By Balogun Damilola The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, has reportedly directed that members be refunded of their three years of tithe. In a letter dated May 3, 2020, being circulated on social media, the President of the Church directed that members who have been paying tithes since May 2017 be refunded to serve as help during this coronavirus pandemic. “The ongoing pandemic has created serious challenges for many members of Church, especially for those who suffered loss of employment and other financial setbacks due to economic problems. Our…
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By Balogun Damilola The Kano State government has confirmed that the State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, was among the 22 patients that were discharged after testing negative for coronavirus (COVID-19). This was contained in a statement signed and issued by the Commissioner for Information, Comrade Muhammad Garba, on Thursday, a copy which was made available to newsmen According to the statement, “among the discharged patients were Professor Abdulrazak Garba Habeeb of the Department of Medicine, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Bayero University, Kano who is also the co-chair, state Task Force on COVID-19; Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa,…
By Balogun Damilola Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, vowed to prosecute any individual or organization found disobeying the social distancing order and face mask use to contain the spread of COVID-19 in their states. Governor Akeredolu, who spoke while flagging off distribution of 500,000 nose masks produced by the state government in Akure, said: “Anybody arrested for not wearing nose mask would be placed on 14 days isolation at the person’s own cost. “The production of the nose masks and subsequent distribution was part of the numerous efforts to…
By Balogun Damilola 381 new cases of #COVID19; 183-Lagos 55-Kano 44-Jigawa 19-Zamfara 19-Bauchi 11-Katsina 9-Borno 8-Kwara 7-Kaduna 6-Gombe 5-Ogun 4-Sokoto 3-Oyo 3-Rivers 2-Niger 1-Akwa Ibom 1-Enugu 1-Plateau 3526 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 601 Deaths: 107
By Balogun Damilola Another Professor at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has died on wednesday. Prof. Monsuru Emiola died at the university clinic after a brief illness. The Nation gathered that Prof. Emiola, a senior lecturer with the Physical and Health Education Department, Faculty of Education, was an indigene of Oyo State. The source said the late lecturer was a devoted Muslim. He is survived with a wife and children. The Nation reports that BUK also lost a lecturer in the Faculty of Communication, Prof Balarabe Maikaba, on April 26.
By Balogun Damilola An Emirates airplane repatriating 265 Nigerians from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday made a return after a passenger, Mrs Kafayat Amusan, went into labour. She was delivered of a baby boy onboard, 30 minutes after the plane departed Dubai for Lagos with passengers, who were among the 4,000 Nigerians being evacuated from foreign countries in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Amusan was admitted to a hospital in Dubai, while the other 264 passengers were moved to another airplane, which was expected to arrive Lagos 7pm on Wednesday. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike…
By Balogun Damilola Airlines in Nigeria are losing about N17bn monthly as a result of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak across the country, the Federal Government said on Wednesday. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said this while speaking in Abuja at the daily briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. “We (aviation sector) are worst hit than any other sector. Some N17bn monthly is being lost by the airlines, thanks to COVID-19,” the minister stated. This came as the Airline Operators of Nigeria condemned the decision of the Federal Government to patronise foreign airlines for the…
By Balogun Damilola The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday said 343 Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters had been killed by the military in counter-insurgency operations across the North East geo-political zone. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, at a news briefing in Abuja, added that 153 armed bandits were also neutralised in parts of the North West and Central.He said the feats were recorded between March 18 and May 5 this year, adding that several captives had been rescued in the last four weeks. The coordinator stated that the troops equally destroyed several logistics installations and networks belonging to…
By Balogun Damilola In continuation of ongoing offensive operations to inflict more casualties on Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) and other coalition members including Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE and Nigerien Air Force neutralised about 48 ISWAP fighters and destroyed their camps in a joint air and artillery bombardments executed by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjunction with Nigerien Air Force and Artillery Regiment of Sector 3 of the MNJTF at Dumba and Location Charlie on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the early…
By Balogun Damilola Thirty-seven patients receiving treatment for COVID-19 in Lagos state have been discharged after recovering from the disease. The state ministry of health broke the news in a tweet on Wednesday. “*️⃣37 more #COVID19Lagos patients; 19 females & 18 males including a foreign national; an Indian ?? were today discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba, Onikan & Eti-Osa to reunite with the society,” the tweet read