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Sean Dampte UK based singer, drops new track,‘Energy’

Sunday 21 January 2018

Pele 'fine' and in 'no pain' after reported health concerns

Brazil icon Pele at a public appearance

The Brazilian football legend explained his withdrawal from a scheduled trip to the UK was down to an issue that arose from hip surgery.

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Aubameyang to Arsenal deal moves closer as Gazidis arrives for formal talks with Dortmund

The BVB striker could be on the move after the Gunners executive arrived for negotiations with the German club

Aubameyang to Arsenal deal moves closer as Gazidis arrives for formal talks with Dortmund



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Oyo Govt approves geological exploration of mineral resources

THE Oyo State Government has granted permission for the geological exploration of Talc (Talcum Powder) and other mineral resources in some parts of the state in order for the government to create a data bank of […]

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33 Niger Republic Citizens Found Among Libya Returnees In Yobe



  1. 33 Niger Republic Citizens Found Among Libya Returnees In Yobe  CHANNELS TELEVISION
  2. Yobe Govt reunites 216 deportees from Libya with families  Premium Times
  3. Yobe receives 216 Libyan returnees, repatriates 33 to Niger Republic  Daily Trust

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Why IG ordered re-organisation of Force CID



  1. Why IG ordered re-organisation of Force CID  Daily Post Nigeria

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Even at old age, dreams can be realized – Atiku tells Obasanjo

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated Ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo who was on Friday honoured a doctorate degree from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Atiku who served under Obasanjo’s administration took to his Twitter page to congratulate him, pointing out that dreams can be realised regardless of the age. He wrote, “Former President […]

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Ekiti records 15 fire incidents in first 8 days of 2018

NO fewer than 15 separate fire incidents were recorded in parts of Ekiti State in the first eight days of 2018, the state government has revealed. A government statement, on Sunday, quoted the state’s Commissioner for […]

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Abdullahi Says Goodbye To Anorthosis Famagusta, Confirms Bursaspor Move

By Adeboye Amosu: Nigeria defender Shehu Abdullahi has expressed gratitude to Anorthosis Famagusta for making his two-year stay at the club a memorable experience, reports Completesportsnigeria.com (CSN).
Abdullahi will officially end his stay at the Cypriot club by signing a two-and-a half year contract with Turkish outfit Bursaspor on Monday.
He made an emotional end to his time with Anorthosis  as he was in tears while getting a standing ovation and farewell from both the fans and officials at the end of the their League clash against Ethinakos Achnas on Saturday, his last game for the club.
The occasion was made more memorable for him as he was handed the captain’s arm band in the game even as he scored the second goal from the spot in the 3-1 win.
“I just want to thank everyone at @anorthosisfc the club, the manager, my teammates and most of all the supporters for an incredible 2 years. As you know I am leaving the club to start a new challenge but this club will forever be in my heart. Thank You All!,” he wrote on his Twitter handle on Sunday.
The 24-year-old Super Eagles star, who joined Anorthosis from Portuguese club Uniao da Madeira in 2016, made 48 appearances for the club, scoring three goals.

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Transfer news: Arsenal ready to break transfer record for Aubameyang

Arsenal are set to follow up the signing of Henrikh Mkhitaryan, with a record-breaking bid for Borussia Dortmund striker, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Dortmund have already confirmed that the Gunners have contacted them about the player, but had a £45m offer turned down by the Bundesliga club. But Arsenal are ready to go above the £52m they […]

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Collapsed church building: Why Akwa Ibom govt. is yet to pay outstanding N100m medical bills

Nigeria Representative Joins 71 Contestants For Miss Intercontinental World Pageant In Egypt

As the countdown continues to the grand finale of Miss Intercontinental World Pageant holding on 24th January, 2018 in Egypt, Miss Nigeria Representative, Chizoba Ejike departed Nigeria few days ago for the world contest through the Murtala Muhammed International airport, Lagos. ‎The pretty model and beauty queen who is flying Nigeria’s flag at the world […]

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Partech Africa Fund: VC firm launches $120 million seed fund for African tech start-ups

Tidjane Deme, General Partner for Partech Ventures and Cyril Collon, General Partner for Partech Ventures

Europe-based VC firm expands to Africa to help develop talents and businesses in the region

$850 million Europe-based VC firm Partech Ventures has launched Partech Africa, a $120 million seed fund to invest $.6m to $6.1m in promising African teams using technology to solve massive problems in emerging markets.

The Africa fund will target industries ranging from Financial Inclusion (Fintech, InsurTech, new distribution models) to online and mobile consumer services (commerce, entertainment, education, digital services), as well as mobility, supply chain services and digitization of the informal economy.

Partech Ventures announced in an official statement that the Africa fund has successfully closed $70 million in commitments so far from institutional investment partners led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) the development arm of the World Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB) and corporate partners such as telecoms giant Orange. The VC firm said it is still raising and plans to reach its $120 million mark.

Though investments in African start-ups have continued to increase over the years culminating in $195 million last year according to tech news Disrupt Africa, there still exists a gulf in seed funding for young entrepreneurs and technology up starts. According to polls gathered last year by tech news site Enterprise54 and entrepreneurship training firm Leap Africa, lack of funding ranks first on the list of challenges of entrepreneurs in Nigeria.  

Commenting on the launch of Partech Africa, Chief Executive Officer of IFC, Philippe Le Houérou said: “Africa’s population is overwhelmingly young. It has lots of people with strong tech skills and innovative ideas that could improve lives. But they lack the necessary funding. We think the Partech Africa fund will make an important contribution to closing this funding gap and driving entrepreneurship and growth.”

Partech Africa opened offices in Dakar, Senegal and has begun operations seeking promising technology teams to invest in.

Two African technology veterans, Cyril Collon who held various executive positions at global mobile & internet solution companies, with a consistent focus on Africa & the Middle East, and Tidjane Dème who spent 7+ years in executive roles at Google in Africa and led YouTube’s strategy in the region, have also been appointed to manage the Africa fund.

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The White House: Trump is mired in familiar crisis with shutdown

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One year to the day after taking office with vows to bring the dysfunction of Washington to heel, President Donald Trump on Saturday found himself thrust into the most perennial of political crises

Trump had planned to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, celebrating his first year in office at a soiree with friends and supporters.

Instead, he remained out of sight in the White House, where he stewed about an impasse he had been unable to prevent, according to people close to him, and held a feverish round of conversations with Republican leaders in search of a resolution.

“This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present,” he wrote on Twitter before dawn. By afternoon, the president’s trip had been shelved as aides contemplated with dread the potential practical and political impacts of shuttering the government.

Inside the White House, Trump, who has styled himself the ultimate deal-maker, remained remarkably disengaged from the complex process of hammering out a politically palatable deal that could provide a way out of the morass.

Senior advisers counseled him to do less, not more negotiating, arguing that the shutdown was a political problem that Democrats had created for themselves, and had to find their own way to resolve.

But Trump, a highly reactive personality who detests headlines questioning his leadership — like those that dominated cable TV throughout Saturday, during coverage of the shutdown and women’s marches throughout the country denouncing his presidency — felt stymied and wanted somehow to intervene, according to one presidential adviser.

It fell to John F. Kelly, his chief of staff, to haggle over the details with Republican leaders.

The immediate cause of the shutdown, which began at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after Senate Democrats blocked consideration of a House-passed stopgap measure, was a dispute over spending.

But it was a stalemate over immigration policy, the topic that propelled Trump’s political rise, that snarled the negotiations, as the president vacillated over what approach he should take and advisers including Kelly counseled a harder line.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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Cattle Breeders Ready To Pay All Levies, Taxes To Anambra Government – Chairman

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Alhaji Bello Maigari, Chairman of Amansea Cattle Market, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra, said his members were ready to contribute to the economy of the state through payment of all the levies and taxes.

Maigari who spoke on Sunday in Awka, while briefing newsmen, described the relationship between the cattle breeders and host communities in Anambra as cordial.

He said that currently, his members only pay veterinary services levy, but noted that they were in talks with officials of the state government to work out an internal revenue arrangement to be paid to the state.

“We are discussing with the state government on the revenue that our members will be paying apart from the veterinary services fee we are currently paying.

“Before now, there was lots of people collecting money from cattle sellers in the states across the country, but the Federal Government has abolished all that.

“Here in Anambra, we are about to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state government on what we will be paying as revenue and how we will be paying it,’’ he said.

The chairman who is also the secretary of Hausa community in Anambra, said the Amansea Cattle Market had operated for about 20 years without harassment because of the good understanding that exists between the cattle sellers and the host community.

He said they understood that the land where they currently occupied belonged to a family whom they pay royalty to, and also obtain permission from communities where they graze their cows.

He said his members buy feed for their cattle instead of moving around with the cattle for grazing.

“We know that the place we are using now belongs to a family, we respect that and pay them royalty, and everyone is happy.

“At times we buy feed from the north, a bag cost N3, 000 and you need three of it to feed five cows every day,’’ he said.

Maigari thanked Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra for setting up the Cow Menace Committee, which he said had contributed greatly to achieving  peace in the state.

He said that the committee had intervened in crisis which would have degenerated to full fledged conflict with his members and different communities in the state.

He urged Obiano to help them develop the land that had been allocated to them to enable them relocate, as development was fast approaching their present market.

He said there was need to fence the place, provide security, water, and other amenities, including place of worship.

“This place is getting choked because of the development, we are appealing to Gov. Willie Obiano to help develop the land he has earmarked for us so that we can move to the place,’’ he said.

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Helicopter loaded with arms lands in Taraba village, govt says



  1. Helicopter loaded with arms lands in Taraba village, govt says  The Punch
  2. Slain Taraba lawmaker: Our aged mother is still weeping – Sister  Vanguard
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EXTRA TIME: Fabregas trolls Victor Moses after his first Premier League goal of the season

The Spanish international aimed a jibe at the 27-year-old who opened his Premier League goal account for the 2017-18 season against the Seagulls

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Union Urges Nigerians In S/Africa To Stay Away Ahead Of Protest

Adetola Olubajo

The Nigerian Community in South Africa on Sunday urged its members to adopt safety measures ahead of a planned protest against foreigners by South Africans.

A leaflet circulated on Sunday tagged “ Mogale City Monday Shut Down” said that there would be a protest against crime, drugs and human trafficking in Krugersdorp on Monday.

The leaflet read “ lets unite and reclaim our city from crime, drugs and human trafficking. Clean Krugersdorp, No one goes to work, No child goes to school, No transport allowed to move,”.

Mr Adetola Olubajo, the President of Nigerian Union, South Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Pretoria, that criminal elements could take advantage of the protest to cause trouble.

“ We call on our people to stay away from the areas as criminal elements within the community will take advantage of the protest.

“ We implore the organisers of the planned protest to do it within the ambit of the law and be very vigilant of criminal elements that may take advantage of the march to loot, destroy property and shops of foreigners,” he said.

Olubajo said that the union had zero tolerance for crime because it affects everybody in the society.

“ Those engaging in drug peddling and child prostitution, and those attacking foreign nationals and looting their property are all perpetrating crime,” he said.

The president urged the police to be proactive adding that prompt response would assist the people.

“ The host government at the highest level should swiftly intervene to avoid further loss of lives and property,” Olubajo said.

Shops and houses owned by Nigerians have been burned in Rustenburg, North West Province of South Africa and Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg by Taxi Drivers.

The drivers alleged that Nigerians sold drugs to a gang that attacked their members and that a Nigerian abducted and raped a 16-year-old South African girl.

The union denied the allegations saying that no Nigerian had been arrested for rape or drug offence.

The union said that it carried out investigation and found the allegations to be spurious.

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2019: Female presidential aspirant calls for review of elections guidelines

AS preparations for 2019 general elections gather momentum, a female presidential aspirant for the elections, Professor Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has called for a review of the current guidelines into political offices. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin […]

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Sanchez, Mkhitaryan set for medicals ahead of swap deal



  1. Sanchez, Mkhitaryan set for medicals ahead of swap deal  Vanguard
  2. Jose Mourinho speaks of Alexis Sanchez move to Manchester United  Information Nigeria
  3. Wenger hopes end of Sanchez saga will lift Arsenal  Sport24
  4. Arsenal player Alexis Sanchez’s transfer to Manchester United would be the biggest coup of the season  Financial Express

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Atalanta 0 Napoli 1: Mertens ends drought to keep visitors top

Dries Mertens in action for Napoli against Atalanta

Dries Mertens scored his first goal in 910 minutes of league football as Napoli beat Atalanta 1-0 away from home.

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Amuneke Records First Win As Al Khartoum Watani Edge Shabia In Friendly

By Johnny Edward‎: Former Super Eagles assistant coach, Emmanuel Amuneke,on Saturday recorded his first win with his new Sudanese side, Al Khartoum Watani as they defeated second division side Shabia Sporting Club 4-0 in a friendly match, Completesportsnigeria.com (CSN) reports.

After a goalless first half, Dominic Abui Pretino opened scoring for Al Khartoum Watani in the 54th in minute.

Farid doubled the lead in the 74th minute before Zacharia added the third goal six minutes later.

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Dominic completed his brace in the encounter with a late goal in stoppage time of the encounter.

Amuneke told CSN that Al Khartoum Watani will play another friendly game next Wednesday with a yet to be named team, Amuneke.

“The boys showed they are ready to adapt to the new philosophy and I must say I am impressed with their play. It’s a good start, but we need to do more to stay in shape for the start of the new season,”‎ the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup winning coach told Completesportsnigeria.com‎.

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LITF complex: A multibillion naira white elephant in the throes of death?

TUNDE ALAO writes that the multi-billion naira investment in the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex has not been yielding the expected returns over time, forcing the federal government to reconsider changing its preferred concessionaire of […]

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Edo LG poll: APC aspirants seeks popular participation

Adams Oshiomole

Aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Edo Local Government Council elections have called on the party’s leadership to allow the people decide their representatives.

Some of the apirants spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews on Sunday ahead of the March 3 council poll.

The aspirants flayed attempts to impose candidates on the party by some of its leaders, urging for support and promotion of popular candidates.

They also decried attempts by some of the aspirants and leaders to drag the names of Gov. Mr Godwin Obaseki and the state leader of the party, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, into their undemocratic activities.

While describing them as “desperate” to govern their respective councils through the back door, alleging that these people have been claiming endorsement by the governor and his predecessor.

Mr Omolei Imadu, an asirant for the Chairmanship of Owan West Local Goernment Area, said any attempt to force candidates on the people would be a great disservice to the people that have been loyal to the party.

He said allowing the people chose their representatives would enthrone democratic dividends through popular participation as well as assuring the best to emerge among the aspirants.

Similarly, Mr Bagudu Suleiman, a chairmanship aspirant for Etsako Central Council, said those responsible for name dropping are the unpopular aspirants that are afraid to face the people in a free and fair primaries.

“Oshiomhole to me have not, and I am sure, he will not endorse any body in my council in spite of the rumour that one particular aspirant have been endorsed by him for the chairmanship position.

“In any case, Oshiomhole is a democrat, he is the proponent of one-man-one-vote, as such he will want a free contest where the people and only the people determine who their candidate is. Same thing also goes for the governor,” he said.

Suleiman however said the people of South Uneme, a minority part of Etsako Central Local Government Area, deserve to be given the opportunity to produce the chairmanship of the council.

According to him, “The people have for long been marginalised in the allocation of political positions in the council and should thus appeal to the leadership of the party to stick to the earlier arrangement that zoned the chairmanship seat to the area.

“Those peddling rumours that they have been endorsed should stop forthwith and prepare themselves to face the people in a free and fair primaries.

“They should test their popularity before the people and not seek power through the back door.”

Meanwhile, the former governor has denied endorsing any candidate for chairmanship position in the poll.

Oshiomhole’s media aide, Mr Victor Oshioke, told NAN that his principal is a democrat who believe that party guidelines and constitution should be followed strictly, especially as it regards conduct of primaries.

He said those using Oshiomhle’s name were doing so without his knowledge and advised the electorate to disregard such.

“Just like the other party leaders, he believes that it is okay if leadership of the party in a particular council are able to arrive at consensus candidate and not imposing candidates on them as being peddled,” the spokesman said.

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Daddy Freeze: OAP supports UNIBEN's decision to ban fellowships on campus

Daddy Freeze supports UNIBEN's decision to ban fellowships on campus

The OAP has also spoken up against what he terms the monetisation of Christianity and flamboyant lifestyle of many pastors.

Controversial On-Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, alias Daddy Freeze, has weighed in on the ban of fellowships by the student affairs division of the University of Benin (UNIBEN).

The OAP, who posted the memo from the UNIBEN school authorities on his Instagram page, said “This is long overdue! Thank God non of the Pentecostal fellowships made it…. na school dem send Una, make Una face the school.”

Freeze has incurred the wrath of many preachers in Nigeria for advising Christians not to pay their tithes.

ALSO READ: Daddy Freeze reacts to video of Pastor Adeboye asking for N1b

 

Pastor places curse on Daddy Freeze

As a result of his daring stand against tithing, a popular pastor, according to Daddy Freeze, laid a curse on him saying that he had 24 months to live.

The OAP has also locked horns with the Senior Pastor of the Kingsway International Christain Centre [KICC], Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo.

Ashimolowo, while reacting to Freeze’s comments on tithing and giving, called him a 'Yoyo, wife beater, drunkard, and divorcee'.

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Sudan focused on CHAN glory against Morocco – Logarusic

AFC Leopards coach Zdravko Logarusic urges on his charges against Gor Mahia

Logarusic believes Sudan can outclass Morocco and that they stand a good chance of beating the Atlas Lions in the last Group A match

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Dramatic end to Kaduna teachers’ strike

In this report, MUHAMMAD SABIU writes that teachers in Kaduna embarked on a strike after they were sacked by the state government but the crisis came to a dramatic end after the intervention of the […]

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'Trump is always seeking confrontation' – Thuram hits out at US President for spreading 'racism'

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The World Cup winner has hit out at the divisive nature of Trump while has also commented on Antoine Griezmann’s blackface controversy

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One Trend You Should Stop Wearing According To Kanye West

Kanye West, via email, sent his wife a message telling her not to wear big sunglasses anymore because they are no longer in vogue rather she should wear tiny glasses which are making a comeback after making waves in the 90s.

Kim Kardashian. Photo Credit: Pop Nation/ Splash News

Kanye West enjoys styling his wife Kim, who he has called his muse on several occasion.

The email was revealed in the January 7 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians when Kim admits that her husband and stylist sent her an email saying she must wear the latest sunglasses trend.

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Succour for PDP as a splinter group returns



  1. Succour for PDP as a splinter group returns  Vanguard
  2. Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Sunday morning  Daily Post Nigeria
  3. Fresh PDP declares loyalty to Secondus  Premium Times

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Nigeria is a free-press state – Amosun



  1. Nigeria is a free-press state – Amosun  Vanguard
  2. Amosun Refutes Fake Rice Rumour  Leadership Newspapers
  3. Some people demarketing our state for selfish reasons, says Amosun on rumour of fake rice  TheCable
  4. 2019: Anxiety in Ogun APC over screening of guber aspirants  The Nation Newspaper

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Politics: Trump campaign ad says Democrats are 'complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants'

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The Trump campaign released an ad Saturday announcing its intention to blame Democrats for murders committed by unauthorized immigrants.

  • The Trump campaign released an ad Saturday announcing its intention to blame Democrats for murders committed by unauthorized immigrants.
  • The ad came on the first day of a government shutdown, caused in part by deadlocked negotiations on immigration policies.
  • But Democrats said Saturday they offered Trump funding for the border wall, only to have him back away from a tentative deal hours later.

President Donald Trump on Saturday released a vitriolic campaign ad attacking Democrats on immigration, calling them "complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants."

The 30-second ad, debuted on YouTube and titled "Complicit," used footage from the ongoing trial of Luis Bracamontes, an unauthorized immigrant accused of killing two northern California deputies. Bracamontes made headlines on Wednesday after shouting in the courtroom that he killed cops, didn't regret it, and wanted to kill more.

"It's pure evil," a narrator in the Trump campaign ad intoned. "President Trump is right: build the wall, deport criminals, stop illegal immigration now. Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants. President Trump will fix our border and keep our families safe."

The campaign ad follows a long series of efforts by the Trump administration to portray immigrants as criminals, but experts have found that immigrants — including unauthorized ones — are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.

The ad was released on the first day of a government shutdown, caused in part by a deadlocked debate between Congressional Democrats and hard-line Republicans over how to handle several immigration issues.

At issue is the fate of hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants known as "Dreamers" protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which the Trump administration was set to phase out by March 5.

Trump and his allies have demanded Congress fund his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border and reform several other immigration programs in exchange for permanently protecting the Dreamers.

Democrats have attempted to compromise, and even conceded to Trump on the border wall. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced he had offered to put the border wall "on the table" to Trump in a White House meeting on Friday — a negotiation he said Trump appeared amenable to, before abruptly backing away that same day.

"The president said many times he would take a deal that had included DACA in exchange for the wall," Schumer said Saturday in a speech on the Senate floor. "I put that deal on the table in the Oval Office in a sincere effort at compromise. I put the wall on the table in exchange for strong DACA protections."

But the tentative deal ultimately failed because Trump was an unreliable negotiator, Schumer said.

"Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with Jell-O," he said. "It's next to impossible."

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NDDC Should Focus On Its Core Mandate Areas – Nwaobosi

Senator Peter Nwaobosi represents Delta North Senatorial District at the Senate. In this interview with FELIX IGBEKOYI, the former Delta PDP Chairman and presently Senate Chairman of Niger Delta Affairs speaks on everything about the Commission Act 2000. Excerpts:

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration is gradually running to an end as it has already run through two and half of the four-year tenure. Within this period in the life of the administration, it has been observed that some of the government agencies are still running without a constituted board of directors.

Some of the agencies currently running without constituted boards include the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Pension Commission (PenCom), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the financial subsector, and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in the aviation, among others.

While it is viewed in some quarters that the extant laws that established some of these agencies are fragmented and overlapping with multiplicity of obnoxious enactments whereby rendering system ineffective and inefficient, some are contending that the purpose of having a constituted board is majorly to check infractions and overbearing influences of the chief executive officers designated as director generals and the executive management and ensure checks and balances.

A typical instance is the feud between the immediate past Director General of the SEC; Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, and the Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, which eventually cost the later his job. A school of thought has it that such scenario would have been averted if there was a board of directors in place.

Also, the overbearing influence of the former CBN Governor, now an Emir, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, who occupied the position of a chairman and the chief executive of the apex bank, is another case in question.

Another instance where the board plays significant role in an agency structure is to guarantee a smooth-running of the system without a hitch was the case of PenCom, where the board was dissolved in late 2016 and the director general relieved of her job. It was said that the system was running abnormally due to the failure of the government to constitute a substantive board. The entire system is currently being run in an acting capacity.

To provide continuity for the organisation by setting up a corporation or legal existence, and to represent the organisation’s point of view through interpretation of its products and services, and advocacy, select and appoint a chief executive to whom responsibility for the administration of the organisation is delegated, including: – to review and evaluate his/her performance regularly on the basis of a specific job description, including executive relations with the board, leadership in the organisation, in product/service/programme planning and implementation, and in management of the organisation and its personnel and to offer administrative guidance and determine whether to retain or dismiss the executive.

The board governs the organisation by broad policies and objectives, formulated and agreed upon by the chief executive and employees, including assigning priorities and ensure the organisation’s capacity to carry out products/services/programmes by continually reviewing its work, acquire sufficient resources for the organisation’s operations and to finance the products/services/programmes adequately and Account to the stockholders (in the case of a for-profit) or public (in the case of a nonprofit) for the products and services of the organisation and expenditures of its funds, including:- to provide for fiscal accountability, approve the budget, and formulate policies related to contracts from public or private resources and to accept responsibility for all conditions and policies attached to new, innovative, or experimental products/services/programmes.

Roles And Responsibilities Of Corporate Board Of Directors

There are a variety of views about the roles and responsibilities of a board of directors and most of these views share common themes. Depicting various views, a board of directors is a group of people legally charged with the responsibility to govern a corporation.

In a for-profit corporation, the board of directors is responsible to the stockholders — a more progressive perspective is that the board is responsible to the stakeholders, that is, to everyone who is interested and/or can be effected by the corporation. In a non-profit corporation, the board reports to stakeholders, particularly the local communities, which the non-profit serves.

According to experts, core company law is concerned with addressing three main sets of principal/agent problems.

These arise out of the relationships between the management and the shareholders as a class; between majority shareholders and minority shareholders; and between the controllers of the company (whether managers or majority shareholders) and non-shareholder stakeholders.

Following the three propositions, the rules relating to board composition, structure, duties and powers (‘board rules’) are capable of being utilised to address any one or more of these sets of agency problems.

However, there is a swap in-between if the board rules address more than one set of the agency problems; and their effectiveness in relation to any one set is reduced.

Experts have also added that the focus of the recent corporate governance movement has been on enhancing the board’s effectiveness in addressing the management and shareholders as a class and in consequence the burden of addressing the other two agency problems, that is, between controllers and non-shareholder stakeholders.

Core company law addresses three sets of principal/agent problems, which are inherent in the structure of large companies: those arising between management and the shareholders as a class; between majority shareholders and minority shareholders; and between the controllers of the company (whether managers or majority shareholders) and non-shareholder stakeholders. Within a particular company the first two sets of problems are mutually exclusive (at least at any one point in time) and which predominates depends upon the structure of shareholdings. Where shareholdings are dispersed, the principal/agent problem, which emerges is that between shareholders as a class and the management of the company.

No matter what the formal governance rights of the shareholders may be, their collective action problems may make it in practice impossible or very difficult for the shareholders to exercise effective control over the management of the company.

In consequence, management may give priority to non-shareholder interests, including the interests of the managers themselves.

The question for company law, therefore, is what contribution it can make to reduce the costs of diversified ownership and the principal/agent problem generated by such diversification.

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How Agencies Struggle With Corporate Governance Without Boards

Jonathan, railway, Buhari, fuel scarcity, Urhobo

Recently the Federal Government was embarrassed when it appointed dead persons into its organisations, thus stoking the controversy over the non-constitution of many organisations in the country. In this piece, BAMIDELE OGUNWUSI, CHRIS EBONG, IKECHI NZEAKO, ISAAC ASABOR and SEGUN KOIKI write on why the boards have not been constituted after the government has just two years more and its implications on the nation’s economy.

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration is gradually running to an end as it has already run through two and half of the four-year tenure. Within this period in the life of the administration, it has been observed that some of the government agencies are still running without a constituted board of directors.

Some of the agencies currently running without constituted boards include the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Pension Commission (PenCom), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the financial subsector, and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in the aviation, among others.

While it is viewed in some quarters that the extant laws that established some of these agencies are fragmented and overlapping with multiplicity of obnoxious enactments whereby rendering system ineffective and inefficient, some are contending that the purpose of having a constituted board is majorly to check infractions and overbearing influences of the chief executive officers designated as director generals and the executive management and ensure checks and balances.

A typical instance is the feud between the immediate past Director General of the SEC; Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, and the Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, which eventually cost the later his job. A school of thought has it that such scenario would have been averted if there was a board of directors in place.

Also, the overbearing influence of the former CBN Governor, now an Emir, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, who occupied the position of a chairman and the chief executive of the apex bank, is another case in question.

Another instance where the board plays significant role in an agency structure is to guarantee a smooth-running of the system without a hitch was the case of PenCom, where the board was dissolved in late 2016 and the director general relieved of her job. It was said that the system was running abnormally due to the failure of the government to constitute a substantive board. The entire system is currently being run in an acting capacity.

To provide continuity for the organisation by setting up a corporation or legal existence, and to represent the organisation’s point of view through interpretation of its products and services, and advocacy, select and appoint a chief executive to whom responsibility for the administration of the organisation is delegated, including: – to review and evaluate his/her performance regularly on the basis of a specific job description, including executive relations with the board, leadership in the organisation, in product/service/programme planning and implementation, and in management of the organisation and its personnel and to offer administrative guidance and determine whether to retain or dismiss the executive.

The board governs the organisation by broad policies and objectives, formulated and agreed upon by the chief executive and employees, including assigning priorities and ensure the organisation’s capacity to carry out products/services/programmes by continually reviewing its work, acquire sufficient resources for the organisation’s operations and to finance the products/services/programmes adequately and Account to the stockholders (in the case of a for-profit) or public (in the case of a nonprofit) for the products and services of the organisation and expenditures of its funds, including:- to provide for fiscal accountability, approve the budget, and formulate policies related to contracts from public or private resources and to accept responsibility for all conditions and policies attached to new, innovative, or experimental products/services/programmes.

Roles And Responsibilities Of Corporate Board Of Directors

There are a variety of views about the roles and responsibilities of a board of directors and most of these views share common themes. Depicting various views, a board of directors is a group of people legally charged with the responsibility to govern a corporation.

In a for-profit corporation, the board of directors is responsible to the stockholders — a more progressive perspective is that the board is responsible to the stakeholders, that is, to everyone who is interested and/or can be effected by the corporation. In a non-profit corporation, the board reports to stakeholders, particularly the local communities, which the non-profit serves.

According to experts, core company law is concerned with addressing three main sets of principal/agent problems.

These arise out of the relationships between the management and the shareholders as a class; between majority shareholders and minority shareholders; and between the controllers of the company (whether managers or majority shareholders) and non-shareholder stakeholders.

Following the three propositions, the rules relating to board composition, structure, duties and powers (‘board rules’) are capable of being utilised to address any one or more of these sets of agency problems.

However, there is a swap in-between if the board rules address more than one set of the agency problems; and their effectiveness in relation to any one set is reduced.

Experts have also added that the focus of the recent corporate governance movement has been on enhancing the board’s effectiveness in addressing the management and shareholders as a class and in consequence the burden of addressing the other two agency problems, that is, between controllers and non-shareholder stakeholders.

Core company law addresses three sets of principal/agent problems, which are inherent in the structure of large companies: those arising between management and the shareholders as a class; between majority shareholders and minority shareholders; and between the controllers of the company (whether managers or majority shareholders) and non-shareholder stakeholders. Within a particular company the first two sets of problems are mutually exclusive (at least at any one point in time) and which predominates depends upon the structure of shareholdings. Where shareholdings are dispersed, the principal/agent problem, which emerges is that between shareholders as a class and the management of the company.

No matter what the formal governance rights of the shareholders may be, their collective action problems may make it in practice impossible or very difficult for the shareholders to exercise effective control over the management of the company.

In consequence, management may give priority to non-shareholder interests, including the interests of the managers themselves.

The question for company law, therefore, is what contribution it can make to reduce the costs of diversified ownership and the principal/agent problem generated by such diversification.

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