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  • BREAKING: Veteran U.S. talk show host, Larry King dies weeks after testing COVID-19 positive

    BREAKING: Veteran U.S. talk show host, Larry King dies weeks after testing COVID-19 positive

    US talk show host Larry King has died at the age of 87.

    The TV star was taken to hospital in Los Angeles in late December after testing positive for coronavirus.

    King, whose career spanned more than six decades, had Type 2 diabetes and had suffered from lung cancer, angina and heart attacks in recent years.

    King’s broadcasting fame began in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, which he hosted on the network Mutual Broadcasting System.

    He then went on to have his own television show, Larry King Live on CNN, between 1985 and 2010, where his guests included politicians, celebrities, sports stars and well-known conspiracy theorists

  • U.S. executes COVID-19 positive ex-drug trafficker

    U.S. executes COVID-19 positive ex-drug trafficker

    US federal authorities executed a former drug trafficker who had contracted Covid-19 late Thursday, and a final execution of Donald Trump’s administration was scheduled for Friday with just five days left of his presidency.

    Corey Johnson was part of a gang implicated in 10 murders in 1992 in the US state of Virginia. He was convicted in federal court for his involvement in seven of them.

    The 52-year-old African American received a lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was pronounced dead at 11:34 pm (0434 GMT Friday).

    He addressed the families of his victims in his final statement.

    “I would have said I was sorry before, but I didn’t know how. I hope you will find peace,” he said.

    On Friday, authorities plan to execute Dustin Higgs, a 48-year-old Black man convicted of kidnapping and killing three young women on federal land near Washington in 1996.

    Both men contracted Covid-19 in December and a judge on Tuesday postponed their executions for several weeks.

    Their lungs have not fully recovered and the injection of pentobarbital may cause suffering prohibited by the Constitution, which bans “cruel” punishment, the court said.

    But an appeals court overturned the decision on Wednesday and the Supreme Court ruled late Thursday that the execution of Johnson, whose first name was spelled Cory by the US Department of Justice, could proceed.

    The high court also rejected an appeal from Johnson’s lawyers that he was intellectually disabled, and therefore should be spared the death penalty.

    “Corey simply lacked the capacity to operate as the ‘drug kingpin’ the government falsely portrayed him as for nearly 30 years. He could barely read or write,” attorneys Donald Salzman and Ronald Tabak said in a statement following the execution, calling it a “stark violation of the Constitution and federal law.”

  • Photo News: COVID-19 positive student writes WASSCE in hospital ward

    Photo News: COVID-19 positive student writes WASSCE in hospital ward

    A final year student of GSSS Gombe who tested POSITIVE for COVID-19 sat for West African Senior Secondary Examination (WASSCE) Mathematics paper on Monday.

    The boy was isolated on Sunday, the authorities allowed him to write his paper, in isolation on Monday.

    His invigilator was well protected to supervise him.

    His story was brought to Twitter by Gombe State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC).

    “Health and education are a priority in Gombe State”, PHEOC wrote on Twitter.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that WASSCE commenced nationwide on Monday, August 17, 2020 under strict COVID-19 guidance.

     

  • Family dares Kogi gov, confirms Kabba Chief Imam tested positive for COVID-19

    The Chief Imam of Kabba, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, is positive for COVID-19, his family has confirmed.

    Recall that the Kogi State Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have been at loggerheads over COVID-19 cases in Kogi.

    While NCDC insisted two cases were confirmed, the Government insisted the state is coronavirus-free.

    But the family of Ejibunu told Kogi Government “to stop denying the obvious.”

    Chief Tai Ejibunu, Obatebise of Oweland, in a statement by the family, said the Chief Imam exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 because he eventually tested positive after referral from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja.

    In the statement titled, “The COVID-19 Case Infection: Matters Arising, the family said,: “Our attention has been drawn to the series of discussions going on concerning Covid-19 index case in Kabba and the identity of the index case.

    “I wish to affirm, on behalf of Ejibunu family, that the Chief Imam of Kabba, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, was down with flu some few days back and he had to be hospitalised at the Specialist Hospital in Kabba.

    “Further medical attention was sought at the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja, as the flu did not abate after some days.

    “At the FMC, he was referred to the National Hospital in Abuja and the test conducted on him by the NCDC showed that he was Covid-19 positive.

    “The test conducted on one of his sons who had been with him since came out negative.”

    It added: “The family would have come out to speak on the matter but we were not comfortable with the ding dong game going on between the NCDC and the Kogi State government.

    “The family is concerned about the wellbeing of other and we wish to confirm that Covid-19 has found its way sadly into our community and the state.

    “Therefore, no need for Kogi State government to deny the obvious.

    “We would like to stress that the Chief Imam, of recent, had never ventured outside Kogi State by way of travelling outside the state. So, the ‘virus’ could have been contacted within.

    We wish to advise our people to please abide by the protocols emplaced by the NCDC and play safe.

    “The family is cooperating with the Kogi State government and the NCDC to stem the spread.

    “This evening, contact tracing and testing of family members of the Chief Imam had begun.

    “What we need from our people is empathy and no need for the acrimonious exchange of views and counter views.

    “May God save Oweland and her people in particular and the state in general.”

  • How Rivers Govt hired quack doctors to declare my manager COVID-19 positive, demolished hotel owner cries out

    How Rivers Govt hired quack doctors to declare my manager COVID-19 positive, demolished hotel owner cries out

    The owner of Prodest Hotel demolished by Rivers State Government Promise Gogorobari has faulted the government’s declaration of his manager, Bariledum Azoroh has COVID-19 positive.

    Recall that the state government had in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, named Azoroh as one of the 27 new COVID-19 cases recorded in the state.

    Nsirim said: “Rivers State has recorded 27 new positive Coronavirus cases. The Manager of Prodest Hotel, Eleme, is among the new positive cases.

    “This latest development validates our proactive approach towards the fight against COVID-19. Recall that Prodest Hotel was demolished two weeks ago because the owners violated Executive Order 7, which banned the operation of hotels.

    “The COVID-19 Taskforce members from Eleme Local Government Area who went to enforce the Executive Order were brutalized and dehumanised leading to the death of one of them.”

    But, Gogorobari accused the government of laying a background to kill Azoroh, whom he said was hale and hearty when he was arrested and kept in government’s custody.

    Gogorobari accused the government of hiring “unorthodox medical officers” to write a report that Azoroh tested positive for COVID-19 and wondered why he was the only one, whose name was mentioned among the 27 new cases.

    His words: “Intelligence report reaching me indicates that my manager who is now a prisoner of the Rivers State Government has been framed up by an unorthodox hired medical officers recruited by the government with a report that he has tested positive for COVID-19 whilst in detention. ”

    He said the manager was being detained in an “illegal” detention facility at the stadium in Elekahia, despite Federal Government’s stance against all forms of illegal detention in Rivers State.

    Saying that the current administration in the state lacked respect for the rule of law, Gogorobari recalled that Azoroh was “kept at the gangster stadium facility and surreptitiously tried and convicted with a fine of N50,000 and ordered to be isolated for 14 days.”

    He said: “This is the worst abuse of human rights under the Quarantine Act. The Rivers State Government and Governor Wike must be held liable for infecting my manager who is in their custody for over 15 days with COVID-19.

    “He was a very healthy person before his arrest. It is therefore medically impossible that the infection occurred before his detention. It is a known fact that I and the Rivers State Government are at daggers drawn over demolition of my hotel.

    “It is a bestial act for the same government to convict my manager and now infect him with the novel Coronavirus. It is also known that the object of the government is to kill my manager and his lawyer by conducting some unorthodox medical tracing to the lawyer.

    “The manager is currently under pressure to take some unorthodox drugs that are non-compliant with the NCDC(National Centre for Disease Control) prescription and treatment procedures. Furthermore, the drugs have been prepared locally and it is a poison such that if used will kill the manager of Prodest Hotel within 24 hours.

    “The whole world should be aware that Governor Wike wants to kill my manager to convince the public that infected persons were in the hotel all in attempt to justify his illegal demolition of my hotel May 10.

    “The President should step in now to stop the murderous rage of the governor of Rivers State. Wike should submit Dr. Azoroh to the NCDC in Abuja and stop all further acts in this matter.”

     

  • Kaduna discharges 35 COVID-19 positive Almajirai after treatment

    Not less than 35 of the Almajirai infected by Covid-19 in Kaduna State have been discharged.

    Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufa’i who disclosed this on his Twitter handle said, Kaduna State now has 47 active Covid-19 cases following the treatment and discharge of the 35 almajirai.

    According to El-Rufai, “35 more patients, all of them almajirai have been discharged having tested negative to the virus.

    “The State now has 47 active Covid-19 cases, having discharged 63 persons and recorded four fatalities.” He said.

    The state had recently discharged 210 other Almajirai after testing negative teice, from the quarantine centre where they were kept for two week after they were repatriated to the state from Kano and other states.