A professor of Mass Communication at the Bayero University, Kano, Balarabe Maikaba, died on Sunday as a result of illness not unrelated to the Coronavirus pandemic.
He died in Kano but details of his death were sketchy as of the time of filing this report.
According to a family source, funeral prayer was held for the deceased at 4 pm at his family house, near Plaza cinema, Fagge quarters in Kano city.
The PUNCH reports that scores of people, including elites and prominent sons of the state, have been lost to a yet-to-be-identified disease, with Dala, Fagge, Tarauni, Nasarawa, Gwale, and Kano Municipal worst hit.
Among those already buried are academics, administrators, bankers, media practitioners, and businessmen.
