Ramadan: Pray for Nigeria, end to COVID-19, Gbajabiamila urges

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has urged Nigerians, especially Muslims, to use the Holy month of Ramadan in prayers for the country.The Speaker also said they should use the Holy month to pray to Almighty Allah for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and a return to normal life in the country and the world at large.In a message congratulating Nigerian Muslims for ushering in the Holy month of Ramadan peacefully, the Speaker also urged the faithful to use the period for sober reflection and…

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Don’t open for 3rd term, LASG warns private schools

The Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned private schools in the state to shun the idea of resuming for the third term academic session until the lockdown period is over. Recall that the state government had on March 18 ordered public and private schools in the state to close down from March 23, as part of measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement on Thursday, said all private and public schools in the state would…

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COVID 19: Total Upstream, partners support PLHIV in Lagos

Lagos; 23rd April 2020:NNPC/NAPIMS and Total Upstream Nigeria limited with its partners( CNOOC, SAPETRO and PRIME) have joined forces together to support people living with HIV in Lagos with bags of palliatives within the period of the lockdown as a result of COVID 19. Disclosing this during the presentation of the seven hundred and fifty-five bags of items to representatives of people living with HIV at the Secretariat of Nigeria Business Coalition against AIDS, Mr.Wokoma Ajukura, General Manager Corporate Social Responsibility  Total Upstream Ltd representing the Managing Director Mr. Mike…

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Police arrest couple over house help’s death

Personnel of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a house help, Joy James, by arresting her boss, Fortune Nwankwo. PUNCH Metro gathered that Fortune was arrested on the suspicion that she staged the victim’s suicide at her place of residence on Ogundola Street in the Bariga area of the state. Fortune had reported at the Bariga Police Division on Monday that Joy hung herself to a fan in her room. It was learnt that policemen, who…

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Encounter with Abba Kyari in my dreams by Femi Adesina

He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has gone the way of all flesh.Our last contact was on Friday, March 20, 2020.President Muhammadu Buhari was scheduled to meet with the Chairman of Ecowas Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, by 3 p.m. Such meetings hold in the diplomatic room of the presidential office complex.The protocol is that aides invited to attend any meeting…

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S/west States to enforce use of facemasks in public -Oyetola

As a measure to curb the spread of Coronavirus, the government of the State of Osun has announced the mandatory use of face masks in public places effective from tomorrow, Friday, April 24. The State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola who made this known in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan on Thursday in Osogbo, disclosed that the decision was part of the resolutions reached by the South West Governors at its virtual meeting last week. Oyetola noted that the South-West states were the first to make…

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COVID-19: FirstBank’s FirstMonie Leads in Agent Banking, Bolatito Adebola writes

In this COVID-19 era where movement is restricted in some major parts of the world – including Nigeria – with many Banks and business reengineering efforts to improve the adaptability of their customers to electronic ways of carrying out business, Firstmonie Agents, an agent banking initiative from First Bank of Nigeria Limited is bridging the gaps and helping people to meet their needs of accessing the funds to buy food items and groceries as well as to send money to their loved ones.  This is one of the many measures…

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COVID-19: Nigeria inches close to a thousand as NCDC confirms 108 new cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 108 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 981. The NCDC made this known via its Twitter handle on Thursday. The centre also said that three persons died from coronavirus-related complications in the country, making the number of fatalities rise to 31. As at 11:30 pm 23rd April, cases by state: Lagos-582 FCT-133 Kano-73 Ogun-29 Katsina-21 Osun-20 Oyo-17 Edo-17 Borno-12 Kwara-11 Akwa Ibom-11 Kaduna-9 Gombe-9 Bauchi-8 Delta-6 Ekiti-4 Ondo-3 Rivers-3…

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