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OOU Lecturer Died Of Pneumonia, Not COVID-19 Complications ― FMC

The authorities of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, has said that a lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Professor Alaba Adenuga, died of features of lobar pneumonia and not COVID-19 complications.

Information making the rounds had it that the deceased, who was the immediate past Dean of the Faculty of Education in the institution, visited the hospital as an out-patient on Thursday, and later died on Friday.

The hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Segun Orisajo, in a statement made available to our correspondent , had it that the late lecturer was not a confirmed case of COVID-19.

Orisajo said, “The Professor that died in our facility had features of Lobar Pneumonia. COVID-19 was only suspected. He was not a confirmed case of COVID-19.”

The lecturer was reported to be the first Professor of Personnel Psychology and a prominent son of Ijebuland.

He was until his death the Chairman of the University Security Council and the President of OOU Senior Staff Club.

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