Sunday 12th February 2017

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With Boko Haram on the Run, Yobe Holds First Council Poll in 4yrs Michael Olugbode Residents of the 17 local governments in Yobe State Saturday went to the poll to elect council officials, four years after such exercise was carried out due to deadly attacks by Boko Haram. Yesterday’s council elections

recorded no security breach as voters filed out to exercise their franchise in large numbers. A visit to some of the polling booths in highly populated Damaturu and Potiskum, showed that the electorate did not express any fear of suicide attacks, a clear indication of the improved security in the two towns.

While many polling booths witnessed large turnout, some others recorded low turnout of voters. Speaking on the elections at his Yindiski polling unit in Potiskum after casting his vote, the Yobe State Deputy Governor, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu, said he was glad that

local government election could be held in Damaturu again after the delay caused by Boko Haram insurgency. He said: “We have done this for the third time considering the situation we have been experiencing, which is the lack of peace in our state.” He added that the state battled

Boko Haram crisis for six years but that it was good news that “peace has gradually returned to our state.” Aliyu said despite the security challenge, Yobe was one of the few states in the country that have conducted elections into their councils for more than two times in recent years.

He said: “We have been organizing this exercise, this is the third time we have organized this.’ He added that: “The story is a positive one, that we are able to organize this election and there has not been any uprising and Continued on page 9

Religion Driving Nigeria Apart, Says Ooni of Ife ...Page 9 Sunday 12 February, 2017 Vol 21. No 7969

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Magu: 90% of the Cause of our Recession is Corruption Says if stolen money is substantially recovered, Nigeria will be out of recession NNPC GMD to remain in custody Vincent Obia in Lagos and Paul Obi in Abuja

the sole reason for the country’s current economic stump. In an interview with ARISE TV

yesterday, Magu said it was because of the central place of corruption in the present

economic woes that the federal government was paying a lot of attention to the recovery of

EFCC: Arrested ex-

stolen funds. “I maintain that the economic recession is caused by corrup-

tion. About 90 per cent of the cause of recession is corruption,

Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has said that corruption is virtually

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Buhari’s Wife Thanks Nigerians for Supporting the President Saraki, Sultan seek prayers for his safe return Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Hammed Shittu in Ilorin Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has expressed gratitude to all Nigerians supporting President Muhammadu Buhari and also urged them to sustain the tempo. “I want to use this opportunity to thank all Nigerians for the Continued on page 9

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