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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Foreign reserves climb to $34.49bn
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igeria’s foreign reserves have increased to $34.49 billion, according to figure obtained yesterday from
the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This represents an increase of $20 million from the $34.47 billion recorded
as at December 31, 2014. According to details posted on the central bank’s website, the $34.49 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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Law
File The powe r of a stable and your vote: A cataly st for united Niger ia
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Quakers on genera, Fawehinmi, Ab ayomi diff l election er in North-E ast
lFG defends management of treasury Sunday Ojeme, Abdulwahab Isa and Godson Ikoro
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Adedimeji: Blam for insurgency e FG
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Quakers
Worried Ubani by the secu rity challeng North-Ea st ahead of next mon e in the troubled lawyers have th’s gene disagree ral election, electoral d on the umpirepowers of the Commiss the ion (INEC) Independent Nati onal Elec to cancel the grou toral nds elec OYESINA of insurgency. AKE tions in the area on write EM NAFIU and TUN DE
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Abayomi
the electi electoral ons and the role of ram threaumpire as Boko the tened more Ha- of “You cannot on the While perceived attacks. hostilities basis was obvio some believe failure of that or the governmen no electi us that there could it about t to bring peace and on posed with in an environme be a place and disen stability in secur nt hence franchise elections ity challenge, group of perso a be cond ns ucted in should not pating in the electifrom particinorth-east, prevent the troub ons and INEC woul others insis led who theirthem from decidthus t that d leaders be emba Elections, a futile will be. ing “So, to rking adventure we cause of should it on think it willthat extent, I gathered ‘perceived don’t bebe prope or to the failur decide hostilities r for INEC even held are bring abou e of governmen in those not to hold electi ons in a place t peace and stabi t to can indeeareas except dangerou in more when it s millions and disenfranc lity the areas d be establishe of hise electi Iraq, Afgh areas like are so volat d that For instaNigerians’. anistan ons ile nce, Mr. Quakers, such happcannot hold therethat Norr even in Syria and ens, . If Nigeria a Senior Advo ison condu cted in then, elections cate of said the other place gency in ongoing the troub insur- not be invalidate s canwas not d’’. To a form enough led north-east to shift or pone the Ikeja bran er chairman of the to disen elections with post- Bar Asso ch of the Nige franc a Nigerians. hising millio view Monday ciation (NBA rian ns of ), Mr. Ubani, INEC to condu Although ’s refusal ct electi he agree INEC had d that ble north-east on in the trouthe requi would be to halt violation site powe or a clear of electi cancel the cond rs provisionsof the constitutio ons in any uct . nal country This, he , such powe part of the said must to settin said would amou rs, Quak g a bad ers nt the ambi be exercised prece within should INEC t of in the troub cancel electident He said: the law. ons a failure “This will go to He said: led region. “If elect ernment on the part of theshow decided ions in one gov- minu providing are way or security adequ the s those because a group we don’t ate impossible states, then,other of it is to get an franchised people to be want figure accur disenfor participat , everybody thirty-six the two-third ate must e in the states as of elections. prescribed
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here is palpable and anxie fear are appre next montty ahead of of voter hensive that millio h’s gene elect unending ion following ral chised s may be disen ns follow and killin bombing, abdu the insurgency ing the unenfranction in the north ding ans in the g of hapless Nige Just -east. Borno and troubled Adam ri- new year,a few days into awa, Yobe states Haram the rampaging the While . launched Boko ment is the Federal Gove attacks renewing on targe a series of rntion of hitting the decla the a militaryts in Gombe, ra- a the troub emergency church, barrack rule leaving and the gener led zone five week in jured Niger scores of al electi inon, Niger s to However,ians. ians tacks days after , a fiery Lagos Pastothe atformer runn Progressive ing mate to r and the All s Cong the 2011 ress (APC presi Major Gene dential candi ) in date, ral Muh Buhari, Pastor Tund ammadu asked Presi dent Good e Bakare FOLUSO than to invok luck JonaOGUNMOD e his Section EDE JUDICIARY 135(3) of powers under EDITOR stitution the 1999 foluso.ogunm tions as to postpone the Connewtelegraph odede@ online.com © Daily Telegra Haram a result of the elec‘war’ Boko ph Publish ing Compa But lawy. ny Limited ers against each otherwere pitted call for the postp on Bakare’s onement of
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Some big names are creating a lot of problems in this country, making provocative statements that will set this country ablaze and you tell me you are a senior citizen. You are not a senior citizen; you can never be. You are an ordinary motor park tout
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How APC plans to rig elections, by DSS lPlots hacking, fake results lLai Mohammed: It's hogwash Emmanuel Onani and Temitope Ogunbanke
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he Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)
of launching an "elaborate and well-articulated plan" to rig the general election by hacking into the voter registration database of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC). The party, it alleged, is also planning to "inflate" its membership registration data as part of its plot to win the forthcoming elections.
The APC, it added, "had multiple registrations of individuals in multiples of 16, 12, and 10," the DSS said at a press conference in Abuja, by its Deputy DiCONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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