The Nation July 23, 2014

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Kidnap suspect held in Ibadan •Abduction attempt foiled

News Fashola to army: expose bad eggs P7 Sports Joel Obi stays with Inter Milan P24 Business CBN to save $6b from BDC policy P56

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•’Zimbabwe formula’ won’t work, says Adeleke AND MORE •August 4 deadline for collection of PVCs •ON PAGE 8 •NYSC promises fairness•’Don’t share rice to voters’

•HERE WE ARE: Some of the girls who escaped from Boko Haram during the meeting with President Jonathan at the Presidential Villa …yesterday. SEE ALSO PAGES 2-4

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Boko Haram: 11 Chibok schoolgirls’ parents dead Tears as returnee-pupils recount ordeal at meeting with Jonathan

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ONTHS of controversy over the need for President Goodluck Jonathan to meet the parents of the abducted Chibok girls ended yesterday – somehow. Dr. Jonathan met the dis-

traught parents, not in the troubled Borno State town but in the cosy Presidential Villa in Abuja where the true picture of the grief caused by the April 15 incident was brought home. Eleven of the parents of the more than 200 kidnapped

Nigeria’s economy outlook bright, says World Bank

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From Nduka Chiejina, Abuja

IGERIA’S short term macroeconomic outlook improved in the first half of this year relative to 2013, according to the World Bank in its new Nigeria Economic Report (NER) launched yesterday in Abuja. The report states: “Revenues to the Federation have increased, foreign reserves have stabilised, the Excess Crude Account (ECA) has

schoolgirls will never see their daughters again. Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Boko Haram Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is under

siege from the militants, residents told Associated Press (AP). Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month,

said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists. At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the

mass abduction 100 days ago, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names. “One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of coma and kept Continued on page 4

Four: Head, Globacom Business Support Group, Yomi Ogunbamowo (middle), with (from left) Head of VAS, Nagasai Viswanath, Adebanke Kuyinu, Ijeoma Ngodo and Head of Data, Segun Adeyemo at the launch of Glo Ringa at the Mike Adenuga Towers, Lagos…yesterday

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•LIFE P15 •SPORTS P23 •MONEY P26 •INVESTORS P28 •POLITICS P51 •FOREIGN P60


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