Eid prayers amid COVID-19 lockdown
By Yasir Qadhi In those communities where the masjids have not yet opened, Salat al-Eid should be prayed in one’s houses with one’s own family, and there is no need for a khutbah. “The Eid prayer is not the same as the Friday prayer, as Friday prayer has different conditions and rulings. While the general […]
COVID-19: Tourism associations offer hotels for isolation centres in Lagos
….As govt mulls soft-landing for practitioners By Olaunkanmni Akoni The Federation of Tourism Association, Lagos State Chapter has concluded plans to make hotel accommodations available to Lagos State Government as isolation centres for COVID-19 patients in the state. This came as State Government has assured practitioners in the tourism sector of palliatives that would help […]
BREAKING: Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases exceed 5,000
By David Royal The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has now exceeded 5,000 on Thursday night. Announcing the new development, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country on Thursday, recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 5,162. The NCDC also said that […]
Fourth US meat inspector dies of coronavirus
A US government meat inspector died this week from coronavirus, the fourth fatality of a food safety official in the outbreak that has shuttered some slaughterhouses, union officials said Thursday. The US Department of Agriculture food safety inspector was from Dodge City, Kansas, said a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees. The other […]
US presses China on Panchen Lama 25 years after disappearance
The United States on Thursday renewed calls on China to free the Tibetan identified 25 years earlier as the Panchen Lama and warned Beijing not to see the episode as a model for handling the Dalai Lama’s succession. On May 14, 1995, the exiled Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate with a wide global following, recognized […]
Satellite operator, Intelsat, files for bankruptcy, seeks to restructure
Global satellite operator Intelsat filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, citing disruption from to its business from the virus pandemic, in a move aimed at restructuring its operations. The filing in the United States (US) bankruptcy court in Virginia listed more than $16 billion in debt. The company said in a statement it was “managing […]
