Peoples Daily Newspaper, Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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World Bank presidency not clinched by merit, says Okonjo-Iweala as Kim wins

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Vol. 8 No. 18

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Jimadal Ula 26, 1433 AH

N150

INSIDE

2015: Buhari’s Kano’s mass Senate uncovers chances ever bright, wedding may hold N26bn pension says Buba Galadima May 16 funds in 5 banks >>PAGE 4

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Police kill prison warder, DPO, others arrested

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Nigeria’s banking crisis over, says AMCON

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194 eminent elders declare . . .

North prepared for SNC  Urge FG to re-engage Boko Haram  Sect members not ready for dialogue, says VP By Umar Mohammed Puma, Abuja and Agaju Madugba, Kaduna

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he Arewa Elders Forum yesterday disclosed that the North was prepared to engage other regions of the country in a peaceful dialogue to determine the future of Nigeria. Receiving the harmonized reports of its committees on the state of insecurity and socio-political issues in Northern Nigeria yesterday in Abuja, the Forum in a veiled reference to the agitation for Sovereign National Conference (SNC), said: “The North shall no longer shy away from any dialogue or conference to negotiate the future of a united Nigeria, or even a divided Nigeria if that is the wish of its various component parts.” The Forum under the chairmanship of former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mamman Nasir, also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to resume dialogue with the Boko Haram sect even as it raised fears that the bombings and destruction by the sect’s insurgency are beyond the capacities of local militants. The Forum, in a communiqué read by the former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Paul Unongo, condemned in strong terms, Contd on Page 2

L-R: Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, former ICPC chairman, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, and Danmasanin Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, during the meeting of Arewa Elders Forum, yesterday in Abuja. Photo: Mahmud Isa

Oronsaye c’ttee asks FG to scrap EFCC, ICPC, FRSC, others By Abdulrahman Abdulraheem

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he continued existence of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Federal Road

Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), has been thrown into doubt. This followed the

recommendation of the Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Agencies, Commissions and Parastatals, which queried their separate existence.

The committee headed by former Head of Service, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, noting that some of the agencies which had

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taken on the roles of existing federal outfits were created for selfish interests without regard for extant laws. Mr. Oronsaye said that in the Contd on Page 2


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