I deserve ministerial nomination - Lai Mohammed

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzGS2teSq3MbsRglX0tbBLVRE8kkR5WXR36097oofw0fwPCJ2xiee8zPKkHpdoYg93Q1g29qM0mlMUI1_FYLhospnwiGi0H9czWSwQlEWNQAPn8RIT-Z0CXaomauIL4dGIlwhcTi-TmZE/s1600/Lai-Mohammed-ne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzGS2teSq3MbsRglX0tbBLVRE8kkR5WXR36097oofw0fwPCJ2xiee8zPKkHpdoYg93Q1g29qM0mlMUI1_FYLhospnwiGi0H9czWSwQlEWNQAPn8RIT-Z0CXaomauIL4dGIlwhcTi-TmZE/s320/Lai-Mohammed-ne.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> The ministerial nominee from Kwara state and the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed insisted that he deserved the ministerial nomination from Kwara state which nobody,or group of persons could deny him.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Lai Mohammed in his reaction, to journalists in Ilorin, to counter protest against his ministerial nomination insisted that himself and his family registered in Oro, his hometown,adding that he contributed in no small means to the development of the party in his local government and the success of the member of house of representatives from that area and challenged the protesters‎ to cross check these facts.<br /> <br /> The ministerial nominee who admitted that he was not in Kwara state during the elections also said that his national assignment to the party during the period was more important than coming to cast a single vote in kwara state.<br /> <br /> He further said that since nobody could deny him of being a citizen of Kwara state, he reserved the right to stay in Lagos or any part of Nigeria and so he deserved the ministerial nomination.<br /> <br /> The APC spokesman also explained that the emergence of his son as a member of Lagos state house of assembly was his own political reward for his service to the people of the area which they willingly gave him,and so had nothing to do with his own nomination as a minister.

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India protests to Saudi after maid’s hand chopped off

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nWYryRUHig9qui48c9vmWps7ljAlWmL6V5YOzISxeAfzKWKpwFkPMv1EmfDluhyv_PeUoDqdwzz4ouxZ5qR_jHU9XpInYRdjW5WLjc9zGH6OqzOt89q9dPQVeFz7T3Fh4mMmXcav1YqI/s1600/murder-knife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nWYryRUHig9qui48c9vmWps7ljAlWmL6V5YOzISxeAfzKWKpwFkPMv1EmfDluhyv_PeUoDqdwzz4ouxZ5qR_jHU9XpInYRdjW5WLjc9zGH6OqzOt89q9dPQVeFz7T3Fh4mMmXcav1YqI/s400/murder-knife.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> India said Friday it had lodged a protest with authorities in Riyadh after a maid from Tamil Nadu allegedly had her hand chopped off by her Saudi employer for complaining about her work conditions.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> India’s foreign minister deplored a “brutal” attack on 55-year-old Kasthuri Munirathinam, who is being treated at a hospital in Riyadh, and which comes weeks after a Saudi diplomat based in New Delhi was accused of rape.<br /> <br /> “Chopping of the hand of an Indian lady — we are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which this Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia,” Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter.<br /> <br /> “This is unacceptable. We have taken this up with Saudi authorities,” Swaraj added.<br /> <br /> A spokesman for the foreign ministry confirmed that Indian diplomats in Riyadh had lodged a formal complaint at the Saudi foreign ministry.<br /> <br /> Munirathinam, who comes from a village in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, had suffered a catalogue of abuse since taking up a post as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia three months ago, according to her family.<br /> <br /> “Her right hand was chopped off by her employer when she tried to escape the daily harassment, torture and abysmal work conditions,” her sister S. Vijayakumari told AFP by phone from Tamil Nadu’s capital Chennai.<br /> <br /> Vijayakumari said that her sister had gone to Saudi Arabia to help pay off her family’s debts and she had been promised a monthly salary of around 180 dollars.<br /> <br /> “But she was not paid, she was barely given enough to eat and not even allowed to speak to her family … Now she only wants to come home,” Vijayakumari said.<br /> <br /> The family says that problems started for Munirathinam — who was one of five domestic workers in the same household — after she complained to the local authorities about her situation.<br /> <br /> Footage of Munirathinam lying in her Saudi hospital bed was broadcast by several Indian media outlets.<br /> <br /> Foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup confirmed to AFP that Munirathinam was still recuperating in the Riyadh hospital but said that efforts were being made to bring her home.<br /> <br /> “We are in touch with the woman, hospital and the local police authorities. She will get all possible legal and other help from the embassy,” Swarup said.<br /> <br /> Hundreds of thousands of Indian migrants work in households in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries but complaints about their treatment by their employers often make headlines back home.<br /> <br /> A video showing a male Indian worker being beaten by his Saudi employer went viral in September, sparking a widespread backlash on social media.<br /> <br /> There was also widespread anger last month when the first secretary at the Saudi embassy left India under diplomatic immunity after being accused of holding captive and raping two Nepalese maids in his home.<br /> <br /> (AFP)

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13 PDP Reps protest Amaechi’s nomination, send petition to Saraki

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGceYLt_Lzc3lqfVcfcPDEjyss8BQVqP6AzdZs2rQndYM2ky17ND8D_xf1OmOge89L7IB2DaFahwzfbKHhXzTdKnqVzQI-jrB-5zmt5jlBnSC2WKhQjnOdjZksfJeL8UZzjmA9KlTVcIS3/s1600/Governor-Rotimi-Amaechi-360x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGceYLt_Lzc3lqfVcfcPDEjyss8BQVqP6AzdZs2rQndYM2ky17ND8D_xf1OmOge89L7IB2DaFahwzfbKHhXzTdKnqVzQI-jrB-5zmt5jlBnSC2WKhQjnOdjZksfJeL8UZzjmA9KlTVcIS3/s400/Governor-Rotimi-Amaechi-360x225.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Thirteen Peoples Democratic Party members of the House of Representatives from Rivers State on Friday protested the nomination of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi for appointment as a minister by submitting a petition to the Office of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki.<br /> <br /> Amaechi, the immediate past governor of the state, is among the 21 ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded to the Senate last week.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> The list was unveiled by Saraki on Tuesday this week.<br /> <br /> The petition by the Rivers legislators is among the rising number of petitions against the former governor, a development that may cause a rowdy session in the days ahead as senators begin the screening of the nominees.<br /> <br /> In the petition, the legislators called on the Senate to disqualify Amaechi on the grounds of having several corruption allegations against him.<br /> <br /> The petition, dated October 6, alleged among others, that Amaechi unlawfully sold government property during his tenure as a governor and that he showed disrespect for the rule of law.<br /> <br /> The petitioners are Betty Apiafi; Kingsley Chinda; Gogo Tamuno; Kenneth Chikere; Blessing Nsiegbe; Jacobson Nbina; Dumnamene Dekor; Awaji – Inombek Abiante; Uche Obi; Randolph Brown; Boniface Emerengwa; Jerome Eke; and Boma Goodhead.<br /> <br /> The petition partly read, “We, the Rivers State Caucus of the House of Representatives, have read with concern and utter disappointment, the nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi as Rivers’ ministerial nominee and we deem it necessary to place on record that we vehemently protest the said nomination of Mr. Amaechi.<br /> <br /> “We believe that the war against corruption should be complete, total and nobody with a taint of corruption should be allowed to hold public office, not even on sympathy or compensatory grounds.<br /> <br /> “This is the reason the country waited patiently for about four months for Mr. President to painstakingly and very meticulously choose persons that are without blemish.”<br /> <br /> The lawmakers referred to the judicial commission of inquiry set up by the state government to investigate the sale of public property, noting that in spite of the allegations levelled against Amaechi, he did not appear before the panel to clear himself.

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Rivers orders Amaechi, others to return N97 Billion

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCoc19xq3jfyYWLVT9R6C9F5AZ9vWZhiP3VFcV_tpX7_IJlImYdAR-XhE9oeyVPHRCBcYs3dIZTqp4nhH9QQ_s4X-ClPsa1eijWtpMudsracWXLu7tuOO1Wi0PBRPCZapeKWywMBSn9dA/s1600/amaechi+newww.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCoc19xq3jfyYWLVT9R6C9F5AZ9vWZhiP3VFcV_tpX7_IJlImYdAR-XhE9oeyVPHRCBcYs3dIZTqp4nhH9QQ_s4X-ClPsa1eijWtpMudsracWXLu7tuOO1Wi0PBRPCZapeKWywMBSn9dA/s320/amaechi+newww.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Rivers State Government on Friday ordered the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, former military administrator of the state, Anthony Ukpo (retd.) and others who had held public offices in the past to return N97bn.<br /> <br /> This is just as the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, had announced the suspension of some permanent secretaries said to have been indicted by the report of the Justice George Omereji commission of inquiry.<br /> <br /> The state government, who briefed newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council meeting at the Government House in Port Harcourt, declared that the sum was misappropriated in the sale of Rivers State valued assets.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> The State Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Emma Okah, who spoke with newsmen after a White Paper was issued based on the report of the commission of inquiry, said Amaechi and others found to have been involved in the misappropriation of state funds must return them or face prosecution.<br /> <br /> The state governor had set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the sale of valued assets belonging to Rivers by the immediate past administration.<br /> <br /> Okah specifically said that the state government had ordered its Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Chinwe Aguma, SAN, to start the process of charging Amaechi and two others to court over the sale of the state gas turbine without due process.<br /> <br /> Though no ultimatum was given to the former governor and others indicted by the commission of inquiry to return the said funds, Okah added that an ex-commissioner for Finance, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside and Augustine Nwokocha, who was the immediate past commissioner for Power, would also be prosecuted.<br /> <br /> He explained that the state attorney general was expected to begin the process of recovering funds accruing from the sale of four gas turbines from Amaechi and the former commissioner for Power.<br /> <br /> According to him, “The Omereji commission had several terms of references and we will be taking them one after the other. The first term of reference is to ascertain the sale of the Omoku 150 megawatts gas turbine; Afam 360 megawatts gas turbine; Trans-Amadi 136 megawatts gas turbine and the Eleme 75 megawatts gas turbine by the administration of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi.<br /> <br /> “The commission finds as a fact that the sale of 70 per cent equity from the First Independent Power Limited in Omoku gas turbine, Trans-Amadi gas turbine, Afam Phase I gas turbine and Eleme gas turbine, have been very difficult to justify.<br /> <br /> “They have therefore recommended the review of the sale of the power assets and the Government of Rivers State has accepted that recommendation on the refunds of proceeds by Chibuike Amaechi, Chamberlain Peterside, and Augustine Nwokocha. In furtherance of these findings that the sale of the four gas turbines was unjustifiable and against the interest of the government and people of Rivers State.<br /> <br /> “The commission recommends that the former governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, along with his former commissioners for Finance and Power, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside and Augustine Nwokocha, respectively, should be held to account for their roles in the sales of the power generation assets of First Independent Power Limited and the disbursement of the proceeds there from.<br /> <br /> “Government accepts this recommendation and directs the office of the honourable Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, to promptly set in motion the appropriate machinery for the recovery of the proceeds of the sale of the gas turbines from the former governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, and every other person implicated in the commission’s report.”<br /> <br /> Again, Okah disclosed that the state attorney general and commissioner for Justice had been instructed to recover the sum of N3bn from the former Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Emma Chinda, adding that the said amount meant for agricultural grant to farmers was diverted.<br /> <br /> The Housing commissioner pointed out that another commissioner under the Amaechi administration, Dr. Sampson Parker, who was in the Health Ministry should be made to return some amount of money running into billions of naira meant for the construction of the Justice Karibi-Whyte Hospital.<br /> <br /> He said the former commissioner for Transport, Mr. George Tolofari, and former military Governor of old Rivers State, Anthony Ukpo, were expected to join Amaechi in returning N33bn spent on the state monorail project without passing through due process.<br /> <br /> On the suspension of some permanent secretaries, Okah explained that the suspension would continue until when they would be able to defend themselves on the allegations against them.<br /> <br /> Reacting through a statement, Rotimi Amaechi’s Media Team described the claims by the commission as a mischief and a desperate tactic to reduce the former governor’s towering stature.<br /> <br /> Defending the governor on the alleged missing N53bn from the State Reserve Funds, the team said the withdrawals were duly approved by the State House of Assembly.<br /> <br /> “The statement credited to the panel’s chairman Justice Omeriji of a “missing” N53bn is unfortunate and leaves much to be desired. The mischief is all the more evident as the funds referred to are funds from the Rivers State reserve fund which was duly approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly and whose expenditure were duly captured and appropriated.<br /> <br /> “Ordinarily we might not have responded to the mischief of Mr. Wike knowing that having failed with his various desperate tactics to stop the nomination of the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as a minister, he has embarked on this last ditch effort which is his trump card in the hope that it will diminish the former governor’s towering stature as a statesman and honest Nigerian.<br /> <br /> “Between 2013 and early 2015, the revenue accruing to the Government of Rivers State was cut in half due to dwindling federal allocation to states. From about an average of N20bn, the state began receiving between N9 and N10bn. By the middle of the first quarter of 2015, the state revenue dipped to as low as N6bn. Salaries alone stood at over N9bn besides other expenses.<br /> <br /> “Government had set aside the reserve funds for the rainy day and had need to fall back to it to fund salaries and projects,,” the statement read.

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NDLEA arrests Brazil-bound passenger with $34,000 in underwear

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSdzZmddbm-exfRmmr3dMZvAVanBJhtbjjJBF5Ef5jCXBYmX6RDP4oj9Od4RysrWDqlMqP40D5g274ZLM78ksYAB2VGLdf2dc5uk3paCZ8pV00N9g2-r08WOCS0imcZkxEsPcHVQA5rq0/s1600/ndlea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSdzZmddbm-exfRmmr3dMZvAVanBJhtbjjJBF5Ef5jCXBYmX6RDP4oj9Od4RysrWDqlMqP40D5g274ZLM78ksYAB2VGLdf2dc5uk3paCZ8pV00N9g2-r08WOCS0imcZkxEsPcHVQA5rq0/s320/ndlea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /> The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a passenger for attempting to smuggle out 23 wraps containing $34,000 to Brazil.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> This was contained in a statement by the Head, Public Affairs of NDLEA, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, on Friday in Lagos.<br /> <br /> The statement said the passenger, Ozoh Ikenna, was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, during the screening of passengers boarding Etihad Airways flight to Abu Dhabi.<br /> <br /> It said the money was packed in wraps and concealed in Ikenna’s boxer shorts.<br /> <br /> According to the statement, the NDLEA airport commander, Mr Ahmadu Garba, said the arrest was facilitated with the aid of a scanning machine.<br /> <br /> “The wraps of dollars found on Ikenna were detected with the aid of scanning machine.<br /> <br /> “We also conducted a follow-up operation where one Ogbo Emmanuel, who gave Ozoh the $34,000 was arrested,” the commander is quoted as saying.<br /> <br /> The statement said investigation conducted by the NDLEA’s Assets and Financial Investigation Directorate revealed that the suspects were involved in the laundering of substantial amount of illicit drug proceeds.<br /> <br /> “We were able to trace over N226m to one bank account belonging to the second suspect, Ogbo Emmanuel.<br /> <br /> “The account name is Eternal God International Limited,” the head of the directorate, Mrs Victoria Egbase, is quoted as saying.<br /> <br /> According to the statement, it was also discovered that suspected drug proceeds were regularly deposited in the said bank account by members of an international drug cell that smuggles cocaine from South America to West Africa.<br /> <br /> The statement quoted NDLEA’s Chairman, Mr Ahmadu Giade, as saying that the Agency was strategically targeting criminal wealth.<br /> <br /> (NAN)

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Buhari’s ministerial nominees are no pushovers – Ngige

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbhsnuaconBx_ME5Xr2p_cuNF5vGib4cV4gRNiM5AJEPoR2vZC_hU-4IxPIMb_EsibDHDMqIzUrcaj8WjVNthGNejNeeQusQhqFjtOfHxejUMuKt31SZI2MvkwgZT0RtUNcetSoZTp9oe/s1600/Ngige+wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbhsnuaconBx_ME5Xr2p_cuNF5vGib4cV4gRNiM5AJEPoR2vZC_hU-4IxPIMb_EsibDHDMqIzUrcaj8WjVNthGNejNeeQusQhqFjtOfHxejUMuKt31SZI2MvkwgZT0RtUNcetSoZTp9oe/s640/Ngige+wide.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> A former governor of Anambra State, Chris Ngige, on Friday said there was no pushover in the first batch of ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate for screening by President Muhammadu Buhari.<br /> <br /> Mr. Ngige stated this while reacting to questions from State House Correspondents, after a closed door meeting with President Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said the nominees would assist the president to deliver on his campaign promises to Nigerians.<br /> “If you look at the list very critically, you will observe Mr. President wants to go his voyage with people who have cognate experience in governance.<br /> <br /> “When I mean cognate experience, we are talking of people who have been tested, tried and trusted by their various people.<br /> <br /> “So, I don’t think Nigerians should expect anything less than what Mr. President is already doing from that team.<br /> <br /> “The team will help Mr President to deliver on most of the promises he made to Nigerian people, in fact much more quickly than is even envisaged because I don’t think there is anybody on that list that you can call a pushover in terms of government business,’’ he said.<br /> <br /> Mr. Ngige, who is one of the ministerial nominees, frowned at those criticising the president for not attaching portfolio to the names of the nominees.<br /> <br /> According to him, the Constitution does not say that the President must attach portfolio.<br /> <br /> He said the constitution only prescribed that those to be appointed as ministers must have qualifications that would enable them to be members of the House of Representatives.<br /> <br /> “That is the minimum and you know that the age of the House of Representatives is lower than that of the Senate and the educational qualifications as enshrined in the Constitution. There is nothing there about not attaching portfolios.<br /> <br /> “The President is taking it slowly according to his words. When people say he his Baba go slow, he said; yes, yes that he will go slow and steadily and steadily we shall get there.<br /> <br /> “In other climes like America and other developed world, they attach portfolios and that is what their constitution says.’’<br /> <br /> Mr. Ngige dismissed the insinuation that some of the ministerial nominees were “Analogue and old school’’.<br /> <br /> “Am I analogue? Don’t let Anambra people hear that you called me analogue. I am digital and I don’t know who is analogue on that list,’’ he concluded. (NAN)

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Drama in Ilorin as suspected robber falls from bank’s roof

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2eOD5UZno-826ufYFZ_X7FhC7daM1HCM5Hi0g28dTTQb_2gQc-B8Z5h8huIm1WaWnOn4f3jbuAgPeIHMrYj0FH0laIlRvig8NS4ZcAb1cL0W_UEh6UE3qyP0MAqGc2WeJYNrYhmvS1QJq/s1600/kwara+map.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2eOD5UZno-826ufYFZ_X7FhC7daM1HCM5Hi0g28dTTQb_2gQc-B8Z5h8huIm1WaWnOn4f3jbuAgPeIHMrYj0FH0laIlRvig8NS4ZcAb1cL0W_UEh6UE3qyP0MAqGc2WeJYNrYhmvS1QJq/s640/kwara+map.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> There was drama on Friday at the Unity Road Branch of Guaranty Trust Bank in Ilorin as a suspected robber fell from the bank’s roof, throwing the banking hall into pandemonium. NAN gathered that the suspect was hiding in the roof of the bank while waiting for his accomplices to commence a robbery operation when he fell.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> A security man attached to the bank told NAN on condition of anonymity that the suspected robber must have been hiding in the roof overnight. He also said nobody knew how the suspect got into the roof of the bank as there was no sign of damage to any of the security doors in the bank.<br /> <br /> The security man said the suspect was promptly apprehended by some customers inside the banking hall and later handed over to the police. The Police Public Relations officer, ASP Okasanmi Ajayi, confirmed the incident to NAN.<br /> <br /> He said immediately the report reached the police command, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Esosa Amadasun, visited the bank. The police spokesman said nobody was injured in the incident while interrogation of the suspect had commenced.<br /> <br /> When NAN visited the bank, it was under lock while a security man was busy directing customers to the Taiwo Road branch of the bank.<br /> <br /> (NAN)

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