October 03, 2014

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Kwara gets panel on new councils •‘We’ll bring govt closer’

NEWS

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Newspaper of the Year

News Mbu orders AIT reporter’s arrest P60 Sports Uche named in fixing scandal P16 Business BPE set to privatise airports P53

•Nigeria’s widest circulating newspaper

VOL. 9, NO. 2990 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

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TR UTH IN DEFENCE OF FREEDOM TRUTH

•Some of the soldiers arriving at the trial in Abuja...yesterday

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PHOTOS: AFP •Court Martial President

Brig.- Gen. Musa Sain Yusuf

15 officers, 82 soldiers on trial for alleged mutiny, assault, AWOL •INSIDE: MIMIKO JOINS PDP P8 EBOLA: NIGERIA TO ASSIST LIBERIA, OTHERS P59

Shekau: I’m not dead It’s all lies, says military

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Ex- presidential aide Remi Oyo dies at 61 From Augustine Ehikioya,

From Yusuf Alli, Abuja

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OKO Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has shown up again in a video, boasting and yelling as usual. He said he was not killed, contrary to what the military said. But the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday said it was all lies and propaganda. It insisted that the impostor claiming to be Shekau had been killed in the battle of Konduga in Borno State. The DHQ, in a statement issued in Abuja, said it was still studying the video. It said: “The Defence Headquarters is studying the claims made in the video purportedly released by the terrorists showing their leader Abubakar Shekau as dismissing his death. “From immediate observation and what some online news outlets claimed to have seen, the video did not indicate when it was shot, neither did it show any proof of life or currency such as screen time or date. “The video also did not make any reference to anything that has happened since the impostor’s reported death.

Abuja

OURNALISM has lost one of its jewels, with the death in Britain of former presidential aide Mrs Oluremi Oyo. She was 61. The immediate past Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) passed on Wednesday while receiving treatment for cancer-related ailment. Oyo was the media adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo between

SEE ALSO PAGE 6 2003 and 2007. Her death was announced in a statement by her husband, Mr. Vincent Oyo yesterday. Continued on page 2

? NJC: Fayose’s case to go on Continued on page 2

WHEN WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 BE FREED?

•‘Shekau’ in the video

PHOTO: AFP

ON •Police to fish out judges’ attackers •Tribunal may move STORY PAGE 2

•The late Mrs. Oyo

•SPORTS P16 •POLITICS P17 •BRAND P26 •AGRIC P38 •SOCIETY P41 •FOREIGN P58


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