LASU Don, Prof.Lai Oso, Dies In Auto Accident
A former Head of Department, Mass Communication, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, MAPOLY Prof Lai Oso is dead.
Oso, according to two of his former students, Idris Mohammed and Wasiu Tejuoso, died in an auto crash in Ijebu, along the Ore-Sagamu expressway Saturday evening.
The duo confirmed that the Prof of Communication was on his way to Delta State University (DELSU) where he was an external examiner at the Department of Mass Communication.
“His SUV has reached Ijebu axis on the expressway before the car plunged into a river,” another student who was called from Ijebu Police station last night confirmed.
Oso, aged 67, was reported to have died in an accident while returning from a conference in Abraka, Delta State.
Idris Mohammed, one of his students who broke the news on Facebook, wrote: “It 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. Late Lai Oso was one of Professor Pate’s allies and a great communication scholar in Nigeria.
“He was a humble and generous man of exemplary good character. Goodnight Prof.!!
“He was coming from Delta State University (DELSU) where he was an external examiner at the Department of Mass Communication. His SUV had reached Ijebu axis on the expressway before the car plunged into a river,” quoted another student who was called from Ijebu Police station.
Oso was a Professor at the Mass Communication School of Communication, Lagos State University.
He was the Dean of the school between 2011 and 2015. He was President, of the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN).
He was educated at the University of Lagos (B.Sc. Mass Communication), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (M.Sc. International Relations) and obtained a PhD degree in Mass Communication as a Federal Government scholar at the University of Leicester, England in 1977
He worked as a Reporter on both Radio and the News Agency of Nigeria and taught courses in Journalism, Media and Governance, Political Communication, Development Communication and Theory
