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Again, Buhari to Travel to Gambia to Persuade Jammeh to Step Down President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Banjul, the capital ofThe Gambia, and Bamako, the Malian capital from today, January 13 to 14, 2017.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, who announced this yesterday via a statement said while in Banjul, Buhari, as the Mediator inThe Gambia... Page 10

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be accompanie Obi in d by Governors Abuja Aminu Tambuwal Our military is already engaged and Abiola Ajimobiof Sokoto State the North-east, in were discussed of Oyo State, President Muhammad in the the Ministers and we were u Buhari will of Foreign Affairs, and now in Southern Niger Delta to come to conclusion able still pursuing travel to Banjul, Interior and Defence.

Kaduna. So let us be guided,” on almost all all Gambia, and the capital of The the North-east, its operations in intervention Dogara advised. the crises that are going Meanwhile Bamako, Hon. Sam capital from today, the Malian ECOWAS , ahead of the Onuigbu (Abia the country. The Southernon across South-eastern South-south and spearheaded by ECOWAS to be parts January 13 to mediation meeting PDP) said the offer Kaduna, the Niger Delta 14, 2017.

Asked about the of the country. outgoing by Nigeria should the today with is issues and other President Jammeh President Buhari, and safer option, as a cheaper major crisis progress report The Special from Sambisa, the House Nigerians are areas failed well invested Adviser to and resolutions were discussed are continuing Buratai said: “We to relinquish power after losing President on Media the yesterday of Representatives in Gambia. last year presidential were passed. in “We did a similar our operations “Like Mr. Femi Adesina, and Publicity, provide urged president to polls. in According to and today Liberia thing in Liberia, Kaduna, I said, in the Southern that area, Lafiya Dole mandate an offer of who announced Director this yesterday asylum and the troops is being celebrated we have our troops Nigeria in via are still moving Public Relations, Brig. of Army being moved while in Banjul, a statement said a way to President Jammeh as as a growing democracy.

Gen. Sani Usman, there to We all places, and they have already taken all over the area.” was Mediator in The Buhari, as the current boost mediation into the know if there is trouble, On whether in such statement. no iota of truth Nigeria believe operation is going on and presidential conundrum would be required I new directive he had received any meet with PresidentGambia, would threatening that very soon to intervene,” He said: he it will come from Yahya Jammeh said. to cause unrest to an end.” of The Gambia the COAS said. the president, Nigerian The attention of the in the and the President- coastal committee.

The Minister Army Asked whether elect, Adama On deploymen for Defence, The resolution to a publication has been drawn Barrow, to continue the meeting discussed The followed the Mansur Dan-Ali, has said dialogue on the by online news Kaduna, he said t of troops to organisation adoption of a Gambia issue, there no political is decision “Our motion ’ indicating minister said “That situation by the troops in the West African Hon. Sani Zorro sponsored will deployyet on whether Nigeria the is not a national already in Southern Kaduna. are readiness of Nigerian issue (Jigawa APC) forces to The The statement country.

We attack who said Gambia are and I believe the ECOWAS have our special forces Gambia with Army to operating working on that, would be joined said Buhari strengthensuch open offer would should President Jammeh the intention refuses reached we have not there along with all other security “to remove Jammeh.”

Ellen Johnson-Sirle by President mediators. the hands of the to step down on January 19 agencies and any conclusion Usman added: when his mandate would af of Liberia we intend also on that.”

Also speaking, Chairperson “This is not to true.

“Grant of the Authorityand the Chief of have an exercise very Dan-Ali made have expired. Army Staff Economic Community soon in Army Consequently, Nigerian of family, if him asylum, and his Southern Kaduna this disclosure (COAS), Gen. yesterday while that would restore Community of West African briefing State House Buratai, said the presidentTukur parts of Plateau to cover some from wishes to disassociate itself peace Correspond to The Gambia, such false and indeed part ordered the commencem if that is what had of Kano ents after a Heads of State States (ECOWAS) would it security exists only in information that State. lengthy take, and Governmen the figment President Ernest t, be ready then Nigeria should chiefs meeting he and service army exercise code-named ent of an Also, in a move for it,” Zorro ‘Kunama the to douse tension, imagination of the medium. of the had with the president II’ in Southern Leone, and the Koroma of Sierra said.

Nigerian The Chairman There of the Committee Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, at the to bolster the Kaduna in order not planningArmy, has said it was was no time or place Nigerian President of Ghana,immediate past on Foreign security situation Army Abuja. that to attack any The Affairs, Hon. John Mahama, in country, who is the co-meditato axis. foreign to the disclosed such information Nnenna meeting minister said that Elendu neither the Republic the medium. r of The line Ukeje, said the motion is deliberated on Buratai explained Gambian mission. of the security in with Nigeria’s “If there is any, that the exercise Gambia, where President would cover foreign policy situation in the country.

Buhari Adesina said we is expected in objectives. parts of Plateau He said: “Major the West African them to name the officer challenge and nation travel to Bamako Buhari would or soldier security issue Kano States.

Nigeria today. that gave them He added that 13 to participatelater on January intervene would be required to The clarification and when. For such information the army was and in the solve came the avoidance Africa–France 27th problems whatever amid speculations of of Summit. arise from a possible military doubt, Nigerian Army The summit Ukeje said, adding the impasses, is not planning to attack for Partnership that creating Peace and Emergence any country. , soft landing through asylum, a convened provide

by French may President Francois an alternative.

Hollande is aimed “If it comes to at strengthenin this, so that The cooperation between g Gambia African countries France and another does not degenerate into unstable African in the areas of peace and country,” security, economic she said. partnership and Some lawmakers development. opposed the Recognising motion

by France in the role played would on grounds that the offer the send a wrong recorded in the successes so far dictators signal to with sit-tight of the regional implementation syndrome.

The Speaker initiative of the House, against terrorism, Adesina said Buhari Yakubu Dogara, however would urged such reaffirm Nigeria’s their lawmakers to critically examine commitment position, to the war against global efforts on of asylum noting that the offer terror the need for improvedand underline indicate to Jammeh does not support for collaboration to address the “If it is put before dictatorship. menace of terrorism in the region. him and rejects it, fine, but it will clear he He said Buhari would use the the people of Nigeria, throughthat opportunity parliament offered the of underscore the the summit to “If crises erupts such.” efforts government in that country was making to and refugees improve spill over, can business environmen Nigeria’s handle we it while also t to attract more foreign IDPs? If it comes dealing with our R-L: direct investment.

Lagos to confrontatio Adesina said the n, Finance, State Governor, Akinwunmi president would Nigeria will be required to Kemi Adeosun; Ambode; Minister put boots on the ground.

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Students and staff of Command Secondary School, Ibadan, recently awoke to a gruesome sight: the bloody remains of the commandant b oodyrema nsofthecommandant of theirrschoo school, Co Col. AnthonyOkey Anthony Okeyim, ofthe m who had hissthroats throat slittbysuspected by suspected whohadh assassins. Page 15

POLITICS The Intrigues and Politics of Ndume’s

the APC South-west

Development, former Governor National Kayode Fayemi; of Ekiti State, stakeholders’ Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi his counterpar Niyi Adebayo; meeting in Ibadan....yes Akande; APC National Leader, former Governor of Ogun t for terday Bola Tinubu (fifth State, left) and others

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by Malala on January 6, for negotiations, female President Muhammad reminding governmenteducation, Part of the letter u Buhari has He also assured United of need to ensure the safe assured, however, read: “Rest governmen assured Malala of and speedy return Envoy for Global Nations’ Special of the in recent times t’s desire of other missing doggedness, Education, Malala Yousafzai, of federal girls as part commitment the over the responsibilit to take fact that their will attest to the humanity.’’ of activities to sincerity of the and education, reintegration back y for the mark the unrelenting efforts government’s of the Federal to Malala, the co-founder kidnap of the 1,000 days of Nigeria towards Government aspirationspersonal and professional the society is progressing to ensure the well. The safe return of the girls. federal governmen of the 21 Chibok ensuring the Buhari assured t believes that Malala Fund, was in 2012 of the that Malala of sustained safe return of the Chibok girls it is not girls still held remaining Chibok negotiations shot and too left unconscious girls, and year were released in October by to free the remaining indeed all others still last back to late for the girls to go Boko Haram. insurgent group, Chibok for the spearheadin by the Taliban for school, schoolgirls by The president furtherin captivity.’’ that in tune rest of their life, saying The assurance will be done and everything advocacy g the human rights Nigerian with his vow that military, recalled to ensure that Boko a letter signed was contained in the otherstate security service and the valiant act of Nigerian that Haram would not they women for education and for troops on be considered continue the pursuit fighting the Islamic security agencies. of their against in north-west of Pakistan, on January 10, Buhari’s behalf studies,’’ he insurgent group defeated without the rescue The assured. the order of of the Chibok of Information 2017, by Minister Buhari statement, however, said in their North-east bastion the Taliban, Buhari commende which had resulted personsgirls and all other innocent would Mohammed. and Culture, Lai of ongoing not divulge the details in the capture of Sambisa forest, for still her unflinching d Malala attending banned the girls from taken hostage by the last stronghold the insurgency negotiations to schools. disposition of the Boko It was in response towards the secure group. the release of Her release of the the girls to Malala elements, who kidnapped Haram gallantry to a letter ‘’They are due to the sensitive the being given of the girls in captivity rest international attention attracted nature of the from their school dormitoriesgirls comprehensive medical, those who have and prompted which Chibok in April in and psychologica nutritional regained the 2014. l care and support, freedom, adding: ‘’There their to appoint her United Nations and anyone who a Special Envoy is no for Global has seen them better example of the Education in fact that we are all linked addition by our common to her being conferment with a Nobel Prize.

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Removal POLITICS Until his sudden ouster onTuesday as the Senate Leader in a seem- ing palace T coup, Senator Ali Ndume, enjoyed the aura and beauty of the office.Though U simple and very accessible, he carried himself with consciousness of the exalted office in his daily transactions.

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The sudden latest of protrremoval of Senator Ali Ndume as the acted intrigues 2015. Omololu Sena Ogunmade that had rocked the uppe te Leader on Tuesday writes r parliamen ntil his sudden tary chamber is the as the Senate ouster on Tuesday since Leader in a seeming palace coup,

WEEKENDFILE Ademofe: The Trumpet Expresses My Ch ef of Army Staff Lt Gen Tukur Burata O awa e O a eye One officer and seven so d ers who were k ed n both Sunday and Tuesday attacks by the Boko Haram sect n C nk Gundu and O d Marte both on the outsk rts of Ma dugur Borno State cap ta have been s ated for bur a today n Ma dugur Th sday had reported exc us ve y yesterday the nvas on of C nk Gundu and O d Mata by the terror sts who k ed an officer and seven so d ers n both attacks A though the Theatre Commander Operat on Lafiya Do e Ma -Gen Lucky Irabor had den ed the nc dents as “tota fa sehood ” Th sday sources had ns sted the attack took p ace Unfortunate y wh e the bur a p ans were be ng conc uded the news came n of another attack by the Boko Haram sect n Kangaruwa an outsk rt of Ma dugur after Ma am Fator where the ate Co Abu A was k ed The ocat on the THISDAY source sa d was n 119 batta on under the 8 Task Force D v s on n Monguno

Wh e deta s of the attack was not c ear THISDAY earnt that the troops on the ground had mmed ate y sent for A pha Jet for support as we as support by troops from Baga to he p conta n the fire power by the terror st group The attack was st ongo ng n the even ng of yesterday wh st th s report was a so be ng put together Second L eutenant Ba Umar Corpora Idowu Shoney n and four other young so d ers were k ed n the Sunday attack n C nk Gundu wh e two other so d ers d ed from the O d Marte attack on Tuesday The e ghth person wou d ater d e from n ur es susta ned n O d Marte attack They have a been s ated for bur a today n Ma dugur be ng the operat ona base of the Armed Forces Umar was the most sen or personne among the deceased wh e Shoney n who was of the 53 Task Force Batta on was a corpora Shoney n had served at 81 D v s on n Lagos before he was moved to the 53 Task Force Batta on Two of the other so d ers who d ed

at the C nk Gundu attack o ned the army somet me ast year Asked what the prob em of the N ger an m tary was n conta n ng the threat posed by the Boko Haram terror sts the source sa d t was both of personne and ammun t on He c a med there were not enough men on the ground to conta n Boko Haram members who were usua y n the r thousands and a so argued that wh e the terror sts came w th soph st cated weapons the N ger an m tary most y had to dea w th AK47 “The prob em s of two personne and ammun t on You w see n our ocat ons very few so d ers to fight thousands of Boko Haram members They w a so come w th super or fire power and we on y have ust the AK47 to confront them That s fight ng from the po nt of d sadvantage ” he sa d However not much had been heard of the attack n Kangaruwa A though the m tary had ca ed for he p wh ch was sa d to be on the way as at press t me other v ta deta s were not yet estab shed

EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATURE'S DISAGREEMENT OVER CLOSURE OF ABUJA AIRPORT DEEPENS "Is t poss b e for us to repa r the runway w thout c os ng the a rport?

If we must c ose the a rport are there better a ternat ves than Kaduna? These are quest ons we have to prov de answers to " Dogara urged

Fresh Ambassadorial List A so yesterday Pres dent Muhammadu Buhar sent a new st of non-career ambassador a nom nees to the Senate The Senate had ate ast year returned the ear er st sent to t by Buhar w thout g v ng any reason In the new st the pres dent dropped Senator O orunn mbe Mamora (Lagos) and rep aced former Nat ona Secretary of the defunct Act on Congress of N ger a (ACN) Dr Usman Buga e (Kats na) and former Deputy Governor of P ateau State Mrs Pau ne Ta en

Buga e and Ta en had ear er re ected the r appo ntments But the pres dent reta ned a former Supreme Court Judge Just ce George Oguntade on the st The pres dent a so acceded to the demand of Federa Cap ta Terr tory (FCT) for nom nat on on the st The nom nees on the new st are Dr Uzoma Ememke (Ab a State) Am nu Iyawa (Adamawa) Ma Gen Godw n Umo (rtd ) (Akwa Ibom) Chr stopher Okeke (Anambra) Yusuf Tuggar (Bauch ) Baba Madugu (Bauch ) Br g -Gen Stan ey D r ya (rtd ) (Baye sa) Steven Ugba (Benue) Baba Ahmad J dda (Borno) and Dr Etubom Asuquo (Cross R ver) A so on the st are Franc s Efeduma (De ta) Jonah Odo (Ebony ) Uyagwe Igbe (Edo) En o a A ay (Ek t ) Ma Gen Chr s Eze (rtd ) (Enugu) Su e man Hassan (Gombe) Just ce Sy vanus Nsofor (Imo) Am n Muhammad Da hatu (J gawa)

Nuhu Bama (Kaduna) Deborah I ya (Kaduna) Prof D Abdu kad r (Kano) Haruna Ungogo (Kano) Just ce sa Dodo (Kats na) Mohammadu Barade (Kats na) T an Bande (Kebb ) Prof Y O A u (Kog ) and Nuruddeen Mohamed (Kwara) Others are Mohamed Y sa (Kwara) Just ce George Oguntade (rtd )(Lagos) Modupe Ire e (Lagos) Musa Muhammad (Nasarawa) Ahmed Ibeto (N ger) Suzanne Fo ar n (Ogun) Jacob Daodu (Ondo) Afo ahan Adeyem (Osun) Ma Gen Ash m yu O an y (rtd ) (Oyo) James D mka (P ateau) and Dr Haruna Abdu ah (P ateau) A so on the st are Or Ngofa (R vers) Sahab Gada (Sokoto) Kab ru Umar (Sokoto) Hassan Ardo (Taraba) Gon Bura (Yobe) Garba Ga am (Zamfara) Cpt Ba a Ma r ga (Zamfara) Hab ss Ugbada (FCT)

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Ndume, enjoyed Senator Ali beauty of the the aura and simple and office. Though he carried himself very with consciousnaccessible, exalted office ess and admiratioin his daily transactions. of the His love all but he did n for the office were visible little He had believed or nothing to protect to it. among his colleaguesthat with his popularity automatic. However, , to sustain the his removal office was prior notice without on Tuesday must have taught any bitter lesson in no condition history that in Nigerian him a politics, is Ndume had permanent. rejected several calls the All Progressiv by his party, es Congress the office to Senator Ahmad (APC), to yield APC’s anointed Lawan, who candidate was President prior for the office of Senate to the emergence Bukola Saraki of emerged as on June 9, 2015. Lawan Senator eventually his replaceme nt The APC which on was bitter about Tuesday. of Saraki in the emergence 2015, of his emergencehad in its bid to put the pains wrote the Senate against its wish behind it, of Senate Leaderpresident to concede the offices and Deputy to Lawan and George Akume. Senate Leader positioned The party had Akume to be Lawan’s the height deputy of office in 2015. the race for Senate President’at s But despite the matter, he the party’s letter to Saraki on proceeded to portunists, who as Senate Leader announce rode on President deputy because and Bala Ibn Na’AllahNdume Buhari and APC’s popularity Muhammadu as his election, the Senate caucus Ndume with The developm in 2015 explaining decided the party and ent exacerbated the hostility so. of fact, consistent that he had as to win the intrigue Lawan as its new leader. was a matter But ly won of and would was held withouthow an APC caucus as they had the presidency towards meeting continue to election since 1999 thought Saraki that who ordinarily the knowledge of their preparedn win because having expressed popularity among its leader, of his his people.

Senate President,ess to accept Saraki In the letter, should convene it.

There were as the also he should Leadership,” entitled: “Notice of Change magnanimous have also been prominent personaliti other interventions APC senators enough to accede in by es including request. said: “This to the party’s of the House of Represent the Speaker inform Your Excellency after several to no avail. and the Senate is to The aftermath atives but all meetings held was January, instituted againstof the matter was a on Monday, that Ndume was 2017, and upon case soon consultati due deliberatio 9th of Senate Leader, not only excited by his Tribunal (CCT), him at the Code of Conduct status as hereby on, the APC Caucus n and during a plenaryhe had once told his colleagues assets declarationwhere he was accused of the Senate, wishes to notify that he still desired of Kwara State in his days as the of false President. However, to be Senate the leadership of the you of the change in Governor Senate – that Senate Leader an end on Tuesday this excitemen is still on-going in 2003. Till date, the t the new is now Senator matter coup, in CCT, although when in a seemingcame to representi beliefs that in Ahmad Lawan, he was ng Yobe North there view between Saraki of the recent rapprochem are Senate Leader replaced by Lawan as palace Kindly accept Senatorial District. the new assurance our esteem without any and the party ent matter may Ndume who regards and notice. leadership, s.” be struck out had best the prior earlier led Senate It was learnt very At the height to his sudden proceedings of Saraki’s trial soon. removal on replace Ndume,that following the decision day, left the was offered at the CCT, that chamber to a to was that he soft landing. The arrangemehe Assembly mosque, pray in the fateful Whip, Senator Ekweremadu and the National should ask Chief Olusola Adeyeye, but on nt confronted Ndume and assigned by to step down had been with the news his way out, he was Na’Allah their colleagues and to resign ahead plenary had choices, Lawan replace them with the of his removal to advise him also been adjourned party’s while were of the announce and Akume.

The removal While Na’Allah claims ment. . was said him, he was that when they wanted There the action was came as a rude shock to to step down, nowhere to him. But to tell the offshoot Ndume in to have agreed by love for the be There were APC caucus of his characteri office, also insinuatiofound. and read by a letter written have stic him he was popularly rejected the offer, saying 9, of a meeting it held on Saraki, informing of left the chamber because ns that he might in the North-eas elected by his colleagues the plan where it claimed of fore knowledge Monday, to have agreed January traducers to advise him to resign. against Lawan’s t caucus of APC by would not to replace 13 votes But his three. The be deterred availability to North-eas by his nonas t. He therefore office was zoned of him, thus they were determined would resist insisted to the prompting that he the announcemget rid his replaceme mandate on pressure to dump his colleagues’ the on Tuesday. nt before the end of the ent of At the height altar of political solution. plenary held with Ndumeof the move was a It was learnt that Ndume at the Presidenti meeting two main reasons. late 2015 by was removed al Villa Vice President for First, he was bringing the the APC National Yemi Osinbajo in accused Senate into and Chairman, series of behaviour Oyegun, where disrepute through of John Odigiehe was advised and utterances a considered for peace to which senators to step embarrassing reign party. But Ndume both in the Senate down to the institution Prominent reportedly called and the acts which of such perceived embarrass . and Odigie-Oy eventually consumed Osinbajo ing interview he words to tell egun’s bluff and did not him was granted State in the Presidenti House correspond the was disappointhe highly placed men mince that he ted by their al Villa on December ents where he debunked Ndume was action.

Senate’s earlier 19, 2016 position which whereas they said to have told them official claimed to of Mr. Ibrahim had rejected the confirmati had the audacity be democrats that Magu as the , they on to persuade man of the the mandate him to Economic and substantive ChairCommission colleagues to popularly given to him jettison Financial (EFCC) on December Crimes told them notserve as their leader. He by his Whereas the 15 last year. further to think he Senate had was one of an the op-

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by So Aviation, Head, Corporate 616, The nation’s Regulation,T major carrier MRS Plc, Total Nigeria 436.70 and Services Division, inuade Awe; N1, 826, 193, also Bajomo, at the Chief Executive 349.15 in August purchased 9, 497, 447Plc and Conoil.

Nigerian 2016 capital Nigeria Plc and at the cost of supplied by So market review Officer, Oscar Onyema,Stock Exchange (NSE), Aviation, MRS and 2017 outlook and Executive Pai Gamde; 424,309, 042. Conoil. In September Plc,Total the General Counsel Director, by the NSE in So Aviation, 85 for 7,173, 016 litres airline spent a total of Lagos…recentlyMarket Operations MRS N1, of & Technolog & Head, a total of 8, 590, Plc, Total Nigeria Plc aviation fuel supplied y, Adeolu by and 610 litres of Conoil. Arik N1, 668, 794, 895.03 suppliedaviation fuel in October purchased Plc and Conoil. at the cost of

by So Aviation, aviation fuel In November Arik purchase Mrs Plc, Total Nigeria at the cost of d 8, 000, 635 MRS Plc, Total N1, 651, 852, litres of purchased 6, Nigeria Plc and Conoil 409.76 from So Aviation, and 021, 951 litres of fuel at the in December the airline Chinedu Eze cost of N1, 331, Emirates 296, 193. 56.

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16thJanuary 2016 due to 2014 to the end of between had since on (IATA), scrapped and 15th June 2017. Travel must take However, the decision from Lagos indicated 2017. Emirates which royalties, the payment place between Ministry of of the governm the to that Transport other countries of ent has justfederal airlines should its member $776 and to Dubai for example start said Economy Class fares to stop collecting the collect same Manchester from been stop charges without allowing these fares to Dubai from airlines still from $911, while $800, to Beirut from providing alternativ foreign airlines royalties to nations. paying operate return Business to their cities. that Manchester starts from $2,896, to e payment to operate freely to Nigeria It was gathered platform for Class from $2993. at the same The the airlines.

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