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Kano Loses 12 Prominent Persons In 10 Hours

Kano State has continued to witness a rise in unusual deaths as over 12 persons were confirmed dead on Saturday. The deceased include professors, a newspaper editor, and other professionals.

They were buried at different cemeteries within and outside the metropolis.

Within the past eight days of lockdown in the state, no fewer than 20 persons have died from undisclosed ailments.

Eyewitnesses and undertakers at cemeteries in the state said an unspecified number of people had died and were buried over the past few days.

Among the prominent persons that died in Kano on Saturday were Prof Ibrahim Ayagi, Dr Musa Umar Gwarzo, Alhaji Dahiru Rabiu (former Grand Khadi), Musa Tijjani (Editor of Triumph Newspaper) and Adamu Isyaku Dal, who was a former Executive Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board.

Others are Alhaji Salisu Lado, Hajiya Shamsiyya Mustapha, Hajiyaj Nene Umma, Alhaji Garba Sarki Fagge, Dr Nasiru Maikano Bichi, Secretary Student Affairs, North West University, Prof Aliyu Umar Dikko of Physiology Department, Bayero University Kano, and Ado Gwanja’s mother, among others.

The spate of deaths in the state has continued to instil fear and confusion among people living in the state.

A dweller, Tijjani Abdullahi, who spoke to our correspondent, called on the state government to investigate the increasing number of deaths in the city in order to address the possible cause of the deaths.

“The state government has concentrated on the fight against coronavirus while people are dying of other ailments in silence. Some even suspected that the people are dying of coronavirus without being detected.”

According to him, most of the recent deaths have been attributed to high blood pressure, malaria, ulcer and even hunger, adding that the dearth of medical doctors to attend to patients in hospitals across the state has become worrisome.

Some people in the state have continued to express concern over the increase in the number of deaths since the state government imposed a total lockdown on the state as a result of the rising cases of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday denied that there was any strange death in the state, saying, “There is nothing to show that there is unusual frequency of deaths in Kano State.”

The Kano State Taskforce Committee on COVID-19 said the number of confirmed cases was 74 as of Saturday.

The Coordinator of the taskforce committee, Dr Tijjani Hussaini, told our correspondent in Kano on Saturday.

Chinese doctors’ flight: How three airline crew members ‘disappeared’ from Lagos quarantine centre

Three out of the 17 pilots and flight attendants who flew 14 Chinese medical doctors and medical supplies from China to Nigeria on Wednesday have boycotted the Lagos quarantine centre provided by the Lagos State Government, investigations by Sunday PUNCH have revealed.

The crew, who flew Air Peace’s Boeing 777-200ER jumbo jet from China, landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The 17 pilots and flight attendants later on Wednesday proceeded to Lagos to be quarantined by the Lagos State Government in line with an agreement the Ministry of Health reached with the carrier’s management. The Chinese medical personnel were quarantined in Abuja.

Air Peace partnered the Federal Government to ferry the 14-member Chinese medical team and medical supplies from China to Nigeria.

The Chinese team brought about 16 tons of test kits, ventilators, disinfection machine, disposable medical masks, N95 masks, medications, rubber gloves, protective gowns, goggles, face shields, infra-red thermometers and others.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who was at the airport to receive the Chinese doctors and their supplies, said the team would be quarantined for two weeks.

He said, “They knew that before they came and have undergone tests before they left their country.

“Nevertheless, they will be in quarantine for 14 days. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has gone to see where they will be quarantined.”

Ehanire added: “The equipment (they brought) will assist a lot to fill some existing gaps. We now have 50 more ventilators.”

However, Sunday PUNCH investigation showed that the flight crew members disagreed with Port Health Services officials on duty at Lagos airport over the 14-day compulsory quarantine.

Port Health Services is a unit of the Ministry of Health that screens arriving and departing passengers of infectious diseases especially COVID-19.

On arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 10pm on Wednesday, the flight crew initially refused to be quarantined.

Ministry of Health sources confirmed that the pilots and cabin crew members claimed their management did not inform them of the 14-day compulsory quarantine.

As such, the flight personnel initially refused to follow the port health officials to the quarantine centre provided by the Lagos State Government.

There was subsequently a heated exchange that lasted for about three hours over the 14-day compulsory quarantine between the crew and the port health officials.

After several calls by the port health officials on duty to top officials of the Ministry of Health in Abuja as well as top officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health, the crew members bowed to pressure and agreed to go to the quarantine centre at about 1am.

On arriving the Scholars Lodge at the University of Lagos where the state government had prepared for the crew to be quarantine around 2am, another debate ensued over the type of the apartment provided.

The crew members insisted that they wanted a single-user apartment for each member of the crew instead of the two-bedroom apartment meant to be shared by two persons which the state provided.

Top health officials told Sunday PUNCH the crew asked officers on duty to take them to another facility as the apartments were not the type they wanted. This debate, it was learnt, went on for another three hours till about 5 am before the crew finally agreed to stay at the centre.

Meanwhile, before the crew departed the Lagos airport, one of the 17 crew members had escaped and left apparently for his house, unknown to the port health officials.

This was not discovered until Thursday evening when a head count was conducted at the quarantine centre.

It was also at this time officials discovered that two out of the 16 crew members brought to the Scholars Lodge had also escaped.

Findings by Sunday PUNCH revealed that the Ministry of Health and Lagos State Government had reached out to the management of the airline over the whereabouts of the two crew members.

As of the time of filing this report, it had yet to be ascertained where the two crew members were.

When contacted on Friday, the Director, Port Health Services, Ministry of Health, Dr Morenike Alex-Okoh, in her reaction, said she was not authorised to speak on the matter. She directed our correspondent to the minister of health or the health ministry’s permanent secretary.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Abdullahi Mashi, confirmed the development but noted that the cabin crew members who left the quarantine centre had returned to the facility, saying “they are back now.”

Asked further about the health risks of the crew leaving the quarantine, having met several other contacts during that period, Mashi said, “They are back, it is left for the Lagos State surveillance team to work on that. They will do the needful. The important thing is that they are back.”

Air Peace also confirmed the development but did not explain the reasons the crew members left the facility.

The Chief Operating Officer, Air Peace, Mrs Toyin Olajide, in a terse message to Sunday PUNCH said, “All crew are back in the quarantine facility, including the engineer.”

Asked when the crew members returned to the facility, she said “Friday afternoon.”

She did not give reasons the crew left the quarantine facility.

Also, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr Olusegun Ogunye, when contacted on the matter, confirmed the development but noted that all the 17 pilots and flight attendants were back in the facility.

Ogunye, who spoke through the spokesperson for the state health ministry, Mr Tubosun Ogubanwo, said, “The state government has reached out to all the 17 pilots and flight attendants through the Epidemiology and Surveillance Team on COVID-19. So, all 17 of them are now together.”

Asked further on the health implications of the crew leaving the quarantine centre and returning after about 24 hours, Ogunye said, “What I want you to know is that the state government has reached out to them and necessary action has been taken. I believe the team is in charge of it.”

ProsperChild:
Yeah that method work.

Buh make sure that you create a table where a trigger we store the users information with newid.

At the front end php is employed to fetch the Trigger table ofcourse validation should be performed yea to ensure only one pin is tied to one individual.This will check if a user already exist in the database that bears the new.id value contain in the Trigger row table..


Security of our data is utmost concern.

we shall use PDO and not procedural PHP langguage.

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Journi2America:
You can also use Reset password principle.. You can then use Regex to vaidate the card serial n card pins.
THE USERS IS PRESENTED WITH2 0R 3 TEXT BOXES
YOU FIRST CHECK IF THE REGISTRATION NO EXIST IN THE DATABASE FOR THE TEXTBOX1
SECONDLY USE CHECK IF THE CARD SERIAL NO IS VALIDATED BY THE REGEX
THEN UPDATE THE DATABASE RECORDS WITH THE NEW PIN AS IF THE PERSON PASSWORD IS LOST.PERFORM A VALIDATION CHECK TO ENSURE THAT NO DUPLICATE CARD PIN IS INSERTED............DETAILS LATER

Journi2America:
You can also use Reset password principle.. You can then use Regex to vaidate the card serial n card pins.
THE USERS IS PRESENTED WITH2 0R 3 TEXT BOXES
YOU FIRST CHECK IF THE REGISTRATION NO EXIST IN THE DATABASE FOR THE TEXTBOX1
SECONDLY USE CHECK IF THE CARD SERIAL NO IS VALIDATED BY THE REGEX
THEN UPDATE THE DATABASE RECORDS WITH THE NEW PIN AS IF THE PERSON PASSWORD IS LOST.PERFORM A VALIDATION CHECK TO ENSURE THAT NO DUPLICATE CARD PIN IS INSERTED............DETAILS LATER

Journi2America:
You can also use Reset password principle.. You can then use Regex to vaidate the card serial n card pins.
THE USERS IS PRESENTED WITH2 0R 3 TEXT BOXES
YOU FIRST CHECK IF THE REGISTRATION NO EXIST IN THE DATABASE FOR THE TEXTBOX1
SECONDLY USE CHECK IF THE CARD SERIAL NO IS VALIDATED BY THE REGEX
THEN UPDATE THE DATABASE RECORDS WITH THE NEW PIN AS IF THE PERSON PASSWORD IS LOST.PERFORM A VALIDATION CHECK TO ENSURE THAT NO DUPLICATE CARD PIN IS INSERTED............DETAILS LATER

ProsperChild:
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Here is some few guide. Understanding this tips we save u hundred of thousand naira, buying a software that u can create and manage effectively on your own.


1. You need to understand HTML/CSS and javascript. You need to know how to use Javascript with REGEX. To validate users PIN $ Serial No details.

2. You need to know how work with database.(Back-end framework)

we have a lot of databases, example Mariadb, Sql bench, Mysql etc.
For beginner n to make thing simple go for MYSQL..
You should understand mysql commands, Data relationship, one-to many etc.
3.Frontend-framework I recommend use PHP( That means u got to study php language and learn how to create simple user registration forms)

4.Should know how to create membership in php that expired at a given time.This concept will be useful to throw a javascript alert that users card pin has expired or count remaining days.

5.You musy understand Triggers. How to use trigger whenever an event is called.Like update, insert, delete.etc.

Trigger is useful, because when you generare a PIN
Using a php technology on the front-end( Learn how to generate random number that stored in the database) U can call trigger to indicate that row is inserted n set or change field column name (Open)a status that is Closed. and another field column Used By &Username.This is very important if u want to create a )PIN that is tied to one user. Although tied to one users u can set the column field as unique so that no duplicate records will be accepted.However Triggers will enable the admin to know which database field column is OPEN or CLOSED so that HE or SHE can generate more PIN for new users.

Your database schema Should look like this
Create a database and give it a name.

Tips use ur Generated unique Id to vaildate users input using REGEX (Regular expression)
concept

We shall create this together. Dont leave this Trend it is gonna be exciting trends.We shall build exciting apps!


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Coronavirus: We are expecting a medical team from China, says FG

The federal government says a medical team from China will arrive the country in a few days.

Osagie Enahire, minister of health, broke the news at the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Friday.

He also said a group of Chinese companies working in Nigeria have donated medical supplies to support the country’s fight against COVID-19.

He said the items include commodities such as personal protective equipment and ventilators.

“I have been notified of medical supplies from China, courtesy of a group of Chinese companies working here in Nigeria. A special cargo aircraft shall leave Nigeria in a few days to collect the items which include commodities, personal protective equipment and ventilators,” he said.

“An 18-man team of Chinese medical experts including doctors, nurses and other medical advisers shall come along with the flight to assist us. I must at this juncture commend our frontline workers who are doing a great job in case identification and management.

“As we prepare to contain COVID-19, we must not lose sight of other health challenges in our country. Routine health service must continue in our hospitals. Only a wing of tertiary health centres should be used for infected patients.”

The minister said nearly 3,000 samples have been tested for the disease, adding that Nigeria will witness an increase in confirmed coronavirus cases despite the lockdown.

Nigeria has recorded 190 confirmed cases out of which Lagos state, which is the epicentre of the disease, has 98 cases.

The federal capital territory (FCT) has 38; Osun, 20, and Oyo, eight cases. Akwa Ibom state has five cases; Ogun and Edo states have four each; Kaduna, four; Bauchi, three.

Enugu and Ekiti states have two cases each while Rivers and Benue states have recorded one each.

In Africa, over 7,000 cases have been recorded with 284 deaths spread across 50 countries.

Globally, the confirmed cases hit one million on Thursday, with at least 51, 300 people dead from complications of the disease.

The infection has spread to 204 countries and territories since the first case was recorded in Wuhan, China, late December.

On March 24, Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce company, donated medical kits for Nigeria to fight coronavirus pandemic.