2020: Sorrow, Tears, Blood and Death, By Toyin Falola 15 min read
…it is clear there is little to nothing to celebrate about Nigeria in 2020. How can that even be when Independence Day was celebrated amidst protest and a month of bloodshed? 2020 for Nigerians could not have been any worse owing to the inactions, inadequacy and inefficiency of the disastrous government in Aso Rock.
December, 2019: Abuja, Nigeria. I penned down my plan for 2020. I was jubilant in the last week of that month, announcing my plans, building a support base for a new initiative I was putting together to forge an alliance between African private and public universities. Everyone I met was happy both with me and my plans. When I bade farewell on December 23, it was with firm assurances and a fixed date for my return journey to this elegant city. So confident, so excited, we were to link Abuja with Nairobi and to take the same mission to Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Yet it was not to be. An
Major General Irefin dead: Nigerian Army officer Covid-19 death tori and wetin we know about di mata
11 December 2020
Wia dis foto come from, Kogi state Government
Kogi state goment for Nigeria don confam di death of General John Olubunmi Irefin, wey be di General Officer Commanding 6 Division Port Harcourt.
Although di statement from di stgate goment confam say General Irefin just bury im mama some weeks ago, e no tok wen e die or how.
Meanwhile Nigerian Army confam for inside statement say one of dia officer s test positive for Covid-19 on 8, Tuesday 2020. Di statement Brigadier General Sagir Musa wey be army Acting Director of Public Relations add say di officer bin dey attend one Army Staff Annual conference for Abuja wen e fall sick.
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There was panic at the venue of the botched Annual Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja following the reported sudden death of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Major General Johnson Olubunmi Irefin, from COVID-19.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sagir Musa had in a statement announced the suspension of the conference over the sudden illness of the General.
The statement read: “Due to resurgence of COVID-19 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja in what appears to be a second wave of infection cycle and the unfortunate incident on December 8, where an officer participating in the ongoing Chief of Army Staff’s Annual Conference 2020 in Abuja, tested positive for COVID 19, the remaining activities of the conference have therefore been immediately cancelled.