July 4, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Why poly, COE strike persists, by Wike NEWS

•NFF board, management sacked •Bonus row: Oliseh backs players •No match fixing, says FIFA QUARTER FINALS FIXTURES Saturday 5th July Friday 4th July •France vs Germany 5pm •Argentina vs Belgium 5pm •Brazil vs Colombia 9pm •Netherlands vs Cost Rica 9pm

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•ASUP boss: Govt not committed

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

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•780,464 get permanent voter cards for election AND MORE •REC on leave, not removed, says INEC •ON PAGE 9 •Thugs caught destroying Aregbesola’s billboards

•ALL Q UIET QUIET UIET:: The Outpatient Department of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan deserted as doctors’ strike continues…yesterday. SEE ALSO PAGES 2&3

‘Car prices won’t go up’ •Vehicle financing scheme coming C

The Nation’s Akioye is Reporter of the Year

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By Nneka Nwaneri and Ibrahim Adam

UALITY journalism was on parade last night in Lagos where The Nation won the much-coveted Golden Pen Award. Senior Correspondent Seun Akioye mounted the podium at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island to receive the Nigeria Breweries Golden Pen Reporter of the Year Award and the N1million cash prize. Akioye, all smiles, emerged the overall winner with his Continued on page 4

PHOTO: NAN

•Akioye...yesterday

AR prices will not go up because of the new auto policy, manufacturers said yesterday. As from January, duty on vehicles will go up to 35 per cent —to encourage local manufacturers. This, it is thought, will push up prices. But such fears are unfounded, according to the National As-

sociation of Automobile Manufacturers (NAMA). In fact, said NAMA in a statement, going by the policy, cars assembled overseas and brought into Nigeria will cost more, not those assembled locally. NAMA’s logic, according to

Executive Director Arthur Madueke, is that locally produced vehicles’ prices will gradually fall, because prices crashed in aviation and telecommunications following a similar policy. Madueke said: “We

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2015: Jonathan under fire for early campaign

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WHERE ARE THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15?

PDP disowns campaigners It’s callous, insensitive, says APC By Emmanuel Oladesu, Raymond Mordi, Gbade Ogunwale and Leke Salaudeen

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RESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan came under fire yesterday for jumping the gun in the 2015

race. Although the President is yet to speak on his political future, his party – the Peoples Democratic Party

He is indifferent to the law of the INEC and he is inviting everyone to do the same —Balarabe Musa

The PDP has nothing to do with...such groups. we are not even aware of such groups —PDP

No responsible group will choose this time...to launch a misguided campaign for the President —APC

(PDP) – has held some “unity rallies”. Such rallies were held in Bauchi (Northeast), Kano (Northwest) and Enugu (Southeast) before they were

suspended, following criticisms. After a brief lull, the campaigns may have reopened, with a new group, the GEJITES, displaying customised vehi-

cles and giant electronic billboards at the Unity Fountain in Abuja, where the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners have Continued on page 4

•SOCIETY P13 •SPORTS P23 •BRAND P26 •AGRIC P38 •POLITCS 45 •FOREIGN P58


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