A sales representative with one of the multi-national manufacturing companies in Nigeria, Nestle, Mikail Osundiji, has died while watching the semi final match of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations between Nigeria and South Africa.
The 43-year-old man allegedly died after the centre referee cancelled Nigeria’s second goal against South Africa.
The goal was scored by striker Victor Osimhen.
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The referee thereafter awarded a penalty against the Super Eagles, which was converted by Bafana Bafana.
Osundiji, a father of two said to be from Osun State, collapsed at a football viewing centre at the Federal Housing Estate, Olomoore, Abeokuta.
An elder sister to the deceased, Mofisat Adetunji, said Osundiji suddenly breathed out heavily after the cancellation of Nigeria’s second goal, lowered his head and fell to the ground at the viewing centre.
Adetunji said: “That was when other people at the viewing centre rushed to him and took him to one of the private hospitals in Olomoore, where the doctor on duty pronounced him dead.”
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