Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigeria’s minister of health from December 2008 to March 2010, is dead. He died at the age 68.Up until his death, he 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.
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