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Boko Haram ready to swap 219 girls with 70 detainees Hajiya Wakil: sect seeks amnesty By Olukorede Yishau, Assistant Editor (News)
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OKO Haram has demanded the release of 70 of its members in detention as a condition to free the Chibok girls, it emerged yesterday. The sect is also asking the government to give amnesty to its members. A lawyer close to the armed group, Hajiya Aisha Wakil, told AlJazeera English that the sect said only when these conditions are met would it release the abducted girls. No fewer than 276 girls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State on April 15. The Boko Haram leaders deceived the girls that they were soldiers who came to protect them from attack. There are 219 girls in their custody following the escape of 57 from their enclave. In spite of the support from an international coalition, including the United States, Britain, France and Australia military personnel and the use of a negotiator, the girls remain in the sect’s custody. Hajia Wakil, who is also known as Mama Boko Haram, because of her closeness to members of the sect, said: “And they want to be given amnesty, rehabilitated, and allowed to come back
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WHERE ARE THE CHIBOK home and move freely. I GIRLS told them not to hold the KIDNAPPED girls as ransom and to give ON APRIL 15?
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•An operative of the Sharia police called Hisbah holds a plastic bag of human flesh collected at the scene of the blast …yesterday.
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Suspect arrested as explosion kills eight in school
T was bloody yesterday in Kano. A bomb ripped through the School of Hygiene, killing eight and injuring 20.
Soldiers search Tambuwal’s car
•‘Govt owes Speaker apology’
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OUSE of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal was stopped yesterday by soldiers in Kaduna for security checks. According to the soldiers, they were acting on “orders from above”. Tambuwal was on his way to an international conference where he was to deliver a speech but was delayed when the soldiers insisted that his official car be searched before he could be
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From Tony Akowe, Kaduna, Victor Oluwasegun, Abuja, Joseph Jibueze and Precious Igbonwelundu
allowed into the venue. The incident is coming five days after security agents, acting on the orders of the Federal Government, prevented Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his Rivers counterpart Rotimi Amaechi from travelling to Ekiti State for an
All Progressives Congress Continued on page 4
From Kolade Adeyemi, Kano
The school is opposite Sabon Kofar on the Bayero University (BUK) Road. The ex-
plosion occurred at about 2:05 p.m., damaging eight vehicles parked in the premises. Commissioner of Police Adenrele Shinaba told report-
ers at the scene of the incident that a suspect had been arrested. “We are yet to establish Continued on page 3
•Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi (left) and Governor-elect Ayodele Fayose at the Ekiti Government House... yesterday STORY ON PAGE 4
Fayemi is an unusual Nigerian, says Fayose
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