The Nation November 12, 2014

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Principal: how suicide bomber killed 36 pupils One more die in hospital Father relives last moments with son EU: it’s appalling

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NE more pupil died yesterday, following the suicide bomb attack at the Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe

ALL THE VICTIMS •Yakubu Ibrahim •Abdullahi Mohammed •Lawam Mohammed •Ali Umar •Abubakar Ibrahim Mai •John Haruna •Umaru Mohammed Masaya •Zakariya Hashimu Garba •Abdulsalam Isah Yusuf •Musa Muhammed Babasi •Mohammed Abubakar •Musa Shaibu •Abubakar Idriss •Abdulrahaman Umar •Abdullah Ibrahim Ali •Mohammed Ibrahim Amshi •Musa mohammed •Ibrahim M. Baba •Abubakar Umar Mohammed •Umar Ali Gambo •Mohammed Samaila •Abubakar Umar Mohammed From Duku Joel, Damaturu and Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja

State. The school’s principal, Mr. Buba Sanda Mustapha, who relived Monday’s attack, said

INEC suspends 30,000 polling stations plan

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•Babangida Saleh •Rabiu Ali •Abdullahi Musa •Umar M. Saleh •Mohammed Lamido •Ibrahim Usman Adamu •Isah Mohammed •Abubakar Umar Mohammed •Adamu Abdullahi •Mohammed Abdullahi •Abdullahi Adamu Saleh •Umar Ali Gambo •Bukar Mohammed •Mamman Ibrahim •Sani Musa •Lawan Mohammed Sani •Abubakar Abubakar •Ishaku Ahmed Adamu •Abubakar Mohammed •Sani Musa •Lawan Mohammed Musa •Abubakar Ibrahim Anga

the bomber struck as the pupils prepared for the morning assembly. He said yesterday’s death raised the toll to 36 and not 47 as police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu an-

•Yakubu A. Adamu •Ahmadu Mohammed •Usman Usman •Garba Isah •Abubakar Ahmadu •Sadiq Mohammed •Al-Amin Abdukadir •Mohammed Musa •Abdulahi Garba •Sani Adamu •Mohammed Musa •Abdullahi Garba •Ahmed Idriss •Rabiu Ado •Usman Alhaji •Abdullahi Mohammed •Mohammed Saleh •Mohammed Abubakar •Umar M. Dauda •Musa Sani Ibrahim •Usman Mohammed •Yahaya Isah

nounced on Monday. The principal, who said a boy died at the Federal Medical Centre in Azare, Bauchi State where he was referred to for better treatment because his

•Saleh Suleiman Adamu •Abdullahi Usman G. •Abdullahi Suleiman •Yakubu A. Adamu •Adamu Idi •Ibrahim Adamu •Abubakar Mohammed •Yakubu Ibrahim •Ahmed Abdullahi •Mohammed Haruna Gosi •Mohammed Mohammed •Suleiman Baba •Mohammed Adamu •Adamu Garba Tikau •Zaiyanu Abdullahi •Died •Patient attended in Hospital •Referred •Admitted in Hospital

35 116 41 69

•Figures supplied by Ali H. Lawan, Potiskum General Hospital Secretary

condition was critical, noted that no teacher died. He said: “The incident took place at exactly 7.48 am when the pupils were waiting on the assembly ground. All of them

were in front of this place, waiting for us to come to assembly. All of a sudden, we heard a heavy sound and our students started shoutContinued on page 4

KIDS OF CRISIS

By Wale Ajetunmobi

PPONENTS of more polling units before next year’s elections may have won their battle. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended its plan to create additional polling units. The commission yesterday said the exercise would wait till after the general elections. The decision was taken after a meeting. A statement by INEC Secretary Mrs Augusta C. Ogakwu reads: “The Commission met today, Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, and reviewed reports sent in from States by Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on reconfiguration of the polling unit structure and creation of additional polling units. “Taking everything into WILL THE consideration – especially CHIBOK GIRLS the controversy over creKIDNAPPED ation of additional polling ON APRIL 15

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EVER RETURN?

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•A HOME IN THE OPEN: Children at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri…yesterday.

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