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.