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Vol. 10 No. 18
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
. . . putting the people first
Kano bans Okada to stem gun attacks >> PAGE 2
Oyinlola is still PDP scribe, says INEC >> PAGE 5
Rabiul Awwal 11, 1434 AH
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Shettima ‘relocates’ to secondary school >> PAGE 5
No public funds for centenary celebration By Lawrence Olaoye and Ikechukwu Okaforadi
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he Senate President, Senator David Mark, yesterday ordered that the government should not spend public funds on its planned Centenary celebration slated for January next year. Mark, who after listening to briefing on the event by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the Upper Chamber had no control over the event since it was supposed to be funded exclusively by the private sector. The Senate President said the National Assembly would not tolerate extra-budgetary spending in the name of Centenary celebration just as he pointed out that such funds were not approved in the 2013 budget. Meanwhile, the SGF told the House of Representatives that the government intended to construct a 100, 000 residential capacity Centenary City capable of generating 15,000 jobs in Abuja. Briefing lawmakers on government’s plan to celebrate 100 years of the nation’s amalgamation, Anyim said the proposed estate would also accommodate at least 500,000 Contd on Page 2
— Senate orders FG
L-R: Governors Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Gabriel Suswam of Benue, Sullivan Chime of Enugu, and Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers, during a visit of the governors' forum delegation to Governor Chime, yesterday in London. Photo: NAN
Gunmen kill 18 hunters in Borno, 5 in Kano ...As lunatic hacks 5 brothers to death in Makurdi From Mustapha I. Kwaru, Maiduguri, Uche Nnorom, Makurdi & Edwin Olofu, Kano
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nknown gunmen on Monday evening stormed a local market in Damboa town, in Damboa local government area of Borno state, killing 18 hunters, who
specialised in hunting wild pigs and monkeys for sale at the market. This is just as another set of gunmen descended on Dakata area of Kano metropolis, killing at least five persons in an attack that left residents now living in fear. The hunters slain in the Damboa attack were said to have
been warned by unknown persons to abandon their businesses allegedly on the ground that it contravened the Islamic principles, which forbids the consumption of pig and monkey flesh. Damboa is about 87 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital and the incident
occurred on the market day when traders were busy conducting their businesses. Eyewitnesses said the assailants, who were in large numbers, stormed the market in Volkswagen Golf cars and immediately opened fire at the hunters resulting in the death of Contd on Page 2
PD INDEX
22nd Jan., 2013
CBN RATES $ £ EURO CFA RIYAL
BUYING 154.72 24576 205.99 0.2953 41.25
SELLING 155.73 24735 207.32 0.3153 41.52
PARALLEL RATES EURO £ RIYAL $
BUYING 208 254.50 42 157
SELLING 210 257.50 43 158