BREAKING: COS to President Buhari Abba Kyari Dies of Coronavirus

Abba Kyari (Chief of Staff to President Buhari)

Nigeria's President Buhari Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari is dead. The special adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina disclose this in his message on social media.

"The funeral arrangements to be announced soon", according to Mr. Adesina.

Mr. Garba Shehu, another special assistant to the president on media and publicity also stated that Abba Kyari died on Friday the 17th of April, 2020.

The late Chief of Staff Abba Kyari was suspected to have contracted the deadly corona virus (Covid 19) when he visited Germany around the first/second week of March 2020 according to sources. 

"The deceased had tested positive to the fast spreading corona virus, and had been receiving treatment," Shehu stated.

Abba Kyari was President Buhari's closest person in the cabinet. During the inauguration of President Buhari's ministers in August, the president ordered everyone of the ministers to make request for meetings with him through the now late Mr. Kyari.