SATURDAY No. 717 N300 FOR GOD AND COUNTRY 02.11.19 www.leadership.ng NIGERIA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA MY SECRET LIFE: EFCC GOES AFTER DOCTORS FG TO ESTABLISH LG➔ ` PAGE 10 I GO EXTRA MILE FOR CLIENTS ISSUING FAKE MEDICAL FARM SETTLEMENTS – LABESA ` PAGE 71 REPORTS TO SUSPECTS` PAGE 12 NATIONWIDE – MINISTER Gov’ship Polls: INEC, Security Agents Identify Flash Points In Bayelsa, Kogi BY SUNDAY ISUWA, Abuja Police to deploy 66,214 officers flashpoints posed to the polls. He said that 66, 214 policemen Ahead of the November 16 identified major flashpoints in Kogi INEC and the security agencies agency for election security, who is would be deployed in Kogi and governorship election, the and Bayelsa States. to swing into action in order to also the inspector-general of police Bayelsa States to man all the polling Independent National Electoral LEADERSHIP Weekend recalls stem the menace in the upcoming (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, said units, INEC offices, the Central Bank Commission (INEC) and the that the two states have a history of gubernatorial election. that the security agencies were country’s security agencies have election violence which prompted To this end, the head of the lead not unmindful of the threat the ` CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 INSURGENCY Army Begins Trial Of 20 Officers, 4 Soldiers For Cowardice, Negligence Flags off ‘Operation Ayem Akpatuma 2’ in Benue, Kogi Emefiele Proposes 2-yr Border Closure Says it will solve Nigeria’s security problems BY JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH, Abuja Emefiele Proposes Border Closure For 2 Years The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said that if the current closure of Nigerian borders is sustained for the next two years, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping would be eradicated. Emefiele stated this yesterday at the first convocation lecture of Edo University, Iyamho, Auchi. While responding to questions after L-R: Vice Chancellor, Edo University, Iyamho, Prof Emmanuel Aluyor; Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor and guest lecturer, Godwin Emefiele and Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, at the first convocation lecture of the university, in Edo State, yesterday. ` CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 PMB URGES NIGERIANS TO ` PAGE 62 MUDASSIR & BROTHERS SET TO FG TO BEGIN CRACK DOWN ON`` PAGE PAGE 5 6 PATRONISE LOCALLY MADE GOODS ESTABLISH TEXTILE FACTORY ` PAGE 11 ‘MUSHROOM’ SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2 NEWS ACROSS THE STATES Saturday, November 2, 2019 Plateau State Commissioner for Finance, Dr Regina Seomlat (Left); the State Governor, Simon Lalong (third right) with some members of the State Economic Summit Committee, during the inauguration of Plateau State Investment and Economic Summit Planning Committee in Jos, yesterday. PHOTO BY NAN. Fidelity Bank Celebrates 2019 Compliances & Ethics Week As part of sustained efforts and ethics programmes in necessary”, Okonkwo said. conduct a host of engaging customers who are serviced to promote ethical values a manner that strengthens Okonkwo also promised staff activities including trivia across its 250 business offices and professionalism within its ideals while educating to put the best interest of its contest, quiz and lectures. The and various digital banking the bank, Fidelity Bank Plc, employees. teeming customers first, adding focus is to remind ourselves of channels. The bank says it yesterday disclosed plans to Commenting on the that strict adherence to proper the need to imbibe ethical values remains focused on select niche participate in this year edition celebration, Fidelity Bank’s ethical values has helped sustain within the organisation even as corporate banking sectors as of the Corporate Compliance Managing Director/CEO, the bank’s standing as a socially we strive to build an enduring well as Micro Small and Medium and Ethics Week. Nnamdi Okonkwo, pointed responsible organisation and institution,” Okonkwo added. Enterprises (MSMEs) and Commencing on November out that the bank remains good corporate citizen. Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged its currently driving its retail 3 and running up until Friday, committed to the highest “As part of the Compliance commercial bank operating banking businesses through its November 8, the bank has standards of ethical and & Ethics Week, the bank will in Nigeria with over 5 million robust digital banking channels. organised series of engagement professional conduct in its that are part of the annual dealings with customers. activities around the celebration. “Guided by the Fidelity Code NSITF Tasks Defunt NPF Pensioners On Transfer Corporate Compliance of Business Conduct & Ethical and Ethics Week is organised Policy, we expect our employees To Trustfund Pension annually by the Society of to uphold its tenets always, BY MICHAEL OCHE, Abuja Corporate Compliance and and act in a way that reflects that that five years would give to confirm and verify that those Ethics (SCCE), which provide the bank’s principles. We have Trustfund the ability to gather assets actually exist before they Managing Director of the Nigeria all funds from NSITF into liquid were subsequently transferred organisations with opportunity instituted an Ethics Committee Social Insurance Trust Fund format because some of them were to Trustfund. All these transfers to demonstrate their extensive to drive this agenda and (NSITF), Adebayo Somefun, has physical assets that needed to be happened between 2005 and 2006. and comprehensive compliance, intervene in guiding staff when urged contributors to the defunct disposed off and then turned into Indeed, that was a prerequisite National Provident Fund (NPF) cash. for Trustfund to get operational and NSITF contributory pension He said: “The defunct NSITF license.” 4 Cheat Death As 2 Storey scheme to approach Trustfund pension scheme was established However, Somefun added that Pensions Limited for transfer to manage pension that was for contributors or their next of kin Building Collapse In Lagos of such fund into an existing contributed by the private sector. to claim remitted fund, evidence individual Retirement Saving The scheme ran from 1994 to of remittance must be provided to BY GEORGE OKOJIE, Lagos General, Dr Femi Oke- Account (PFA) with their Pension 2004 when the pension reform Act Trustfund, which will in turn verify Osanyintolu who Fund Administrator (PFA). came into existence. Section 42 of before presenting such to Pencom At least four people escaped confirmed the incident said Somefun explained in Abuja that the Contributory Pension Reform for approval. death by the whiskers on immediately the building the entire N54 billion retirement Act 2004 empowered the NSITF “Before Trustfund can transfer Friday in Lagos when a collapsed, emergency fund contributed by the private to transfer all its pension assets the fund, the owners would have to two-storey building under sector had since been moved to and liabilities to a pension fund come to Trustfund to fill a NSITF response was activated, Trustfund since 2006 following the construction at Glover saying that four people had administrator to be established by transfer form which after Trustfund Court, Ikoyi area of Lagos commencement of the contributory the NSITF and all the pensioners’ has verified the claim, will send such been rescued alive while one pension scheme in 2004. state collapsed. was still trapped. assets are to be taken over by that form to Pencom for approval. If the LEADERSHIP Weekend According to him, all records, PFA. It meant that the pension owners of the fund do not come The only construction funds and liabilities are with gathered that the building worker reportedly still being asset that the NSITF was managing forward, there is no way Trustfund collapsed around 4:10pm Trustfund and are no longer in the up to 2004 was transferred to the would transfer what has not been trapped under rubble of the custody of NSITF. while the workers were on collapsed building is said to new PFA. requested for to any RSA. The fund site. He explained that the provision “In total, NSITF transferred about is actually transferred to individual be a-24-year-old Yomi. in the pension reform Act was that N54 billion to the new company PFA and not to either Trustfund or Officials of the Lagos State Other emergency Trustfund would hold on to that Emergency Management called Trustfund Pensions Limited NSITF. responders present at the fund for five years before individual which was established in 2004. The “The next of kin of deceased Agency (LASEMA), who scene include Lagos State owners of the contribution will have were involved in the rescue assets were transferred under the people can claim benefits of their Fire Services, Lagos State assess to it in order to transfer them supervision of the National Pension breadwinners so long they have operation, rescued the four Ambulance Service, and the to their RSA. people. Commission because Pencom had evidence of remittances made under Lagos State Building Control According to him, the idea was to be the intermediary that has the defunct NPF,” he disclosed. LASEMA’s Director Agency, (LASBCA). Saturday, November 2, 2019 www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA 3 our stand Tackle Yellow Fever Outbreak Frontally igeria Centre for mild, nonspecific, febrileof the skin and eyes), dark Bauchi have been reported Disease Control illness to a fulminating, urine and abdominal pain in Borno, Kano, Gombe and (NCDC) reports sometimes fatal disease. with vomiting. Bleeding can Katsina states. The NCDC that on 16 July The clinical symptomsoccur from the mouth, nose, report also showed that this year, the associated with the early eyes or stomach. Only 15 Bauchi had a total of 84 cases NEbonyi State Ministry of stages of infection are percent of people with yellow with 10 deaths; Borno 82 Health received information indistinguishable from those fever enter this phase, but of cases with no death; Gombe about suspected yellow fever of influenza or malaria,those that do, approximately seven cases with no death; cases in Ndingele ward, mainly fever, muscle pain half die within 7 - 10 days.