Three Years To Retirement: \u201cHow the LASU Professor, mentor so many journalists and communication scholars globally died on Ore-Sagamu expressway on his way from Delta State University.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA huge Library of communication is set ablaze,\u201d Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, other students pen emotional tributes for late communication teacher<\/p>\n
A renowned Nigerian Professor of communication, Lai Oso, is dead, Platforms Africa reports.<\/p>\n
Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies FCMS, Lagos State University, Professor Sunday Alawode, who confirmed this in a statement obtained by Platforms Africa, described Oso\u2019s death as a rude shock.<\/p>\n
Oso, according to two of his students, Idris Mohammed and Wasiu Tejuoso, died in a motor accident in Ijebu axis along Ore-Sagamu expressway on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was coming from Delta State University (DELSU) where he was an external examiner at the department of Mass communication.<\/p>\n
The car conveying him has reached Ijebu axis on the expressway before it plunged into a river,\u201d another student who was called from Ijebu Police station last night said.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the sad news, Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf who was a PhD supervisee of Professor Oso, declared that a \u201chuge Library of communication has just been set ablaze.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Oso \u201cis a good man, a father and lecturer to many communication scholars and journalists across the World. One of the pillars of communication at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), and a former Dean of School of Communication, Lagos State University (LASU) who has just three year to his retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHIs death is a terrible blow to the communication community. A huge communication library has just been set ablaze,\u201d Adeola Yusuf write.<\/p>\n
Professor Alawode, corroborating Yusuf\u2019s view, commemorated with Oso\u2019s wife , the children and the global communication family.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a rude shock to all of us even as we commiserate with Mummy Oso, the children and his entire family, the Communication family worldwide, LASU Community and all others,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Idris Mohammed, another student wrote on Facebook; \u201cIt s with great sadness and heavy heart that I bring to you the passing away of our very own Professor Lai Oso of the Mass Communication Department, Lagos State University in the evening today as a result of a ghastly accident on his way back to Lagos from Abaraka, Delta State.
\nLate Lai Oso was one of Professor Pate\u2019s allies and a great communication scholar in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a humble and generous man of exemplary good character.
\nGoodnight Prof.!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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