Yusuf Buhari Returns to Country After Speedy Recovery Joseph Ushigiale President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son, Mr. Yusuf Buhari who was involved in a ghastly motorbike accident last December, returned to the country yesterday after undergoing further treatment
overseas and making a fast recovery from the wounds sustained in the accident. Although it could not be ascertained where Yusuf had gone for treatment, THISDAY gathered that Yusuf, who arrived the country last night, was in a better shape
and is expected to resume a normal life. At the time of his accident, a statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, had said Yusuf was allegedly drag racing with his friend, when the accident happened
on December 26. According to the statement, “Yusuf broke a limb and sustained an injury to the head as a result. He has undergone surgery at a clinic in Abuja. He is in a stable condition.” He had first undergone successful emergency surgery
at the Cedarcrest Hospitals, Abuja, carried out by a team of neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons. As Yusuf's health improved, he was transferred from the intensive care unit of the hospital to the ward, following which he was certified stable
and discharged. But sources in the presidency disclosed yesterday that shortly after he was discharged from Cedarcrest, he departed the country quietly due to the sensitivity surrounding his Continued on page 8
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President Buhari Asks APC Leaders to Commence Preparations for Congresses
Oyegun backs Tinubu c’ttee, Saraki misses caucus meeting State chairmen pass vote of confidence on Oyegun, seek tenure extension for selves, NWC Omololu Ogunmade and Senator Iroegbu in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari last night hosted the National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja, with a directive to the leadership of the ruling party to begin plans for various
congresses of the party. Buhari who gave the directive against the backdrop of the 2019 election timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), added that it was about time the party prepared for Continued on page 6
Military, Police in Blame Game over Dapchi Girls’ Abduction
President meets freed Unimaid lecturers, 10 women DSS DG speaks on how their release was negotiated Omololu Ogunmade and Paul Obi in Abuja With Nigerians and the rest of the world still reeling over another major abduction of schoolgirls in the North-east, the Nigerian Army and the Police Force yesterday engaged
in a blame game over the abduction last week of the 110 girls from Government Science and Technical Girls’ College in Dapchi, Yobe State by Boko Haram insurgents. The army, in a statement Continued on page 6
Presidency: No Plan to Reintroduce Onshore-Offshore Dichotomy... Page 10
2019 ON THEIR MINDS... L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari; National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, when Buhari presided over the National Caucus meeting of the APC at the State House, Abuja… yesterday