Final Year UNILAG Student, Matthew Odusami, Dies in Hostel While Playing Football
Category: Campus News
A 500-level undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Odusami Matthew, has died after slumping at the Biobaku Hostel.
PUNCH Metro
learnt that Matthew, a student at the Estate Management Department, was
playing football with some of his friends on Friday when he slumped.
He was reportedly rushed to the school’s medical centre where he was confirmed dead on arrival.
Journalists were told that the remains of the student had been deposited at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.
When our correspondent visited the hostel on Monday, one of the residents confirmed that the incident happened around 4pm.
He
said, “He stayed in this hostel. Around 4pm, he decided to play
football with some of his friends. He was not tackled neither was he
with the ball when he collapsed.
“Nobody understood what went
wrong with him. He was rushed to the medical centre, but he died on the
way. It’s really a shock to us.”
A colleague of the victim, who
spoke to our correspondent at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences,
said Matthew cried that his head was stiff before he died.
“Actually,
he had stopped playing. He took time off to rest and sat on the
sideline. Suddenly, he started crying that his head was stiff and he
could not feel anything again. He slumped shortly after and died,” the
colleague, who did not want to be named, said.
A man, who claimed
to be Matthew’s close friend, said he spoke with him on Friday, adding
that he never had any premonition that he would die suddenly.
Speaking
on condition of anonymity, the friend said, “He was a nice guy. He was
also hard working. He had a strong second class upper grade. I still
cannot believe he’s gone. I am grieving and don’t want to say more than
that.”
However, the Deputy Registrar and Head of Information
Unit, University of Lagos, Mr. Toyin Adebule, said Matthew was playing
football at the university’s sports centre, where he slumped and was
rushed to the medical centre.
He said, “A student was brought
from the sports centre to the medical centre. When he got there, he did
not have any sign of life. The director of health centre and other
workers there tried to resuscitate him to no avail. He was dead.
“The
dean of students’ affairs and other representatives of the school were
there. We have reached the family and broken the news to them. Our
prayers are with them that God will give them the fortitude to bear the
loss.”
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