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Some aides of President Muhammadu Buhari and other government officials, who attended the burial of Mallam Abba Kyari, have completed their 14-day isolation and tested negative for COVID-19. Consequently, they have been reunited with their families. There had been fears that some of them might have contracted the virus during the funeral of Kyari on April 18 at Gudu Cemetery in Abuja. Acting Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat in the the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Dr Muhammed Kawu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said, “The Health and Human Services Secretariat of the FCT Administration is happy to announce that the individuals exposed during the burial of late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, have completed their 14 days of isolation. Tests were conducted on them and they have all tested negative to COVID-19. They have been reunited with their families.”  See Also Sahara Reporters COVID-19: Despite Guid

Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District at the National Assembly and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas, has distributed palliatives worth millions of naira to the 21 local government areas of Anambra State to kickstart his gubernatorial election. However, Ubah, who announced the distribution on Twitter, is yet to pay salaries of his employees, some for over two years. One of his workers, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said they were currently being owed eight months salaries and there was no indication that the money would be paid anytime soon.  "We are owed salaries for eight months now.  "We are suffering and he is busy showing off on Twitter all because he wants to be governor,” he said. Another worker, who also spoke with SaharaReporters, said, “I doubt if he has good advisers.  "He should try to pay off the over 1450 people working with him, most of whom he has owed salaries and wages for more than two

Ali Modu Sheriff Residents of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, have expressed concerns after the whereabouts of former governor of the state, Ali Modu Sheriff, became a subject of debate. SaharaReporters  gathered that Sheriff had refused to make himself available for COVID-19 test despite meeting two prominent citizens of the state, who died of the virus recently. A member of the state prevention and response team said the former governor was one of the contacts being traced and linked up with late former governor, Mohammed Goni, and Shehu of Bama, Alhaji Kyari Elkanemi, who both died of the virus.  Ali Modu Sheriff Sahara Reporters Media Both Goni and Elkanemi had had last week attended the funeral of Sheriff's late father, Galadima Modu Sheriff, in Maiduguri where social distancing rules were broken by attendees. Also, during the three days of mourning, they were said to have had meetings with Sheriff at his father's residence and his private residence in GRA Ma

Lagos speaker, Mudashiru Obasa Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has sponsored some thugs to embark on a protest against  SaharaReporters  in front of the Civic Media Lab in the GRA area of Ikeja, Lagos. The paid miscreants, most of whom are members of the notorious Awawa Boys – a group known to terrorize residents of Agege and other neighbouring suburbs in the city – are expected to be carrying out such hatchet jobs for corrupt politicians. It won't be the first time Lagos politicians and the Nigerian government would sponsor fake protests against SaharaReporters – on June 16, 2017, Lekan Fatodu, a self-acclaimed journalist, led some miscreants including commercial motorcycle riders known as ‘Okada riders’ to protest in front of Civic Media Lab, preventing users and employees from going in or out for several hours.  Buoyed by then Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, Fatodu also came along with a few reporters and bloggers, who later s

Isa Umar Family and friends of Isa Umar have called on the Department of State Services to release their son. Umar was arrested on November 26, 2014 on suspicion of terrorism. He was picked up by unidentified soldiers at his family’s compound and handed over to the DSS. His childhood friend, Anas Adamu, said the family sued the Federal Government over the unlawful detention of their son and the court on March 7, 2017, ordered his immediate release and the payment of N1m as fine and N50,000 as compensation but the DSS failed to comply.  Isa Umar A copy of the judgment delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Kaduna, which was seen by SaharaReporters stated that the arrest and torture of Umar contravened Section 34, 35 and 36 of the constitution. Justice Nwite then declared that the act of the respondent (DSS) detaining the applicant (Aliyu) in their custody for two years without charging him to any court of competent jurisdiction was unconstitutional and