The Nation April 21, 2015

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Outrage over S/Africa attacks

1,000 migrants die in shipwrecks

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•Protests in Abuja, Benin, Kaduna

•Disasters on European high seas

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

VOL. 10, NO. 3191 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

CBN faults payment for services in dollars

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Buhari: our plan for Northeast

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By Collins Nweze, Snr. Finance Correspondent

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HE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has condemned rising cases of currency substitution and dollarisation of the economy. CBN Banking Supervision Director Mrs. Tokunbo Martins said the Naira remain the only legal tender in this country. “Please be reminded that Section 15 of the CBN Act 2007 provides that the unit of currency in Nigeria shall be the Naira. Section 20 (1) of the same Act provides that the currency notes Continued on page 4

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RESIDENT-ELECT Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a comprehensive plan for the Northeast – the zone hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency. The economy of the states, especially Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, is reeling under the effect of the killings and general insecurity. Gen. Buhari told a Borno State delegation led by Governor Kashim Shettima, which

•President-elect, Obasanjo meet visited him in Kaduna on Sunday, that Lake Chad will get special attention so as to create jobs in agriculture for the teeming youths. He promised to give priority to ending the insurgency to bring stability to the zone. Besides, the search for oil along the Chad Basin will be funded. There will also be collabora-

tion with neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon to curtail Boko Haram’s transborder movement;cut supply of arms and block recruitment and training of recruits. Gen. Buhari said the stability of the Northeast would be a project because nothing can be achieved without Continued on page 4

•INSIDE: QUATTARA HAILS JONATHAN FOR NOT ‘PLAYING GBAGBO’ P5 APC REJECTS LIST P5

Schools shut as Fayose’s loyalists seize Assembly APC hails drivers for rejecting call to join protest From Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado-Ekiti

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KITI State Governor Ayo Fayose continued yesterday his desperate battle to stave off impeachment. There was tension in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Many schools remained shut at the opening of a new term. Fayose’s supporters stormed the vicinity of the House of Assembly, protesting the impeachment proceedings launched by 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers. Fayose has been running the state with seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers. The APC lawmakers sent an impeachment notice to Fayose and his deputy, Kolapo Olusola, accusing them of gross misconduct in the performance of their official functions. They wrote to the Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, after a special sitting, directing him to set up a seven-man panel to investigate the alleged gross misconduct. Fayose, in a broadcast on Sunday, said that the Dr. Adewale Omirin-led APC Assembly members were planning to storm the complex. He urged his supporters to beseige the place and frustrate the plot to remove him from office. The governor, who spoke in Yoruba charged PDP members, drivers, commercial motorcyclists (okada), market women and other interest groups WILL THE to rise and defend the CHIBOK GIRLS mandate they gave him at KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15, LAST last year’s election. Peoples Democratic ParYEAR EVER

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•DOWN PIRACY: Members of the Films Producer/Marketers Association of Nigeria protesting against piracy in Lagos…yesterday. PHOTO:DAYO ADEWUNMI

Movie stars march against piracy in Lagos •Don’t give up; it’s a battle you can win, Fashola tells protesters

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•NO U.S. VISA FOR VIOLENCE-PROMOTING POLITICIANS P4 SINO-NIGERIA TRADE IS $16B P9 •INSIDE:


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