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More confusion, as 4th APC emerges

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Some foreign hostages may be alive —Jonathan

We’ll resist moves to amend PDP Constitution

—Atiku

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HOUSE of Representatives Committee on Finance

yesterday summoned the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Engr. Andrew Yakubu to appear before the Committee and also queried the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN over N6. 9 billion naira non-remitted funds by

AS People Democratic Party (PDP) moves to amend

its constitution to allow for an incumbent President to be the sole candidate of the party in 2015, the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned that any attempt toward such will be vehemently rejected.

Alhaji Abubakar who spoke to newsmen in Kano said the idea to amend the ruling party constitution in favour of the incumbent President as sole candidate of the party would strangle the

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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday

expressed optimism that some

of the seven foreign hostages claimed to have been killed by Ansaru may still be alive after all. He said those who may have died may be due to health related causes.

He spoke during a joint press briefing with President Michel Sleiman, the first ever Lebanese President to visit

N7bn funds: Reps summon

NNPC GMD, FAAN

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EVEN as the coalition All Progressives Congress

(APC) maintained that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the party registering their acronym through

•Atiku

•Jonathan

proxy, investigations have revealed that a group with similar name and acronym (All Progressives Congress – APC) has since March 8 submitted a letter of intent for registration as political party

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MUHAMMAD KABIR, Kano

MUHAMMAD KABIR, Kano

MALACHY UZENDU, Abuja Bureau Chief

AKEEM OYETUNJI, Asst News Editor, Abuja

Summit… Mr. Tony Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings; Vice President Namadi Sambo; and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, at the Nigeria Philanthropy Summit, held at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, yesterday.