Naij.com digest: Top 10 news that broke this Thursday
Naij.com team has gathered the most important news for March 10, Thursday. Find all the important things you might have missed but still need to know below.
1. APC vice-chairman Ali Danmaraya is dead (photo)
Ali Danmaraya, vice-chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state, is dead. The 73-year-old died at his residence on Thursday morning, March 10, after a brief illness.
2. Good news: Check out names of key B/Haram suppliers arrested by army officers
Reports filtering in from Cameroon, Nigeria’s west African neighbours, have it that three main suppliers of Boko Haram have been arrested.
3. Blood money: Why Goodluck Jonathan should face trial – Senate leader
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, the Senate Majority Leader, stated that former president Goodluck Jonathan should face trial if he instigated the sharing of $2.1billion given to Sambo Dasuki, the former national security adviser, for procurement of arms.
4. JUST IN! President Buhari appoints Amaechi’s ally as NIMASA DG
Dr Dakuku Peterside, the Rivers state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 election, is the new director general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
5. Honeymoon is over? Buhari’s popularity drastically drops the first time in months
Many Nigerians have scored President Muhammadu Buhari low on jobs, economy, and power for the first time in months according to Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria.
6. 48 years after: Read what Gowon did to his son
The former Nigeria head of state General Yakubu Gowon has finally accepted Musa Gowon as his son shortly after a DNA test conclusively conformed their relationship.
7. BREAKING: NUPENG and PENGASSAN call off strike
Emerging reports suggest that the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Seniour Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have called off their strike action after a late night meeting with Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum.
8. JUST IN: Kogi state House of Assembly to sue Dogara, others
The Kogi state House of Assembly at its resumed sitting mandated its legal representatives to file a contempt of court case against the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yabuku Dogara, the chairman and secretary of the 10-man House Committee that claimed to have investigated the wranglings in the House of Assembly.
9. Breaking: Buhari kicks out 184 top officials over budget padding
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed about 184 top budget officials from budget duties and redeployed them to establishments that have little or nothing to do with budget over their roles in padding the 2016 budget.
10. Read what prophet who has spoken with John the Baptist is coming to do to Nigerians (photo)
David Owunor, a Kenyan prophet who just arrived Nigeria for a crusade, has stated that he is on a mission to the country to put an end to the ‘gospel of money’.
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