Thursday, May 7, 2020

10 Persons Associated With Lagos House Test Positive For COVID-19

 

  Ten persons associated with the Lagos State House in Marina have tested positive for COVID-19. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, revealed this through his Twitter handle on Thursday.

“However, 10 persons associated with Lagos State House in Marina have tested positive to COVID-19”. The Health Commissioner called on Lagosians to observe the precautionary measures such as social distancing, washing of hands with soaps, and use of hand sanitizers.

Fresh $319m (N121bn) Abacha loot in UK, France- US



   Barely a week after helping to repatriate $311m (N118bn) stolen by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, the United States says there is a separate $319m (N121bn) Abacha loot in the United Kingdom and France.

  The US Embassy in Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday that there is $167m in stolen assets in France while there is a separate $152m in the UK which is being challenged in court.

The statement read in part, “The funds returned last week are distinct and separate from an additional $167m in stolen assets also forfeited in the United Kingdom and France, as well as $152m still in active litigation in the United Kingdom.”

Juventus Star Dybala Recovers From Coronavirus After Testing Positive Four Times

   
    Juventus forward Paulo Dybala has fully recovered from coronavirus, the Serie A giants have announced. Dybala confirmed on March 21 that he and his girlfriend, Oriana Sabatini, had contracted the deadly coronavirus.

   The Argentine, who has previously failed four tests, will no longer be subject to home isolation, after undergoing a double check on Wednesday.
A statement from Juventus reads: “Paulo Dybala performed, as per protocol, a double check with diagnostic tests (swabs) for Coronavirus-Covid 19, which came back with negative results. The player has, therefore, recovered and will no longer be subjected to the home isolation regime.”

     Reacting to the news, Dybala added on social media: “Many people talked in the past weeks… but I can finally confirm that I am healed.

Federal Government, States Will Feed School children At Home

 
 Minister for humanitarian affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has insisted that the federal government in conjunction with States would go ahead with the feeding of school children in their respective homes since schools have been shut down.

She made this known on Wednesday while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. “We have made progress in the overhauling of the homegrown school feeding programme and sensitisation has already begun in the three frontline states of Ogun, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory for implementation.

“The overhauling was sequel to a March 29, 2020 directive by Mr President to identify modalities and continuation of the school feeding programme during the COVID-19 pandemic in the lockdown states as of then.”

I killed them because of N4m - Leader of kidnapping gang that killed three UNIPORT, RSU students tells police

 
 
   The Rivers state police command has paraded five suspected killers of three University students in the state. The undergraduates were kidnapped on April 7 2020. After an extensive investigation, the suspects were arrested and one of them led security operatives to the shallow grave where the three students were buried. Briefing journalists at the police headquaters in Port Harcourt, Commissioner of police, Joseph Gobum Mukan said the three victims were kidnapped at Choba.

     Mukan said one AK-47, three magazines and 72 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the kidnappers. Leader of the gang, Bright Iheachi, who led police to the arrest of other gang members, said he ordered the killing because one of the victims ran away with his N4 million. He said the initial target was Nelson Nwafor who he claims betrayed him and fled to Ghana with his N4 million share of an undisclosed deal they struck last year.

    He said he organized for Nelson to be kidnapped. However, on the day of the abduction, Nelson was with Fortune and Joy who were then abducted along with him.  “I was the person that ordered my colleagues to kill the three of them, but it was Nelson that I had wanted them to kill, but I later changed my mind and decided that the three of them be killed” he said.

    Mr Bright Obemba, the distraught father of late Fortune, said the boy was his only son. He said no amount of money given to him would bring back his son. President Buhari has since condemned the attack and has ordered that justice must be served.

 


Kano Commissioner who was sacked for 'celebrating' Abba Kyari's death tests positive for Coronavirus

   

    Engineer Muaz Magaji, the Kano State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructures Development who was sacked after being accused of "celebrating" the death of late Chief of staff to the President, Abba Kyari, has tested positive for Coronavirus. 
   
     LIB reported earlier that Kano Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba said Magaji was sacked over his “unguarded utterances against the person of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari" who died from Coronavirus complications.  In what seems to be a twist of event, Magaji has now announced the outcome of his Coronavirus test to his over 23,000 followers on Facebook. He further revealed that he has been moved to one of the isolation centres in the state.

 

He wrote; 

 

This morning my NCDC test is out... I have been confirmed Covid-19 Positive... And have been moved to one of the state facilities...pray for us!

Going through a historical moment of our time... A time we will either live to remember or we will be remembered having lived in! Which ever applies Alhamdulillah!

Thank you all!
Its our collective fight!
Those you know and many that you don't know are in this.... But together we will come out stronger.. Insha Allah!

 

Ekiti to prosecute soldier’s wife for bringing covid-19

  Ekiti State Government has said it will prosecute the soldier’s wife who came into the state from Katsina State with covid-19 despite the lockdown order and prohibition of inter-state movement.

   The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said on Wednesday that the woman who came to visit her husband had committed an offence and would face prosecution. Yaya-Kolade said, “Though it was the husband who alerted us, it is an offence against the state and the Ministry of Justice will take appropriate actions against her at the right time.”

  She said the woman’s husband who was her only main contact had been quarantined for 14 days in line with the World Health Organisation guidelines. The state government also said it had arrested 10 people and had kept them in quarantine following measures to prevent coronavirus spread in the state.

   The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Health, Dr Jimlas  Ogunsakin, said seven of them returned to the state from Kano State. He said three others who are women forcibly entered the state. Ogunsakin, who made the revelation in Ado Ekiti during an update on COVID-19 in Ekiti on Wednesday, said the women would be prosecuted.

   He said,  “We got several tip-offs from people and we acted on them. The Kano returnees came to Adeparusi Estate in Adebayo and some came to Atinkankan area. We got the information from the public and we got them arrested and they were quarantined immediately.”

Yobe health ministry’s director dies at isolation centre

 

  Alhaji Muazu Brahji, a Director, Human Resources with Yobe State Ministry of Health, has died at the state specialist hospital isolation centre in Damaturu

   A brother to the deceased, Yau Ubaliyo Abubakar, who confirmed the development said that late Brahji was taken to the isolation facility on Tuesday.

On whether the deceased was confirmed to be positive for COVID-19 before he died, Abubakar disclosed that his sample was taken and currently awaiting the result.

Yobe is among the states without a testing centre for OVID-19; as such, most of the samples collected are taken to either Abuja or Borno for testing.

COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 150,000 In Europe


     The number of people killed by the new coronavirus in Europe has surpassed 150,000, most of them in Britain, Italy, Spain and France, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources at 0910 GMT Thursday.

Kano Discharges Three COVID-19 Patients, Records Five More Deaths

   Three persons who earlier tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kano State have recovered from the disease.