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Nigeria registered 749 new COVID-cases on Tuesday, almost twice the 397 announced on Monday.
Three deaths were also announced, two in Abuja and one in Kano, putting the national death toll at 1,267. Abuja has 101 death toll.
One of the dead in Abuja on Tuesday was Professor Femi Odekunle, a 77 year-old member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC).
He died at the Gwagwalada Isolation Centre.
Amid warnings by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control that COVID-19 cases will shoot up in January, Nigeria’s Covid cases have never followed a normal trajectory.
This is because the daily figures are dependent on people coming out for tests or people falling ill and requesting for tests.
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Following the death of Professor Femi Odekunle, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Nigeria’s former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye, has recounted how the late professor of Criminology battled for his life till the last minute.
According to Dr Olu, the last minutes saw Odekunle make loud heavy rumblings as he struggled to breathe with great difficulties and excruciating pains.
Odekunle’s had battled COVID-19 for the past 12 days and his final submission to death came on Tuesday, at the Gwagwalada Isolation Centre, Abuja, which was confirmed at about 6:30 pm by Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, on the same day.
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Former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye, has recounted the last-minute battle for life by the late member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Femi Odekunle.
With an oxygen mask on, the last minutes saw Odekunle make loud heavy rumblings as he struggled to breathe with great difficulties and bear excruciating pains.
Odekunle’s final submission to death on Tuesday, at the Gwagwalada Isolation Centre, Abuja, was the end to a battle against COVID-19 that lasted 12 days.