Prof. Lai Oso, a communications professor at Lagos State University (LASU), has passed away. According to reports, Oso, 67, perished in an accident on his way home from a meeting in Abraka, Delta State on Saturday evening, June 24, 2023.
Oso was a professor at Lagos State University’s Mass Communication School of Communication. Between 2011 and 2015, he served as the institution’s dean. Also, the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) elected him as its president.
According to two of his students, Oso died in a motor accident on the Ijebu axis along the Ore-Sagamu expressway.
“He was coming from Delta State University (DELSU) where he was an external examiner at the Department of Mass Communication. The car carrying him reached the Ijebu axis on the expressway before it plunged into a river.”
Adeola Yusuf wrote: “Professor Oso was a good man, a father, and lecturer to many communication scholars and journalists across the World. One of the pillars of communicatio n at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), and a former Dean of the School of Communication, Lagos State University (LASU) who has just died three years to his retirement.
“His death is a terrible blow to the communication community. A huge communication library has just been set ablaze.”
Professor Oso completed his undergraduate studies in mass communication at the University of Lagos, his master’s degree in international relations at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, and his doctoral studies in mass communication as a Federal Government scholar at the University of Leicester in England in 1977.
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