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President ‘not in a hurry to appoint ministers, others’
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RESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is not in a hurry to appoint ministers. He yesterday attributed the delay in picking his team to the late submission of the transition committee’s report on the previous administration. The President told reporters at the African Union (AU) Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, that he was being careful not to make mistakes in appointing individuals, especially to key positions, such as finance and petroleum ministries. “I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually we will have (them). “But the main reason is that I have an interim committee which I agreed with former President Jonathan that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared for the new government to start from, with clear records from ministers. “But the ministers knew that they were going but the technocrats, the permanent Continued on page 4
•PO TISKUM: Health officials carry the •POTISKUM: body of victim of a suicide bomb attack out of an ambulance…yesterday.
10 dead in Yobe’s twin Boko Haram suicide bombings •Sect kills 23 in Chadian capital
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EN people were killed yesterday in twin suicide bombings in Potiskum, Yobe State’s commercial capital. The attacks targeted two locations at Dorowa and a Vigilante Office on Nangare/ Gashua Road. A hospital source said on telephone
From Duku Joel, Damaturu
that 10 people were confirmed dead at the Potiskum General Hospital. Five badly injured people were on admission. Abdullahi Shehu , a local vigilante
•N’DJ AMEN A: Boots of people killed in a suicide bomb attack outside the police headquarters…yesterday •N’DJAMEN AMENA: PHOTOS: AFP
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Kwankwaso: Saraki-PDP alliance is threat to Buhari
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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS EVER RETURN?
‘There was conspiracy against Tinubu by some APC leaders’ From Yusuf Alli, Abuja
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KEY member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has seen danger in Senate President Bukola Saraki’s alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It is dangerous for President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso said yesterday. In his view, the political romance
than 50% of Bukola (Saraki) is in PDP... ‘More And the implication of all these now is that very soon, the leadership of the Senate will start Tambuwalising the party… ’ will create inhibitions for the Buhari administration . Dr. Saraki was elected Senate Presi-
dent on June 9 after he rejected the APC’s choice, Ahmed Lawan and struck a deal with the Peoples Demo-
cratic Party (PDP). The pact produced Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President. To Kwankwaso, this happened because the APC leadership missed some vital steps and gave ample opportunity to Saraki’s group, which used it effectively. He described Ekweremadu’s elecContinued on page 4
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