Barely three hours after the Delta State Government discharged three COVID-19 patients from the state isolation centres, five new cases of the virus were recorded in the city.
The new five cases brings to 22 the total number of confirmed infections in the state with three deaths.
Confirming the new cases on Wednesday, the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, disclosed that they were recorded in Warri South and Oshimili North local government areas of the state with four in the Warri and one in the Asaba axis of the state.
He said, “Five new positive cases of COVID-19 reported in Delta State. Four from Warri-South and one from Oshimili-North. Total confirmed cases is now 22.”
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Deputy Speaker of Katsina State House of Assembly, Shehu Tafoki, on Wednesday cried profusely while talking about rising insecurity in his constituency.
Tafoki, who represents Faskari constituency, broke down in tears during a special sitting on insecurity by the Assembly.
He said hardly a day went by without reported attacks across the area, adding that many have been killed, maimed and kidnapped. File PhotoChannelsTV
The lawmaker said Faskari Local Government Area can now be compared to Borno State due to the level of killings.
“Even last night, these bandits attacked Daudawa where they kidnapped four people and injured many,” he said.
During the sitting, other lawmakers lamented the situation in their respective constituencies as well.
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Coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
Mike Ryan, an Executive Director with the World Health Organisation, says the virus may just become one of the viruses around the world that kill people annually.
The virus first emerged in Wuhan, China, late last year and has since infected more than 4.2 million people worldwide. Michael Joseph Ryan is Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme where he leads the team responsible for the international containment and treatment of COVID-19.Getty Images
He said, “We have a new virus entering the human population for the first time and therefore it is very hard to predict when we will prevail over it.
“This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV hasn’t gone away.
“I’m not comparing the two diseases but I think it is important that we’re realistic. I don’t think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear
“HIV has not gone away — but we have come to terms with the virus.”
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People in Potiskum, Gashua and Nguru, three major towns in Yobe State, have continued to express concern over rising number of what is described as ‘mysterious’ deaths.
There are huge concerns among residents that such deaths may be connected to Coronavirus.
At least 741 people were reported dead in one month, with more deaths recorded on daily basis.
A resident of Nguru told SaharaReporters that at least 12 people were buried daily in recent weeks.
In Gashua, the graveyard had been witnessing massive expansion on daily basis as a result of sudden and frequent deaths.
Despite this, Yobe State Government officials have been claiming that the massive deaths were as a result of malaria and other seasonal ailments.
State officials, politicians and state-controlled social media groups have unveiled a massive propaganda to divert attention from the suspected possible community transmission of Coronavirus in some parts of the state.
The plan includes attacking those, who use any platform to ask for thorough investigation on daily loss of lives in the state.
SaharaReporters confirmed that those, who show symptoms of Coronavirus, never get their sample taken and mostly left at emergency sections of hospitals till they died.
The sudden death of the ambulance driver of Gashua General Hospital escalated fear both in the hospital and in the town.
A visit to the hospital also shows that there is no plan on the ground and no ambulance on standby to convey those in critical condition to the right place to prevent the spread of the dreadful disease.
“Many people within and outside Yobe State have been stunned by total lack of competence and gross failure of Yobe State Government and the committee handling COVID-19 in the state,” said a resident of Potiskum, who craved anonymity.
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Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Wednesday directed the sack of a government driver that unilaterally attended to a person evacuated with a COVID-19 ambulance in Ilorin, the state capital.
He also directed the issuance of queries to top officials of the state's Ministry of Health for failing to act with necessary caution and expertise in the handling of the incident that was recorded in a video footage that has since gone viral.
Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, in a statement condemned the shoddy handling of the man said to be going through a hard time. Kwara State governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq
The statement reads, “The governor totally condemns the shoddy handling of the gentleman, who was clearly going through a hard time.
“He has directed that the driver be fired immediately. As the investigation revealed, the driver failed to heed clear directive not to take any action until the Rapid Response Team arrives the scene. He evacuated the gentleman with the help of members of the public without waiting for the arrival of the RRT.
"The governor further directed that members of the RRT be queried, while other steps are being taken to ensure this incident does not repeat itself. Involving just anybody in the evacuation of a suspected case, as was seen in the footage, was a clear and dangerous violation of COVID-19 safety protocols. The government equally finds it quite distasteful and unacceptable that the driver, who had long been involved in such operations, made unethical comments to somebody in distress.
"That incident was avoidable, and we sincerely apologise to the gentleman and to the people of Kwara State for the embarrassing development. We assure them this will not happen again.”
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Twenty-six more COVID-19 patients have been discharged in Lagos after recovering from Coronavirus.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos made this known on Wednesday evening.
The governor said a total of 528 patients have now recovered from COVID-19 in Lagos.
He said, “Good people of Lagos, today, 26 COVID-19 Lagos patients; 13 males and 13 females, all Nigerians, were discharged from our Yaba, Onikan and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
“The patients, six from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 11 from Onikan and nine from LUTH Isolation Centre were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.
“With this, the number of #COVID19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos is now 528.”
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Commissioner of Police in Ondo State has called on officers manning entry points to prevent anyone from sneaking into the state.
Adie said he had been receiving reports that many of the vehicles and trucks used in transporting essential commodities were being used to smuggle passengers into the state.
This, according to him, was also putting the state and residents at risk of contracting Coronavirus. Ondo Police Commissioner Adie
Recall that there had been growing concerns on the influx of "almajiris" from North into Ondo State recently.
Speaking on the issue, Adie said, “To continue to see or hear of inter-state passenger transport vehicles into Ondo State while we (police) man all entry-points into the state puts us in bad light.
"With the effect of COVID-19 on all human endeavours, our duty to save life at this time is sacrosanct and can only be achieved when it is done with humane touch and affection.
"I will therefore warn that men in all border posts must be extremely and judiciously vigilant never to allow anybody or vehicle without the authorization of government entry into the state.
"I have directed that all trucks conveying foodstuffs and essential commodities be properly checked as some of them now hide some restive passengers along with the goods they carry."
Adie tasked the officers to display more professionalism mostly during this period of Coronavirus and lockdown in the country.
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The military in Niger Republic has killed 74 Boko Haram Insurgents in an operation at Liwur, an area near Lake Chad.
Boko Haram terrorists have killed at least 36,000 people including hundreds in the Diffa area, which led to the offensive.
The Niger Defence Ministry in a statement on Wednesday said 25 terrorists were killed South of Diffa, the main city in South-East Niger, while about 50 were neutralised on the same day on Nigerian soil in the Lake Chad region in two operations, AFP reports.
On Monday, troops from Niger's contingent in the regional force carried out "aggressive reconnaissance" on the banks of the Komadougou River and clashed with Boko Haram fighters at a locality 74km (45 miles) South of Diffa, the defence ministry said.
The Niger military said it seized a vehicle and two motorcycles, as well as arms and ammunition and other material for military use from the terrorists.
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A 27-year-old man, Chinedu Nwedu, has been crushed to death by a vehicle conveying two policemen in Eziorsu community under Oguta Council Area of Imo State.
The two policemen led by one Sergeant Ikiira Sunday, came from Mopol 29, Awka, Anambra State.
They were said to be attempting to escape from a suspected oil bunkering operation at Egbema in Ohaji Egbema Council Area of the state when they killed the deceased in the process.
After a successful operation breaching oil pipelines, the policemen were accosted by military officials at Egbema as well as community youth.
They reportedly engaged the soldiers in a gun battle in order to make good their escape.
But when the shooting became too much, the policemen were said to have driven off and in the process crushed Chinedu to death.
It was learnt that Chinedu was newly married and was the only son of his late parents.
Spokesperson for the Imo State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, confirmed the incident but claimed that it was an accident.
He said the cops were already in custody, adding that investigations on the matter had commenced to unravel the circumstances that led to the incident.
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Two fresh cases of Coronavirus were on Wednesday confirmed by the Ondo State Government.
The new cases brought to 18 the total number of confirmed cases in the state so far.
This is coming barely 24 hours after the state discharged five COVID-19 patients after they recovered from the disease. COVID-19 testingAlet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty
Commissioner for Health in the State, Dr Wahab Adegbenro, who confirmed the fresh cases during an interview with SaharaReporters, said the blood samples of the two patients earlier collected for test came back positive.
He explained that the patients, who have now been moved to the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Akure, came into the state from Lagos and Sokoto states.
SaharaReporters gathered that the state now has six active cases of Coronavirus at the Infectious Disease Hospital.
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A former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has expressed displeasure with a policy initiated by northern governors, which has led to the repatriation of almajiris to their home states.
Balarabe in an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Wednesday, said the deportation of the almajiri children was “highly irresponsible and against national unity”.
He said, “It is highly irresponsible, it was done without relevant information and sadly it is an avoidance of responsibility.
“It is against national unity. It is a national problem and it should be solved nationally, not by pushing the problem to another person.
“The solution is free and compulsory primary and compulsory education for Nigerians wherever they live, together with easily available post-secondary education throughout Nigeria.
"This is the solution to the problem of almajiri. Nigerians have been fighting for this since 1960 but all the Nigerian leaders have failed to do this. The only Nigerian leaders who faced this in a realistic way was late Obafemi Awolowo who introduced free education in the South-West.”
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A former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has expressed displeasure with a policy initiated by northern governors, which has led to the repatriation of almajiris to their home states.
Balarabe in an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Wednesday, said the deportation of the almajiri children was “highly irresponsible and against national unity”.
He said, “It is highly irresponsible, it was done without relevant information and sadly it is an avoidance of responsibility.
“It is against national unity. It is a national problem and it should be solved nationally, not by pushing the problem to another person.
“The solution is free and compulsory primary and compulsory education for Nigerians wherever they live, together with easily available post-secondary education throughout Nigeria.
"This is the solution to the problem of almajiri. Nigerians have been fighting for this since 1960 but all the Nigerian leaders have failed to do this. The only Nigerian leaders who faced this in a realistic way was late Obafemi Awolowo who introduced free education in the South-West.”
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Lesotho has become the last African country to record COVID-19 case just after the country opened its borders.
The lockdown was lifted against the advice of the inter-ministerial committee, which said the country was not prepared to deal with a possible outbreak since its quarantine facilities comprised just 148 beds.
The case confirmed is one of the persons, who returned to the country after the lockdown was lifted. Medical GearGoogle
Announcing the case on Wednesday, Director-General, Dr Nyane Letsie said, "The Ministry of Health informs the Basotho nation and the entire community living in Lesotho, that the country now has the first confirmed case of COVI-19.
"On 11 May 2020, the samples were shipped to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa and results were obtained on 12 May 2020. Eighty people tested negative for Covid-19 while one tested positive.”
The total cases on the continent now equal 72,089 cases with 2,446 deaths.
Africans are coming up with local means to combat the virus. 25,447 persons have recovered from the virus.
Globally, 4,394,058 persons have been confirmed as being infected with the virus. 1,636,843 persons have recovered from the virus after infection.
Countries like Faroe Island, New Caledonia, Falkland Islands, Mauritius, and Papua New Guinea have all recovered from the virus.
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Men of the Nigerian Army are currently in a gunfight with some Boko Haram insurgents in Mainok, Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State.
Some residents of the community, who spoke with SaharaReporters on Wednesday, said the insurgents entered the community at about 6:00pm and immediately proceeded to the army base.
Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong, has condemned the killing of Rinji Peter Bala, a 20-year-old student of University of Jos, by a personnel of the Nigerian Army in the state.
Bala was first arrested by vigilantes alongside six others for violating the lockdown order put in place to stop the spread of Coronavirus but was soon shot dead despite establishing his innocence.
The matter has sparked public outrage with Nigerians demanding justice using the hashtag #JusticeForRinji.
The army has claimed responsibility for the death, apologising and calling it a "mistake".
He said, "I am shocked and saddened by the death of Mr Rinji Peter Bala, who was said to have been shot by security personnel along Zaria Road, Jos, on 12th May 2020.
"I have directed that thorough investigation be carried out to unravel the circumstances surrounding the killing of the young man.
Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong, has condemned the killing of Rinji Peter Bala, a 20-year-old student of University of Jos, by a personnel of the Nigerian Army in the state.
Bala was first arrested by vigilantes alongside six others for violating the lockdown order put in place to stop the spread of Coronavirus but was soon shot dead despite establishing his innocence.
The matter has sparked public outrage with Nigerians demanding justice using the hashtag #JusticeForRinji.
The army has claimed responsibility for the death, apologising and calling it a "mistake".
He said, "I am shocked and saddened by the death of Mr Rinji Peter Bala, who was said to have been shot by security personnel along Zaria Road, Jos, on 12th May 2020.
"I have directed that thorough investigation be carried out to unravel the circumstances surrounding the killing of the young man.
Makana Enan Nagari, a councillor representing Vulpi ward in Numan Local Government Council, has been declared wanted for allegedly rustling cows.
Humwashi Wonosikou, Press Secretary to the state governor, made this known in Yola on Wednesday.
He said, “The action is coming at a time government has succeeded at stabilising the area after the incessant attacks on villages along the borders of Adamawa and Taraba.
“Government is appealing to both headers and farmers not to take the law into their hands, but allow the law to take its course as government is doing everything possible to ensure that peace prevails between farmers and herders and all law-abiding citizens.
“A responsible government will not sit back and watch criminals destroy the hard-earned peace it has been able to achieve.
“His Excellency is appealing to residents of the state to help the government towards building a just and egalitarian society where peace and tranquillity exists."
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In yet another grand corruption, SaharaReporters has uncovered how Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, illegally collected N45,750,00 for a Christmas party that never held.
The money, which was approved on November 22, 2019 by Obasa for one of his mistresses, who doubles as the officer to organise the Christmas party for children of lawmakers, ran contrary to the annual Christmas party organised by the Lagos State Government.
SaharaReporters gathered that despite the party not taking place, the money approved and released for it by Obasa was never accounted for. Mudashiru Obasa
“We were all looking forward to the party after we heard over N45m was released but our hope was dashed in December when we were told no Christmas party again.
“On hearing this, almost all the Assembly staff cursed both the Speaker and his mistress for such callous depletion of our common patrimony without any service from the fund,” a staff told SaharaReporters.
Recall that SaharaReporters had published how Obasa tricked former governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, to collect the sum of N350m to organise a conference for lawmakers from across the country.
In other series of reports, the online publication had exposed the fraudulent and corrupt activities of the Lagos Speaker.
While Obasa orchestrated the disbursement of N10m monthly to his wife under the guise of gender inclusiveness programme for women, he also received N17m monthly to maintain his personal residence and guest house.
He had also mobilised thugs with N50m in a bid to invade the Civic Media Lab office and burn down the place with anybody found there as a way of getting back at the online news publication for exposing his fraudulent activities in the Lagos parliament where he had been feeding fat on public funds.
Obasa and his group are targeting the leadership of Human and Environmental Development Agenda, a civil rights organisation promoting transparency and justice.
Five female officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service have been punished with redeployment to states in Nigeria where the fight against insurgency and Coronavirus is ongoing after they participated in a viral video challenge in their uniforms.
The ladies, Priscilla Irabor, Catherine J. Bakura, Blessing Alfred Udida, Binti I. Attabor and Ockiya Eneni had recorded themselves transforming from their uniforms to a wide range of outfits while participating in the challenge initiated by popular Nigerian musician, Falz.
Early in April, the NIS in a disciplinary memo asked the women to explain why the should not be subjected to punishment for allegedly violating the agency's internal code.
In a new memo seen by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the service transferred Irabor from the Lagos State Command to the Nigeria Immigration Training School, Kano, Attabor was posted from the service headquarters in Abuja to Yobe State Command, Udida from the FCT Command was sent to the Akwa Ibom State Command, Bakura was transferred from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to the Nigeria Immigration Training School Ahoada, Rivers State, while Eneni was moved from the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card production facility to the Borno State Command. See AlsoSahara ReportersNigerian Immigration Service Threatens To Sack Employees For Participating In Falz ‘Bop Daddy’ Video Challenge0 Comments3 Weeks Ago
The agency also stated that the relocation will be at the expense of the affected female officers involved and must be done within seven days.
This is despite the ban on inter-state travels and closure of airports in the country due to the outbreak of Coronavirus.
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200 years ago the Aare Kakanfo of the ancient Oyo Empire and the self-proclaimed Oba of Ilorin, Aare Afonja, rebelled against the Alaafin of Oyo and entered into a military alliance with a Fulani advisor, sorcerer and mercenary by the name of Alimi.
Predictably Alimi betrayed him and he ended up being tortured, dethroned and murdered. Not only did Alimi and his Fulani warriors kill him but they also murdered all his sons in the most cruel and barbaric fashion.
Alimi and his family took the throne for themselves and consequently the Oyo Empire, and by extension the Oduduwa nation, lost Ilorin to the Fulani and to the sons of Usman Dan Fodio. Femi Fani-Kayode
Ever since that day a Fulani Emir, from Alimi's "Gambari" family and lineage, armed with a flag and staff of authority from the Sultan of Sokoto, has ruled Ilorin.
There is no gainsaying the fact that the Gambaris are trusted servants and bonded slaves of the Sokoto Caliphate.
They see themselves as the guardians, protectors and defenders of the Caliphate's southern border and they serve and protect its traditions, its faith and its political and economic interests. This has been the case for the last 200 years.
It is for this reason that they are often referred to by the sons and daughters of Oduduwa as 'mesu jamba' (meaning a "shifty, unreliable and treacherous").
To add to that, the saying goes "beware of the Gambaris and the descendants of Alimi".
Enter Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Buhari's new Chief of Staff and Nigeria's former representative at the United Nations.
Contrary to popular belief and despite his second name, "Agboola", this man is NOT a son of the south west or an Oduduwan but a Fulani Prince from the Royal house in Ilorin.
He is a descendant of Alimi. He is a Gambari. And to cap it all his brother, Emir Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu- Gambari, is the present Emir of Ilorin.
His forefathers stole our sacred Oduduwan lands, took our throne, carved up and divided our Empire, enslaved our people and have persecuted our leaders in Ilorin for the last 200 years denying them of their most basic liberties and rights.
And worse of all they have done this with the full blessing and support of the Sokoto Caliphate and the Sultan of Sokoto.
Wlith the appointment of Gambari as the President's Chief of Staff, for the first time in our history, we have a Fulani President and a Fulani Chief of Staff both serving a Fulani Government with a Fulani agenda.
This has never happened before and very soon the results will be self-evident. To make matters worse Gambari is himself a hardliner and he was Buhari's Foreign Minister in 1984 when the latter was military Head of State. He served a tyrant and a dictator before and he is serving a tyrant and a dictator again.
And he served not just ANY tyrant and dictator but Nigeria's greatest military tyrant and dictator and now he is set to serve Nigeria's greatest civilian tyrant and dictator.
Unlike his predecessor in office the late Abba Kyari who was a Shuwa Arab, Gambari is a Fulani. His only interest throughout his distinguished career as a career diplomat was to do nothing but further and protect the interest and hegemonic agenda of the Caliphate in Nigeria and to justify and rationalise its greed, brutality, barbarity and excesses before the civilised world in various international fora.
Now he has come to help estsblish and entrench Buhari's Islamisation and Fulanisation agenda. We welcome him and we will engage him in battle.
Abba Kyari has gone. A hardline Islamic fundamentalist and Fulani irredentist has now taken over his job. Nigerians will see the difference.
For those of us that have been in the struggle to liberate our people from the tyranny of Buhari for the last five years it is "game on" and "back to the trenches".
The ceasefire is over and the war against ethnic and religious bondage and against injustice, subjugation, domination, nepotism, servitude and slavery has started again. May the best man win.
