Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigeria’s minister of health from December 2008 to March 2010, is dead.

Up until his death, the 68-year-old was the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

According to sources at the UNFPA, his death was announced at the Nigerian office of the UN body on Monday morning.

During his lifetime, Osotimehin was dedicated to gender, youth and maternal health issues. His last personal tweet alive was for “protecting the health and rights of women and their babies”, which he said “is vital to protecting our shared future”.

Prior to his appointment as the minister, Osotimehin was the director-general, Nigerian National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), and project manager for the World-Bank assisted HIV/AIDS programme development project.

He intended before his death to start an Husbands’ school in Nigeria, after the model seen in Niger Republic.

Osotimehin, who hails from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state, was born in February 1949. He attended Igbobi College in Lagos in the late 1960s, before moving on to the United Kingdom, where he had his university education.

SalamRushdie:
Upon all the money he stole at NACA he still died ...RIP sir

OZAOEKPE:

Is it your money?

RIP

OZAOEKPE:

Is it your money?

RIP

SalamRushdie:
Upon all the money he stole at NACA he still died ...RIP sir

SalamRushdie:
Upon all the money he stole at NACA he still died ...RIP sir

SalamRushdie:
Upon all the money he stole at NACA he still died ...RIP sir

SalamRushdie:
Upon all the money he stole at NACA he still died ...RIP sir

MONITZ:


@Ozaoekpe, I am really disappointed that u could make such an embarrassing statement,if at least the money doesn't belong to the guy it surely belongs to Nigerians..

Ur statement is y every public office holder goes into office to steal the country dry and loot massively because at the end of the day they just come up with the saying :"the money doesn't belong to anyone so y can't I help myself to some"

Imagine If this guy had done his bit as a minister of health and his successors did same then health-infrastructure-wise we wouldn't be where we re presently as a nation..