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•Alleged money laundering: Fani-Kayode gets June 18 date •Kashamu begs court to save him from extradition to U.S. •Panel summons Okonjo-Iweala, Adesina over waivers MORE ON •Oyo State tribunal to hear 36 election petitions •ANDPAGES 5,6&8
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VOL. 10, NO. 3205 TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015
TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH
84 killed in Taraba communal crisis
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Chibok girls sold off, married by Boko Haram chiefs, says rescued woman
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From Fanen Ihyongo, Jalingo
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ARABA State, Nature’s Gift to the nation, has been turned into a killing field, with no fewer than 84 persons killed at the weekend in renewed communal clashes. Many houses have been torched and the occupants forced to flee. The crisis is reportedly between Kuteb/Fulani and Tiv ethnic groups of Takum -the home of former Minister of Continued on page 4
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ILL the Chibok girls ever return home? The question yesterday became more pertinent when one of the women rescued from the Sambisa Forest told Reuters at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Yola, Adamawa State that finding them could be difficult. Aisha Abbas, a 45-year-old
•Life in Sambisa Forest mother of two, said the girls might have been sold off or married to top sect members as promised by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. According to Reuters, none of the women interviewed saw any of the Chibok girls,
but Abbas said fighters who travelled from a camp in Sambisa where they were held to source food would describe the situation. “They said the Chibok girls were married off this year. Some sold to slavery, then others (militants) each married two or four of the Continued on page 4
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PDP: First Lady, Fayose caused Jonathan’s defeat Party condemns Fani-Kayode, Okupe hate war How we spent N9b, by NWC From Gbade Ogunwale, Abuja
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EOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) leaders said yesterday that the hate campaign initiated by the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) was responsible for President Goodluck Jonathan’s crushing defeat in last month’s election. Jonathan’s campaign spokesman Femi Fani-Kayode, Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, presidential aide Dr. Doyin Okupe and First Lady Patience Jonathan led the hate campaign. President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other party leaders were the main targets of the assault. Most of the hate documentaries were aired by the African Independent Television (AIT) and the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). Tinubu has sued AIT for alleged defamation. The PDP crisis sparked by its loss boiled over yesterday with the National Working Committee (NWC) intensifying its fight back
•Children rescued by troops from insurgents in Sambisa forest in Yola…on Saturday night.
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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15, LAST YEAR EVER RETURN?
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We are greatly pained by the fact that a governor like Fayose will call on this NWC to resign ... the party also gave him N250m for his campaign
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•A man carrying a four-day old baby, which was among children and women rescued by Nigerian troops from insurgents in Sambisa forest and handed over to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at Malkohi •A doctor attends to a malnourished child at the camp in Yola…on Sunday camp in Yola…on Saturday night.
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