LAGOS: Another UNILAG professor dies of Covid-19

PROF Duro Ajeyalemi of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has died from Covid-19 complications.

Ajeyalemi is the third professor from the university to succumb to the contagion in recent time after Femi Odekunle and Oye Ibidapo-Obe.

“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,” UNILAG Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Development Services Prof Folasade Ogunsola told Premium Times on Wednesday.

The late professor, who retired at the age of 70 in November 2020, was a former dean of the institution’s faculty of education and the pioneer registrar of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB).

It was gathered he died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation centre on Wednesday morning.