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26 — Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022 YOUR LUCK TODAY By Joshua Adeyemo Phone 08056180139 LEO; Your concentration level and determination are the pillars of your success today. Yet you’ll need to respect your senior colleagues and protect your image VIRGO; It’s true you’re willing to work harder but you just have to drop both aggression and mental arrogance to allow things to roll accordingly. Then, you’re accident prone within your working arena. Respect the law and its agents today. LIBRA; Serious thought may be giving to matters of the heart but it’s better you tarry a while. Joint ventures of short duration today may be an invitation to avoidable trouble SCORPIO; If you back your financial plans with concrete and positive actions things’ll go according to your desire. If you fail to realise importance of your spouse you would work your way into avoidable trouble; aren’t you tired of crisis? SAGITTARIUS; Your intelligence, competence and level of concentration may today bring you envy, which you don’t deserve within your working arena in a negative form but. CAPRICORN;. The Moon highlights your Solar second house of money which is good but, if you try to buy true love with money, you’ll be disappointed AQUARIUS; The. Moon in your Star sign’ll gives you new confidence and with new supports from the powersthat-be, it’s like you are now un-stop-able. But be cautious, especially with the veterans within your base of operation PISCES; Better days are ahead of you but, you will today need to do away with non-productive argument and/or agreement. Try to be more diplomatic now. ARIES; If what you’re doing today’ll depend on tomorrow’s event it’s better you’re more careful now. Even things may not go according to your personal plans today. Yet it’s important you plan both your immediate and far future carefully now TAURUS; If you take to aggression, your ego would be deflated by your superior colleagues, but your being cooperative in a civilised way’ll prevent trouble GEMINI; Those willing to put you to shame one way or the other’ll be disappointed with the turn of things today. It’s good to secure support of your spouse. CANCER; You’ve had enough of fun in the recent times and it’s now time you settle down for hard work in order to prevent avoidable trouble. Be patient please. ASTROLOGICAL COUNSELLING ASTROLOGICAL our date and place of COUNSELLING birth to the Astr tr Send your dat trological Counselling, P.M.B 100 007, Apapa, Lagos SUCCESS FOR ME? Dear Joshua, I am interested in your Astrological counselling. Kindly tell me everything about myself, especially my finance and career; would I be rich eventually, if yes what should I do to make it happen quickly. Tokunbo, Ibadan. Dear Tokunbo, There are indications of financial success for you but you can not change what Almighty God Has designed for you talking about the timing (the quickness you talked in your letter) Certainly however no failure for you. Mercury –the planet of education and Accountancy, together with mighty Sun at positive angle to planets in Virgo (another Accounting Star sign) attracted you to both Accountancy profession and the academic world. Truly you did not make wrong choice of career. Money will eventually come along this line but it’ll not be as faster as if you take to OIL RELATED BUSINESS. Because Neptune (the planet of OIL) was very comfortable when you were born. It will not be out of place if you have filling stations as time goes by, because you are basically a GAS PERSON. Another money spinning vocation for you include writing either along your line or for film making industry; it is important you exhibit the higher quotient of creativity in your innerself. Yes your dream of becoming A Professor will come to reality. Politics is another area you are not looking at now but will surely come. Do you say why? Because Aquarius is equally political Venus that was powerfully placed when you were born is all about MONEY. Thus you have special ability to make money. And as it was at positive angle to disciplined Saturn, you are not giving to serious frivolity. One major challenge here is envy by others but you will eventually overcome. Another source of challenges is your love life which looks not totally balanced. Basically you are a family minded person. You are equally loving and caring. But sometimes your love of freedom get better off you to the resentment of your closer partner(s).Then some other times it is other party’s fault making love-business very interesting. And unless you are more careful and determined you may marry more than once. :Vanguard News I’ll tackle insecurity, revive industries, if elected —Atiku By John Alechenu ABUJA—THE presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has promised to tackle insecurity and revive ailing industries, especially in Kaduna State if elected. He made the promise at a campaign rally in Kaduna yesterday. Atiku expressed gratitude to the people of Kaduna State for their unflinching support for his aspiration over the years. The former Vice President said: “Let me thank you for your support in 2019. Kaduna state, gave me the highest number of votes in Nigeria. “I have come here to pledge on behalf of the PDP that if you give us your votes, we will restore peace in Kaduna state. “The security challenges will be addressed. We promise that we will reactivate the industries in Kaduna state in collaboration with the current private sector in Kaduna state, we will establish those factories. “ We promise you that the road linking Kaduna and Kano, linking Kaduna to Jos, linking Kaduna and Abuja, will be completed by the grace of God. These are four undertaking that I am taking on behalf of the PDP in you vote for PDP.” Anioma armers hold confab Oct 27 IN ITS continued desire and determination to ensure availability of abundance agricultural produce across communities of Delta North extraction of the state and beyond, the newly formed executive and members of Anioma Nation Farmers Association, ANFA, is set to boost a first of its kind farmers conference aimed at bringing together every farmer of the area for the purpose of improving their well being and the overall economic growth. In a statement jointly issued on behalf of the association by its chairman, Simon Etieh, the General Secretary, Chris Aghuno and the Publicity Secretary Ogbuenyi Ben Anazia and made available to the media, stated that the association which is a nongovernmental pressure group that can support any other association, group or any persons or individual with interest of the farmers at heart. The statement disclosed further that plans are in top gear to hold the farmers conference on the 27 of November 2022 at the conference hall of the senior civil service conference hall by Mariam Babangida way, Asaba, the state capital beginning at 10.00am in the morning. It also stated that members of the association are drawn from the nine local government area of Delta North and with structures in all the wards of the nine local government area of Anioma region. The event which will have a prominent community leader and Iyase of Asaba, Obi Patrick Isioma Onyeobi, also a retired Permanent Secretary/head of service in the defunct Bendel state as the grand patron of the farmers association, will be supported by other eminent outstanding personalities of Anioma extraction and beyond who in their different capacities have proved their worth and contributed over the years to the socio-economic development of Anioma the state and Nigeria.
Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022 — 27 FLOOD: Panic as corpses float in Bayelsa, Delta cemeteries Continues from Page 5 devastating effect of the flood in the state, former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, yesterday urged government agencies at the federal, state and local government levels to provide relief materials to flood victims across the country. While condoling with flood victims, Ibori, in a tweet on his official Twitter handle, said: “Government agencies at all levels must act promptly to provide relief to those affected by floods in our country. “The loss of lives and property caused by massive floods ravaging several states across the country as a result of the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon must be dealt with decisively to ensure this never happens again.” Oborevwori, donates relief materials Moved by the sufferings of the people, PDP governorship candidate in Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, yesterday, donated bags of rice, yams, bags of garri, noodles, packs of bottled water, tissues, bags of salt, beans and other relief materials to victims of the ravaging flood in the state. Oborevwori, who is also speaker of the state House of Assembly, made the donations when he visited the victims at designated Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs. He was at the ICS Camp, Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area housing 1,016 IDPs and Alaka Grammar School, Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area with 1,180. Chatting with newsmen moments after the donations, Oborevwori said: “I have visited the ICS and Alaka camps and I am here at the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro to ascertain the level of damage done by the flood. “We understand that the university has been closed for two weeks. We pray that the floods will recede soonest. There is nothing man can do because it’s a natural disaster. ‘’I will advise those who refused to come to the IDP camps to relocate to higher grounds. This is a natural disaster, so they have no choice than to relocate to higher ground. This also happened in 2012.” The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for the Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency in Bayelsa State, Michael Olomu, also donated items worth millions of naira to flood victims in the Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. In a statement, his media office explained that Olomu was touched by the pains of the vulnerable people, personally visited the area weekend and donated relief materials to reduce the agony caused by the flood. Olomu also visited sick people in various hospitals in Sagbama, Bulou-Orua and the Adagbabiri communities, all in the Sagbama Local Government Area. Some of the items donated included foodstuffs such as garri, rice, noodles, salt and seasonings. Bayelsa senators, Reps call for emergency Also reacting to the situation, National Assembly members from Bayelsa State, comprising senators and members of the House of Representatives, yesterday raised alarm that the state had been completely severed from the rest of the country. The lawmakers at a briefing in Abuja yesterday, said floods had sacked many people from their homes and communities, prompting untold hardship. Speaking on behalf of the lawmakers who included Senators Henry Seriake Dickson, Biobarakumo Degi-Eremienyo, Moses Z. Cleopas, Preye Influence Goodluck Oseke, Frederick Azibapu Obua, Israel Naira appreciates to N441.25 /$ in I&E window By Elizabeth Adegbesan The naira yesterday appreciated to N441.25 per dollar in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for the window fell to N441.25 per dollar from N441.38 per dollar last week Friday, indicating 13 kobo appreciation for the naira. However, the naira depreciated by N4 in the parallel market yesterday. Vanguard findings from black market traders showed that the indicative exchange rate for the market rose to N742 per dollar from N738 per dollar on last week Friday. From left, Honorary Secretary of the Nigeria-Britain Association (N-BA), Mr. Ademola Sanya; founder of Leventis Foundation and N-BA Icon Award recipient, Mr. Anastasios P. Leventis, CBE, OFR; Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola; N-BA President, Ms. Abimbola Okoya; Vice Patron of the Association, Mr. Philip Hall, OBE and immediate past president of the association, Mr. Shola Tinubu, during the 2022 Nigerian Independence Day celebration held in London, United Kingdom Sunny-Goli and Steve Azaiki, Frederick Yeitiemone Agbedi appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to declare Bayelsa a disaster emergency. Agbedi said: “Considering that Bayelsa State is not just the worse affected, but one that has been completely severed from the rest of the country as a result of the complete erosion across several sections of the East-West Road, it is our additional call, therefore, on Mr. President to declare a state of disaster emergency in Bayelsa State. “Similarly, we call on ministries, departments and agencies, such as the National Emergency Management Agency; National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons; and the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, And Social Development for their considered, immediate intervention with medicines, foodstuffs and other relief materials.” 4,745 IDPs decline relocation from Delta communities About 4,745 displaced persons across 73 communities in Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday declined relocation from their flood-ravaged communities over desire to secure their properties and prematurely harvested farm produce. This came as the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, assisted IDP Camp at Ashaka fully took off, with the camp registration hitting over 800 IDPs. Chairman of the local government area, Mr. Juan Governor, who disclosed this, noted that from reports gathered during a zoom meeting of NELGA 2022 Flood Management Committee, the flood had started receding in the NELGA communities, along the upper part of the River Niger and Ase Creek. Gbajabiamila, operators seek solutions to foreign airlines’ trapped funds, high ticket fares •To invite Finance, Aviation ministers, CBN Gov, others on Thursday for inputs By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA — Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila , said yesterday that parliament would assist foreign airlines recover their trapped funds. Gbajabiamila spoke during a meeting with stakeholders from the aviation industry on the blocked $700 million belonging to foreign airline operators. The stakeholders, under the aegis Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, had raised issues on capital flight, breach of Bilateral Air Services Agreement, BASA, high cost of tickets/ air fares imposed on Nigerians. Chairman, United Nigeria Airlines, Professor Obiora Okonkwo, who spoke on behalf of AON, had called the attention of the speaker to the issues, alleging that foreign airlines after receiving payment at the N740 parallel market rate, asked for the official rate of N447 from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The operators accused the International Air Transport Association, IATA, of favoritism. Gbajabiamila said: “In the meantime, we have to look for solutions. I’m also going to plead with foreign airlines to show some good faith. “What’s that good faith or how do you show that good faith? To open up your portals or whatever it is for business to continue as usual so that Nigerians can purchase your tickets so that travel agents can work while this is going on. “So, while you are doing yours there, we are doing ours here. It cannot be a one-sided thing. So, we can give ourselves some time so that once you go back to status quo, we will also at this point look into how you can repatriate or how you can get your funds. If it’s special intervention or whatever, we will find a way to deal with it. “So, it has to be for want of a better word, symbiotic and as well do our end and you need to do your end within some good faith assurance from you. “By self-admission, laws are actually being broken right. You did say about an hour ago that yes under BASA law, they are not allowed to sell foreign currency. “Okay, so it’s not a BASA regulation, it’s a Nigerian law, either way, some law is being broken. So, the question is whether BASA or CBN law, so having heard that, let me still maintain my very soft punch to the airlines; please talk to your guys out there that you are breaking the CBN regulations. “I will also appeal to you to revert to status-quo while we look at the matter. Once that is done, it gives us more motivation to try and assist. “In the BASA you have different provisions and some fall under economic regulations and then we have the civil aviation authorities of each country. “So, in this particular case, selling in a particular currency, we know that all the airlines are not supposed to sell in dollars in Nigeria. They know that. “No airline wants to sell in dollars if it has guarantee, even it will be tempted to sell in dollar if you are guaranteed that you will be able to repatriate the funds as at when it’s due. Why should they do that? “You see, what we are experiencing is a reaction and I can say it’s epidemic reaction to the long time that this money has been blocked. We are talking of March 2020, now till 2022. As an operator, as a business man, if you have your money locked in a system for over a year or two years, will you continue to expose yourself for further money to be locked? That is the fundamental question and that’s what the airlines are doing. “Since we have found ourselves in this situation and if it’s not contravening any law, part of things you might consider is to go into discussion with NCAA, fuel suppliers to know if a consideration can be made that some of this naira fund can be used in place of dollar to pay these local expenses. “This you have told us is in violation of the IATA laws that is charging, not allowing selling tickets in foreign exchange. We all expect you to ensure enforcement.” In his presentation, IATA’s Area Manager, West & Central Africa, Dr. Samson Fatokun, alleged that foreign airlines were demanding repatriation of $700 million blocked fund since 2020 to date. “It is not written in any BASA that they have to sell in dollar or not sell in dollar. It’s a CBN regulation that airlines are not expected, should not sell in dollars, it’s a CBN regulation,” he had said. Also speaking, Deputy President of National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies, NANTA, Mr. Chima Ihe, pleaded with government to assist airlines access the fund. “From the travel agencies side, we are pleading with government to see how they can help the airlines to access this fund. I want to disagree with Mr. Obiora that this money can be recycled. This is operational cost, it’s not a profit which you can ask them to recycle in Nigeria or invest in Nigeria. “However, the issue of disparity in air fares and our inability to travel agencies to right now access inventory of the airlines to issue tickets, that is a big issue.’’ On her part, Regional Commercial Manager of British Airways, Mrs. Adetutu Otuyalo, said it is not true that foreign airlines charged fares in dollars. “For British Airways, I can speak. We have to make changes to sell tickets in Nigeria. This time two years ago, anybody that has a Nigerian card can successfully make bookings on British Airways. I can attest to that. ‘’But what has happened is that, the banks have placed a limit on the Nigerian cards. Before, you could do a thousand, 2,000, 3,000 dollars on those cards. But right now, probably you could do $100 on those cards.”
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