A blog, Akelicious.net, published a report claiming the President's Chief of Staff was dead; further naming their source as "Dr Kemi OlunloyeÔÇØ.
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media platforms have published this news. More so, the presumed source, Ms Kemi Olunloyo, [spelled in the blog as "Dr Kemi OlunloyeÔÇØ] had tweeted infamously that a "high ranking member of the president's cabinetÔÇØ was dead. She made no mention of the President's Chief of Staff.
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And, now in a string of more conjectural claims have come a blog, Akelicious.net, which claims Kyari has passed on. The publication went live on Friday, April 3, further attributing their source to a certain "Dr Kemi Olunloye, a trained pharmacist and medical journalist in the United States.ÔÇØ
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Firstly, Dubawa sought verification from notable media houses in Nigeria to determine if this was actually true. However, credible platforms such as Channels online, Premium Times, Vanguardngr, Sahara reporters, Punch Newspapers, among others, failed to report this news.
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Having searched print media as it were, we took to social media. Here we found that Bashir Ahmad, President Muhammadu Buhari's media aide, already dismissed the news as a rumour on
Twitter.
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Further, the Presidency among other notable Nigerians refuted the rumoured death of Abba Kyari, while describing the peddlers/mongers, as vicious and heartless.
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The unwillingness of other official sources to shed light on the matter has not helped matters. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, declined to comment on Mr Kyari's location, arguing that the information was "not important.ÔÇØ He defended his position, at the daily press briefing, claiming that information regarding Mr Kyari's current location pertained to his "right to privacy.ÔÇØ
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Meanwhile, on Thursday April 2, a famous social media activist, Ms Olunloyo claimed on her official
Twitter handle that a "high ranking member of the president's cabinet' has died. Repeated calls to her cell phone number for the most of Monday April 6, also indicated that the number was not active and SMS messages were also not replied at the point of publishing this report.
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However, it is important to note that the US-trained journalist never mentioned Abba Kyari. She rather alluded to a "high ranking member of the president's cabinet'. Last we checked, Kyari is not the only high ranking member of Buhari's cabinet.
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A positive testing status is not a definition of mortality. Official and social colleagues of Mr Kyari continue to affirm that he is "gradually recoveringÔÇØ and the evidence of treatment in Nigeria indicates a healthy report of recovery as many positive cases have turned negative in Nigeria, and globally.
