A scholar of repute and renowned professor of Mass Communication Lai Oso is dead.
Oso, aged 67, a lecturer with Lagos State University (LASU) was reported to have died in an accident while returning from a conference in Abraka, Delta State.
One of his students, Idris Mohammed, who broke the news on Facebook, wrote: “It s with great sadness and heavy heart that I bring to you the passing away of our very own Professor Lai Oso of the Mass Communication Department, Lagos State University in the evening today as a result of a ghastly accident on his way back to Lagos from Abaraka, Delta State. Late Lai Oso was one of Professor Pate’s allies and a great communication scholar in Nigeria.
“He was a humble and generous man of exemplary good character Goodnight Prof.!!
It was gathered that the late don died in the Ijebu axis of the Ore-Sagamu expressway on Saturday evening.
He was coming from Delta State University (DELSU) where he was an external examiner at the Department of Mass Communication. His SUV had reached Ijebu axis on the expressway before the car plunged into a river,” quoted another student who was called from Ijebu Police station.
Oso was the Dean of the school between 2011 and 2015. He was President, Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN).
He was educated at the University of Lagos (B.Sc. Mass Communication), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (M.Sc. International Relations) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mass Communication as a Federal Government scholar at the University of Leicester, England in 1977.
He worked as a Reporter on both Radio and the News Agency of Nigeria and taught courses in Journalism, Media and Governance, Political Communication, Development Communication and Theory
