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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Vol. 1 No. 154
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Lukman, ex-petroleum minister, dies at 75
l Jonathan, Mark, Atiku, Northern governors, Yero, Amosun pay tributes Our Reporters
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former Minister of Petroleum Resources and erstwhile Secretary General of the Organisa-
tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, died yesterday in Vienna, Austria. OPEC, in a statement
from Vienna confirmed the death of Lukman, at the age of 75 without saying the cause. Born in Zaria, Kaduna State on August 26, 1938,
the late Lukman trained as a mining engineer at the College of Arts, Science, and Technology, Zaria, which later became Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria and then at Imperial College, London. He earned a higher degree in mining engineering from the University of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
The late Lukman
Buhari to Jonathan: Stop this attack on opposition
lTinubu accuses president of seeking $1bn loan to fund second term Temitope Ogunbanke and Ibrahim Musa
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former Head of State, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday warned President Goodluck Jonathan against the attack on the opposition. Buhari, in a statement released in Kaduna, which he personally signed,
urged the president to pull the brakes on his administration’s runaway train of impunity in the interest of Nigeria’s survival and the sustenance of the nation’s democracy. Buhari, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the threats of impeachment of governors of opposition states, just to decapi-
tate the opposition, did not augur well for the survival of a fragile nation like Nigeria or the survival of its
fledgling democracy. Also expressing his fear about the state of the nation, especially Boko Ha-
ram insurgency, another APC national leader and a former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu,
“There is the tendency for my statement to be misconstrued as that of a politician rather than a statesman. But I owe it as matter of duty and honour, and in the interest of our nation, to speak out on the dangerous trajectory that our nation is heading”
criticised Jonathan’s request for a $1 billion loan to fight insurgency. Buhari, speaking against the backdrop of last week’s impeachment of Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako and the ongoing bid to oust the incumbent in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Umaru Al-Makura, warned the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Fighter jet kills scores of insurgents in Borno villages lTwo die as helicopter crashes lFG plans new counter-terrorism strategy Lateef Ibrahim, Emmanuel Onani and Ahmed Miringa
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cores of Boko Haram terrorists have been killed by Air Force fighter jets intercepted them on their way to attack some villages in Askira/ Uba Local Government Area of Borno state, just
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as another military helicopter crashed in Bama Local Government Area of the state, killing two airforce personnel. It was learnt that the gunmen who had sent threat letters to some villages in Askira/Uba Local Government Area had ambushed people fleeing their villages to Askira and Uba towns for safety, killing six of them at the weekend. A resident of the area, Mr. John Amos, said yesterday that the fleeing residents notified security operatives, who alerted a fighter jet that promptly responded and threw CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega (left), with United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, at a workshop for public affairs officers in Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: ELIJAH OLALUYI
Jonathan commends Oshiomhole on investment
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