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Dear Editor,
I read the excellent tribute to late Dr Alfa Sa’adu, whom I first met with his wife Diane in 1998 at the meeting of the Medical Association of Nigerians Across Great Britain (MANSAG) which I hosted in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His passion and commitment in all he did was palpable as he hosted the next meeting in Watford in 1999. He combined his work diligently with academia and had peer-reviewed a paper in his specialty for our nascent Niger Delta Medical Journal just before his demise. May his soul rest in perfect peace and our thoughts are with his wife Diane and two sons and their families.
Tubonye C Harry, FRCOG, FRCP, FWACS
Professor of Genitourinary & HIV Medicine.
Editor-in-Chief, Niger Delta Medical Journal.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
02 August 2020
Tubonye C Harry
Professor of Genitourinary & HIV Medicine
Niger Delta University
Niger Delta University, College of Health Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Amassoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Re: Alfa Saadu
Dear Editor,
I read the excellent tribute to late Dr Alfa Sa’adu, whom I first met with his wife Diane in 1998 at the meeting of the Medical Association of Nigerians Across Great Britain (MANSAG) which I hosted in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His passion and commitment in all he did was palpable as he hosted the next meeting in Watford in 1999. He combined his work diligently with academia and had peer-reviewed a paper in his specialty for our nascent Niger Delta Medical Journal just before his demise. May his soul rest in perfect peace and our thoughts are with his wife Diane and two sons and their families.
Tubonye C Harry, FRCOG, FRCP, FWACS
Professor of Genitourinary & HIV Medicine.
Editor-in-Chief, Niger Delta Medical Journal.
Competing interests: No competing interests