Thursday 18th August 2016

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THISDAY Newspapers Inaugurates New Board of Directors Davidson Iriekpen THISDAY Newspapers Limited, Nigeria’s premier media organisation of record, has inaugurated a new board of directors with the inclusion

of two new Executive Directors and three Non-Executive Directors to the board, a statement from the newspaper group’s management said yesterday. The new Executive

Directors who were recently appointed to the board are Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, a former Editor of THISDAY, former Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the late President Umaru Musa

Ya’Adua and currently the Chairman of THISDAY Editorial Board; and Ms. Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, who is currently the Editor of the paper, Non-Executive Director of First Pension Custodian

Nig. Ltd. (FPCNL), and former Divisional Director, Editorial of THISDAY Newspapers. The new Non-Executive Directors are Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, an investment

banker and former Managing Director/CEO of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON); Mr. Hassan Ahmed Danbaba, Continued on page 8

Rio Olympics: Nigeria to Play Honduras for Football Bronze Medal… Page 55 Thursday 18 August, 2016 Vol 21. No 7783. Price: N250

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Defiant PDP Holds Convention, Extends Makarfi, Others’ Tenure Police deny sealing convention venue Fayose: I was under ‘house arrest’ in PH Abuja court affirms Sheriff’s ouster APC denies involvement in legal tussle

Tobi Soniyi, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday defied attempts by the police and the Department of State

Service (DSS) to scuttle its national convention, as delegates relocated to the state secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to hold the convention. Continued on page 6

FG Approves Four Oil Wells, 13% Derivation for Lagos Says Aje 3 cannot be legitimately attributed to the state Gboyega Akinsanmi The federal government has said that four of the five oil wells discovered in Badagry legitimately belong to Lagos State, for which the state would be entitled to 13

per cent derivation from the Federation Account. However, it disclosed that Aje 3 oil well falls beyond the 200-mile isobaths and therefore cannot be Continued on page 8

FG to Release N9.8bn to Fight Polio… Page 10

PDP LEADERS DEFY THE ODDS

L-R: Former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi; Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike; Senator Ben Murray-Bruce; and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, at the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held at the state secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt, Rivers State… yesterday


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