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Buhari to Obama: Help recover looted $150bn
...towards a better life for the people
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Buhari to Obama: Help recover looted $150bn zSays US pressure ensured credible polls in Nigeria zPromises to appoint ministers September zHe has clear agenda on Nigeria’s problems — OBAMA
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By Hugo Odiogor, Clifford Ndujihe & Levinus Nwabughiogu
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ASHINGTON, DC — PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, implored his United States counterpart, Barack Obama, to assist Nigeria in locating and returning about $150 billion looted by corrupt
government officials. President Buhari made the appeal in an article he published in Washington Post, yesterday, shortly before he met with President Obama as part of his four-day working visit to the United States. The appeal for assistance came as Obama expressed confidence in the ability of President Buhari to tackle the multiple challenges facing Nigeria through his clear agenda. Buhari, who enumerated Continues on Page 5
Reps leadership crisis: Gbajabiamila tells Oyegun to ignore Dogara 9
Mr & Mrs VISIT: United States of America President Barack Obama (right) and President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, yesterday. PHOTO: State House.
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EID-EL-FITRI: From left: Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau; Emir of
Wase, Alhaji Mohammed Sambo and Deputy Speaker, Plateau State House of Assembly, Alhaji Yusuf Gagdi, during the Eid-el-fitri traditional Salla
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Woman, child, three others die in boat mishap BY SAMUEL OYADONGHA
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R A G E D Y yesterday struck at the Akenfa suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State as five persons, among them, a woman and her child, were killed in a boat mishap. The incident, it was gathered, occurred at about 8 a.m. when two makeshift wooden boats collided while ferrying passengers across the over flowing Epie creek. The tragic incident occurred close to a bridge being built across the creek by the Niger Delta D e v e l o p m e n t Commission, NDDC. The identity of the deceased woman, said to be carrying a baby strapped on her back, could not be immediately ascertained. The other victims, described as artisans (mechanic and panel beaters) from the South Wester n part of the country and identified as Abiola, Biso and Abbey, were said to be going to the village to buy snakes caught in the flooding in Bayelsa.
The ill-fated boats, it was learnt, had almost completed crossing the creek, which is about 120 metres wide, when the unexpected happened. One of the boats was said to have collided with the other close to the end of their journey causing both to capsize. Eye witnesses said the natives, who could have rendered assistance to the victims, watched helplessly from afar ostensibly due to the alleged presence of a shrine close to the scene of the accident. According to the eyewitnesses one of the boat drivers and two other lucky passengers
managed to swim a s h o r e . The scene of the tragic accident was besieged by sympathizers including officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) when this reporter visited. A senior official of the FRSC, who spoke anonymously, said they had contacted the naval unit for assistance but at the time Sunday Vanguard left the scene, no help
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