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Eight people have died, with hundreds of others taken ill, after a gas leak in south India.

Civil Servants in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have raised concerns over the terrible conditions of toilets and the general office environment with the Federal Secretariat Complex.

The workers said the unhygienic state of the offices with the complex especially after officials failed to fumigate the place, has the potential of causing an outbreak of diseases, which could endanger the health of many of them.

The over one month lockdown put in place by government as part of measures to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the country has further exposed the decay in the secretariat complex.  SaharaReporters Media

The Federal Government had earlier directed that civil servants from Level 14 and above should report for work beginning from last Monday.

The workers, who expressed serious concerns over the offensive odour emanating from the toilets within the complex, called on authorities to intervene urgently.

Some of the workers, who spoke with Saharareporters, described the situation as worrisome and pathetic.

A staff, who painted the lurid picture of the stench emanating from the conveniences, told SaharaReporters that their health was in danger.

He said, "The bad odour in some of the offices and corridors is too much. You cannot even stay inside your office for one hour. I expected government to have fumigated all these offices before asking us to resume work.

"Our lives are in danger and we are vulnerable to COVID-19 and other outbreak of diseases.”

A staff of Ministry of Science and Technology said he lacked words to describe how terrible the toilets in the complex had become, adding that there was urgent need to address the issue to prevent an epidemic.

He said “The situation is terrible and most of us that have been asked to come to work are sitting on a keg of gun powder. Maggots have taken over some of the toilet facilities in the complex.”

Though the FCT Administration recently fumigated some of public offices and markets in the city to make it safer for people to move around, many places including the Federal Secretariat in the country’s capital are yet to be fumigated or properly cleaned up as at Wednesday, SaharaReporters discovered.

A public health physician, Oludare Ajakaye, who spoke with our correspondent on the health hazard of dirty toilets, explained that it could cause deadly infections of all kinds.

According to him, women were more vulnerable and at the risk of contracting bacteria and viral infections.

Efforts to get reactions from the office of Head of Civil Service of the Federation were unsuccessful as at the time of this report.

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday announced a reduction in the ex-depot price of petrol from N113.28k per litre to N108.00K per litre across all its products loading facilities as well as in its through put operations.

A release signed by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr Kennie Obateru, said that the new ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit otherwise called petrol, reflects the company’s market strategy to make more sales while complying with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency’s price template.  NNPC station in Abuja Sahara Reporters Media

Obateru, who quoted the Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, Musa Lawan, said the new price was arrived at after extensive review of market realities by the PPMC internal price review unit.

The PPMC MD however, pointed out that the price of Automotive Gas Oil otherwise called diesel, being already deregulated, is determined by market forces.

“On March 18, 2020, the NNPC reviewed its PMS ex-coastal, ex-depot and NNPC Retail pump prices.

“Thus, effective 19 March 2020, NNPC ex-coastal price for PMS was reviewed downwards from N117.6/litre to N99.44/litre while the ex-depot price was reduced from N133.28/litre to N113.28/litre,” part of the statement read.

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has received 256 Nigerians, who were evacuated from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The returnees arrived at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday night.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, had announced that the evacuation was being carried out in accordance with NCDC guidelines. An image of Nigerians arriving in Lagos from Dubai on May 6, 2020. ChannelsTV

In a tweet on Wednesday night, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said the returnees would be taken in for isolation despite testing negative to Coronavirus.

"They will be proceeding to a location for compulsory isolation. All 256 tested negative for COVID-19 before boarding from Dubai," she tweeted. 

One of the returnees had earlier given birth to a baby mid-air.

Over 4,000 Nigerians are waiting to be evacuated across the world with British Airways billed to evacuate 300 Nigerians from London, United Kingdom, on Friday. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Aircraft Conveying Nigerian Citizens From Dubai Makes U-turn After Woman Gives Birth Mid-air 0 Comments 6 Hours Ago

Also, Ethiopian Airlines would evacuate another set of Nigerians from New York, United States, to Abuja on Monday.

 

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The Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria has seen schools shut their gates to students as part of measures to stop the spread.

While schools in France, United States of America and China have moved lessons online, students in Nigeria affected by factors such as poverty, lack of stable electricity supply and unable to afford Internet connectivity appears to have been left to their fate.

According to Josiah Magaji, a school principal in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the outbreak of the virus and its impact of the economy of the country has compounded the miseries of children from indigent homes. 

He said, "It's going to have a big impact on the attendance of schools even after everything is over. We used to struggle with out-of-school children who are poor and need to trek long kilometres to get to school.

"Some of these kids, their parents prefer for them to farm or hawk to travellers going to Kano. We used initiatives such as school feeding and scholarships to lure the in the past but I can tell you now that it would be difficult to bring most of them back. Some might have even married."

Even though states like Lagos through its Ministry of Education have taken steps to deliver lessons via radio and television to students within the state, intended beneficiaries say it has not been enough.

"There is usually no light in my estate and we only put on the generator at night, so it's difficult for me to follow the lessons," Says Esther Augustine, a JSS3 pupil, who attends a government school in Ikeja.

"I have heard of people attending lectures online but I don't have an iPad, my cousin in Canada told me she attends classes online with her own. I want to do same too online, so I want the Lagos State governor to make it happen," she said.

Tertiary institution students also affected by the above-mentioned factors, say they struggle to cope with the demands of learning without the enabling environment.

A 100-level student of the University of Abuja, who only wants to be identified as Okeke, told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that she was finding it difficult to study at home and understand hard topics because she had no guidance.

She said, "It hasn't been easy at all because we have to research on our own since we don't have online classes and we don't have guidance on particularly difficult topics.

"It has been tough and we are expected to write exams when school resumes especially 100 level students who just resumed.”

 

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Open Bar Initiative has written a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, exposing how the National Judicial Council compromised its laws to nominate unqualified persons as judges in the country.

The NJC had in April sent 33 names to the President to be confirmed as judges in the country.

The group also stated that some of the names sent to Buhari were included in the list because they were related to present judges or judicial officials. 

It noted that 22 of the 33 candidates presented to the President for appointment as judges failed to comply with the existing standards and procedures for nomination and selection as specified by the NJC.

It added that it was compelled to write the President to prevent turning the judicial system into an instrument for advancing narrow personal interests.

Silas Joseph Onu, and Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, co-conveners of the group, said, “With considerable reluctance, we feel compelled as citizens and duty bound as legal practitioners of this great nation, to oppose the names recommended to your good office for appointment as judges into the FCT High Court and our reasons are detailed below.

“In summary, the selection process violated the National Judicial Council’s laid down rules and procedures; violated High Court of the FCT (Number of Judges) Act, 2003 and is fraught with judicial insider dealing which risks turning the judiciary into an instrument for advancing narrow personal interests and patronage.”

The group, highlighting why their qualifications remain questionable, said it not only violates applicable NJC rules for the selection and appointment of superior court judges but also reveals insider dealings in the NJC.

The group stated that while Section 255 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As amended), pegged qualification for becoming a judge in the High Court of the FCT to be a minimum of 10 years qualification as a legal practitioner, many of those recommended do not meet the requirement.

Also citing insider dealings as to why majority of the names recommended were unqualified, the group said that while one is the daughter of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, another is the daughter of the immediate past President of the Court of Appeal.

The petition said, “One is the daughter of a Justice of the Supreme Court and daughter-in-law of a Justice of the Court of Appeal; one is the sister of the Presiding Justice of Appeal, Akure Division; and one is the sister of a member of the NJC (D.D. Dodo SAN) and also wife of the President of the National Industrial Court, Justice Kanyip.”

The group posited while judicial service in Nigeria has become an inheritance transmitted from parents to children, it is not supported by the constitution or any other instrument under Nigerian laws.

It added that this is an abuse of the high constitutional responsibility invested in those who must nominate judges.

The group urge the president to reject the list and order a transparent selection process.

“We are not against the children of judges applying, but we insist that even they, must compete on a level playing field with all others and they cannot be exempt from existing rules which govern the selection and appointment of judges. The NJC loses its claim to manage the judiciary if it cannot apply its own rules fairly.

“Therefore, we pray and plead with you to reject this recommendation and order a transparently objective selection exercise devoid of conflict of interest and undue influence or insider dealing of any kind,” Open Bar Initiative said.

 

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In a move to decongest the correctional centre (formerly called prison) in the country, 20 inmates have been freed from the Makurdi Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Benue State. 

Of the 20, 11 inmates were discharged and nine awaiting trial inmates were granted bail.

The release of the inmates was after the Chief Judge of Benue State, Aondover Kaka’an, ordered their release. 

This is coming barely a week after the state signed the release of 12 persons from the correctional centre.

The release was to decongest the custodial centre in order for the inmates to maintain social distancing among themselves now that COVID-19 pandemic was ravaging the world, according to the Kaka’an.

“This is continuation of what he started in Otukpo MSCC last week which 12 inmates benefited.

“Those who benefitted in this exercise were those whose cases have lingered unnecessary in courts,” Justice Kaka’an said. 

In order to make it easy for tracing of released inmates in case their matters are brought again to courts, the police brought their finger printing equipment for capturing the data of the released inmates.

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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Niyi Akintola, has berated Northern governors for not addressing the plight of the almajiri children in their states and for the rising cases of interstate deportation of the children.

Akintola spoke in an interview with SaharaReporters on Wednesday. 

He was reacting to the legality of the deportation of almajiri children from one state to another in Nigeria which has been on the increase as state governors struggle to contain the spread of Coronavirus. 

Almajiri is a system of Islamic education practised in Northern Nigeria and it is also the name for a young boy, who is taught within this system.

Most of the almajiris grow up on the streets without the love, care and guidance of parents. 

They are vulnerable to slavery, anti-social activities and crime.

Akintola said, “Moving the almajiri children from one place to the other is in itself a confirmation of the lopsided structure we are operating in the country because if we are operating a proper structure, we wouldn’t have found ourselves in this quagmire. Today, Nigeria is yet to be a nation, it is a country of many nationalities and because of that, each component is trying to protect its territories. Ordinarily, it shouldn’t be.

“The government should be blamed. Education should be made compulsory. But in making it compulsory, it should be institutionalized in the country to the extent that whosoever refuses to send his/her child to school would go to prison.

“No government can deport Nigerians from any state where he or she decides to be but there is a caveat there. The caveat is that in the face of a pandemic, every state government has the power to restrict movement, to confine people to a particular place and a governor can hide under the canopy of Infection Disease Act to restrict movement and confine people to their homes and that was what the president and governors have done in the circumstance.”

Akintola urged the Northern governors to emulate Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Premier of Northern Nigeria region, by reforming education in their states.

He added, “Most Northern elites would tell you that if not for the Sardauna (Sir Ahmadu Bello), they wouldn’t have been educated, Sardauna jailed parents for three months because they withdrew children from school. The Sarduana spirit should be brought back, if not; those of us in the South would not rest.

“After Governor Sanwo-Olu banned tricycle and motorcycle in Lagos, they moved in trailers to Ibadan, Osogbo, Akure and Ado-Ekiti. Most of the okada riders in Ibadan today are products of almajiri school. Many of them don’t speak another language.

“Until we all pay attention to what is happening in the Northern part of the country in respect of forcing everybody to go to school, we will not get out of the issue of almajiri menace and we are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder if we allow the situation to continue.”

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At least 55 people have been killed by armed bandits in various attacks on some communities in Kastina State.

Governor Aminu Masari made the disclosure on Wednesday while reacting to the deaths of five people killed at Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas of the state. 

Masari disclosed that 50 people were killed two weeks ago, adding that, “It is a daily occurrence.”

The governor also said Head of Administration of Danmusa Local Government Area, Yahaya Musa Sabuwa, was kidnapped.

He added, “The state is daily recording attacks from operations of unrepentant bandits.

“It is a very terrible situation about our people, some of them is not about Coronavirus, it is about bandits virus.

“The Divisional Police Officer of Faskari was nearly killed as a result of gunshots and presently in hospital. We hope he will survive the attack."

The governor while noting that the bandits had more sophisticated weapons, called on security authorities to live up to the expectation of the populace by ensuring their safety.

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The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has asked state governors in Nigeria to consider placing positive COVID-19 patients in hotels in order to decongest hospital beds around the country.

Dr Sani Aliyu, National Coordinator of PTF, gave the advice during the daily briefing on Wednesday in Abuja.  Medical Gear Google

He said, “In terms of case management, we’ll like to again appeal to state governments, particularly those who are yet to ensure the provision of isolation facilities, to please make sure that they have at least 300 beds available per state so that they can isolate persons that are positive with COVID-19 infection.

“It is particularly important that when it comes to isolation facilities, that appropriate prioritisation is placed on those that have mild or no symptoms. 

"This group of persons with COVID-19 infection should not be placed in a hospital environment, they are better off being placed in a non-hospital environment, such as hotels, where they’ll be comfortably looked after because they do not require any specific monitoring or treatment and it will be much cheaper for state governments to adopt this approach for the 80 per cent of those that will be positive with COVID-19 infection and allow hospital beds and medical facilities to be used for those that require them most.

“I’ll like to again emphasise the need for us all to take personal responsibility for our health as well as the health of our loved ones and our community."
 

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Lawan Nguru, member of the Yobe State House of Assembly, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Nguru, who represents Central Constituency, made the announcement on Wednesday in Damaturu. 

He said he has gone into isolation on instruction of health personnel.  Lawan Nguru

He said, “Presently, I am in isolation centre and recuperating in a very stable condition waiting for further directives from health officers." 

SaharaReporters earlier reported that no less than 155 people had died in Gashua and Potiskum areas of Yobe of symptoms similar to Coronavirus.

The deaths, which is causing panic, is similar to the situation experienced in Kano, which has been attributed to COVID-19 by the Presidential Task Force On Coronavirus.
 

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The Youths are the motor force of any Nation. The future is dead with out placing intellectual, ideological   and professional youths in political and professional offices.

Any  nation in Africa without Youths' involvement in decision making will not have future leaders, But future rulers.

Why Is This So?

Majority of Africa's nations was colonised and ruled with military constitution. And military constitution by nature is consistent bow to only superiors. No questioning. 

Its all about obey obey the last order.

And it affected the older generation thinking faculty. 

When by they believed young persons should obey their commands and recommendations even if it's not obtainable in 21st century today's constitution of Nigeria is more of military constitution than Democratic,
 when by the president and governors are untouchable even when they're breaking the constitution they sworn to protect and defend.

It becomes the bases of corruption in Nigeria political and professional offices. The constitution that gives the President power to appoint and fund all laws enforcement agencies, including the judiciary arm of governments. So how can such country be corruption free? Only dreamers would not agree that there is need for massive judicial reforms and independence of judiciary. 

The Youths with their vast knowledge are not happy, yet they didn't plan to change things, but complaining about how are. The question now becomes how do we make things work for the people?

The governments are truly bad but we cannot sit and watch as this means we are all encouraging  bad leadership by complaining without doing nothing. Wht are we all not involved in the quite successful #PotPanProtest that forced government to do gradual easing of the lockdown. 

It's time to protest by refusing their social and unethical bribes.It's time to protest by rejecting thuggery and ballots boxes snatching during general elections.

It's time to protest by not voting political party, tribe and religion. But men and women of integrity or core values of human.

I say unto you, no leader sees his back except his/her followers.
Activism can been in written protests street and strike protests e.t.c.

Do you know your silence means all is well? Then the few that are speaking up are seen as noise makers, opposition and threats by the oppressors. But if only 1million of us can speak up, out of 200millions Nigerians, Nigeria will change into Paradise. 

As Youths in Nigeria. Do you know without your activism there can't be true leaders of the future?.

We must start correcting and engaging the system of governance now. A better today can become a  better tomorrow if 

My benefits in this lockdown, I was able to study some history of Nigeria.

Then I find out why Nigeria is falling today is lack of selfless Activists among the Youths and the few young men who are at their 40ths-52th are not been supported by the younger generations as expected.

Why do we fear the security agencies that are not trained in knowledge of  their constitutional obligations to the people. We should resist, educate, and win them to our sides! 

I say unto you, even the security agencies are in bondages of themselves and they also needs you to free them as Youths. It's the monopoly of the military and political bucaneers  that led to rejection, neglect and inferiority of Youths in Nigeria's political power and leadership.

In the colonial era, young Nigerians in the 1945-6 Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) general strike led by Michael Imoudu; the troika of struggles in Egba, Kano, and Aba led by great women like Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti, Gambo Sawaba, and Margaret Ekpo respectively; and the Kings College Revolt heroes cum the Iva Valley Massacre matyres in Enugu, actually led the struggle for independence.

 As early as 1944, Nmandi Azikiwe, still in his 30s, founded the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroun (NCNC). Meanwhile, Obafemi Awolowo, Tafawa Belawa, Almadu Bello and Samuel Akintola, amongst many others in their 20s and 30s, rose to prominence through their activism.

After independence in 1960, however, this trend began to dissipate. The golden era was not replaced with new young leaders, and by the 1980s, there were only a few politicians under 40. At the same time, youth movements calling for democracy and human rights were forcibly clamped down by the military regimes of the day.

When Nigeria returned to multi-party democracy in 1999, there was optimism that the new system would prove more inclusive. But while youths hoped to be at the new vanguard of political progress, they were more often drafted to serve as thugs and henchmen for the same older political class. Young people’s significance in Nigerian politics diminished, and apathy grew. Today, the youngest member of the parliament at the national level is 43. 

We can't as Nigeria Youths  change the system without revolutionizing political leadership space, without activism there shall be no conscientiousness in the minds of the oppressors.We need revolutionnow as led by Omoyele Sowore and the Coalition for Revolution (CORE)

This is the reality of our time.
Arise! Don't let the definition of some educated illiterates in governments, be your definitions of revolution, 
It's not a crime to ask for:

Change of constitution.

Change of leaders.

Change of electoral acts from analogue to digital 100% good roads.Constant electricity.

Model and well equip hospitals With free medical care.

Good water for all.

Employment. Well equip Education system at all levels. Security agencies reformed.
ETC. 

We the thinking youths for social change must never be thinking that the older generation will just give us power when we failed to demands for it. Youths please don't let the States of the economy turn you into any criminal activities. Rather let it turned you into activism.

We are too blessed to be poor.
Don't give up yet, we can fix it.

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Fashion entrepreneurs are feeling the heat as supplies are disrupted and demand stutters during pandemic.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said it has discharged 37 more COVID-19 patients from its facilities after they tested negative for the virus.

The state's Ministry of Health disclosed this on its Twitter handle, saying the discharged patients were 19 females and 18 males. 

‪it said, “COVID19Lagos patients; 19 females and 18 males including a foreign national; an Indian were today discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba, Onikan and Eti-Osa to reunite with the society.‬

“The patients; five from IDH, Yaba, 25 from Onikan and 7 from the Eti-Osa (LandMark) Isolation Centres have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to ‪#COVID19. 

“With this, the number of patients successfully managed and discharged in Lagos has risen to 358‪.”

This brings the total number of discharged patients in the state to 358.
 

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Fourteen more health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kano State.

According to the Chairman of the Kano State chapter of the Joint Health Workers Union, Murtala Isa, the health workers include doctors, nurses and lab scientists. 

Isa said they contracted the disease from patients undergoing treatments in different hospitals in the state.

The newly confirmed cases are different from the 32 cases confirmed on Tuesday.
 

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Kaduna has secured the conviction of Beegu Tyopav on a one count charge bordering on Internet-related fraud. 

The EFCC in a tweet on Wednesday said Beegu had been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice M. T. Aliyu of State High Court, Kaduna.

It reads in part, "On March 3, 2020, in Karina area of Kaduna State, Tyopav did fraudulently induce one Daniel Osayande, a retiree, to disclose his ATM PIN, by impersonating one Godwin Philemon, working with First Bank Plc.

"And in the process fraudulently transferred N90,000 from Osayande’s account. The offence is contrary to and punishable under Section 142(1) of the Karina State Penal Code Law, 2017.

"Justice Tukur however, convicted him with an option of N150,000 fine only."

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Nigeria's Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has said that the losses experienced by airlines in the country due to the Coronavirus pandemic would swallow many airlines. 

Sirika made the comment while briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Wednesday.

He said, “Certainly in civil aviation, we’re in very difficult moments like everyone else. All of this started because someone travelled. Unfortunately, he came back hone with it and the consequence is what we’ve been going through.

“We are very aware of our responsibilities and the weight attached to this. We are worst hit among all the sectors. Some billions is being lost by the airlines monthly, thanks to COVID-19. The sector is highly regulated and very coordinated and has set standards that must be followed at all times, regardless, because we speak to safety.

“This is the situation of civil aviation. It is really a pathetic one and I can guarantee you that several airlines won’t come out of this unfortunately.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a “get well soon” message to the emir of his hometown of Daura in Katsina State, Alhaji Umar Farouq Umar, who is currently being hospitalised.

SaharaReporters had on Tuesday exclusively reported how Umar was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre in Kastina, the state capital, owing to poor health suspected to have been caused by Coronavirus. 

It was learnt that the Kastina State index COVID-19 case, Dr Aminu Yakubu, a Daura-based private medical practitioner, who died last month, made contacts with people at the emir’s palace including the monarch. 

Only three days ago, the palace was sealed up by the government following recorded positive cases of COVID- 19 within its premises.

But President Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said he received the news of the illness of the emir with concern and prayed for his quick recovery.  See Also Exclusive EXCLUSIVE: Emir Of Daura Rushed To Intensive Care Unit Of Federal Medical Centre In Katsina Over COVID-19 0 Comments 1 Day Ago

He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sent his goodwill and prayers to the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, after he was admitted to the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina State.

“President Buhari, who holds the traditional title of ‘Bayajidda Daura’, his hometown, said he received the news of the emir’s sudden illness with concern and expressed best wishes for the speedy recovery of the monarch.

“I join the Daura Emirate and the entire people of Katsina State in praying for the recovery of our humble and dedicated emir, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar.

“The President expressed satisfaction with the reported progress and recovery of the emir since his hospitalisation.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a “get well soon” message to the emir of his hometown of Daura in Katsina State, Alhaji Umar Farouq Umar, who is currently being hospitalised.

SaharaReporters had on Tuesday exclusively reported how Umar was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre in Kastina, the state capital, owing to poor health suspected to have been caused by Coronavirus. 

It was learnt that the Kastina State index COVID-19 case, Dr Aminu Yakubu, a Daura-based private medical practitioner, who died last month, made contacts with people at the emir’s palace including the monarch. 

Only three days ago, the palace was sealed up by the government following recorded positive cases of COVID- 19 within its premises.

But President Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said he received the news of the illness of the emir with concern and prayed for his quick recovery.  See Also Exclusive EXCLUSIVE: Emir Of Daura Rushed To Intensive Care Unit Of Federal Medical Centre In Katsina Over COVID-19 0 Comments 1 Day Ago

He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sent his goodwill and prayers to the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, after he was admitted to the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina State.

“President Buhari, who holds the traditional title of ‘Bayajidda Daura’, his hometown, said he received the news of the emir’s sudden illness with concern and expressed best wishes for the speedy recovery of the monarch.

“I join the Daura Emirate and the entire people of Katsina State in praying for the recovery of our humble and dedicated emir, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar.

“The President expressed satisfaction with the reported progress and recovery of the emir since his hospitalisation.”

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A new date will now be set for the postal-only election, which was due to be held on 10 May.