OAU Professor Dies After Falling Ill During Meeting
A senior professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Jimoh Olanipekun, has been declared dead after falling ill during a departmental meeting.
A statement issued by the university’s public relations officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, said that the professor fell ill during a meeting on Wednesday at the department.
The statement stated that during the meeting, his colleagues had noticed him breathing abnormally and had immediately rushed him to the University Health and Medical Centre.
Olarewaju disclosed that the professor was referred to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), also in Ile-Ife, and after a medical examination by the team of doctors on duty, he was pronounced dead.
During the condolence visit to the family of the deceased, the Vice Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Adebayo Bamire, who led other members of his management team, expressed shock and disbelief over the sudden death of the professor.
He charged the family to take solace in the fact that the deceased lived a fulfilled life of positive impact on those who were fortunate to come across him.
The Vice-Chancellor prayed that God should grant the immediate family, the Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Arts, and the entire university community the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
OAU Professor Dies After Falling Ill During Meeting is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
