The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has revealed that most Coronavirus patients died away from the approved isolation centre, including some who died while on their way to the hospital.
The commissioner for Health at a press briefing to give situation report on COVID19 in Lagos on Sunday said only two put of 14 coronavirus patients have died in the state’s isolation centre.
According to Prof. Akin Abayomi, those who died on their way to the hospital were avoiding the state’s isolation centre.
Abayomi had announced that an 83-year-old woman died of coronavirus in Lagos state on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 14.
The commissioner said, “Out of the 14 fatalities we’ve had, only two of them have happened in our Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba and these two are examples of cases that were presented to us in a very late stage where it is very little we could do to save their lives.
“Most of them have died either en route to the hospital or in private facilities where they have been trying to avoid coming to our isolation facilities.”
He added that early presentation of COVID-19 symptoms by patients would help provide the best opportunity for them to survive the infection.
Thousands of Ghanaians took to the streets to celebrate after President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted the 21-day lockdown in the country, due to the nov Coronavirus.
The government lifted the lockdown of its biggest cities after the restrictions bought the government enough time to improve its preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic.
Residents of the capital, Accra, and major centers will be allowed to return to work from Monday even though other restrictions such as school closures and a ban on sport and religious meetings remain in place, Akufo-Addo said.
The news drew wild celebrations in the country, as Ghanaians took to the street to rejoice.
Tom and Jerry director Gene Deitch has died at the age of 95. The Oscar winner passed away on Thursday night at his apartment in Prague in the Little Quarter area.
His Czech publisher Petr Himmel said he died "unexpectedly", according to The Associated Press.
Gene, whose full name was Eugene Merrill Deitch, directed 13 episodes of Tom and Jerry and several episodes of the series Popeye.
The animator and illustrator won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Munro in 1960.
He was then nominated for the same award twice in 1964 for his movies Here's Nudnik and How to Avoid Friendship.
Foodstuff dealers under the auspices of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria, AUFCDN, have accused the Nigerian Police Force of extortion on highways.
This was made known by the National President, AUFCDN, Muhammad Tahir, in a chat with Vanguard over the challenges his members face daily while transporting foodstuff and livestock to various markets in the country.
According to Tahir complain has been made to the Police due to pressure and delay they allegedly receive from officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force on highways in the southern part of the country.
He further stated that the alleged action by the police and multiple taxations his members face has led to an increase in prices of foodstuff, hence making it difficult for people to afford.
He said: “We have received many complaints from our members who are transporting foodstuff from North to South-south that officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force enforcing the government’s lockdown order on highways are collecting money from them despite the President in his national broadcast specifying group of people exempted from the lockdown and stay-at-home.
“We have reached the Assistant Inspector General Police in charge of South-South, South-East and South-West on the issue of extortion by officers and men of the Force who promised to look into the matter.
“We are also appealing to the Police to look into these complaints from our members and stop this illegal collection of money from our members who are exempted from the lockdown order because if not it will lead to high prices and there will be hunger in the land.
“Already hunger has started because many Nigerians can’t afford the prices on foodstuff because we include money we give police as part of our cost while selling foodstuff in the market. Then we also have the problem of double taxation. It is affecting our business.”
Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama had disclosed in his tribute to Abba Kyari that both of them have been friends for about 40 years, and that the late Chief of staff to the President was his Best Man at his wedding.
This throwback photo goes to show that they have a long history together.
A personnel of Kano Road Transport Agency (KAROTA), identified as Umar Yakub Mohammed, has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling a teenager.
He was allegedly caught pants down by a police personnel on guard duty behind Ado Bayero mall.
Mohammed was part of the security operatives enforcing the lockdown in the state. He was said to have picked the girl, 15, at Kano line motor Park where he was stationed.
The suspect, however, denied the offence, saying he only offered to assist and take the girl to her house behind the trade fair complex but stopped to urinate where the Policeman caught them.
The girl, however, confirmed that the suspect had a carnal knowledge of her. Some of the residents in the neighbourhood said it was not the first time the suspect was seen with the girl on a motorcycle around the area.
According to Daily Trust, both the suspect and the victim are in detention at Kwali division of Kano metropolis. When contacted, the spokesman of Kano police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said he had not been briefed about the incident.
Two new deaths have been recorded from the dreaded Coronavirus in Akwa Ibom state and Borno state, in the south-south and north-east of Nigeria.
The two deaths reportedly occured on Sunday.
According to data from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), with the two new fatalities, 21 persons have so far died from coronavirus-related complications in Nigeria.
Other states that have recorded fatalities from COVID-19 are Lagos – 13, one each in Edo, Katsina, Kano, and Delta, with two in the FCT, Abuja.
The NCDC added, “A multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre, activated at Level three, continues to coordinate the national response activities.”
Lagos State Government has reassured residents of its commitment to protect lives and property, stressing that the responsibility will not be compromised.
The re-assurance came just as the State Police Command, acting on the orders of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, stepped up its surveillance, following the panic generated by threat letters purportedly written to some communities by a faceless criminal group - “One Million Boys”.
The group allegedly threatened that it would carry out armed robbery attacks in some listed neighbourhoods.
The police described the group as “non-existent”, adding that it had strengthened its surveillance across neighbourhoods.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, who led squadrons of anti-robbery policemen to various tension-soaked communities on Friday, allayed residents’ fear, saying the criminal gang called “One Million Boys” had been disbanded in several operations.
Odumosu said a new set of criminally minded people may be hiding under the gang’s name to scare the public, but he assured all that the police, in conjunction with other security agencies, would neutralise such threat.
Already, sources tell Olu Famous Blog that some arrests have been made and the suspects are providing useful information.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that the use of face masks can pose a risk of Coronavirus infection, if certain precautions are ignored.
NCDC explains that when the face mask being used in an attempt to prevent coronavirus isn’t handled properly, it can in fact pose a risk.
Read the brief guide they shared below...
The use of face masks can pose a risk of #COVID19 infection when not handled & disposed of properly. Please;
1. Wash your hands before wearing & after removal of the mask.
2. Do not touch the mask frequently.
3. Dispose the mask in a waste bin & DO NOT reuse.
The Lagos State Government has released four more Coronavirus patients, after the made full recovery. Three from the Isolation facility, Yaba and one from the LUTH, Idi-Araba.
This was announced by the tate Ministry of Health, via its twitter handle;
#COVID19Lagos Update
*️⃣4 more #COVID19Lagos patients; all male have been discharged to reunite with the society.
*️⃣The patients; 3 from our isolation facility at Yaba & 1 from Lagos University Teaching Hospital @LUTHofficial have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19.
*️⃣With this, the number of patients successfully managed & discharged in Lagos is now 98.
Troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole, have foiled a combined attack by the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Buni Gari village in Gujba local government area of Yobe State.
Many of the insurgents were killed in the operation, while catchment of arms including Gun trucks, General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), AK-47 Rifles, among others, were recovered.
According to a statement by the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, “the gallant troops of Sector 2 OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE in a subsidiary operation named OPERATION KANTANA JIMLAN at about 181830hrs April 2020 in a clinically executed operation responded to a Boko Haram/ISWAP attack on Buni Gari Village in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
“During the decisive operation by the troops of Sector 2, over Ten terrorists were neutralized. Several weapons were captured which include : One Gun truck, One Duska Anti Aircraft gun, Three GPMG, One PKT gun, Three AK 47 rifles, Large cache of ammunition, ammunition links and assorted types of hard drugs. Troops morale and fighting efficiency remain high.”
It added that, “during the fire fight which was won by our gallant troops there was no casualty and no loss of equipment on our side."
Popular actress Funke Akindele, aka Jenifa, has finally returned home after paying a fine and getting punished for floating lockdown regulation in Lagos.
The Nollywood actress has now recorded a video indicating what she has learnt about COVID-19, while asking people to always practice social distancing no matter how they love their friends.
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, has started that the greatest tributes President Muhammadu Buhari could pay to the 19 deceased victims of COVID-19 in Nigeria, including his former Chief of Staff, the late Abba Kyari, who died on Friday, was for governments at all levels to fix public hospitals.
Falana, who said this in a statement on Sunday, also attributed the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria to official hypocrisy, impunity and lack of coordination between the federal and state governments in the efforts to fight the spread of the pandemic in Nigeria.
Speaking on the urgent need for public hospitals to be fixed, Falana said the treatment of British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, for COVID-19 in a public hospital in London should be “a sober lesson” for government officials “who usually spend public funds on medical treatment in foreign medical centres.”
He said, “From the foregoing, it is indisputable that there is an obvious lack of a coherent COVID-19 policy. This puts to question dangerously the seriousness of the Federal Government in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
“No doubt, President Buhari has paid glowing tribute to the late Mr. Abba Kyari. But the greatest tribute that can be paid to the deceased and the other 18 citizens that have lost their precious lives on account of complications arising from COVID-19 is for the Federal, State and Local Governments to embark on fixing and equipping public hospitals without any further delay.
“Just last week, the British Prime Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson, who was discharged from a public hospital in London after his treatment for COVID-19, was full of adulation for the National Health Service (NHS) of his country”.
“That should be a sober lesson for members of the ruling class in Nigeria who usually spend public funds on medical treatment in foreign medical centres.”
Heavy rainfall in Aba, Abia State, led to a sinkhole appearing in the middle of the road in Ogbor Hill area, just after Waterside.
Residents emerged from their homes to see the shocking sinkhole in the residential area.
A mini bus had been swallowed by the hole and residents gathered round the hole in shock, even as some make effort to bring out the vehicle.
Many who had thought the dreaded Coronavirus was a thing to joke with in the city of Lagos are now having a rethink, especially since weekend when the number of confirmed cases started shooting up.
As at last night, 376 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in Lagos alone, and the number is expected to increase.
Some residents who spoke to Olu Famous Blog on the development, admitted that they just started believing the pandemic was present in Nigeria, adding that they had thought government officials were just using it to scare people and steal money.
Kano State Commissioner of Works and Infrastructural Development, Engr Muazu Magaji, who was relieved of his appointment following alleged unguarded utterances he made against the person of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, has finally cleared the air of what he actually meant.
The former commissioner in a statement he issued on Sunday, said he did not celebrate Kyari’s death but people misunderstood what he meant.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had through the state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, in a statement said the Commissioner of Works and Infrastructural Development, Engr. Mu’azu Magaji removed from office following his unguarded utterances against the person of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari.
He explained, “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 Nigerian, I was only misunderstood by people to think that I celebrated Kyari’s death, the truth is I did not.”
The former Commissioner added, “Not only that, I made several posts mourning Kyari’s death on my same Facebook account and through my special assistants, but the general public couldn’t commend such, rather tend to capitalize on a phrase post that was given another set of definition and direction as well as negativity in other to tarnish my reputable image as a member of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje administration and his loyalist and that of our national party, APC.
“The use of “win win phrase” was basically an attempt to explain the Islamic Promise on the people that died as a result of any kind of pandemic. The late Mallam Abba Kyari was privileged to die as a result of COVID-19, making him among the beneficiaries in Islam. He is conferred with the automatic privilege of martyrdom.
“Our Rasul S. A. W assured on the path of martyrdom in Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-Jihad wal-Siyar. Even Sheik Isah Ali Pantami has taken time to explain more of this. By this, the death of Mallam Abba Kyari is a big win for him, which is almost the dream of every Muslim.
“On the other hand, Nigeria equally has the opportunity to restructure the office of the Chief of Staff, where I called Mr. President to ensure that we can utilize the pandemic challenges into more strengths, by disintegrating the power of the office for a rapid administrative flow, which over and above anything, our constitutional democracy is meant to achieve and function so often.”
Engr. Muazu Magaji said, “ln an emotional reaction to my posting, agents around the office of the late Chief of Staff misunderstood my whole meaning, infuriated from the loss of their benefactor, as such petitioned my principal, His Excellency Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the Governor of Kano State, they twisted the narrative with explanation completely out of context and lacing it with religious and cultural connotations that made it necessary for our Principal the Executive Governor to show leadership and solidarity with the dead by relieving me off my position in Kano State as his Commissioner of Works and Infrastructural.”
The former Commissioner said he is confident that the Governor must make such a difficult decision as a conditional sacrifice to appease the aggrieved individuals who were bereaved, especially from their loss. “I understand the difficulty of the circumstances, both from misunderstanding my post, to the Governor’s decision and in general the pains of people in Abuja. l understand perfectly well.
“Wholeheartedly, I want to use this opportunity to reiterate that as a devout Muslim, I could not have celebrated the death of any human being; because it’s against my culture, social civilization and most importantly the teaching of my religion.
“I equally want to appeal to all people, especially those in Kano to give people the benefit of doubts by accepting their explanation on what they actually and truly mean by themselves,” he explained.
An armed man in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia shot dead at least 10 people, including at least one police officer, during a 12-hour rampage that started late Saturday night, local media reported.
Another police officer was injured in the incident that took place in the coastal town of Portapique, 130 km (80 miles) north of the provincial capital, Halifax.
"In excess of 10 people have been killed,'' the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said.
"We believe it to be one person who is responsible for all the killings and that he alone moved across the northern part of the province and committed what appears
to be several homicides.''
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dubbed it "a terrible situation."
"My heart goes out to everyone affected in what is a terrible situation," Trudeau told reporters.
The suspected shooter, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was shot dead at a gas station, according to local media reports. The RCMP had earlier said the gunman was arrested after a car chase.
Wortman worked as a denturist and operated a clinic in Dartmouth, according to the Denturist Society of Nova Scotia website. A photo released by the RCMP of the suspect matched video footage of Wortman being interviewed by a local media network in 2014.
The FCT, Abuja health services have already taken into quarantine, some of those present at the burial of the chief of staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari.
The conducts of a lot of them was against protocol...
