COVID-19: Fear grips Nigeria’s High Society after 80th birthday bash of Justice Oguntade in London

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The recent 80th birthday celebration of Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Justice George Adesola Oguntade (retd) has thrown the country’s high society into fear and confusion.

The movers and shakers of Nigeria’s social circle were in attendance at the party held at the London Hilton on Park Lane on March 10th.

Most, however,  are now regretting that action because of reports, after the event, that some of the guests had tested positive for Coronavirus.

In fact, it was reported that two of the guests had actually died, a development that had sent most of the other A-list guests either rushing to take a COVID-19 test or in self isolation at home praying against the disease.

Prominent at the party where veteran Juju musician, Ebenezer Obey, was on the bandstand, were top politicians, including state governors, socialite and businessmen and women.

The A-list attendees included billionaire Rasak Okoya and his wife Sade, a former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, Kessington Adebutu (Baba Ijebu), Oba Saheed Elegushi and Dele Momodu.

It is, however, unclear, whether the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has had any contact with the guests most of whom are back in the country.

Coronavirus was first detected in the United Kingdom on January 31 and since that period, there has been over 8,000 confirmed infections and more than 400 deaths.

Therefore, as at the time Oguntade’s birthday was staged in London on March 10, the virus had fully taken up strategic positions across most parts of the UK.

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