Naij.com digest: Top 10 stories that broke this Monday
The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news that hit the headlines on Monday, May 30. Find all the stories you might have missed below.
1. BREAKING: Bloodbath in Biafra, pro-Biafra activists clash with army, 30 killed (photos)
Happening now in #Biafra, the Nigerian president Burhari and his Islamic brother are killing the Biafrans peopl pic.twitter.com/L8HV38a5sg
— U.S.E.S.S of Biafra (@emmsanuelgreg1) May 30, 2016
The celebration of Biafran Day in memory of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu turned sour Monday, May 30, in Anambra, as the military, police, members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) clashed, killing over 30 persons and injuring many.
2. Revealed! The person behind the Niger-Delta Avengers will shock you
“There is nothing like Niger Delta avengers, we know NIMASA avengers there is nothing like the Niger Delta avengers,” the former militant, Victor-Ben Ebikamobowei said.
3. Horror! How Nigerian soldiers mistakenly opened fired at policemen (Update)
Information coming from the 33 Artillery Brigade of the Nigeria army in Bauchi state has it that troops stattioned at Panshanu checkpoint around the Bauchi-Jos highway opened fire on a bus.
Nigerian soldiers reportedlt shot at the bus as its driver was driving through the checkpoint and also refused to stop when the soldiers told him to slow down.
4. Breaking: Nigerian army invades the town of Tompolo’s father, harrasses locals
The Nigerian army in a search for Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has invaded another community of Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West local government area, Delta state.
According to reports, locals in the community were asleep when the troops came in six gunboats at about 4.30 am on May 30, Monday.
5. What these visually impaired children said will shock you (pictures, videos)
Blessing Okon wants to be a teacher
6. Opinion: How Buhari changed Nigeria
Editor’s note: Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) won the 2015 presidential poll in Nigeria because the party promised to bring about positive change in governance.
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, novelist and writer, in this piece for BBC News lists five examples of what has changed in Nigeria since May 29, 2015, when Buhari was inaugurated.
7. Flashback: Buhari’s inauguration speech
The scene in Abuja was festive on May 29, 2015, as Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated as president of Nigeria after his historic election victory in March.
Wearing the traditional robe of the country’s mainly Muslim north, Buhari promised Nigerians to deliver much-awaited change. NAIJ.com proposes to recall the powerful speech the incumbent Nigerian leader delivered a year ago at the Eagle Square, Abuja.
8. What prostitute did to this man will leave the fear of God in you (photos,video)
According to Standard Digital, the Kenyan man will have to live the rest of his life without his joystick after a prostitute he engaged for sex cut off his manhood after he refused to pay her.
9. Shettima, Okorocha APC presidency posters spotted
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to contest the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) unopposed but recent development may points to the contrary.
10. I was shocked by Jonathan conceding defeat to me – Buhari
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 30, said he was shocked when former president Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to him during the 2015 election.
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