500 Level Varsity Student Dies While Playing Football

A soccer game turned sorrow when Tunji Agboola, a final year student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo state, slumped and died while playing football.

It was gathered that the sad incident happened on Saturday morning close to his residence, off campus, around the school’s south gate.

A source said immediately the deceased slumped, he was rushed to the institution’s health centre, but the centre was closed due to the ongoing strike by the Non-Academic Staff Union.

The student was later rushed to a private hospital nearby, but the doctors could do little due to lack of basic oxygen apparatus to resuscitate him.

Tunji was then taken to the State Specialist Hospital, Akure where he was confirmed Dead.

His death almost caused a protest by his colleagues especially the Nigerian Association of Earth and Mineral Science Students (NAEMSS) who felt he would not have died if he had got help on time.

However, Union leaders in the institution intervened, with a call to the state government to shut down the school health centre for not having functioning facilities.