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 Tribune Online, 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.
