Beyond Numbers: Profiling Nigerians who died from COVID-19 (1)

About 24 days after Nigeria’s index case of coronavirus, an Italian national, was confirmed on February 28, the West African country recorded its first fatality from the virus.

But many Nigerians have continued to gloat that COVID-19 death victims – aside from the few public figures – have remained largely unannounced beyond the daily statistics on the NCDC dashboard. In this series, PREMIUM TIMES will be profiling, as many as possible, Nigerians who died from coronavirus complications.

In a phone interview with Channels TV, Abubakar Achimugu, a family member of the deceased, said Mr Achimugu was on self-isolation for two weeks after his return, following the advisory by the WHO. “He was experiencing symptoms that were alien to him. After the tests, a day after, the results were made available which came out positive, which was on Saturday.Mr Achimugu was buried according to Islamic rites on Sunday, six days after he tested positive to the virus.On April 17, Nigerian president’s powerful Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari , succumbed to coronavirus at 69, becoming the most popular COVID-19 fatality in West Africa as of then.

About a week before he tested positive for the virus, he was in Germany meeting with energy officials at Siemens on a deal to restore Nigeria’s electricity grid.Mr. Buhari, who was re-elected last year in his tribute to late Kyari, described the 67-year-old as a “true Nigerian patriot… My loyal friend and compatriot for the last 42 years”. The two had met when Mr Kyari was in his 20s.

A prominent chieftain of the party from his part of the country would later volunteer his private jet for the emergency trip, since the regular commercial flights were no longer for the asking as a result of the lockdown.

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