With over 1 million people globally infected, the world has begun facing the reality of the novel coronavirus which causes the disease, COVID-19.

No less than 50,000 people have died around the world of the virus which first broke out in the Wuhan city of China last December.

Below are known four Nigerians who have died of the disease at home and abroad.

1. Suleiman Achimugu
A former managing director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Suleiman Achimugu, on March 23 became the first person to die of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

The 67-year-old UK returnee, who is a native of Kogi State, died at the Specialist Hospital, Gwagwalada, FCT.

2. Bassey Offiong

Bassey Offiong died of the coronavirus in the United States on March 28.

The 25-year-old was to graduate with a chemical engineering degree from Western Michigan University before his demise.

3. Alfa Sa’adu

A doctor of Nigerian origin resident in the United Kingdom, Alfa Sa’adu, died of the coronavirus on March 31.

Sa’adu, 68, who held the traditional title of the Galadima of Patigi in Kwara State, died of complications from the disease.

He was one of the most respected Nigerians in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

4. Kole Abayomi

Former Director-General of the Nigeria Law School, Dr Kole Abayomi, died in the United Kingdom (UK) on April 2 after contracting the virus.

Abayomi was called to bar in 1966 and admitted to the Inner Bar in 2005. He taught at the Nigerian Law School and rose to the position of Director-General in November 2004.

There are others who have died of the coronavirus in Nigeria although their names are not known. One of them is the case of the first person to die of the virus in Lagos State on April 3 – a 55-year-old man who recently returned from The Netherlands.

Jkyoung:
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majamajic:
The person below , do u mean this virus is not part of God's plan ?


Or he is not aware of it ?

philips007:
God help us

kalufelix:
E bi like say this thing no dey kill common man...heard the tests costs more than 500k...wetin consign agbero with overload...

Jkyoung:
Abba Something..... This is not hate speech..... That was a very awesome band in the 80s or 90s...... I miss them

Amid covid 19 lockdown observed in Delta State, On 2nd March 2020, the Nigerian Army shot and killed Joseph pessu after which Angry mobs retaliated by killing an Army.  minutes later a video emerged showing an army threatening to deal with the warri people by raping their mothers, wives and sisters and infecting them with HIV, despite  the arrest of the soldiers who were involved in the making of that threatening video another has gone viral on the media making it 2 in a space of barely 24 hrs