The Nation June 11, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Bomb scare rocks Abuja markets

•‘Enyeama is world’s best’ •Eagles not playing for cash, says skipper Yobo •Team gets security alert TS SPORTS •Mark is cheer leader SPOR Page 24

NEWS

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•Shutdown as police search for explosives •Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

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•Tinubu, APC, groups condemn attack on Fayemi •Governor leads in opinion poll •AND MORE ON PAGES 7&8 •Accord promises industries•Fayose at Aso Villa

NLC warns against media clampdown By Joseph Jibueze, Lagos; John Ofikhenua, Abuja; Oziegbe Okoeki; James Azania, Lokoja; and Nneka Nwaneri, Lagos

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ORKERS joined yesterday the massive condemnation of the military’s attempt to muzzle the press. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Lagos State House of Assembly and the Senior Pastor of Trinity House Ituah Ighodalo, urged Nigerians to resist any attempt to restrict the media in a democracy. NLC, in a statement by its President Abdulwahed Omar, said the clampdown on newspapers, which began on Friday, is absolutely unacceptable and clearly out of place in any democratic society. “We strongly believe a free press is very critical in the sustenance of democracy and any obstruction to the operations of any critical organ of our democratic process would be resisted as the recent infringements in the circulation of newspapers portend. In any case foreign media organisations seem to have more access to information on these violent groups, especially Boko Haram, than our security agents. Continued on page 4

Security has never been an excuse anywhere in the world to break the law... no segment of the society is allowed to be law unto itself, not even the military...All this is happening on the watch of President Jonathan who exults in his possession of the people’s mandate

SEE EDITORIAL ON PAGE 19

•The Madaki of Kano and Chairman of the four-man Kingmakers Council, Alhaji Yusuf Nabahani Cigari Ibrahim presenting to Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (second left) the Holy Qur’an, the “twin spear” (Tagwayen Masu), the sword, Emir Dabo’s hat and the ostrich plumage shoes —the instruments of his office— at the Government House...yesterday. With them are: Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and other kingmakers

Emir Sanusi gets regalia of office

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APC uncovers plot to split party at convention

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WHERE ARE THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15?

Pressure on aspirant, ex-governor, supporters to walk out

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PLOT to disrupt the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) coming up in Abuja on Friday has been uncovered. Some forces in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are said to be working on a chairmanship aspirant, a former governor and their followers

From Yusuf Alli and John Ofikhenua, Abuja

to walk out of the convention if the result does not favour the aspirant. The PDP’s plan, it was learnt, is to disrupt the convention the way some governors and party leaders walked out of the last PDP National Conven-

tion. The PDP elements are blaming APC for the emergence of the defunct New PDP at their convention in Abuja on August, last year. Four candidates are interested in APC’s National Chairmanship. They are former Edo State Governor

John Odigie-Oyegun; former Minister of Foreign Affairs Chief Tom Ikimi; former Bayelsa State Governor Timpreye Sylva, and a former PDP Deputy National Chairman Sam Jaja. A highly-placed source said: “Intelligence reports have shown that some Continued on page 4

•LIFE P15 •SPORTS P23 •MONEY P26 •INVESTORS P37 •POLITICS P43 •FOREIGN P60


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