After surviving many rumours of her death, ex-Minister of Information and Communication and erstwhile DG of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili, bowed to ovarian cancer early Saturday morning.
News of her death was officially announced by the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, on the Anambra Broadcasting Service,
ABS. Obi said Akunyili died after a protracted battle with cancer.
But her death has been blamed on misdiagnosis by some doctors in the United States of America. The doctors were said to have claimed she did not have cancer after her Nigerian doctor’s diagnosis to the effect she had the deadly sickness…
Obi, in the statement, said: