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OAU Professor Collapses, Dies During Meeting

Demilade Bakare
Demilade Bakare
Published: June 8, 2025
Last updated: June 8, 2025
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  • A professor in OAU has passed away, after collapsing during a meeting in the school.

  • He was said to have slumped, before being rushed to the hospital.

  • The deceased was a professor in the department of Philosophy before his death.

A professor in the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU has passed away.

Olanipekun Famakinwa, who was a professor in the department of Philosophy in Ile-Ife, Osun State was reported to have fallen ill during a meeting in the school.

OAU Professor Collapses, Dies During Meeting

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Confirming the incident, the management, through its PRO, Abiodun Olanrewaju, the school noted that Famakinwa fell ill during a departmental meeting, and was rushed to the school’s Health and Medical Centre.

From the school clinic, he was referred to the OAU Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, where he was confirmed dead by doctors on duty.

 

Members of the school managements, s well as some students also paid condolences visit to the deceased’s wife and children.

The statement partly reads

“The entire academic community of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has been thrown into mourning following the sudden death of a Professor in the Department of Philosophy.

Professor Jimoh Olanipekun FAMAKINWA who was, during a departmental meeting this morning, (Wednesday, 5th day of March, 2025), was noticed breathing “abnormally” by his colleagues and was immediately rushed to the University Health and Medical Centre.

 

Upon prompt medical examination by the team of doctors on duty, he was referred to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), also in Ile-Ife, where he was pronounced B.I.D.

 

“The corpse has been deposited at the Department of Anatomy of the University.”

 

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