July 25, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Suspected Ebola patient in Lagos

•Govt: no cause for alarm

NEWS

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News Ibadan PDP chief: my life unsafe P7 Sports Nigeria seeded no. 4 in t/tennis P14 Business CBN to give out N220b loans P53

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•APC, PDP, Omisore in row over ‘plot’ to cause mayhem • AND •LP to voters: be wary of rice sharing politicians MORE •SDP urges civil servants not to trust politicians ON PAGE 8

‘Please, don’t let me die’ •Blast victim seeks overseas treatment

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HE well-lit room was bright, but around the youth all was dark. A huge bloodsoaked bandage was woven round his head, covering his battered eye. “Please, don’t let me die,” he kept on crying. Ahmadu Bala’s right eye was blown off in Wednesday’s bombing in Kaduna. No fewer than 82 people died in the incident. Officials said 39 died. “Please, fly me abroad; I don’t want to die,” Bala ,18, cried on his bed at the Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial Hospi-

From Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna

tal in the city. Bala recalled how he was caught up in the blast after leaving the venue of the Ramadan lecture by Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi. He said: “I was on my way back from ‘Tafsir’ (Ramadan lecture) at Murtala Square when I heard a loud sound and before I knew what was happening, I found myself on the floor, far away from where I remember standing. “I felt my head was very Continued on page 4

•Bala on his hospital bed...yesterday

PHOTO: ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE

I felt my head was very heavy...My right eye had been ‘blown off by the bomb and I lost consciousness ’

Kaduna death toll hits 110 as bomber strikes in Kano Five die as bomb hidden in fridge goes off at park From Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna

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BOMB went off in Kano yesterday, 24 hours after the Kaduna twin explosions in which former Head of State Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and a cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi were targets. Five persons died in the Kano explosion, which took place at a popular motor park in Sabon Gari. Twelve persons were injured. The police said only one person died. The death toll in the Kaduna explosions, which have been condemned by the United Nations (UN), former military President Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and others, has risen to 110. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called for a comprehensive investigation into the explosions, which it described as “abhorrent and criminal”. The toll has risen to 110, with more injured

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INSIDE

•APC demands probe •UN, NLC condemn attacks as barbaric WHERE ARE •IBB: terror must stop THE CHIBOK •Buhari seeks action GIRLS KIDNAPPED •Kaduna lifts curfew

ON APRIL 15? •AND MORE ON PAGES 2-5

•ANO THER TRA GED Y: The scene of the Kano blast...yesterday. •ANOTHER TRAGED GEDY

PHOTO: KOLADE ADEYEMI

•ALGERIA PLANE WITH 116 PEOPLE CRASHES P60 •NASARAWA SPEAKER AT VILLA P10


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