A devastating incident occurred yesterday at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, when Esu Rita Ema, a final-year student from the Division of International Languages, tragically misplaced her life on the faculty gate whereas on her method to submit her remaining yr undertaking.
In response to a press release by the college’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, the deadly accident concerned a Lexus car with Abuja registration quantity ABJ 427 LQ, pushed by Lasisi Sodiq Segun.
Rita was crossing the Ife-Ibadan expressway close to the campus gate when the car struck her. The accident resulted in extreme accidents, with Rita dropping each her legs and her head being severed.
Emergency companies from the Federal Highway Security Corps (FRSC) arrived promptly, recovering her stays and transporting them to the Obafemi Awolowo College Instructing Hospital Advanced mortuary.
The motive force of the car has reportedly been arrested by the Nigerian Police and is below investigation.
In response to this tragic occasion, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, expressed his condolences to Rita’s household by means of the Dean of College students Affairs, Professor Adeolu Odedire.
’Whether it is unlucky to lose a home animal, how can anybody quantify the loss of a kid, most particularly a grown-up youngster who was a younger, promising grownup with a number of potential? A remaining yr pupil, for that matter“. Due to this fact, he appealed to his mother and father, siblings, household, buddies, and classmates to hunt solace in God,” the VC mentioned.
