Ede Poly Final Year student Dies While Preparing for Exams

A female final-year student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Kolawole Zainab, has slumped and died while preparing to write one of the ongoing examinations on the campus.

It was gathered that the lady, said to be a mother of three children, suddenly collapsed while revising for the first-semester examination on Wednesday.

The examination was said to have been slated for 12 noon before Zainab was rushed to the school’s medical centre.

She was said to have been declared dead the moment she was brought to the health facility.

A student of the polytechnic, who did not want to be mentioned, revealed that Zainab was a student of the Department of Quantity Surveying of the institution.

“Her sudden death has thrown her classmates into mourning. We were to write an exam at 12 noon, even though we are not of the same department. I doubt if the examination in her class later held because the death happened minutes before the time of the examination,” the Higher National Diploma I student said.

Some lecturers and students of the polytechnic have been mourning Zainab’s demise.

One of the lecturers in the polytechnic, David Olufunsho Fagboungbe, took to his Facebook page to mourn the deceased student.

He wrote with crying emojis, “Tears, agony and grief today as female HND QS student of Federal Polytechnics, Ede, and mother of 3 dies in the heat of ongoing first-semester examination.”

When contacted by Press correspondent on the telephone, the Acting Director, Information, Protocol and Public Relations of the polytechnic, Mr. Sola Lawal, confirmed the death of the Higher National Diploma II student, saying, “It is true. Her name is Kolawole Zainab, an HND II student. She was brought in dead to the school medical centre.”