Naij.com team have gathered the most important and viral news for this Thursday, December 24. Just in case you missed something, check out the digest below.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his felicitations to Christian faithfuls across the country as they celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ tomorrow. “I felicitate with all Nigerians, especially our Christian brothers and sisters, on the joyous occasion of this year’s Christmas. On this occasion of the commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, let us all rededicate ourselves to the virtues of peace, love, honesty, justice, equity, piety, humility and service to others which he taught,” Buhari’s message reads.

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An industrial gas plant suddenly exploded in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state. Over 100 people were reportedly burnt to death. The explosion occurred at Chikason Group gas plant just few hours to Christmas.

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The Imo state government has broken a record by erecting the tallest Christmas tree in Nigeria. Governor Rochas Okorocha reportedly approved N600 million for this Christmas tree and New Year decorations.

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In a bid to put an end to Islamic Movement in Kaduna state, the El-Rufai-led administration has allegedly destroyed all properties belonging to the movement in the state. Another source reports that , Kaduna state.

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A woman who was kidnapped and raped by the Boko Haram insurgents in the interview granted to the CBS news narrated her heartbreaking story. Aisha Musa has given birth after the militants had killed her family and made her at gunpoint to become a ‘jihadi’ bride.

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Matthew Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has shared his views on what is the best solution in Biafra crisis. He did not advocate that Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and leader of the IPOB, was “innocent”, but rather that his discontinued persecution by the authorities only serves to beef up the dying Biafra movement.

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Chief Ayo Opadokun, ex-scribe of the National Democratic Coalition, has commended the national budget of 2016 year presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking with the newsmen during the 13th edition of Ayo Opadokun’s Christmas Carol in Offa, Kwara state he defined the N6.08 trillion budget as the best ever in Nigeria’s history.

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Operatives of the Civilian JTF have intercepted five bombs that were put into food flasks outside a popular Maiduguri mosque. Five suspected Boko Haram members concealed bombs into five big food flasks a hand-pushed cart and headed for Medinatu Mosques in the heart of Maiduguri, Borno state, where followers of the Tijjaniya Islamic sect were marking the Maulud Nabiyi.

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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the appeal filed by Chief Great Ogboru, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate in 2015 governorship election in Delta state. Ogboru was challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

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President Buhari has corroborated what the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said about defeating Boko Haram in Nigeria. Buhari also in a recent interview with BBC has said that his government has technically won the war against Boko Haram.

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