June 12, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Fashola slashes LASU fees by 34-60 per cent •Govt to unions: end strike

•Emenike: I’m no Messiah

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•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

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•Messi, Ronaldo, Brazil, Spain to watch as show begins SPOR TS SPORTS Pages •Enyeama’s ‘form crucial’ 17,24&68 •Keshi rated 28th in pay chart •www.thenationonlineng.net

TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

EKITI 2014 Protest over CJ

N150.00

•APC: Clampdown on media strategy to capture Ekiti •‘Fayemi’s re-election ‘ll guarantee more growth’• PAGE 10 •Traditional rulers to IGP: redeploy MOPOL chief

Akunyili’s body in Abuja

crisis in Rivers

•Amaechi signs amendment to High Court Law 2001 From Bisi Olaniyi, Clarice Azuatalam and Rosemary Nwisi, Port Harcourt

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HERE is a plan to force a Chief Justice on Rivers State, Governor Rotimi Amaechi alleged yesterday. He said the National Judicial Council (NJC) is behind the crisis in the state’s judiciary, adding that it plans to force Justice Daisy Okocha on the people as the Chief Judge. The plot, said Amaechi, is to impeach him. The governor signed into law the bill for the amendment of the Rivers State High Court Law 2001 passed by the House of As-

•Rev. Sisters consoling widower Dr. Chike Akunyili, at the National Hospital ...yesterday

My life under threat over Sanusi, says Kwankwaso Continued on page 4

How ex-CBN governor emerged Emir, by governor

And I want to put it on record that whatever happens to me, my family and my state, Jonathan should be held responsible

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•Kwankwaso

ANO State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso said yesterday that his life is under threat. President Goodluck Jonathan should be held responsible, if anything happens

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

to him and his family, he told reporters in Abuja. He also said the President would be accountable for any breakdown of law and order in Kano State over the choice

APC zones chair, deputy secretary to Southsouth •Deputy chair, legal adviser for Southwest

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HE chairman of the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) will come from the Southsouth, it emerged yesterday. The party, which was registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on July 31, last year, will hold its maiden convention tomorrow in Abuja. APC emerged from the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (A CN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a section of the All Pro-

From John Ofikhenua, Abuja

gressives Grand Alliance (APGA). It has been led by an interim national executive under the leadership of Chief Bisi Akande. A meeting of the party’s leaders in Abuja approved the zoning recommended by the Convention committee, led by Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Wamakko. The 37 leaders at the caucus meeting are: Prince Abubakar Audu, Borno State Deputy Governor Zannah Mus-

of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Emir. Kwankwaso said All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders did not dictate to him who to appoint, adding that Sanusi’s choice was final.

Kwankwaso said contrary to the Presidency’s posture, Sanusi’s choice was popular. “I want to say that I think they are playing a lot of games. We don’t know their intention; we don’t know what they are

going to do next,” the governor said, adding: “But I have to say, like all other people in this country, everybody is concerned about the insecurity. On the other hand, our lives are in the hands of Almighty God. But the bottom line is we have seen a signal or a sign Continued on page 4 •Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun (left), German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dr. Geah Mueller and Special Adviser to the Governor on MDG, Mrs Hafsat AbiolaCostello during a visit to the newly built Totoro Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State...yesterday.

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•FIVE FAMILY MEMBERS FOUND DEAD IN AKURE P8 •DIEZANI’S OPEC AMBITION TO WAIT P4


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