NAIJ.com daily digest: 10 top news that broke this Friday
The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news that hit the headlines on Friday, June 24. Find all the stories you might have missed below.
1. “Buhari is working to become Nigeria’s last president”
Editor’s note: Niger Delta militants and pro-Biafra activists are calling for the referendum to become a sovereign state. Brady Nwosu in this piece for Today shares his views on how President Muhammadu Buhari writing the epitaph of once a country.
2. Breaking: Again, militants storm Lagos community, 30 feared killed
For the umpteenth time this week, suspected pipeline vandals have besieged Ikorodu community in Lagos state, killing about 30 people in the process.
3. Military coup to overthrow Buhari: top commanders at emergency meeting
The chief of army staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, has convened top commanders to the army headquarters for an emergency security meeting this Friday, June 24.
4. End of the road for Fayose as another impeachment looms
A report on Premium Times has shown how Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state unknowingly mixed up the Halliburton scandal of 1994 with the Jefferson corruption of 2005 in his allegations against the first lady Aisha Buhari.
5. Man returns from prison to meet wife with another man’s child
Pritchard Ndlovu, a Bulwayo, Zimbabwean man returned from an eighth-year jail term only to meet his dear wife with another man’s child. As if the pain was not enough, Sitheni Sibanda further denied the man as her husband because he stained himself by going to jail, according to Zimbabwe News Online.
6. What Aisha Buhari did to Alaafin of Oyo will SHOCK you (PHOTO)
This picture was taken recently when Aisha Buhari paid a visit to Oyo to promote her women health program. During the meeting, Buhari’s wife extended her hand to shake the Alaafin.
7. Confusion in Nigeria: Fayose, Aisha Buhari caught dancing dirty?
The Governor of Ekiti state and the First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari have been caught up in what many can call a dirty dance, one that the Nigerian people cannot stop talking about.
8. Unbelievable! Fayose commits big blunder
The protesters who came out under the platform of “Be the Change Organisation,” Southwest branch, berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for “his failure to live up to expectation.”
9. Ignore coup story, Niger Delta youth tell Buhari
Some youth under the Niger Delta Youths Solidarity Movement (NDYSM) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore stories of an impending coup by the Nigerian military.
10. New militant group emerges with disturbing threats
According to the new militant group, it will cripple the oil industry across the nine Niger Delta states unless the federal government grants them, “Niger Delta Republic in the next couple of days.”
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