December 01, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

N200m ‘bribe’: Fayose, Omirin disagree

Governors, Tinubu decry Kano blasts NEWS Page 2

NEWS

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•‘PDP lawmakers ask for money’

•UN backs anti-insurgents’ battle

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

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Boko Haram men attack another Borno town

Tributes for departed The Nation man Isiguzo By Joseph Jibueze, Senior Correspondent

•Why military can’t crush sect yet, by Buhari

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HE Nation management and staff were struggling yesterday to come to terms with the sudden death of Crime Correspondent Mr Jude Isiguzo. He died on Saturday morning after a brief illness. The newsroom was quiet, saddened by the shocking passage of the one many called Olopa (policeman). The late Isiguzo was admitted last Tuesday in a private hospital in Festac Town, Amuwo-Odofin Local Government near his home after complaining of weakness, but the medical team could not save his life. Continued on page 53

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USPECTED Boko Haram militants, who arrived on motorcycles, throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in Nigeria’s northeast after nightfall on Saturday, residents and a military source told Reuters. Residents said scores of

people had been killed in the town of Shani, but a police source said they had been unable to verify the death toll as communications to the town had been largely cut off. “They rode on motorcycles and were more than 30 men. They started throwing bombs into houses...then the Boko

Haram fired shots at people fleeing,” resident Ishaya Brimah told Reuters by phone from a nearby village on Sunday. “They set ablaze the police station, houses and a telecom mast...I saw people fleeing, some bodies on the Continued on page 2

•INSIDE: CBN LISTS NIGERIA’S FISCAL PROBLEMS P2 LAGOS RESIDENTS CAN’T GET PVC P60

Presidency, PDP plan court ambush to oust Tambuwal Supporters to stop ex-parte order to declare seat vacant From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

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ARELY four days to the resumption of the House of Representatives, members have uncovered a plot to have a court declare vacant Speaker Aminu Tambuwal’s seat. The court may grant an ex-parte order asking Tambuwal to leave office pending the determination of the substantive motion. On the basis of the judicial ambush, the police will have “alibi” to prevent the Speaker from presiding over the House when it reconvenes on December 4. A three-time member of the House, Isiaq Abiodun Akinlade(Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency) is said to have filed an exparte application seeking to stop Tambuwal from presiding over the affairs of the lower chamber because of the Speaker’s defection to the All Progressives Congress(APC). Akinlade, who lost the governorship ticket to Governor Ibikunle Amosun, left the APC for the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP). He could not be reached for comments last night. As at press time, Tambuwal had not been put on notice, contrary to the rules put in place

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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 EVER RETURN?

by the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mukhtar. A principal officer of the House, who spoke in confidence, said: “We have uncovered a judicial ambush to remove the Speaker on Monday. The Presidency and the PDP are Continued on page 2

D N A NE A R RTU I NASFO ES E I G THS M PA4&5 IT

•P AINS OF BOK O HARAM: Children stand by their ration at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) internally displaced persons •PAINS BOKO PHOTO: NAN transit camp at Girei, Yola, Adamawa State…at the weekend.

•POLITICS P15 •SPORTS P24 •JOBS P35 •CEO P37 •MOTORING P39 •FOREIGN P58


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