The Nation May 6, 2014

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Newspaper of the Year

Ex-Lagos Governor Otedola dies at 87

Panic in Ibadan over gas explosion NEWS

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NEWS

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•Flags to fly at half mast in state

•Four injured as police allay fears

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

VOL. 9, NO. 2840 TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2014

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TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

EKITI 2014

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•Oni: I’m working with Fayemi to build better Ekiti •Monarchs invite candidates to stem violence •‘There’ll be security on election day’ •AND MORE ON PAGE 9

•The wife of the Borno State Governor, Hajiya Nana Shettima (second from right), listening to one of the parents of the abducted schoolgirls during her visit to Chibok …yesterday

Our children have been brutally murdered. Over 200 girls are kidnapped; this is very sad...It is sad that the government does not even know the number of girls that are missing

•LA GOS PR OTEST LAGOS PRO TEST:: From right: Former Lagos State Deputy Governor Lateefah Okunnu; Dr Monsurah Kadri; a protester and Al-Mu’minaat Social A PR OTEST ABEOKUTA PRO TEST:: Amosun with (from left) Mrs. Obasanjo; Mrs. Advocacy Project (SAP) Coordinator Mrs Sherifah Yusuf-Ajibade at the ABEOKUT Amosun and Mrs. Alaba Lawson in Abeokuta ...yesterday Governor’s Office, Alausa, Ikeja... yesterday.

Anger rises as Boko Haram threatens to sell school girls Protests in Lagos, Abeokuta, Calabar

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HE global outrage over the abduction of the Chibok girls is growing, with protests yesterday in Lagos, Calabar and Abeokuta. The girls were snatched away from their hostels on April 15 by the fundamentalist sect Boko

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja, Miriam Ekene-Okoro, Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta and Nicholas Kalu, Calabar

Haram, which threatened yesterday to sell them. The leader of the militant group, Abubakar Shekau, in a video made available to the media, said: “I ab-

ducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah.” Shekau added that the abduction had caused outrage “because we are holding people [as] slaves”. “There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He Continued on page 2

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WHERE ARE THE GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 AT THE GOVT SECONDARY SCHOOL, CHIBOK, BORNO STATE?

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•Tinubu:Nigeria bleeds •Why Shettima’s wife shunned meeting •Rising global outrage •Police, group trade blame over protester •Tomorrow lecture-free PAGES for Borno students 2-5,7&60

•THREE DUTCH NATIONALS ABDUCTED IN BAYELSA P59 •CONFERENCE MEMBER DIE P57


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