President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has urged Muslims to reflect on the lessons of the just concluded holy month of Ramadan fast.
He gave this charge on Sunday after he observed the Eid-el-Fitr prayers at his State House residence in Abuja in adherence to the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
BUHARI explained that his decision was in compliance with the measures put in place by the PTF which prohibited mass gatherings.
The President was joined at the prayers by family members, including his wife, AISHA.
The total Coronavirus cases in Nigeria has risen to 7, 839 as the NCDC announced new 313 infections in 16 states and the FCT.
Of the news cases announced Lagos accounted for the highest number of infections for the day with 148 cases.
36 were recorded in the FCT, 27 in Rivers, Edo with 19, Kano 13, Ogun 12, Ebonyi 11, Nasarawa and Delta with 8 cases each, Oyo 7, Plateau 6, Kaduna 5, Kwara 4, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa with 3 new cases each, Niger 2 and Anambra 1.
So far 2, 263 patients have been discharged with the nation’s recording 226 deaths from the virus.
Nigerians who have properties abroad and refusing to pay taxes on them risk prosecution by Federal Government.
The Minister of Justice, ABUBAKAR MALAMI (SAN), who gave this hint also said that any bank or intermediary that helped a Nigerian citizen to shield such properties would pay a fine equivalent of the cost of the property.
MALAMI in a statement signed by his Spokesman, UMAR GWANDU, explained that the federal government is effecting the action based on the Executive Order 008 as amended.
The order, which operates through the Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularisation Scheme, is targeted at Nigerian citizens resident in Nigeria but own properties in foreign jurisdictions.
The AGF said that in order to ensure seamless exchange of information, the scheme would work closely with the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit.
The federal government has urged Nigerians to be cautious during the celebration of the Eidel-Fitri in order to avoid the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.
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Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, BOSS MUSTAPHA stated this in Abuja at the daily briefing by the Task Force.
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He believes that admonition becomes very critical as the country prepare for celebrations at the end of the month-long Ramadan fast.
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BOSS MUSTAPHA also cautioned Nigerians against self medication.
On his part, the Minister of Health, Dr OSAGIE EHANIRE, disclosed that government planned to deploy psychologists in isolation centres soon.
According to him, this was to give necessary support to COVID-19 patients, who risk depression after spending a long period at the isolation centres.
Also speaking, the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, said the task force was reluctant to adopt home treatment it once proposed because of conditions under which Nigerians live.
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