Ex Nigerian Minister Babatunde Osotimehin is Dead

 

Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director of the United Nations Populations Fund, UNFPA, is dead.

Born February 6, 1949, the 68-year-old was also a former Provost of the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan.

 

He was appointed the fourth Executive Director of UNFPA in November 2010 and was reappointed in August 2014.

This is coming months after another ex minister, Babalola Borishade, passed away.

 

According to the source, close sources revealed that Mr. Osotimehin, Nigeria’s former health minister and former head of Nigeria’s aids agency, NACA, died in the early hours of Monday.