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Vol. 8 No. 69
Thursday, June 28, 2012
PENGASSAN faults changes in NNPC >> PAGE 3
. . . putting the people first
Mystery fire guts NIMASA building >> PAGE 3
Shaaban 8, 1433 AH
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Bunkering: Reps Yakowa dismisses threaten to arrest offensive video clip Diezani, others in circulation >> PAGE 3
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18 killed in Kano gun battle From Edwin Olofu, Kano
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he Kano state Police Command said yesterday that 17 gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect and a policeman were killed in the Tuesday evening clash between security operatives and the sect members in Kano metropolis. The state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday, said the gunmen had launched coordinated attacks on Dala Police Station, Goron Dutse Prisons, Panshekara Police Station and headquarters of Mopol 52 in Challawa. He said the gunmen numbering about 30 descended on the Dala Police Station hurling explosives and shooting, but that policemen repelled the onslaught. He said during the gun battle, 10 of the Boko Haram suspects were killed while a police corporal was killed and another one sustained injuries. He added that five of the assailants were killed at the Mopol 52 Squadron in Challawa while two were killed in Jakara Police Barracks where the attacks were equally repelled. He called on the public to be on the lookout for persons that have gun injuries and report to security agents, adding that majority of the gunmen who escaped sustained gun shots. He further revealed that a bomb which was planted in Sabuwar Doka Junior Secondary School in Ungogo local government area exploded but only damaged a part of an office and no casualty was recorded because the school was not in session. “Some extremists launched sporadic attacks with bombs and Contd on Page 2
Yobe state Governor, Malam Ibrahim Gaidam (middle) unveiling the plague to commission the new office complex built for the Secretary to the State Government and Head of Service, on Tuesday in Damaturu.
Nigeria break up theory
Mark under fire By Lawrence Olaoye, Abuja, Ahmed Kaigama, Bauchi, with agency report
S
enate President David Mark’s remarks that Nigeria may break up if the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents are not checked have attracted scathing criticisms from the cross section of the country. Mark had at the opening of the Senate’s Retreat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, blamed the persistent
violent activities of the sect on the inaction of ‘northern leaders and elders’, whom he accused of not
doing enough to proffer solutions to the mayhem perpetrated by Boko Haram.
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So there must be something sinister about this. If you look at the details of his submission at the retreat, he is also trying to shift the blame on northern Muslims for the crises that are going on
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The Senate President had said: “The elders in the North, I ask, can they really stop this menace? And if they cannot, let them say so. “Because the impression at the moment is that there are some group of elders in the North who can stop it; there are group of elders who know what is happening. “My candid opinion is that they cannot stop it and they don’t know what is happening. If they Contd on Page 2