August 28, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Ebola: Nigeria protests stigma

NEWS Page 3

•UN hails battle against virus

News Jonathan, Obasanjo meet P4 Sports Enyeama must work on kicks P24 Business Nigeria’s cocoa market is $80b P11

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

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Shell eyes $5b from oil block sale

Declare war on insurgents, ex-Service men tell President

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•‘27 policemen still missing’ From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

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ETIRED military officers and men are worried over the Federal Government’s soft arm tactic of dealing with Boko Haram. They are pushing for a full-scale war against the sect to end the insurgency in the Northeast, it was learnt yesterday. Continued on page 4

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IL giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc is pushing ahead with its planned sale of its assets to meet its $15 billion target from such transactions between 2014 and 2015. The firm said yesterday it had sold four oil fields in Nigeria, in its ongoing global asset sales to cut costs. The oil giant last year put

up for sale its 30 per cent shares in four oil blocks in the Niger Delta – Oil Mining Licence (OML) 18, 24, 25, 29 – as well as a key pipeline, the Nembe Creek Trunk Line. “We have signed sales and purchase agreements for some of the Oil Mining Leases, but not all that we are seeking to divest,” a Shell spokesman told Reuters.

No details were available on the value of the deals signed, nor when the full process will be completed. France’s Total and Italy’s Eni are also set to raise revenue from the sale of their 10 per cent and five per cent shares in the assets. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Continued on page 4

•INSIDE: TEARS FOR AKUNYILI IN ANAMBRA P64 LADOJA’S MOTHER DIES AT 94 P68

Cameroon kills 27 militants to save 480 Nigerian troops Boko Haram attacks foiled Senator: military underfunded From Joseph Jibueze, Owerri

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O protect the fleeing 480 Nigerian soldiers from harm, Cameroonian troops killed 27 suspected Boko Haram militants between Monday and Tuesday, the Cameroon State Radio said yesterday. The radio said the Cameroonian soldiers escorted their Nigerian counterparts back home after the Tuesday attack. It said Cameroonian soldiers killed the insurgents who attacked areas the Nigerian troops fled to during a battle with the militants. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in Abuja claimed that the troops “strayed” into Cameroon while making a “tactical maneouvre”. Sixteen of the suspected insurgents, the radio said, were killed on Monday and the 11 others on Tuesday. Cameroonian troops, the radio said, beat back two attempts by Boko Haram to enter the country’s northern territory through a locality sharing borders with Borno State. The troops seized heavy weapons and destroyed one of the vehicles the militants came with, the report added. Following the attacks, President Paul Biya

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WHERE ARE THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15?

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•Scene of petrol tankers’ explosion on Marine Bridge in Apapa, Lagos…yesterday.

PHOTO: NAN

Waiver for Ribadu, others splits PDP Meeting deadlocked as NWC moves against Mu’azu

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•SPORTS P24 •EDUCATION P25 •POLITICS P51 •N/HEALTH P53 •E-BUSINESS P58


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