Who was Former President Buhari's Chief Of Staff, Mallam ABBA Kyari?

Abba Kyari OON (died 17 April 2020) was a Nigerian politician who served as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari

Abba Kyari, OON Chief of Staff to the President Muhammadu Buhari

In office 27 August 2015 – 17 April 2020

*Education*

University of Warwick

University of Cambridge

Alma mater

Nigerian Law School

Harvard Business School

International Institute for Management Development

*Awards*

Order of the Niger

*Family and personal life*

*Early life and education*

A Kanuri from Borno, not much is known about his early life. In 1980, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Warwick, and also received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Cambridge. In 1983, he was called to the Nigerian Bar after attending the Nigerian Law School

In 1984, he obtained a master's degree in law from the University of Cambridge. 

He later attended the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland and participated in the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School, in 1992 and 1994, respectively.

*Family*

Kyari was married to the sister-in-law of Ibrahim Tahir and had four children

*Health*

On March 24, 2020, it was made public that Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on March 23, following an official trip to Germany nine days before.

*Professional career*

Kyari worked for the law firm Fani-Kayode and Sowemimo for some time after his return to Nigeria.

From 1988 to 1990, he was Editor with the New Africa Holdings Limited Kaduna.

In 1990, he served as a Commissioner for Forestry and Animal Resources in Borno State.

From 1990 to 1995, Kyari was the secretary to the board of African International Bank Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

Kyari was an executive director in charge of management services at the United Bank for Africa, and was later appointed the chief executive officer. In 2002, he was appointed a board director of Unilever Nigeria, and later served on the board of Exxon Mobil Nigeria.

*Political career*

In August 2015, Kyari was appointed Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.

*Power politics*

Kyari was an influential figure within the Buhari administration. During the administration's first term, he worked mainly behind the scenes to implement the president's agenda. In 2019 with Buhari's re-election for a second term, he ordered his cabinet to channel all requests through Kyari's office. Further enhancing his influence within government circles, and being labelled as the de facto head of government.

In 2017, following a leaked memo, Kyari became embroiled in a public argument with the Head of Civil Service, who was later removed from office and arrested.

In 2020, in another leaked memo, Babagana Monguno the National Security Adviser accused Kyari of meddling in matters of national security.

*Death*

Kyari died in a Lagos hospital on 17 April 2020,he died from complications related to COVID-19

May the Soul of departed Rest In Peace

COVID-19: Owner Of Sosoliso Airline Dies in London

*Victor Ikwuemesi, Founder and CEO of Sosoliso Airlines died in London this morning .*

He went into hospital on Saturday 11th April, 2020 for being sick, he was tested for COVID-19, Result came out positive.......... 

He was in ICU on oxygen, but when the oxygen was removed for him to eat he couldn't breath on his own, So they put him on a ventilator and he died shortly after......... 

May his soul rest in peace........ 

Covid 19 is real......

Stay safe..........

COVID-19 Donations: Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU and Fed. Sch Of Medical Lab. Tech., Join Party

The nigerian government has continued to receive cash and material donations from individuals and corporate organisation to contain the ravaging CORONAVIRUS 

The latest donation of personal protective equipment is coming from the joint health sector unions, JOHESU and the federal school of medical laboratory technology, Jos.

Receiving the materials, minister of health Osagie Ehanira alongside the minister of state for health Adeleye Momoara, said the federal government appreciates the huge support from health workers and professionals and will ensure justice is done in the distribution to isolation centres across the country

National chairman of JOHESU, Biobelemoye Josiah and the provost,  federal school of medical laboratory technology, Jos Doctor Sunday Etukudoh assured the minister of their continuous support to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Materials donated by JOHESU include thousands of cartons of hand sanitizers and hand wash while the Federal school of medical Laboratory technology donated five hundred packs of hand sanitizers

Meanwhile JOHESU has disagreed with the invitation of Chinese doctors by the federal government of Nigeria, arguing that the country has enough qualified health professionals who can deliver on the same mandate

The health workers also say the will not go on strike to challenge the paltry five thousand naira the are being paid as hazard allowance, but will support the Nigerian government to ensure the containment of COVID-19

CORONAVIRUS INFECTS FATHER, MOTHER AND THEIR ELEVEN CHILDREN

According to lindaileji blog in a story seen on Opera News, an entire Spanish family including eleven children have contracted the Coronavirus.

The Cebrian Gervas family from Valladolid in north-west Spain have all been forced to go under strict isolation in their home after every single one of them was diagnosed with the virus.

Mother, Irene Gervas was the first family to test positive for COVID-19, before her husband, Jose Maria Cebrian and their eleven children, Carmen (15), Fernando (14), Luiz (12), Juan Pablo (11), twins Miguel and Manuel (10), Alvaro (8), Irene (5), Alicia (4), Helena (3), and Jose Maria (1) were all diagnosed with the disease.

Father Jose

Maria Cebrian told local media: 'The children fell one by one. Some of them got over it better and some of them a bit worse. As the virus takes five or six days to show up when you feel bad you start to recall and then you think 'ok!''

'In our case, they (the children) are sick one day, they have a headache, they vomit and after vomiting, they feel better. The day after they don't even remember.'

Since testing positive on March 14, the family is under a strict lockdown as they could infect others due to the high number of family members under the same roof.

Cebrian added: 'The doctor told us that we will have to stay at least two more weeks on an absolute lockdown because of the viral load that we have. If we go out and take it out we could start a source in Valladolid.

According to him, their son is only allowed to go out to the pharmacy so long as he wears a face mask and gloves.

Cebrian also said: 'He is the only one who goes out a bit. I take out the rubbish and he is the messenger. When we get our groceries delivered they leave it in the garage and my son goes down to pick it up.

The children are reportedly being home schooled using laptops, tablets and mobile phones.

Jose Maria said: 'It is important they do not have the feeling that this is chaos, so they have classes from Monday to Friday.'

The country has recorded more than 117,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 11,000 deaths

SOURCE: OPERA NEWS

TRAGEDY! COVID-19 CONSUMES NIGERIAN UK-BASED MEDICAL DOCTOR.

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One Of Our Great Personality Just Died In London. The Galadima Of Patigi And Former Medical Director London Hospital

BIOGRAPHY: THE GALADIMAN PATIGI

One of Nigeria's finest In UK

Dr Alfa Sa’adu, BSc. MSc. PhD. MB.BS. MRCP. FRCP. DTM&H

By Ahman Makams

Dr Sa’adu was born on 31st August 1952 in Patigi, Kwara State.

He went to London on 6th October 1960 and enrolled at Manorside Primary School in North Finchley for a year. He attended Preparatory School and then Grammar School in Shropshire as a boarding student (1961-70).

He graduated from University College, London with a BSC in Anatomy in 1973 and from University College Hospital Medical School with MB.BS in 1976.

He passed the MRCP specialist examination when he was just a Senior House Officer at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1979

Dr Sa’adu returned to Nigeria in 1979 and did his Nigerian National Youth Service for a year before teaching and training at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Zaria.

He came back to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1984 and carry out a series of research studies leading to a Diploma (DTM&H), a Masters (MSC in Clinical Tropical Medicine) and a Doctorate degree in Tropical and Infectious Diseases (PhD).

Dr Sa’adu trained as a MRC Research Senior Registrar in Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow from 1989-92. After further training in Geriatric Medicine at University College Hospital, London (1992-94), he was appointed a Consultant Physician in Care of the Elderly Medicine at Watford General Hospital in 1994.

His leadership role in the NHS started as Acting Clinical Director of the Care of the Elderly and Intermediate Care Department at Watford in 2000. He was promoted to Divisional Director of Acute Medical Care (Accident and Emergency, Medicine, Care of the Elderly and Sexual Health) in 2002 at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust. He was appointed as Deputy Medical Director from 2004 to 2010 and served as a non-voting member of the Trust Board.

Dr Sa’adu was selected a member of the cohort 2 of the National Top Talent Programme and was seconded to the East of England Strategic Health Authority as Chair and Clinical Lead of the Acute Care Programme Board (2009-11). He was also elected to serve as a member of the NHS East of England Innovation Council.

From 2011 to 2014, he was appointed as the Medical Director and Deputy Chief Executive at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and worked as an Honorary Consultant Physician in the Department of Medicine for Older People there.

Since December 2015, Dr Sa’adu has been working at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust as the Associate Medical Director for the Medicine Healthcare Group and as a Substantive Consultant Physician in the Care of the Elderly.

Dr Sa’adu, is the third Galadiman Patigi and was turbaned in March 2000.

CORONAVIRUS: TU FACE SHOWS LEADERSHIP DONATES N10 Million

Nigeria's legendary musician Innocent Idibia popularly known as Two Baba has showed exemplary leadership among his fellows in the entertainment industry by donating N10, 000,000 to support the fight against CORONAVIRUS Pandemic

DONATIONS FROM OUR CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY IS COMMENDABLE TO THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 IN NIGERIA 

1. Aliko Dangote           - 1Billion naira

2. Abdulsamad Rabiu  -  1Billion naira

3. Femi Otedola           -   1Billion naira

4. Tony O Elumelu      -   1Billion naira

5. Herbert O. Wigwe  -    1Billion naira 

6. Segun Agbaje        -.    1Billion naira

7. Jim Ovia                 -    1Billion naira

Corporate Organisations:

8. Access Bank         -     1Billion naira

9. GT Bank                  -    1Billion naira

10. Zenith Banks       -    1Billion naira

11. NNPC (under FG) -.  11 Billion naira

The donations from the below is highly commendable too:

11. Atiku Abubakar   - 50million naira

12. TuFace Idibia.     - 10million naira

Federal Government donated 10billion naira to Lagos State Government.

More donations are trickling in.......

Father Lord, let this scouge disappear, so that we can plunge these funds (up to the last kobo)  in building State-of-the-Art hospitals across the  country.

TOGETHER, WE SHALL OVERCOME . AMEN.

#COVID-19Naija

COVID-19: UNICEF advises proper environment cleaning by schools

UNICEF is advising all schools to clean properly their environment against CORONAVIRUS.

In its LinkedIn page, UNICEF also appreciated the efforts of health workers around the world

CORONAVIRUS: About 10 states to shut schools in Nigeria

Governors of Northwest, Kwara and Niger meet on security, Covid-19

Governors of states in the Northwest geopolitical zone, Kwara and Niger States today met in Kaduna to review the security situation in their areas and to agree joint responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

Present at the meeting were Governors Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) and Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger). Deputy Governor Nasiru Gawuna represented Kano State. The Governor of Kwara State joined the meeting by telephone.

The meeting, chaired by the chairman of the Northwest Governors’ Forum, His Excellency, Aminu Bello Masari, was also attended by the SSGs of the states, their Special Advisers and commissioners responsible for security matters. 

The governors received briefings from heads of security agencies, at the meeting which had in attendance Major-General A. Agundu (Commander, Operation Safe Haven), Major-Gen. F.I. Yahaya, GOC 1 Division, AVM, M.I. Mukhtar (AOC Air Training Command), Rear Admiral T. Pani (Commandant, Nigerian Navy School of Armaments) and other senior military officers. Commissioners of Police and State Directors of the DSS from the concerned states also attended the meeting.

After briefings and discussions, the governors of the nine states agreed on extraordinary measures to tackle the menace of banditry. 

A communique issued after the meeting disclosed that the state governors resolved to jointly fund security operations aimed at conclusively addressing the challenge from the criminal elements.

The governors also agreed joint measures to protect citizens from the likely impact of Covid-19. 

These include:

1. School Closures: Measures shall be taken by each of the states, in consultation with the national examination bodies, to close schools for a period of 30 days, starting from Monday, 23rd March 2020.

2. Sensitisation campaigns to discourage large gatherings until further notice.

3. Public health awareness campaigns: States will continue to wage aggressive campaigns to encourage citizens to uphold personal hygiene, including hand washing and environmental sanitation.

Signed

Aminu Bello Masari                                                                               Abubakar Sani Bello

Governor, Katsina State                                                                       Governor, Niger State

Chairman, Northwest Governors’ Forum.                                          Chairman, North Central Governors’ Forum                         

18th March 2020

FORMER NIGERIAN PRESIDENT, GOODLUCK JONATHAN SENDS SOOTHINGV WORDS TO FAMILIES WHO LOST LOVED ONES IN LAGOS EXPLOSION, SUNDAY

My heart goes out to all the victims and families of those killed in the unfortunate explosions and fire outbreak in Lagos last Sunday, which claimed many lives and destroyed several valuable assets.

At a time like this, we cannot but rally behind those that have unnecessarily been put to grief. It is expected that the ongoing investigation by relevant authorities to determine the cause of the explosion must produce outcomes...

...that should not only prevent such sad occurrences in the future but also reassure the victims and their loved ones that their sorrow and harrowing experiences have not been in vain. 

GEJ

COVID-19: UN ‘remains open for business’, determined to deliver for the people we serve, says UN chief

Courtesy UN News.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

A UN staff member sanitizes her hands at UN Headquarters in New York.

In light of the continuing spread of the coronavirus, the UN has stepped up measures to safeguard staff and all those using its offices around the world, while at the same time ensuring that the critical work of the Organization continues to deliver on key mandates, and provide lifesaving support to those in need. 

In an email to all UN staff as the weekend began, the Secretary-General António Guterres, emphasized that the Organization “remains open for business”, but “our work will be done from different locations, using different technologies”.

António Guterres

✔@antonioguterres

The #COVID19 pandemic is a crisis that affects everyone.

We must all play our part by showing solidarity with the most vulnerable – the elderly, the sick, those without reliable healthcare.

Together, we can overcome the #coronavirus 

The UN chief outlined the need to “reduce our physical presence” at UN Headquarters, through implementing fulltime telecommuting, unless a staffer is needed within a UN office to carry out essential work. He said the reduced staffing level would be reappraised after three weeks. 

He added that Headquarters staff in New York would continue to provide critical support to the other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna, as well as missions in the field, and to the array of intergovernmental processes that must continue, such as the work of the Security Council. 

“Over the next days and weeks, we will depend on each other’s sense of responsibility and professionalism more than ever”, said the UN chief on Friday night. “I have the utmost confidence in the commitment of staff to keeping each other safe, while continuing to deliver for the people we serve.” 

The UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, briefed journalists in New York hours before the extension of remote working advisory, and said there were two chief concerns, firstly, keeping everyone safe who works in the UN complex, or who visits under normal times, and helping New York City to flatten the curve of COVID-19 as it spreads. 

“The second priority in parallel is to make sure that the UN’s work continues.  We have 100,000 peacekeepers out in the field, tens of thousands of humanitarian workers that will need to be supported.  And I can assure you that, whether it’s Ms. [Rosemary] DiCarlo, Mr. [Jean-Pierre] Lacroix, Mr. [Mark] Lowcock…All the other senior managers are fully focused on ensuring that the work will continue and that the support will continue.” 

He said humanitarians in the field had a special duty of care to put mitigating measures in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus, into some of the most vulnerable populations on earth: “The same thing goes with our peacekeeping operations…And that’s why we’re changing the rotations of troops, trying to limit the rotations, delaying some rotations.  We want to ensure that those who are most vulnerable are protected for the longest possible time.” 

UN offices in Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi – work goes on 

The Palais des Nations, which houses the UN Office at Geneva, with more than 1,600 staff, is the biggest duty station outside New York, and on Saturday, Director-General Tatiana Valovaya, reiterated the UN chief’s call for effective telecommuting, noting that “annexes will remain open for business, but the work will be done differently.” 

The Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, Alessandra Velluci, said staff had heard the Secretary-General’s message clearly, that the UN would be there to “do our part” in difficult times, as COVID-19 continues to spread. 

“In light of some COVID-19 cases at international organizations in Geneva, from 16 March all UN staff based at the Palais des Nations will work remotely, unless their presence in the building is necessary”, she said.  

“But the UN family in Geneva will continue to do its part by working on migrant and refugee crises, implementing sustainable development projects, discussing human rights issues and trade-related measures and above all, supporting the strenuous efforts of WHO and its partners in the fight against the pandemic.”

In Vienna, which houses the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Industrial Development Organization UNIDO, and UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and others, telecommuting is also in place from Monday.  

“These measures are taken on clear medical advice and with the welfare of staff and their families as the central priority”, said a joint statement from the heads of the main Vienna-based organizations. “As part of the community in our host country, Austria, we can all play our part in helping to try to contain the spread of COVID-19 and reducing the risk of transmission”. 

In the UN’s Africa headquarters, UNON, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, said on Friday that managers there too were implementing remote working “to the full extent compatible with business continuity, in order to substantially reduce personnel exposures to transit and other crowded areas.”