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  S A health worker is seen wearing a PPE amid the COVID-19 pandemic.   The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has decried the deadly COVID-19 second wave, saying that almost all doctors at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan are infected with the virus. NARD Vice President, Adejo Arome ,  disclosed this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television. “It is so disheartening that the number of health workers being infected with COVID-19 is increasing daily and it seems nothing is being done to reduce this number,” he said. “Apart from that, almost all the doctors in the University College Hospital (UCH), Paediatric Department are affected. It is like that every day.” He said the situation has dampened the morale of medical practitioners in the country, noting that most doctors in clinical practice risked being hit with COVID-19. While calling on the relevant authorities to provide medical workers with Personal Protective Equipment, Aromo noted that most pa

          The Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has declared that the National Peace Committee (NPC) as Kukah’s initiative has lost credibility among Nigerians. MURIC spoke on the heels of the revelation by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that NPC is a personal initiative of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah.     MURIC’s statement which was circulated to the media on Friday, 22 nd  January, 2021 was signed by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola.     The statement reads:   “We received the information supplied yesterday by the Vice Chairman (Northern Region) of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. John Hayab, with great relief. The CAN Vice Chairman revealed that the National Peace Committee (NPC) is a non-governmental group convened by Bishop Kukah himself.     “This information is hidden from the public as NPC website merely says, ‘The National Peace Committee is an initiative conceptualized in 2014 in resp

            Sokoto lost an industrious son yesterday as the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Abdulkadir Jeli Abubakar III, died after a protracted illness. The deceased was a junior brother to the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar.     Meanwhile a faith-based human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commiserated with the Sultan on the loss of his brother. In a press release signed by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola, MURIC described the commissioner’s death as sunset at dawn.   “We are deeply saddened by the death of our leader’s junior brother, Alhaji Abdulkadir Jeli Abubakar III, the commissioner for Home Affairs in Sokoto State. Though it is sunset at dawn, we take solace in the inevitability of death as a major philosophy in Islam. We condole His Eminence the Sultan and President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic