Amid the coronavirus war, another lawmaker in Borno State,
Umar Audi, has passed on.
This happened barely a week after Bukar Wakil Lawan, lawmaker representing Nganzai constituency in Borno, died of coronavirus.
Audi was said to have died shortly after being admitted at the UNIMAID Teaching Hospital.
According to reports, his sample has been sent to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control to certify if the death has anything to do with COVID-19.”
Aldo, hours after the palace of the Emir of Daura was shut due to coronavirus infection, the monarch, Emir Umar Faruk, is said to have been hospitalized.
According to ‘Daily Trust’, he was reportedly hospitalised and placed in the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Center Katsina for an “undisclosed ailments” on Tuesday May 5.
Dr Mustapha Inuwa, Secretary to the State Government, had confirmed that the monarch’s palace was sealed after Coronavirus cases were recorded.
It is also speculated that the Emir might have contracted Coronavirus as Kastina’s index case of Coronavirus, Dr Aminu Yakubu was his personal physician.
Meanwhile, there are fears over the health of Mrs Kakah Hajia, mother of the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.
According to Sahara Reporters, the late Hajja died after a brief illness at her home in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.