25th November 2015

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From left, Professor A.B.O.O. Oyediran, Reverend (Mrs) Tola Oyediran, General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E. A. Adeboye, Ambassador (Dr) Olatokunbo Awolowo Dosumu and the wife of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo, at the private prayer session for the Awolowo family, in Ikenne, on Tuesday. MORE PHOTOS ON PAGES 9, O2 AND N2.

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Treasury looters returning stolen fund —Buhari

CBN cuts interest rate from 13% to 11%

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HID goes home today•Buhari, govs for her burial •I have no doubt HID is in heaven —Adeboye

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Had the reaper delayed just a little bit, she would have hit the centen-nial mark today. Today, after a 10-day funeral programme celebrat-

ing the life and times of Yeye Odua, Chief (dr) Hannah Idowu dideoluwa (HId) awolowo, the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of directors of aNN (Plc) and publishers of the Tribune titles, she returns to her Creator after an eventful and fulfilled life.

The reaper always delights in defying wish-

ful human timing, as humans are rarely given the privilege of choosing the tenor of the ma-jor events in their lives, such as births and deaths. Otherwise, perhaps Mama might have chosen to, at least, live to witness the presentation of her biography, In the Radi-ance of the Sage: The Life and Times of HID Awolowo, even if she would not be spared to read it eventually.

However, it is all part of the HId mystique that would guarantee her a comfortable place

in the pantheon of the great women in his-tory. and she deserves it, for in her time, it was a thick risk to pitch tent with a politician saddled with the precarious role of freedom fighting, or agitation for independence for their countries. Many of them, who were sim-ilarly circumstanced, were less fortunate with their homes which were inexorably lost to the vagaries of politics. The list is endless.

But with mutual trust and discipline, the awolowos, contrary to the dominant

paradigm of their time, were gifted with a scandal-free and ideal home in which they raised their children in love despite vicious challenges, including the incarceration of one on trumped up charges of treasonable felony and the death of their first fruit, Se-gun in a ghastly auto accident. arguably, not many of the prominent politicians of awolowo's calibre had been so lucky to weld a stable family life in similar circumstances.

Adieu, Mama HID Awolowo

16-PAGE PULLOUT ON HID AWOLOWO INSIDE

•I don't envisage fresh primaries —AGF •INEC calls for replacement, fixes supplementary election for Dec 5 •PDP rejects substitution, asks AGF, INEC chairman to resign

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Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo lying-in-state on Tuesday.

TODAY, the chair-man of African Newspapers of Ni-geria (ANN) Plc,

publishers of the Tribune titles, Chief Dr (Mrs) Han-nah Idowu Dideolu Awolo-wo, will be buried after an 11-day programme held across three states, in her honour.

Her final journey will be-gin with a funeral service at Our Saviour’s Anglican Church, Ikenne, this morn-ing, and end at her final rest-ing place- the mausoleum, right beside her husband, who joined the triumphant saints 28 years ago.

Earlier on Tuesday, horse riders in police uniforms had a dress rehearsal from the Awolowos’ residence to

the venue of the funeral ser-vice, to make her final home

journey a memorable one.The rehearsal was led by

the Ogun State Commis-sioner of Police Abdulmajid

Ali, with the Police Dress Team 1, the Land Rover,

StorieS by olayinka olukoya and tunde oguneSan

THE General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has said he has no doubt in his mind that the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is resting with the Lord.

Pastor Adeboye said this while speaking at a private prayer session held with the family at the Efunyela Hall, Awolowo compound, Iken-ne, Ogun State.

The renown cleric, popu-larly known as “Daddy GO” entered the Awolowo com-pound at exactly1.00 p.m, headed straight to the hall and commenced the pro-gramme, where the family members, relations, friends and other well wishers were already seated.

He said: “By the special grace of God and because of my interaction with Mama, I have no doubt at all that she is in heaven now.”

Pastor Adeboye, who shared his experience with the audience on how he was privileged to confirm that Mama was resting in heav-en, noted that he had a per-sonal encounter with Mama Awolowo two weeks before her death.

According to Pastor Ade-boye: “Before Mama passed on, she was making a request and I was contacted. I won’t go into details about the re-quest, but I was abroad and when I came back, I saw her and we had a little discus-sion before she passed away. As a result of that, I have no doubt that Mama is resting

I have no doubt HID is in heaven —Adeboyewith the Lord.”

He then used the occasion to charge the congregation who gathered inside the Efunyela Hall to also work to make heaven.

“You have have to consid-er your own case, because all of us can’t say when it will be our turn. Would you end up resting in the Lord or you end up on he other side? The choice is yours.”

The General Overseer then led the 20 minutes prayer session, which he classically said was being held on three points. According to him, “the question is why are

we having a special prayer at this time like this? The reasons are — number one, time of celebration is when we are most vulnerable to the enemies. If you look through the scriptures, you will find out that most of the people who ran into serious problems got into trouble because of celebration and we don’t want that to hap-pen during this celebration.

“This is a very big celebra-tion involving the whole nation. We want to pray in advance that nothing evil will happen to us during this celebration and after this

celebration.“Second reason we need to

pray is because a lot and lots of people will be coming. We don’t want anybody to say that it was when I was when returning for any occasion that I had an accident. We have started peacefully and we will end it peacefully. We want people to come in peace and return in peace.

“Thirdly, we need to pray because of the legacy of our parents who had gone. We want it said that after the transition of Papa and Mama, the Awolowo family became stronger and bigger.

KADUNA State Commis-sioner for Commerce, In-dustry and Tourism, Alhaji Shehu Balarabe, has called on trade groups and market associations within the state to study the harmonised lo-cal government tax law, so as to ensure they comply with paying appropriately as legally required.

The commissioner made this statement while declaring open the ministry’s business week, a platform for interac-tion with the private sector.

The forum, supported by DFiD’s Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Batter Busi-ness Environment (EN-

HID goes home todayPolice hold dress rehearsal with Dress Team 1

HID, a role model for any woman to emulate —UduaghanFORMER governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has described Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo as role model for every woman to emulate.

Uduaghan stated this on Tuesday while speaking with journalists when he paid a condolence visit to the Awolowos at the Efuny-ela hall, Ikenne.

Uduaghan said: “Mama was a real mother and a role model for every woman to emulate. She was a wife and leader and of course, somebody who gave her children good upbringing.

“She is a mother every woman should emulate. She was a mother to all persons, both the biologi-cal and non-biological, to somebody like me. She was my mother. She was somebody that had good

memory. She remembered the wrapper I tied five years after, to tell you the kind of memory that she has.

“She always insist any time I came visiting her that I must eat. She is that kind of a nice woman. God

has blessed Nigeria with the Awolowo family. I sincerely believe that they have made a lot of impact on Nigerians,

including my own life and I want to say thank you to the family. She was an epitome of good motherhood.”

which will carry Mama to the church. The dress rehearsal team was put through by Reverend (Mrs) Omotola Oyediran.

The team rehearsed on how best to carry the re-mains of the deceased, who will be interred in a gold-plated casket made in Italy, weighing 140 kilogrammes. Thereafter, the Dress Team 1 was also led through a route her remains would take to the church.

Meanwhile, finishing touches were being put on rehabilitation of Sagamu/Ikenne Road on Tuesday, in particular, car parks and nearby school, where im-portant dignitaries who are expected to come by heli-copter would land.

Also, there was heavy present of security person-nel at the deceased’s com-pound and on major roads leading to Ikenne and even inside the town. Hundreds of men of the Nigeria Po-lice, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), men of the Department of State Security Service (DSS), among others.

Road leading to the Awolowos’ residence had been barricaded, especially as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, his wife, Dolapo and other special dignitaries were already in Ikenne.

It was learnt that Presi-dent Muhammadu Buhari, state governors, members of the diplomatic corps and other eminent personalities from different walks of life would be in attendance.

We don’t want a situation where things will now begin to diminish. We want to pray for the legacy they are leav-ing behind that the Almighty God will keep the legacy and move the children to higher heights,” he said.

Also, a Christian min-istry, Christ the Redeem-er’s Friend International (CRFI), which is serving as a tool to achieve one of the purposes for which God called Pastor Adeboye into the ministry distributed a handbook entitled: “A good wife goes home” after the prayer session.

ABLE), was an opportunity to brief the market associa-tions on how the govern-ment is making efforts to alleviate the business envi-ronment, particularly with regards to harmonised lo-cal government taxes which were discovered to be too burdensome to the business community. The taxes were reduced from 200 different sources to just 19.

The commissioner further stated that the Mallam Nasir el-Rufai-led administration would fulfill its promise to create an enabling environ-ment for legal businesses to thrive.

Kaduna govt begins sensitisation on LG harmonised tax lawHe added that the gover-

nor would create a quarterly interactive forum for direct interface between govern-ment and private sector, ef-fective 2016.

Alhaji Balarabe further in-formed the participants that the harmonised taxation had provision for refund of excess tax paid; establish-ment of public private dia-logue committee at the state level, whereby the commit-tee takes complaints from taxpayers.

He pointed out that the harmonised rates and levies would eliminate multiple taxation that overlapped

between state and local gov-ernments taxes.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, In-dustry and Tourism, Tijjani A. Musa, while thanking the market traders for respond-ing promptly to the ministry’s call, stated that the ministry was aware of the complex-ity of local government taxes and its toil on businesses; hence, the need for all to em-brace the harmonisation of the rates and levies.

He urged the participants to take advantage of the sen-sitisation programme by en-suring that they only pay the approved taxes and rates.

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1. From left, Reverend (Mrs) Tola Oyediran, Ambassador (Dr) Tokunbo Awolowo Dosu-mu, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, his wife, Dolapo and the wife of the Osun State governor, Alhaja Sherifat Aregbesola.

2. Cross section of clerics at the wake keep.3. From left, Mrs Bola Awolowo, Mr Segun Awolowo and Professor Kayode Oyediran.4. Cross section of grandchildren and great grandchildren of Chief HID Awolowo.5. From left, former governor of Lagos State, Chief Lateef Jakande; his wife, Abimbola;

Mrs Vivienne Okde and Chief (Mrs) Abba Folawiyo.6. From left, Chief (Mrs) Oprah Benson, Dr Doyin Abiola and Chief (Mrs) Florence Ita-

Giwa.7. Mr Doyin Okupe and Mr Akin Osuntokun.8. From left, Mrs Adaora Oyediran, Babatunde Adeyemi, Funmi Adeyemi, Mrs Yejide

Badmus and Alhaji Tunde Badmus.9. Bola Adegbenro, Olori Funmilayo Adegbenro Aderemi, Mrs Yemi Alabi and former

Lagos State deputy governor, Alhaja Aderoju Ojikutu.10. Cross section of Provincial Guild of Students, Province of Lagos, Church of Nigeria

(Anglican Communion).

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ALOLADE GANIYU,YEMI FUNSO-OKE

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CHRISTIAN WAKE KEEP BY ANGLICAN COMMUNINON IN IKENNE

HID AWOLOWO (1915-2015)

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Taiwo adisa and ayodele adesanmi - abuja

ebenezer adurokiya - warri

Suspect dies in police cell in Delta

Senate probes AIPB’s failure to publish air accident’s reports

THE Senate, on Tuesday, commenced a probe into the activities of

the Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau (AIPB) in respect of reports of air crashes in the country.

The decision to probe the reports of past air crashes was sequel to the debate of a motion entitled, “The need to publish accident investigation reports” sponsored by Senator Theodore Orji (PDP Abia Central).

The senator decried the failure of AIPB to publish and carry out holistic investigation into probe of past air crashes.

The senator, in his lead debate, said that the AIPB had failed to publish details of its investigations into the crashes of Bellview, Sosoliso, ADC and Dana Air between 2005 and 2012, adding that nothing has been heard about the crashes till date.

He said: “The Senate remembers with sorrow and sadness the Bellview Airline crash of 2005, the Sosoliso Airline crash of also 2005, the ADC Airline crash of 2006 and the Dana Airline

A suspect, Ebi Ogodobiri, has died in the custody of the Nigeria Police Command, Asaba, Delta State.

The suspect was residing behind Family Super Market, Asaba.

He was detained at A’ Division Police Station, Asaba, in connection with the offence of office breaking/stealing.

Ogodobiri was said to have complained of severe headache but died before medical help could reach him at the Police Hospital in Asaba.

The corpse of the suspect, whose death occurred last Friday, has been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre mortuary in Asaba for a postmortem.

Delta State Police Public

flight number 0992 of 2012.”He added: “in all of these

unfortunate incidents, precious lives were lost, the nation mourned and investigations were also ordered to find out the immediate and remote cause.”

The senator further stated:,

“the publication of air accident investigation report will do no harm to nobody but will only enable pilots, engineers to learn from past mistakes and help members of the public to be informed on how to also be vigilant as to developments that could endanger their safety.”

Relations Officer (PPRO), Celestina Kalu, a DSP, confirmed the incident in a statement.

She said further investigation into the incident was ongoing.

Meanwhile, the police in Delta has denied shielding the identity of two cops who allegedly killed one Nsika Amos at Number 2, Omarekwe Street, Okurede-Urhobo, in Warri, on November 2.

DSP Kalu, in a statement, disclosed the identity of the two killer-cops as Cpl. Ademoye Segun and Cpl. Danazumi Mohammed.

She said both suspects were attached to Mopol 36 Birnin Kebbi and were on a special duty at Eagle Height International School, Warri, when they, in error, snuffed life out of the Awka-Ibom-born Nsika.








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LETTERS TO THE editor

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Of man, nature and harmony

E VIDENTLY, the human environ-ment is made up of many beauti-

ful things that all played out well at the beginning of time until man’s inter-vention. Man is constant-ly spoiling these works that took nature years to create, the creator in his infinite wisdom made our environment in the best possible way with colourful flowers, beauti-

ful trees, amazing insects, mountains among others. These creations are made to be appreciated and de-veloped on until man de-cided to bend nature to his will thereby upsetting the balance of Life.

A lot of advantages are derived from these natu-ral components of the en-vironment which is the reason why they should all be treasured by man. Basi-cally they make our living possible as they provide some substance we cannot survive without.

Scientifically, it is be-lieved that trees have the ability to convert Carbon dioxide into oxygen nec-essary for human respi-ration; they also provide shade from the sun, pre-vent erosion and are a very valuable raw mate-rial in making furniture, paper and other things of importance.

Flowers beautify the environment, serve as

deodorants and a raw material in making per-fumes; some other plants also serve as food and nutritional supplements as everything created by God has a purpose. Oceans, rivers, brooks and springs all serve hu-man functions as there can be no life without wa-ter.

Valuable natural miner-als are also gained from land and it has other in-dispensable functions.

But despite these fun-damental benefits, man instead of preserving na-ture engage in habits that not only kill nature but kill man as they are in-separable.

The level at which we degrade nature is aston-ishing. Deforestation, pollution, bush burning and ozone layer depletion and other habits that lead to climate change, disease outbreaks, disasters that claim lives and proper-

killing the other. Although our day to day

activities may warrant us disturbing these beauti-ful works of nature it is advisory that we restore whatever is destroyed by keeping good hygiene and

protecting our environ-ment in the best way pos-sible.

•Shittu Sodeeq Solape,Mass Communica-

tion Department,The Polytechnic, Ibadan.

TO say Chief Obafemi Awolowo is one of the greatest Nigerians who ever lived is saying the obvious. Through his fight for his people, Chief Awolowo remains a mod-el for everybody in Nige-ria, particularly people of the South West.

It was also with great joy when I listened to Chief Adeniyi Akintola’s inter-view on the Nigeria Tele-vision Authority (NTA), where he spoke glowingly about Chief Awolowo.

The legal luminary ex-plained how much he benefited from Chief Awolowo’s policies, par-ticularly the free education programme.

Chief Awolowo did his best to eradicate illiteracy in the country; a large number of people would not have been learned if not for the former Premier of the Western region.

I quite agree with Chief Akintola when he said Awo’s name will never be forgotten by the people of the South West. We shouldn’t forget that after all these years, our politi-cians still want to identify with the Sage; this goes a long way to show how highly revered he is.

I, therefore, want to use this opportunity to call on today’s politicians to give their best to the people so that they can say good things about them when they are no longer in pow-er.

•Jimoh Mumin,j i m o h m u m i n @ y a -

hoo.com

ties, all affect man one way or the other. In order to curb these habits we need to increase our level of discipline and aware-ness to the fact that man and nature has to cohabit in harmony without one

Letter to Nigerian politicians

Govs and the N18,000 minimum wage

As Mama HID transits finally todayTHE celebrations in hon-our of Mama HID Awolo-wo will come to a climax today when she is finally interred. Since Mama’s transition on September 19, tributes have been pouring in for her.

Many spoke about her support for her husband, Chief Obafemi Awolowo while he led the Yoruba people.

There is a popular say-ing in Yorubaland that: “Eni aiye ye l’orun a ye,” meaning heaven will hon-our only those the earth honours.

Going by the tributes

pouring in for Mama, we have seen that the earth has honoured her, and I am sure that she has been ushered into heavenly glory.

As Mama transits finally today, I want to urge the family to continue to lead the Yoruba race. It may not be politically, but by giving advice where nec-essary. The family should continue to unite the Yo-ruba people.

When Mama was alive, she saw everybody as her child; she welcomed peo-ple with different political and religious affliations,

and this is what I want her surviving biological children to continue to do. May God give them the wisdom to step into the shoes of their great parents.

•Yekini Akanni,Sagamu, Ogun State.

RECENTLY, governors met in Abuja, the Fed-eral Capital Territory, to discuss the issue of the N18,000 minimum wage, which had been generat-ing controversy in some states of the federation.

At the end of their de-liberations, the gover-nors concluded that they would not be able to con-tinue to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

This has, therefore, prompted the Nigeria La-bour Congress (NLC) to go against the governors.

Instead of not wanting to pay the N18,000 mini-mum wage, governors should simply look in-ward by generating more revenue.

The era of relying only on the Federal Govern-ment is over, and it is high time governors got more creative.

Civil servants will nev-er accept a reduction in their pay, and I am call-ing on President Muham-madu Buhari to call these state governors to order.

The solution to this problem is just for the governors to look inward.

•Fatoki Olaoluwa E,olasmart4eva@ya-

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Adieu Mama HID AwolowoHer husband, Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo,

SAN, who 28 years earlier, responded to the reaper’s call was indubitably the most influential politician in Africa, south of the Sahara to make a yet to be matched impact on the people of their country in terms of policy formulation and implementation with reverberating effects through many subsequent generations. As many have observed, Mama’s role as a pillar of support for her husband put her in the lead amongst women.

Mama was able to sustain the Awolowo legacy without flinching. Papa’s views on public education, social welfare, public health and sustainance of the African newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) as a publishing outfit were all properly nurtured and prevented from going to seed after his demise. Her astute management prowess stood her in good stead to keep the publishing outfit from going under in the precarious business environment which the country offered.

For instance, Mama, in her lifetime, was reputed to be ruthlessly punctual at board meetings until she breathed her last, the pressure of aging notwithstanding. She gave her all for the survival and relevance of all the legacies left behind by her doting husband whom she loved and respected till the very end. Perhaps, for us at the Nigerian Tribune, her efforts at stabilising the newspaper in the predatory business environment, which Nigeria represents, is the most rewarding and delightful experience of all.

Turning 66 recently, the Nigerian Tribune is the oldest private newspaper in Nigeria, out of which Mama sat on the board for 64 years during which she showed how to be in charge of a business without being meddlesome. It was somehow possible for mama to trust professional

editorial judgment without forcing her views on the management and this, easily, is the reason for the newspaper’s continuous success and achievements.

Although Mama departed at a good old age, it will be impossible not to miss her for her motherly mien which is legendary without being indulgent. It will also be impossible not to miss her astute business decisions that are far beyond the capacity of even trained business moguls most of them contrived from street wisdom and experience.

It is enthralling that Mama departed like her husband to whom she was married for about five decades with her integrity and senses intact. It is not for nothing that Mama was named after the heralding of her saviour’s second coming, even though that fact was lost on the many people who could not pronounce her Yoruba name, Dideoluwa ku si dede, correctly.

Certainly, we are not mourning; we are, however, celebrating a life lived in full for an accomplished purpose. Many women are mothers, and very good ones at that. But it takes a special individual to be a Matriarch. That person has to have the instincts of nurturing, the aura of knowledge and wisdom, and the patience to be the mother of more than just her immediate offspring, Segun, Tola, Wole, Ayo and Tokunbo. It takes years to fortify this role. For us at the Tribune House, it has been 64 years of being where she was needed, solving crisis after crisis, and being the mother within the family that everyone looked up to, trusted and felt safe with. The affirmation of her authority blended with her soft side as she empathised with us as we battled the turbulent media world that exists in Nigeria. True Matriarchs don’t work at being who they are. They just do it.

Adieu Mama, Hannah Idowu Dideoluwa ku si dede. Our truest Matriarch.

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My memories of Papa and Mama AwolowoBy GBenGa Daniel

INCIDENTALLY, you cannot talk about Mama Han-nah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo without talking about Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo. They are simply two of a kind. The Awos’ marriage was a col-

laboration of genius and commitment. It could well be said that Mama’s support ignited and sustained the flame of Chief Awolowo’s long-held visions as she was ready to spend her life side by side her husband in their patriotic, humanitarian and political dreams.

I found in Mama not quite a lot of difference between the two great personalities — strong-willed, highly disci-plined, sharp memory and uncanny attention to details.

My early ‘meeting’ with Chief Awolowo was through his books at the library. As a young university undergradu-ate, I read a lot of biographies and autobiographies. I read all the books written by Chief Awolowo and I came to the conclusion that this is one personality that was clearly misunderstood and I was determined to meet him per-sonally. I was in my third year at the University of Lagos then. I summoned the courage and made for his house. He ushered me in, gave me audience and we spoke. He even gave me N10 as transport fare. And since that day, I got hooked with the family.

We then set up a club then at the university, the Dyna Club. Actually, the club was a sort of cover-up. It was in-tended to gather together politically-minded young un-dergraduates in readiness for the second republic. That was how I found myself as a young unofficial member of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) when the ban on politics was lifted in 1978.

The first thing one can decipher about Papa is that he was highly disciplined. If he said this is what he would do, you could take it to the bank. He was a man of his words. When he came with the idea of free education in the Western region in 1952, not many approved of it, but

he knew what he was going to do to achieve it. Although, he met with stiff opposition in the short run, he still pur-sued it. Now, everybody is talking about free education,

even up North. When I heard the news that some gov-ernors said they would adopt the free education policy in their states, I said to myself: this is what Awolowo did in 1952 Western region now re-echoing in 2015 Nigeria!

Awo was a man of integrity, honesty, hard work, re-search and very deep thinker. A number of people was of the opinion that he came ahead of his time.

One philosophy I learnt from Papa was that one must be principled. Whatever you cannot stand for, don’t do!

Papa was not celebrated when he was alive but God gave Mama the grace to live long and see the greatness in Chief Awolowo. Mama was not only an obedient house-wife; she kept the family, business and Chief Awolowo’s political family together. Today, anybody who wants to do anything politically still needs to go to and get affili-ated with the Awo family. After Papa’s demise, Mama provided leadership for all, including Afenifere and its offshoots.

Firm but noble, full of charm, grace and beauty, her intellect combined with her unique resilience made her a unique woman. Even at nearly a century, Mama still looked cheerful, impeccably dressed and sharp as a tack.

Having lived her life so full of love, the way we can best honour Mama is to follow her steps and beliefs as much as we could. How great could it have been if our daugh-ters strive to be such woman of faith, compassion, ability and love, all of which she was.

My wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel, met her few days before she passed on, and she (my wife) came back to inform me that by the look of things, Mama was ‘going’.

Regrettably, I doubt if we can easily find a couple like that of Papa and Mama again, but we take solace in the Awolowo legacy, which has, arguably, remained un-matched in the political history of Nigeria.

•Chief Daniel is a former governor of Ogun State.

Of marriage, motherhood and fatherhoodBy aDemola orunBon

I have always known my wife to be a strong and deter-mined woman. Sometimes, I call her the “Amazon” or “Iron Lady” but each time she was in the labour ward, the iron in her always melted. I could not believe it. So the pain could be that dreadfully bad? I hope science discov-ers something soonest that would help reduce it. Our for-mation - into intricate and very delicate interwoven cells, veins, arteries, arterioles, muscles, flesh and bones, is all but a profound miracle. Any man who is worthy of the name man has no right to kill a child or even any human being. Left to some of us, infanticide should be visited with instant death penalty. For a woman to carry a child for nine months and then turn around to kill that baby is unbelievable, yet it does happens. Most medics see such women as suffering from “Post Natal Depression.” More dreadful, as is the in-thing in Lagos State, is to brand a child a witch.

In Nigeria, if there is no term or nobody to explain the term “post Natal depression”, the people concluded that the woman is also a witch. However, even though post natal depression is more prevalent in the advanced countries where there is complete lack of community spirit and sincere social interaction, that fact is that our “extended family” principles and practice has ef-fectively nipped in the bud the early manifestation of such dangerous state of mind. In Africa, post natal de-pression are easily taken care of by the abundant pres-ence of a couple’s extended family member. Their daily presence is a succour and a curative measure for the onset of its symptoms. In Europe, everything (including social relationships), is a commodity with an affixed price tag.

In African tradition, a child is God’s gift to a family and must be accepted whether it was born out of wedlock or in it. I find it strange to use very funny but derogatory sounding terminologies like “bastard” or “illegitimate child”. To me, their coinage and usage ought to be limited to the English culture where authoritative assertiveness, bequeathed on all British citizens, is the order of the day. Every child has bona fide father and mother. Though, in the way we had lived, and even in modern time too, it is

traditionally wrong for a lady to have children when her “bride wealth” has not been paid for by a man; but, that does not mean if the woman per chance becomes preg-nant and gives birth, the child should not be absorbed into a family.

Again, it is not every man that has paternal instinct just as it is not every woman that has maternal instinct. Some people just want to give birth and run away from respon-sibility. I call them simplicity-seekers. A man who flees because his wife or partner has given birth to a baby cannot claim to have paternal instinct. This is notwith-standing the man’s social economic status or maternal condition. He has got to support his wife, his partner, and most important of all, his child. Financial support is not the all in social relationships. Moral support and the fact that one is always there from cradle to adult-hood is equally of beneficial importance.

Following from this and in the African tradition, the fact that you are a “biological father” does not automati-cally confer on you the status of “a social father”. If your demeanour and character as a “biological father” has a question mark, the “other others” and “significant oth-ers” will take control immediately. In other words, by the principle of the unity of the extended family practice, a neonate is never left in the cold. The child must be taken care of by either the mother’s or father’s siblings or by any

member of that extended family unit. Part of the work of the UK “SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT” has been effectively shortened and taken care of by the in-tricate working of our extended family system. Though modernisation has impeded and somehow truncated its peaceful but gradual process of evolution, most of its practices are still intact in our countryside and villages.

Notwithstanding the aforesaid, the joy of motherhood is, therefore, the joy of fatherhood. Women, especially African women, have this erroneous believe that the inability of children to start coming in a marriage is more of their headache. This is very, very wrong. 101% of men who sincerely go into marriage, espe-cially African marriages, go into it not only for the sake of love and companionship but for the sake of procreation.

Every man will like to reproduce himself for his sake and for the continual evolution and existence of soci-ety. Women should always have it at the back of their minds that for a man to genuinely and sincerely choose you out of a whole lot, kneel before you to propose and then later vowed to live the rest of his life with you, is a surmounting obligation which goes with enormous re-sponsibility. That is why I will always advise men not to easily open their mouth and propose to a woman. Men have got to be psychologically ready and mature to utter such words.

No lady, even though she may decline a particular proposal, take such utterances lightly. Watch and look directly into a lady’s eyes when a proposal is being made and you will understand what I mean. They do not take it lightly. And when a man later goes back on his words, the woman, who had earlier accepted the proposal is deeply hurt. It becomes even worse when the man has traditionally “knocked” (isu’bu lule, in Yoruba usage) at the homestead of the girl’s family as a prelude towards the eventual consummation of the marriage. May God almighty be with us.

•Orunbon, a political analyst wrote in from 17, Ajanosi Street, Oke-Posun, Epe, Lagos State.

I doubt if we can easily find a couple like that of Papa and Mama again.














THE Bayelsa State chapter of the Peo-ples Democratic Party (PDP), on

Tuesday, said its candi-date, Seriake Dickson, will hold the grand finale of his campaign on Saturday, in Yenagoa, the state capital, in what it claimed will be the “Mother of all rallies”.

In a statement by the Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, the mega rally is

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Dickson ends campaign Saturdaya culmination of Governor Dickson’s community-to-community tours, a grass-roots campaign which had taken him to the nooks and crannies of the state in the last one month, spreading his message of restoration and consolidation of peace, security and development through his re-election.

Obuebite said the grand finale which would also witness the presentation of PDP flag to Dickson and his running mate by the national leadership of the party as a symbolic ritual of

his aspiration and support would no doubt shut down the state capital due to the expected crowd which, he

said, will make the reported uncommon crowd at his declaration ceremony of September 8 a child’s play.

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Court grants phone thief N10,000 bail

A 30-year-old man, Promise Nwambuko, has been ac-cused of stealing a cell phone valued at N25,000.

Nwambuko was accused of stealing the phone at Rita Lori Hotel, along Babs Ani-mashaun Road, Surulere.

The victim Tashie Bam-idele, went to the station to

report that his cell phone was stolen by the accused while he was charging it in the swimming pool bar of the hotel.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs M.I. Dan-Oni, granted the accused bail in the sum of N10,000, with one surety in like sum.

She adjourned the case till December 2 for mention.

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Lagos rehabilitates 282 roads in 6 months • Earmarks 189 for next phase

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THERE was pal-pable confusion around Itire area of Lagos State,

along the Apapa – Oshodi Expressway as a trailer truck laden with a con-tainer fell on a vehicle.

One person who was identified as the driver of the crushed vehicle was feared dead in the acci-dent.

The accident created in-tense gridlock along the expressway as a large portion of the road was blocked by the trailer and the container.

Lagos Metro gathered that the truck was coming from the Apapa end of the road and was heading to-wards Oshodi, when the accident happened.

Eye witnesses at the scene of the incident blamed the fallen container on the bad state of the road which ac-cording to them has con-

THE Lagos State Govern-ment has said that over 282 roads have been rehabili-tated in the last six months, just as it assured residents that the ongoing construc-tion across the metropolis will be completed in due course.

General Manager of the Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC), Mr Ayotunde Sodeinde, who gave the assurance on Tues-day while briefing newsmen on the work done so far, said that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s desire was to see that the roads across the state were motorable.

“We have done 282 roads since June 2015 till date. We have listed another 189 roads and anytime from now we would start. We would work every day and night to ensure we make life more comfortable for resi-dents in the state,” he said.

He listed some of the roads completed and fully rehabil-itated to include Metal Box Road, Acme Road inward Akilo, Ejigbo-Ikotun Road among others, while exten-sive fixing of potholes were

This hazardous waste dump lies unattended to at Oshodi Garage. PHOTO: SYLVESTER OKORUWA

tinued to contribute to a lot of accidents.

The trailer was report-edly trying to navigate a

ditch in the middle of the road when one of its tyres fell into the ditch resulting in the accident.

Ibrahim Farinloye, the spokesperson of the Na-tional Emergency Manage-ment Agency, confirmed

the incident to Lagos Metro but insisted that no dead body had been recov-ered.

1 feared dead as container falls on vehicle in Apapa

also carried out on other roads. He also listed some roads such as Alfa Nla/Cap-itol Road in Agege, Brown Street in Oshodi, Okota road in Isolo as some of the roads under construction.

“Metal Box Road and Acme Road are special projects; they are not rou-tine projects that we do. The routine projects are

about 280. If I start to mention all of them, it would take a lot of time. We are doing the second as-phalting on Ejigbo, the place is quite motorable now. We have finished that Ikotun-I-jegun. Why I said it is 85 per cent completed is because of the drainage system.”

Sodeinde said the rehabil-itation of these roads has to

a large extent reduced the traffic congestion in the last three weeks, saying that the Public Works Gangs were working day and night to give the roads a facelift.

“The governor is not sit-ting down; he wants all the roads in Lagos to be mo-torable. He wants the hard life that Lagosians are going through to be alleviated. He

cannot stand Lagosians go-ing through hardship and most of these roads. People are testifying now that the traffic is moving. You know when the roads are good, it means economic growth.”

He assured that by the end of December, the LSPWC would have rehabil-itated more roads across the state.

Motorbike robbery: Assailants of mother, baby nabbed

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TWO members of a rob-bery gang who attacked and injured a woman and her baby have been arrested by policemen from the Lagos State Police Command.

The two suspects simply identified as Wasiu Iku and Seun Esu had reportedly at-tacked a motorcycle which was conveying the mother and the injured baby to their home.

Lagos Metro gathered that the Wasiu and Seun wanted to snatch the vic-tim’s bag, which resulted in the motorcycle accident that injured the woman and her baby. The baby had a deep cut very close to one of his eyes while the mother was also injured.

The state police boss, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects, stated that they would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.

The suspects are currently being detained at the head-quarters of the Special An-ti-Robbery Squad of the state police command for further investigations.

One of the suspects, Seun, while speaking with Lagos Metro said confessed to the crime. “I must confess, I regretted what we did to the mother and child. When the police showed us the deep cut in the baby’s eye, I wept. I am nicknamed Esu mean-ing Devil but I am not a wicked person. It is because I am ugly that I am called devil,” he said.

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Lagos has highest number of prison inmates in Nigeria — Prisons controllerAttorney-General of Lagos State and Commissioner of Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, lamented the manner in which many people that ought not to be remanded in prison were sent behind bars.

The attorney-general, how-ever, pledged to support the Nigerian Prisons Service to decongest the prison.

Adeniji noted that as a fed-eral agency, the Nigeria Pris-ons Service was critical in the administration of justice.

“As a federal agency, the Prison Services is in part-nership with Lagos State. It plays an important role in the administration of justice. It is so critical when

there is so much crime and people are brought to prison for rehabilitation. I want to pledge the full coopera-tion of my administration and Ministry of Justice to support prison services,” he said.

He further said the Min-istry of Justice now has a community service desk and emphasized the impor-tance of creating a database of prisoners so as to monitor them.

The controller said Lagos prisons has 6,258 inmates, the highest in the country, out of which 90 per cent of them are from the South West.

“No other state has such number. When police arrest criminals, they take them to court and the court remands them in prison. So the bus stop of national security is the prison,” he said.

He urged the Lagos State Security Council to always involve officers of the Nige-ria Prison Service in any de-cision concerning security in the state.

The attorney-general who also paid a visit to the Of-fice of the Public Defender (OPD), also promised to see to the welfare of the staff of the agency through provi-sions of working materials and personnel.

THE Controller of Prisons, Lagos State, Vincent Ubi, on Tuesday said that Lagos

State has the highest num-ber of prison inmates in Ni-geria.

Ubi, who stated this dur-ing a courtesy visit by the


NATIONAL chair-man of the All P r o g r e s s i v e s Congress (APC),

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday, said it would soon announce the replace-ment for the late Kogi State governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, through another round of primaries.

Chief Odigie-Oyegun, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, said the Independent National Electoral Commis-sion (INEC) was in agree-ment with the views of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Minis-ter of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami.

Malami had on Tuesday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) would only need to substitute its candi-date, Prince Audu, who died on Sunday, for the inconclu-sive governorship election in Kogi State.

Malami, who spoke in Abuja, at a seminar organ-ised by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission on the reform of the National En-vironmental Standards and Regulation Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act, said the governorship election in the state had to be concluded.

Malami said the APC would have to substitute its candidate for the purpose of the supplementary election, but however, did not say the party’s deputy governorship candidate, James Abiodun Faleke, would automatically step in as the candidate.

“The issue is very straight-forward. Fundamentally, Section 33 of the Electoral Act is very clear that in case of death, the right for substi-tution by a political party is sustained by the provisions of section 33 of the Electoral Act.

“And if you have a com-munity reading of that sec-tion with Section 221 of the constitution, which clearly indicates that the right to vote is the right of a political party and the party in this case, the APC, has partici-pated in the conduct of the election.

“It is, therefore, apparent that the combination com-munity reading of the two provisions does not leave any room for conjecture. APC as a party, is entitled to substitution by the clear provisions of section 33 of the Electoral Act.

“Also, Section 221 of the constitution is clear that the votes that were cast were in favour of the APC. Arising from that deduction, it does not require any legal inter-pretation.

“The interpretation is clear: APC will substitute, which right has been sus-tained by Section 33 of the Electoral Act. So be it,” the AGF stated.

Asked if that substitution should automatically ben-efit Faleke, Malami said: “It all depends on the apprecia-tion of issues arising from the primaries conducted be-fore now.

“There was a first and a second candidate. That pri-maries that had taken place over time had not by any-way been nullified and is recognised by law.

“But then, a further con-sideration would be the idea of conducting another primaries, but that is not envisaged in view of the sus-tainability of the first prima-ries,” the Chief Law Officer stated.

However, Odigie-Oyegun announced that the party had already received a letter from the electoral body to provide a candidate ahead conclusion of the election scheduled for December 5 in the affected 91 polling units.

According to him, due process would be followed in choosing a replacement for its candidate, saying “the electorate will determine the fate of the running mate.”

Speaking further, he said:

“It’s in the public space al-ready that the Chief Law Officer of the Republic has made his views known on how things should develop from this stage on.

“He has made a pro-nouncement to the effect that all that is required is for the APC to go through the processes of providing a substitute to our late can-didate.

“The implication being that thereafter the supple-mentary elections to con-clude the process of electing a new governor of Kogi State will begin to be put in place, so, as a party, we are going to proceed with the process of organising primaries to produce a substitute candi-date for Audu.

“The INEC is also in agreement with the views of the Attorney-General, because we have already received a letter from them, formally asking us to find a replacement for the vacancy that has been created by the passing on of Prince Audu, so that is what will engage the APC at this moment,” he stated.

Earlier, INEC, in a state-ment made available to newsmen in Abuja, on Tues-day, by its secretary, Mrs August Ogakwu, said the APC had, on Tuesday, for-mally informed it about the death of its candidate in the ellection, Prince Audu.

It declared that following this development, the com-mission would “allow the APC to fill the vacancy cre-

ated by the death of its can-didate.

“Accordingly, notice is, hereby, given to all the 22 political parties participat-ing in the Kogi governorship election that supplementary election in the 91 affected polling units shall hold on December 5, dated this 24th date of November 2015,” the commission stated.

Reacting to the develop-ment, the Peoples Demo-cratic Party (PDP) has re-jected the move by the APC to replace its candidate for the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election even before the process could run its course.

The opposition party has accused the AGF, Mallam Malami and the chairman of the INEC, Professor Mah-mood Yakubu, of trying to subvert the constitution of the country through their decision to implement the illegality.

National Publicity Secre-tary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, addressed a press conference in Abuja, on Tuesday, following a meet-ing of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and demanded the resigna-tion of the two officials.

According to him, Malami has to immediately vacate his office for harrying and misleading INEC into arriv-ing at an unconstitutional decision to allow the APC to substitute its candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election.

He said: “The party is

shocked that INEC, a sup-posedly independent elec-toral umpire, could allow itself to succumb to the an-tics of the APC, by following the unlawful directive of an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process.

“We are all aware that the two legal documents guid-ing INEC in the conduct of elections; the constitution and the Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral exi-gencies, as well as empower the electoral body to fully take responsibility for any of its actions or inaction, with-out undue interference from any quarters whatsoever.

“We are, therefore, at a loss as to which sections of these two relevant laws INEC and the AGF relied on in arriving at their bizarre decision to substitute a dead candidate in an ongoing election even after the time-line for such has elapsed un-der all the rules.

“INEC as a statutory body, has the full complements of technical hands in its legal department to advise it ap-propriately and we wonder why it had to wait for direc-tives from the AGF, an ex-ternal party, if not for parti-san and subjective interest.

“Consequently, the PDP rejects, in its entirety, this brazen move by the APC and INEC to circumvent the laws and ambush the yet-to-be concluded election by introducing a practice that is completely alien to the constitution and the Elec-

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toral Act.“The clear implication of

this action of the AGF and INEC is that the APC would be fielding two different governorship candidates in the ongoing Kogi election, meaning that INEC would be transferring votes cast for late Prince Audu to another candidate, scenarios that have no place in the consti-tution of the land.

“Whereas the PDP, in honour of the sanctity of human life and respect for the dead, had since Sunday, refrained from making com-ments on the conduct of the election, we can no longer maintain such in the face of the barefaced attack on our democracy.

“This INEC, under the leadership of Professor Yakubu, has shown itself as partisan, morally bankrupt and obviously incapable of conducting a credible elec-tion within our laws.

“In view of the foregoing, therefore, the PDP demands an immediate resignation of the INEC chairman, as the nation’s democracy cannot afford to be left in the hands of an electoral umpire that cannot exert its indepen-dence and the sanctity of the electoral process.”

Worried by the develop-ments concerning the Kogi poll, the PDP has now sum-moned an emergency meet-ing of its national caucus on Wednesday, November 25, “to take a decision on this obvious threat to our de-mocracy.”

THE African Democratic Congress (ADC) national chairman, Chief Ralph Nwosu, on Tuesday, threat-ened to stop the supple-mentary election in Kogi State fixed for December 5, by the Independent Na-tional Electoral Commis-sion (INEC).

He was reacting to the announcement by the com-mission that it had chosen the date to complete last Saturday’s governorship poll, which was declared in-conclusive by INEC.

The sudden death of the candidate of the All Pro-gressives Congress (APC), Prince Abubarka Audu on Sunday hours after he cast his vote had triggered anxi-ety of a looming constitu-tional crisis.

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ADC threatens to sue INEC over Kogi supplementary poll

APC’ll win Kogi, realise Audu’s dreams —Kwara Speaker

punity of the highest order, the announcement of the INEC on the new date, as well as the pronouncement by the office of the Minis-ter of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, that APC will replace the name of Audu for the poll for the supplementary poll.

“World over, the judi-ciary recognises the place

SPEAKER, Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon-ourable (Dr) Ali Ahmad, said the sudden death of Prince Audu Abubakar would not deter the All Pro-gressives Congress (APC) from winning the supple-mentary election and bring the much desired change to

of a person who has transi-tioned.. Nigeria cannot be an exception. It is sad but death of candidate/Gover-nor Audu nullifies the Kogi election,” Chief Nwosu said.

The deceased was coast-ing home to victory, having polled a total of 240,867 votes, as against 199, 514, by incumbent Governor Idris Wada, the standard bearer

Kogi State. Ahmad, who rued the APC

governorship candidate at the last Saturday poll’s de-mise, described his passage as tragic for the ruling party, his state and Nigeria as a na-tion.

In a statement issued by his Media Aide, Shuaib Abdulkadir, in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on

of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before INEC declared the election incon-clusive.

In a text message to Ni-gerian Tribune, Chief Nwosu claimed that the INEC and AGF separate an-nouncements as impunity of the highest order, which “no true patriot will allow such abuse of process to

Tuesday, the Speaker said the only thing the party could do to make late Au-du’s dream a reality was to ensure that the party won convincingly and provided dividends of democracy to his people.

He added that as a former governor, who had served the state meritoriously, there was no denying that

stand.“While my party joins the

people of Kogi to mourn the demise of Prince Audu, I regret to announce that we shall go to court over the pronouncement of INEC and the AGF. INEC must do the right thing; the can-didate for the election could run the full course,” the ADC leader stated.

Audu was loved and re-spected by his people.

This, Ahmad stated, was justified with the manner the Kogi people, both old and young, trooped out en masse to cast their votes for him last Saturday, not-ing that until his death, his priority remained how to serve his people and noth-ing more.

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Amosun presents N200.27bn 2016 budget to Ogun assemblyGovernor Ibikunle Amosun of ogun State, on Tuesday, presented a bud-get proposal of n200.27 billion for 2016 to the ogun House of Assembly.

Christened “Budget of op-timisation,’’ Amosun said the 2016 figure represented a moderate reduction of 4.79 per cent compared to n210.35 billion budget for 2015.

The governor said that the 2016 budget reflected the government’s resolve to minimise costs and maxi-mise capacity to generate revenues.

He said n99.29 billion was earmarked for capital expenditure, which repre-sented 49.6 per cent, while n100.98 billion would be for recurrent expenditure.

The governor said the ex-pected revenue from both IGr and Federation ac-count was n150 billion, representing 74.90 per cent.

He said external loans would be n40.2 billion, while grants would be n10 billion, adding that the budget would be funded through Internally Gener-ated revenue.

He said the education sector had the lion share of n40.170 billion and was followed by rural and infra-structure development with n31.04 billion.

The governor said afford-able housing and urban re-

newal would gulp n26.56 billion, health care delivery n14.34 billion and agricul-tural production/industri-alisation n10.16 billion.

“We placed great empha-sis on capital expenditure during our first term in line with our development ob-jectives.

“our emphasis has now shifted a little and the bud-get this year is balanced be-tween capital and recurrent expenditure,” he said.


THe chairman of the Benue State Traditional Coun-cil and the Para-

mount ruler of the Tiv, the Tor Tiv, Alfred Akawe Torkula, has passed on.

The Tor Tiv, who was in-stalled as the fourth Tor Tiv on April 21, 1991, died on Monday, in a private hospital in Gboko, the tra-

ditional seat of his throne.The Tor Tiv was aged 71.Confirming the death

to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tues-day, in Makurdi, Governor Samuel ortom of Benue State said, he had already

paid his condolences to the deceased family.

ortom said members of the Tiv Traditonal Coun-cil were on their way to the Government House for proper briefing and the handover of the staff

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of office, which was previ-ously held by the former king.

He described the de-ceased as a bridge builder, adding that details of the burial plans would be an-nounced later.

The Tor Tiv was also the pro chancellor of the Mi-chael okpara University in Abia State.

The late Tor Tiv was born on July 10, 1944 and was state commissioner for Ag-riculture in the 80s.

The governor assured the legislators that his admin-istration would complete most of the ongoing road constructions across the state by 2016 and also com-plete all projects before the end of the administration.

“We will complete most of the ongoing road con-structions and other proj-ects by 2016 and I also as-sure the people that we will complete all the projects we embarked upon before

the expiration of our ten-ure,” he said.

The governor also prom-ised that he would not be part of any meeting that would stop the payment of n18, 000 minimum wage, saying that he would not stop in his efforts of making life easy for his people.

The Speaker, Mr Suraj Adekunbi, said the budget would be carefully scruti-nised to meet the expecta-tions of the people.

THe Minister of Informa-tion and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has stressed the need to change the old ways of doing things in nigeria and embrace the change mantra of the pres-ent administration.

The minister made this known on Tuesday, while presenting the template of a nationwide reorientation campaign to the leadership of different parastatals un-der the ministry.

According to him, “let me state unequivocally that ev-eryone in the Ministry of Information and Culture as well as its parastatals is key to the campaign. This is be-cause as the lead ministry, we must first buy in to the campaign and own it before we can propagate it.

“Make no mistake about it, we need to change the way we do things in nige-ria. It is important to let our people know that we can-not continue to do things the same way and expect a different result.”

He further said “the im-pending campaign must take on the indiscipline, the lack of respect for time, loss of our time-tested val-ues and generally lead to attitudinal change in such a way that there will be a paradigm shift in the way we do things. This is also in line with my vision as Min-ister of Information and Culture.”

We need to change the way we do things in Nigeria —Lai Mohammed

Ekiti House revises state budget, fixes tenure of regents

THere is palpable tension in the Cross river State House of Assembly as a plan to impeach the Speak-er, Honourable John-Gull Lebo and his Deputy, Hon-ourable Joseph Bassey failed on Tuesday.

An aggrieved member of the House, who pleaded anonymity, told the Nige-rian Tribune in Calabar that some members had planned to move a motion on the floor of the House to impeach the two principal officers because of welfare issues, but that the House did not sit.

“Since we came in, there has not been any official car for any member, and our remunerations have not been paid. In fact, since the governor presented his budget more than a month ago, the House has not sat again,” the source said.

The source however ac-knowledged that the state was going through finan-cial crisis, adding that the leadership of the House has lost the confidence of members because of his inability to carry them along.

Tension in C/River assembly over plan to impeach speaker, deputy

Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, presenting the 2016 budget, tagged: “Budget of Optimisation”, to the state House of Assembly, in Abeokuta, on Tuesday.

THe ekiti State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, passed two additional bills, one reviewed the operat-ing budget of the state and the other has fixed tenure for regents in communities where appointments of new traditional rulers are being awaited.

The bills passed by the lawmakers at Tuesday’s plenary were named: ekiti State revised Appropria-tion Bill (2015) and a Bill for a Law to provide for the Tenure of regents in ekiti State and other Connected Matters (2015).

The 2015 revised Appro-priation Bill was passed after the lawmakers unani-mously agreed to proceed action on it, based on Standing order 78 of the House rules.

Deputy Leader of Busi-ness, Mr Alagbada Adeni-ran, who moved the mo-tion for the consideration and approval of the revised budget, said it was aimed at re-allocating funds to proj-ects that are of paramount importance to government.

Members of the House, in-cluding Dr omotoso Sam-uel; Wale Ayeni, Fasanmi Temitope and the chairman of the House Committee on Finance and Appropria-tion, Jeje Samuel, said the revised budget was “to re-flect the economic reality of the present-day ekiti State as well as re-strategise to-wards achieving a better result in the area of revenue generation.”

A statement by the Special Assistant (Media) to the House Speaker, Stephen Gbadamosi, said Jeje held that the revision was “not

aimed at inserting bogus funds into the approved 2015 budget, but to re-or-der the priorities of govern-ment towards achieving the budget objectives without any change in the total sum approved.”

He said the total sum of the budget still remained n80.7 billion with recur-rent expenditure at n50.6 billion and capital expendi-ture at about n30.1 billion.

Speaker of the House, right Honourable (Pastor) Kola oluwawole, recapping their contributions, said the revised budget was to allow government shift attention to certain vital areas of the people’s needs.

He appreciated his col-leagues for their quick ac-tion on the revised budget and promised to convey their decision to the execu-tive without delay.

NCCE begins accreditation of colleges’ programmes

THe national Commission for Colleges of education (nCCe) has commenced nationwide accreditation of programmes run by all Colleges of education in the country, in line with the reforms that is ongoing in the teacher education sub-sector.

The commission has also issued June 2016 as dead-line for all the colleges of education in nigeria to release results of their stu-dents for the 2014/2015 academic session and other backlog of results.

executive Secretary of the Commission, Profes-sor Monday Joshua, spoke while addressing Commit-tee of Provosts of Colleges of education in nigeria at their fourth Annual na-tional Conference and send-forth for immediate past executive Secretary of nCCe, Professor M. Jun-aid.

saM nwaoko - ado ekiti

anthony uBong - calaBar

cleMent idoko - aBuJa

•Gives June 2016 deadline for release of students’ results

Alfred Akawe Torkula



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How we are assisting Nigeria to overcome B/Haram —US

THE United States Govern-ment, on Tuesday, in Abuja, detailed how it is assisting Nigeria to overcome the Boko Haram.

It said it was offering the assistance as the US re-mains a friend of the Nige-rian people.

Deputy Chief of Mission to Nigeria, Maria Brewer, who spoke during a visit to the Kuchingoro II Internally Displaced Persons Settle-ment in Abuja, noted that

the United States stands ready to help Nigeria to overcome what may appear to be an insurmountable ob-stacle.

“For this reason, we have created several different programs to assist the Gov-ernment of Nigeria in pro-viding relief to those most affected by the insurgency—to those forced to relocate, to those who have lost fam-ily and friends, to those who have lost nearly everything they once had,” she said.


PRESIDENT Mu-hammadu Buhari has confirmed that some persons who

served under the Goodluck Jonathan administration have started to refund part of their loot in office.

This followed months of speculation that former of-ficials of government had volunteered to return such stolen public money as a way to get soft landing in the hands of the present administration.

Addressing Nigerians res-idents in Tehran, the capi-tal of Islamic State of Iran where he attended a sum-mit of Gas Exporting Coun-tries Forum (GECF), he also explained why those accused of corruption have not been charged to court, saying that it was due to the need to gather enough evi-dence against them.

He, however, assured proper investigation to get enough evidence to begin their prosecution soon.

Buhari pointed out that it was easier for him to deal with corrupt people as military head of state in 1985 when it was possible to arrest culprits and put them in protective custody compared to now where he must adhere to the re-quirements of democratic system.

In response to a question, he said: “On corruption, yes, they (suspects) are still innocent. But, we are collecting documents and some of them have start-ed voluntarily returning something. But we want all.

“When we get those docu-ments, we will formally charge them to court and then we will tell Nigerians those who abused trust when entrusted with public funds.

“So, the day of reckoning is gradually approaching.”

The president also vowed to deal with power infra-structure vandals to en-able the nation realise it’s full power potential, not-ing that even though his administration was yet to do anything in the sector, there had been a notice-able improvement in recent times.

He attributed such im-provement to the decision of people to do the right thing.

He said: “I believe if you are in touch back at home you would have been told that already there is some

improvement in power.“We haven’t said anything

to them yet. I think they only find it sensible or ap-propriate to try and im-prove the power.

“I’m sure you know about the privatisation of the power sector. Your old friend NEPA or Power Holding Company of Nige-

ria was sold to a number of interest groups. But, the fundamental thing about us is that we remain po-tential in everything except performance.

“We have a lot of gas, we have a lot of qualified peo-ple but again we have a lot of saboteurs who go and blow installations.

Buhari confirms recovery of loot from Jonathan’s officials

“Those who normally steal Nigerian crude and those who blow up installations, whether they called them-selves militants or whatev-er, they are still there.”

On the ongoing war against insurgency in the North-East, the president assured the Nigerian com-munity that his adminis-

tration was resolute in its determination to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents.

Buhari, who was hope-ful that peace would soon return to the area, also as-sured that his administra-tion would revamp the na-tion’s educational system from the primary to the ter-tiary levels.

According to her, the U.S. government has provided millions of dollars in health services, food vouchers, ba-sic necessities, and medical care to displaced persons in the North-East.

She said the US has equal-ly helped repair schools and offered support to get chil-dren back into school.

She said, “Away from those places most severely hit, the U.S. government is helping your government find solutions to aid those

fleeing the North-East and manage a coordinated re-sponse.

“We provide training and expertise to all levels; this includes supporting a large development effort to help Nigeria become the strong and competitive country and economy it so deserves to be.

“I just had the opportunity to have a look around your settlement. Many people would be surprised to learn that a settlement for IDPs exists right here in Nigeria’s capital.

“The U.S. Mission to Nige-ria, including Ambassador Entwistle himself, has visit-ed camps in the North-East, where Boko Haram has been carrying out its reign of terror. And whether it’s in Abuja or Adamawa, there is no question that the in-surgency has dramatically affected the lives of millions of Nigerians.

“Almost two million people live in settlements all across the country as a result of Boko Haram’s violence. Some are brand new and some, like this one, were es-tablished two years ago.”

US issues global travel warning amid terrorist threatsTHE US State Department, on Tuesday, in Washing-ton, issued a global travel warning amid possible in-creased terrorist threats.

The travel alert, which is in effect until February 24, said current information suggested that militants with ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other militant groups continued to plan attacks in several regions around the world.

The release did not pro-vide specifics of any planned attacks or threats, and men-tioned no specific regions, except to note attacks this year in France, Nigeria, Denmark, Turkey and Mali.

The department noted that the current informa-tion suggested that the Islamic State movement, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups are planning more terrorist at-

tacks in multiple regions.“U.S. citizens should

exercise vigilance when in public places or using transportation.

“Be aware of immediate surroundings and avoid large crowds or crowded places,” it said.

The State Department said the U.S. was exchang-ing information with allies about threats of interna-tional terrorism.

President Muhammadu Buhari being welcomed by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola; Minister of Defence, Brigadier-General M.M. Ali; FCT Minister, Muhammadu Bello and the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday.

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ChristiAn okeke - AbUjA

Oshiomhole commissions projects in state-owned varsity

GOVERNOR Adams Os-hiomhole of Edo State on Tuesday commissioned a 500-capacity lecture the-atre, a moot court building and six other projects fund-ed by the government at the state-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

Other projects commis-sioned by the governor were workshop building for Building Department and Studio for Fine and Applied Arts; Lecture Theatre at the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences; two-in-one Labo-ratory Block for the Depart-ment of Medical Labora-tory Science; Furnishing of the two-in-one Laboratory Block for the Department of Medical Laboratory Sci-ence; Library Building in the Faculty of Basic Medi-cal Science and Department Building for the Depart-ment of Agriculture Eco-nomics.

Speaking on the occasion, Oshiomhole said “I am hap-py to be here to commission a number of projects that this university has been able to put in place from the N500 million that we approved for the university to embark on a number of projects.”

Observers rate INEC high over Kogi poll

ACCREDITED domestic election monitoring groups for the governorship elec-tion in Kogi State have lauded the Independent National Electoral Com-mission (INEC) over the conduct of the election.

The groups, accredited by INEC, gave kudos to the electoral body for the early distribution of the election materials to all the 21 local government areas of the state.

The groups, Initiative for the Promotion of Civic Obligations and Sustain-able Peace, and Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, said Kogi election was a great improvement on the previ-ous election.

Speaking in a separate press conference in Loko-ja, Daniel Asukwo and Dr Nwamba Gabriel, said de-spite some apprehensions before the election, the November 21, governor-ship election was generally peaceful.

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Vows to deal with power saboteurs

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Hope rises for manufacturers, as CBN reduces interest rate to 11%

pected.MPC had a year ago, on

November 25, 2014 in-creased the MPR by 100 basis points from 12 per cent to 13 per cent.

It also reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio in October from 31 to 25 per cent fol-lowing the implementation of a Treasury Single Ac-count (TSA) that mandat-ed all commercial banks to return all government funds in their custody to

the CBN.Razia Khan explained

that this cut in the MPR just ahead of any liberali-sation of Nigeria’s foreign exchange (FX) regime, with the attendant risk of further naira weakness is unusual and shows that there are no plans for de-valuation or any change to the fixed FX regime cur-rently in place.

She further said the move to an asymmetric corri-

dor around the monetary policy rate formalises the deliberate easing that had already been in place since the CBN reduced its open market operations (OMOs) in July.

In fact, according to Khan, the interbank rates have trended outside lend-ing and deposit facilities range in recent weeks, “re-flecting excess liquidity in the Nigerian market.”

“Unless new OMOs are

resumed, this is likely to continue to be the case. The easing measures are aimed at boosting Nige-ria’s real economy. How successful they are will depend on how much oth-er bottlenecks, currently constraining real-sector activity, can be overcome. The availability of FX for imported inputs will be closely monitored,” stated economist.

Also, Ayodeji Ebo-led

ANALYSTS have concluded that there seems to be light at the

end of the tunnel for the manufacturing sector as the Monetary Policy Com-mittee (MPC), of the Cen-tral Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday, reduced the Monetary Policy Ratio (MPR) popularly called lending rate, from 13 per cent to 11 per cent.

The committee also re-duced by 500 basis points (bps) the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) to 20 per cent from 25 per cent.

More significantly, the corridor around the MPR was also reset to an asymmetric corridor of +200bps/-700bps around the policy rate.

Analysing the impact of the decisions, Razia Khan, Global Head of Research at Standard Chartered Bank London, in an e-mail state-ment, said the easing mea-sures are aimed at boost-ing Nigeria’s real economy, adding that the decision to cut the benchmark interest rate by 200 bps was a sur-prise and completely unex-

Stanbic IBTC Bank launches machine for deposit taking, other transactions

IN furtherance of its drive to serve customers better through excellent and in-novative products and ser-vices, Stanbic IBTC Bank, in partnership with NCR Company, has introduced the personal teller ma-chine (PTM), an innova-tive product that will allow customers to perform full banking activities 24 hours of the day.

The bank said PTM would enable customers to per-

form banking operations such as account opening, cash deposit and with-drawal, cheque deposit and other general account enquiries like account balance, loan enquiries and card related services, among other functions, without having to use their debit cards.

As a way of further en-riching customers’ banking experience, the PTM was unveiled at a ceremony at the Idejo, Lagos, office of

the bank on Monday. The PTM, according to NCR, is a device that offers cus-tomers the benefits of both self-service video banking and the branch teller ex-perience combined in one solution.

It said the PTM combines video banking collabora-tion and remote transac-tion processing banking technology embedded within the machine to give customers the choice of self-service or connecting

with a remote teller in a highly personalised, two-way audio/video interac-tion.

The machine’s interactive nature helps to close the ‘intimacy gap’ that is cur-rently missing on the con-ventional automated teller machine (ATM).

Speaking at the unveil-ing ceremony, Executive Director, Personal and Business Banking, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Mr Obinnia Abajue, said the partner-ship with NCR reinforced the bank’s commitment to take the industry lead in providing financial solu-tions that will help drive fulfilling banking experi-ence while addressing the needs of existing and po-tential customers.

He added that the PTM would ensure faster turn-around time, convenience, privacy, efficiency and safety of banking transac-tions.

“The personal teller ma-chine speaks to our mar-ket leadership, which is underscored by our ability to provide innovative fi-nancial solutions that help to enrich our customers’ banking experience.

From Gbola Subair and Chima nwooji

GUINNESS has recorded nine per cent increase in its net sales despite harsh economic challenges and therefore proposes a divi-dend of N3.20 per share.

Guinness Nigeria Plc, a subsidiary of Diageo Plc, also reiterated that meet-ing the needs and expecta-tions of its customers and stakeholders would remain a major focus in the com-ing years.

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr Pe-

Guinness proposes N3.20 dividend, records 9% sales increase

ter Ndegwa, speaking at the company’s pre-annual general meeting press briefing in Lagos, stated that the future holds great promise for all stakehold-ers as the company contin-ues to grow the business with quality, innovation and technology.

“Our long-term sustain-ability is dependent on the consistent provision of quality products that do not only meet customers’ expectations but also cre-ate impressive returns to all stakeholders, be they

shareholders, employees, trade partners, and sup-pliers. We are resolutely committed to these goals,” Ndegwa stated.

Describing the operat-ing environment as chal-lenging due to declining oil prices, tighter monetary policy measures, inflation, and pre-election slowdown in economic activities, Ndegwa said the company nonetheless posted an im-pressive performance in its full year results for the period ended 30th June 2015.

Chima nwokoji-laGoS

olatunde dodondawa-laGoS

TCN attains new power generation of 4,883.9MWTHE Transmission Compa-ny of Nigeria (TCN) said it achieved a new record peak generation of 4,883.9MW and the highest maximum daily energy delivery of 106,288.48MWH.

A statement signed on Tuesday by the Assistant General Manager (Pub-lic Affairs), Mr Clement Ezeolisah, said that the new peak generation was achieved on Monday.

The statement added that the previous peak genera-tion was 4,810.7MW which was attained on Aug. 25th.

It stated that the previ-ous highest maximum daily energy wheeled was 104,794.26MWH and was attained on Sept. 23.

The statement said that the the Managing Director, System Operation/Market Operation of the Company, Mr Dipak Sarma, attrib-uted the achievement to improvement in the supply of gas to the power gener-ating stations and coopera-tion among all the stake-holders.

The statement gave the assurance that TCN would continue to improve the network capacity to de-liver more quality power to the electricity distribution companies.

5% cut in CRR to add N771.4bn to liquidity level —Afrinvest

AN investment banking and research company, Af-rinvest West Aftica Limit-ed, has estimated that a to-tal of N771.4 billion will be added to the liquidity level in the financial systemas a result of the decision tak-en by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to, among other measures, further cut by 5.0 per cent the Cash Re-serve Requirement (CRR).

In a flash note to inves-tors made available to the Nigerian Tribune, the in-vestment research compa-ny stated that “Prior to the MPC decision, there has been a regulatory maxi-mum on the remunerable Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) placement by each bank at N7.5billion. The MPC’s decision to com-plement this by a further 5.0 per cent cut in CRR will add approximately N771.4billion to liquid-ity level based on October data from the CBN.”

investment analysts at Af-rinvet West Africa Limited said the decision to cut MPR is aimed at further lowering market and lend-ing rates and encouraging banks to lend to manufac-turers.

According to the ana-lysts, despite calls for devaluation, “we do not expect a lessening of ex-change rate restriction (which is majorly admin-istrative).”

The apex bank’s decision to halt liquidity mop ups through the use of Open “Market Operation (OMO) auctions, a sort of mon-etary easing which is ex-pected to encourage banks to lend to the real sector also further bolstered li-quidity levels, which has averaged at over N600 billion in the last two months.

Financial analysts de-scribed Cash Reserve Ra-tio as the ratio of deposits banks must maintain with the Central Bank. This implies that if a person deposits N1,000 in his ac-count, the bank can use it to lend to others, but it has to deposit a percentage of that amount with the CBN. In this case, the 20 per cent CRR means the banks will keep N250 and lend out N750 to a bor-rower who will eventually repay the bank.

Chima nwokoji-laGoS

From left, Kayode Lawal, Executive Director; Bukola Awosanya, Group Head, Agric Finance; Yemi Adeola, MD/CEO and Abdulhadi Yau, Business Executive, North West, all of Sterling Bank Plc at the commissioning of the Labana Rice Processing Mill financed by the Bank in Birnin Kebbi.

N465.64bn 2015 supplementary budget scales second reading

Yinka OladOYinbO-lOOkja

44 Wednesday, 25 November, 2015newsArmy intercepts rustlers, recovers 1,000 cattle in Niger

Reps investigate NNPC, NAPIMS, DPR over oil, gas assets

THE 2015 Supplemen-tary Appropriation bill of N465.64 billion was on Tuesday passed through the Second Reading in the Senate.

The Senators, who debat-ed the general principles of the money bill, said that the proposal would address some critical sectors.

Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, who led the debate on the budget bill, said that the proposals con-tained in the appropriation

bill were laudable and ca-pable of helping the nation to address critical needs.

While the sum of N460, 636,926,857 is for recur-rent expenditure, the bal-ance of N5 billion is for contribution to the devel-opment fund for additional Capital Expenditure for the year ending on Decem-ber 31, 2015

The Bill, has, however been referred to the Com-mittee on Appropriation for scrutiny and further legislative work, while its report is expected next week.

Ndume said: “Mr Presi-

dent, my highly respected colleagues, you will recall that the President through a communication to the President of the Senate forwarded the 2015 Sup-plementary Appropria-tion Bill the senate which was read at the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, November 18 2015 by the President of the Senate.”

He also disclosed that the 2015 budget was predi-cated on an oil production of N2.2782 million barrels per day and a bench mark oil price of $53 per barrel on exchange rate of N190 to a dollar.

THE House of Repre-sentatives, on Tuesday, mandated its committee on Petroleum Resources (upstream) to look into ac-tivities of the Nigerian oil regulatory authorities and also the need to complete all ongoing and outstand-ing unitisation process of straddled oil and gas fields in the country.

The resolution was se-quel to a motion moved by Honourable Sergius Ogun where he maintained that, “due to the enormity of the resources to be relin-quished by a party to the other, the utilisation pro-cedure is always volatile and rancorous between those involved, making its outcome to be in most cases inclusive or contro-versial, especially when the relinquishing party is one of the international oil ma-jors and the other an indig-enous oil company.

“The regulatory authori-ties, such as the Depart-ment of Petroleum Re-sources (DPR), National Petroleum Investments

Management Services (NAPIMS), National Petro-leum Development Com-pany (NPDC) and Nigerian National Petroleum Coop-eration (NNPC), empow-ered by the law to regulate the unitisation procedure are most often helpless and do not have any defi-nite time frame allocated to conclude the process, “the lawmaker said.

He also worried that the

indigenous oil exploration and exploitation companies involved in the process of utilisation due to delay and protracted litigation are short changed adding that they lose majority of the revenues that are supposed to accrue to them.

In a related develop-ment, the House has man-dated its committees on Petroleum Resources (up-stream) and Local Content

to “investigate the viola-tions of grants of right of first refusal in the award of oil and gas contracts.”

The House resolution was sequel to a motion sponsored by Honourable Lovette Idisi, maintain-ing that there has been a breach in a part of the con-stitution that provides for the exclusive consideration of Nigerian independent operators.

MEN of the Operation Sharan Daji of the 31 FAB Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, at Zungeru, Wushishi Local Government Area of Ni-ger State, on Monday, re-covered 1,000 cattle from cattle rustlers.

The soldiers were said to have intercepted a group of rustlers around Zunge-ru, where they arrested the hoodlums and recovered the stolen cattles.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the rustlers were entering the state from Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states and Birinin Gwari in Kaduna State, where they rustled the cattle, but ran into the men of the Opera-tion Sharan Daji on the day they were intercepted.

The leader of the opera-tion, Captain Mohammed Lawal told newsmen that the rustlers, numbering nine, confessed to have rustled the livestock from the owners.

Danwaki, however stated that, “It is difficult to call for reinforcement because some of the crime prone areas were without mobile networks.”

TaiwO adisa and kOlawOle daniel-abuja

Kwara Assembly seeks more information on pro-posed N20bn bond

THE Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the State Government to fur-nish the legislature with detailed information on the bonds so far accessed by the present administra-tion led by Governor Abdul Fatah Ahmed in the state.

This is part of resolutions reached by the House, fol-lowing Governor Ahmed’s request for the House res-olutions on the proposed seven-year N20billion bond to address critical developmental projects in the state, read by the Speaker, Dr Ali Ahmad on the floor of the House.

Reading the resolutions of the House, the Speak-er commended the State Government for its vision in conceptualising the stimulus acceleration plan and proposing various projects that will improve on the lives of the people.

He said the detailed in-formation would assist the House to access the impact of the previous bonds ac-cessed by the State Gov-ernment on the lives of the people of the State.

The House equally urged the executive arm of govern-ment to furnish the legisla-ture with detailed informa-tion on the cost and locations of the projects to be executed under the proposed bond.

Wada reinstates council bosses

KOGI State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, on Tuesday reinstated the sacked chairmen of the 21 local government areas of the state in accordance to the ruling of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division.

The governor, however, directed that the chairmen, vice chairmen and council-ors that had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that spon-sored them for the election should not return to office.

Following this directive, no fewer than nine out of the 21 council chairmen will not return to office as they have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), during the grand finale of the governorship campaign of the party, which was held, last week Wednesday.

The affected council chairmen include those of Yagba East, Yagba West, Ijumu, Lokoja, Adavi, Oke-hi, Ogori/Magongo, Bassa and Idah.

A statement by the Per-manent Secretary, Minis-try of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, James Adedoyin, said the reinstatement directive was sequel to the ruling of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division.

TaiwO adisa and aYOdele adesanmi-abuja

SENATORS on Tues-day disagreed on the need for the re-moval of petroleum

subsidy, which is the cause of the lingering fuel scar-city in the country.

The disagreement was sequel to the passage of a motion on the linger-ing fuel scarcity moved by Senator Barau Jibrin (APC, Kano), which was co-sponsored alongside 23 other senators.

While leading the debate on the motion, the Sena-tor said that the fuel scar-city has been biting harder across the country.

He stated that the devel-opment was not in tune with the promise of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), noting that the party was aimed to bring succor to Nigerians.

According to him, the senate needed to work hand in hand with the executive arm of govern-ment, so as to find lasting solution to the crisis.

His submission was op-posed by Senator Adamu Aliero (APC, Kebbi), who argued that the problem that led to the fuel scarcity was because of the failure

Minister of Petroleum brief the Senate on the situation.

While wrapping up the debate, President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, cautioned senators not to politicise the issue, adding that the situation was being experienced by all.

The Senate thereafter mandated its Committee on Petroleum Downstream to examine all issues as-sociated with the current scarcity of petroleum prod-ucts and report to it in one week.

Fuel scarcity: Senators disagree on subsidy removalof the government to re-move fuel subsidy. He stat-ed that the problem might persist if the government fails to deregulate the sec-tor.

Aliero stated that the controlled price of N87 per litre was unrealistic, add-ing that fuel was selling for as high as N160 per litre and above in many parts of the country. He added that whenever the subsidy was removed the government would need to effectively utilise in providing infra-structural facilities for the people.

He was however op-posed by Senators who felt that removing the subsidy would impact negatively on the people.

Senator Emmanuel Paulker, who also op-posed the call for removal of fuel subsidy, said that “The clamour for removal of subsidy is laughable. Subsidy is the only way Nigerian people feel the impact of government in this country. Something is wrong with the supply chain of petroleum prod-ucts.

“Therefore, what I will

suggest is that the Pe-troleum Minister should come and tell us what has happened in the supply chain because we were told during the ministerial screening that the refiner-ies have been fixed.”

Another APC Senator, Senator Shehu Sani also opposed to the planned removal of subsidy on pe-troleum products adding that the Senate needed to understand the socio-eco-nomic and political impli-cations of such request.

Sani said that it has be-come important that the

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki (second right), commissioning the Senate President’s suggestion box, at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, on Tuesday. With him are Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu (first right); Senate Leader, Ali Ndume (third left); chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Uche Ekwunife; Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Senator Isa Galaudu and others. biOla azeez-ilOrin

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TaiwO adisa and aYOdele adesanmi-abuja

Gov’s wife distributes ATM welfare cards to elderly in Ogun

Wife of Ogun State gov-ernor, Mrs Olufunso Amo-sun, has again shown her commitment towards im-proving the lives of the people of the state, by distributing ATM welfare cards to the aged at the weekend.

Held at the June 12 Cul-tural Centre, Abeokuta, Mrs Amosun, who is also the president of the UP-LifT Development foun-dation, said that the distri-bution of the ATM welfare cards was in continuation of the welfare package de-signed to ease the lives of senior citizens in the state to enable them enjoy more dividends of democracy.

Lauding his wife for her various initiatives, Senator ibikunle Amosun, called on other individuals and organisations to partner with the state government in improving the lives of the less privileged in the state.

The governor, who dis-closed this during the event, assured that the ini-tiative will be sustained to give succour to vulnerable senior citizens in the state.

“The uplifting of the aged is one of the excel-lent initiatives by my wife to support the state gov-ernment in our overall agenda to reduce poverty in the state.”

Hakeem Gbadamosi-akure

45 Wednesday, 25 November, 2015newsPanel disbandment stalls Kashamu’s appeal

THE appeal filed by Buruji Kashamu, the senator repre-senting Ogun east

in the National Assembly, challenging the judgment of the election Petitions Tribunal that sat in Abeo-kuta, Ogun State, on Oc-tober 9, was stalled before the Court of Appeal sitting in ibadan, on Tuesday.

The matter could not go on as scheduled due to the disbandment of the panel that was originally set up to hear the appeal by the president of the Court of Appeal

Parties and their counsels

were already seated await-ing the arrival of panel members for the hearing to commence on Tuesday when the court registrar appeared to announce that the matter will not proceed as scheduled because the panel put in place for the hearing has been disband-ed, adding that further in-formation will be commu-nicated at the appropriate time

Though, no reason was given for the development, the Nigeria Tribune gathered that it was due to a petition written by Senator Kashamu and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alleging manipu-

lations of the matter and a compromise of panel members.

Speaking on the develop-ment, the PDP chairman in Ogun State, Dayo Ade-bayo, stated that the dis-bandment of the panel is a victory for the people and a sign that the judiciary is sensitive and willing to be fair to all parties

According to him, they had to shout out to au-thorities involved because they were aware that some moves were being made to manipulate the appeal. “This is a victory to us and to everybody because when you are talking about an election, you are talk-

ing about the people of the nation and the will of God. What has happened here this morning i think; is that the judiciary is trying to be fair to all concerned and the way i see it, the thinking of the Lord is dif-ferent from the thinking of the people.

“We have discovered that APC is going round try-ing to manipulate all the arrangements. How can Dapo Abiodun who lost his polling booth, ward and his local government chal-lenge a popular candidate like Kashamu. Senator Kashamu won and the APC is trying to turn the will of God and that is why we

shouted out to the appro-priate authorities.

“Because the authorities concerned don’t want to take sides, they disbanded the panel and told us to wait a little bit and i am sure they are going to do something about the is-sue before commencement of trial. There are lots of manipulations ongoing with the leadership of APC sending some powerful lawyers to the members of the panel that were to hear our appeal. Kashamu has won the election and there is nothing anybody can do,” he said.

in his own reaction, Adedapo Abiodun ex-pressed surprise that the matter couldn’t go on as scheduled and described the allegations as laugh-able but expressed opti-mism that it cannot affect his case and that his con-fidence in the judiciary is unshaken.

According to him, if a party feels that it would not get justice because of some accusations and the judi-ciary in its wisdom takes that into consideration,

by yejide GbenGa-oGundare

Call deposed Deji to order, Akure traditional chiefs tell govtTHe leadership and tra-ditional chiefs of Akure, Ondo State, have called on the state government and the security authorities in the country to call the de-posed traditional ruler of the town, Prince Adepoju Adesina, to order, to main-tain the peace being en-joyed by the residents of the ancient city.

The leaders on Tuesday, rose in unison to condemn the sudden appearance of the dethroned traditional ruler in the town, describ-ing his appearance in the town as a show of shame .

Speaking on behalf of the leaders, the former Ambassador to Greece, Professor Olu Agbi, stated that Adesina’s appearance in the heart of Akure near-ly unsettled the peace of the Akure community.

Agbi said the incident sent a wrong signal to the resi-dents and people of the town and tantamount to saying that Akure has two tradition-al rulers but maintained that “Adesina has been deposed and it will remain so.”

The former ambassador explained that the deposed

traditional rulers action was sacrilegious, saying by going back to where he had earlier performed some tra-ditional rites, is a traditional taboo and called on Akure chiefs to urgently address the situation.

He disclosed that, it took the intervention of the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, to ensure that the deposed monarch and his support-

ers were not attacked, as some youths of the town were only waiting for the order of the traditional ruler, who did not give his blessing to the planned attack on Adesina.

While reacting to the ac-tion of the leaders and tra-ditional chiefs of Akure, the deposed traditional ruler’s elder brother, Prince ibukun Adesina, said his brother did not break any

law by coming to Akure. He said that the family of

Adesina wrote to the State Commissioner of Police and the Director of State Security Service before coming to Akure

“He is challenging his ille-gal removal by the state gov-ernment in court and he has served out the banishment placed on him by the govern-ment and therefore, has every right to come to Akure.

Appeal court upturns tribunal decision on Ilaje Ese Odo election

THe Court of Appeal sit-ting in Akure, Ondo State capital, on Tuesday, up-turned the decision of the Ondo State election Peti-tion Tribunal that nullified the victory of the lawmaker representing ilaje/ eae Odo federal constituency ,at the House of Representatives, Honourable Kolade Akinjo.

The election petition tribunal had earlier nulli-fied Akinjo victory in the March 28 election on the ground of intelligibility of the lawmaker to contest as

a member of the Peoples DemocraticParty ( PDP)

However, the three- man panel led by Justice Abiyiri Shehu, faulted the tribu-nal ruling which ruled that Akinjo was not a member of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), because his membership card as a member of PDP was not signed by the party chair-man and secretary from his ward.

The Appeal Court noted that the petitioner, Lucky Ayedatiwa, failed to estab-lish before the court that the winner of the March 28

election was carrying fake membership card of the party before the election

The court ,however, up-held the victory of Akinjo as the duly elected law-maker and representative of the ilaje / ese Odo fed-eral constituency of Ondo State while no cost was awarded against the re-spondents.

Reacting to the judge-ment, counsel to Ayedatiwa, Titiloye Charles, said his party has accepted the verdict in good fate but would soon make its position known.

Wife of the Ogun State governor, Mrs Olufunso Amosun (second left), her husband, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (back middle), holding samples of the ATM welfare cards with some of its beneficiaries, during the uplifting of the aged, in Abeokuta.

A day-old-boy, was aban-doned at Ode-ige, Odinjo Area, ibadan, Oyo State, on October 8, 2015.

by doyin adeoye

whatever the judiciary de-cides, he and his party will abide by it because they have utmost belief in the Nigerian judicial system

“i am as sure as you are that the case will not go on. i left Lagos at 6.00am and my team of lawyers had been here since last night with the expecta-tion that the appeal will commence this morning. We are surprised the pan-el has been asked to step down while a new panel will be constituted. We will go back to await fur-ther instructions.

“i am not an attorney but i don’t believe this should have any implication on our case, except for the fact that the clock is ticking and i believe we have a 60 days window between filing of processes and when the case will be disposed off and that window lapses in a week to 10 days but my lawyers will be able to advice better.

“You are aware that the media has been inundated with accusations and sup-posed petitions, it’s my opinion that this is a reac-tion to that. i’m not sure i should respond to the alle-gations because at the very least, it is laughable and ludicrous. This character is common place to him, he misrepresents and mud slings; i will not dissipate energy on this.

Abandoned babies

Anybody with use-ful information that could lead to the whereabouts of their parents or relatives should, please, con-tact the Principal So-cial Welfare Officer, Ibadan/Ibarapa Zone Social Welfare Office, Iyaganku, Ibadan or the nearest police sta-tion.

This baby boy was rescued at Adifase Primary Health Care Centre, Apata area, ibadan, Oyo State, on April 27, 2015, when he was a day old.

Wednesday, 25 November, 2015news46Nigerians must brace up for more challenges in 2016 —Fayose

Ekiti State gover-nor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said with the contin-

ued downward trend in the price of crude oil in the in-ternational market, except by God’s intervention, Ni-gerians should brace up for more challenges next year.

the governor, who spoke in Efon during his sensiti-sation tour of local govern-ment areas in the state, said this year’s budget per-formed poorly because it was predicated on $68 per barrel, while it sold much lesser than the anticipated price per barrel.

in a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Sec-retary, Mr idowu Adelusi, on tuesday, in Ado-Ekiti, the governor opined that if the trend continued, there would be more financial

challenges to cope with next year.

“this year’s budget did not meet expectations, es-pecially in the area of capi-tal expenditure because of the poor revenue coming in from oil sale in the interna-tional market. the oil now sells for less than $40 per barrel.

“Without being an eco-nomic expert, one can en-visage a tough economic terrain next year. You know that i don’t hide things from you, the other day they said

they have given out bailout fund, i said it was not. it will amount to sheer deception for a leader to hide the true position of things from the people.

“We are heading for a seri-ous financial challenge next year, as there seems to be little hope for the economy bouncing back. Our admin-istration has always put our finances in the open for all to see. We are on this tour because we need to let you know what is happening. the power of the people is

greater than the power of the leaders,” he said.

in response to observa-tions by workers, the gov-ernor said a department that would look into their complaints and follow up on their welfare, would be set up at the Governor’s Office, Ado-Ekiti.

Fayose also promised that the coming Christmas pe-riod would not be bleak for civil servants in the state, saying no effort would be spared to ensure that they get their salaries.

Ortom gets nod from Benue Assembly to borrow N12bn

BENUE State Assembly has granted approval to Gover-nor Samuel Ortom to obtain N12 billion loan for devel-opment of infrastructural projects and for financing agricultural value chain.

the approval followed let-ters to the Speaker of the assembly entitled: “Request for a resolution to obtain a loan for developmental and infrastructure projects”, of which the Governor said the Federal Government had directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make available loanable funds to the state governments for developmental infrastruc-tural projects, saying the offer was open to any inter-ested government to borrow N10 billion.

He also disclosed that N2 billion was meant to finance Agricultural Value Chain and dry season farming under the CBN Special intervention Funds, payable in 20 years at 9 per cent interest rate.

Governor Ortom said the infrastructural gap in the state is so huge that it could not be effectively tackled with the meagre monthly revenue from the federation account and internally gen-

erated revenue.He asserted that his ad-

ministration is committed to providing basic infra-structure, especially in the areas of roads, electricity and potable water.

He also expressed optimism that when the loan was ac-cessed, its accruing benefits

from the projects would greatly uplift the living stan-dard of the people of the state.

With the approval, the cur-rent administration in the last six months, may have procured N55.5 billion loan.

The first was N10 bil-lion loan from commercial banks used for payment of

Ondo 2016: APC will not impose any candidate —Ayorinde

fair and transparent pri-maries to pick its candidate for the election, saying “ the party has embraced internal democracy in the last two years, and i want to assure you that this will not be an exception.”

“this is the era of change. APC conducted a free and transparent primaries in Edo, kogi and Bayelsa and there was no imposition, and i believe this spirit of free and fair primaries will be sustained in choosing the party standard-bearer in Ondo State. this is an antidote to peaceful cohe-sion among the aspirants.”

Ayorinde pledged to build, at least, an industry in each local government area of the state if elected

as the governor, even with-out using federal alloca-tion, saying “this state will witness industrial growth.”

“in rebuilding the state, my core programme is in-dustrialisation. Every local government shall witness industrial growth that will provide jobs not only for our people, but also to at-tract other Nigerians and foreigners alike to our state.

“With strong determina-tion to industrialise Ondo State, the development of good network of roads, good water supply and sustainable housing devel-opment become not only imperative but absolutely necessary to support mas-sive industrial growth.”

MEMBER representing Owo/ Ose federal con-stituency of Ondo State in the House of Representa-tives, Bode Ayorinde, has assured members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state that the party will not impose any candidate in next year’s governorship election.

Ayorinde, who stated this in Akure, the Ondo State capital, while declaring his intention to contest for the position of the state gover-nor in the 2016 election on the platform of APC, said the era of imposition had gone.

According to him, the APC will conduct a free,

May and June salaries, as well as take off of the ad-ministration. Another N5.5 billion loan from commer-cial banks was utilised for counterpart funding of spe-cial projects while N28 bil-lion bailout funds was used to pay backlog of salary ar-rears to workers.

He solicited their under-standing and cooperation, adding that the state gov-ernment would, within available resources, give their welfare top priority.

the governor, who also visited Aramoko in Ekiti West Local Government Area, ordered the setting up of a panel to look into the complaints by workers of over-deduction in their salaries concerning the pay-ment for the laptops given to teachers by the Fayemi administration.

BORNO State governor, kashim Shettima has been honoured with Nigeria Veterinary Medical Asso-ciation (NVMA) 2015 Merit Award for his contribution towards promoting veteri-nary practice in the state.

the national president of the association, Dr Edgar Amos Sunday, presented the premium award to the governor, on the occas-sion of the NVMA, during its 52nd National Annual Congress held in Port Har-court, the capital of Rivers State.

the event drew mem-bers of NVMA from the 36 states of the federation in-cluding Abuja.

Shettima was represented on the occasion by a former Commissioner for Animal Resources and Fisheries Development, a Professor of Veterinary Physiology, Umar Sandabe, as well as other members of state delegation, including Dr Andrew Usman Malgwi.

in his acceptance speech, the governor said he was humbled by members of NVMA for considering him worthy of the award and promised that his admin-istration would pursue vig-orously the aims and objec-tives of the association to ensure good quality animal protein in the state.

AS part of efforts of the Jigawa State Police Com-mand to ensure peaceful co-existence between farm-ers and Fulani pastoralists in the state, the state Com-missioner of Police, Alhaji Usman Abubakar tilli, held an open meeting with the two parties, with a view to-wards embracing peaceful co-existence among them.

Speaking at the meeting that held at the state police headquarters, tilli said the meeting brought together leaders of both associa-tions, in order to create an atmosphere of understand-ing between Fulani pas-toralists and farmers, and also to know each others’ rights and needs, particu-larly at this harvesting pe-riod and beyond.

According to him, simi-lar meeting between the two groups had drastically helped to reduce Fulani/farmers clashes this year as compared with previous years, noting that “this was achieved because of this type of meeting and sen-sitisation to two different parties.”

Shettima bags NVMA 2015 award

Gospel singer and Glo ambassador, Sammie Okposo (second right) with winner of the singing competition, Alero Voice Agambi (right); first runner-up, Onyekere Glory (left) and the second runner-up, Benedicta Omorinyen, during the Glo Laftta Fest comedy show in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Sunday.

NASARAWA State As-sembly ad hoc committee investigating non-payment of local government per-sonnel salary, on tuesday, ordered the state chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) to offset all back-log of salary arrears in the next one week or face the consequences.

its chairman, Honour-able Mohammed Alkali, representing Lafia North under the Peoples Demo-cratic Party (PDP), gave this order during a meet-ing with the state ALGON executives, Local Govern-ment Directors of Person-nel Management and other stakeholders in the state.

According to him, “we want to ensure that every local government staff and other workers get their sal-ary as at when due because it is when they are paid that productivity would be increased. issues like pay-ment of staff salary and omission of some names in the payroll should be ad-dressed head-on.”

Honourable Alkali, who is also the chairman, House Committee on Pub-lic Complaint and Peti-tions, explained that the aim of the meeting was to find a permanent solution to the problems faced by councils’ members of staff regarding their salaries, so as to improve their stan-dard of living.

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Okechukwu, Awoniyi, Ajayi express confidence

Senegal 2015:

NIGERIA’S U-23 team captain, Azubuike Okechukwu and strik-ers Taiwo Awoniyi and Junior Ajayi have expressed confidence

the Dream Team will fly high at the African U-23 Cup of Nations which begins this week-end in Senegal.

The tournament will also serve as qualifying tournament for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Azubuike said the national team gave him the platform to move to Turkey, saying he is always thrilled to return to play for Nigeria.

“Even though I am a little bit tired after playing for my club over the weekend, I still see this national team call up as my little way to say a big thank you to my country for the

FORMER Super Eagles coach, Chief Ad-egboye Onigbinde, has said that regular sporting competitions should be organised among 774 local governments in Nigeria to enhance comprehensive sport develop-ment across the country

He stated this on Tuesday at the presenta-tion of sporting materials to St. Anthony’s Senior Secondary School, Ilorin by one of its old students, Mr Toyin Ibitoye, who is also the media officer of the Super Eagles.

Onigbinde noted that sporting activities are natural processes of development in every human being.

He stated that when competitions are be-ing organised, winners should represent the local governments and from there rep-resent the state at the national level.

The former handler of Trinidad and To-bago stated that talents could effectively be discovered through grassroots competi-tions, just as he called on governments to take sport to every home through adequate attention.

Also speaking, the Kwara State commis-sioner for Sports and Youth Development, Mr Bolakale Ibrahim, commended the do-nor, Ibitoye and expressed the hope that it would bring about sports rebirth and help further produce talents for the state and the country at large.

In his remarks, Ibitoye of the Channels TV, noted that his alma mater had pro-duced many sportsmen and women for the country including Olympic gold medallist, Sunday Bada as well as Olympians like Olapade Adenekan, Bisi Afolabi, Adeyemi sisters.

He promised to resuscitate the school’s inter-house sport competitions.

Onigbinde clamours for grassroots competitions

As Siasia wants Gambia rematch

Dream Team departs for SenegalNIGERIA’S U-23 national team, Dream Team VI will to-day depart from Banjul, Gambia where it has been camp-ing for the past 10 days for the CAF U-23 Africa Cup of Nations billed for Senegal.

According to the secretary of the team, Sirajo Hassan, the delegation made up of 23 players, 10 accompany-ing officials will depart the Banjul International Airport at about 11pm aboard Arik Airline for the thirty minutes flight to Dakar.

The team is expected to play its last friendly game against the Gambian U-20 side, the Baby Scorpions tomorrow by 4pm (5.00pm Nigerian time), before departing.

The team on arrival in Dakar, will then proceed to Mbour, venue of its first two group B games.

The Dream Team VI will begin their quest to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics when they take on West Afri-can rivals Mali on Sunday at the Caroline Faye Stadium, in Mbour.

Meanwhile, coach Samson Siasia has requested for a rematch with Gambia U-20s after they held his team to a 1-1 draw on Monday as part of his team’s build-up to the U-23 AFCON in Senegal.

Impressed with the tough opposition presented by the Baby Scorpions, Siasia requested for a rematch on Wednesday before the team departs for Senegal the fol-lowing day.

THE 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup Most Valu-able Player (MVP), Kelechi Nwakali and his Golden Eaglets team-mates, Samuel Chuk-wueze, David Enogena and Joel Osikel have joined the stable of Stellar Group, arguably the world’s leading football agency who man-age the careers of the world’s most expensive player Gareth Bale among others.

Others in the Stellar Group are England in-ternational stars Joe Hart, Luke Shaw, Connor Wickham and Jonjo Shelvey. They also handle ex- England internationals Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Nigerian-born Nedum Onuoha and Carlton Cole among others.

According to Errol Olowu, the head of Africa of Stellar Group, unlike most agents who only care about their commission and transferring their players, Stellar Group care for their play-ers around the clock.

“Stellar Group not only caters for our players and ensures they get good value for their skills and top salaries, we also cater for their day-to-day needs to ensure they concentrate on their football,” said Olowu.

“As young footballers coming to Europe, far from friends and families, we help them settle down so they can shine brighter.”

opportunity given to me in the past which has made me become what I am today,” said the former Bayelsa United player.

On his part, Awoniyi who plays for a Ger-man second division side, FSV Frankfurt said he and his team-mates will work hard to make Nigeria proud in Senegal.

“This is work time, qualifying for the Rio Olympics is non-negotiable as we have no excuse to give Nigerians, that’s why we have to put in our best to get something out of Senegal,” said Awoniyi who helped the national U-20 team, the Flying Eagles to the African Junior Nations Cup held early this year also in Senegal.

Also, Tunisia-based striker, Ajayi has

vowed to help Nigeria win the AFCON in Senegal.

“I have come to contribute my little quota in ensuring that we not only pick an Olym-pic ticket, but also win the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations,” said Ajayi on arrival in Banjul, The Gambia, to join the team prior to the tournament.

“I can’t describe how I feel any time I re-port for national duty. For me, it’s an hon-our to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians, this I have come to do, God willing.”

Ajayi, who now features for CS Sfaxien, scored the two goals that eliminated Con-go Brazzaville from the U-23 champion-ship.

MTN female polo team players pose with the First Lady of Kebbi State, Hajia Shinkafi (second from left) during the closing ceremonies of the recently-concluded MTN Pink Polo Day in Kaduna.

Members of the Dream Team celebrate one of their goals at the just-ended All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville.

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Footage shows US student who raped, murdered, buried his teacher

A child holds a prayer book with the photo of Pope Francis. PHOTO: REUTERS.

The student was seen in surveillance footage rolling a recycling bin prosecution claims contained the body of Colleen Ritzer, his Math teacher, down a hallway (bottom left), outside the school (left) and a state police chemist, holds the pair of blood soaked jeans worn by Chism (top left), in court on Monday. PHOTOS: AP & FOX BOSTON.

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1st Ebola death in Liberia since WHO declares country virus-free Sept

NATO allies held an “extraordi-nary” meeting on Tuesday at

Ankara’s request to discuss Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border, an alliance official said.

“At the request of Turkey, the North Atlantic Council will hold an extraordinary meeting at (1600 GMT). The aim of this extraordinary NAC is for Turkey to inform allies about the downing of a Russian airplane,” the of-ficial told AFP.

The North Atlantic Coun-cil consists of ambassadors from the 28 NATO member states.

Early on Tuesday, Turk-ish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border after repeated warnings over air space vio-lations, but Moscow said it could prove the jet had not

NATO calls extraordinary meeting after Turkey downed Russian jet

left Syrian air space.It was the first time a

NATO member’s armed forces have downed a Rus-sian or Soviet military air-craft since the 1950s and Russian and Turkish as-sets fell on fears of an esca-lation between the former Cold War enemies.

A Kremlin spokesman said it was a “very serious incident” but that it was too early to draw conclu-sions.

Footage from private Turkish broadcaster Haberturk TV showed the warplane going down in flames in a woodland area, a long plume of smoke trailing behind it. The plane went down in area known by Turks as “Turk-men Mountain,” it said.

Separate footage from Turkey’s Anadolu Agency showed two pilots para-chuting out of the jet before it crashed. A Syrian rebel

group sent a video to Re-uters that appeared to show one of the pilots immobile and badly wounded on the ground and an official from the group said he was dead.

Russia’s defence ministry said one of its Su-24 fighter jets had been downed in Syria and that, according to preliminary information, the pilots were able to eject. It said the aircraft had been over Syria for the duration of its flight.

POPE Francis begins his first official visit to Africa today (Wednesday), with stops planned in Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Re-public, a trip that human rights advocates hope he will use to press for expanded po-litical rights, religious toler-ance and respect for minori-ties.

Streets have been newly paved, banners hung by the highways, and Pope Francis branded merchandise is for sale, all to welcome the pon-tiff when he kicks off his Af-rica tour in Kenya, VOA’s Jill Craig reports from Nairobi.

The pope will make his first stop in Kenya today, where he will visit the slum of

Kangemi, in keeping with his advocacy for the poor, VOA said.

He is also expected to high-light the effects of climate change, having previously said the underprivileged are disproportionately affected by changes in weather pat-terns. And he will meet with leaders of different faiths, in

an effort to address Kenya’s history of violence between religious groups.

Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to the pope out-lining a list of concerns the group hopes he will address during his African visit. It called for the pope to address human rights violations in all three of his destinations.

A teenage boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, a health official said on Tuesday, the first fatality since July in one of the three West African countries hit hardest by the worst ever outbreak of the disease.

The 15-year-old boy died Monday night, said Dr. Francis Kateh, chief medical officer and acting head of Li-beria’s Ebola Case Manage-ment System.

The boy, who lived in Libe-

ria’s eastern Paynesville dis-trict, was the first Ebola pa-tient in the country since it was declared Ebola-free for a second time in September, The Associated Press said.

AN American student who was accused of raping and murdering his teacher, after seeing him in surveillance footage rolling a recycling bin down a hallway and out-side the school, appeared in court, on Monday.

Philip Chism, 16, sat qui-etly and emotionless while jurors watched video of him dragging the large blue re-cycling bin the prosecution claims contained the body of Colleen Ritzer, his Math teacher at Danvers High School in Massachusetts, Mail Online said.

He is then seen returning to school with his pants cov-ered in a dark red substance that appears to be blood.

Fox Boston reports that jurors also saw footage of Chism walking into a near-by AMC movie theater that afternoon where a ticket for the film Gravity was purchased by someone on Ritzer’s credit card.

Chism, who was 14 at the time in October 2013, has ad-mitted to killing his 24-year-old teacher, but is pleading not guilty on the grounds of insanity.

Jurors also heard on Mon-day that Ritzer’s blood was found on a box cutter which was in Chism’s backpack as well as all the clothes he was seen wearing on the surveil-lance footage.

Chism changed at some

point during the day from jeans and a white shirt in to shorts and a black shirt, which at first confused au-thorities who believed that two people may have been re-sponsible for Ritzer’s murder. The trial started last week, and on Wednesday the court was shown the first footage of Ritzer’s final moments, sport-ing a smile as she waved at someone in the hallway and walked alone to the bath-room.

Moments later, Chism could be seen leaving a classroom to follow her.

With the hood of the sweatshirt over his head and gloves on, the chilling foot-age then shows the teen en-

This image shows the moment the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter planes near the Turkish-Syrian border, on Tuesday. PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES.

ter the restroom that Ritzer is in.

A few minutes later, a fe-male student then can be

seen walking into the bath-room, but she quickly exits.

That student, Danielle Be-dard, testified on Monday

saying that she saw a naked brown butt and assumed someone was changing so she left the bathroom.

FRENCH authorities on Tuesday questioned a top suspect linked to attackers who terrorised Paris, while Belgium’s capital remained locked down under threat of a possible similar attack, The Associated Press re-ported.

Jawad Bendaoud, the only person in France facing po-tential terrorism charges linked to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 peo-ple and wounded hundreds was handed over Tuesday morning to an anti-terrorism judge in Paris, according to a judicial official. Bendaoud was detained last week for

providing lodging to the sus-pected mastermind of the at-tacks in an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.

Police raided the apart-ment Nov. 18, and three people were killed including suspected attacks orchestra-tor Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a female cousin and one other. Bendaoud acknowledged in a television interview giving shelter to two people from Belgium but said he didn’t know who they were or what they planned. Bendaoud, 29, told BFM television, “I didn’t know they were terrorists. I was asked to do a favor. I did a favour, sir.”

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An Indonesian, named Rudi avenged the rape of his wife by killing the rapist. He did not stop there he made sure he cut off the tool of the crime, cooked and ate it, telling the police he did so “to heal my heart ache”. But while Rudi’s action might have healed his heart ache has it not also destroyed his soul?

REIGNING FIFA U-17 World Cup goal king, Vic-tor Osimhen has

senegal 2015: osimhen makes dream Team, replaces success

FIFA’s ethics watch-dog wants Michel Platini banned for life over a sus-pected payment, the UEFA president’s lawyer said on Tuesday.

Platini, until recently the favourite to take over as the president of the foot-ball’s world body, and FIFA president, Sepp Blat-ter will find out in the next month whether a FIFA court has found them guilty of eth-ics breaches.

“The investigatory cham-ber of FIFA’s ethics com-mittee has asked for Michel Platini to be banned for life. It is in the report sent to us,” the Frenchman’s lawyer, Thibaud d’Ales, told AFP.

He called the proposed punishment a “scandal” and “excessive”.

Blatter’s lawyers did not an-swer questions about wheth-er the same punishment had been requested against the 79-year-old veteran sports baron.

His personal spokesman, Klaus Stoehlker, said Blat-ter did not know what punishment had been re-quested.

Platini and Blatter are

FIFA’s ethics watchdog wants life ban for Platini

THE city of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria is already agog with excitement as it prepares to host top stake-holders in the African foot-ball community at the 2015 Glo-CAF Awards on Janu-ary 7, 2016.

Abuja is hosting the awards for the second time, having hosted the inaugural edition of Glo-CAF Awards in 2005.

In a press statement re-leased on Tuesday in La-gos, Globacom said that “the Glo-CAF Awards 2015 is where you will meet the greatest African football legends, including the new African Footballer of the Year and winners in 12 other cat-egories.”

The categories include African Player of The Year (Based in Africa), National Team of The Year, Club of The Year, and Coach of The Year.

Other categories are Women’s National Team of The Year, Women’s Foot-

eventually been listed among Nigeria’s final 21-man squad for the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Na-tions scheduled to begin this weekend in Senegal.

Osimhen who was earlier excluded from the official list submitted by coach Samson Siasia emerged a late replacement for the Granada striker, Isaac

Success.The Nigeria Football Fed-

eration (NFF), as a result of the late substitution will now have to pay a fine to the Confederation of Afri-can Football (CAF).

According to thenff.com, the inclusion of Osimhen, who scored a re-cord 10 goals to aid the Ea-glets triumph at the just-ended FIFA U-17 World Cup, Chile 2015 was an-nounced after the Dream Team’s second friendly against the Gambian U-20 national team, Baby Scor-pions which ended in a 1-1 draw in the game played in The Gambia where Nigeria is camped ahead of Sen-egal 2015.

It was gathered that the availability of Success who featured at the recently-held FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand could not be ascertained hence, the deci-sion of Siasia to replace him with Osimhen, who also also won the adidas Silver Ball at Chile 2015.

already serving 90-day suspensions while an in-vestigation is held into a $2 million sum Platini re-ceived from FIFA in 2011.

That has ruled the 60-year-old Frenchman out of the race for the Fifa pres-idency to be decided in the election on February 26.

Blatter is under investi-gation in Switzerland for ‘criminal mismanagement’ over the payment to Platini, ostensibly for consultancy work completed nine years earlier.

Platini has been named in the investigation but is not yet a formal suspect.

baller of The Year, Most Promising Talent, Referee of The Year, Legend of The year, Fair Play Award, Platinum Award, which has only one nominee, and Af-rica Finest XI.

Abuja, Nigeria was an-nounced as the host of 2015 Glo-CAF Awards by the Confederation of Af-rican Football in October this year and sponsors and organisers of the event, Globacom said that plans are afoot to stage a memo-rable Awards gala for the second time in Nigeria’s fed-eral capital.

The event is expected to congregate top football ce-lebrities across Africa, as well as top government of-ficials from Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of Africa, the statement said.

As usual, the Awards and possible winners have been the subject of discussions in the media and among foot-ball fans and youth across

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2015 Glo-CAF Awards: Abuja set to host Africa

Africa. The list of top 10 contend-

ers for the 2015 African Footballer of the Year and 10 nominees for Africa Foot-baller of the Year (Africa-based) was recently released by CAF.

Since Glo took over the sponsorship in 2005, the event has been held in sev-eral cities in Africa. Accra, Ghana hosted the 2006 edition, while the 2007 edition was held in Lome, Togo.

The city of Lagos, Ni-geria’s commercial nerve centre hosted the event for the first time in 2008 be-fore it moved back to Ac-cra in 2009.

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Osimhen (right) celebrates with Kingsley Michael after scoring at Chile 2015.

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