Two Nigerians have been reported dead after slumping while watching Nigeria’s Super Eagles clash with South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in the ongoing AFCON tournament.
A serving member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), simply identified as Samuel, slumped and died at a viewing centre while a former lawmaker identified as Cairo Ojougboh also slumped.
“As soon as a penalty kick was awarded against Nigeria during the AFCON match with South Africa on Wednesday’s semi-final clash in Bouake, Ivory Coast, he slumped,” a source privy to the Mr Ojougboh’s incident told Leadership on Thursday.
In the case of the corps member, he died before the last shootout that progressed Nigeria to the final.
“We lost one Nigerian a few minutes ago during our victory celebration over South Africa today at our Sports Viewing Center (SVC) here in Numan. The Corps member who is serving in Numan from Kaduna has fainted before the kick-off of the winning goal. He died before they could reach the hospital in Numan,” the witness said.
According to his colleagues who went with him to watch the match, the late corps member told them that he doesn’t like watching penalty shootout, he then bowed his head and all of a sudden he collapsed.