Fresh facts have emerged about how the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, died at the weekend.
A source close to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), where he died, told NigerianEye that Prof. Sofoluwe was hale and hearty until after 10pm on Friday when he left the UNILAG Staff Club.
The source said: “After leaving the staff club, he went to his office at the Computer Department, which he still maintained after becoming VC.
“While there, he ordered for a meal. He had barely taken two spoons when he started coughing. He was coughing seriously. I was told he called his doctor.
“The doctor was said to have mobilised an ambulance. But when the doctor got to the school, he could not locate him. He was looking for him at his office in the Senate building. When he could not find him, he rushed to one or two other places within the campus without any trace of the VC. By the time he finally located him, he had already collapsed in his office at the computer department.”
he was however taken to LUTH, where he was temporarily revived.
At the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba he was diagnosed as having Myocardial Infarction.
Myocardial infarction refers to a situation whereby a blood clot stops blood from flowing in a heart (coronary) artery
According to the Unilag statement issued “He was resuscitated before being transferred to the High Dependency Unit in Ward E8 of LUTH. Unfortunately, he suffered a second heart attack and all efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. Post mortem examination has since been carried out and this has confirmed the cause of death to be of Cardiac Origin,”
The statement added that the university had declared three days of mourning in honour of Sofoluwe, the 10th VC of UNILAG
According to a statement, the mourning period will run from Monday (today) till Wednesday.
During the mourning period, all lectures, statutory meetings and other university activities at its three campuses (Akoka, Yaba and Idi-Araba, including its staff schools) will not hold.
The university has also set up a burial committee headed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Research) Prof. Babajide Alo.
