There was growing anxiety in Kano State on Sunday over mass deaths in the state.
Recalled that WuzupNigeria had last week reported that there had been increasing deaths in Kano. People in the city attributed the deaths to malaria-related ailments.
Sunday PUNCH reported that 12 prominent persons, including professors and a newspaper editor, had died in the last 10 hours.
On Sunday, a professor of Mass Communication at Bayero University in Kano, Balarabe Maikaba, died.
A statement by a lecturer at the BUK Mass Communication Department, Dr Ashir Inua, confirmed the death of the professor.
Inua said,
“Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun. Professor Balarabe Maikaba. We love you and Allah loves you more than we do. We lost you Professor. May Allah forgive your sins and accept you as His obedient servant.”
According to a member of the family, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the deceased who was a diabetic patient, died at a private clinic in Kano metropolis after a brief illness.
He said Maikaba who died at the age of 54, left behind four wives and 15 children and had been buried in accordance with the Islamic rites at Abattoir cemetery located at Kofar Mazugal in Kano metropolis.
No fewer than 77 persons had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Kano State, which as of last month had not recorded any case.
A health worker in the city, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that coronavirus cases in the state were higher than what government claimed.
