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CBN orders banks, others to donate to terror support fund Ayodele Aminu
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he Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks and discount houses to donate to the Victims Support Fund Committee, set up by Presi-
dent Goodluck Jonathan to raise funds to assist victims of Boko Haram insurgency, which has killed at least 2,053 civilians in the first half of this year in 95 attacks. The 26-member com-
mittee, chaired by former Minister of Defence, Lt.Gen. T. Y. Danjuma, was inaugurated last week by Jonathan in Abuja. The directive, which was “more or less like an appeal,” was given in
Lagos yesterday by CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, at a breakfast meeting with banks’ managing directors and those of other financial institutions. New Telegraph had ex-
clusively reported yesterday that the CBN governor summoned the bank chiefs to a meeting without disclosing any agenda. At the meeting, which held at the CBN new head office complex, Emefiele
was said to have told the bank chiefs that President Goodluck Jonathan had appealed to him to seek the support of the financial institutions to contribute to the terror support fund. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Buhari escapes as 82 die in Kaduna bombings
lAPC leader: How I was nearly killed lGovt imposes 24-hour curfew lJonathan orders probe lTinubu condemns attack Anule Emmanuel, Emmanuel Onani, Ibraheem Musa and Walter Uba
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former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday escaped death by a whisker in a terrorist attack that ended the almost one-year-terror-free era in Kaduna. The first blast which happened around 12.30pm yesterday, occurred at the Waziri Drive/Alkali road junction, about 700 metres away from Murtala Mohammed Square, Bauchi was closing his annual preaching, but the cleric and his son, Sayyadi Ali, escaped unhurt. The second, in which Buhari, one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), escaped unhurt occurred about two hours later at Kawo Market. Three of Buhari’s se-
Rescue workers at the scene of the first bomb blast in Kaduna…yesterday.
Jonathan: We’ve capacity to win terror war lChibok girls will be divinely rescued, says Ezekwesili Onwuka Nzeshi, Yekeen Nurudeen and Wale Elegbede
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resident Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reassured Nigerians and the global community that notwithstanding the
relentless terror attacks by Boko Haram, his administration has the will, the resources and the strategy to win the war against the sect and terrorism.
The president represented by Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Miss Olajumoke Akinjide, told women and youths in Abu-
ja who had staged a threeday protest against Boko Haram and terrorism, as part of activities to mark the 100 days of the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls
from Chibok, Borno State, that the Federal Government had procured new equipment and technology towards strengthening the capability of the military and security forces to deCONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Al-Makura: CJ gets order to set up probe panel
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curity details were injured while scores of others were killed. Already, President Goodluck Jonathan, who condemned the attack on Buhari, has ordered security agencies to launch manhunt for sponsors of the attacks and bring them to justice. The Kaduna State Government has also imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state capital. Although the police confirmed 25 killed in the attacks, a Reuters report, citing figures from rescue workers, put the death toll at 82. The first attack of the day was carried out by a suicide bomber who had targeted Bauchi, a moderate Muslim cleric. At least 32 of members of the cleric’s congregation who had CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Oyeyemi emerges new FRSC corps marshal }4 LAGOS
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