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Soludo to Okonjo-Iweala: N30tr missing under you
Buhari: we’ll deliver 20,000mw in four years From Tony Akowe, Abuja
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HE All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday unfolded its power agenda should it presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, be elected. The party plans to generate at least 20,000 megawatts (mw) of electricity in four years to surpass Nigeria’s consumption level of around 15, 000mw. In a statement, the party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) expressed dismay that the Federal Government under President Goodluck Jonathan had only added 1.400mw to the national grid in four years. Continued on page 4
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•Prof. Soludo
ORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo has accused Finance Minister Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala of bringing misery to Nigerians with her economic policies. According to him, under Dr. Okonjo-Iweala’s watch
By Simeon Ebulu, Group Business Editor
as coordinating minister of the economy, over N30 trillion is missing.
DETAILS ON PAGES 2-4 He said: “Public finance is haemorrhaging to the point that estimated over N30 tril-
lion is missing or stolen or unaccounted for, or simply mismanaged. ” He challenged the minister to a debate on the economy. Soludo threw the gauntlet in a reaction to the minister’s diatribe followContinued on page 4
•INSIDE: FIRMS TO ACCESS N70B UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS P25 NIGERIA’S GROWTH DOWN 5.5% P25
Panic in PDP as Amaechi woos Lamido for Buhari Rivers, Jigawa governors hold talks in Dutse From Yusuf Alli, Abuja and Ahmed Rufa’I, Dutse
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HERE was panic yesterday in the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following a secret meeting between Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido and All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council DirectorGeneral Rotimi Amaechi. The meeting was held in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, between Saturday night and yesterday. Lamido, who is PDP candidate President Goodluck Jonathan’s Northwest campaign coordinator, and the Rivers State governor were on the same side during the disputed Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) election. It was learnt that Amaechi was in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on the invitation of his colleague. He arrived at the Jigawa Government House at about 9pm on Saturday. WILL THE A source said the two govCHIBOK GIRLS ernors held talks late into the KIDNAPPED ON night at the Presidential APRIL 15 EVER
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•A victim of the bombing in Potiskum being evacuated ...yesterday.
Scores killed in Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri STORY ON PAGE 4
Military,JTF repel sect 18 die in Potiskum, Gombe blasts
•Blood stains and abandoned footwear litter the scene of a suicide blast in PHOTOS: AFP Potiskum…yesterday.
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