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Economy generated 732,745 jobs in 2013 lTambuwal queries FG’s claim on state of economy
Abdulwahab Isa and Joseph Onyekwere
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bout 732, 745 new jobs were added to the Nigerian economy
between the second and fourth quarters of 2013, according to figures released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The informal sector
took the lead in the employment creation scheme with the provision of 396, 518 jobs during the period followed by the formal sector with 258,394 jobs while
77,833 jobs were created in the public sector. The job data were released on a day House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, que-
ried claims by the Federal Government that the nation’s economy is in good health. Giving a breakdown of the figures at a press
conference in Abuja, Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale, said the informal sector created 112, 567 jobs during the second quarter of 2013 followed by the formal sector with 80,412 jobs while 28,075 jobs were created in the public sector. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Defence Chief: We’ve located Chibok girls
lActivists rally support for military
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he military has made significant progress in the search-andrescue operation following the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, Borno State over a month ago, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, has said. Badeh, addressing a crowd of campaigners demanding the release of the schoolgirls from
Boko Haram captivity, said yesterday in Abuja that the abductees had been located. But he told members of the Citizens Initiative for Security Awareness, that it was not safe to storm the location because of the safety of the girls. Badeh, according to a report by an online news portal, The Eagle Online, said the military would
not employ force in the bid to free the girls. He said: “We want our girls back, we want our girls back. We can do it. Our military can do it. But where they are held, can we go with force? “If we go with force, what will happen? They will kill them. “So nobody should
come and say the Nigerian military does not know what it is doing. We know what we are doing. “We can’t go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back. So we are working. The good news for the girls is that we know where they are but we cannot
tell you. We cannot come and tell you military secrets here. “Just leave us alone. We are working. We would get the girls back.” Meanwhile, a coalition of civil society organisations, Nigerians United Against Terrorism, has said the most potent weapon against ter-
rorism and other crimes is for all Nigerians to join in the fight against terrorists. The group, at a mass rally yesterday in Abuja, also demanded an unconditional release of the Chibok girls being held captive by the Boko Haram sect. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Court stops presidency from preparing budget for judiciary lAlison-Madueke’s bid to stop House probe suffers setback Tunde Oyesina and Temitope Ogunbanke
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Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, yesterday stopped the executive arm of government from preparing annual budget for the judiciary.
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The court, presided over by Justice A.R Mohammed, declared as unconstitutional, null and void, the practice by which the executive arm disburses budgetary funds to the judiciary. Justice Mohammed, in another case he heard yesterday, also declined the request by the beleaguered Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, addressing members of civil society organisations, protesting the abduction of Chibok girls in Abuja…yesterday
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