Reactions have continued to trail the sudden death of a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Dr. Ayo Ojediran, who reportedly slumped and died in his office on Tuesday.
Sources on the campus said the late Dr. Ojediran was rushed to the institution’s clinic immediately he slumped, but he could not make it.
Speaking on the incident, the President, Faculty of Education Students Association of Nigeria, Victor Adesokan, said he was with the deceased lecturer the night before his death, adding that he complained of headache, and appeared very weak.
Adesokan, who complained of inadequate academic personnel in the Faculty, noted that Ojediran’s demise is the fourth death among the lecturers in the Faculty in the outgoing year.
In an interview with Inspiration FM, an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr. Lawrence Osoba, decried the work load of University lecturers these days.
Dr. Osoba equally said academic staff strength in the university system is grossly inadequate.
