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Ablakwa has failed to nail us-NIA

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JENNIFER AMBOLLEY
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Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has disclosed that the Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, did not provide any records of Victor Kusi Boateng from the NIA database,because none exists.

In a statement signed by the Corporate Affairs Directorate, the NIA said that Ablakwa did not present any empirical evidence about the biometrics of Victor Kusi Boateng, since there is none and, if there is, it was not taken from the NIA database.

The NIA issued the statement yesterday to respond to Mr. Ablakwa’s post on his Facebook page, requesting that NIA provided an explanation about how Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng,  member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral came to possess an NIA card, bearing the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

According to the NIA, Mr. Ablakwa only gave the application information for Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, who was born on December 30, 1969 and left out the information for Victor Kusi Boateng, who was born on September 7, 1971.

Furthermore, NIA added that the MP’s claim that “rare and comprehensive analysis of the NIA database,” discloses that “the biometrics … of Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng matches that of Kwabena Adu Gyamfi,” is hollow.

The NIA has also denied this assertion,stating that there is no record of a person by the name of Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng in the NIA database. As a result, Mr. Ablakwa did not compare his work to that of Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

The NIA stated that its outfit is required by law to register applicants onto the NIA database, properly called the National Identity Register (NIR), based on the information supplied by applicants.

Per Section 8(1) of the National Identification Register Act, the Authority requires an individual who applies for an entry to be made in the Register to submit any of the following identity documents, “a birth certificate, valid passport, valid residence permit, valid certificate of acquired citizenship and any other information, as may be required by the Authority.

According to the NIA, their registration officials are bound to register and issue a Ghana Card to an applicant who presents any of the documents specified above, unless on the face of the record or based on information gathered from the interview process, there is a reasonable basis to suspect fraud.

This, he said, there is nothing mysterious about Kwabena Adu Gyamfi being issued with a Ghana Card as such, even though Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa knows Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng as well.

“NIA registration officials registered Kwabena Adu Gyamfi using his valid passport as the base identity document for his registration, and duly issued him with a Ghana Card,” the statement made known.

The NIA stressed that the legitimacy of the entire registration process is completely unharmed on this point.

The Authority said that since 2017, their organization has performed a nationwide identification exercise with steadfast resolve and focus, yielding the collection of biometric and alpha-numeric data on more than 17.3 million Ghanaians and eligible foreigners in Ghana.

Also, it added that the NIA in addition to its register, the NIA and its technical partner, Identity Management Systems II Limited (IMS II), have built a credible and robust National Identification System (NIS).

The NIA in this regard made reference to the handling of the Aisha Huang’s case, says its outfit professionals handled Aisha Huang’s attempted fraudulent registration for the Ghana Card, in that it was the vigilance of its personnel and the robustness of its technical system that resulted in her exposure.

The NIA system, it said, functioned as designed to enable NIA prevent En Huang (the so-called Aisha Huang) from registering under a new name and date of birth for a new Non-Citizen Ghana Card, despite her being in possession of two different Chinese passport.

Background

Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa has for the past weeks been on the neck of the NIA over  why the Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Rev Victor Kusi Boateng, got an NIA card with the name Kwabena AduGyamfi.

Last week, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa disclosed that he had acquired Kusi Boateng’s Ghana Card in addition to other information that he had previously publicised, including his two separate passports and driver’s license.

On the January 27 episode of the program, he gave an update on the situation and said that the card he had seen did not have the name Victor Kusi Boateng, as is commonly believed, but he did not say if it bore the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

West Hills Mall Murder: Deceased was running away from police –Court told

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BERNICE BESSEY
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Court

The Sowutum District Court, presided over by Stephen Tabiri, has been informed that no physical mark of assault was found on the body of Shadrack Allu, a 32-year old man, who was allegedly killed by Kwame Boafo Osei at the West Hills.

The court was further informed that prior to Shadrack’s death, he was running away from a peace officer detailed to perform a duty at the West Hills Mall in Accra.

Therefore, it was during this struggle between the police sergeant and the deceased that caught the attention of the accused to intervene with his taser.

The prosecution, led by Inspector M. Kwakye, indicated that the deceased died, due to the shock released from the taser by the accused person.

As a result, the accused has been slapped with murder, a first degree felony, which is punishable by death.

The accused plea was not taken and has been remanded into police custody to reappear on February 16, 2023.

Presenting the brief facts to the court, Insp Kwakye told the court that the Complainant in the case is Bernard Barnor Denkyi, an Operation Manager of West Hill Mall located at Weija, while the accused, a shop Manager of Max Buy Ghana Limited, dealers of Electrical Appliance, also located within the West Hill Mail.

According to the prosecution, on January 30, 2023 Police Sergeant Daniel Abeiku was stationed at Visibility Unit of the Ghana Police Service, Headquarters, was detailed to perform a duty at the West Hills Mall.

He added that while he was patrolling in the Mall, he saw Shadrack Allu, aged 32 years, now deceased, and Ibrahim Seshi, a witness in the case, carrying backpacks.

The police Sergeant allegedly became suspicious of the deceased and Ibrahim;s movement and stopped the deceased to search his backpack.

Inspector Kwakye narrated to the court that the deceased, opened his backpack and removed something wrapped in black polythene from the backpack, and put it in his back pocket and started running outside.

The Police Sergeant allegedly also pursued the deceased and was able to arrest him. The deceased allegedly also struggled with the law enforcement officer.

It was alleged that while the Policeman was handcuffing the deceased, he removed the said wrapped black polythene from his pocket and swallowed it.

The accused person, who also saw the incident, rushed to the scene and removed his personal Taser and shocked the deceased.

“The deceased fell unconscious as a result and was rushed to the Somotech Hospital within the Mall for treatment, but he was pronounced dead on arrival by the Medical Doctor,” he added.

During interrogation, the accused admitted that he bought the Taser for self-defence. The court was further told that the body of the deceased was carefully inspected but no physical marks of assault were found on him. The body has been transferred to the Police Hospital for preservation and autopsy.

He stated that investigation is still ongoing.

 

Court remands labourer for causing harm

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BERNICE BESSEY
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Court

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 20-year-old labourer, Joshua Martei Laryea into police custody for attempting to cause harm and causing harm to one Sadat Nyaaba.

The accused has pleaded not guilty to attempting to cause and guilty simplicita for causing harm to the victim, Sadat.

The court, presided over by Halima El-Alawu-Abdul Baashit, yesterday, defered the accused’s sentence on count two to February 23, 2023.

The court was told by the prosecuting officer, Inspector Rosemond Anyane, that the Complainant in the case is a mechanic, while the accused person is a labourer and they both live at Teshie Mobil.

According to him, on January 18, 2023, at about 08:20pm, the Complainant and the accused person had some misunderstanding at a ghetto in the vicinity and they were separated and both left the scene.

She said while the Complainant was on his way home, the accused person went and crossed his way at a section of the road.

The accused person pulled up a knife and ordered the Complainant to surrender his Infinix mobile phone,valued at GHC1000.00.

When the complainant refused, the accused person then attacked him and while they were struggling, the accused pull out a knife and wounded the Complainant on his right elbow. The Complainant, therefore, sustained severe injury.

The Complainant then reported the matter to the police after he was rushed to hospital for medical attention. Police medical form was issued to him to attend hospital and report back to assist investigation.

On February 20, 2023 the accused person was arrested and handed over to the Police.

During investigation, the accused person admitted the offence and further told the police that he has thrown the knife into the gutter but could not lead the police to the retrieval of the said knife.

After investigation, the accused person was charged with the offences stated to appear before the court.

We did not kill anybody at Bawku -GAF

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GAF

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has denied allegations by some individuals in Bawku that soldiers deployed on Operation Gongong to restore calm in the area are killing innocent Kusasi youth and women in their homes and communities.

They also allege that military personnel have seized Zoogin, a Kusasi community. GAF wishes to categorically state that these allegations are false and unfounded.

Information received from the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) by the Operation Gongong Team of GAF early this week, indicates that passengers on board a yellow KIA Grand Bird Bus, with Registration Number AS 3672-21, travelling from Accra to Missiga were attacked by unknown gunmen around Kpawelga on the Bawku Highways.

The gunmen fired through the tyre and engine compartment of the vehicle. The bus is currently packed at Asylum Down, Bawku Divisional Police Station, for investigation to be conducted.

Also, one KIA Rhino truck, with registration number AS 7093-17 was hit and the driver of the truck, Alhassan Abdella, aged 40, from the Gonja tribe, sustained a gunshot wound on the left foot. He is currently receiving treatment at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital.

Again, on Wednesday, 1st February, 2023 gunshots were heard around South Natinga in Bawku. A Patrol Team rushed to the general area of the shooting, where a suspect, Abdul Malik Haruna, aged 35, from the Mamprusi tribe, was arrested. He has since been handed over to the Bawku Police for further investigation.

It must also be placed on record that based on a tip off by the Bawku Police on the hideout of the suspects alleged to be involved in the firing incident at Bawku, troops conducted cordon and search operations, together with Bawku Police at Pateleme General Area.

Three suspects, Fatau Alhassan Binda, aged 42, Abubakar Iddrisu, aged 44 and Alhassan Mustapha Binda, aged 33, all from the Dagomba tribe were arrested in a house at Pateleme. They were handed over to the Bawku Police for further investigations.

In a separate incident, sporadic firing was heard around Sabongari General Area. A Patrol Team dispatched to assess the situation spotted unknown armed men at Gozesi-Valley side in Sabongari, wearing black T-shirts with Black Hoodies. Troops engaged them and neutralised six (6) armed men.

During the engagement, some armed men took cover in a mud house within the immediate vicinity to engage the Team. One of the armed men attempted to attack troops with a cutlass but was disarmed in the process.

During the operation, a local woman found with a gunshot injury on her left-hand was sent to Bawku Presbyterian Hospital by some troops for treatment.

Following these incident and the false allegations making the rounds, it has become necessary for GAF to disclose these outcomes in order to dispel false information and the wrong notion that a particular group has being targeting troops in Bawku.

The Ghana Armed Forces therefore once again wishes to assure the general public of its commitment to protecting the citizenry at all times.

It is, therefore, soliciting the support of all peace loving Ghanaians, especially indigenes of Bawku to facilitate the process of bringing normalcy to the area and also to aid GAF in de-escalating tension in the interest of the needed peace and security for the socio-economic development of Bawku and the national as a whole.

Letter to Senior Opupulepu (217) Is Obroni-Wawu Back!

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Dear Senior Opupulepu,

How are you do? I hope you are do fine, as me and my abusua are all do fine.

Senior, you are remember the days when you go to fose-line to purchase deported clothing from the Land of the Long-Noses?

Senior, you are remember, how you do proper selection just to pick your choice and get fine, fine spoats to buy and wear and catch the daughters of Eve, young?

Senior, those were the days when even the local Osofo will order his taste and come to church shouting “The Lord is Good! Amen, Somebody!” The fact is that he has bought the best osofospoats leaving his colleagues empty handed making them go about reciting, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I am not want,”backwards, meanwhile they areseriously  in want, well, well.

Senior, when the bales of deported clothing aka obroniwawu, are dumped at dumping sites, many people flock there and bend-down to pick their choice. But then gradually, the patronage started dwindling in size, weight and height.

Senior, the retailers sat down at a meeting and thought and thought and thought how to find solution to the problem.

Senior, they did forensic audit on all items sold in Ogyakrom since the Long Noses came and left, and see their how far.

Senior, not long after that, their research revealed that the problem was not a problem at all. There was this particular fish or water animal for short which was born and bred in Ogyakrom and has never stepped fins out of this village.

The Nukedzo clan, call it akpaaand when this akpaa, known in the Misimisi clan as something like apartheid or is it apart-tricks sanitizes itself with salt, they call it koobi.

Senior, this fish used to not have market. You buy one and will get five free and it was so until one day this akpaaor apart-tricks, decided to follow Yesu Christus Emmanuel, some and enter into a Roman Katholico church to be converted.

Even though Akpaa is water-born, the Roman Katholico Osofo bath him with water, saying, “Tilapia, I baptise you in the Name of the Egya, the Baa and the SumsuumPure-Clean.” Akpaa now took pride and everywhere he goes, he will proudly say,“My name is Tilapia.”

Senior, then boom Akpaa, sorry Tilapia get market. This time any price the retailers called, people will buy and even ask the seller to keep the change even though the price went sky-high. And one hundred pieces of akpaais worth a quarter of Jubilation Hut.

Senior, the deported clothing cartel thought and thought and thought and came out with a brand name which became catchy. They rejected their kiosk name, fose-line and rebranded itas,bend-down boutique.

Senior, come and see rush, I do not mean date-rush, but rush-rush. In fact, the dada-bees and the mama-bees colonized these bend-down boutiques. And when you ask them whatever they are during there, they will say they are buying clothing for their house-helps to wear and scrub the floors in their houses. It’s a lie, a big, big lie.

Senior, the other day, when I went to one of these bend-down boutiques, I was eyeing a certain suit but a dada-bee beat me to it. A few days later, I saw him in this same suit at the aroplane park about to board an iron bird to fly out of Ogyakrom.

Senior, then something happened. You see that our Omanhene is from the Elephant clan and unfortunately all deported clothing could only fit the averageunderage and undersize Ogyakromians. Even that they will have to pull their stomachs in for allowance. Now, if even Pygmies find these clothing to be too tight, then what about Elephants?

Senior, our Omanhene then came out with a degree and degreed that from henceforth going forward and never coming backwards, from today to go, all deported clothing had been banned from entering into Ogyakrom. If Elephants cannot do bend-down boutiques some, then nobody should go there some.

Senior, there and then a certain Cassius Ato Forcing, an Umbrella clansman, got up and said, “As for this we from the Umbrella clan, no go gree! We no go stand there make them cheat we every day! Dabida! Who born cat?”

Senior, when I went into the matter, I found out that the major reason why the Umbrellas do not want deported clothing to be banned from even coming close to Ogyakrom land borders, territorial waters and airspace, is that, they were all planning to go Kwahu this Easter.

Senior, the Umbrella male species had wanted to put on the latest trousers which hangs at the thighs and tied with rope. And their female species will like to wear clothing that fail in attemptsto cover their bodies but rather expose everything about their bodies which should be hidden.

Senior, all this is because of Kwahu males and Kwahu females. The Umbrella men feel their women are too ugly to be associated with and so they want to catch fresh and nice Kwahu girls, while the Umbrella women claim their men are now non-performing assets and they now need those highly charged Kwahu men who can do the do and perform well, well.

Senior, this is Ogyakrom for you. I am Dan, sorry I am Done.

It’s Me.

Editorial: Why are businesses not flourishing in Ghana?

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The Register of Companies recently announced the process of deleting at least 513,338 names of various businesses that have defaulted in renewing their certificates from its register. Clearly, what this means is that the names of these businesses would be available for others to use.

But living in a country where very little emphasis is placed on research and data collection, it makes it impenetrable to understand why all these companies or sole proprietorships are not going back to renew their registrations. The question is – are they still in operation or out of business?

This rhetorical question opens the Pandora’s Box for public discourse on why businesses are failing in the country.

While lack of capital or funding, technology, inadequate management skills among others can be cited for some of these failures,  the poor attitude of employees – stealing, carelessness, rudeness, tardiness, laziness among a host of others play a major role.

Just recently, a video went viral on the social media, where a businessman was seen lamenting bitterly about the bad conduct of some employees who are only interested in stealing from their employers despite the availability of Close-circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in most of the work places.

Though research indicates that an average company spends 5% to 20% of its annual budget on security, the court recently jailed two workers of a financial institution in Accra for stealing a whopping GH₵1.2 million from their employers.

Several of these cases are still pending before the law courts, one of which involves two ladies–a sales officer and a cashier – who allegedly within a week stole GH¢466,945.19 from their employers.

Interestingly, one of them was alleged to have transferred the money to her boyfriend, to facilitate his journey abroad.

The Chronicle is concerned because we are in an era where unemployment figures are ballooning and turning into a ticking time bomb, as well as a security threat to the very existence of our nationhood. Yet those who have the opportunity of being employed are misbehaving.

The Chronicle therefore appeals particularly to the youth to show dedication towards their work and not allow greed to set in.  They must also see the work they have been employed to do as their own and work towards its success.

This is the only way, we dare say, businesses will begin to flourish and help to reduce the high unemployment rate in the country.

Ideal blood pressure may remodel brain clearance pathways linked to brain health, dementia

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Research Highlights:

  • Close review of MRI scans found more intensive high blood pressure treatment (targeted to achieve a systolic pressure less than 120 mm Hg) was more effective than a less-intense treatment goal of 140 mm Hg systolic in achieving a positive structural change in the brain’s perivascular spaces: pathways that are important to clearing toxins and other byproducts.
  • If the brain cannot properly clear metabolic byproducts, they accumulate and may contribute to the development of dementia, researchers said.
  • The new findings are from MRI scans of several hundred adults in the SPRINT-MIND trial that previously found intensive blood pressure-lowering slowed cognitive impairment.
  • Among people who received more intensive treatment for high blood pressure, evaluations of MRI scans indicated a positive change in brain structures involved in its ability to clear toxins and other byproducts, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2023.
  • The meeting, held in person in Dallas and virtually, Feb. 8-10, 2023, is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health.

The study is the first to examine whether intensive blood pressure treatment may slow, or reverse structural changes related to the volume of the brain’s perivascular spaces, areas of the brain around the blood vessels that are involved in the clearance of toxins and other byproducts. These areas tend to enlarge as people get older or have more cardiovascular risk factors.

“If the brain cannot properly clear toxins and metabolic byproducts, they will accumulate and may contribute to the development of dementia,” said Kyle Kern, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and a clinical research fellow in the intramural stroke branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

“Some research has proposed that the pulsations of the cerebral arteries with each heartbeat help to drive the clearance of these toxic brain byproducts in the perivascular spaces. However, high blood pressure over the long term stiffens arteries, impairing function and the ability to clear toxins, resulting in enlargement of perivascular spaces.”

The researchers analyzed brain MRI scans for 658 participants (average age of 67 years, 60% women) of the SPRINT-MIND MRI substudy. The trial began in 2010, and the last MRI scan was completed in July 2016. All participants had high blood pressure but none had previously been diagnosed with diabetes (Type 1 or 2), dementia or stroke.

After an average 3.9-year follow-up period, 243 people in the intensive treatment group (systolic blood pressure goal of 120 mm Hg) and 199 people in the standard treatment arm (systolic blood pressure goal of 140 mm Hg) had pre and post MRI scans that were analyzed for the percentage of brain tissue taken up by perivascular spaces.

Participants were screened at seven MRI sites across the U.S.: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Boston University, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University, University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania and Case Western Reserve University.

In MRI scans taken when the study began, the percentage of brain tissue occupied by perivascular spaces was higher among the patients who were older and had a greater volume of white matter hyperintensities (areas of increased brightness on an MRI scan that are the best-established marker of damage to small blood vessels in the brain).

These patients also had more brain atrophy, another marker of aging and declining brain health.

After controlling for age and sex of the participants, and the study site where the MRIs were performed, the analysis found:

  • At the start of the study, the volume of perivascular spaces was similar among participants in both blood pressure treatment groups.
  • After almost 4 years of high blood pressure treatment, the volume of perivascular spaces had decreased significantly in the intensive treatment group but did not change in the standard treatment group.

“Previous research has confirmed that effective blood pressure control is important for brain health. Our secondary analysis findings from SPRINT-MIND MRI suggest that intensive blood pressure control may be beneficial by reducing damage to the brain’s toxin and byproduct clearance pathway,” Kern said.

While the original SPRINT-MIND MRI study demonstrated that intensive blood pressure control may slow the accumulation of white matter hyperintensities, this substudy found that it may contribute to reversing the effects of high blood pressure on perivascular spaces.

“These results also suggest that perivascular spaces are more dynamic, and further research is needed to determine the relationship between perivascular space change and the progression of white matter hyperintensities,” Kern said.

The study is limited to the data available and the scope of knowledge that can be interpreted from the data. This includes not being able to determine whether the change in perivascular spaces improves thinking ability, or if it is a byproduct of blood pressure treatment that has no cause-and-effect relationship to cognition or cognitive decline.

“The next step is to determine how perivascular spaces relate to cognition and cognitive decline in the SPRINT-MIND trial. That trial included high-quality cognitive function assessments at multiple time points, and forthcoming investigations from the trial will describe how perivascular spaces may relate to the effect of intensive blood pressure control on cognitive decline,” Kern said.

According to the American Heart Association, normal blood pressure is below 120/80 mm Hg. For adults, if systolic pressure (the top number) is 120 to 129 mm Hg, and diastolic pressure is less than 80 mm Hg, this is classified as elevated blood pressure. High blood pressure is a systolic pressure of 130 mm Hg or higher, or a diastolic pressure of 80 mm Hg or higher, that stays high over time.

“These novel findings provide early evidence that it may be possible to reduce perivascular space size by intensive systolic blood pressure lowering.

While not yet proven, the implication is that the intensive systolic blood pressure lowering may eventually be associated with better clearance of brain toxins and metabolic by-products and thus, provide a better chance to maintain brain health,” said Philip B. Gorelick, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA, chair of the American Heart Association’s Stroke Brain Health Science Subcommittee and professor of neurology in the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who was not involved in the study.

Co-authors are Ilya M. Nasrallah, M.D., Ph.D., and Clinton B. Wright, M.D., M.S. Authors’ disclosures are listed in the abstract.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

Source- Yahoo

Industrialist Umar Abdulazeez is dead

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Umar Abdulazeez

One of Nigeria’s pre-eminent pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Umar Abdulazeez, a medical doctor, industrialist, and political figure, passed away on 1 February 2023 in Lagos, according to family sources.

Mr Abdulazeez was one of the pioneer medical doctors to graduate from the University College Hospital Ibadan, along with one time education minister, Jubril Aminu, who later became a vice chancellor at the University of Maiduguri.

Mr Abdulazeez was born in Okene, Kogi State, in August 1938, educated at the famed Government College Keffi, [now Nasarawa State] the University of Ibadan, and the University of Edinburg where he earned his postgraduate fellowship in surgery.

He lectured briefly at the Ahmadu Bello University before moving in private sector leading to his setting up of Biomedical Services in Ilorin, the country’s first intravenous pharmaceutical fluid manufacturer early years of the eighties.

Under his leadership, Biomedical Limited grew to become one of the largest quality healthcare providers and largest employers in the country, providing jobs to thousands of Nigerians.

In the wake of return to politics 1993, Mr Abdulazeez collaborated with the late General Shehu Yar Adua to found the defunct People’s Front, a precursor of the Social Democratic Party [SDP]. He was the Chairman of the People’s Front.

He was also a respected community figure and the Tafidan of Ebira Land. He is survived by three wives, 19 children and many grandchildren.

Source:.premiumtimesng.com

Fuel scarcity not plan to sabotage election – NNPC

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Group CEO Mele Kyari

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited on Thursday said the lingering petrol scarcity across the country is not a deliberate action to sabotage the forthcoming general elections.

The NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed this while speaking on NTA Good morning Nigeria programme Thursday morning.

Last week, during a campaign rally in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, alleged that a plot is being made to scuttle the general elections.

Mr Tinubu said the scarcity of fuel being experienced across the country and the redesign of the naira, the Nigerian currency, were part of the plot to sabotage the election.

“This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. We shall take over from them. They don’t want an election to take place, but we won’t accept it. They want to hide under fuel scarcity to cause the crisis so that there won’t be an election,” Mr Tinubu had said.

But speaking on Thursday, Mr Kyari said there is a very cumbersome logistics that has disrupted the supply chain of petroleum products

“Today, based on the records on our system, there are over 38,000 trucks on our roads just carrying petroleum products and this is the reality,” he said.

“By the way, I think it is very good also to say that no matter what you do, once there is an arbitrage environment, some people will take advantage of it. And it is very contrary, we all respect the comments, I don’t think anybody sat down and orchestrated that there should be scarcity so that it will impact the election. I don’t think anyone did this. If it is so, we will know.

Source:.premiumtimesng.com

CBN orders banks to begin over counter payment of new notes

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Central Bank of Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday ordered commercial banks to begin the payment of the new naira notes to customers over the counter.

This was confirmed in a statement issued and signed by the Bank’s Director, Corporate Communications Osita Nwanisobi.

Nwanisobi said the maximum daily payout limit is N20,000 only.

“In line with this resolve, the Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to commence the payment of the redesigned Naira notes over the counter, subject to a maximum daily payout limit of N20,000,” the statement added.

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