Balarabe Maikaba, a professor of mass communication, at Bayero University in Kano, is dead. A family source revealed this to TheCable.
Maikaba is reported to be the sixth professor to have died in one week in the state which has recorded massive deaths during the coronavirus pestilence.
Prominent among those that died in Kano on Saturday were Prof Ibrahim Ayagi, Dr Musa Umar Gwarzo, Alhaji Dahiru Rabiu (former Grand Khadi), Musa Tijjani (Editor of Triumph Newspaper) and Adamu Isyaku Dal, who was a former Executive Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board.
Others are Alhaji Salisu Lado, Hajiya Shamsiyya Mustapha, Hajiyaj Nene Umma, Alhaji Garba Sarki Fagge, Dr Nasiru Maikano Bichi, Secretary Student Affairs, North West University, Prof Aliyu Umar Dikko of Physiology Department, Bayero University Kano, and Ado Gwanja’s mother, among others.
Some residents of Kano are living in fear over the increasing death rate amid the coronavirus pandemic. The government has claimed that it investigates a reported sharp rise in deaths in the northern commercial city of Kano to determine if it is related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Nigeria has 1182 confirmed coronavirus cases, 73 of them in Kano state. The national death toll is 35.
Kano State is the most populous state in Nigeria. It is located in North West part of Nigeria. Created on May 27, 1967 from part of the Northern Region, Kano state borders Katsina State to the north-west, Jigawa State to the north-east, Bauchi State to the south-east and Kaduna State to the south-west. The capital of Kano State is Kano.
