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Nigerians who recharge N100 airtime, and have N5,000 account balance will get cash – FG

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0QOpm7fUZfgcKABnEcNcQiRr4tnKKP70coIpTe2tR3TA5tpEC8eOTGJc5V1C0jJGPaGQihp5A-k-3VVGCKpF2B5zHkEbSOdvPVsFMhxsrD8Gg7AbzuJAEQZv0kIgChQs1oY0E4LFnim4/s1600/Nigerians-who-top-up-N100-airtime-have-N5000-account-balance-will-get-cash-%25E2%2580%2593-FG-768x432.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0QOpm7fUZfgcKABnEcNcQiRr4tnKKP70coIpTe2tR3TA5tpEC8eOTGJc5V1C0jJGPaGQihp5A-k-3VVGCKpF2B5zHkEbSOdvPVsFMhxsrD8Gg7AbzuJAEQZv0kIgChQs1oY0E4LFnim4/s1600/Nigerians-who-top-up-N100-airtime-have-N5000-account-balance-will-get-cash-%25E2%2580%2593-FG-768x432.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, says the federal government considers Nigerians who buy N100 call credit as poor and will ensure they get relief cash.<br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The minister, who earlier confirmed that N-Power beneficiaries were being paid their stipends, spoke in an interview with State House correspondents on Tuesday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">NAN quoted her as disclosing that urban poor dwellers with an account balance of N5,000 or less will be among the beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Farouq said the prospective beneficiaries would be part of the additional one million households approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in his national broadcast Monday night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“You are also aware that Mr President in his broadcast directed that we expand the beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer by one million. In this regard, we are going to focus more on the urban poor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“These are people who depend on the informal sector to earn their livelihood. They are daily wage earners and these are people we are really going to focus more on as well as people living with disabilities,’’ she stated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Farouq explained that aside the National Social Register, Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and previous record of purchase of recharge cards by mobile phone owners formed part of criteria to identify Nigerians that will get the cash transfer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“We are also using the mobile network, people that top up their phones with maybe N100, N200. These are the people we consider to be poor and vulnerable,’’ the minister added.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nigerians have been condemning the methods of the federal government’s disbursement of cash and food items.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Likewise, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for “failure to provide palliatives” to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.</div></div>

Nigerians who recharge N100 airtime, and have N5,000 account balance will get cash – FG

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, says the federal government considers Nigerians who buy N100 call credit as poor a...

Fed Govt in talks with Wike over detained pilots

<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjND4cawrM5aCJvRZ0jDEaY6WQNQxXMxwBMI_3INAURxoOsTTmzuA05zTSIIzl8lBSZ4dEedIM7kRl44WZu7qiz4TJgfG_ibJxMFx0H9FMKKsKYGA0FWkFX2TYeKT3EK-bfmqI41PgurjUh/s1600/Fed-Govt-in-talks-with-Wike-over-detained-pilots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="696" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjND4cawrM5aCJvRZ0jDEaY6WQNQxXMxwBMI_3INAURxoOsTTmzuA05zTSIIzl8lBSZ4dEedIM7kRl44WZu7qiz4TJgfG_ibJxMFx0H9FMKKsKYGA0FWkFX2TYeKT3EK-bfmqI41PgurjUh/s1600/Fed-Govt-in-talks-with-Wike-over-detained-pilots.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Federal Government is in talks with the Rivers State government over the detained Caverton Helicopter pilots, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said yesterday.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>The pilots were arrested by the police for flouting the state’s government’s directive by flying into the Air Force Base in Port Harcourt after Governor Nyesom Wike had given lockdown order.</div><div><br></div><div>Wake gave the directive following the spread of COVID-19 and the confirmation of the index case in the Southsouth state.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Giving an update at its daily briefing on Monday, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation, Hassan Musa, said there was a need to fast-track the pilots’ release considering threats by various unions in the aviation sector to go on strike.</div><div><br></div><div>He said: “The Federal Government is in consultation with the Rivers State government to have them released as soon as possible because their arrest is taking a different dimension as Air Traffic Union and other unions in the aviation sector are threatening to go on strike.</div><div><br></div><div>“We hope that this misunderstanding will soon be resolved so that we can have them out as their operation was legal.”<br></div>

Fed Govt in talks with Wike over detained pilots

The Federal Government is in talks with the Rivers State government over the detained Caverton Helicopter pilots, the Presidential Task Forc...

Buhari to make nationwide broadcast 7pm today

<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1v_iFNvFiacNcvAkvucDOimEobAB4-wl-HYkV7I4pKSM7-6vR4B0j7i4PJoZSgGShoH6I1_v6pBiZESIs_uY8XeeCJVlyx37qu-612JW9Unj6DYL51kMBT5ll-bvEVRTK0F1GP4BXauQf/s1600/nyjNvg-l_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1v_iFNvFiacNcvAkvucDOimEobAB4-wl-HYkV7I4pKSM7-6vR4B0j7i4PJoZSgGShoH6I1_v6pBiZESIs_uY8XeeCJVlyx37qu-612JW9Unj6DYL51kMBT5ll-bvEVRTK0F1GP4BXauQf/s1600/nyjNvg-l_400x400.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br></div><div>AS the two weeks lockdown declared by President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State expires today, the President will by 7pm address Nigerians on the next line of action.</div><div><br></div><div>There have been anxiety in many quarters whether the lockdown which was imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) would be extended or lifted.</div><div><br></div><div>A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina in Abuja, Monday said, “President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation Monday, April 13, 2020 at 7pm. “Television, radio and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) respectively for the broadcast.”</div>

Buhari to make nationwide broadcast 7pm today

AS the two weeks lockdown declared by President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State expires today, the President will by 7pm add...

LaLiga: Six Barcelona board members resign

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE07x2hMtFZeivPa7pRw-0zYW6LwjCPztrqF4JT_VHbW_PsnBtR-7qCDFMdz49lJzb0ZcT5yT0aCLLyNsTIWg9He5yYVkPGHmQpucWbrHb0BtTqS1mB7-RJewt1YPAhfDgDU2wQOelgM39/s1600/LaLiga-Six-Barcelona-board-members-resign-768x779.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE07x2hMtFZeivPa7pRw-0zYW6LwjCPztrqF4JT_VHbW_PsnBtR-7qCDFMdz49lJzb0ZcT5yT0aCLLyNsTIWg9He5yYVkPGHmQpucWbrHb0BtTqS1mB7-RJewt1YPAhfDgDU2wQOelgM39/s1600/LaLiga-Six-Barcelona-board-members-resign-768x779.png" width="315"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Six Barcelona board members have resigned from their respective positions.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_1" name="aswift_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">They informed club president, Josep Maria Bartomeu of their decision via a strongly-worded letter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">They are: Vice Presidents; Emili Rousand and Enrique Tombas; Directors – Silvio Elias, Maria Teixidor, Josep Pont and Jordi Clasamiglia.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_2_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_2" name="aswift_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">The group questioned the club’s leadership and asked for it to be reviewed as soon as possible.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“We hereby want to communicate that the undersigned managers have transferred to President Bartomeu; our decision to irrevocably resign from our position as managers of FC Barcelona,” part of the group’s letter read via La Vanguardia.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_3_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_3_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_3" name="aswift_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“We have reached this point by not being able to reverse the criteria and forms of management of the club in the face of the important challenges of the future and, especially, from the new post-pandemic scenario.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Bartomeu, who has been in charge since 2015, has come under fire lately for how he is handling the club.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_4_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_4_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_4" name="aswift_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Barca have already announced 70% pay cuts for their players amid the COVID-19 outbreak.</p></div></div>

LaLiga: Six Barcelona board members resign

Six Barcelona board members have resigned from their respective positions. They informed club president, Josep Maria Bartomeu of their decis...

5G not spreading coronavirus — WHO

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuHaNSvj6CvIbDENDFL2F6GFb9XcRH2QWflk7VLLRF-2SGCkqYbi75m-iU9_l6-NV86Ly3TgdUqAEzIwKRAWNUWoVeYLGjLLL0SvxQo6a5Tt5EulWQR_Bx3E-jeKnlshtRiOclN7iptAt/s1600/5G-not-spreading-coronavirus-%25E2%2580%2594WHO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="548" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuHaNSvj6CvIbDENDFL2F6GFb9XcRH2QWflk7VLLRF-2SGCkqYbi75m-iU9_l6-NV86Ly3TgdUqAEzIwKRAWNUWoVeYLGjLLL0SvxQo6a5Tt5EulWQR_Bx3E-jeKnlshtRiOclN7iptAt/s1600/5G-not-spreading-coronavirus-%25E2%2580%2594WHO.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory and declared that viruses cannot travel on radio waves or mobile networks.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">The organisation said in a statement yesterday that contrary to the theory, COVID-19 is a respiratory disease which is spread through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“People can also be infected by touching a contaminated surface and then their eyes, mouth or nose,” it said.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">WHO added that COVID-19 is spreading in many countries that do not even have 5G mobile networks.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">It also said being infected with the coronavirus does not mean that the person would be infected with the virus forever, adding that people recovered from the disease.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“Most COVID-19 infected persons can recover and eliminate the virus from their bodies.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“If you are infected by the disease, make sure you treat your symptoms.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“If you have cough, fever and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early, but call your health facility by telephone first.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“Most patients recover, thanks to supportive care,” WHO said.It added that exposure to the sun or to temperatures higher than 25C degrees would not prevent COVID-19.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">“You can be infected with COVID-19, no matter how sunny or hot the weather is. Countries with hot weather have reported cases of COVID-19,” the organisation noted.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">It said to be protected from the virus, people should ensure frequent and thorough hand washing and avoid touching the eyes, mouth, and nose.</div>

5G not spreading coronavirus — WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory and declared that viruses cannot travel on radio wave...

How COVID-19 shutdown saved lives in Ondo explosion

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl6YynlOFYGGpscy7zKSgJqQhsDUeaO8Z0DC5-EYunQ3hixr6uWeqR8cs-ecGefrAd8RC_vmHZ-XVLl23IB5t1R_EOUzteFkASJ91WaF0CQecXZIwyE9bODKl83nY8mmKsU0b10b3wdi0/s1600/How-COVID-19-shutdown-saved-lives-in-Ondo-explosion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl6YynlOFYGGpscy7zKSgJqQhsDUeaO8Z0DC5-EYunQ3hixr6uWeqR8cs-ecGefrAd8RC_vmHZ-XVLl23IB5t1R_EOUzteFkASJ91WaF0CQecXZIwyE9bODKl83nY8mmKsU0b10b3wdi0/s1600/How-COVID-19-shutdown-saved-lives-in-Ondo-explosion.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mrs Abiodun Fasheye, a widow, lives in a rented apartment at Eleyewo in Akure North Local Government Area. As a dedicated member of the Holy Promise Celestial Church located in the community, she rarely misses the all night service of the church every last Friday of the month. On April 27, she went with her five children to the all night service.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At about 1 am, however, there was an unusual occurrence. A deafening noise seized the atmosphere and the church roof collapsed on the worshippers. Luckily, she and her children were among the few lucky worshippers who escaped without injuries.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The story would have been totally different if they were at their rented apartment at the time the explosion occurred. The blast completely destroyed the apartment and there was the likelihood that the walls would have collapsed on them if they had slept in it.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_2_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_2" name="aswift_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The sleepy community had been jolted by an explosion caused by a truck conveying explosives only to develop a fault that sparked fire and then the blast on the Akure-Owo-Bénin highway. By the time the dust settled, it was discovered that more than 60 houses, including two churches and a boarding school, had been destroyed. The said school would have been in session if the state government had not ordered the closure of schools around the state to stem the spread of COVID-19.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The explosion had created a huge crater in the middle of the Akure-Owo highway, forcing the diversion of traffic to the old Bénin-Akure Road.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_3_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_3_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_3" name="aswift_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first words on the lips of most sympathisers at the scene were: “Thank God for coronavirus. But for the coronavirus outbreak and the consequent shutdown of public institutions, the boarding school would have been in session and the church opposite it would have been packed full of worshippers.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was gathered that the truck in question was coming from Ibadan, heading to Auchi in Edo State. The first truck hired by the firm that owned the explosives was said to have developed a fault, hence another truck was called in to convey the explosives to the quarry firm in Edo State.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_4_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_4_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_4" name="aswift_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In line with official procedure, policemen from the Explosives Ordinance Department were assigned to escort the truck to its destination. But when they arrived Shasha, a popular market in Akure, the truck developed a fault and they agreed to spend the night there.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The truck’s driver, Isiaka Yinusa, who at the time of writing was still recuperating from a surgical operation to remove shrapnel from his stomach, said he did not even know that he was carrying explosives because his boss did not tell him so. He recalled that one of the policemen woke him up and said they should leave Shasha because the truck was emitting smoke.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_5_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_5_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_5" name="aswift_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He said as he was moving the truck, the police escort riding behind him flashed and asked him to stop because of fire from the truck. He said they brought out fire extinguisher but all the efforts made to put out the fire failed. At that point, the policemen told them to flee as fast and as far as they could.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He said: “Suddenly, the policemen shouted, ‘Everybody, run! Everybody run!’ As I was running, I heard a bang and noticed something in my abdomen. That was all I knew until I woke up in the hospital.”</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_6_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_6_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_6" name="aswift_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An eyewitness, a truck driver conveying goods from Plateau to Ogun State, Mr. Richard Solomon, said he was saved by policemen at a checkpoint who asked him to stop a little distance from where the truck was parked.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Solomon said: “I saw everything. I was going to Ogun State and it was late. Policemen asked us to stop, I stopped but some vehicles disobeyed.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_7_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_7_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_7" name="aswift_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I saw a fire in the truck and few minutes later there was an explosion. I bent down but the thing shocked us. It shattered the windscreen of our truck.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Other cars that parked near us were also affected. The people inside were injured. There were pieces of iron along the road.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_8_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_8_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_8" name="aswift_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“After about 30 minutes, we went there and saw that the road had split in two. We waited till day break to see everything. We came to the hospital ourselves.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I did not see the driver of the truck that exploded. My boy was injured in the leg.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All the buildings in the said school were shattered. About 18 buildings inside the Possibility Prayer Mountain for All Nations church were destroyed because the blast occurred right in front of the church.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The founder of the church, Prophetess Olayemi Adesida Omo Oba Jesu, was in a prayer session when the explosion occurred, but she managed to come out unhurt while others sustained minor injuries.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mrs. Abiodun said she was inside the church with her children when they heard the bang and the church collapsed on them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She said: “It happened around 1 am. When we got outside, we saw people everywhere. We got home and saw that our building had collapsed and we thanked God that we were not at home. If we were at home, our house would have fallen on us. I am a widow and don’t have anybody to help me.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What perhaps destroyed many of the houses were shrapnel and scraps of the truck.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A widow, Mrs. Temilade Ganiyu, brought out a bucket of iron scraps that destroyed their house. She said a block fell on her while she was trying to run away.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She said they were inside the house when the bomb went off and their buildings collapsed, but nobody died.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another civil servant, Olaniyi Olukayode, told newsmen it was a tyre rim from the truck that fell on his house and destroyed it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He said: “The people saying it was not a bomb are fools. People have testified that a bomb exploded. What I gathered from my house has been collected by the police. I had spent N4 million on the house and now it is down.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We thought it was only our building. The truck’s propeller is inside the church. Our building has been destroyed. The effect broke my house into 10 parts. My daughter was also injured.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another eyewitness, Blessing Matthew, said: “We heard the sound while we were sleeping. We thought it was an attack but we came out and saw people outside.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We want the government to rebuild our houses. We heard the bomb that exploded is federal government property. They should come and build our houses.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mary Akiola said they had to shout for help when their walls collapsed. “The block hit us but we are okay. I was inside the room with five of my children,” she said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A special police investigation team set up by the Inspector General of Police and officials of the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) have begun investigation into the incident, following argument by the Head, Media and Corporate Communications of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr Felix Ale, that the explosion could be a natural phenomenon of a suspected fall of a meteor from an asteroid belt on great speed from space.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The NASRDA spokesman said the Space Agency was studying the situation and had deployed its team of experts to the site in Ondo State to carry out preliminary investigation to determine the cause of the incident.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Supporting the claims of NASRDA, a Research Professor in the Earthquake and Space Weather Laboratory at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Adepelumi Adekunle Abraham, noted that it sounded strange that the driver said he never knew that he was carrying explosives.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prof. Abraham said the amount of IEDs being conveyed should be released to the public to know if the “supposed vehicle was carrying between 894 to 1500 kg of EID.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He said: “If the momentum of the meteorite can be estimated, then energy released on impact can be calculated. The energy yield will have a particular waveform in form of Seismic Signal Strength recorded by a remote Seismometer (Teleseismics).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Now the government claims it was IED that made the crater. If the amount (in tonnes) of explosive can be declared by the government, then energy yield on detonation can be estimated. This energy yield from IED should have a different unique seismic signal strength recorded.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“As soon as the COVID-19 lockdown is over, the samples that we obtained would be sent to: President of the Division F “Planetary Systems and Astrobiology” of the International Astronomical Union for further analysis. I’m not giving up on this.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“At the the Akure crater site, the Nigerian Police said that it was caused by IED explosion, but I disagree based on what we saw on the field.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“On 27th March, 2020 at 12:57am, a bright fireball was observed over the city of Akure Nigeria and a big explosion with Sonic boom was heard about one minute later by many inhabitants.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“A circular crater with dimensions 21 m x 7.8 crater was found in the middle of the road within lateritic clay. The bedrock in the area is Granite and Migmatite Gneiss.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The Seismic station that is close to the site is 100km away. We have not been able to retrieve the data from this station because of COVID-19 lockdown.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We found water oozing out from the edges of the crater despite the fact it didn’t rain that day or previously in the area.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“A preliminary in situ vibration, noise, seismicity, water analysis, radioactivity studies, rock and soil investigation were carried out. No evidence of fire or burning of anything was found within the vicinity. No evidence of radioactivity radiation was found within the crater and immediate vicinity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We deduce from the field evidence that A METEORITE possibly impacted the area at hypervelocity at an angle of 43 degrees and created an ejecta at South-Western part. No evidence of buried vehicle, buried ordinance or IED was found.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“However, crack opening that vary in thickness from 3mm to 4metres occurs on the wall of most of the buildings that are within 500m radius from the centre of the crater but not at the base of the buildings. Also, foreign rocks and strange metallic objects were found within the crater.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Most of the destruction occurs on top and roof/ceilings of the buildings. Circular holes that measure between 1 to 2 inches were also created and observed on the screens of at least eight (8) cars that were parked nearby about 500m from the impact site.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The affected area has been condoned off but people are still having access to the site.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 231px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 231px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"></ins></ins></div></div>

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<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOyCAako5nR7vFhyzZwdrYjnMuwTUPjkzG-RWSoDKAwB2Hyg4wmzXg42F5w_nOAGPAC036AGkgYpHNppIrl8nwJ8iHJWj38L6l6QQJiQHlY9yKY_bZjQRKVsX-0sy54kLIYR7F8D87fL5/s1600/COVID-19-No-match-is-worth-risking-a-life-%25E2%2580%2593-FIFA-768x432.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOyCAako5nR7vFhyzZwdrYjnMuwTUPjkzG-RWSoDKAwB2Hyg4wmzXg42F5w_nOAGPAC036AGkgYpHNppIrl8nwJ8iHJWj38L6l6QQJiQHlY9yKY_bZjQRKVsX-0sy54kLIYR7F8D87fL5/s1600/COVID-19-No-match-is-worth-risking-a-life-%25E2%2580%2593-FIFA-768x432.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; display: block; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><br></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">FIFA President, Gianni Infantino has said that it would be more than irresponsible to restart competitions too early amid the coronavirus pandemic, stating that no match is worth risking a life for.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_1" name="aswift_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Infantino, who made this known on thursday through Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), said that sports has been brought to a halt due to the COVID-19 outbreak which has killed more than 95,500 people globally.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">He said “As our main priority, our principles, the ones we employ in our competitions and also we invite everyone to follow, is that health comes first.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_2_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_2" name="aswift_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“I cannot stress this enough. No match, no competition, or any league is worth risking any human life for.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“It would be more than irresponsible to resume the competitions if the situation is not 100 percent safe .</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_3_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_3_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_3" name="aswift_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">”If we have to wait a bit more,we must do it.It is safer to wait a bit more than taking risks.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">”Many bodies and leagues all over the world are set to face financial difficulties in the wake of COVID-19, particularly if games are cancelled or played behind closed doors.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 231px;"><ins id="aswift_4_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 231px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><ins id="aswift_4_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: block; border: none; height: 231px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 277px;"><iframe width="277" height="231" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_4" name="aswift_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; width: 277px; height: 231px;"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“Thanks to the work we have been doing together in FIFA during the last four years, we find ourselves in a very solid financial situation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">“It helps us to consolidate a solid base of important reserves, but our reserves are not FIFA’s money, it is the money of football.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2025320260836429" data-ad-slot="2516881077" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 249, 192); text-decoration-line: none; display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_5_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">”Given this, we are already collaborating with you to assess the financial impact to prepare the right answer.</p></div></h1></header></div>

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COVID-19: Cherubim And Seraphim Church Delivers God’s Message To Sanwo-olu On Lagos Lockdown

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioPEx8rwqiM4Rsg0HcIzjinVj6iHt6GdGF_dC-q6Faept4EnfyYb8ITv7T3f4pKt35b5mXD6xDBxBUo4QAJXt1xoAR6dTe1hdml9t0FTJqKKd-PxMZSw4kUkUw3oGUMa-yi0Z19z-1Jbvv/s1600/20200409231838_455171267_480_260_webp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="480" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioPEx8rwqiM4Rsg0HcIzjinVj6iHt6GdGF_dC-q6Faept4EnfyYb8ITv7T3f4pKt35b5mXD6xDBxBUo4QAJXt1xoAR6dTe1hdml9t0FTJqKKd-PxMZSw4kUkUw3oGUMa-yi0Z19z-1Jbvv/s1600/20200409231838_455171267_480_260_webp.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Lagos State section of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria has asked the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to loosen up the lockdown request from Friday through Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Administrator of the state section of the congregation, Snr. Supt. Witness Joseph Olatunde Adagba clarified that loosening up the lockdown request will empower the two Christians and Muslims do their profound obligations to God.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An announcement marked by the General Secretary of the congregation, Evangelist Rotimi Odugbesan, Adagba asserted that God has plans to rinse the place where there is all types of sicknesses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Adagba unveiled that God was prepared to notice to the voice of his kids in the event that they approach him starting from Friday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The announcement peruses: "Through heavenly mandate, God uncovered that the Coronavirus was a system of the demon to keep His youngsters from approaching Him right now, yet that opportunity has arrived that God needs to hear our supplications in regards to this infection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"In this way, God said that everybody, independent of race and religion ought to be permitted to assemble and approach Him from tomorrow (Friday) through Sunday and that He was prepared to tune in to their voices and remove the desolating Coronavirus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The Lagos State government ought to loosen up the lockdown orders so all offspring of God can approach Him in their mosques on Friday and their temples on Sunday."</div></div>

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<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs48fmbTzGO9pU4Eg8B-y-HWpPeAcVGGAmxm2_bF1mSPkF5wvF54QODpm6j4xWVFE2HuJL_xl9QVeMPLnE1PhKK9sQlR0k02mpXa7TV91XRGasT-H_G_O6Z9qrqi3slFDsxICk9gMhhvf0/s1600/20200403024208_-489392125_320_394_webp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs48fmbTzGO9pU4Eg8B-y-HWpPeAcVGGAmxm2_bF1mSPkF5wvF54QODpm6j4xWVFE2HuJL_xl9QVeMPLnE1PhKK9sQlR0k02mpXa7TV91XRGasT-H_G_O6Z9qrqi3slFDsxICk9gMhhvf0/s1600/20200403024208_-489392125_320_394_webp.jpg" width="259"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">A corp member named Hodo Bassey has done the unimaginable in Cross River as he took his 33,000 Corper allowance to the Cross River State Commissioners of Health to fight the Coronavirus Pandemic that have made the whole world to standstill.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">Dr Betta Edu, the Cross River Commissioner of Health received Hodo Bassey who wants to help fight the pandemic that has killed thousands of people in the world.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">While others are praising him for giving out the little he has to the government to fight the pandemic ,others who the kind gesture of the man as an act of foolishness for trying to help those who are supposed to be ones to help him.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">Others says, his 33k will not even add any meaningful achievement to the fighting of the pandemic as he just wasted a cash he should have used during this period of lock down and self Isolation.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">Cross River State is yet to record any case of Coronavirus while Akwa Ibom their neighbour, have 5 cases as of yesterday but Governor Ben Ayade has announced a total shutdown in the state to curb the spreading of the virus into the state.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">Nigeria record her first case of Coronavirus on February 27th in Lagos, ever since then, the figures has increased to 157 with 2 dead and 9 recovery as Lagos, Abuja and Osun States leads with the highest numbers of recorded cases.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">According to you, Did Hodo Bassey giving his one month allowance to the Commissioner of health a right thing to do or his act can be classified as a foolish one?</div>

NYSC member Gave His One Month Allowance To a Health Commissioner To Fight Coronavirus

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Coronavirus: Bronx Zoo tiger infected with COVID-19

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYObLfErzVJ5fAYtyq45Ea3alAq9ZzMNWf-szlK3xEJ934Tej6oNWwxyHy4cNSKbhoHdlXrJ-MDGd7yr5uHmgwnms0c_HiHqj_69xg2z6t-tywXCmGWJPXLeNfL0_9j8vzEF2gbwuARruG/s1600/XBSw6rPmNmTeRqWUAvf3ra-650-80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="650" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYObLfErzVJ5fAYtyq45Ea3alAq9ZzMNWf-szlK3xEJ934Tej6oNWwxyHy4cNSKbhoHdlXrJ-MDGd7yr5uHmgwnms0c_HiHqj_69xg2z6t-tywXCmGWJPXLeNfL0_9j8vzEF2gbwuARruG/s1600/XBSw6rPmNmTeRqWUAvf3ra-650-80.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><blockquote style="clear: both;"><i>It's the first animal in the U.S. to test positive for the novel coronavirus.</i></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">A 4-year-old tiger named Nadia at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for COVID-19, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today (April 5). New York City has been one of the hardest hit areas by the coronavirus in the U.S.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">This female Malayan tiger, along with six other big cats — including Nadia's sister Azul, two Amur tigers and three African lions — had all come down with a dry cough. Though these other cats weren't tested, the zoo is assuming they were also infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, due to their symptoms.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">"We tested the cat out of an abundance of caution and will ensure any knowledge we gain about COVID-19 will contribute to the world's continuing understanding of this novel coronavirus," the WCS, which operates the zoo, said in a statement.</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both;">A zoo caretaker with COVID-19 likely infected the cats before he or she developed any symptoms of the disease, the WCS said. Since then, preventive measures have been put into place for staff in order to prevent further exposure to the cats, the WCS said.</div>

Coronavirus: Bronx Zoo tiger infected with COVID-19

It's the first animal in the U.S. to test positive for the novel coronavirus. A 4-year-old tiger named Nadia at the Bronx Zoo in New Yor...

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