Nigerian Traviation

Trinity Church has lost General Overseer’s wife to Cardiac arrest. 

Wife of The General Overseer, Ibidun Ighodalo reportedly died of cardiac arrest Sunday morning.

Calls to her husband when the news broke confirm the news as true, as he admitted that he was with her family “at the moment”.

Traviation Online gathered that Ibidunni Ighodalo successfully ran her events company, Elizabeth R, as well as her foundation, Ibidun Ighodalo Foundation, a foundation designed to “bring joy to the hearts of couples through their fertility journey”.

Ibidunni was inspired to do humanitarian works on account of her own fertility journey, which led to the birth of her foundation, having personally gone through IVF 11 times.
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The Chairman, Youth Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Edward Obumneme has bemoaned the killings of three hundred and nine (319) Christians in the Northern part of the country.

Edward stated this in a statement tagged “Call For Media Action” issued to newsmen recently.

He said one hundred and seven (107) and eighty-two were killed in Kajuru, Kaduna state and Borno states respectively.

Obumneme added that seventy (70) souls and sixty lives wasted in sokoto and katsina respectively.

One Vick, a Nigerian lady who has cried out after a plastic surgery performed by controversial Nigerian doctor, Dr Anu Fella went wrong.

In the viral video, Vick who is not the first to cry out over a botched surgery done by Dr Anu recounted the challenges she’s been facing after the surgery.

She said she suffered complications shortly after the surgery she paid N1.6m for. After making a complaint of having a “reddish sign” on her left breast, the plastic surgery patient said she was placed on an injection which continued for 4 weeks.

However after this it was found that she had abscess in both of her breasts, which was drained off. This kept reoccurring and the lady who complained of spending all she had on the surgical process, said she is currently at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where doctors will also drain off the abscess in her breasts.

There is no doubt that blood donors are lifesavers; this is the reason the World Health Organization (WHO) chose to celebrate voluntary and unpaid blood donors all over the world every 14th of June for their selflessness and efforts to keep other people’s lives.

World Blood Donor Day seeks to create awareness about the need for regular blood donations because this donated blood and blood products help to give individuals and even communities, access to affordable and quality blood supplies whenever the need arises.

It is amazing to note that quite a number of people are still donating blood even during this period of the outbreak of the covid19 pandemic. The theme for this year’s celebration of World Blood Donor Day is “Safe blood saves lives” with the slogan “Give blood and make the world a healthier place”. This is to encourage more people all over the world to donate blood so that more lives can be saved.

Peace and Conflict Resolution Resource Centre (PEACrEc) celebrates all blood donors on this day for giving to save other people’s lives. We use this opportunity to join the WHO campaign to request that more people become Life Savers by donating blood because the peace we seek can be attainable when there are more Life Savers than Life takers.

The serving overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly,Tunde Bakare has said that’s the church he pastors will not be opened “until the coast is clear”.

Speaking at the second edition of the virtual 3Gz — Guys, Girls and God — session of the CGCC Legacy Youth Fellowship, Bakare said “government cannot shut the church, it can only shut a building,” stating that the church is marching on.

Bakare said he was in a virtual meeting with Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos and his team, where it was predicted that August would likely record lots of coronavirus cases in Lagos and Nigeria.

The pastor said the church is not about tithe and offerings but about edifying the people and fixing the challenges of the world.

According to him, he is in no rush to reopen a building, when services can be done virtually and more people can be reached with the “word of truth”.

Citing Genesis Chapter 8, Bakare said “Noah was on a lockdown for 150 days”, after which he sent out a raven to check if the water on the earth had receded.

Bakare added that “Noah was not trying to prove his anointing by coming out to swim in the flood” before the water had dried up, stating that Noah waited another 40 days after the 150 days before setting out.

He said that those who want to be the raven sent out to check the water can go out and check, but he is not ready to put the life of his people at risk to prove anything.

The 65-year-old gave an example of a choir in the United States which met for rehearsals and recorded transmission of the novel coronavirus disease among over 40 of its members and recorded some deaths after that meeting.

When asked when the church will reopen, he said with the projections by the government on when the disease would subside, he was looking at September or the end of the year.

“We are not opening till the coast is clear,” he said.

Bakare and the CGCC had given up their church halls as isolation centres to the Lagos and Ogun state governments in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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With the gesture, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the State had found a “real development partner” in FirstBank, noting that the intervention came at a time the Government was massively deploying technology to transform the conventional mode of teaching and learning.
The presentation of these devices which is also in partnership with Robert & John (an edu-tech company that owns Roducate) is part of activities implemented to close the gap caused by the disruption in children education’s due to schools’ closure, following the COVID-19 pandemic. So far the Bank has enabled over 10,000 free sign-ups to the Roducate e-learning platform with the goal to empower one million students.
“When we were developing our vision to change the face of education in Lagos, we knew from the outset that we could not achieve much progress in improving the quality of learning without using technology as a strong enabler. So, it is not out of place that we are witnessing more infusion of technology in learning and this intervention by FirstBank could not have come at a better time,” said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State.
“It feels great when you have people and organisations share in your vision and working with you to realise it. I’m glad to say that we have found a real development partner in FirstBank, which has supported us to actualise the vision we have signed to achieve. Many years back, nobody foresaw Coronavirus (COVID-19) would come and disrupt our ways of life. These devices will be useful to our pupils in the current circumstances we have found ourselves.”
“FirstBank and all technical partners that worked on this project have written their names in the heart of students that will be using the device to learn. They will be forever grateful for passing the future to them.”

The e-learning device is configured in line with the government’s accredited curriculum for primary, secondary and tertiary schools across various fields of academic endeavours, such as science, commercial and arts. It is built to promote cost-effective learning as there is minimal need for internet connectivity, whilst learning on the device is on-going.
Speaking on the presentation, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, Chief Executive Officer, First Bank of Nigeria Limited said “the e-learning initiative aligns with our Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability initiatives and falls under one of our key strategic pillars, Education.”
“We are excited to promote education and have consistently demonstrated this in our support of 10 universities and 3 secondary schools on infrastructure projects; our support of 10 universities with professorial Chairs and provision of financial literacy, entrepreneurial and career counselling to over 80,000 students in over 80 secondary schools in the country”, he added.
The Bank has also collaborated with IBM and Curious Learning to ensure the e-learning initiative swiftly moves across the country to school children and individuals with the need to promote the pursuit of knowledge, irrespective of age.
The partnership with IBM, offers the Digital-Nation Africa program, an online youth-focused learning programme that enables innovation and skills development on emerging technologies through focus areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Cloud, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Data Science and Analytics, and Cybersecurity whilst Curious Learning offers academic-based contents for students aged 3-8, using fun, self-guided learning apps to help them with their cognitive skills at a fundamental level. 
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