Bill Gates pledges $100 million to combat corona virus crisis

 

   The pledge from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation includes up to $20 million that will immediately go toward detecting, isolating and treating the deadly virus with the goal of containing it, the Seattle-based charity said Wednesday. The foundation said those funds will go to “multilateral” bodies such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, which on Wednesday called for $675 million to help address the virus internationally.

FIRS moves to block $10bn tax leak by multinationals

     Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has launched an initiative to block multinational corporations from siphoning $10 billion from Nigeria.

  The agency is also targeting a minimum of N8.5trillion tax this year, its executive chairman, Mr. Muhammad Nami, said on Friday. The $10billion is the amount which the African Union Illicit Financial Flow Report said Nigeria was losing.

  But speaking at the opening of the 2020 Corporate Plan Retreat in Abuja on Friday, Nami said he had embarked on a comprehensive tax collection reform process “anchored on four cardinal pillars of rebuilding FIRS’ institutional framework; robust collaboration with stakeholders; building a customer or taxpayer-centric institution; and making the FIRS data-centric institution.”

Pangolin identified as potential link for Coronavirus spread across china

   The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said Friday.

  Researchers have long suspected that the virus, which has now killed more than 630 people and infected some 31,000, was passed from an animal to a human at a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.

EFCC arrests seven suspected fraudsters for bitcoin

   Seven suspected internet fraudsters were on Thursday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal for bitcoin scam.

  EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, in a statement said the suspects were identified as Kufre Miller Okoh, Joshua Tom, Emmanuel Ekpuk Anderson, Pascal Alisiri, Chimezie Umungalaen, Clinton Alisiobi and Joshua Onuigbo.

Topic: He Left Judaea [Andrew Wommack 8 February 2020 Devotional]

Topic: He Left Judaea [Andrew Wommack 8 February 2020 Devotional]
John 4:1,3, “When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized disciples more than John…He left Judaea.”

Text: MT. 4:12; MK. 1:14; JN. 4:1-3

This is an interesting passage of scripture. On the surface, it might look like Jesus was running from a fight. Now that John the Baptist was out of the way (he had been imprisoned), it was inevitable that the Pharisees would attack Jesus.

One thing we can be sure of is that there was no fear on our Lord’s part. On other occasions He demonstrated that no one could do anything to Him if He didn’t allow it (Lk. 4:29-30; Jn. 7:30, 44-46; 8:20, 59; 10:39).

Therefore we can assume that Jesus left because He knew it was God’s will. On another occasion when His half brothers dared Him to go to Jerusalem and confront the Pharisees, He told them that it wasn’t time for Him to go yet (Jn. 7:1-6). A lesser man would have been intimidated into showing His superiority.