Nigeria Releases N90 Billion As Hajj Fares Subsidy

The federal government has released a sum of N90 billion to subsidise the 2024 pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Daily Trust has learnt. An impeccable source within the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) revealed this to Daily Trust on Thursday. The source, who asked not to be named, noted that without this intervention, each of the intending pilgrims would have been requested to add at least N3.5 million to the initial fare which was pegged at N4.9 million. A top official at the Presidency also confirmed that…

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Platforms Schools Ota Fetes 512, Gives Free Medical Test, Drugs To 110

▪️ Chinese Study; You Do Not Know This Before: CMD Solomon Jayden speaks on hitherto unknown health benefits of fasting recently unveiled by Chinese researchers ▪️ Do not give up, Sheikh Abdul Majeed Eleha gives step-by-step of what to do when hope seems lost ▪️ Seven years of giving back without looking back, Platforms School’s Director talks on why giving back to the needy, indigent in the host community despite economic hardship is inevitable   The Platforms Schools Ota held its 7th annual Ramadan event on Saturday, March 30, where 512…

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Japa, Marriage, Sex and Money, By Funke Egbemode

“A wife left in Nigeria or posted abroad is expected to be faithful… Nonsense. Do women not also have libido?”         Letty was a good girl who became a good wife but the seasons changed and this once-upon-a-time choir leader, like Lot’s wife, looked back and right before the eyes of her Pastor and in the presence of her bewildered husband, is turning into a pillar of salt. The kind of salt no one wants to touch or taste. It was all the fault of this Japa…

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Alleged N5m Bribe To NUJ To Stop Aregbesola’s Award: My story, By Ismail Omipidan

“Yes, of truth, I placed a call to the NUJ National President…”         I deliberately did not want to lump this with my response yesterday to the lies against my person by Osun Defender and some of its staff so the essence is not lost. Like I said yesterday, most of the guys around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola lie with impunity. They make bogus claims and pass them as truth. Wale Alabi, one of the megaphones of Aregbesola was the first to make this allegation about three years…

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