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Thursday, June 12, 2014 Vol. 1 No. 114
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‘World War’ kicks off in Brazil
lMilitary shuts viewing centres in Adamawa Ibrahim Abdul Yola
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occer fans in Adamawa State may have a tough time following
the World Cup competition, which begins today in Brazil, as the military yesterday ordered the closure of viewing centres in the state.
According to the military, the step was necessary to protect fans from possible terrorist attacks. The decision was taken against the backdrop of
the bombing of a viewing centre in Mubi on June 1, which killed 18 people. Another suicide bomber who set out for an openCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Emirship: Jonathan should back off, says Kwankwaso
Muhammad Kabir Kano
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ano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, yesterday decried the alleged interference of the Federal Government in the process for
choosing a successor to the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero. He criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for allegedly fomenting trouble in the wake of Sunday’s announcement of the immediate past Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the late Bayero’s successor. The governor, in an interview in Abuja, said neither the Federal Government nor the president had any business with who
becomes the Emir of Kano. “Mr. President doesn’t seem to know where his power starts and where it stops. The appointment of an emir is purely a state affair. “What business has the Federal Government with
the appointment of the Emir of Kano? If there is Emir of Nigeria, let him go and appoint him. My feeling is that they have more than enough security problems, especially finding the Chibok girls, to contend with than sending
the police to go and block the Emir of Kano’s palace just because of Sanusi,” Kwankwaso’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Alhaji Baba Dantiye, quoted the governor as saying in posts on his Facebook CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
L-R: National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.); Chief of Staff to the President, Brigadier-General Jones Arogbofa (rtd.); Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim; Vice-President Namadi Sambo and President Goodluck Jonathan, during a valedictory session in memory of Prof. Dora Akunyili at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: TIMOTHY IKUOMENISAN
Why Igbo must support Jonathan, by Kalu, Ohakim, Chris Uba
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he much-speculated re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 received a boost yesterday as prominent Igbo leaders threw their weight behind him. Former governors of
Abia and Imo states, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and Chief Ikedi Ohakim respectively, along with a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Chief Chris Uba, after a crucial meeting in Lagos yesterday, urged the Igbo race to support Jonathan’s second term bid if
and when it is declared. The trio of Kalu, Ohakim and Uba noted that the South-East needed to give unflinching support to
the Jonathan administration so as to ensure speedy completion of the Second Niger Bridge, implemenCONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Confusion as Lagos slashes LASU fees
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