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Satellite operators are asking the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to help maintain lines of communication among them to deal with potential conjunctions and other space safety issues.

During a panel at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia Sept. 30, representatives from constellation operators in the United States (US) and China emphasized the need to better coordinate when their satellites make close approaches to one another.

According to Space News report, Vice President of satellite policy at SpaceX, David Goldmanm said: ‘We see satellites getting launched into operational orbits of other systems without talking to each other, without sharing data.’

He stressed the need to share orbital ephemerides. ‘That is the single most important thing you can do to help decrease risk in space.’

The issues, he said, are largely not with other operators of large constellations. ‘SpaceX and Amazon work really closely on making sure that our satellites are working well together,’ he said. That includes coordination each time Amazon launches a set of Project Kuiper satellites, which must pass through shells of Starlink satellites to reach higher operational orbits.

‘We really have not had issues because we’re talking to each other closely. You can have a lot of satellites operating if you’re communicating well and working together well,’ he concluded.

An Amazon official on the panel agreed. ‘We work very closely together on space safety. We share our ephemeris, our maneuver plans and, at the technical level, we’re screening our orbits,’ Head of Space Safety and Sustainability for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Josef Koller, said.

His concern was with satellite operators Amazon does not, and cannot, communicate with. He estimated about 1,500 operational payloads pass through Kuiper orbits, only half of which Amazon has contact information for.

‘That’s really not a very safe environment. It seems like such a simple thing to do to share your contact information or your email address so we can reach out to you about who is going to maneuver or not, but that is the most critical item today that I see that we have not accomplished yet,’ he said.

A Chinese satellite operator on the panel said they face similar problems. ‘We always know who to contact for frequency coordination, but we don’t know who to talk to about satellite operations,’ General Manager of the Solutions Department at GalaxySpace, Peng Zhang, said.

Industry officials suggested one mechanism for sharing that information could be through the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU. ‘Around the world, there’s trust issues between operators, between countries. I think the ITU can play a pivotal role in trying to bring people together and share information in a trusted place,’ Goldman said.

The ITU is hosting its second Space Sustainability Forum next week in Geneva, where improving communications among operators will be a topic, said Jorge Ciccorossi, head of the Space Strategy and Sustainability Division of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau.

‘One of the things we’re going to coordinate among the key LEO operators is trying to exchange direct points of contact,’ he said. That will include asking member states and satellite operators to provide information that the ITU can post online. ‘It’s really important to have quick access to this,’ he said, noting it could also help address radio-frequency interference issues among operators.

‘It’s very important to have certainty and transparency, because these are the two pillars if you want to have sustainability,’ he said.

While operators agreed that sharing contact information, through the ITU or other means, was important, there was less consensus on what else the organization should do to promote space safety. Peng suggested developing a ‘code of conduct’ for satellite operators but did not elaborate.

Goldman cautioned against rushing into regulations. ‘Sometimes, when there is an effort to rush to regulation before people really understand the issue, you can have counterproductive rules,’ he warned.

He suggested the ITU focus on improving communications among operators, noting the slow pace of developing regulations at World Radiocommunication Conferences, held every four years. ‘That is a very slow cycle compared to what is happening in space right now,’ he said. ‘If you try to get regulations on this, you’re going to miss the issues by the time you get there.’

Having the ITU serve as a facilitator of communications, he concluded, ‘is the single best thing that we can do to lower the risk.’

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said more governors from the opposition parties were putting finishing touches to join President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the ruling party.

He said Nigerians were already seeing many achievements of the Tinubu administration across all sectors.

Akpabio stated this in his goodwill message at the launch of a book, titled: Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of The APC Administration In Nigeria, written by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma and the inauguration of projects by President Tinubu in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, Senator Akpabio said: ‘Mr. President, with what you have done in the last two years, get ready to receive more governors from the opposition parties. As I speak, there are several governors in Nigeria today who are ready to be received by you.’

The Senate President noted that Nigerians were beginning to see the positive outcomes of President Tinubu’s reforms and were acknowledging them.

He added: ‘The students, farmers, and businessmen are all speaking on the various reforms you have brought into governance, which are now yielding results in the overall interest and benefit of the people.

‘If we say it, they will accuse us of rubber-stamping your achievements, but the beneficiaries are the ones talking about what you have done.

‘I believe strongly in development and progress. I thank Governor Uzodimma for deciding to put history in writing, in his 10 years of impactful leadership of the APC administration in Nigeria.

‘If you don’t tell your story, others will tell it for you. Progressiveness is not in words; it is in action. The quality of works done by the governor is of high quality and the people of Imo State must be very, very excited.’

Akpabio recalled that when he was the governor of Akwa Ibom State 18 years ago, he was already a progressive, based on the projects he executed.

The Senate President congratulated his host and the national leadership of the party for achievements of the party in the last 10 years.

Nigeria has reiterated commitment to creating a transparent, stable and investor-friendly petroleum sector.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil) Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, delivered a keynote address on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Africa Energy Week in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Minister declared that Nigeria is ‘open for business’ and actively pursuing policies that prioritize investment, efficiency, and long-term growth in the oil sector.

‘This gathering is more than a conference, it is a call to action,’ he said, stressing that Nigeria is ready not just to participate in the global energy market, but to lead reform and growth on the African continent.

Lokpobiri, in a statement by Nneamaka Okafor Special Adviser on Media and Communication, outlined the bold policy measures implemented under President Tinubu’s administration, particularly the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which provides a clear and predictable fiscal and regulatory environment for investors.

The PIA has laid the foundation for licensing transparency, host community engagement, strengthened regulatory oversight, and a fair contractual framework.

‘What makes Nigeria now different is the legal, regulatory, financial, and structural transformation we are delivering,’ the Minister said.

Nigeria’s upstream sector is showing signs of strong recovery. The ‘Project One Million Barrels’ initiative, launched in October 2024, has raised daily crude oil production to between 1.7 and 1.83 million barrels per day, with a notable increase of 300,000 barrels per day in July 2025 alone.

Additionally, the number of active drilling rigs has grown from 31 in January to 50 by July 2025, a clear signal that reforms are unlocking value across the sector.

Of particular note were the recent asset divestments by International Oil Companies (IOCs), which the Minister said have unlocked over $5.5 billion in Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) within months.

‘These are not just transfers of assets, they are transfers of confidence, capability, and ownership,’ he stated. The divestments have already added approximately 200,000 barrels per day to national production.

On the broader African context, Lokpobiri urged the continent to retain more value from its hydrocarbon resources by focusing on infrastructure, industrial development, and localized value chains. He noted that Africa spends over $120 billion annually on hydrocarbons, largely through imports, calling it a missed opportunity for economic transformation.

He advocated for stronger intra-African collaboration and financing, emphasizing that Africa holds nearly $4 trillion in domestic capital, including pension and insurance funds. ‘The question is no longer about the availability of funds, but how we can channel them into productive investments on our continent,’ he said.

Addressing the topic of the global energy conversation, the Minister called for balance and equity.

He insisted that the narrative must shift toward a diverse energy mix, not abandonment of any resource.

‘The focus should be on availability, accessibility, and affordability of all forms of energy,’ he stressed. He made it clear that Nigeria, like other nations, will continue to utilize its oil resources responsibly while building a diversified and sustainable energy base.

Lokpobiri reaffirmed Nigeria’s role as a leading energy player in Africa. ‘We are offering opportunities at scale, reform with consistency, incentives with clarity, local participation with respect, and a vision that modernizes with purpose,’ he declared.

To global investors, he extended a direct invitation: ‘Come to Nigeria. Be part of the energy revolution.’ With strong reforms, ambitious targets, and an open-door policy, Nigeria is charting a bold path forward in Africa’s energy future.

I have written many times deprecating the phenomenon of African heads of state or government rushing in and out of major metropolitan centres like London, Paris, Washington, Beijing, Tokyo and others to provide them comic relief and inviting African heads of government or state to come and make serious people laugh at their penury and global jamboree. It will soon be New Delhi, Lisbon, Madrid, Moscow and any global power that needs funny African rulers wearing what to them looks funny.

Recently 52 or so African heads of state and government assembled as they do annually in Beijing to meet With President Xi Jinping in a one-way dialogue in which the Chinese are presented with a list of requests on developmental projects spanning civil and military spheres of life. Most of the African countries are already indebted to China and they are not really in positions of serious binary negotiations. Sometimes, the African countries are just like Oliver Twist asking for more and more without understanding Chinese oriental mentality of asking for their last pint of blood from them and their children when their loans mature.

Orientals are generally not in the habit of forgiving creditors their debts. It is not just in their character and I am afraid that Africans will in future learn to their own detriment that the Chinese like other Orientals are incredible taskmasters not because they are wicked but because it is in their blood. There is no free lunch anywhere in the world! Whatever loans the Chinese are giving out now will be collected with interest in future or assets will be seized when the debtors are not able to pay. The experience of Sri Lanka which took generous Chinese loans for the development and modernisation of their ports and when they could not pay the Chinese simply seized the ports in lieu of the money owed.

I hope the African states will open their eyes when taking Chinese loans or any loans at all because they are not grants. Many of the projects the Chinese funded like the TANZAM railways running from Zambia to Tanzania built between 1970 and 1975 as the ‘UHURU RAILWAY’ is now not running and is virtually out of commission and has gone into a state of almost total disrepair and is being repaired with another loan of $1 billion provided by the Chinese. In our own case in Nigeria, the Kaduna- Abuja railway has been rendered hors de combat because of terrorists attack and bureaucratic thefts and it thus cannot pay its way. The Lagos-Ibadan railway is hardly a tale of success and the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja runs fitfully and not always and only God knows the fate of the Kano-Katsina-Zinder railway all built with Chinese money. The intercity railway in Lagos stands as a case of success if the bureaucratic shenanigans and corruption are minimized.

The problem of these railways is that only sections are complete. For example the Lagos – Ibadan railway is the southern portion of the line going to Kano. Without its completion, it can hardly be expected to pay its way.

We also have the problem of Nigerians not willing to pay for infrastructural modernisation because they think government owes them a living! Toll roads and bridges are objects of protest and damage in Nigeria whereas in the civilised parts of the world, people are made to pay for new roads, railways and other means of modern transportation and communication. There is a need for civic education to inculcate into our people the primary responsibility of citizens to pay tax. Bill Gates on a recent visit to Nigeria pointed out that Nigerians do not pay taxes. Of course, it is generally known that only salary earners pay taxes while business people hardly pay taxes no matter how wealthy they are. They simply bribe their ways through. The complaint is that taxes are routinely stolen.

I am afraid we have come to a point in our country when we have to put our feet down and say no more stealing and police the state to prevent arrant looting after all, thieves are people not spirits. If we are serious we can do it. China that we run with begging hats and plates in hand to was one of the most corrupt societies in the world. China and India used to struggle with each other about which country was worse than the other until China of Mao Tsetung decided to deal brutally with any rogue pilfering from state coffers. Anyone pilfering was met by bullets. People sat up and this severe retribution continues till today.

Until we do this, corruption will continue until it destroys this country. The China we all run to borrow money was within my lifetime abjectly poor until the Chinese revolution in 1949. The country continued to engage in life and death struggle with poverty until Deng Xiaoping took power and ruled the country between 1978 and 1989 and completely transformed the country from being in the backwoods of development in the world into what it is today as the second most powerful country in the world, second to the United States and on the cusp of overtaking it in the next decade or two, all things being equal. The phenomenal development of China within a living memory should be what our people should try to emulate. Borrowing money and opening our markets to all kind of junks was not the Chinese way to development. The way the Chinese mobilised its huge population for development should be an example which a country like Nigeria should follow rather than importing all kinds of Chinese goods into our country.

Instead of wasting our time and the little money we have on constitutional debates and writing and rewriting our constitution, we should take our ploughs, hoes and cutlasses and go to farms with the aim of not only feeding ourselves but the rest of the world as Americans do.

I am opposed to all the presidents of Africa queuing up in foreign countries to beg for assistance when we are endowed with available land, sunshine, water, air, minerals underneath the earth and flowing water that can be harnessed for hydroelectricity. It is not just the humiliation in Beijing that I am opposed to; I am also opposed to all African presidents going to Paris as begging children every year for France – Africa powwow. The same goes for the similar phenomenon in London, Washington, Tokyo, in New Delhi, Berlin with Madrid and who knows when even puny Lisbon will follow.

These African rulers will fly in their executive jets costing millions of dollars to purchase, to beg for money which is sometimes not up to the cost of their planes. We are told that the Chinese is sharing $50 billion among the 52 African states assembled in Beijing. This means some of these presidents would go home with less than $1 billion when prorated. It just doesn’t make sense when the monarch of Britain, heads of state and government in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy rents planes from their national airlines when they want to fly and make an impression. No one can begrudge the United States, Russia and even France for using executive personalised aircraft’s for their trips abroad, after all, they make them and can afford them without borrowing or breaking the backs of their people to buy them

If there is need for all African countries to meet with these powerful countries for assistance, let the OAU decide that as from now onwards, African ambassadors would represent their countries in bilateral relations one on one and if they have to be met as a collective, there should be no problem and for the countries that have no ambassadors in these major capitals, they should be represented by neighbouring countries’ ambassadors or those of regional organisations like Economic Community of West Africa – ECOWAS or SADC or such regional bodies. This annual jamborees reminds me of what the late President George Walker Bush said about such International jamborees. He said the smaller countries speak longer than the bigger and more important participants representing important countries and that their long speeches are simply ignored. I hope this is not the case with these African jamborees simply providing comic relief for the government leaders of busy and serious countries!

Academia Campus Journalists, Centre for Undergraduate Programmes (CUDEP) of the Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, an affiliate of University of Ibadan, has elected new executives for the 2024-2025 year.

The new executives, who took the mantle of upholding the standard the organisation has set since its inception, were sworn in by the outgoing Chief Journalist Adekunle Joel.

These executives elected from the highest to the lowest include, Chief Journalist, Modadeoluwa Tunde-Oso; Deputy Chief Journalist, Adeyinka Adetutu; Editor-in-Chief Isaac Joseph Inyang and General Secretary Oloyede Boluwatife. Others are the Treasurer Anyenkegbe Destiny Ebosereme; Public Relations Officer Popoola Ayooluwa; Journalist Marshal Anosiri Henry; Auditor Akah Miracle and the Assistant General Secretary Oke Prestige.

In his acceptance speech, Tunde-Oso said: ‘It was a moment of mixed feelings, I never expected it, but I guess members must have seen something in me that made them elect me, finding me worthy of this position.’

When asked about his programmes, he stated: ‘My goal is to keep the fire burning. The flame of the academia must not die.

‘This ‘Flame’ represents the standard of truth, excellence and creativity in reporting that my predecessors had set during their time. I also aim not only to engender continuity but also to bring innovation and improvement to the organisation.

‘We need cooperation among members and executives in order to make this administration better than the last.’

Fintech startup, Cardri, has launched its intra-Africa payment solution.

As intra-African trade suffers from delays, high fees, and complexity of navigating 42 currencies, Cardri’s platform promises a seamless solution – allowing users to fund their wallets in local currency (naira) and make instant cross-border payments to African countries.

Beyond Africa, the app supports global payouts to 92 countries, instant domicilliary funding and even Alipay and Chinese account funding – opening up frontiers for businesses and individuals seeking to operate internationally.

But the most revolutionary feature is Cardri’s AI-powered risk management tool to help users hedge against currency fluctuations, inflation shocks and others. While still in development, this tool is critical for small businesses and importers navigating unpredictable market conditions.

According to founders, the goal is to make Cardri Africa’s Financial Super App, combining payments, reach and smart risk management in a single ecosystem.

With African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) gaining momentum, this could bridge the financial divide holding back intra-African commerce to create a frictionless economy where money moves easily as ideas and businesses are able to protect themselves from market volatilities all from a single app for the first time

The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has said the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, is becoming a comfort zone for human traffickers.

She stated this yesterday when she led an operation to the airport, which led to the rescue of 24 victims of human trafficking and arrest of five suspected trafficking agents.

The victims whose ages range from 15 to 26 years, were recruited from Kano, Kastina, Oyo, Ondo and Rivers states, and were heading to Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Afghanistan.

According to a statement in Abuja by the Press Officer of NAPTIP, Vincent Adekoye, one of the suspected human traffickers, was a retired senior law enforcement officer.

The suspect is alleged to be a prominent member of the trafficking syndicate operating within the Southwest.

On how the raid was carried out, the agency stated: ‘The latest raid followed a tip-off from concerned stakeholders and partners who alerted us to an influx of suspected human trafficking victims at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the unwholesome activities of some suspected traffickers.

‘At the end of nearly six hours of operation, the human trafficking were disrupted, leading to the arrest of five suspected traffickers and rescue of 24 suspected victims.

Revolution isn’t cooking spice. It is not something you purchase in small nylon sachets on a busy streets. Yet, folk sell it like spices, summoning its aroma in flavoured words, promising to make everything taste new.

The sellers shout and the crowd leans in, clutching their coins and heady fantasies. But Nigeria is not a kitchen stall; it is an ecology of households and habits, of private demons and public horrors.

If Nigeria is to mark 65 years of independence with anything resembling true rebirth, let that rebirth be a deliberate, internal jihad. It’s about time we shunned the fireworks of rage and mob grandeur frequently broadcast by conflict profiteers and romanticised by the disillusioned.

Revolutions that do not tend to the seedbed of civic character result in anarchy. The consequences are better imagined: ethnic cleansing, random murders, rampant rape, burning markets, crushed neighbourhoods, displaced families and orphaned children.

We must reject the rage-fuelled template. History and recent memory establish that uprisings, especially in a fragile polity, can be a match that sets dry tinder aflame; and the fire rarely knows the difference between palaces and boondocks. The so-called Arab Spring began as an earnest cry against corruption and tyranny; in places it yielded openings, but elsewhere it snowballed into protracted internecine wars, destructive vacuums and authoritarian relapse. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen, among others, show how revolutionary fervor without robust institutions or measured stewardship can produce catastrophe as often as it produces reform.

The lesson is not that people must never act, but that action divorced from civic preparation and a plan for long-term governance risks annihilation of the very goods people seek: safety, livelihoods and dignity. Those who romanticise a fast, thunderous overthrow: demagogues, disgruntled election losers, and entrepreneurial rabble-rousers who dress ambition as moral crusade are desperate actors, who are less interested in the public good than in the power and patronage that follow breakdown.

Others, sometimes foreign actors or ideologues, exploit youthful anger and digital fervour to accelerate outcomes that suit external agendas. Movements started online can be genuine, righteous and necessary; they can also be manipulated, redirected and weaponised. The #EndSARS movement of 2020, for example, began as a clarion call against police brutality and produced powerful civic energy and urgent reforms. But like most mass uprisings, its narrative was complex: genuine grassroots anger, social media amplification, and contested claims of outside manipulation and incendiary messaging all coexisted. The movement’s tragic collapse is a reminder that popular protest can be a force for accountability and also a prism through which external interests and local secessionist tensions play out, often leaving scars between communities.

Nations do not emerge fully formed from constitutions or borderlines. Nations are neither remade nor redeemed by violent uprisings, but by the character of the citizenry. And the latter, in turn, are shaped by their most intimate institution: the family. The family is the receptacle in which the values of a nation are first kindled or corrupted. It is where character and social conscience are either nurtured or strangled in the cradle. The integrity of our public life, therefore, depends on the morality of our private lives.

Family is key. From this sacred unit, a people’s sense of self, place, and purpose begins. If the family is compromised, then society itself becomes a ghost town of ethics: full of laws but lacking justice and compassion; rich in rhetoric but bankrupt of vision. Societal growth, therefore, cannot be engineered solely by policies or economic indices. It must be cultivated through the slow, careful evolution of the human spirit.

Our collective persona as a nation is reflected in the governor who once stole $4.2 million from his state’s coffers and stashed it to fund his vanities abroad, not minding what good such loot could do in resolving the educational, healthcare, and infrastructure woes of his state. It is reflected in the shenanigans of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor who currently seeks a plea bargain to escape punishment for fraud running into billions of naira, among others.

It is reflected in the former female Minister of Petroleum, who aggravated fuel scarcity and economic recession through reckless looting of public fund. Yet she fights to walk free.

Our collective personae flourishes in the antics of youths feverishly flying ethnic flags in defense of their ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ lawmaker, governor, minister, and ex-CBN governor irrespective of the atrocities committed by them and the criminal charges levelled against them.

Our public offices aid and abett dubious citizenship. They legitimise our culture of being, which enables and justifies a public officer’s immediate descent into a basement of opportunism right after emerging as an elected representative. The latter locks himself or herself in that amoral cellar and embarks on a quest of inordinate acquisition, counting his spoils in material possessions.

Such characters are, however, mere fragments of our bigger cultural dilemma. They are our decadence; our disease.

Yet even as we have rightly identified their emergence as an affliction of the eye and disease of the mind, our chances at healing are hindered by chinks in our surgical armour: the fissures of ethnoreligious bias, illiteracy, willful degeneracy, greed, poverty, savage ego, and sheer malevolence.

Nigeria’s geographic, religious and ethnic fault lines make reckless upheaval especially dangerous. Where social trust is thin, identities are layered and historical grievances fester unhealed, the romanticised revolt too often degenerates into intercommunal violence.

We must therefore be honest: to overthrow a corrupt structure is not the same as constructing a just polity. Too often the poor pay the heaviest price for our experiments in instant remaking. Thus, must teach a new civic grammar: that the right to revolt is philosophically bound to responsibility and respect for rule of law.

President Bola Tinubu’s administration,on his part, must build institutions that make governance responsive, humane and honorable. His government must measure policy success by lives improved, not by patronage expanded. The incumbent ruling class must avoid financial recklessness and obscenities while urging the citizenry to tighten their belts.

The youth on their part must be sceptical of leaders who promise instant catharsis. They must look beyond what their rhetoric destroys to see what it builds. Those who live by humiliation, intimidation and petty cruelty will never make a humane state.

The revolution Nigeria needs must be borne of patience. It will not photograph as readily as a burning barricade, but its fruits are durable: trust, predictable markets, better schools, safer streets, and a political class kept honest by a public unwilling to tolerate theft.

If Nigeria is to become a decisive actor in Africa’s future, economically, culturally and politically, it must first become a more decent assembly of persons. Nations rarely thrive by grand treaties and trade deals; they are made by how neighbours treat each other, how families rear children and citizens stand for truth. Every country’s reach in the world is directly proportional to the nature of its civic interior.

It’s about time we renounced our easy romance of rage. We must stop inciting our youths to equate destruction with virtue and instead cultivate a different heroism: the courage to be honest when it costs us convenience and the patience to build institutions that outlast us. That is the revolution we must espouse; the type that moulds citizens into caretakers of our common destiny and Nigeria into an inheritance worth passing on.

A new wave of innovation is sweeping through the financial technology sector.

A pioneering study published in the International Journal of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research, authored by Olabayoji Oluwatofunmi Oladepo and Opeyemi Eebru Alao of Swansea University, has unveiled a user-friendly machine learning tool that promises to transform how traders analyse and forecast stock market trends.

The study addresses a long-standing challenge in stock trading: the complexity of technical analysis.

Traditionally, traders rely on intricate charts and indicators to identify market patterns, but interpreting these visuals can be daunting, especially for beginners.

Most existing trading platforms either lack predictive capabilities or function as opaque ‘black-box’ systems, leaving users in the dark about how decisions are made.

At the heart of the tool among many others is a Random Forest machine learning model, chosen for its robust performance and ability to highlight which features most impact predictions.

The researchers engineered a range of financial indicators into the model, and used advanced techniques like SMOTE to address class imbalances in market data.

The model’s predictions are presented alongside clear visualisations of feature importance, allowing users to see exactly which factors drive the results.

To evaluate the tool’s effectiveness, the researchers conducted a virtual workshop with 14 participants of varying trading experience.

This research marks a significant step toward making financial trading more approachable and trustworthy.

A senior lecturer at Imo State University(IMSU) Prof. Fabian Ukozor has urged old students to be united to further strengthen their developmental strides and impact.

Ukozor spoke at the sixth anniversary of the old students of Township Comprehensive Secondary School, Amaifeke (TCSSA), Orlu, Imo State.

The ceremony, which was held in Lagos ,attracted guests from across Nigeria as well as South Africa and Swaziland.

The don, who was chairman of the occasion reminisced on how the TCSSA was established at a temporary site in 1980 after which it was moved to the present location in 1984, while highlighting how the graduates have impacted learning, business and philanthropy in Nigeria and around the world.

Ukozor enjoined the old students to embrace unity as a tool to impact more on the school for the coming generations.

Among the dignitaries that attended the annual event are Chairman of Orlu Local Government, Pastor Chris Mbarie; a Lagos businessman, Chief CY Utah; and Eze Aneche 1 of Amaifeke, Chief Emmanuel Ohajimadu.

Highlights of the event included a video narration of the state of TCSSA needing rehabilitation by the Chairman, Planning Committee Coalition of the school, Pastor Victor Mcdonald, a N150 million appeal fund for the rehabilitation, presentation of gifts to special guests and the launch of the old students’ magazine.