NAIJ.com digest: 7 top news that broke this Wednesday

The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news that hit the headlines on Wednesday, September 14. Find all the stories you might have missed below.

1. Bishop Kukah tells Buhari to stop blaming past leaders

The Catholic bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to get serious with reviving the sick economy instead of shifting blames to past leaders of the country.

2. Anti-corruption war: Okonjo Iweala’s speech sparks outrage

Former finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has grabbed headlines again following her appearance on Aljazeera show, The Stream, where she spoke on Nigeria’s corruption challenges. Iweala who regretted that the economic gains recorded in Africa started eroding a few years ago, expressed hopes that Nigeria would recover from its current economic challenges.

3. Worshipers in shock as pastor dies at the altar

A pastor, Caleb Sifuna, collapsed and died while service was ongoing. Tuko reports that the 44-year-old pastor of the Free Salvation Life Ministries church in Kanduyi, Bungoma County, collapsed from his seat just minutes before he delivered his sermon.

4. Tension in Onitsha as gunmen storm NTA, 3 suspects arrested

Authorities of the the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) office in Onitsha, Anambra, have said that some gunmen attacked the NTA premises on Wednesday, September 14.

5. Boko Haram threatens to capture Buhari in new video

One of the factions of the deadly Boko Haram sect has unveiled a new video showing how the terrorists in their thousands observed prayers during the Eid ceremony. The militant sect under the leadership of Abubakar Shekau showed members in three separate praying grounds in Borno and the Lake Chad area.

6. Students use nylon bag as condom during sex

Two Vietnamese students were hospitalized after they used nylon as protection during their first sex act with each other. MirrorUK reports that the unnamed college students had genital lesions, abrasions and bleeding after using the deed was done.

7. 4 probable things Jonathan discussed with Babangida

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has on September 13, Tuesday, visited Minna, Niger state, where he met separately with retired General Ibrahim Babangida and former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Meanwhile, the Punch lists possible things two former leaders discussed.

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