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Why myself, aides took Covid-19 tests after CSO’s death – Tinubu

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu has disclosed the real reasons he ran Covid-19 test, stressing that he was not in self-isolation contrary to some reports.</b></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rather, the APC leader clarified that he “has only been keeping faith with all the preventive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and not having contact with many people at this time.”</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He made the clarification in a statement by his spokesperson, Mr. Tunde Rahman, disputing claims that Tinubu’s Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Kareem, died of COVID-19 on Friday.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Raheem, 51, died Friday after falling ill on Monday. However, reports claimed that the deceased had a history of high blood pressure and diabetes.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Raheem had been on Tinubu’s team for over 20 years and was the only aide still left from his time as governor of Lagos state from 1999 to 2007.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After his burial on Friday, reports claimed that Raheem died of COVID-19, thereby fuelling speculation that the APC leader had gone into self isolation.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Faulting the claims yesterday, Tinubu said in a statement that he “is not in self isolation. He is only keeping faith with all the preventive measures and not having contact with many people at this time.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“He is observing social distancing as it were. There is nothing to warrant self isolation. It has not been proven that our Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Kareem, died of COVID-19.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“What we know is he was battling diabetes and high blood pressure before he died and he might have died of complications from both,” he explained.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After his death, the statement explained samples “were taken from his body by medical experts from the NCDC in Lagos. We are still awaiting the results of the test.”</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a precaution, It was reported that Tinubu and his personal aides were tested for the coronavirus following the death of his chief security officer (CSO).</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">TheCable understands that before his burial on Friday, samples were taken from his body for laboratory tests to determine if he was infected with COVID-19.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Saturday, samples were also taken from Tinubu and his personal aides. Results are expected on Monday, sources told TheCable.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In a tribute, Tinubu praised the late police officer who had been with him before he became governor of Lagos state in 1999.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Lateef reported for work on Monday. Feeling a bit under the weather, he went home to rest. We spoke on Wednesday by phone. He was in fine spirits and was looking forward to resuming work,” he wrote.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“I felt nothing but profound shock, and then the emptiness of deep loss when I was awakened early Friday that my most trusted security aide had died and that I would never see him again. I did not know the Wednesday conversation would be our last. The pain of his loss is acute.”</div>

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<b><br /></b><b>Nigerian artiste, Davido, has announced that all the proceeds from his new video, “Dolce & Gabbana,” will be donated to the fashion house’s Dolce & Gabbana and Humanitas Together for Coronavirus Research fund.</b><br />
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The internationally-known singer released the visuals for the song on Friday.<br />
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He featured American singer, Summer Walker.<br />
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Davido, however, made the news on CNN and was interviewed by Chloe Melas.<br />
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The entertainment reporter asked him why he’s donating the proceeds of his new music video to coronavirus research and also what it was like when his fiancé tested positive for the virus.<b><br />
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Watch Davido’s interview on CNN below:</b><br />
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<div dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">I spoke with internationally known singer <a href="https://twitter.com/davido?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davido</a> from his home in Nigeria about why he's donating the proceeds of his new music video <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dolce?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dolce</a>&Gabbana to coronavirus research & also what it was like when his fiancé tested positive for the virus <a href="https://twitter.com/cnni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnni</a> <a href="https://t.co/jfM6eBoFOQ">pic.twitter.com/jfM6eBoFOQ</a></div>
— Chloe Melas (@Chloe_Melas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chloe_Melas/status/1254059352329261057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Five persons were killed in the convoy of former Borno State Governor, Sen Ali Sheriff, along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, a security source said.<br />
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The source, who spoke anonymously said suspected members of Boko Haram attacked Sheriff’s convoy around Auno, a few kilometres to Maiduguri, the state capital.<br />
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The source disclosed that Sheriff was coming into Maiduguri from Abuja on Thursday evening to take part in the third-day post burial prayer for his father, Galadima Sheriff, who died last week.<br />
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He said Sheriff had travelled in a convoy of nine exotic vehicles.<br />
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The source added that the convoy was trailed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents around Auno.<br />
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The source said suspected insurgents engaged the escort of Sheriff on Thursday about 6:30pm and in the crossfire killed two police officers, two civilians and a soldier.<br />
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He noted that one of the nine vehicles was damaged at Auno as the convoy was rescued by a team of the Rapid Response Squad deployed in Njimtilo to enforce the COVID-19 lockdown.<br />
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The source said the suspected marauders were pushed back by the team of Rapid Response Squad.

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Ahead of the imminent review of the lockdown imposed on the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun states by the President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Medical Association has advised the Federal Government to again extend the lockdown, which ends on Monday (tomorrow).<br />
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This, the association said, would help to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease<br />
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It added that with the “exponential” rise in the number of cases recorded across the country daily, people should not see the lockdown as a punishment but a necessary measure to contain the spread of the deadly virus. It, however, stressed the need for fair distribution of the palliatives to cushion the hardship the restriction had caused Nigerians.<br />
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But the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture; the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association; and the Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr Muda Yusuf, opposed the possible extension of the total lockdown, saying the government should consider the partial opening of the economy.<br />
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The President had on March 29 imposed a 14-day lockdown on the FCT and the two states to contain the spread of the virus. At the end of the 14 days, which terminated on April 13, the President extended the lockdown, saying the pandemic had become a matter of life and death and that it was no longer a joke.<br />
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However, barely a day to the end of the extension, stakeholders have disagreed on whether the President should extend the lockdown or ease it. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, had maintained that only the President could decide on whether there would be an extension of the lockdown or it would be lifted.<br />
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As of April 13 when the President extended the lockdown, the number of cases was 343 in 19 states and the FCT. The number of deaths was 10 while 91 persons had been discharged. But, there were 87 new cases on Saturday, pushing the number of cases to 1,182 in 28 states and the FCT. The number of deaths rose to 35 while 222 persons had been discharged.<br />
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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said on Sunday that the state had yet to reach its COVID-19 peak despite recording the highest case so far. He had also warned on March 27 that the state might see up to 39,000 cases but that if everyone practised good social distancing, the figure would be limited to 13,000.<br />
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During the week, the Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chike Ihekweazu, had also hinted that the virus would eventually spread to all the 36 states. “There is no reason why it won’t (extend to every state in Nigeria), it is a respiratory virus,” he added.<br />
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The DG also said on Tuesday that the President would make tougher decisions in the coming week on measures to contain the spread of the virus. He, however, advised Nigerians to be prepared for the tougher directives. “Next week, Mr President will make some very difficult decisions for the country in terms of the lockdown in three states but also across the country in different ways,” he added.<br />
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Already, there is increasing tension and impatience among people in the affected states and the FCT over the possibility that the lockdown might be extended.<br />
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A cross-section of Nigerians have lamented that they were eager to go back to work, adding that staying at home for a month had become traumatising.<br />
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But the NMA, citing the rate at which the virus was spreading as a major consideration, said the consequence of lifting the lockdown could be calamitous.<br />
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In an interview with newsmen on Thursday, NMA National President, Dr Francis Faduyile, said, “If we say we want to contain the spread and we are having exponential increase, is that when we should open up and resume work? It’s obvious that it’s not the time to open up.<br />
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“We are just getting to the peak and the spread is still ascending the slope. You can only ease the lockdown when you are seeing a lesser number of new cases. Would you also say Kano State should open up and resume normal activities when the cases are just being detected?<br />
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“Things that are unfolding show that we need to enforce even more. However, if we want to enforce the lockdown, then we should do things that would make life easier for people. That is to call on the government to do the needful in the fair distribution of the palliatives so that people can stay at home.<br />
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“It is for the benefit of the people that the lockdown rules should be respected. It is not a punishment. The consequence of not extending it is that those who may harbour the virus will be mixing freely in society and would be transmitting the virus to those who are not yet infected. That won’t be good.”<br />
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Faduyile lamented that compliance with the lockdown had not been satisfactory.<br />
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The World Health Organisation had on Tuesday warned countries not to lift the lockdown, saying, “No country is safe from potentially overwhelming outbreaks as long as the coronavirus is circulating.”<br />
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Meanwhile, those who oppose the extension argued that in spite of the rising cases, government could not continue to put the economy on a lockdown.<br />
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The Director-General, NECA, Mr Timothy Olawale, said there was a need for the government to relax the lockdown and that if necessary, businesses could be encouraged to do a roaster for their employees so there wouldn’t be more than a certain number of employees at work at any given time.<br />
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He also said the government should take cognisance of the increasing crime rate, poverty and likely uprising or revolt by those in a precarious situation, while noting that without specific palliatives, the lockdown could cripple businesses and make recovery more difficult.<br />
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He said, “Government should relax the lockdown while putting in place stringent national policy as done in Ghana, Germany and some other countries. I suggest a relaxed lockdown between 8 am and 4 pm and a curfew between 5 pm and 7 am.<br />
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“For anyone that will go out, face mask should be made compulsory. Non-use of the face mask should be criminalised. Inter-state travels should remain banned for now while all businesses can be mandated to ensure stringent protocols such as social distancing, provision of wash hand area and so on within their premises.<br />
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“Without government giving specific palliatives such as part payment of salaries and direct tax waivers to businesses, the lockdown will further cripple businesses and make recovery more difficult.”<br />
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While calling for more tests to be carried out, he said information dissemination should be doubled so it could reach people in local areas.<br />
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The Director-General, NACCIMA, Ambassador Ayo Olukanni, also commended the federal and state governments for the strategies deployed so far to contain the virus. He, however, noted that the lockdown was no longer sustainable.<br />
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He said, “While we understand the reasons for the lockdown which has been on for almost a month; it has become necessary to review the lockdown order and replace it with a more strategic approach for various reasons. The continued lockdown is taking a serious toll on businesses across the country and the ripple effects on security are becoming alarming; especially as miscreants seize the opportunity to rob citizens and break into business premises.<br />
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“Consideration should be given to gradual opening of some businesses and other commercial operations. Steps should therefore be taken to allow some categories of workers to resume work and business operations while keeping to safety protocols, such as wearing of face masks, social distancing and ban on large gatherings.<br />
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“Certainly a lockdown order ad-infinitum is not sustainable and many of our members are of the view that this should be reviewed to ease the lockdown, of course without prejudice to safety, which is the duty of all.”<br />
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While calling for increased testing to identify the carriers of the virus, Olukanni commended the organisations that have provided palliatives for the underprivileged, noting that members of the association had been playing their roles in the fight against the deadly virus. He said they would continue to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential products and services at this difficult period<br />
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The Director-General of LCCI, Yusuf, who spoke in his personal capacity, said even though the lockdown was laudable to contain the spread of the virus, the sustainability had become a matter of concern.<br />
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He, therefore, advised that the government should consider the option of a partial lockdown.<br />
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Already, there had been rising insecurity, especially armed robbery, in some parts of Lagos and Ogun states, forcing the people to cry out for help, while some of them resort to keeping vigilance on the streets to ward off the thieves.<br />
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Yusuf said, “Lagos, for instance, is highly cosmopolitan, very mobile with a high velocity of business transactions. About 50 per cent of the Lagos economy is made up of the informal sector. One of the main features of the sector is that the operators live by the day. Keeping such a commercially active population indoors for a month is a great challenge.<br />
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“Neither the Lagos State Government nor the Federal Government has the capacity to manage the social consequences of a prolonged lockdown – hunger, restiveness and insecurity.<br />
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“This is why a long period of lockdown may not be sustainable. The context of a problem should define the prescription. An extension of the lockdown beyond the four weeks is not advisable.<br />
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“The option of partial lockdown should be considered. This should be preceded by a robust COVID-19 risk assessment. This should guide the targeting of the lockdown. Different economic activities present different vulnerabilities. In all cases, the observance of the COVID-19 protocols should continue under a regime of a partial lockdown.”<br />
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On their part, the Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria said if the government felt constrained to extend the lockdown on account of the rising cases, it should come up with better palliatives that would get to the target audience.<br />
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It said government should ensure that the youth, elderly people and those who depended on daily income but could not go to work now should be targeted as being done in other countries.<br />
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The National President of the association, Dr Femi Egbesola, said, “In the priority scale, health comes before wealth and at any point in time, it is better to prioritise health. If the lockdown is what is good for us now as a nation, even if we have sacrifices to make, it is better we cooperate. It’s only those who are alive that can do business, so our being alive is the topmost priority.<br />
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“But if there is a way they can relax the lockdown or do partial lockdown and we would still be safe, based on the advice of the medical experts, I think that would be better than total lockdown.<br />
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“There are some countries that have partial lockdown in place but the populace move with face masks, hand gloves and other protective wear. If there is a way that can be done, it’s okay because we will not say we want to be alive and then continue to suffer and begin to die physically or emotionally from the consequences of staying at home.<br />
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“If the medical experts advise that the lockdown should continue, there is an urgent need for the government to look at having more palliatives to reach the target audience.”<br />
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Independent of the lockdown imposed on the FCT and Lagos and Ogun states, many governors had also imposed lockdown on their states, while some imposed curfew.<br />
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Already, the Nigeria Labour Congress had called on the Federal Government not to extend the lockdown, warning that doing so might cause social unrest in the affected states and the FCT.<br />
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While faulting the approach employed in the distribution of the palliatives so far, the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said the “economy might relapse into prolonged coma if the current lockdown in the nation’s nerve centres goes beyond the current extension.”<br />
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On account of the rising cases across the states, governors of the 36 states of the federation on Wednesday unanimously agreed to impose a 14-day inter-state lockdown, saying the rise in the number of cases had become a matter of concern.<br />
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said in a communiqué issued after the forum’s teleconference meeting, “Governors unanimously agreed to the implementation of an inter-state lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate the spread from state to state.”

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Saturday said its members across universities had yet to be paid their withheld February and March salaries despite a directive from the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), that the monies should be paid.<br />
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ASUU added that as of Friday, April 24, none of its members had yet to receive their pay.<br />
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The ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this in an interview in Abuja, noting that the union would write the Minister of Finance and other stakeholders to protest against alleged deliberate efforts by the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System Office to complicate the process of salary payment.<br />
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Ogunyemi said, “If the agencies responsible refuse to carry out the directive, we are doing a letter of protest to the minister affiliated and to other quarters who should be aware of these deliberate efforts by IPPIS to derail this process of paying the salary to those who have been unjustly deprived.<br />
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“ASUU is not rejecting the payment of salary as directed; what ASUU is rejecting is the condition attached to the payment. From our understanding of what the President said, there should be no condition. We also know that the President directed the Minister of Finance to device any means so that the salary withheld be paid latest April 24.<br />
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“There is no way Mr President could have gathered the Bank Verification Numbers of scattered lecturers within three days. Our members are not on campus for them to fill forms at bursary.<br />
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“We see the BVN condition as a way of putting a wedge on the way; it is a way of ensuring that the directive is not carried out and our members are not happy with it. The universities have all the information they need to pay our members their withheld salaries.”

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BREAKING: Nigeria confirms 87 fresh cases of COVID-19, total now 1182

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The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday night confirmed 87 new cases of the Coronavirus.<br />
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According to a tweet from the NCDC, Lagos State recorded 33 cases, Borno State had 18 cases, Osun State recorded 12 cases and Katsina State had nine cases.<br />
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Others are four cases in Kano and Ekiti State, three in Edo and Bauchi State and one case in Imo Stae<br />
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As it stands, the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria is 1182, with 222 persons discharged and 35 deaths<br />
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<div dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">87 new cases of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> have been reported;<br />
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33 in Lagos<br />
18 in Borno<br />
12 in Osun<br />
9 in Katsina<br />
4 in Kano<br />
4 in Ekiti<br />
3 in Edo<br />
3 in Bauchi<br />
1 in Imo<br />
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As at 11:55 pm 25th April there are 1182 confirmed cases of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> reported in Nigeria.<br />
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Discharged: 222<br />
Deaths: 35 <a href="https://t.co/La5xzZZe2z">pic.twitter.com/La5xzZZe2z</a></div>
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1254183337163403266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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List of prominent people who suddenly died in Kano in the last 24 hours

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These are not the best of times for Kano State in Nigeria’s North.<br />
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On Saturday, news spread that several prominent residents have dropped dead in the last 24 hours.<br />
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While some had coronoavirus symptoms, what hit others still remain unknown.<br />
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There are speculations of meningitis but residents say they cannot even explain what’s going on in the ancient city.<br />
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had shut down in the state on Wednesday and no definite date for resumption.<br />
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A list of those that have died released by <i>PRNigeria</i>, has editors, bankers, businessmen, professors, government officials, among others<br />
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They include Ibrahim Ayagi; Aliyu Umar Dikko, Abdullahi Lawal; ex-MD of Continental Merchant Bank, Ibrahim Ayagi; Musa Ahmad Tijjani, Editor of Triumph newspapers; Adamu Dal, ex-Chairman State Civil Service Commission.<br />
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Others are Nasiru Maikano Bichi; Musa Umar Gwarzo; Ustaz Dahiru Rabiu, ex-Grand Khadi; Salisu Lado; Nene Umma; Garba Sarki Fagge; Salisu Lado; Shamsiyya Mustapha; Nene Umma; Garba Sarki Fagge; Nasiru Maikano Bichi; Rabiu Dambatta; Kabiru Ibrahim Bayero and mother of businessman, Ado Gwanja.