The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, on Thursday announced the passing away of a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Jimoh Olanipekun Famakinwa.
The Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, made the announcement in a statement, stating that the deceased slumped during a departmental meeting on Wednesday, 5 March 2025.
According to him, “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 noticed breathing abnormally by his colleagues during a departmental meeting this morning (Wednesday, 5 March 2025), 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.”
Feeling sad about the unfortunate incident, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, who led other members of his management team to the widow and children on a condolence visit, expressed “shock and disbelief that such a brilliant scholar could die so suddenly in the line of duty”.
He, however, quoted the Vice Chancellor as asking the bereaved family to take solace in the fact that Professor Famakinwa lived a fulfilled life of positive impact on those who were fortunate to come across him.
The Vice Chancellor counselled that as Christians, “we should know that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away as He pleases” and 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.
Meanwhile, the corpse has been deposited at the Department of Anatomy of the University,” the statement stressed.
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