By Sola Ogundipe, Ben Agande, Chioma Obinna,
Victoria Ojeme, Tony Edike, Daud Olatunji, Joseph Erunke and Johnbosco
Agakwuru
After surviving several rumours of her death, a former Minister of
Information and Communication and erstwhile Director General of the
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,
Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili, bowed to ovarian cancer early yesterday.
Meanwhile, her death was blamed on misdiagnosis by some doctors in the
United States (US). The doctors were said to have claimed she did not
have cancer after her Nigerian doctor's diagnosis to the effect she had
the sickness.
News of her death was officially announced by a former Anambra State
Governor, Peter Obi, on the Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS. Obi said
Akunyili died after a protracted battle with cancer.
Obi, in the statement, said: "On behalf of the Akunyili family, I wish
to officially confirm the death of Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, OFR,
in a Specialist Cancer
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