NIGERIA’S MOST INFORMATIVE NEWSPAPER NO 16,671 MONDAY, 9 JANUARY, 2017 www.tribuneonlineng.com Nigerian Tribune @nigeriantribune TribuneOnline Nigerian Tribune N150 N5,000 Methodist Prelate, Bakare, beneficiaries picked two others speak on Adeboye years ago •Clerics should retire to give chance for younger generation —Prelate •Adeboye's action noble —Bakare —P4 —Presidency •It's healthy for the church —Bishop Fape —P11 •Once registered with CAC, you are bound by the law —Rev Adeoti No new minimum —P3 wage, no peace —NLC 1,000 days: Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State supervising the men of the state fire Buhari vows brigade at a petrol station which went up in flames during the discharge of to rescue petrol by a fuel tanker in Ado Ekiti, on Sunday. PHOTO: SAM NWAOKO remaining Chibok girls —P3 3 policemen killed, 2 missing as herdsmen attack Adamawa —P31 Nigerian women live longer than men —NBS —P32 TODAY'S SPECIAL 8 mistakes to 21 houses, 33 shops razed in avoid when —P37 naming your business —P11 Ekiti tanker fire explosion 2 news Monday, 9 January, 2017 Nigeria should restructure to 6 regions —Bakare Counsels Buhari to adopt Singapore model in fighting corruption tion, which then, as in Ni- ter some high-profile targets, Yew was ‘completely incor- problem that has not been Bola Badmus - Lagos would roundly condemn the geria now, was part of their giving of virtually anything including a few, who were ruptible and chose people, solved before and also to ERVING Overseer of culture. of value in exchange for any close to the seat of power. who were incorruptible, state that we cannot con- Latter Rain Assem- Such steps, according to sort of benefit from the gov- “Lee Kuan Yew demon- when they strayed, he came tinue to treat cancer with bly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, would be for Presi- ernment, like it was done in strated grit, single-mind- down hard and that became Panadol. Bakare, has urged dent Buhari to use the ex- Singapore. edness, boldness and con- an internalised norm,” he “If we are fighting corrup- S isting anti-graft agencies, “In addition, ‘the law even sistency in overcoming said. tion, let us remove the kids’ President Muhammadu Bu- hari to consider restructur- especially the Economic criminalised bribe paying significant challenges, no Pastor Bakare, who equally gloves; if we are diversifying ing the country to correct the and Financial Crimes Com- within the private sector matter whose ox was gored. shared personal experiences the economy, let us make flaws in the federal system mission (EFCC), to launch cases, where no government “Hear Tepperman: ‘To of his visit to Singapore, said tough choices; and if we are brought about by successive a campaign against bribery officials were involved,” Bak- show how the bureau would he endeavoured to share the confronting insecurity, let us military regimes which devi- and graft. are said. work and to send message country’s story to illustrate also address the systemic is- ated from the original foun- He said Buhari should Speaking further, Bakare, that, as Lee put it, ‘the disin- that Nigeria had a peculiar sues that make it possible in dation laid by the country’s take responsibility for creat- who is also Convener, SNG, fecting has to start from the problem that had not been the first place. founding fathers. ing his own raw materials said like Lee Kuan Yew, Bu- top,’ the new government solved before and that Nige- “Hopefully, this Singapore This was as he insisted to override constraints as all hari’s government must also went after some high-profile rians could not continue to model can stimulate robust that President Buhari should visionary leaders did, point- demonstrate grit, single- targets, including a few of treat cancer with Panadol. thinking, bold visions, dia- adopt the founding Prime ing out that he could intro- mindedness, boldness and the Prime Minister’s close “I have shared Singapore’s logue and concrete action Minister Lee Kuan Yew of duce the ‘Prevention of Cor- consistency in ensuring that friends. story to illustrate that Nige- that will stop our national Singapore’s model in fight- ruption Act’ (POCA), which anti-graft agencies went af- “Furthermore, Lee Kuan ria does not have a peculiar decline and save our Re- ing corruption in the coun- public from becoming dys- try in order to achieve better topian- a state in which the result, declaring that it was worst possible conditions his considered opinion that exist in government, society Nigeria was still fighting cor- and Law,” he counselled. ruption with kids’ gloves. Speaking further, Pastor Bakare made the call on Bakare, while noting that the Sunday while delivering state government of Buhari had of the nation address in his a direction in terms of goals church, at Akilo Road, Ogba, and objectives that were mid Ikeja, Lagos State, even as he to short-term, as encapsu- lauded President Buhari for lated in Medium Term Ex- some progresses recorded penditure Frameworks and so far in the anti-corruption annual appropriation bills, war, with the relevant agen- lamented that Nigeria, as a cies recently extending the nation, still lacked a true na- fight to elements within the tional vision. judiciary suspected to have “This government has a been major impediments to direction in terms of goals the successful prosecution of and objectives that are mid the war. to short-term; these are en- “Be that as it may, it is my capsulated in Medium Term considered opinion that we Expenditure Frameworks are still fighting corruption - and annual appropriation our nation’s perennial arch- bills or budgets. However, as a nation, we still lack a true enemy - with kids’ gloves. Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode (third right); his wife, Bolanle (third left); General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church During the 2012 subsidy of God (RCCG) Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye (second right); his wife, Folu (right); Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (left) and his wife, national vision. protest at Ojota Park, the Temitope (second left), during the 2017 annual thanksgiving service, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Sunday. “Despite our previous at- ‘Save Nigeria Group’ (SNG) tempts at national planning- adopted the slogan ‘Kill Cor- from the era of fixed term ruption, not Nigerians.’ It is It’s unfortunate that varsities of agriculture are planning to the era of rolling very disheartening that alle- plans, all through to the vari- gations of corruption remain offering Law, Banking ous governmental agenda, rife in our country, even including Vision 2020- the against key office-holders in Orders JAMB to delete such courses from portal signs of the absence of a true national vision are so glar- the present government,” he Clement Idoko - Abuja running programmes which ation, where universities mum, challenges associ- said. had no bearing to their es- of agriculture offer pro- ated with the conduct of ing, that one would conclude According to the Latter THE Federal Government tablishment. grammes in Law, Man- the board’s examination. that the Prophet Habakkuk Rain Assembly overseer, has warned all specialised “Specialised universi- agement courses such as However, in the final analy- was talking about Nigeria in Singapore, by adopting its universities against run- ties are universities set up Accounting, Banking and sis, Nigerians should note the first four verses of Hab- own model in fighting cor- ning of unauthorised pro- to pursue specific courses/ Finance, Business Adminsi- that admissions will be con- bakuk 1. ruption, moved from being grammes outside their core programmes to steer the tration, among others. ducted within the stipulated According to him, “the big- dubbed ‘Sin-galore’ after in- mandates and objectives for need of manpower in a par- “As if that was not enough, deadline. gest indicator of the absence dependence in 1959, to be- their establishment. ticular sector of the econo- some institutions change “In view of the above, can- of a national vision or rallying ing ranked the seventh least Minister of Education, my. Some of these special- the nomenclature of some didates and parents are ad- point is the preponderance corrupt state in the world by Mallam Adamu Adamu, ac- ised institutions include of the courses to read, for vised not to pay money to of sectional agitations- from a 2014 Transparency Inter- cordingly directed the Joint Universities of Agriculture, instance, Banking, Engi- any agent or bank for any the clamour for self-deter- national report, contending Admissions and Matricula- Universities of Technolo- neering, Accounting Tech- registration, as JAMB has mination by the Afenifere that the country’s upward tion Board (JAMB) to de- gies, Universities of Medi- nology, among other names. not and will not appoint any Renewal Group (ARG) and trajectory provided a com- lete all such courses from its cine, among others,” he This is an aberration and agent. Soon, we will com- the Oodua People’s Congress pelling contemporary case portal. pointed out. should be stopped with im- mence the sales and the (OPC) in the South-West, study as revealed in a book He equally advised all In a statement issued by mediate effect. board will make elaborate to the push for secession by written by Jonathan Tepper- candidates desirous of sit- the Public Relations Of- “Again, the Board will announcement with jingles the Independent People of man. ting for the 2017 Universi- ficer of JAMB, Dr Fabian want to state that it has to ensure that the public is Biafra (IPOB) in the South- Bakare said much like ties Tertiary Matriculations Benjamin, the Federal not commenced the sales well informed of the com- East, from the terror un- Singapore’s bureaucrats, Examination (UTME) not Government had observed of the 2017 UTME applica- mencement of sales.