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4—Vanguard, MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 MEMORIAL SERVICE: From left, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Guest; Chairman, Golden Lay Farm, Alhaji Segun Odutola; Supreme Head C&S Unification in Nigeria, Dr. Solomon Alao; Special Apostle Alogbo, Chairman C&S Okooba District, and Mr. Aderemi Owode, Group Managing Director, Chemstar Paints Industry at the 10th memorial service and launching of a book, "Working With The Lord," In Lagos, yesterday. A-Court cancels vacation for judges over election petitions By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—PRESIDENT of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has cancelled this year’s annual vacation for appellate court justices, saying her decision was informed by enormous petitions that arose from the 2019 general election. She said it had become obvious that Court of Appeal judges have to forfeit their annual vacation “to enable us entertain and determine all appeals arising from the various election petition tribunals transmitted to the court." A statement by the head of media at the court, Saadatu Musa, disclosed that Bulkachuwa conveyed her decision to the justices via a two-page circular transmitted to them on July 2. The statement read: “Justice Bulkachuwa noted that since these appeals were timebound, and would arise within the period of the court’s vacation on July- October, the need, therefore, arises for them to be heard and determined within the said period. “To enable the court meet these targets, the President of the Court of Appeal gave explicit directives to the presiding justices of the various divisions to draw up a roster in consultation with his lordship to allow the justices with medical appointments or other pressing family issues travel for not more than 15 days within the period. ‘’The roster that would be drawn should be arranged in such a manner that at any given time, there is a threemember panel on ground in every division to hear and determine appeals. “In divisions with three justices, only one justice can travel at a time and the office of the President of the Court of Appeal is to be immediately notified to form a panel in that justice’s absence should the need arise." According to Bulkachuwa, appeals arising from the National and State Assemblies would be heard by a local panel of three members except where it is controversial, then the president will constitute and send another panel to hear it. On governorship appeals, the President of the Court of Appeal disclosed that it would be heard by a five-member panel to be empanelled by his lordship. Bulkachuwa, therefore, instructed the presiding justices to notify him as soon as appeals from governorship elections were filed to ensure their speedy determination. “Meanwhile, a total of 1,769 appeals were determined and 3,517 motions disposed of by the Court of Appeal between January and April, 2019. Onaiyekan to clerics: You’re called to serve not exploit the people By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — CATHOLIC Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has urged clerics to avoid taking undue advantage of their followers, saying religious leaders ought to be servants of the people, not their exploiters. He spoke, yesterday, during the ordination ceremony of five new priests at Catholic Church of the Archangels, Gaduwa, Abuja. Onaiyekan, who noted that clerics were in short supply compared to the people, however, hinted at his looming exit from the service of the church. He said: “Generally, in the world, clerics are not enough. So, we are glad to have more people ordained to serve as religious leaders. “Every cleric is supposed to be a servant of truth and serve the people in humility. Among clerics, there are some who are focused on looking after young people. “We must remind them that their calling is to holiness, and sanctity of life for themselves and the people, especially the youths and children. Their mission should be to bring them nearer to God.” He urged the new priests to focus on God to overcome temptation, especially when they work with young people. The archbishop advised: “Keep your focus on God. You are weak but when you work with God, you become strong. Anytime you leave Him, you will fall. So live each day with the grace of God. “Every time I preside over ordinations, I never know which will be my last, I am saying goodbye to everyone because I am already at the end (due for retirement).” AfCFTA: TUC to engage FG on infrastructure, others —New president By Victor Young LAGOS— TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend, in Lagos said it would engage the Federal Government on infrastructure development and other related issues to ensure Nigeria gained from the recently signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA. At an interactive session between TUC’s newly elected National Administrative Council, NAC, and a cross section of journalists, president of the union, Quadri Olaleye, acknowledged that there were challenges that needed to be addressed now that Nigeria had signed the trade pact, after hesitation. He contended that the nation’s hesitation for over a year before signing AfCFTA was not misplaced as Nigeria is confronted with infrastructural deficiency, among others. He said: “While we commend the Federal Government for signing the AfCFTA, in Niamey, Niger Republic, few days ago, it is also important to state here without any ambiguity that no serious country signs such agreement and goes to sleep. "To benefit from the treaty, we must get our acts right. The reason the debate (whether to join or not) was on for over a year was that we are deficient in infrastructure. “Second, we are a consuming country. As a congress, we personally have our concerns. Power is critical to the manufacturing sector. We have the population but lack the basic infrastructure that is capable of making our industries thrive. "The agreement will further kill the economy if we remain a consumer nation. Our gains essentially depend on our ability to push our goods across borders. That is the No record of bandits’ attack on Atiku’s witnesses — Police By Kingsley Omonobi Aalleged BUJA.—FOLLOWING attack by unknown gunmen on witnesses of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who were on their way to give evidence in the ongoing presidential election tribunal on Friday, the police have said there was no record of such attack on travellers. Recall that some of the witnesses said during the attack, they barely escaped and sustained injuries. But the police in a statement, yesterday, by Mohammed Shehu, entitled ‘Re - Tribunal Adjourns As Bandits Attack PDP, Atiku’s Witnesses," the police said: “The attention of Zamfara State Police Command has been drawn to the above captioned story published by one of the national dailies on Saturday, July 13, 2019, in which some witnesses, who were travelling to Abuja from Zamfara claimed to have been attacked by bandits, a situation that forced them to only way the agreement can be fair to us. "The energy sector has to be improved upon to boost productivity and lower cost of production, and also source raw materials locally. We must make free trade agreement serve our interest.” Olaleye said TUC would engage the government on some of the issues needed for Nigeria to benefit from the trade pact. He argued that it had become imperative for the country to expand its productive base and make efforts to create an environment that would support productive activities within the economy. scamper into the bush. “It is pertinent to categorically state that as far as Zamfara State is concerned, there was no attack by bandits either on villages or on any person or group of persons travelling on any highway in the state. “Since the inception of the ongoing peace and dialogue initiative in the state, attacks, kidnapping and other heinous crimes in the state have been reduced drastically to about 98 per cent. “The rescue of over 100 persons, who were kidnapped and held in captivity for months by the Commissioner of Police, CP Usman Nagogo, is another indication that the ongoing peace process of the command is working. “Therefore, the command wishes to refute the entire story as misleading and a calculated attempt to undermine the current effort of the state government and the police to bring lasting peace for social and economic development in the state." Dangote refinery, key to Africa’s economic transformation — Oil stakeholders WITH a Gross Domestic Product of $1.8 trillion, countries in Sub- Saharan Africa are on the cusp of economic transformation, with the imminent coming on-stream of the $12 billion Dangote refinery and petrochemicals complex. The region is expected to be the direct beneficiaries of the 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery as the project is expected to drastically reduce the countries’ fuel import majorly from Europe with expected impact on foreign exchange outflows. These are part of the submissions by oil and gas stakeholders at this year’s Ghana International Petroleum Conference, GhIPCON, in Accra, Ghana themed ‘Regional Collaboration: A Catalyst for Transformation’, organised by the country’s Ministry of Energy and National Petroleum Authority. Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects and Portfolio Development, Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin, said at the conference that the refinery would soon come on stream to the benefit of the region, which economy had largely depended on imports from Europe and the west. He added that Dangote refinery would foster regional harmonisation in the distribution of cleaner petroleum products in West Africa. Edwin, who was represented by the Technical Adviser to the President of Dangote Group on Refinery and Petrochemicals, Babajide Soyode, expressed belief that the completion of Dangote refinery and other modular refineries' projects across West Africa would lead to the integration of the downstream industries, and stabilise the prices of petroleum products across the African sub-region. He stressed the need for other investors in West Africa to emulate the investment drive of Aliko Dangote in the downstream petroleum sector and make the subregion an exporter of refined products.
Vanguard, MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019—5 POCKET CARTOON HAJJ PILGRIMS—Intending Muslim pilgrims waiting, yesterday, in Kano to take their flight to Saudi Arabia for this year's Hajj in Makkah and Madinah. Photo: NAN. Soldiers may have to patrol highways — OSINBAJO By Dayo Johnson, Henry Umoru & Dennis Agbo A KURE—Angry reactions, yesterday, continued to trail killing of daughter of Afenifere leader, Mrs. Olufunke Olakunri, by herders along Benin-Ore highway, as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the Federal Government will explore all options, including deploying soldiers on the nation’s highways to address the spate of insecurity challenges across the country. This came as apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said Nigeria was descending into anarchy, considering the high level of insecurity in the country. Similarly, National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, warned against stigmatising herdsmen in the country, saying it could divide the nation. Also, PRONACO and Project Nigeria called on the Federal Government to urgently convene a national dialogue and security summit to address the high level of insecurity in the country. Family of the Yoruba leader also, yesterday, insisted that Mrs. Olakunrin, the 58-year-old mother of two was shot dead by herdsmen who had attempted to kidnap her and other three occupants in her Black Land Cruiser SUV marked LAGOS AAA 147 FM, thus controverting the position of the Commissioner of Police in the state, who stated that it was erroneous to say herdsmen launched the attack. Soldiers’ll be deployed on highways — Osinbajo The Vice President spoke during a condolence visit to Pa Fasoranti in Akure yesterday, Osinbajo, accompanied by Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, lamented that people make money from kidnapping because its largely economical gains. He said: “The Federal Government will explore all options, including deploying soldiers on the highways, towards addressing the growing cases of security challenges in Nigeria. “As you know, I am here to commiserate with the families of Olakunri and Pa Reuben Fasoranti. This is a massive tragedy as you ca imagine. We have seen it replicated here and there, which is kidnapping and killings. “As you all know, the President has very recently met not only the service chiefs but also the IGP and he has laid out a new policy of community policing. “One of the most important things in this sort of crime because that are largely economic crimes is that people try to make money by kidnapping. “One of the most important things is intelligence gathering; that is why we have the community policing system where policemen would be trained in their own local government and they would remain there. “This is as close as we get to the community policing structure that we expect to have. The other thing, of course, is that we also are engaging the Army so that there will be a bit of more military presence, especially along the roads. “The Inspector-General of Police has already committed to ensuring that there is full coverage of the police and even helicopters to fasten the search for these killers and also to ensure that there is adequate presence to deter this kind of terrible situation from recurring. “We are looking at the whole security architecture and trying to ensure that we are able to scale up and ensure that we are able to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians. “Security in a big country as Nigeria is dynamic and we also have to be consistently dynamic to ensure that we are able to beat the challenges as they appear. “I think that we can be very hopeful that we would see peace and calm as some of the steps we are taking come to fruition. You know also we meet with the governors in South West and in the different zones and everybody is coming to ensure that security is adequate and that everyone feels safe and secure." Ohanaeze warns Reacting to the killing yesterday, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement signed by the President- General, Nnia Nwodo, said: “News reached Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday of the heartless murder of the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs. Funke Olakunri, on her way from Ekiti to Lagos by suspected herdsmen. “We offer Chief Fasoranti and the entire Yoruba the heartfelt sympathies of Ndigbo. The continuous rampaging, plunder, rape, kidnapping and murder of innocent Nigerians by armed herdsmen has climbed to a most worrisome crescendo. “The inability of our security forces to disarm and prosecute these criminals gives credibility to a growing story of collusion. Recently, the British High Commission in an advisory to British citizens in Nigeria, declared 24 of our states unsafe. “In the midst of these killings, their parent organization has the effrontery to give ultimatum to the President of Nigeria to rescind his unpopular suspension, instead of cancellation of his RUGA development policy. “Such inciting, provocative and treasonable outbursts have only been greeted by an advice that they should respect the Presidency and an unrelenting resolve to force Nigerians to accommodate such murderers in their homes under a policy that violates our constitution and all laws and court judgments relating to land use Continues on page 41 By Bose Adelaja, Olayinka Latona, Dickson Omobola, Tolulope Oke, Chiamaka Uba, Janet Somoye & Anifowose Opeyemi Killing of Nigerians in Diaspora (2) Nigerians living in Diaspora need to be protected by the Government of Nigeria in those countries they live, the various embassies should stand up to their responsibility to Nigerians and not neglect them. -Uyero Erarawewho Jnr Entrepreneur Nigerians no longer feel safe in certain countries, yet, citizens of these countries feel at home in Nigeria! This isn’t a call for revenge but a call to action by our government. Cases of Nigerians caught committing crimes that can lead to death penalty in other countries should be transferred to the Nigerian government to handle. -Moses Oluwanifesimi I feel it's so unfair that Nigerians in diaspora get killed considering the fact that foreigners come to Nigeria and are safe. However, I urge Nigerians living abroad to obey the laws of countries where they live, and not get involved in crime and criminality to avoid unwarranted attacks and killings. -Ayansiji Damilola It’s not a good thing at all. This should not be happening to Nigerians at all. Although not everyone can be trusted, but whatever it is they are doing notwithstanding, it should not mean their lives should be taken without fair trial. -Abiola Yahaya Student When you talk of the highest level of man's inhumanity to man, the peak of injustice and apex of ungodliness, then you talk of the unabated killings of Nigerians, mostly youths in the diaspora. It is satanic and highly provocative. The peak is the lackadaisical attitude and seemingly insensitivity of government. -Amb Aliyu Bin Abbas Youth Advocate We must not tolerate it. Many of those killed were innocent and didn’t get fair hearing or legal representation. Capital punishment hasn't proved to be corrective. Unfortunately, few Nigerians are the bad eggs but they make it look as if all Nigerians abroad are potential criminals. Responsible and law abiding Nigerians abound but the bad eggs dominate the news. Nigerians abroad must ensure they obey the laws of the host countries. Our embassies must protect them against unfair treatment and ensure none suffers unfairly abroad. -Auwal Musa Rafsanjani ED, CISLAC
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