy, Trade Mark began their campaign in this year’s Abuja Guards Polo Tournament on a

Tournament’’ in commemoration of Nigeria’s centenary.

The Guards Brigade Trophy match between Makblo and Trade Mark surprisingly saw Makblo starting off the encounter in superb form as they took the

lead through their captain, Isa Makarfi in the first chukka.

The defending champions would however outpace their opponents in a pulsating fourchukka encounter scoring two goals in the second chukka

Falconets drop 6 players ahead of World Cup

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he Coaching Crew of the Falconets yesterday in Abuja decamped five players based on their inability to pass fitness test.

The coaching crew led by Peter Dedevbo also decamped one other player due to her failure to report to camp on the expected date.

A statement by the team’s Media Officer, Elizabeth Kah, said the players were decamped for not meeting up to expectations.

The team is in camp for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada later this year.

The players are Sidi Ajibola (FC Robo, Lagos), Lilian Tula (Taraba Queens), David Florence (Tewo Queens, Oyo State), Uchegbo Chidinma (Yaba Queens, Lagos), and Ayomide Ojo (Police, Lagos).

The sixth player is Fasilat Adeyemo who was decamped for her failure to report three weeks after camp resumed.

Speaking on the players, Dedevbo said ``the players have not been able to endure the rigorous training and only players who are fit will make the final list’’.

The team will leave for Ondo State on Monday, May 26 for a friendly match with the Sunshine Queens of Akure on Wednesday, May 28.

Falconets

AYC Qualifiers: Success to miss Tanzania match - Garba

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he Flying Eagles Coach Manu Garba yesterday ruled out Granada striker, Isaac Success from Saturday’s African Youth Championship (AYC) qualifier against Tanzania in Kaduna.

The Flying Eagles will take on Tanzania in the second leg of the second round qualifier at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium.

The national U-20 team won the first leg 2-0 in Dar es Salaam a fortnight ago.

A statement by the team’s Media Officer, Sam Audu, said that Success was due to join the team on Tuesday as he promised but was still being held back by his

club in Spain.

It said that the former U-17 World Cup winning striker would still come to Nigeria for his holidays.

The statement quoted Garba as saying: ``I spoke to the player and after our discussion we agreed that it was best he does not feature on Saturday for us.

“However, he could come around to cheer his fellow teammates from the stands’’.

The statement also said that the Flying Eagles trained yesterday morning at the match venue in Kaduna, adding that the entire squad was drilled on ball work, set pieces and

penalties.

“They will round up their preparation for the AYC qualifier today morning at the same venue,” it said.

The Flying Eagles opponents, Ngorongoro Heroes of Tanzania are due in Kaduna on Thursday afternoon after they stopped over in Lagos on Wednesday.

The Tanzanians, who lost the first leg 2-0 in Dar es Salaam, trained in Denmark ahead of this weekend’s encounter.

The winner between Nigeria and Tanzania will play the winner of Lesotho and Angola match to book a place at the 2015 AYC in Senegal in March.

through their highly-rated player, Hamisu Buba.

The latter put things beyond doubt when he beat the horn to score his hat-trick in the third chukka.

Aliyu Umar who doubles as the captain of Trade Mark as well as the tournament manager said that this year’s competition was actually living up to its billing as the strongest ever in the history of the competition.

“You could see that our opponents really gave us a fight today, taking the lead in the first chukka.

“We played with a very good team who are very tactical and play with high speed.

“We won but I must tell you that it was a very hard-earned victory.

Umar said that he was confident that his team would defend their trophy adding that, there was more to come from the team.

Makblo’s team captain, Isah Makarfi who is based in UK on his part said that it was a very good game, adding that the trophy was still up for grabs.

“Even though winning the first game always gives you confidence going into your next game, we will not give up.

“We will put up a better fight in our next game and I am very much optimistic that we will bounce back,” he said.

In other games played earlier, NSK trashed Abuja Guards Club Team 9 - 2½ in the Guards Challenge category, while SUL beat Ayutan 6½ to 5 at the end of a grueling encounter.

The week-long tournament which started on Tuesday, May 20 is expected to end on Sunday, May 25.

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TO PROVIDE FOR MOTHERLESS CHILDREN 2.

TO DEVELOP THE INTELLECTUAL ACUMEN OF ORPHANS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE ICON CHRISTIAN CENTRE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY 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.PST. EMMA EZEANI -SENIOR PASTOR 2.PST. BLESSING EZEANI 3.EVANG. IFEANYI NWAEZECHUKWU 4.EVANG. SYLVIA NWAEZECHUKWU 5.PST. CHIKEZIE OKORO 6.SOLOMON OSITA CHIAZOR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL JESUS CHRIST. 2.TO RAISE A GOD FEARING GENERATION. 3.TO DISCIPLE MEN TO FULFIL THE GREAT COMMISSION AND FOSTER PEACE. 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: E.C.N AHUCHAOGU 08033375126

NAME OF COMPANY: TYCO MARITIME SERVICES LIMITED PRESENTED BY: UGOCHUKWU MUOMA (LIQUIDATOR) MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY WINDING UP TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL 1, UGOCHUKWU MUOMA OF DUX DUCIS CHAMBERS OF 9 LUMSAR ZONE 4 WUSE ABUJA BEING LIQUIDATOR OF TYCO MARITIME SERVICES LIMITED, HAVE TO INFORM YOU THAT A GENERAL MEETING OF TH COMPANY WAS DULY HELD ON/SUMMONED FOR THE 25TH DAY OF JUNE 2014 PURSUANT TO SECTION 478 OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HAVING AN ACCOUNT (WHICH COPY IS ATTACHED HERETO) LAID BEFORE IT SHOWING HOW THE WINDING UP OF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN CONDUCTED AND THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN DISPOSED OFF.

MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY WINDING UP TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL 1, UGOCHUKWU MUOMA OF DUX DUCIS CHAMBERS OF 9 LUMSAR ZONE 4 WUSE ABUJA BEING LIQUIDATOR OF LUCENT MARITIME SERVICES LIMITED, HAVE TO INFORM YOU THAT A GENERAL MEETING OF TH COMPANY WAS DULY HELD ON/SUMMONED FOR THE 25TH DAY OF JUNE 2014 PURSUANT TO SECTION 478 OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HAVING AN ACCOUNT (WHICH COPY IS ATTACHED HERETO) LAID BEFORE IT SHOWING HOW THE WINDING UP OF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN CONDUCTED AND THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN DISPOSED OFF.

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MR. UGOCHUKWU MUOMA (LIQUIDATOR)

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MR. UGOCHUKWU MUOMA (LIQUIDATOR)

DATED THIS 19TH DAY OF MAY 2014

DATED THIS 19TH DAY OF MAY 2014

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SUB-SAHARA PEACE AND AWARENESS FOUNDATION

LAST GLORY OUTREACH PRAYER MINISTRY

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 MINISTRY 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.ADEDIRAN ISAAC OJO 2.ADEDIRAN BOLAJI ADEWUMI 3.KOLADE OLUWOLE OLATUNJI 4.ODEDEYI JOSEPH OLUWASEYI 5.AJAYE TAIWO EMMANUEL 6.IPAYE ADEFOLARIN OLUWAFUNMILOLA 7.ABBE DORCAS OLUFUNMILAYO 8.AGBOLADE OLUWATOYIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: BARR.TIMOTHY O.ADEJOH 08177333184

SIGNED: BARR.OLAOLU MICHAEL ADENIYI 08032422124

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.MOHAMMADU AKIBU DALHATU 2.MUHAMMADU NAZIR GALADANCHI 3.ABUBAKAR MUSA 4.ABUBAKAR ISA 5.BARRISTER MOHAMMED ALI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PROMOTE UNITY AND PEACE AMONG MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.

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YEARN FOR INTEGRATED FOR EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INITIATIVE HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C” OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

AIMS & OBJ: TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADIKWU IGOCHE 2. AISUODIONOE-SHADRACH OSEREMEN INOKHOIFE 3. AGWUNA ROMANUS NDIULO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO SERVE AS AN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION BETWEEN THE LANDLORDS OF THE AREA, TENANTS AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICIALS 2. TO SERVE AS AN INTERMEDIARY AMONG THE LANDLORDS, RESIDENTS AND THE INDIGENES IN THE AREA 3. TO PROJECT AND PROTECT THE 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, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION OF NIGERIA, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSISTREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED:SECRETARY.

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

TRUSTEES: 1.OKOEBOR MACAULAY THOMAS. 2.ADETIFA CLEMENT TAIWO. 3.AKIODE AKINSEWA AKOREDE 4.OYEBODE FOLASADE RASIDAT. 5.METIKO BODUNRIN.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1)OKORIE DONATUS. CHAIRMAN. 2)EKWE DANIEL. MEMBER 3)OKORIE CYRIL. SECRETARY. AIM TO BUILD (RAISE) CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE TOWARDS NATION BUILDING.

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COME, SEE WORSHIPPERS MINISTRY

IRORUN DE! FOR THE LESS PRIVILEDGE INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1)OKORIE DONATUS. CHAIRMAN. 2)EKWE DANIEL. MEMBER 3)OKORIE CYRIL. SECRETARY. AIM TO BUILD (RAISE) CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE TOWARDS NATION BUILDING. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUYI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA,WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: A. PST. GYAR JAMES IGBA, B. REV. DAVID SUNDAY OBIOGBA, C. BRO JAMES UGADU ONWE, D. BRO. WORTHY GYAR UKUMA, E. SIS. ANNA SANI. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUYI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA,WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED D.A. MOMOH LEADERSHIP & P.DAILY

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

TRUSTEE: (1)MRS ISIAKA OLUWATOYIN (2)MR OYEWOLE JOHN KEHINDE (3) MR OLONIYO OLUFEMI OLABISI. (4)MR ISIAKA ADENIRAN WASIU. (5) MR. ADEBANJO. FEMI. (6)MR AWOLUMATE LOOKMAN AJANI. (7) MISS. MUIBI BOLANLE FOLASADE. AIM: TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEDGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUYI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA,WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

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THE LORD’S DAY SABATH MINISTRY

NAJAATU DARAENI ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NIGERIA AND OVERSEAS

EGBE MIMO KERUBU ATI SERAFU OLUWA ODODOWA THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS 1990.

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

TRUSTEES: 1 PASTOR AUGUSTINE MEJE ADU – GENERAL OVERSEER 2 ELDER EZEKIEL AGADA – TREASURER 3 DEACONESS ESTHER MEJE ODU –MEMBER 4 DEACON GIDEON ZINSU HUNDEYIN –SECRETARY 5 PASTOR DAVID ODU –MEMBER 6 DEACON ISRAEL FEJIRO MEJE – MEMBER 7 SISTER OGOCHUKWU OKAFOR- MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1- YUSUF NOJIMDEEN ADISA –PRESIDENT 2- HAMZAT MUTIU – SECRETARY 3- USMAN SULEIMAN BABATUNDE 4- ADEOYE FATIMAT ARIKE 5- BANKOLE AFOBAJE SAULA 6- IBRAHIM AJANI DIKO 7- FATOLU AMINAT ADEDOLAPO 8- ANIMASHAUN MUHAROOFDEEN OLAKUNLE 9- ADURANIGBA FASASI AHMED 10- BELLO SIDIKAT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE ISLAM IN NIGERIA 2. TO PREACH THE TEACHING OF MOHAMMED THE PROPHET OF ALLAH ALL OVER THE WORLD 3. PROPAGATE ISLAM AS RELIGION OF PEACE 4. TO TAKE CARE AND GIVE SUPPORT TO MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. HIS EMINENCE MOSES OLUSOLA OGUNKOLADE – CHAIRMAN 2. GEN. SUPT. AP. GABRIEL SUNDAY SHOMOYE –VICE CHAIRMAN 3. SNR. SUPT. AP. TUNDE JOHNSON ENIADE –SECRETARY 4. SNR. SUPT. AP. ILETOGUN BAMIDELE JOSEPH –ASS SECRETARY 5. SNR. SUPT. ELIJAH OLULAKUN AKINLABI- TREASURER 6. MOST SNR. AP. MOTHER OGUNKOLADE OLUSOLA –MEMBER 7. SNR. SUPT . AP. DIRIWARI- MEMBER 8. AP. OLU ADEYEMI- MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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CRESCENT INITIATIVE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

THE WAY OUT CHURCH OF GOD WORLDWIDE

AKBEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SUPRETENDENT APOSTLE PROPHET (DR) FATANMI ELIJAH OYEKUNLECHAIRMAN/FOUNDER 2. APOSTLE ARUNA BOYEDE-TREASURER 3. DEACONESS PROPHETESS ELIJAH OLUBUNMI -SECRETARY 4. SENIOR APOSTLE SOSANYA BABATUNDE-MEMBER 5. SENIOR APOSTLE OYEDELE JOHNSON-MEMBER 6. EVANGELIST OMOLEYE QABBIRR SEUN-MEMBER 7. EVANGELIST FATANMI ADEYEMI .M.-MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD. 2. TO WORSHIP GOD AND PROMOTE TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 3. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION TO. ITS MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PROF. SAKA OBAFEMI BADA 2. DR. LUQMAN ABIODUN AKINBILE 3. PROF. AKINLOYE JIMOH FARINDE 4. DR. SULAIMAN ADESINA YUSUF 5. DR (MRS) AMDALAT BOLANLE OLANIYAN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF AGRICULTURE. 2. TO LINK RURAL AND URBAN GROUPS AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS TO BENEFICIAL INSTITUTIONS WITH THE AIM OF ACHIEVING BETTER LIFE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. COMRADE AKINDELE ABEL OLAWUMI-PRESIDENT 2. MR ALABI OYEBAMIJI-SECRETARY 3. OWOLANMI LUQMAN. 4. COMRADE AKINDELE AKINWALE. 5. COMRADE IBRAHEEM OLAYINKA. 6. MR OLU IBIRONKE. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE UNITY AMONG MEMBER. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.CHIEVING BETTER LIFE. SIGNED: SECRETARY LEAH FOUNDATION ( RC NO. CAC/IT/NO. 45529)

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CHANGED FROM LEAH CHARITY FOUNDATION

AUCTION! AUCTION!! AUCTION!!!

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THERE WILL BE AUCTION SALES OF UNSERVICEABLE VEHICLES AND SMALL GENERATORS. VENUE: NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE OFFICE IN MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE AND DAMATURU, YOBE STATE

AUCTION! AUCTION!! AUCTION!!!

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS BEEN AMENDED TO LEAH FOUNDATION , ALTERATION OF AIMS IN THE CONSTITUTION AND REMOVAL OF ONE OF THE TRUSTEE. THE FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1 OF 1990.

1. CHANGE OF THE NAME OF THE FOUNDATION FROM LEAH CHARITY FOUNDATION TO LEAH FOUNDATION 2. ALTERATION OF AIMS IN THE CONSTITUTION. 3. REMOVAL OF DR. JOHNSON OLABODE ADEOTI FROM BOARD OF TRUSTEE.

DATE:

27/05/2014

TIME:

10AM

DATE: 27/05/2014 TIME: 10AM

ALL OTHER INFORMATIONS REMAIN THE SAME. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THERE WILL BE AUCTION SALES OF UNSERVICEABLE ITEMS AND EQUIPMENT INCLUDING PEUGEOT AND TOYOTA HILUX. VENUE: NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE, FEDERAL OPERATIONS UNIT ‘C’, OWERRI, IMO STATE

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: AUCTIONEER: ALIYU A. KILIYA & CO AUCTIONEERING NIG LTD TEL: 08066354700

AUCTIONEER: A. A. ABUBAKAR TEL: 08068566061

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THE LIFE CHANGER LESS-PRIVILEGED HOMES

CHRISTIAN UNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE

THE GOLDEN MOVIE AMBASSADORS ASSOCIATION

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

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

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

MR. AMAKORNNAMDI 2.

ORUKUGONNA MARY THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

MR. AMAKORNNAMDI 2.

ORUKUGONNA MARY 3.

JANICE HUGHES REASONS FOR CHANGING 1. MOST OF THE TRUSTEES HAVE ESTABLISHED THEIR VARIOUS CHURCHES 2. WHILE SOME RE-LOCATED TO OTHER STATE ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: REV. MAIWAZIDANDAURA REV. JOSEPH OBEKPA ELDER PATRIC VICTOR ELDER GIDEON DOGO DR. AMIN ZAGI REV. KEFASBALEWA REV. JOSHUA BULUS BARR. PETER LEMUT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE UNITY AMONG CHRISTIANS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON DEMOCRATIC VALUES AS A TOOL FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSISTREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: LEMUT ESQ.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

GBOYEGABABATOPE - CHAIRMAN 2.

BALOGUNSAIDI - SECRETARY 3.

AFODADEKUNLEOLALEKAN 4.

BAMISHIGBINOLATUNJI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO ASSIST AND IMPROVE THE IMAGE OF THE ASSOCIATION AND ITS MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHINENYE ALI SUITE C9 & 10, SHELTER AID PLAZA, WUSE ZONE 2, ABUJA 08036799110

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WAZIRI HUMANITARIAN AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

STEP UP FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & EMPOWERMENT IN NIGERIA

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

IBIRONKE JAMES 2.

JUDE JAMES 3.

DEBOLALAWANSON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.

TO PROPAGATE THE GOODNESS OF GOD 2.

TO ENHANCE THE LIVES OF THE POOR 3.

TO PROMOTE PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AMONG PEOPLES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR.AMUTA U.K 08068163182 AMUTAUK@YAHOO.COM

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

DR. SANIABUBAKARLUGGA 2.

ALHAJIABDULKADIRISMAILADAMLE 3.

ALHAJI UMAR ISA KAITA 4.

ALHAJIBALADUWAN 5.

ALHAJIABUBAKARAHMADU 6.

ALHAJIABDULLAHI UMAR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.

TO CARRY OUT HUMANITARIAN SERVICES 2.

TO CATER FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE OF MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR.CHIOMANWOKO 08056286302

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANISATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

ONYINYEOUGH 2.

EKANEMBASSEY 3.

DAPOOLORUNYOMI 4.

UGOCHIEKWUEME AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROMOTE CITIZENS EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN LEADERSHIP 2. TO ENSURE THAT NIGERIA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS NOT HELD BACK BY CORRUPTION AND POOR LEADERSHIP 3. TO ADVOCATE FOR GENDER EQUITY AND MORAL VALUES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS-CRESCENT, OFF. AGUIYIIRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR.AMINATUIBE HAMDALLA CHAMBERS, ABUJA 08033137990

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INA OMAKWU FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

PASTOR EMEKAOKOLI 2.

EVANG. BLESSING OKOLI 3.

MR. BENSON NWAFOR 4.

SIR. CHARLES AMANKWE 5.

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IMO STATE UNIVERSITY P.M.B. 2000, OWERRI IMO STATE NIGERIA INVITATION TO PRE-QUALIFICATION OF CONTRACTORS FOR YEAR 2013 TETFUND INTERVENTION PROJECT The Imo State University is inviting Competent and interested contractors to submit their pre-qualification documents for the following projects under its TETFund Year 2013 Special Intervention projects.

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Some Interesting Facts

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9. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.

40. Like fingerprints, every individual has an unique tongue print that can be used for identification.

41. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

42. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

43. Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 11 days, at the end of which the experimenter was awake, but stumbled over words, hallucinated and frequently forgot what he was doing.

44. The most common blood type in the world is Type O.The rarest blood type, A-H or Bombay blood, due to the location of its discovery, has been found in less than hundred people since it was discovered

Leisure 45. Every human spent about half an hour after being conceived, as a single cell. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.

46. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

This is largely due to the fact that a majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.

47. Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t.

48. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

49. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet in the air.

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SPORTS LATEST

Suarez may miss World Cup over surgery

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ruguay striker Luis Suarez might play at the World Cup over surgery on an injured knee, according to the country’s football association.

The Liverpool striker “suffered intense pain” in training on Wednesday and had an operation to repair meniscus damage.

“Suarez might be ready to play in Brazil,” said the Uruguay Football Association (AUF) in a statement.

Estimates on his recovery range from 15 days to a minimum of four weeks with Uruguay’s Group D opener on 14 June.

Uruguay FA president Wilmar Valdez suggested if Suarez’s recovery went to plan he could return to training in just over a fortnight.

“We know the surgery was a success and that the injury is not serious. We have to wait and see how he recovers,” he told Uruguayan newspaper La Ovacion.

“These are injuries that, considering Suarez’s fitness and if the recovery is good, will not take long for him to return to play.”

Manchester United and England defender Phil Jones took 10 weeks to return to action after surgery on his meniscus - a wedge of cartilage that absorbs shock in the knee - in September 2012.

Suarez finished as this season’s Premier League leading scorer with 31 goals, despite missing the opening five matches through suspension.

His goals helped Liverpool rise from a seventh-place finish in 2012-13 to second in 2013-14.

He also won the Professional Footballers’ Association and Football Writers’ Association player of the year awards this season.

Former Liverpool and Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann said Uruguay’s World Cup chances would depend on Suarez’s fitness but expected him to make a full recovery.

Suarez finished as top scorer in the South American section of World Cup qualifying, scoring 11 goals as Uruguay finished fifth in the continent’s nine-team group before winning a play-off.

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QUOTABLE QUOTE Borno has seen evil times. Our people have suffered. To every other Muslim worldwide, these men (who) kill, destroy and abduct, insult Islam by calling themselves Muslims. They have contradicted every single tenet of the Islamic religion.

– Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state

Boko Haram and ‘warriors’ without borders

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n hindsight, if anywhere in Nigeria was going to breed a neo-Islamist insurgency; it was perhaps always going to be its long neglected north-eastern frontier, a region historically prone to cross-border banditry and a gateway to the strife-afflicted and drought-stricken Sahel. The Sahelo-Saharan zone is a borderless dark economy of organized crime, drug, human, weapons and diamond traffickers, and rebel groups. Boko Haram exemplifies a geopolitical phenomenon featuring transnational non-state actors with scant regard for national boundaries. Its insurgency has been enhanced by Nigeria’s porous borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon and is unlikely to be defeated without significant international collaboration.

The group’s increasing methodological sophistication since 2009 (from motorcycleborne ride-by shootings to using improvised explosive devices) and the evolution of its demands from previously locally-centred grievances against state and federal authorities to a more nebulous neo-Islamist antistate agenda, indicate contact with foreign insurgent groups. If globalization is characterized by borderless transactions and the free flow of capital, information and culture, it is also defined by the transnationalization of strife.

Domestic conflicts in sovereigntydeficient states tend to escalate into transnational security emergencies. The internet enables the transmission of insurrectionary tactics, theologies and technologies across far-flung locales. An aspirant Nigerian mass-murderer can access the preachments or bombmaking expertise of a Yemeni extremist online. The net has also aided the formulation of a grand Jihadi narrative in which Jihadists, whether in Nigeria, Indonesia or Somalia, see themselves as

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Abubakar Shekau comrades in a global revolt against secular sovereigns.

The transnationalization of conflict cuts across religions.

Consider the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the spearhead of an insurgency that was launched in Uganda in 1986 and which aims to establish a society based on the Ten Commandments. The LRA’s rebellion is originally rooted in the discontent of the Acholi of Northern Uganda but has long since become synonymous with mass murder, rape and abductions in South Sudan, Central African Republic and Congo. Indeed, Boko Haram’s serial abduction of young girls for forced marriage and sexual slavery mirrors the LRA’s fiendish tactics.

In 1994, when the Nterahamwe, the Hutu extremist paramilitary that carried out the Rwandan

genocide was dislodged by Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front, it fled deep into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between 1994 and 1997, the Nterahamwe waged a deadly insurgency against Rwanda from the DRC while another rebel group, the Allied Democratic Front also launched a campaign from there to oust Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni. To this day, Rwanda and Uganda continue to face antistate actors based in the DRC. The LRA, the Nterahamwe and al Shabab in Somalia mutated from local insurrectionists into transnational anarchists. None of these groups can be defeated without international partnership.

Should Somalia utterly fall to al Shabab, for example, it would become a hub for international terrorists in the Horn of Africa and would undoubtedly destabilize Somalia’s neighbours. Kenya, Eritrea and Ethiopia cannot contend successfully with al Shabab without taking an active interest in Somalia’s stability.

Ever since Afghanistan served as a nursery for al Qaeda in the early 1990s, international terror groups have sought ungoverned spaces and weak states where to sink their roots. However, they are not content to stay confined in such enclaves; they see them as bases from which to export terror. Thus, al Shabab is not just an enemy of Somalia; it is ultimately an enemy of the East African Community.

Likewise, the DRC’s weak central government and its perennial chaos have made it a haven for transnational anarchists and a destabilizing vortex in the Great

The group’s increasing methodological sophistication since 2009 (from motorcycle-borne ride-by shootings to using improvised explosive devices) and the evolution of its demands from previously locally-centred grievances against state and federal authorities to a more nebulous neo-Islamist anti-state agenda, indicate contact with foreign insurgent groups. If globalization is characterized by borderless transactions and the free flow of capital, information and culture, it is also defined by the transnationalization of strife.

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Lakes region. If Boko Haram is not liquidated in Nigeria, it is likely to further evolve into an al Qaeda in the Sahel and could plant a subversive foothold in Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

The transnationalization of conflict is not about a clash of civilizations between the West and the Islamic world as famously posited by Samuel Huntington.

It is a clash between the formal sovereign authority of nation-states and non-state actors in regions populated by sovereignty-deficient states. In many places, this clash also ties into the tension between colonial cartography and resurgent micro nationalism. Coloniallyimposed borders are being tested by transnational actors. The Tuareg rebellion in Mali in 2012 was only the latest iteration of a decades-long campaign to create Azawad – a Tuareg homeland that will span a number of Sahelian countries. The 2012 edition was sparked off by the return of over 2,000 Tuareg mercenaries that had previously been retained by Muammar Gaddafi. They left Libya after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime with an impressive arsenal and grand ambitions.

Parts of Africa today are not unlike 19th century North America – a resource-laden frontier with weak governments, where the lines between banditry and subversive dissidence are dangerously blurred. In these parts, post-colonial state formation has either stalled or is proceeding slowly. The Oxford scholar Paul Collier once predicted that future civil wars would pit governments against private extralegal military groupings that will variously be called rebels, terrorists, freedom fighters or gangsters. These wars, he said, will be a throwback to the time before nation-states cohered.

Perhaps that future is now upon us.

Transnational anarchists have been bolstered by the decreasing legitimacy of nation-states, especially those in which national solidarity remains aspirational, and which suffer from weak institutions, a democracy deficit, severe poverty and inequality. African states have to forge regional security strategies but these groups cannot be destroyed solely by military means.

Political leaders have to strengthen inclusive national institutions, deliver developmental dividends and starve such groups of the oxygen of deprivation which helps foster their depravity.

Chris Ngwodo’s professional profile is on linkedIn

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