Day: May 21, 2020

COVID-19: Senate President distributes Palliatives to thousands of Constituents in Yobe North

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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has distributed food palliatives to thousands of residents in Damaturu and the six local government areas in Yobe North Senatorial District of Yobe State. The local governments are: Bade, Nguru, Jakusko, Yusufari, Karasuwa, and Machina, respectively. The gesture by Senator Lawan was aimed at providing relief to residents in Damaturu, the State Capital and his Constituency, who are affected by the lockdown policy following the spread of the COVID-19 disease. The distribution of palliatives was accompanied with the provision of infrared thermometers, chemicals for…

Osun flags off 2020 planting season,empowers 6,000 farmers

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The Osun state Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Thursday said his administration was fully committed to developing agriculture value chain in all strata. He said that the government had created an enabling environment for agric businesses to thrive such that more youths and investors youths can earn a living and create employment through the establishment of cottage industries in the state. The Governor stated these while flagging off the Year 2020 Planting at the State Government Secretariat, Abere, Osogbo. No fewer than 6,000 farmers benefitted from the various farm inputs, equipment …

Council of Ulama cancels Eid-Fitr prayers in Ilorin

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The Council of Ulama of the Ilorin Emirate Council has finally cancelled the annual Eid Fitr congregational prayers owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It noted that the cancellation was part of measures adopted to curb the spread of the infection in the state stressing that muslim faithful should observe the two rakat nafilah in their respective homes. ROYAL NEWS reports that the Council is led by the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Dr. Muhammad Bashir Imam Saliu as well as other clerics on the authority of the Emir of Ilorin…

Kano Islamic Clerics Urge Muslims To Pray At Home …… Reject Ganduje’s Offer

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The Chairman Kano State Council of Ulama, Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil stated that it was advisable for the Muslims in the State to pray at home than attend Eid-prayers. The highest religious body in the State said the decision of Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to observe eid prayers risk increasing the rate of the spread of the life threatening virus. Speaking on BBC Hausa, Wedenesday, Sheikh Khalil hinted that one committed no sin for failing to go to the mosque as far as he has concrete reasons as that…

Is Bashir Tofa working for Kwankwasiyya Movement? By Comrade Ibrahim Abdu Zango

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It is interesting for one today to measure the involvement of Alhaji Bashir Tofa in the politics of Kano state. For one, I do not intend to criticise the channel by which this gentleman became an indigene of Kano state, more so, as he always connects his name with Tofa, a town a little distance from Dawakin Tofa. Bashir Tofa was a politician from 1993 to 1997. He contested the presidential election but lost even at his polling ward. He was rejected by his own people because he was not…

NSCIA counters Governors over Eid-el-Fitr

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There was an ongoing disagreement between the Sultan of Sokoto and governors of some states in the north over how weekend’s Eid-el-Fitr prayers should be held. The President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA),Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar has given a directive that Muslims should observe the prayers at home as part of their observance of the COVID-19 protocols and to prevent the spread of the virus. The directive came after some Governors in the northern Nigeria States like Kano, Bauchi Yobe, Jigawa, Gombe, Borno and Zamfara have eased…

COVID-19: Ganduje sets conditions for Eld fitr prayer in Kano

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COVID-19: Ganduje sets up conditions for observing Eld fitr prayer in Kan Kano state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has hosted a meeting with Imams, Clerics in the state,said the meeting was aimed to rub minds on the Islamic jurisprudence governing any kind of worshipping during a trying time like this of Covid-19 pandemic. Part of the conditions enunciated to the juma’at Imams was that, Old aged and highly sick persons should not attend the eid ground, People should stay in their Towns to perform their eid prayer, No body would be…

WHEN BEING AN IMAM IS TENSION-SOAKED

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I often wonder why people struggle to occupy the vacant the post of an Imam in Mosques when such opportunities are available, especially Mosques where Friday prayers are being observed. Why the great struggle, fight, animosity and at times, violence in the bid to become an Imam? Does it have any attached or special benefits which are not known to me other than the call to serve Allaah? I’m a little bit confused over these attitudes of do or die mentality just because of Imamship. Perhaps, being Imam of organizations…

MY ASUU COLLEAGUES AND “DOOMSDAY PREPPING” By Ibrahim Bello-Kano

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Not many people have heard of the term “doomsday prepping”. It’s a common mentality among people who suspect that some disaster, some doomsday, is coming their way. In my view, university lecturers should adopt the “doomsday prepping” mentality for many reasons. Nigeria is changing for the worse, and very rapidly. The economy is in rapid decline, the roads are primitive, and the security situation is abysmal. The present Administration is implementing a wholesale set of neo-liberal economic policies which is meant to transfer resources from the poor to the rich…

COVID-19: Oyetola commissions 160-bed Isolation Centre equipped by CA-COVID in Osogbo

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The Osun state Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Wednesday commissioned a state-of-the-art isolation centre in Osogbo as part of efforts to complement the effective and efficient management of Coronavirus pandemic in the state. He said the Coalition Against COVID-19 (Ca-COVID) renovated the health facility and donated equipment and consumables for 100 beds to which the state government added 60 beds. On the same premises, the state has another 20-room single beds isolation centre, giving the Mercyland facility a 180-bed isolation centre . Inaugurating the facility, Governor Oyetola disclosed that the facility…