Dec 20, 2013

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Gunmen kill five in Kwara •Robbers storm banks

NEWS

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News ‘No to visa payment in dollars’ P5 Sports Eagles drop in FIFA ranking P24 Business AfDB $184m loan for power P11

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•CANDIDATES SCORE POORLY IN WASSCE P6 •N255M CARS: REPS INDICT ODUAH P5

STORY ON PAGE 58

•The rescued expectant teenagers in Umuahia, Abia State...yesterday.

•Kingsley Ubani, who sold his son...yesterday

•Police rescue 19 girls from baby factory •Man sells son to bury dad

PDP governor: our party has finally collapsed I won’t quit, says Tukur Party kicks against lawmakers’ defection

It is agonising to see the party built in I was lawfully elected into the position every home, in every village, town and by the party; so why should I be removed city... being destroyed —Lamido through an illegal process —Tukur

I •Tukur

T was a grim verdict yesterday on the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by one of its governors. The ruling party is dead,

From Yusuf Alli, Yomi Odunuga, Abuja and Ahmed Rufa’I, Dutse

waiting to be buried, declared Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido.

Fed Govt budgets N4.6tr

•Minister presents 2014 estimates to lawmakers From Onyedi Ojiabor, Sanni Onogu, THE FIGURES Victor Oluwasegun and Dele Anofi, Abuja

M

INISTER of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday laid the Federal Government’s 2014 estimates of N4.6 trillion before the National Assembly. President Goodluck Jonathan inexplicably failed to perform the yearly ritual of reading the budget to the joint sitting of the National Assembly. The only other time when the President failed to present the budget was in 2009 when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent the 2010 estimates to the National Assembly through his Continued on page 4

N4.642tr N3.73tr N1.1tr N3.5tr

•Total budget

•Expected revenue

•Capital expenditure •Recurrent expenditure

Lamido, one of the founding fathers of the PDP in 1998, was one of the Group of Seven (G7)

aggrieved governors who challenged the leadership of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and joined the Kawu Baraje-led New PDP.

Five of the governors – Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Abdultfatah Ahmed (Kwara) – have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lamido and Niger State Continued on page 4

•Ajimobi presents N188.5b budget •Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi reading his 2014 budget proposal at the House of Assembly in Ibadan ...yesterday. Listening is Speaker Monsurat Sunmonu STORY ON PAGE 7

•CITYBEATS P9 •AGRIC P16 •POLITICS P23 •SPORTS P24 •SOCIETY P43


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