Saturday 10th December 2016

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Again Opposition Wins in Ghana, Mahama Concedes Adedayo Adejobi, with Agency Reports After a bitterly fought campaign, Ghana's main opposition leader former foreign minister, Nana Akufo-Addo who was making his third bid for the top job, yesterday won the country's national election, defeating

imcumbent President, John Mahama, electoral commissioner Charlotte Osei said. "It is my duty and my privilege to declare Nana AkufoAddo as the president-elect of Ghana," she told a news conference in the capital on Friday. Crowds of jubilant supporters gathered outside the house of the 72-year-old New Patriotic

Party (NPP) leader, who had already claimed victory on Thursday, a day after the voting took place. Following the footsteps of Nigeria’s ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, who called the then All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to concede defeat in the 2015 Presidential election,

even before vote tally had been concluded, Ghanaian’s incumbent President, John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), also called Nana Akufo-Addo, his major opponent in the presidential election, to concede defeat and congratulate him on his victory. Prior to Osei's announcement, Akufo-Addo said on

Twitter that Mahama called him "congratulating me on winning the 2016 Presidential Election". Ghana's state television also confirmed Maham's concession. In a change of leadership, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be the country’s new president. This was Akufo-Addo’s third bid for the country’s presidency after he narrowly lost out in elections

in 2008 and 2012. Akufo-Addo won convincingly this time with 53.85% of the vote, according to Ghana’s Electoral Commission. The incumbent won just 44.4%. Mahama, despite touting several infrastructure projects, lost out in an election that Continued on page 6

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Female Suicide Bombers Kill 56 in Madagali Buhari, Atiku mourn

Daji Sani in Yola with agency report Two schoolgirl suicide bombers

yesterday killed 57 people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated attack on a crowded market in Madagali, the headquarters of Madagali

Local Government Area in Adamawa State. The bombings bore the hallmark of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, which has

been waging a terror war to set up a state adhering to a strict interpretation of Islamic laws in the Northeast. There was no immediate claim of

responsibility. Yusuf Mohammed, chairman of the local government, confirmed that the bombings left 56 people dead and

wounded 57. Major Badare Akintoye, a spokesman for an army unit in Continued on page 6

Uneasy Calm as Rivers Re-Run Election Holds

Buhari orders security agents to deal decisively with trouble-makers PDP: Oyegun inciting people to violence We didn't tell our supporters to kill, says APC Ararume accused of bribing collation officers UK, US, EU, France warn against violence BENSON OKONKWO

Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt, Tobi Soniyi, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Alex Enumah in Abuja

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Uneasy calm pervades Rivers State as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) holds the rescheduled legislative rerun elections in 1,840 Polling Units spread across the 23 local government areas of the state today. To ensure the success of today’s election, President Muhammadu Buhari has called on law enforcement agencies to deal decisively with trouble-makers and those bent on violating the sanctity of the electoral process during today's federal and state legislative rerun elections in the state.

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Emefiele Urges Banks to Support WE SUPPORT YOU... FG's Economic L-R: Public Affairs Manager, FrieslandCampina WAMCO, Mrs. Temitope Adeola; wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and the Corporate Affairs Mrs. Ore Famurewa during the donation of 5000 cartons of Peak Milk sachets for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Northeast as part of Strategies ...Pg 54 Director, the company's support for the 'Get Involved' campaign with a Nigeria, in Aso Rock ...yesterday STATE HOUSE

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