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Over 150 people who reportedly died in Kano between Friday and Saturday last week have been buried in three cemeteries, heightening fears that the deceased must have died as a result of a strange ailment.


Niger Republic yesterday Undertakers express concern Families of victims speak We’re investigating – Health commissioner Nothing like mass deaths – COVID-19 task force ‘Burials not unusual’ Over 150 people who reportedly died in Kano between Friday and Saturday last week have been buried in three cemeteries, heightening fears that the deceased must have died as a result of a strange ailment. Undertakers who doubled as grave diggers in the affected cemeteries said the frequency at which they received corpses these days was unusual when compared with the number of people they buried before the coronavirus outbreak.

The figure of the dead buried in the three cemeteries excludes other people buried in dozens of burial grounds in the eight local government areas that constitute Kano metropolis, though those working in such cemeteries said they did not notice anything unusual. Also, authorities in Kano, community leaders, families of the deceased and medical officials have given different opinion on the matter with the state ministry of health saying it was investigating the matter. Our correspondents report that the development has thrown many residents of the city into palpable fears even as they nurse the suspicion of possible community transmission of the ravaging COVID-19 within the state capital, which has a population of over four million people. Out of the 44 local government areas in Kano State, eight of them are not far from the state capital. They are Nasarawa, Gwale, Dala, Ungogo, Fagge, Tarauni, Kumbotso and Municipal.

As of Monday, April 20, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Kano had a total of 59 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death. Attendants at graveyards say burials scary Attendants and undertakers across the three cemeteries that witnessed unusual burials described the current regularity of burials in the city as unprecedented, urging the government to as a matter of urgency investigate to ascertain the real cause.

Bashir Mohammed, one of the undertakers at the Dandolo Cemetery in Goron Dutse, Dala Local Government Area of Kano State, said, “This is worrisome, we are becoming overwhelmed by what we are seeing here these days because to me, the way people are dying is not ordinary.” Mohammed popularly known as Mai Sana’a, said between Saturday and Sunday, over thirty people were buried in the cemetery in contrast to maximum daily record of ten burials previously.

Mohammed said most of the people buried within the period were aged cutting across both sexes. Similarly, at Abattoir Cemetery near Kofar Mazugal, our reporters were told that 61 persons had been buried in the cemetery over the weekend.

The cemetery attendants who disclosed this said most of the deaths were from Zage, Darma, Sharifai and Gabari as well as Zangon Barebari communities in Kano municipal. Most of the residents who spoke to our reporters attributed the deaths to “severe malaria and typhoid fever besides some other infections and terminal illnesses.” Some of the residents further attributed the development to the closure of some of the private hospitals in the city where some of the deceased used to access care following the discovery of the first coronavirus case in the state.

Families of deceased call for intervention Sheriff Hadi Kabir who is the chairman Fagge Cemetery Committee has called for immediate government intervention to unravel incidences of unusual deaths in Kano. Kabir who lost his aged father three days ago described the situation as “terrifying”. He said in his neighbourhood at Zangon Barebari in Kano Municipal Local Government Area, more than thirteen people died between Sunday and Monday from a very severe fever “suspected to be malaria and typhoid.” He attributed the resurgence of malaria within the area to exposure to mosquito bites which usually herald the set in of the wet season. “This is not coronavirus as speculated; it is severe malaria because of our exposure to mosquito bites.

We have been battling this kind of experience almost on yearly bases around this time. “So, we are praying to the government to come to our rescue because this malaria is deadly than the COVID-19,” he said.

A relative to one of the deceased in Mandawari quarters, Hajiya Amina Sani, said that her mother died of malaria. “My mother started having severe fever last week. My brother took her to hospital and they conducted some tests on her and the result showed that she was having malaria. Her condition continued to deteriorate until Sunday when she passed away,” she said. Malam Hafeezu Adamu, another relative to a deceased in Zage quarters, told Daily Trust that even though his brother was diabetic, doctors clarified that he died of malaria. “My brother was diabetic, but about five days ago he started complaining of fever and headache.

He was diagnosed of malaria and was later admitted in the hospital where he eventually died on Saturday,” he said.

We’re investigating – Health commissioner The Kano State Ministry of Health yesterday, called for calm saying the ministry had already launched an investigation to unravel the real cause of the deaths in the state. A statement signed by the information officer of the ministry, Hadiza M. Namadi said, “The attention of Kano State Ministry of Health has been drawn to a post being circulated on social media platforms on purported death of number of people within two days and buried in some cemeteries within Kano metropolis. “As the ministry could not immediately verify the veracity of the claim going round, the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, hereby assured the general public that investigation into the matter is ongoing to verify the claim and possible causes of the deaths. “Dr. Tsanyawa also assured that the public will be informed on the outcome of the investigation in due course. “While he prayed for the repose of the souls of the departed, the commissioner also advised people to continue to observe social distancing, wash hands regularly, avoid gatherings and stay at home to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” the statement said.

However, the Secretary, Risk Communication Sub Committee on COVID-19 in Kano State, Alhaji Auwalu Abdu Fagge, denied the rumour of mass deaths in Kano metropolis. According to him, “this particular rumour has been investigated and found to be untrue. I beg of you with massive social media followership to help in clearing the air.” Fagge in a statement said the task force had activated community informants structure to report deaths and cause of deaths and has also deployed officers to all burial grounds to count bodies brought in for burial every day.

According to the statement: “Kindly disregard the rumours of having mass deaths recently in Kano metropolis, the State Task Force on #COVID19 has activated community informants structure of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to report deaths and cause of deaths and have also deployed officers to all burial grounds to count bodies brought in for burial everyday (the workers would conduct 2 shifts). “Honestly, the media and rumour mongers have been trying their best in making us dispense energy in wading them off. This particular rumour has been investigated and found to be untrue so must be dispelled. “We appeal to you (individuals) with massive social media followership to help in clearing the air.

We cannot afford to lead the good people of Kano to panic and lose confidence in our response. “We must state that we are more courageous than ever in a bid to contain this pandemic,” he said. Also, a medical expert from Kano who does not want his name in print, said the number of people being buried was not unusual because of the dense population of Kano. He said people were usually busy with their day to day activity but with the lock down and people staying at home, they have become mindful of such an activity and panicking over it.

On his part, Comrade Sagir Salihu Chedi, a Kano based civil activist, called for calm, saying the deaths were noticeable now because people were at home doing nothing and that there may be nothing new to it. According to him, “What I am thinking on this issue is that people die every day at every location here in Kano. The reason we noticed this is because of the lockdown…People are at home doing nothing. “In Kano, we don’t have any statistics mechanism that record the number of death based on gender, age, or diseases; so these deaths are not new, it could be new to some of us because we are not always at home,” he said.

Fewer deaths in other burial grounds In some areas visited by our reporters in Nasarawa Local Government, there were fewer incidences of burial compared to what was obtained in the past. At Yankaba graveyard, the cemetery attendant, Malam Ibrahim Alif, told one of our reporters that two people were buried at the cemetery and all of them were elderly persons who were ill for some time.

Similarly, at Haye graveyard, neighbours of the cemetery said there was no dead body brought for burial since Friday. Also at Sauna/Dakata Cemetery, the story was the same where Daily Trust learnt that only one person was buried on Monday

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/150-people-die-in-kano-in-3-days.html

Add that to your book of regrets

We heard you loud and clear

Our people are more scared of Coronavirus than boko boys now

sassysure:
Taxes from where again sarrki?
Or are u among those who assume Nigerians don't pay tax?

Only few do

I mean total overhauling of the tax system the kind of ore independence

vivavik:
I'm certainly reviewing my friends' list and developing myself for the best, cause, kai. I just can imagine the future.

You will be glad you did

We need to sit tight as a nation

Our past and present leaders failed woefully

No where to fall back now

Agriculture and taxes it’s the way out now

Stalwert:
US oil Price before the usual sadists begin jubilating.

IPOb loved white racist supremacist Donald Trump is doing magic in the US he has set two notable records:

Record one week Job loss in a week since the 80s currently 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in within 4 weeks

Record oil price since forever (
Negative oil prices in the US.

IPOB choice for leadership is always legendary.

I pray Donald will not bankrupt the US, he is the only man I know of that Bankrupt a Casino.

Brotherly I bet to disagree

The guy tried seriously for the American economy

If not the pandemic

We are doing seriously great

You are sure of leaving a job for another in less than hours

majamajic:
Fuel suppose be like 70 naira now , but we still selling at 125 naira

If our refineries are working we would produce at low rates

The wicked past and present government did nothing

This is our price for corruption and wickedness

It’s now real time to sit up

If we didn’t get our health system,

Our politics right,

Our economy,

Our priorities,

Our spending habit

With the corona virus and the economy downfall right then we can’t never again as a nation

Give me oil, but not yet

One thing that people like to invest in is oil. You can buy oil to refine into gasoline or whatever, but you can also just buy it as an investment, or a speculation, or a hedge. You buy oil today for $35, if the price of oil goes up to $65 you make money, if it goes down to $15 you lose money, it is a bet like any other.


Or that’s the idea. In fact there is a practical problem with bets like that, which is that oil is voluminous and oozy and poisonous and flammable and smelly. If you want to bet a few thousand dollars of your retirement account on your belief that the price of oil will go up, you will not want to actually fill your garage with barrels of oil to implement that bet. That would be inconvenient.

So instead you turn to financial markets to buy, effectively, abstract oil. You buy a financial instrument that goes up if the price of oil goes up and goes down if the price of oil goes down. That’s what you want, a bet on oil prices without the inconvenience of owning a lake of flammable liquid.

It would be nice if there were just, exactly, that thing. “Permanent abstract oil,” you buy it for the price of oil today and sell it for the price of oil when you want to sell it. But there isn’t, quite. There are oil futures: You buy abstract oil today and it converts into real oil in May, or whenever. You do not want real oil, in May, or ever. Perhaps your bet is just “the price of oil will go up by the end of April.” Then you buy May futures today, sell them by the end of April, collect your profit (or loss) on the bet, and never get any real oil. (The futures you buy and the ones you sell offset; no one delivers you any oil, and you never deliver anyone any oil.)


But more likely your bet is just “the price of oil will go up sometime.” (Just like buying a share of stock is a bet that its price will go up sometime: You are not locked into any time frame.) You do not actually want the May futures, exactly; you just want abstract oil. So what you do is you buy the May futures, to bet on the price of oil without owning actual flammable oil, and then as the expiration date of the May futures gets close you sell those futures and buy the June ones instead. (This is called “rolling” the futures.) As the June expiration approaches, you do it again. You keep owning oil-but-not-quite-yet, giving you exposure to oil prices without the inconvenience of actual oil.

There are legendary stories on Wall Street about newbie commodities traders who forgot to roll their positions and had to scramble to find somewhere to store 10,000 pork bellies or bushels of wheat or barrels of oil or whatever. These stories are funny because they are rare, perhaps mythical; mostly financial traders just remember to keep their commodities trades in the world of financial abstraction.

This is, for instance, what oil exchange-traded funds do. An oil ETF gives its investors permanent exposure to abstract oil, but it generally doesn’t do that by actually owning a giant tank of oil; it does it by buying futures and rolling them. One way to think about this is that someone has to store the oil—the actual oil—that you own abstractly. If oil prices are in contango—if the price of June oil is above the price of May oil—then by rolling the futures (selling the cheap May one and buying the more expensive June one) you are effectively paying someone else to store the oil for a month. Someone else can buy the cheap May contract, sell the expensive June one, take delivery of the oil in May, keep it in their garage for a month and deliver it in June. (If oil prices are in backwardation then someone is paying you to take the oil out of storage because they really need it now.)


Occasionally you will have the odd situation in which (1) people think that oil is valuable and want to bet, abstractly, on its future prices but (2) no one wants any actual oil right now because no one is using it and they have nowhere to put it:

Oil plunged the most on record to below $12 a barrel in New York as a historic demand slump fills inventories to the brim.

Futures fell as much as 40%. While the collapse reflects the most immediate May contract expiring on Tuesday, it nonetheless highlights a fast-growing glut of oil, and rapidly expanding stockpiles at the American hub at Cushing, Oklahoma. OPEC+’s record production cuts from next month are paling in the face of this evaporating demand.

The upcoming May contract’s expiry means traders are shifting their positions to June as they try to avoid taking deliveries of cargoes because of the lack of space to store them. That has opened up an unprecedented discount of more than $10 between the two nearest contracts.

This situation—in which the price of the June contract is far above that of the May one—apparently delights in the name “super contango.” People put a price on oil—they think it has value and want to own it at that value—but they also put a price on not having it now, and the latter price is quite high relative to the former. Conceivably, in theory, the latter price (what you’d pay to not have oil now) could exceed the former (what you’d pay to have oil eventually), leading to negative spot prices. We’re getting there:

There are signs of weakness everywhere. Buyers in Texas are offering as little as $2 a barrel for some oil streams, raising the possibility that producers may soon have to pay to have crude taken off their hands.

In ordinary economics, things do not have negative prices: If nobody wants a thing, if you’d have to pay them to take the thing, you just don’t make it. Oil is a little weird—it is hard to shut in and then restart an oil well, and there are all sorts of weird cartels and game theory involved in oil pricing and production—but the other thing going on here is that a global pandemic is pretty weird for commodity prices. The price of oil is not approaching zero because nobody needs oil; you can look into the future—or at futures prices—and see that, in fact, there is demand for oil. But right now, with the world economy closed, people need much less oil than they’ve got. If you have a thing that lots of people want, but that no one wants right now, it is hard to put a normal price on it.




https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-s-nowhere-to-put-the-oil

Isinweke:
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You lack common sense.
You're always quick to make every thread look like tribal bashing thread.
Hate is killing you inside.

What wrong about that post?

Young man

Stop vibrating

Wiseandtrue:
Religious and ethnic bigotry and intolerant was more rampant during this regime

Have you cared to ask yourself why

No be you Your eye go soon clear again

Na so we warn you tire when you dey shout daddy, daddy upandan before finally your eye clear

You don start again, will you ever learn

Girl please stop hatred

Politics is not about religion alone

It’s not a tribal thing

Example is Onyeama Ugochukwu and late Abba Kyari

And many more that damned religious and ethnic clux

Wiseandtrue:
Speak for yourself

You don start again bah

I don’t count enemies of the state

I don’t include ethnic bigots

I did not include religious bigots

Only for people with sound mind

Not frustrated being

fulaniHERDSman:
Ok
That's my 2023 man.

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai recuperating well and working in isolation. We are wishing you a speedy recovery

KADUNA UPDATE: Earlier today, I took 2 hours out of isolation to attend the daily virtual meeting of State Standing Committee on Covid-19, chaired by Deputy Governor @DrHadiza Balarabe. Since there is fake news circulating that I am in ICU in Lagos, an ICU picture will help! NAE

https://mobile.twitter.com/elrufai/status/1252279888696037376

Adesina18111:
...this is too much na

Captainrambo2:
Everything in Nigeria, who you know who you know...


Abegee

They weren’t in position of authority then

They worked hard for it

Stop the normal Naija mentality of who you know thing

Afolabimills:
for d rest of ur miserable life don't ever tag me olofo

Just a question you are foaming from both side of your mouth

Who is your friend now ?

Who are you a friend to?

Who can you call your friend?

Who can call you a friend

Start building bridges

Start making reasonable friends

Stop hatred

Move beyond racial, ethnic and religious chains

Break the barrier and enjoy life while it last

Late Chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari mallam Abba Kyari and minister of foreign affairs Mr Geoffrey Onyeama in the 70s

The generation before us and ours failed to put this country in comity of nation

We can undo our wrongs for generations yet unborn

It’s not a birth right

We should move on from this foolishness

The generation before us and ours failed to put this country in comity of nation

We can undo our wrongs for generations yet unborn

The truth is Nigerians are there own problem

This can’t be blamed on economic hardship

We are know more thinking like a normal being

It’s a generational and a societal thing

A personnel of Kano Road Transport Agency (KAROTA), identified as Umar Yakub Mohammed, has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling a minor. He was allegedly caught pants down by a police personnel on guard duty behind Ado Bayero mall.

Mohammed was part of the security operatives enforcing the lockdown in the state. He was said to have picked the girl, 15, at Kano line motor Park where he was stationed.

The suspect, however, denied the offence, saying he only offered to assist and take the girl to her house behind the trade fair complex but stopped to urinate where the Policeman caught them.

The girl confirmed that the suspect had a carnal knowledge of her. Some of the residents in the neighbourhood said it was not the first time the suspect was seen with the girl on a motorcycle around the area.

Meanwhile, both the suspect and the victim are in detention at Kwali division of Kano metropolis. When contacted, the spokesman of Kano police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said he had not been briefed about the incident.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/kano-state-official-caught-pants-down-defiling-minor.html

PDJT:
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-So you’re OK with a padi-padi government after-all. Are you not same character that stays on this forum 24/7 littering the pages with; “I’m a patriot”? And here we have people running a whole “country” as though it’s an ex-boy’s club and you’re cheering them on? Lol .

-Onyema is now a good boy until he “missteps” and gets reminded that he is “IPOB youth” or Omo-Igbo.

Is he qualified or not?

helinues:
Ohaneze don drink that Kai Kai again

helinues:
Trying my possible best oo

This one wey be say your place na more of like the new epicenter of the virus, how una dey cope?

We are have reached the apex

Flattening down now

There is good news now

helinues:
They are not creative enough to comments on other section..

Even the politics section they are, they are fond of regurgitating old things

You really know them very well

Brother please stay safe in this convid period