Buhari Offers Justice to N’Delta, Says Nigeria’s Unity Not Negotiable Avengers says FG talking to fraudsters, another group threatens oil facilities in Bayelsa
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa President Muhammadu Buhari has again pleaded with militants in the Niger Delta to change their minds and has promised them justice, even as he has made it abundantly
clear that the nation’s unity is not negotiable. Buhari, who spoke yesterday while receiving a cross section of Nigerians, mostly Muslims, who paid
him Sallah homage at his residence within the precinct of the Presidential Villa, recalled the famous quote of former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon,
stating that the task of keeping Nigeria as one indivisible entity was a task that must be done. The president said the slogan in the 1960s “Go on
With One Nigeria (GOWON)" was very apt now, as keeping Nigeria one was a task that must be done. He also used the occasion to call on those who had stolen
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public funds to return them to the treasury otherwise they would not know any peace. Noting that there was a lot of improvement in security in the North-eastern part of the country in the last one year, he Continued on page 6
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Umaru Shinkafi, An Icon of National Security, Dies in UK Buhari, THISDAY, Bankole, others mourn
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Mohammed Aminu in Sokoto President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, the Board of the THISDAY Newspaper Group, and Chief Olayiwola Alani Bankoke, among others, have expressed sadness over the passing of foremost national security chief, elder statesman, vice-presidential candidate in the 1999 presidential election, and presidential aspirant in the Third Republic, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, at the age of 79.
Shinkafi The deceased, who held the title Marafan Sokoto and hailed from Shinkafi Local Government Continued on page 8
Uncertainty Looms over PENGASSAN Strike Due to Public Holiday
FG to meet oil workers today
Ejiofor Alike in Lagos and Paul Obi in Abuja Uncertainty hangs over the oil workers’ strike called by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) scheduled to start today, following the extension of
the Eid-el-Fitr public holiday, THISDAY has learnt. An official of the association, who spoke to THISDAY on the condition of anonymity from Abuja, said the federal government had not declared today a Continued on page 6
MARKING THE END OF RAMADAN
L-R: Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III; and Magajin Garin Sokoto, Ahmadu Danbaba, at the Kofar Rini Central Eid praying ground during the Eid-el-Fitr prayer to mark the end of Ramadan, in Sokoto... yesterday