National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON)The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has appealed to Islamic clerics (Ulama) to be in the forefront of the spiritual fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the commission, Alhaji Zikrullah Hassan, made the appeal at a meeting with Ulama, held at Hajj House, on Monday in Abuja. x
He said the meeting was organised to enable NAHCON interact and intimate clerics on its vision and activities as well as seek advice of the clerics on Hajj matters.
Hassan emphasised the need for clerics to sustain enlightenment on risk factors associated with COVID-19 pandemic with a view to curtail the spread of the virus.
DIALOGUE WITH NIGERIA BY AKIN OSUNTOKUN
Pastor Tunde Bakare is in a near impossible situation-that of balancing his personal relationship with Major General Muhammadu Buhari with the obligation of his bully pulpit as a liberation theologian and social critic. He was caught in the Buhari web when their paths crossed in the 2011 presidential election where he paired with then candidate Buhari on the platform of the defunct Congress for Peoples Change (CPC). He caught national attention lately with his biblically themed ‘let my people go’ sermon at the Citadel church.
Bakare had prescribed to Buhari the adoption of the restructuring agenda as a systemic policy response to the imploding political crisis plaguing the nation. Buhari’s response was typical and predictable-‘we don’t know what the advocates mean by restructuring’. The Pastor then reminded him of the masterplan on restructuring he presented to him in his first week in office as president. To educate the presiden