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Today's Headlines: Burkina Junta Suspends Radio Station Over Niger Coup Leaders Criticism, Shaibu Desperate To Succeed Me— Obaseki

Burkina Junta Suspends Radio Station Over Niger Coup Leaders Criticism

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Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has suspended one of the country’s most popular radio stations after it broadcast an interview deemed “insulting” to Niger’s new military leaders.

Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday “until further notice,” Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement.

He said the measure was “in the higher interests of the Nation.”

The station, part of the Omega media group owned by journalist and former foreign minister Alpha Barry, ceased broadcasting after the statement was issued late Thursday.

The channel had run an interview with Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni, the spokesman of a newly-established Nigerien group campaigning to return President Mohamed Bazoum to power.

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Shaibu Desperate To Succeed Me—Obaseki

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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has accused his deputy, Philip Shaibu, of planning to succeed him at all costs ahead of the state governorship election scheduled to hold in 2024.

According to Obaseki, Shuabi is so desperate to be the next governor of Edo State.

Obaseki said this while addressing stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party on the ongoing rift between him and Shuabu in a video posted by AIT on Friday.

The governor stressed that Shaibu’s plan to become governor of the state in the next election is making him run a parallel government in their administration.

Flashback: I prefer to support Tinubu from outside, tell him what others can’t — el-Rufai

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Reports have emerged that the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has allegedly withdrawn his interest in becoming a minister in the current administration.

The report, which is yet to be confirmed by Vanguard, gave reasons why El-Rufai pulled out.

el-Rufai, according to the report, told President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday that he would want to “focus on his doctorate programme at a university in The Netherlands”. He promised Tinubu his support from outside.

El-Rufai had, before the presidential election, told an online media that he would “prefer to support Tinubu as an outsider; to tell him what others cannot.”

The video, which resurfaced online, was published by Premium Times.

ECOWAS military chiefs to meet on Niger crisis Saturday

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West African military chiefs will meet on Saturday following a summit that ordered the deployment of a “standby force” in the effort to resolve the Niger crisis, regional military sources said.

The talks among chiefs of staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will take place in the Ghanaian capital Accra, they said on Friday, according to AFP.

Yesterday, the regional bloc, rising from its Extraordinary Summit in Abuja on Thursday, ordered immediate deployment of a standby force to restore constitutional order in Niger.

The decision was a result of the failure of the Niger junta to honour a non-week gien to release ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and restore democracy.

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