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Chime’s deputy slumps before impeachment panel Uwakwe Abugu and Emmanuel Masha
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nugu State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, yesterday slumped while testify-
ing before the seven-man panel probing the 16-count charges of gross misconduct and abuse of office levelled against him by the House of Assembly. Onyebuchi, who had
been served with the impeachment notice by the Assembly, slumped at about 11.35a.m. while in the dock testifying before the panel. The deputy governor,
whose impeachment bid climaxed his frosty relationship with the Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, was immediately rushed out of the hall by his wife, Nneka, his children and
some of his aides to St. Leo’s Hospital for medical attention where one Dr. Akunyili and Dr. G. C. Anisiuba, a consultant cardiologist, attended to him. The embattled deputy
governor had arrived at the court in company with his lawyers and began his evidence at 9.30a.m. He had gone more than two hours into the testiCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Ebola spreads to Enugu as FG quarantines 21 lGovt sets up four screening centres nationwide lNigeria okays use of trial drug lWhy Sawyer was desperate to get to Nigeria, by widow Anule Emmanuel
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rom Lagos, the dread Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which has killed 1,069 in four African countries, including Nigeria, has now spread to Enugu. According to the Federal Government, a nurse who was among the medical
team that attended to the late Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Lagos and died on July 25, fled quarantine in Lagos to Enugu. She has so far infected 20 others in Enugu who have been isolated. However, as part of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Kutigi clarifies emergence of ‘new draft constitution’ lConsideration of report commences today Onwuka Nzeshi ABUJA
L-R: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola; his Plateau State counterpart, Mr. Jonah Jang and President Goodluck Jonathan during governors’ meeting with the president on Ebola virus in Abuja...yesterday. PHOTO: TIMOTHY IKUOMENISAN.
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hairman of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, yesterday allayed the fears of northern delegates over
the emergence of a draft constitution as the conference enters the final lap of its assignment. In a brief remark at the resumption of plenary yesterday, Kutigi said the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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