Lagos state confirms two more COVID-19 deaths

 

  The Lagos State government has confirmed the death of two more coronavirus patients at its isolation centres in the state. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Professor Akin Abayomi, announced this while giving an update on the disease.

President Buhari’s personal bodyguard dies

     The Presidency, on Tuesday, announced the death of one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal bodyguards, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato.

   Mato, according to a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, succumbed to diabetes, which he had struggled with in the last three years, on Tuesday.

Guinean government secretary general dies of coronavirus

    A top government official in Guinea and close ally of President Alpha Conde has died from the novel coronavirus, the government said on Sunday.

   Sekou Kourouma, who was secretary general of the government and a former minister, was taken ill last week and died in Conakry on Saturday. “Several senior state officials (have died) as a result of complications related to Covid-19,” the government said in a statement.

Sacked Kano commissioner opens up on Abba Kyari

 

  Sacked Kano State Commissioner for Works, Mu’azu Magaji has opened up on his sack and denied that he celebrated the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari.

   Magaji was sacked on Saturday by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for allegedly celebrating the death of Abba Kyari. In several, now deleted, FaceBook posts, Magaji gloated over Kyari’s demise, describing it as freedom for Nigeria.

  “Win win… Nigeria is free and Abba Kyari has died in the epidemic… the death of a martyr… if he is a believer, the person is complete,” Magaji wrote.

  In a subsequent post, the commissioner said the office of the chief of staff to the President is too powerful and it should be broken into two.

“For the good of Nigeria and Mr President… The CoS office should be split… A PPS (principal private secretary) and a humble manager of his office as CoS… It is currently too powerful for a non-elected official.” However, he issued a statement on Sunday on his Facebook page, saying he never celebrated the death of Abba Kyari.

“Assalamualaikum, dear people of Kano and Nigeria at large, I want to sincerely clear up what a lot of people may have misunderstood and set the record straight. As a Muslim and a patriotic Nigerians, I was only misunderstood by people to think that I celebrated Kyari’s death, the truth is I did not.

Ondo Index Case Recovers, Tests Negative For Coronavirus

  The index case of coronavirus in Ondo State has recovered from the disease, the state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has announced.