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  • Jonathan N100bn allegation: Osinbajo lying to divert Nigerians attention from Maina – Reno Omokri

    Former New Media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has stated that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo lied about his former principal giving out N100 billion and $295 million two weeks before the 2015 elections.

    The vice president had made the allegation while speaking on Friday at the Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference.

    In a post on his Facebook page yesterday, Omokri said Osinbajo has taken to his characteristic habit of lying.

    He gave instances where Osinbajo lied in the post titled: Vice President Osinbajo, With Your Lies, Are You Sure You Are Still a Pastor?

    Read post below.

    My attention has been drawn to claims in the media by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, against former President Jonathan.

    Speaking on Friday the 27th of October 2017 in Lagos at a ‘Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference’, the Vice President said “Weeks before the 2015 elections, the government then, gave out N100billion in cash and $295million in cash ostensibly for security within two weeks”.

    I make bold to say that the Vice President has once again taken to his characteristic habit of lying.

    Nigerians may recall that only last week, Vice President Osinbajo was in Anambra state where he lied that the present administration had paid $2 billion for the second Niger Bridge.

    I had cause to expose that lie and forced the Presidency to issue a ‘clarification’. The money released was 2 billion Naira and it came from the Sovereign Wealth Fund set up by the Jonathan administration which the APC resisted and challenged in court.

    It will also be recalled that in February 2016, the Vice President again lied when he claimed that both the Jonathan and Yar’adua government did not build a single road. This fact was easily disproved when even members of this administration, including Osinbajo’s boss, President Buhari, began commissioning projects, including roads built by the Jonathan administration.

    Nigerians will recall that the Jonathan administration rebuilt the Benin-Ore portions of the Benin-Lagos road, the Vom-Manchok road, the Kano-Zaria Road bridge (named after late Emir Ado Bayero) and many more.

    On this recent allegation by the Vice President, not only has the Vice President again lied, he is doing so to divert attention from the Maina scandal in which the administration in which he serves, by the testimony of the Maina Family, invited Abdulrasheed Maina, the infamous alleged pension thief, back into the country, reinstated him, promoted him and deployed him as Director of Human Resources in the ministry of Internal affairs.

    When they were found out, the Presidency resorted to its favorite past time of blame game by preposterously accusing former President Jonathan of somehow magically being the brain behind Maina’s return. This is even as the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had already revealed that he “acted in the public’s interest” in initiating the process for Maina’s return.

    There is also the $25 billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation scam which is the biggest scam ever in the history of Nigeria since 1914 to date.

    Finally, Nigerians want to know the truth about the Babachir Lawal probe which has been concluded and handed over to the President many months ago but of which no action has been taken.

    Nigerians want to hear the truth about these scandals and not tired lies about looted funds that keep being recycled without proof.

    I would like to remind the Vice President that he is a pastor and therefore conversant with the biblical admonition in Revelations 21:8 that “all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.”

    It is not too late for the Vice President to turn a new leaf and begin to apologize to Nigerians for the three million jobs a year he and his boss promised, but ended up losing 4.5 million jobs in their first two years according to the Nigerian Bureau of statistics.

    If Vice President Osinbajo is looking for who to blame for the present sorry state of the Nigerian economy, he should buy a mirror.

    The rushed implementation of the Treasury Single Account policy of the Jonathan administration, the constant negative comments about our economy by the President while on foreign trips, the inconsistent foreign exchange policies of the government, the advise to the World Bank to focus only on Northern Nigeria, the openly pro Northern Agenda which gives promotion and appointments to persons of Northern extraction irrespective of merit or experience are to blame, not Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

  • Jonathan N100 billion allegation: You’re a Liar – Fani-Kayode tells Osinbajo

    Jonathan N100 billion allegation: You’re a Liar – Fani-Kayode tells Osinbajo

    Former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has taken to Twitter to react to an allegation made by the Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo against Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan.

    Osinbajo at a conference on Friday said that before the 2015 elections, Jonathan doled out N100 billion and $295 million in cash within two weeks.

    This didn’t go down well with FFK who didn’t waste any time to debunk the report. He tweeted;“According to@ProfOsinbajo, @GEJonathan “doled out 100 billion naira and $290 million in 2 weeks just before the 2015 elections”.

  • Corruption: Jonathan dashed out N100bn, $295m cash in 2015 – Osinbajo

    Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the massive looting of the nation’s resources by the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is responsible for the economic crunch the country is experiencing under the present administration.

    He specifically said that before the 2015 elections, the government of Goodluck Jonathan, ostensibly doled out N100billion and $295million in cash within two weeks.

    Speaking yesterday in Lagos at a ‘Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference’ organised by Rev. Yomi Kasali’s-led Berean Ministers Group, Osinbajo said the Nigerian system was deeply infested with corruption, adding that graft should be pointedly tackled at all levels of institution.

    According to him, the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration decided to borrow to fund the budget because the nation’s earning had dropped and millions of Naira are still unaccounted for in the last administration.

    He said: “The theft of resources in this country is the first and primary reason for our poverty.

    “That is why we have to address the issue of corruption pointedly, not once in a while because the system is corrupt; it is a corrupted system that we are running. This is not a system where corruption is just an exception, corruption is generally the rule in the Nigerian system.

    “It is easy to say how come we don’t have money or why are we borrowing money? If you as an individual have N1million and somebody stole N900,000 from it, you won’t ask the question how come I am poor? You will immediately tie the theft of your money to your poverty.

    “When we came in, we had a foreign reserve of $32 billion, but there was $15billion used for defence contract that was unaccounted for.

    “Weeks before the 2015 elections, the government then, gave out N100billion in cash and $295million in cash ostensibly for security within two weeks. Those are the reasons why we don’t have money.”

  • Osinbajo clears controversy surrounding process NNPC contract approval

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has once again weighed in on the controversy over the approval of contracts in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

    The Vice President who had earlier said he gave approval to the NNPC to sign two loan deals, spoke about the issue at a forum which discussed ways of creating a better Nigeria in Lagos on Friday.

    A letter sent by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, to President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, of insubordination and of ignoring the NNPC board in approving contracts, among other issues, had sparked the controversy.

    The NNPC GMD had since defended his actions insisting he followed due process and that the President, who is also the Minister of Petroleum Resources, approved the contracts.

    On Friday, the Vice President told participants in the forum that it is the Tenders Board of the NNPC that is meant to approve contracts and not the NNPC Board.

    He said, “Is it the Board of NNPC or is it the Tenders Board of NNPC that approves contracts of a certain level? Is it the Board of NNPC or NNPC’s Tenders Board? Now, that inquiry was made in 2015 by way of a letter – and I am sure you’ve seen all of that. The answer that was given by the Bureau of Public Procurement is that the board referred to was the tenders’ board, not the Board of the NNPC.”

    Concerning the probe of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Dr Ayodele Oke, Professor Osinbajo said a verdict is expected from President Muhammadu Buhari soon.

    “As for the SGF and DG NIA issue that the President will decide. I am sure that very soon we will get a response on that,” he said.

    The Vice President also called on a new tribe of Nigerians to move the country forward.

    He said, “To build a new Nigeria, we need a new tribe. A tribe of men and women of all faiths, tribes, and ethnicities, hard work, justice and love of country. A tribe of men and women who are prepared to make the sacrifices and self-constraint that are crucial to insist on justice. A tribe consisting of professionals, religious leaders and all others who believe that this new Nigeria is possible.”

  • Time to open new page in anti-graft fight – Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday declared that the anti-corruption fight in the country must take a new turn for it to succeed.

    Osinbajo stated this at the opening of a two-day capacity building workshop for justices and judges, organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja.

    He said that the administration was reviving the entire anti-corruption system for speedy dispensation of justice.

    “We are re-jigging the entire system; the Chief Justice of the Federation has laid down the rules and he has encouraged everyone to follow suit.

    “There is no question at all that this is the time for us to open a new page in the entire anti-corruption fight.’’

    The Vice President, who expressed joy that the judiciary was on board, assured of the executive’s support in ensuring effective investigation of cases and speedy dispensation of justice.

    According to him, this is a collaborative venture of all, and the executive, judiciary and legislature must see this as a fight for the soul of our nation.

    Osinbajo hailed the CJNs new initiatives and the practice directions issued by the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in the Administration of Justice Act.

    He further commended the recent Supreme Court decision which stopped the dilatory tactics of staying proceedings in criminal cases on account of interlocutory applications.

    Osinbajo observed that all the nations that succeeded in winning the war against graft had to change their administration of justice system as well as the methods of investigation and trial of corruption cases.

    “Investigations must be conducted properly and thoroughly, not on the pages of newspapers, but before cases go to court, so that when such cases reach the court; what is presented will be the best possible case that the prosecution can present.

    “Most of the countries that have successfully dealt with corruption have had to dispense with needless technicality and focused on the offence.

    “In the case of public officers, they recognise that there can be no real explanation for a public officer whose pay is public knowledge to have cash and assets several times more than his earnings, let alone his savings.

    “If somebody earns in excess of what he should possibly even save in several lifetime, freeing him technically can never make sense, it will always seem that something has gone wrong with the system,’’ he stated.

    The Vice President also noted that most countries recognised that even the whole process of decision making must make sense“ otherwise it would undermine the very fundamentals of judiciary and justice.’’

    “If the fundament of justice is undermined, everything is undermined,’’ he said.

    According to Osinbajo, the misery and loss of lives on account of corruption far exceeds that of any other single crime, adding “if you look at the extent of damage caused by corruption it surely is a crime against humanity”.

    He noted that “impunity seems magnified when the trial of alleged perpetrators of corruption never seems to end.

    “And that such individuals can afford the best legal assistance only deepens the course of hopelessness that the corrupt will never be punished.’’

    The Vice President noted that the Boko Haram insurgency also escalated because of the diversion of funds meant to prosecute the war.

    He added that the reason the country did not build any new infrastructure in the last six years in spite of the huge oil revenue was because of corruption by government officials.

    “Corruption threatens our security, health, education and even our corporate existence,’’ he said, adding that it was the reason that Garvey, a global health fund for the vaccine provision in developing countries, withdrew support for Nigeria for alleged mismanagement of funds between 2011 and 2013.

    He stated that the country had to refund $2.2 million, adding that the drugs were meant to fight HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria amongst the poor.

    He said that a lot of funds in the hands of the corrupt were used to subvert justice, bribe government officials, judicial officers, media and subvert the legislature.

  • We are opening a new page in the fight against corruption – Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday declared that the anti-corruption fight in the country must take a new turn for it to succeed.

    Osinbajo stated this at the opening of a two-day capacity building workshop for justices and judges, organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja.

    He said that the administration was reviving the entire anti-corruption system for speedy dispensation of justice.

    “We are re-jigging the entire system; the Chief Justice of the Federation has laid down the rules and he has encouraged everyone to follow suit.

    “There is no question at all that this is the time for us to open a new page in the entire anti-corruption fight.’’

    The Vice President, who expressed joy that the judiciary was on board, assured of the executive’s support in ensuring effective investigation of cases and speedy dispensation of justice.

    According to him; “this is a collaborative venture of all, and the executive, judiciary and legislature must see this as a fight for the soul of our nation.’’

    Osinbajo hailed the CJNs new initiatives and the practice directions issued by the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in the Administration of Justice Act.

    He further commended the recent Supreme Court decision which stopped the dilatory tactics of staying proceedings in criminal cases on account of interlocutory applications.

    Osinbajo observed that all the nations that succeeded in winning the war against graft had to change their administration of justice system as well as the methods of investigation and trial of corruption cases.

    “Investigations must be conducted properly and thoroughly, not on the pages of newspapers, but before cases go to court, so that when such cases reach the court; what is presented will be the best possible case that the prosecution can present.

    “Most of the countries that have successfully dealt with corruption have had to dispense with needless technicality and focused on the offence.

    “In the case of public officers, they recognise that there can be no real explanation for a public officer whose pay is public knowledge to have cash and assets several times more than his earnings, let alone his savings.

    “If somebody earns in excess of what he should possibly even save in several lifetime, freeing him technically can never make sense, it will always seem that something has gone wrong with the system,’’ he stated.

    The Vice President also noted that most countries recognised that even the whole process of decision making must make sense“ otherwise it would undermine the very fundamentals of judiciary and justice.’’

    “If the fundament of justice is undermined, everything is undermined,’’ he said.

    According to Osinbajo, the misery and loss of lives on account of corruption far exceeds that of any other single crime, adding “if you look at the extent of damage caused by corruption it surely is a crime against humanity”.

    He noted that “impunity seems magnified when trial of alleged perpetrators of corruption never seems to end.

    “And that such individuals can afford the best legal assistance only deepens the course of hopelessness that the corrupt will never be punished.’’

    The Vice President noted that the Boko Haram insurgency also escalated because of the diversion of funds meant to prosecute the war.

    He added that the reason the country did not build any new infrastructure in the last six years in spite of the huge oil revenue was because of corruption by government officials.

    “Corruption threatens our security, health, education and even our corporate existence’’ he said adding that it was the reason that Garvey, a global health fund for vaccine provision in developing countries, withdrew support for Nigeria for alleged mismanagement of funds between 2011 and 2013.

    He stated that the country had to refund $2.2 million adding that the drugs were meant to fight HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria amongst the poor.

    He said that a lot of funds in the hands of the corrupt were used to subvert justice, bribe government officials, judicial officers, media and subvert legislature.

     

     

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  • We’ll do everything possible to break the walls of secret corporate ownership – Osinbajo

    Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said Nigeria and indeed the rest of the developing countries will leave no stone unturned to break the walls of secret corporate ownership.

    Osinbajo noted that it is gradually becoming a global problem and bane of growth in resource-rich countries like Nigeria.

    The Vice President spoke at the Beneficial Ownership Conference of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday.

    Osinbajo’s speech was made available to reporters in Abuja.

    He cited a 2014 report by the One Campaign entitled, “One Trillion Dollar Scandal”, which showed that developing countries loose one trillion dollars annually to corporate transgressions.

    Osinbajo said most of the funds are traceable to the activities of companies with secret ownership.

    “Another report that may enjoy mention here is the 2015 report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa chaired by former South African President Thabo Mbeki.

    “The panel stated in its report that Africa had lost more than one trillion dollars over a 50-year period, and that Africa loses more than 50 billion dollars annually to illicit financial flows.

    “Most of these illicit flows are perpetrated in the extractive sector and through companies with hidden ownerships,” the vice president said.

    Osinbajo said Nigeria was still struggling with the negative impact of the use of corporate ownership secrecy by senior government officials and their cronies to corner juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

    He specifically mentioned the celebrated Malabu scandal of the 1990s, which, he said, remained the subject of criminal and civil proceedings in many parts of the world.

    According to him, the court cases involved huge legal costs, while the full benefit of the natural resource remains unexploited for the benefit of the people of Nigeria to which it belongs.

    Osinbajo said: “So, for us in the developing world and especially in Africa, breaking the wall of secret corporate ownership is an existential matter.

    “It is for us literarily a matter of life and death. Masked or hidden corporate ownership is deeply implicated in the sad story of our underdevelopment.

    “Yes, we know that anonymous companies are not always illegal or are not always designed to harm.

    “But we also know that secrecy provides a convenient cover for the criminal and the corrupt. And we are not just operating from the theoretical or hypothetical standpoint.”

    The vice president said the problem was a global one driven by an inter-connected world where the foothold of anonymous companies does not respect the developed/developing divide.

     

  • We’ll complete construction of second Niger Bridge before ending of 2019 – Osinbajo

    Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the present administration would complete the second Niger Bridge before the end of 2019.

    Mr. Osinbajo stated this on Friday in Onitsha at the official flag-off campaign of Tony Nwoye, the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Anambra.

    He said that N2 billion had already been paid to the contractors as mobilisation fee for the take-off of the bridge project.

    Mr. Osinbajo said that all projects embarked on by the federal government would be completed without exception including rail and federal roads.

    The Vice President said that Anambra was the first to start the Federal Government School Feeding programme, adding that the programme had successfully spread to many other states.

    He called on the people in the state to support the APC candidate, whom he said would use his youthful ability to deliver on the party’s manifesto.

    In his speech, the National Chairman of APC, John Oyegun, said APC successfully removed a sitting president and would do same in the state come November 18.

    According to him, there is no alternative than for the people in the state to join the mainstream of Nigerian politics by voting Nwoye.

    Earlier, the Minister of Labour and Productivity and former governor of the state, Chris Ngige, urged the people of the state to identify with the aspiration of the APC for the state.

  • Buhari loves Anambra says Osinbajo as he woos supporters for Nwoye

    Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo catalogued the various programmes that the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress Government has done for the people of Anambra state and Igboland in general.

    The Vice President spoke Friday in Awka at the campaign flag-off for the party’s governorship candidate, Tony Nwoye, in the election coming up next month. Osinbajo said Buhari has consistently demonstrated that he loves the people of Anambra.

    One of the programmes being executed by the APC government is the Second Niger Bridge, which the previous PDP administration, promised but never executed.

    Osinbajo said some N2billion was recently released for part-execution of the project and that it is included in the 2017 budget. Osinbajo also reminded his audience that the Home Grown Scool Feeding Programme of the administration kicked off from Anambra, with over 100,000 school children already covered and thousands of cooks employed.

    This is in addition to the rail connection to Onitsha, in the state under the Lagos-Port Harcourt rail line and cities such as Awka, Umuahia, Owerri, Enugu, under the Port-Harcourt-Maiduguri line. “Also, we have our N-Power programme for young graduates. Already we have employed 4,518 young graduates and we intend to increase the number.

    We will not make any promise we cannot keep”, the Vice President said.

    Excerpts of the speech reads “I have come on behalf of Mr. President, many people know already that our President is a man who loves this State, and if you are looking for evidence that he loves this State, I am sure that you will not look very far.

    The first time that he ran for President, his running mate was from this State, yes, Chief Chuba Okadigbo. The second time that he ran, his running mate was from this State also, Chief Ume-Ezeoke. So I want you to give Mr. President 3 Gbosas! (Crowd responds!) The APC government is a government that will do everything it has promised.

    We are not making promises for nothing. The second Niger Bridge, we have been talking about it for a long time, but for the first time, the President went by himself to negotiate the facility to do that second Niger Bridge.

    That is why the second Niger Bridge is in our current budget and we have provided for it. In fact, I am being reminded that just two days ago, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid N2billion for that same project. (Sum paid to the contractor Julius Berger for early works) We will definitely see our second Niger Bridge, we will not make promises we cannot keep.

    When we were talking about railways, Lagos – Calabar railway, under the old administration, I will not mention them by name, they said Lagos will go to Calabar, there was no connection to the Southeast. It was when President Muhammadu Buhari came, that we re-designed the Lagos – Calabar, in order to pass through Onitsha in the first place.

    That new design is what we also have- the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri railway, which has a connection to Umuahia, Owerri, Enugu, and Awka. So we will not make promises we cannot keep, we will keep our promises. This State was the first to receive our Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, we gave this State money first for that programme. And we have already in 807 schools, here in Anambra State, fed young children in primary schools. We have over 103,000 children that are already being fed here in Anambra.

    The school feeding programme is an APC programme and we have engaged over a thousand cooks. Also, we have our N-Power programme for young graduates. Already we have employed 4,518 young graduates and we intend to increase the number. We will not make any promise we cannot keep. That is why I am so sure you will be making the right choice, you will be doing the right thing.

    How many people know that when you do the right thing, you will get the right result? One plus one is two not two and a half, two plus two is four not four and a half. If you make the right choice, you will get the right results. When we made the right choice and voted the APC, we are getting the right results.

    By the grace of God, you in Anambra State will also get the right results. So it is my very special pleasure now, to invite the National Chairman to present our flag, I am going to join him. The proper person to present the flag is our Chairman, so that it will be valid, because we don’t want any invalid presentation of our flag, and I will also accompany him and all of us here will accompany him.

  • Osinbajo, Sultan, Aregbesola, Ambode others to grace Ooni’s birthday lecture

    Osinbajo, Sultan, Aregbesola, Ambode others to grace Ooni’s birthday lecture

    Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is expected in Ile-Ife on Tuesday 17th October 2017 as the Special Guest of Honour at a leadership symposium in honour of the Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II who will be marking his 43rd birthday with Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar and Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun as the Host Governor.

    According to a press statement on Saturday by Director of Media, Ooni’s Palace, Comrade Moses Olafare who spoke on behalf of the planning committee, the Ooni Annual International Leadership Symposium is designed to hold annually in commemoration of the Ooni’s birthday with view to providing the youths and other beneficiaries of his numerous empowerment schemes to showcase their success stories.

    “Baba Ooni believes very strongly that celebration of the birthdays of people in leadership authorities must always be in recognition of their impactfulness. That’s why he decided this event as platform for success stories especially by the beneficiaries of his various categories of empowerment programs most whom are youths”.

    “Kabiyesi has designed this symposium to be annually held where great leaders who have made impacts in the society will motivationally be interacting with the people who look up to them”

    “Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, Governor Ambode, Mr Femi Falana, Sultan of Sokoto, Ethiopian Ambassador to Nigeria, the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, the gentleman from South Africa, Mr Sipho Mseleku of Shakhumnotho Group and other great leaders expected at this maiden edition are role models the youths always look up to,” Moses Olafare said.

    The lead speaker for the lecture is legal luminary and human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana while Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos, the Ethiopian Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb.(Mrs)Samia Zekaria Gutu and Mr Sipho Mseleku from South Africa are guest speakers. The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Eyitope Ogunmodede is a Co-Host.

    It will be recalled that Ooni Ogunwusi had two years ago dedicated his reign to the African youths during his coronation as the 51st Ooni of Ife. He has since embarked on and executed various projects that are of immense impacts on the masses and youths in particular.

    Comrade Olafare in the statement also confirmed the arrival of ex-Super Eagle players like Peter Rufai, Ike Sorounmu, Garba Lawal, Mutiu Adepoju, Taribo West, Ifeanyi Udese, Waheed Akanni, Gbenga Okunnowo, Oladimeji Lawal and others at Ile-Ife received on behalf of the Arole Oodua by the national team’s former coach who is a prominent indigene of Ifeland and Balogun of Modakeke, Highchief Festus Onigbinde for the novelty match to be played 3pm on Saturday at the sport complex of Obafemi Awolowo University organized by House of Oduduwa Foundation in honour of the African foremost monarch who is the Spiritual leader of the Yoruba race worldwide.

    This year’s edition of Ooni Annual Leadership Symposium is themed “TAKING NIGERIAN AND AFRICA TO GREATER HEIGHTS, The place of the youth.