OAU Loses Professor After The Suspension Of ASUU Strike

A Professor at the department of Educational Foundations and Counselling, Obafemi Awolowo University, Bamidele Faleye, has lost his life after the Academic Staff Union Of Universities(ASUU) suspended it’s Eight Months old strike.

The professor who passed away on Saturday, October 15, 2022, was a member of the OAU chapter of ASUU.

Announcing his death in a statement which announced the suspension of the local strike by the OAU ASUU, the branch chairman, Dr Adeola Egbedokun, noted that the branch congress held prayers in his honour.

“The chairman announced the saddened demise of Professor Bamidele Faleye of the Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling who died on Saturday, October 15, 2022. Congress observed a minute silence in his honour and was led in prayer sessions. Professor Abel Afon led the prayer in a Christian way while Dr Saheed Adekilekun led the prayer in an Islamic way”.