A former Lagos State lawmaker, Segun Olulade, confirmed this to The PUNCH on Monday.

“It is true. He passed away after a brief illness,” Olulade said.

Another report confirmed that Osinowo had earlier tested positive to coronavirus in Lagos state and was in isolation till his death.

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his constituency revealed that his family members and party members were at the isolation centre to receive his body.

This was confirmed on Thursday by the state Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi via his Twitter handle.

He tweeted: “199 new COVID-9 cases were confirmed in Lagos. The new cases bring the number of confirmed COVID-19 infection in Lagos to 2970.

“Additional 17 fully recovered COVID-19 patients; 6 females and 11 males were discharged. The total number of COVID-19 discharged patients in Lagos now stands at 649.

“Additional 4 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in Lagos. The total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Lagos rises to 42.”

According to NCDC, who made this known on Wednesday via its Twitter handle, it also confirmed that the country has five deaths, with a total of 51 COVID-19 death in the nation.

The tweet also revealed that Lagos State has 87 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the state to 931, with two COVID-19 death in the state.

The tweets: “On the 29th of April 2020, 196 new confirmed cases and five deaths were recorded in Nigeria

“One new state (Yobe) has reported a case in the last 24 hours.

“Till date, 1728 cases have been confirmed, 307 cases have been discharged and 51 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

“The 196 new cases are reported from twelve states- Lagos (87), Kano (24), Gombe (18), Kaduna (17), FCT (16), Katsina (10), Sokoto (eight), Edo (seven), Borno (six), Ebonyi (one), Yobe (one), Adamawa(1).”

It also announced that 25 new cases were recorded, bringing the total confirmed cases in the state to 217.

The State Ministry of Health made this known through its verified Twitter account.

Meanwhile, details about the deceased sex, age, nationality, and medical history were not revealed by the ministry.

The tweet read: “#COVID-19 Lagos Update as at April 14, 2020, 25 new #COVID19 cases confirmed, bringing total confirmed cases in Lagos to 217.

“Eight more persons; two females and six males; including one foreign national from Croatia were discharged. Total discharged now 69,” it tweeted.

Recall that the 25 new cases recorded on April 14, was the highest number of daily infections of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Lagos, since the index case.

Currently, Lagos has 217 confirmed cases; 136 of the cases are active, while 69 had recovered and were discharged.

Junaid Hafeez was arrested in 2013 for allegedly displaying blasphemous content while a visiting university lecturer in the city of Multan. After his arrest, prosecutors claimed investigators retrieved anti-religious material from Hafeez’s laptop.

In the past six years, he’s remained in solitary confinement because he would likely be killed if kept with the general population, according to local media. Three of those years were spent in the United States under a special program for Pakistani educators.

Saturday’s trial was held inside the jail where Hafeez is being detained because of security concerns. He was also fined half a million Pakistani rupees – the equivalent of $3,200.

Defense attorney Shahbaz Gormani says his client was wrongly convicted and plans to appeal the verdict.

Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty for anyone accused of insulting God, Islam or other religious figures.

While authorities have yet to carry out a death sentence for blasphemy, even the mere accusation can cause riots. Domestic and international human rights groups say blasphemy allegations have often been used to intimidate religious minorities and to settle personal scores.

A Punjab governor was killed by his own guard in 2011 after he defended a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy.

Bibi was acquitted in January after eight years on death row in a case that drew international media attention. Faced with death threats from Islamic extremists upon her release, she flew to Canada to join her daughters in May.

Taking the increase of the homeless population into account, the total death rate has tripled since that time.

The report also said that the biggest factors that heavily impacted the death rate to take its toll are drug and alcohol overdoses.

Figures show that from 2016 to 2018, the overdose death rate for the homeless people was as high as 26 times more than the general population in homes.

In a news release, the director of the county health department, Dr Barbara Ferrer said, “This alarming increase in homeless deaths requires immediate action to improve the care for our most vulnerable populations.”

Accounting for nearly 25% of the number of deaths in the six-year span, coronary heart disease was the top cause of death. And other leading causes of deaths also includes traffic injuries, homicide and also suicide.

The report also discovered that the general population lived 22 years more than the homeless people.

Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said in an interview, “Homelessness can have a devastating impact on a person’s health and well-being, and we need to better understand the underlying causes that contribute to our County’s high mortality rate among those who are experiencing homelessness.”

As a result of the increase in deaths of homeless people, the report recommended a few actions to do something about the saddening news, including creating a team to review homeless deaths to have a better understanding of the situation.