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.
A release by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, on Thursday, stated that Professor Jimoh Olanipekun Famakinwa died while attending a departmental meeting within the campus.
Famakinwa, according to the statement, during a departmental meeting held in the morning of Wednesday, March 5, 2025, was noticed breathing “abnormally” by his colleagues who immediately rushed him 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,” Olarewaju said.
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.
Asking the family to take solace in the fact that Professor Famakinwa lived a fulfilled life of positive impact on the 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.”
He, 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.
Meanwhile, the corpse has been deposited at the department of anatomy of the University.
