Tourism Minister, Ms Lola Ade-John has been reportedly hospitalised in Abuja after suffering acute poisoning from unknown origins, Peoples Gazette reports.
According to the newspaper, Lola Ade-John, 60, was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, shortly after she started manifesting symptoms of her poisoning.
She was said to have spent four days at the facility as of Friday morning.
Ms Ade-John, a career banker and tech investor, has been on a machine to aid her breathing, our sources said.
The specifics as to what substance she ingested and how could not be immediately established by The Gazette.
Meanwhile, it has not been immediately confirm whether or not any investigations had been opened into the matter.
Her worsening situation has further set the family against the government, with the permanent secretary of her ministry said to be in disagreement as to whether she should continue receiving treatment at a public hospital or be moved to a better-equipped private facility downtown.
The permanent secretary, Ngozi Onwudike, was said to have insisted that the minister should not be transferred because the FMC is a public hospital and its services wouldn’t attract substantial charges to the government, a position her family rebuffed. But they remained with her as they could not raise funds to move her to a private hospital, our sources said.
Ms Ade-John was based in London until when she was asked to return to the country to serve by President Bola Tinubu.
