LASU lecturer Lai Oso dies in autocrash

A renowned Professor of Mass Communication in Lagos State University, Lai Oso is dead.

Oso died on Saturday evening, in a car accident along the Sagamu-Ore Expressway.

Lai Oso was once a lecturer at the then-Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta, which is now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic where he rose to become the Head of the Department of Mass Communication.

Two of his former students, Idris Mohammed and Wasiu Tejuoso,  who confirmed the incident, said his car reportedly plunged into a river.

He made scholars out of others—ACSPN

Reacting to the death of Prof. Lai Oso, the Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria, ACSPN, and the Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, Prof. Umaru Pate described his death as a monumental loss to the Nigerian and global mass communication and journalism community.

In a statement, General Secretary of ACSPN Prof. Nosa Owens-Ibie, said: “Under his tenure the Association began the process by producing in collaboration with UNESCO and other stakeholders, the first draft of what has now been launched as the Unbundled Mass Communication curriculum, following a curriculum development workshop for communication and journalism courses in November 2015.

“He was a scholar who helped to make scholars out of others through knowledge building, scholarly articles and book publications, and it was also under him that ACSPN commenced many niche programmes.”

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