<p>Background: line number 3 in this section is too long.</p><p>Study period: Which months of 2017 to 2020 were included in the study?</p><p>"Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2017 to 2020 " This statement could be worded better, as it implies that the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2017. &nbsp;COVID-19 started in December 2019, and the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in March 2020 in Edo state.</p><p>Methods: The author could highlight the type of data that they extracted from the mortuaries, define "excess mortality" and also indicate the study design that was used.&nbsp;</p><p>Results: This section doesn't really give much detail that would give a good picture of excess mortality. We would expect to see the baseline excess mortality before the pandemic, but the author did not indicate that, instead only 2020 excess mortality was presented. "In 2020, an absolute marginal increase in deaths was reported compared with 2017 to 2019": How much was the "marginal increase"? and what are the figures for 2017-2019 that the author is comparing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The abstract presents an important public health importance topic; however, the author did not give detailed results.</p>