Nigeria, Sept. 21 -- The authorities at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) have described as "false and inaccurate" the allegation of poor management of the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, by the staffers of the facility.

The hospital's management exclusively confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday evening that Mr Mailafia died of coronavirus disease "due to comorbidities."

This revelation was reluctantly made by the hospital's management, which had insisted that the confidentiality of its patients is sacrosanct.

According to the hospital's chief medical director, Bissallah Ekele, a professor, Mr Mailafia had been managed at two other hospitals where his COVID-19 status was conf...