...towards a better life for the people VOL. 25: NO. 61859
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013
Ph.D holder kidnap kingpin on the run •P.6
FG, not us needs amnesty — Boko Haram •Sect's main leader, Shekau, rejects FG's offer •Go ahead with amnesty deal — Northern leaders •Military warns against withdrawal of soldiers from streets
BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH & KINGSLEY OMONOBI
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BUJA—LEADER of militant Boko Haram Islamic sect, Abubakar Shekau, yesterday, rejected the idea of any potential amnesty deal which the Federal Government may offer the sect members if the committee set up to look into it gives the goahead. Shekau, in a 30-minute audio recording, where he spoke in Hausa, Arabic and English declared that his group had “not
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COLUMNISTS:
ADISA ADELEYE —P.47
DONU KOGBARA BOUNDARY DISPUTE—From left:
Chief Disrael Bobmanuel, Amayanabo of Abonnema, Rivers State; Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru; Vice President Namadi Sambo; Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear-Admiral John Jonah and King Kaleh Obuge, Ada Abuam of Abua Kingdom, Rivers State, during meeting of delegations from Rivers and Bayelsa states with the Vice President on Soku Boundary dispute at The Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday. State House photo.
Goodnight our Village Headmaster! •Remembering Justus Esiri
•P.17
Mr & Mrs
Reps reject 6-yr tenure for •P.9 President, govs •Pgs.27,28 &34
Heavy shooting continues at •P. 14 Anambra/Kogi border C M Y K