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Man dies watching Super Eagles/Cote d’Ivoire

Written by  Olayinka OLukoya

A middle aged man,  Mr Owolabi Ismail, died on Sunday evening at Oke-Sokori area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the quarter final match between Nigeria and Ivory Coast, in the ongoing Nations Cup in South Africa.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Ismail slumped in the early minutes of the match, as a result of anoxia, the excessive intake of carbondioxide which was persistent for a longer period of time.

It was also gathered that the deceased joined other football fans to cheer the Super Eagles to victory in the knockout stage of the competition at Promise Stadium, located at Lanlepe compound, Oke-Sokori, in Abeokuta.

Owolabi, an engineer with the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Federal Ministry of Works, Abeokuta, was reported to have been rushed to a nearby hospital, Success Medical Hospital, where he was  confirmed dead on arrival.

The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Odede Kolawole, told newsmen that the deceased was brought in dead to the clinic and that efforts to revive him was unsuccessful.

He said “immediately the man was brought, he was brought in dead. From what I learnt, I was told by a close friend that he had a fatal accident about two months ago and he was treated and managed.

“It supposed to be an heart attack, because the way I saw him, he looked weak, he doesn’t look agile and healthy, he looked like someone who has been sick for a very long period of time, someone who is managing his life and now facing a lot of crowd with shortage of oxygen in that area. We call it anoxia, excessive intake of carbondioxide persistently for a longer period of time, it was late before he was brought here.”