She urged members of the public to regularly wash their hands and use nose masks.
A Chinese national, Zhang Kequn, has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to smuggle 2,200 ants, including about 2,000 rare Messor cephalotes ants, out of Kenya.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Justice Muhammed Sani, in his judgement, sentenced Mr Deng to five years imprisonment with an option of N1 million fine.
“The defendant spoke good English at the last adjourned date of September 29. When we get an interpreter, we will finish the case in a very short time.”
When the case came up for re-arraignment on Thursday, Mr Geng sought for an adjournment to enable him to engage a lawyer to represent him.
