The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State, Professor Adebayo Bamire, has condoled the family of Professor Jimoh Olanipekun, who slumped and died during a departmental meeting.
Prof. Olanipekun, of the Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Arts, it was gathered, was declared dead after falling ill during a departmental meeting and died enroute hospital.
According to a press statement by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, the VC who led the university’s 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 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, counselling that as Christians, ” we should know that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away as He pleases”.
The university’s VC, therefore, prayed to Almighty God to grant the immediate family, the Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Arts and the entire university community the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
The university’s Spokesman, giving details of how the Professor died, said during a departmental meeting on Wednesday, 5th day of March 2025, it was noticed by his colleagues that he was breathing “abnormally” 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 dead.
