Author: Ishaq

An official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has tested positive for the coronavirus in Bauchi State.

Armed bandits have attacked some communities in Safana, Danmusa and Dutsinma Local Government Areas of Katsina State in early morning of Saturday. The armed bandits have killed 47 persons, injured numerous others and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira.

A report by the Nation has revealed that Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, neither consulted the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the campaign against COVID-19 nor the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) before opting for personal treatment in Lagos.

Yobe State Police Command has announced the arrest of a man who has been identified as Ba’ari Abacha, for allegedly cutting off his wife’s right hand.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, stated that it has traced and quarantined all those that participated at the burial of Abba Kyari that took place at Gudu Cemetery in Abuja yesterday.

Provisional modelling by WHO has indicated that Coronavirus cases in Africa could shoot up from just thousands now to 10 million within three to six months, a regional World Health Organization (WHO) official said.

The presidency announced on Friday the death of Kyari who died as a result of complications related to Coronavirus.

Indeed, death is inevitable and it is no respecter of class, position, status, qualification, experience, wealth, age, gender, religion or region. As the saying goes, the condition of coming is going. Abba Kyari has come and gone.

This was announced by Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Basir Ahmad via his Twitter handle.

Niyi Abegunde, a painter has been arrested for killing a 69-year-old woman Evangelist, Grace Ajibola, in Oluyole Estate, Ibadan Oyo State.

Abba Kyari was from Borno State and Kanuri by tribe. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick, England, in 1980. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Law from the University of Cambridge, England and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1983.

Three Coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospital in Kaduna state. This was announced on Friday evening by Amina Mohammed-Baloni, commissioner for health in the state.

Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari had directed the suspension of Friday prayers at all Jumu’at Mosques in the state with effect from next week. The governor also suspended the annual Ramadan public ‘Tafsir’, and ‘Tarawiy’ (Ramadan night prayers) in mosques and all other centers and public places throughout the state.

Reliable sources revealed that Professor Habib’s test result was one of the 12 released on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health in Kano. Meanwhile, he is on admission at the state isolation centre at Kwanar Dawaki.

Dr Akintunde Ogunfeyimi, the chief medical director of Ondo State Specialist Hospital, Okitipupa, has admonished Nigerians against too much consumption of alcoholic drinks and herbal concoctions.

Motor accident along Maiduguri road by Lahadin Makole, Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area of Kano State has claimed the lives of persons, according to a reliable source.

A revelation has been made by Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director-General that every state in Nigeria will have its share of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pestilence.

Boko Haram fighters have welcomed the Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Tukur Buratai by launching an attack on the Army Special Super Camp at Ngamdu, a border town between Borno and Yobe where he relocated.

It was revealed by medical experts that marijuana/weed smokers, people with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other chronic lung diseases, as well as people with moderate to severe asthma, are among those at high risk for severe complications after getting infected with Coronavirus.

A 46-year-old mother, her 18-year-old son and one other has been nabbed by Niger State Police Command for abducting and attempting to sell a four-year-old boy in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State.

Kano State Ministry for Health has confirmed twelve new cases of coronavirus. It also confirmed first death in the state from the virus.