OAU medical scholar dies in his sleep, varsity mourns
The administration, employees and college students of Obafemi Awolowo College, Ile-Ife, Osun State, have been thrown into mourning following the sudden dying of a a Half Three medical scholar of the establishment, Timilehin Toromade.
Asserting the dying on Tuesday in a launch signed by the college’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olanrewaju, and obtained in Osogbo, the administration mentioned Toromade was believed to have died in his sleep within the early hours of Tuesday.
Giving additional particulars surrounding the incident, the administration mentioned Toromade, with matriculation quantity CLI/2022/133, presumably died after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, as one in every of his roommates reportedly opened the door for an additional medical scholar occupying the identical constructing round that point.
“The Administration of Obafemi Awolowo College, Ile-Ife, has acquired with profound shock, deep sorrow and a heavy coronary heart the devastating information of the sudden passing of an eighteen-year-old Half Three scholar of the Faculty of Well being Sciences, Division of Drugs and Surgical procedure — who reportedly died in his sleep within the early hours of at the moment, Tuesday, sixth of January, 2026,” the assertion learn partially.
In a condolence message, the OAU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Simeon Bamire, condoled with the household of the late scholar, his classmates, colleagues and buddies.
Describing the incident as “deeply painful and distressing,” Bamire additional mentioned “your complete College group is united in grief over the premature departure of a scholar who had embraced the rigours of medical coaching with the hope of, in the future, therapeutic others and serving humanity. His passing has left a void within the hearts of his friends and all who knew him.
“The lack of a younger life crammed with promise, goal, and potential is a tragedy that phrases alone can not adequately seize.”
The administration assured the general public that it was “working carefully with related authorities to completely perceive the circumstances surrounding this unlucky incident, in step with established medical procedures.”
It additionally mentioned the college was setting up applicable assist measures to help college students and members of the college group who had been emotionally affected by the tragic loss.
“At this second of collective mourning, we, College calls on college students, employees, alumni, and buddies of the establishment to stay calm, compassionate, and prayerful, and to uphold the values of empathy and solidarity for which the Nice Ife is famend,” the administration mentioned.