Naij.com digest: Top 10 news that broke this Thursday
The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news stories that hit the headlines on Thursday, April 21. You can find all the important things you might have missed but still need to know below in today’s digest!
1. CCT trial: Drama as judge loses temper, orders Saraki’s lawyer to be arrested (video)
Justice Danladi Umar, the presiding judge at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, lost his temper at the court after one of the lawyers on the Bukola Saraki’s trial, Raphael Oluyede, announced the motion he filed against the judge through the Senate president.
2. First African-American woman to appear on US currency
Harriet Tubman is to grace the front of the $20 bill, becoming the first African-American to appear on US paper currency and the first woman in more than a century!
3. Two female suicide bombers launch deadly attack at refugee camp
Two female suicide bombers killed at least eight people and left many wounded at a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram insurgency.
4. Revealed! How Boko Haram leader helped El-Zakzaky
Mallam Nafiu Baba Ahmed, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), has revealed that the Islamic sect of Shi’ites is more dangerous than the Boko Haram group.
5. Minister of state for petroleum Ibe Kachikwu sacked? Read NNPC swift reaction
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporationhas described as “completely false” the widely circulated report that Ibe Kachikwu has been replaced as the GMD of the NNPC.
6. Son of former Nigerian president opens up on his father’s ill health
The son of former head of state Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammed, has finally confirmed the illness of his father.
7. See who visited President Buhari at Aso- Rock (photos)
On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari received the US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samantha Power, at the Statehouse in Abuja.
8. CCT vs Saraki controversy: See evidences against CCT chairman (photos)
Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has filed a lawsuit seeking for the Code of Conduct Tribunal chairman, Danladi Umar, to be excused from the ongoing trial on asset declaration, because the judge has been on administrative bail with EFCC for allegedly receiving bribe.
9. NFF appoints new coach for Super Eagles
Former Super Eagles handler Shuaibu Amodu has been appointed the new interim coach of the national team, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) technical sub-committee has announced.
10. See what Goodluck Jonathan was spotted doing in the USA (photos)
As part of his efforts to promote liberty in Africa and all over the world, former president Goodluck Jonathan met with Andrew Forrest, the founder of the Walk Free Foundation.
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