The Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta Muslim Alumni (MAPAMA) mourns the death of Nigeria’s Mass Communication icon and astute scholar, Prof. Lai Oso.
MAPAMA National President, Prince Taofeek Oyeniyi, like many of Oso’s counterparts, colleagues and students in Nigeria and overseas, received the news of his death with shock on Sunday morning, but with total submission to the will of Allah.
MAPAMA President, giving the torrents of accolades and eulogies being heaped on the eminent Professor of Communication and former Head of Mass Communication Department at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta, said he could not but join the Nigerian communication family, MAPOLY and his present employer, the Lagos State University and his immediate and extended families to mourn the painful exit of a core academician and a teacher per excellence.
The MAPAMA President describes Oso as an iconic, erudite and unassuming teacher; a versatile, cheerful, persistent, diligent and focused professional in his gifted field of practice.
Despite the shocking development, Oyeniyi said that he is delighted that Oso lived an impactful life, as many of his former and present students are scattered around the world, making fortunes out of the tutelage from him and have since become communication experts/gurus, media entrepreneurs, tutor and successful professionals today. He therefore declared that all of these greater feats being recounted could not have happened by accident.
He reiterated that the praises are well deserving and worthy of being reinforced for others to learn from.
To this end, Oyeniyi prays Allah to comfort Oso’s teeming students across the globe, his constituents and mostly, his immediate and extended families. He also prays Allah to avail his family the fortitude to bear the loss.
Oso died Saturday evening, after being involved in an auto crash in Ijebu, Ogun State, along the Ore-Sagamu highway.
He was making a return trip to Lagos after discharging an academic assignment as an external examiner at the Delta State University, Abaraka.
Oso was also a former Dean at Lagos State University’s School of Communications.
