The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed that they have spent 31 billion Naira to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country in the past four months.

According to Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Institution, the amount spent by far represents 84% of the N36.3 billion public funds and donations received between April 1, 2020 and July 31, 2020.

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The FG released a statement in response to the Freedom of Information request dated August 10, 2020, and sent to him by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Connected Development (CODE), it was gathered that there is now a balance of N5.9 billion from the donation.

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Kolawole Oluwadare, Deputy Director of SERAP and Hamzat Lawal, Chief Executive of CODE , in a letter dated September 4, 2020 addressed to the Account General, lamented that his office did not provide a breakdown on how the money was spent.

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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has tagged pastors who have refused to open their churches despite the government easing restrictions in this COVID-19 as fake saying they have never been a believe.

Founder of Christ Embassy in a service said, “if you refuse to open church for fear of being infected, you were never a believer.”

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Pastors like Tunde Bakare, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, are yet to reopened their worship centers despite ban on church service have been lifted by government.

“This is a great concern because there were churches that were thought to be churches until recently. We find a lot of ministers who were thought to be advocates of the gospel advocating for shutting down the churches. (Because they cannot guarantee safety).

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“It is pressure like this that reveals what is a church and what is not. Do they really believe in God, the same God of the patriarchs in the Bible?

“I have laid hands on some of the most infectious people on earth and had no fear of being infected. The Word of God guarantees life in Christ.

“When you get to that point where you are afraid of opening churches for fear of being infected, you have denied the faith. You never believed,” he said.

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Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus worldwide, Nigeria has recorded over 25,000 cases with daily rise in the numbers.

The country was ranked third most affected country coming right after Algeria and Egypt and has also seen massive recoveries and some deaths.

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Among the many affected citizens of Nigeria are some celebrities and high profile people, including five state governors. Below is a list of Nigerian state governors who have tested positive of the deadly viral disease.

On March 24th, Bauchi state Governor Bala Abdukadir Mohammed tested positive for Coronavirus. He was reported to have self isolated after having contact with the son of Atiku Abubakar who tested positive for the virus.

Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the state governor of Kanduna announced himself as the second governor to test positive for the virus on March 28. He disclosed in avideo shared on his social media page that he is responding to treatment and was in self-isolation.

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Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde was said to be among governors who attended National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja where he met with other governors after which the Nigerian Governor’s Forum (NGF) advised its members who attended the Abuja meeting to go into self- isolation or undergo COVID-19 test.

On 30th March, the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde disclosed that he tested positive to the disease to become the third governor to have fall victim of the novel coronavirus.

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Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, tested positive for the COVID-19 infection on July 8th. He made this public in a statement. It is believed that the governor is still positive to the virus.

The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, became the fifth governor in Nigeria to have tested positive for COVID-19. The governor revealed this in a broadcast on June 30th, adding that he is yet to show any symptom.

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Nigeria has recorded 452 new infections in the country on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 pushing the total infected persons to 21,371 cases.

Lagos State has the most with 9,073 followed by FCT and Kano with 1,605 and 11,90 respectively.

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According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), 209 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, Oyo-67, Delta-37, Ogun-36, FCT-22, Abia-20, Enugu-16, Bauchi-15, Kaduna and Ondo-8, Osun-7, Imo-3 and Benue-3 and Borno recorded only 1.

The good news is, 7, 338 patients have been discharged from various Isolation centers across the country, while 533 deaths have sadly been recorded.

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Maven Nigerian-based American broadcaster, Dan Foster, was reported dead on Wednesday June 17. Until his death, Foster was married to Lovina and they have a son and daughter together.

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Daniel ‘Dan’ Foster, who is popularly known as The Big Dawg was formerly a judge on the 2007 “Idols West Africa” and a judge on “Nigeria’s Got Talent” alongside Kate Henshaw and Yibo Koko.

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Before his death, Foster worked with numerous radio stations including Cathy Hughes Radio One, Mix 106.5 both in America, and Virgin Island-based WTBN, before moving to Nigeria in 2000 where he joined Cool FM.

According to a Nurse who claims she worked at the hospital he received care, the OAP died from coronavirus. Dan Foster’s wife also confirmed the news saying her husband died from Coronavirus.

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