Naij.com digest: Top 8 most important news for this Wednesday

Naij.com team has gathered the most important news for March 9, Wednesday. Find all the important things you might have missed but still need to know below.

1. Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu’s trial stalled over appeal

The trial of the director of the Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu was on Wednesday, March 9, stalled over an appeal made by the accused person.

2. NNPC offices shut down following Buhari’s unbundling order

The oil workers shut down operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation following Tuesday’s order by President Muhammadu Buhari that the petroleum corporation be split into seven units.

3. Air force bomb Boko Haram camp in Borno

The air attacks were followed by a ground offensive by troops of 121 Task Force Battalion who consolidated on the gains of the air strikes to flush out the remnants of the insurgents and destroyed their camps.

4. Biafrans disrupt Okorocha’s speech at Chatham House

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state was at Chatham House March 9 to give a speech but he was greatly embarrassed by pro-Biafrans.

5. Women stage protest in Lagos (Photos, videos)

Another protest has rocked Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos following the recent security breach in Lagos and Nigeria in extension.

6. 34 dead as 5-storey building collapses in Lagos

34 people have been confirmed dead while 13 others were rescued alive after a five-storey building collapsed in the Lekki area of Lagos.

7. Buhari to visit USA at the end of March

President Buhari will embark on another state visit as he plans to attend Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC at the end of March.

8. House of Representatives take over Kogi Assembly

The House of Representatives took over the functions of the state assembly as it was empowered by the provision of Section 11 (4) of the 1999 Constitution, which says the National Assembly could take over the functions of any state assembly that is enmeshed in crisis.

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