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Friday, August 22, 2014 Vol. 1 No. 185
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Boko Haram takes over police training academy lArmy quizzes newspaper’s staff over report Ahmned Miringa MAIDUGURI
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oko Haram terrorists have stepped up war against the Nigerian state as they launched an
attack on the Mobile Police Training Camp in Limankara in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. A source said sporadic shots were heard after the
terrorists arrived in three armoured vehicles and on dozens motorcycles. A security source told New Telegraph that the terrorists, who engaged troops in a gun duel, suc-
ceeded in chasing away security personnel undergoing training and took over the camp. As a symbol of their sovereignty over the academy, they hoisted their flags on
the premises of the institution. The police training academy, which attracts officers and men from all parts of the country for combat training, is located in the midst of hills and CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
We’ll implement confab report, says Jonathan
lTo send document to N’Assembly, Council of State lGives reason for non-interference lDelegates form pressure group to ensure implementation of report Onwuka Nzeshi, Lateef Ibrahim and Anule Emmanuel ABUJA
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resident Goodluck Jonathan yesterday received the final report of the 2014 National Conference, pledging that it will go to the National Council of State and the National Assembly for implementation. The document consists of the Main Report and 22 volumes of annexure, which are approximately 10,335 pages. He described the National Conference as a huge success which has put to shame cynics who had earlier criticised the idea and labelled it a diversionary tactics by the Federal Government to keep its critics busy. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
L-R: Managing Director, Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Timothy Oguntayo; Glo’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Ajay Mathur; Executive Director, Legal Services, Mrs. Gladys Talabi; Managing Director, Keystone Bank, Mr. Phillip Ikeazor and Acting Coordinator, Business Solution, Glo, Mr. Ike Oraekwuotu, at the launch of Glo Xchange in Lagos...yesterday.
God saved my life, says US doctor cured of Ebola lNurse slumps, dies in Ekiti over scare lUK launches £6.5m research fund lSouth Africa bans travellers Appolonia Adeyemi and Adesina Wahab
T Brantly and his wife, Amber, in Atlanta, the United States... yesterday.
hirty-three-year-old United States’ Dr. Kenty Brantly reunited with his family yesterday after a grueling battle with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which has killed about 1,350 people in Ni-
geria and three other West African nations. The doctor turned missionary who woke up on July 23 “feeling under the weather,” at a press conference to herald his discharge from Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, however, attributed his recovery to God.
As he was thanking God for his recovery, a nurse in Ekiti State, who had been down with a yetto-be diagnosed disease, slumped and died at the Ministry of Health premises in Ado-Ekiti after she was refused treatment at some private hospitals where she had been taken
to over the fear that she might have contracted EVD. South Africa also banned all non-citizens travelling from three West African countries, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, worst-affected by the virus, from entering the CONTINUED ON PAGE 5