June 9, 2014

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Obasanjo, Tinubu mourn Akunyili NEWS Page 6

•Tributes for ex-minister

Newspaper of the Year

Protesters seek privacy for Chibok girls

TS SPORTS •Eagles demand cash SPOR Page 24 •Loss to U.S. shocks Moses •Akpoborie questions Eche jiele’s replacement •We’re set, says Maigari

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HE Federal Government’s onslaught against The Nation and other newspapers continued for the third straight day yesterday. In several places, vendors rejected the newspapers for fear of being arrested or beaten up by soldiers. In some parts of Lagos,

From Shola O’neil, Bolaji Ogundele, Warri; Aiwerie Okungbowa, Asaba; Mike Odiegwu, Yenegoa; Joseph Jibueze, Wale Adepoju, Lagos; Bode Durojaiye, Oyo

soldiers beat up vendors who displayed copies of The Nation and confiscated them. In Warri, Delta State, plain-clothe security agents, suspected to be men of the Department of State Security (DSS) or Directorate of

Military Intelligence (DMI), replaced soldiers at the newspaper depot at Airport Junction on the Warri/ Sapele Road, Warri. Six heavily armed soldiers were sighted at the Jakpa Junction entry point into the city.

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They were on the lookout for vehicles heading towards Airport junction conveying newspapers. The Nation’s Sales Manager Mr Olaribigbe Bello said the vehicle conveying The Nation to Jos, the Plateau State capital, was delayed for about five hours and was later released after being Continued on page 4

•Fayemi’s convoy attacked•APC man dead in violence •Aluko absent as Sambo meets aggrieved PDP aspirants •Court orders service on Fayose •AND MORE ON PAGE 7

Lamido Sanusi realises ambition as Emir of Kano SEE ALSO PAGES 2&3

Woman suicide bomber hits military barracks

Ex-CBN governor succeeds Bayero Governors, Islamic leaders hail choice Police stop protest

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•Cameroon kills Boko Haram men

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From Kolade Adeyemi, Kano

IS ambition is to be Emir of Kano, a job for which he is ready to forgo his calling as a banker. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, realised his ambition yesterday. He was named the 57th Emir of Kano at 4.50pm at the Government House, Kano. Secretary to the State Government Dr. Rabiu Suleiman Birchi made the announcement in the presence of the kingmakers. Sanusi, 52, succeeds Alhaji Abdullahi Ado Bayero, who died on Friday after 50 years on the throne. Before his appointment, Sanusi was Dan Maje Kano. The Kano Emirate has been in existence for about 1,000 years since 999CE. Sanusi, whose grandfather Mohammed Sanusi reigned between 1954 and 1963, was

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picked from a list of three princes submitted by the kingmakers. The others are Lamido Sanusi Ado Bayero (first WHERE ARE son of the last emir) and THE CHIBOK Yaleyo Inuwa Abbas – son of the late emir MuhamGIRLS KIDNAPPED madu Inuwa MuhamON APRIL 15? Continued on page 4

•ALL HAIL THE EMIR: Sanusi

WO persons, including a suspected female suicide bomber in Hijab and a soldier, were blown up yesterday in front of a military barracks in Gombe, the Gombe State capital. Another soldier was injured. But, sources said no fewer than three soldiers died, when the time bomb went off as the woman approached the Quarter Guard area of the 301 Artillery Regiment, pretending that she wanted to lodge a complaint. She was said to have bombed herself and the three soldiers interrogating her at the entrance. There were doubts about the suicide bomber’s sex following speculations that she was probably a man disguised as a woman in order to enter the barracks. Last Thursday, the Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) in front of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo’s residence blew up, killing two security men and injuring six others. According to a military source, the bomber was on a mission to attack the barracks around 11am. The source said when the bomber got to the gate, she met a long queue of vehicles being

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja and Vincent Ohonbamu, Gombe

checked. The source said: “The insurgents are becoming desperate, they are trying to use female bombers thinking that because of the strict Islamic culture in the North, soldiers would not conduct thorough checks on women. “When this female bomber in full veil (Hijab) got to the queue at the barracks, the soldiers on guard insisted on no waiver for any female motorist entering the barracks. It was in the process that the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) exploded. She got killed instantly. “Apart from mopping up Continued on page 4

•CDS Marshal Alex Badeh

•SENATE PLANS LOCAL CONTENT BILL FOR AVIATION P5 •POLICE RECOVER BODY P8


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