Wednesday 16th November 2016

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Senate Returns List of Non-career Ambassadorial Nominees, Clears Career Diplomats Saraki confirms MTEF, borrowing plan have been returned to executive

Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja In line with the outcome of Monday’s meeting between Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, five governors of the All

Progressives Congress (APC), Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, the Senate yesterday cleared the

47 career ambassadorial nominees whose names were sent for confirmation last June, but returned the recent list of non-career diplomats to the presidency,

citing a plethora of petitions against some of them. THISDAY had exclusively reported yesterday that at the Monday meeting held in the State House, Abuja, it was

agreed that the Senate would separate the names of career diplomats whose names had been sent to the Senate for screening and confirmation, while the list of non-career

ambassadorial nominees would be withdrawn for review by the state governors. Continued on page 6

FG, N'Delta Parley in Disarray as Avengers Bombs Agip, Oando, Shell Trunklines… Page 52 Wednesday 16 November, 2016 Vol 21. No 7881. Price: N250

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Dasuki Declines Govt’s Offer of Temporary Release to Bury His Dad Says DSS should obey court orders granting him full freedom Buhari, Tambuwal, Sultan Abubakar mourn Ibrahim Dasuki’s passing Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Mohammed Aminu in Sokoto The federal government yesterday absolved itself of blame as to why the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), was not allowed to attend the burial of his father, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki who died on Monday, saying

See More Condolence Messages on Page 55 that his son had vehemently rejected the offer for his temporary release. However, it has emerged that Sambo Dasuki turned down the offer to avoid the ordeal of arriving Sokoto with Continued on page 6

Another Commanding Officer, Eight Soldiers Killed in Boko Haram Ambush Senator Iroegbu in Abuja

Nigerian troops suffered another setback yesterday in the quest to root out Boko Haram remnants from the North-eastern part of the

country, with the reported death of the Commanding Officer of the 114 Task Force Battalion, Lt.-Col. B.U. Umar. Continued on page 8

FG Declares ASUU Strike Unconstitutional, 18TH SULTAN LAID TO REST body of Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki on arrival at the Sultan Muhammad Bello Mosque ahead of the Islamic funeral Appeals to Union to Shelve Action… Page 54 The rites in Sokoto... yesterday


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