Black American Billionaire Offers to Pay for Chibok Girls’ Education Freed girls not allowed home for Christmas, say families Shettima spends Boxing Day in Chibok Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri with agency report African American billionaire, Mr. Robert Smith, who is
currently sponsoring 24 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls that immediately escaped from captivity, at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State, has
offered to also educate the 21 other girls who were freed last October by the Boko Haram terror sect. Revealing this yesterday, President Muhammadu
Buhari’s media aide, Mr. Garba Shehu, equally said that 21 Chibok girls were being treated as adoptees of the federal government, but disclosed that there was a lot of local
and international interest in the future plans for the girls. He said: “A black American billionaire, Mr. Robert Smith who is currently sponsoring the education of 24 girls
from Chibok, among them the first set of escapees from Boko Haram, at the American University of Continued on page 8
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Malabu Oil Deal: Etete Questions FG’s Decision Not to Prosecute IOCs Denies wrongdoing, insists $1.1bn transaction was legitimate Tobi Soniyi in Abuja A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Dauza Loya Etete (better known as Dan Etete) has queried the decision of the federal government not to prosecute the three oil multinationals – Anglo/Dutch Royal firm Shell, France’s Total and Italy's ENI Nigerian subsidiary, Agip – that were
parties to a transaction entailing the payment of $1.1 billion by the international oil companies (IOCs) into a federal government-designated escrow account in exchange for a stake in a prolific oil block held by Malabu and Oil Gas Limited in 2011. Etete, who owns Malabu Oil Continued on page 10
Oyegun: APC Not Threatened by Proposed Mega Party Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City Ahead of the 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti and Ondo States, as well as the 2019 general election, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday declared that his party does not in anyway feel threatened by the much
talked about formation of a “mega party” to challenge the ruling party. Instead, he said that those behind it should be encouraged to go ahead with the proposed party so as to create a formidable opposition to the ruling APC. Oyegun, who also absolved former Vice-President Atiku Continued on page 10
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A GIFT FOR SHETTIMA IN THE SPIRIT OF BOXING DAY...
L-R: Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima; Senate Majority Leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume; and one of the 21 Chibok girls freed by the Boko Haram terror sect last October, Miss Glory Dama, presenting a gift to Shettima when the girls met with the governor in Chibok community, Borno State… yesterday