The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), in Ile-Ife, has confirmed the death of Professor Jimoh Olanipekun of the Faculty of Social Sciences in the school.
The late Olanipekun who was a professor in the Department of International Relations had slumped during a departmental meeting on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
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Confirming the incident through as statement he issued in Ile Ife on Wednesday, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Abiodun Olarenwaju stated that the late professor was initially rushed to the school’s medical centre from where he was referred to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), where he was later pronounced dead.
According to the statement, “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.”
He stated that the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Jimoh Olanipekun, has already 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.”
The VC was quoted to have 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.”
Bamire, therefore, 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.