[dropcap]G[/dropcap]overnor Rochas Okorocha has vowed never to allow those who derided him as “Okoro-Hausa” and “Alhaji in Government House” to rule Imo state. The party has also warned those who branded APC as Boko Haram party and harassed members of the party with armed personnel in 2015, to make any valid claim in the party unless they first apologise to the governor and APC members in the state.
A statement by Sam Onwuemeodo, Chief Press Secretary to the governor named some of these people to include the senator for Imo West; Chief Hope Uzodinma who it said gave Governor Okorocha all sorts of derogatory and insulting names during the 2015 election to stay away from the governorship race in the state.
In the words of Onwuemeodo “they did all they could to ensure that Imo people and indeed, Ndigbo in general reject APC and President Muhammadu Buhari at the poll. They called the governor, ‘Okoro-Hausa’ and ‘Alhaji in Government House’ and called APC Boko Haram Party. They harassed members of the party and even said that the chapel the governor built in the Government House was a mosque. They also said that the governor was taking young Igbos to the North to be Islamized. There was nothing on earth they didn’t say.”
He insisted that such people who claim now to be members of APC should not, as a matter of fact have any valid claim to make in the same party they never wanted to exist, stressing that if Imo people had listened to them and rejected APC and President Buhari then, they would not have had any APC to join today and begin to make claims they never deserved.
Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba CAC, Seme Customs Command
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Seme Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service led by Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba has said that it generated over N1 billion revenue in two months.
The Customs Public Relations Officer of the command, Saidu Abdullahi, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos. Abdullahi added that the Anti-Smuggling unit of the command also made a total of 120 seizures with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N95 million for the months under review. According to him, the enforcement unit recorded 14 vehicles comprising BMW five series,
Toyota Venza, Mercedes Benz ML 350, Lexus RX, with a total duty paid value of over N70 million; and a total of 4, 504 bags of par- boiled rice were also seized with DPV of N81.1 million. This is equivalent to seven trailer truck loads. Other items like frozen poultry products, vegetable oil and sugar worth over N13 million were also seized. Three suspects arrested in connection with some of the seizures are currently under investigation for possible prosecution. Abdullahi quoted the Customs Area Comptroller, Mohammed Uba Garba, as saying that the Command is re-strategizing by deploying a proactive anti-smuggling approach to enforce the Federal Government policies which will boost revenue generation in the command.
“The CAC further charged officers to complement the Comptroller General of Customs’ effort by adhering strictly to procedures in order to achieve the core mandate of raising revenue”, Abdullahi said.
Abdullahi said the CAC and Chairman, Joint Border Security Meeting (JBSM), informed all the relevant border security agencies about the need to comply with the presidential directives on ease of doing business.
He said, “Garba also urged them to adhere strictly to the ECOWAS protocols of eliminating trade barriers along the Lagos-Abidjan corridor. “Consequently, he affirmed the setting up of an ad-hoc Joint Task Force from the JBSM platform to be headed by the Commanding Officer 243 Battalion. “This will serve as some internal monitoring mechanism to checkmate the menace of proliferation of checkpoints along the corridor. “He advised the security heads to be decisive in taking actions that will facilitate legitimate trade viz-a-viz the ease of doing business in order to enhance the growth of the Nigerian economy.
“The CAC also said that the reinvigorated anti-smuggling unit of the command was yielding positive results as drug traffickers and immigrants who used illegal routes were being apprehended.”
Abdullahi said the command handed over to the police two armed robbery suspects and one suspected drug pusher to the NDLEA on Aug. 24 and Sept. 14 respectively for investigation and prosecution.
He said the command had warned smugglers and non-compliant stakeholders to be receptive to the new social order of the service otherwise the anti-smuggling war would soon be at their doorsteps.
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the race for government house Asaba hots up and the general elections draw near, Deltans are in strategic position to choose between going forwards or handing over power to desperate power seekers with empty promises.
There are some who argue for Okowa second term on the basis of where he comes from particularly because there appears to be a rotational agreement between the three (3) senatorial zones of the state. The argument in support of this position is actually simple: since Delta Central and South senatorial districts through HE Chief James Onanefe Ibori (1999-2007) and HE Chief Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan (2007-2015) had enjoyed two terms each respectively, Delta North through Okowa should be allowed to enjoy two terms also.
The above argument is very compelling but I am basing my call for a second term for Okowa on the basis of something more egalitarian and even much more important: his scorecard!
I urge Deltans today to take a look at the giant strides of Governor Okowa and return him for a second term.
Despite the fact that he took over the reins of governance at a time there was recession and minimal revenue to the state, Governor Okowa had undertaken bold projects which would frighten the faint hearted!
Take for instance the Asaba storm water drains projects. This multi billion naira project which has reached advanced stages when completed would hopefully rid Asaba of flooding.
Also Governor Okowa has seriously focused on road infrastructure across the state such that it has earned him the sobriquet “the road master”, the good thing about his projects is that they are evenly spread across the state. Bridges are being built across Rivers linking the riverine areas with the upland e.g the Ayakromo bridge etc. The Okowa administration has awarded a total of about 200 roads including internal roads of which about half had been completed.
In education, Dr. Okowa has focused on technical education and has undertaken complete renovation of three of the states technical schools to wit; Agbor, Sapele and Ofagbe and has further extended his hands to the ones located in Kwale, Issele-Uku, and Warri. This is a worthy venture which is geared towards preparing our children for the future.
The Okowa administration has completed the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba which before now has remained a scare on the Asaba landscape. The stadium recently hosted the Senior African Athletics Federation meet, and is set to host the Aiteo football cup finals and is being penciled down to host super eagles matches in the not too distant future.
The Asaba airport has also received attention by the Okowa administration. The runway is now fully completed and operational with Airfield lighting system; Runway lights, Approach lights and Instrument Landing System being installed to enable aircrafts land even at night. The Airport with the upgrade, is expected to be used as operational hub by Airlines to pave way for early morning flights from Asaba and late flights into Asaba. Tank farm for refueling of aircrafts has been built in the airport.
The Okowa administration has also undertaken the building of the New Delta State Secretariat. This ambitious project aims to house the Delta State MDAs under one roof thereby saving for Delta State the huge amounts expended annually for rents. The project which is ongoing at a rapid pace is expected to have it’s own independent power source which obviously will enhance efficiency of the offices.
And here is the clincher for me; the Okowa administration through the YAGEP/STEP program has trained and equipped over 4000 young persons to set up their own busineses and become employers of labour in various fields. Success stories from the program abound.
While it’s obviously impossible to state all the Okowa administration has achieved in one write-up, the above is why it is imperative that Deltans continue to support Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and re-elect him as Governor come 2019.
Okowa is moving Delta forwards: let’s all join him.
Chimennma Okolo is a lawyer, equal rights campaigner, environmental rights activist, political commentator and the self styled Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Masses Assembly
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a bona fide Urhobo man, I shouldn’t be heard saying what I am about to say. But even if I do not say it loud and clear others will do in hush tones but in more graphic details. I am saying the return of Chief Great Ogboru on the ballot paper for the Delta State governorship election next year does not make good political sense to him as an individual, the Urhobo as a group and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC). If anything, his choice as the APC candidate for the Delta gubernatorial is insensitive at best and suicidal at worst.
The APC led by Adams Oshiomhole would have made two key assumptions in settling for Ogboru who has been consistent as a contestant since 2003. First is the belief that he alone has the capacity in all ramifications to oust the incumbent, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. The second consideration is usually hinged on the established demography of the state, which ascribes about 40 per cent advantage to the central senatorial district made up of eight council areas and exclusively occupied by the Urhobo. Chief Great Ogboru is Urhobo from Abraka in Ethiope East local government council of the State.
But much more critical factors were left out, which makes the assumptions baseless. It has been a changing dynamics in Urhobo land and Delta State in general since 2003 when Ogboru seized the stage with storm. Things are no longer the same. After four unsuccessful attempts to take control of the Government House Asaba, Chief Ogboru is now more battle weary than he is battle tested.
The once huge noise around the Great Chief as the Peoples General has significantly dissipated. He is no longer the Urhobo Centurion with pervading authority, who used to tell one man, come and he came; and to another, go and he went! These days, some people may actually go in the opposite direction, when Ogboru is shouting come this way! A measure of that power erosion can be seen in the challenges he is facing assuming the leadership of the APC even within Delta Central.
While it may be difficult to explain all the factors that have combined to make Ogboru now look less than himself, I will only say that a lot more people in Urhobo land are also desirous of what he desires – the governorship of Delta State. Within his political household, the Oedipal drive has heightened and his hitherto political sons could be itching to dispatch him to early retirement and inherit the throne and all the attendant benefits including the queen.
In other words, the number of people who lay claim to being the people’s general in Urhobo land is increasing and the APC can only discountenance this reality at its own peril. To drive the party in Delta Central around Ogboru as if he is the only factor that matters will not add up to any political capital. Ogboru is simply bulldozing without the consensus that strengthens a party and people he has swept aside shall wait patiently to strike back at the right time.
Before now, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, who contested the last governorship election under APC, was called the party leader in Delta State. Ogboru was the Labour Party’s candidate in that same election. Both men are Urhobo, but neither agreed to step down for the other to create a better central front to confront Okowa from the North. Not even the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), the highest collective leadership in Urhobo land could broker a truce. Both went into the election and returned bruised. It should be mentioned also that over the years, Ogboru had not stayed put on one spot to nurture a platform into real political competitiveness. Like hyena, he would break in to take over when the kill is made.
He started bidding for the governorship seat of Delta State on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2003. He switched over to the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) for the 2007 bidding and the 2011 re-run following the nullification of the 2007 election by the Appeal Court in Benin-City. He was in the Labour Party in 2015 through to 2017 when he stormed the APC to offset the status quo and clinch the party ticket to contest next year’s governorship election in the state.
Simply, the Chief does not like to play a subordinate role. He loves all processes to build around him as the central figure anywhere he is playing. And he fights hard to have it that way all the time. Today, O’tega Emerhor who had rallied others to sustain the APC in the state before Ogboru stormed in is struggling with every strength in him to have just a small bed-space in the house that he built.
Yet, it has not always been this way between Ogboru and Emerhor. They had got on well in their long opposition to the PDP in Delta State when the former was the permanent contestant and the latter permanent supporter with finances. Trouble started when Emerhor desired in 2015 what had somehow become the exclusive preserve of Ogboru in Urhobo land – the right to contest for the governorship of Delta State.
Some partisan quarters must have briefed Chairman Oshiomhole that in Delta party politics, Ogboru desires or even deserves (given his elaborate sense of entitlement) nothing less than the right to contest the governorship seat in all elections until he wins. And so, against the flow of the sentiments of the moment in the state, the party has handed to him the ticket to contest the next governorship election on a platter of gold.
The sentiments favour a governor from the north senatorial zone for at least another four years beginning 2019, so that the north, as the central with James Ibori and the south with Emmanuel Uduaghan, can also have its eight uninterrupted years in Government House Asaba.
By shutting out aspirants from the north, the APC has not respected these sentiments and that shall prove costly in 2019. In addition, I am saying that the Urhobo should not see the Ogboru APC ticket as largesse outside their fair share. The unwritten agreement on power rotation among the three senatorial zones in the state has worked well to curtail the disruptive ethnic tendencies and it should not be discarded for any reason, at least for now. The Urhobo who still feel pained by the location of the state capital in Asaba outside the original Delta Province when Delta State was created by the Babangida administration in 1991, have always sought to invoke their demographic advantage to perpetually hold on to the governorship to even up.
This has however not worked largely due to their inability to subsume their differences under a common purpose. The governorship they seek so desperately has also meant an opportunity for self-cancellation in successive electoral seasons since 1999 when the cancellation started between James Ibori and Moses Kragha. It is not the fault of other groups that the majority ethnic group in the state is stuck in attrition and is not able to rise with the deserved forcefulness for recognition.
There are therefore two things to consider going forward. One is for the Urhobo to be organised such that the jungle will be calm when they roar. Two is for them to show magnanimity in strength even when they eventually get reinvented and clearly in a stead to determine almost all the issues in Delta politics. For a peaceful Delta State and indeed society in general, this charge should be announced to all sides to come to equity with clean hands. Justice is good for all seasons and for all people.
For instance, there is a Senator James Manager who thinks representation of Delta south in the Senate is his birthright. Although there are Urhobo elements in the zone, political representation in the south oscillate among the Itsekiri, Isoko and Ijaw. But James Manager, an Ijaw from Patani, has weighed down on the slot like an incubus since 2003 after the four years of Mrs Stella Omu an Isoko at the Senate. He does not want to let go and this seems the primary reason former Governor Uduaghan, an Itsekiri, left the PDP for the APC in search of a place in the Senate.
It must be said also that even that quest by Uduaghan breached the principles of justice and fairness. Why him after being governor of the state for eight years? Why can’t the slot return to the Isoko who have been left out in virtually every power equation in Delta South, such that even in the on-going dispensation, the senate and deputy governor slots are consolidated in the Ijaw?
The situation is not different at the more micro level where some people wish to be permanent representatives in the House of Representatives or State House of Assembly. There is one called Leo Ogor in Isoko Federal Constituency and another called Nicholas Mutu in Bomadi Federal Constituency. This is the same injustice that permeates national schemes and which disadvantaged groups in the South-South and Middle Belt always seek to redress either through restructuring, resource control or the constitutionally empowered Federal Character policy.
Back to the starting point. The APC should not hope to achieve much with Ogboru candidacy in the governorship election in Delta State next year, except the party has other ideas not known to a transparent electoral process in mind. Aside the brewing divisions within the APC occasioned by Hurricane Ogboru, which weakens the party’s capacity to confront the PDP in the crucial contest, the Urhobo may want to wait patiently for another four years for the north to finish its turn in order to lay exclusive claim to the governorship in 2023. Even now, Senator Omo-Agege who is far more strategic among the lot in Delta APC will also be thinking that way and may actually want Ogboru to fail so that the coast will be cleared of cataracts and falls for him when the bidding opens in 2023.
But as it is in Chinese movies, Chief Great Ogboru is stepping in for the last fight. He must fight best also. After this, the curtain will drop to signal the END of the show. If he is dispatched, he ceases to be the hero and becomes the villain of the epic political battle that started in 2003.
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]ayode Fayemi, Nigeria’s former Minister of Solid Minerals Development has been sworn-in as new Governor of Ekiti State. Fayemi is assuming office after the tenure of the state former governor, Ayodele Fayose elapsed Monday night.
Kayode Fayemi has been sworn-in as the sixth Governor of Ekiti, The state Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, administered the Oath of Office on Fayemi on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti.
GNPN reports that Mr Fayemi, a former Minister of Mines and Steel, was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with 197, 459 votes against his closest opponent, Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 178,121 votes.
He will serve for only four years having been governor of the state between 2010 and 2014 under the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
GNPN reports that President Muhammadu Buhari was represented at the event by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. Also present were the Governors of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai; Oyo, Abiola Ajimobi; Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu and; Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode.
Deplorable state of A.C. Nwanze Street off DLA Road , Asaba
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]esidents of A.C. Nwanze street in Asaba of Oshimili South Local Government Area, Delta State have decried the deplorable state of the their street road ,calling for its immediate repair. A cross-section of the residents who spoke to Grassroots Publishers reporters in the street,described the road as a shame to the state government to have left a major street which is about 3km away from Direct Labour Agency(DLA) office in Asabain this shape and rejected manner. According to them,there is need for urgent government intervention to alleviate the sufferings and pains of the residents. The street has remained neglected for some years and several reported plans to construct the road by Asaba Capital Development Authority has clearly been abandoned.
Residents of A.C. Nwanze street have sent an SOS to the Executive Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa for his urgent intervention in rehabilitation of their street road which is in a very deplorable condition. According to a resident who was in tears while talking to our reporter,said they have been living in pains and agony since 2016 as flood has taken over the entire street , because cars and keke cannot ply the street road any longer, even the residents park their cars outside the street.
Deplorable state of A.C. Nwanze Street off DLA Road , Asaba
Another resident who pleaded anonymity said that the residents of this street are highly disappointed with the performances of the present administration mostly on DLA road. “The entire residents of this street voted for Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa in the last Governorship election, but we cannot understand why this government is paying us back in this way”.
Our street has remained neglected and several reported plans to construct the road by Asaba Capital Development Authority has clearly been pigeon-holed”. The situation of this obvious neglect had become more pronounced in DLA road and its sub-streets. The question is, how long should A.C. Nwanze street remain like this? Is Asaba Capital Development Authority, ACDA and Direct Labour Agency, DLA working in Delta State? The answer is capital NO!
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa should scrap these two failed agencies who have failed woefully in Delta State and the government should stop wasting the tax payers money on them . The residents are appealing to the Delta State Government to order the immediate repair of this road because it is getting worse on daily basis”.
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n yearly basis, the rains have arrived. For residents of Nwanze Ozie Street and Zappa Mixed Secondary School in Asaba, the Delta state capital, the story is not much different from previous years. It’s still the same endless tales of flooding and inability to access their street due to heavy flooding. Although the state government has rehabilitated some of the roads from which it commissioned 12 on June 2, the impact of flooding is still heavy on major roads across the state capital.
For the past ten years , the residents of Nwanze Ozie Street, Zappa Mixed Secondary School and the entire Uda -Layout have been living in agony and pains as their street have been submerged by flood.The flood which led to the collapse of parts of the fence of many houses, Grassroots Publishers reports that commercial activities have suffered setbacks for many years as businesses, including supermarkets, barbering saloon and stores were forced to close up. When Grassroots Publishers online reporter chatted with a resident who claimed annonimous said that the state government has abandone their street and that the present government do not feel the pains and inconveniences suffered by residents in terms of damage or loss of properties.
Nwanze Ozie Street
Another residents of the street Madam Stella told Grassroots Publishers online that they voted for Governor Okowa in the last election but that this time she will lead a protect vote aganist him because “Nwanze Ozie Street”is now a nightmare to both pedestrians, Students of Zappa Mixed Secondary School and motorists. It is usually heavily flooded every year. Motorists caught midway as the rains pours, wade through as one wades through a river.she said the government of the day is not feeling the pains and the anguish of residents who passed through horrendous times as a result of the perennial flooding in Asaba.Many cars sank in the deep and dirty water that took over the area. While some lost their engines to the water, others were forced to park pending when the water would reduce. Commuters were forced to trek long distances because commercial tricycles and cars cannot ply the street road again.infact the street is a hell of a swamp where the rain water accumulates on the roads and highway finding no drain to empty into.
She reiterated that if the state government did not resolve the flood issues in Nwanze Ozie Street in Asaba and environs , the lives of residents especially students of Zappa Mixed Secondary School Asaba will be in great jeopardy. The Grassroots Publishers online calling for Governor Okowa’s urgent intervention in rehabilitation of their street road which is in a very deplorable condition.
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]kiti State Governor Ayo Fayose Friday evening handed over the instruments of office to the Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka. He gave the handover note to Faseluka at an emotional special cabinet meeting at the new Governor’s Office in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
It was attended by traditional rulers, legislators, senior government officials and party leaders. The meeting was his last as governor and he may well have said bye-bye to the people of the state, four days to the enthronement of his successor Kayode Fayemi.
Fayose said history would be kind to him the way he managed the resources in trust for the people of the state. The departing governor said he would be available to answer questions on how he ruled the state anytime he is called upon to do so.
“What has a beginning must have an end. It is not the number of years spent but the quantity and quality of achievements.
“I thank the people of the state for their cooperation and urge them to extend same to the incoming administration.
“There should never be a vacuum; our priority in Ekiti must be discharge of our duties. “I’m a man who came, saw and conquered. I can’t finish all, I have done my best. “History will be kind on me as a man who has given his best to the people. I will remember all for your support, I bear no grudges against anyone.”
Thanking the people of Ekiti for their support, Fayose urged them to cooperate with the incoming administration to take the state to greater heights. Also on Friday, Fayose inaugurated the new Speaker’s Lodge named, Kolawole Oluwawole, who was impeached as speaker on Thursday.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Director General of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has given reasons why Mr. Peter Obi was picked as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar. The 57-year-old Obi was a former governor of Anambra State and a former Chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc. In a statement on Friday, Daniel said Mr. Obi’s choice was largely influenced by his youthfulness, vast knowledge of global and local economics as well as being a financial expert, all experience which Nigeria is in great need at this point in time.
“This ticket will be able to steer our nation back on the path of progress, economic prosperity and unity”, Daniel said.
Born 19th July, 1961, Obi attended the Christ the King College, Onitsha and later proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
The statement continued, “He is also a graduate of several international and national institutions such as the Lagos Business School, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Columbia Business School, Institute of Management, Switzerland, Kellogg Graduate School, Oxford University and Cambridge University.
“In public service, he has led various divisions some of which includes: Member, Presidential Economic Management Team; Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum; Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum, and the Governor of Anambra State.
“Peter Obi is an astute professional who has laid his footprints across the corporate world. He was the Chairman, Board of Security and Exchange Commission (SEC); former Chairman, Fidelity Bank PLC; former Chairman, Guardian Express Mortgage Bank; former Chairman, Future Views Securities; former Chairman, Paymaster Nigeria; former Chairman, Next International Nigeria; former Director, Guardian Express Bank PLC; former Director, Chams Nigeria PLC; former Director, Emerging Capital: former Director, Card Centre PLC.
“He is a member of the British Institute of Directors (IOD), Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers and Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG).
[dropcap]A [/dropcap]practicing journalist with Minaj Broadcasting International (MBI), Obosi, Mr. Gospel Amaliamefobu has emerged, unopposed, as the candidate of Labour Party for Aniocha South constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly. A front runner for the Aniocha South constituency seat in the Delta State House of Assembly, Comrade Gospel Amaliamefobu, has urged the Peoples of Aniocha South constituency to vote him .
Amaliamefobu was returned winner at a joint primary conducted at the state party secretariat in Asaba under the watchful eyes of the state party chairman, Tony Ezeagwu, and supervised by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Amaliamefobu, the Labour Party candidate promised to give the candidates of both the PDP and the APC in the general election crushing defeat, insisting that it was time the under developed and marginalised constituency experienced fresh air through youthful and vibrant representation which he is capable of providing. Amaliamefobu also re-affirmed that his candidacy is meant to serve the grassroots, taking advantage of the fact that he will not be a tool in the hands of political godfathers who seek to dictate Aniocha South socio-economic development. Amaliamefobu promised Aniocha South youths of unprecedented lasting benefit if voted to DTHA 2019.
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Abdullahi quoted the Customs Area Comptroller, Mohammed Uba Garba, as saying that the Command is re-strategizing by deploying a proactive anti-smuggling approach to enforce the Federal Government policies which will boost revenue generation in the command.
“Consequently, he affirmed the setting up of an ad-hoc Joint Task Force from the JBSM platform to be headed by the Commanding Officer 243 Battalion. “This will serve as some internal monitoring mechanism to checkmate the menace of proliferation of checkpoints along the corridor. “He advised the security heads to be decisive in taking actions that will facilitate legitimate trade viz-a-viz the ease of doing business in order to enhance the growth of the Nigerian economy.
