UNILAG LOSES ANOTHER PROFESSOR TO COVID-19
The University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, has lost another prominent professor, Duro Ajeyalemi, to COVID-19.
Ajeyalemi, died on Wednesday morning, January 6, 2021, at the isolation centre at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba in Lagos State.
Confirming the death, the university’s deputy vice-chancellor in charge of development services, Folasade Ogunsola, said the institution’s management was “again shocked to receive the news of the death of another great scholar.”
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“It is true Professor Ajeyalemi is dead. We are still in shock. Nigerians should know that COVID-19 is real and they should please use masks appropriately,” Mrs Ogunsola said.
Professor Ajeyalemi is the third lecturer associated to the institution to have died of the deadly virus.
Professors Femi Odekunle and Oye Ibidapo-Obe had earlier died of COVID-19 complications.
The late professor was a former dean of the institution’s faculty of education and the pioneer registrar of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB).
Meanwhile, Mrs Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology, urged Nigerians to desist from partying, insisting that the violation of COVID-19 rules through social gathering has increased the cases nationwide.
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