From: Kemi Yesufu
Former Nigerian Minister of Health and current Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, is dead.
The announcement of Osotimehin’s death was contained in a statement issued on behalf of his family by his son Dr. Babajide Osotimehin.
According to Babajide, the former minister who served as the pioneer Director -General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) died on Sunday, June 4.
The late Osotimehin was born on February 1949 in Ogun State. He attended Igbobi College between 1966 and 1971. After his medical studies at University of Ibadan, he received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1979.
Prior to his appointment at UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Osotimenhin served as the Minister of Health of Nigeria. He left this office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.
Osotimehin was later appointed on 19 November 2010 as the Executive Director of UNFPA for a four-year term. He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014
Osotimehin, who was Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, 1990–1994, gained recognition as the Director-General of the Nigerian National Agency for the Control of AIDS, an agency that coordinated all HIV and AIDS work in a country with more than 150 million people. image1.JPG