UNKNOWN AILMENT IN KANO CLAIMS LIFE OF ANOTHER PROMINENT CITIZEN

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A senior mass communication lecturer at the Bayero University, Kano, Professor Balarabe Maikaba, has died of an unknown ailment.


Professor Maikaba, who died on Sunday, has been buried at his family house, near Plaza cinema, Fagge quarters in Kano city.


It was recently reported that over the last one week, an unidentified ailment has been responsible for over 600 deaths within the Northern region, especially within Dala, Fagge, Tarauni, Nasarawa, Gwale, and Kano Municipal.


Prominent persons that died in Kano on Saturday were Prof Ibrahim Ayagi, Dr Musa Umar Gwarzo, Alhaji Dahiru Rabiu (former Grand Khadi), Musa Tijjani (Editor of Triumph Newspaper) and Adamu Isyaku Dal, who was a former Executive Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board.


Others are Alhaji Salisu Lado, Hajiya Shamsiyya Mustapha, Hajiyaj Nene Umma, Alhaji Garba Sarki Fagge, Dr Nasiru Maikano Bichi, Secretary Student Affairs, North West University, Prof Aliyu Umar Dikko of Physiology Department, Bayero University Kano, and Ado Gwanja’s mother, among others.

Doctors are still rattled by the increasing death toll and what the cause of death could be, but some believe it is corona virus acting in an unusual way.


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