January 14, 2015

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Newspaper of the Year

RS E THOCK O , 4 F ST DES M E O A ST 1% TR 54 I ER 5 T E M AKE RKE AG P T A M

President shifts Ondo rally as 46 PDP leaders join APC NEWS PAGE 2

•Party in disarray as Mimiko’s leadership is rejected •Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

VOL. 10, NO. 3095 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015

TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

N150.00

68.8m eligible to vote, says INEC

Govt threatens rice importers over unpaid N36.56b duty

From Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja

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•Firms fault policy By Bunmi Ogunmodede

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IVE companies have up till tomorrow to remit N36.56 billion to Federal Government’s treasury or face sanctions, a minister said yesterday. The firms owe N36, 569,117,975.4, being preferential duty and levy on the tariff and levy on the 732,555.55 metric tons of rice they imported, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Akinwunmi Adesina said in Lagos. The companies are: Popular Farm and Mills; Olam, CenContinued on page 4

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•Prof. Jega

HE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday listed 68.8 million people as eligible to vote in next month’s general elections. The presidential and national assembly elections will hold on February 14 to be followed by the governorship and state assemblies’ elections on February 28. The number of voters is about five million less than

From Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja

THE FIGURES

68.8m 30m 130,000

•Eligible to vote

•PVCs yet to be collected •Card readers deployed

the 2011 figures of 73.5million. About 30.8 million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs)

are yet to be collected. They can still be picked up till end of the month, INEC said. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, spoke yesterday as the agency unfolded the statistics for the elections. The presentation was done by INEC Director of Information Communication Technology (ICT),Mr. Chidi Nwafor. Continued on page 4

•INSIDE: CAMEROON KILLS 143 BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS P60 SIX PDP SENATORS DEFECT P60

Obasanjo to Jonathan: it is too late to support you Ex-president dismisses PTF probe report From Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta

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HE desperate battle to secure former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid may have collapsed, The Nation learnt yesterday. Dr. Jonathan and Chief Obasanjo met for about one hour on Monday night at the former president’s Abeokuta home. The President requested for Obasanjo’s support. “It’s too late; I’m sorry,” Obasanjo reportedly told Jonathan. A source close to the meeting told our reporter on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media. At the meeting were two Christian leaders – Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners’ Chapel – who attended at Obasanjo’s request. None of those at the meeting spoke about it, but it was learnt that it was brief because Obasanjo insisted that for him, it was too late Continued on page 4

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INSIDE

•Tinubu: PDP lacks integrity to query Buhari’s certificate WILL THE •Ogun rulers back CHIBOK GIRLS APC candidate KIDNAPPED •Buhari’s wife at ON APRIL 15 Abeokuta rally EVER RETURN? •AND MORE ON PAGES 4&60

•Chief Obasanjo (third right), Gen. Buhari (third left), Prof. Osinbajo (second left), with Chief Odigie-Oyegun (left), Chief Akande (second right), Asiwaju Tinubu (right), Amosun (behind Chief Akande) and Mamora (behind Asiwaju Tinubu) and others in Abeokuta…yesterday.

When you were going to become manager of PTF... when you finished ‘and I took over, we looked into it...Although there was that investigation, its report was not of any material importance ’

•REPS MAY PEG OIL BENCHMARK AT $40 P53 PDP TAKES CAMPAIGN TO EKITI P60


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