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LAUTECH prof. Olajire, slump and dies during Juma’at prayer

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A professor at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Abass Olajire, slumped and died yesterday.

He was 59 years old.

Sources at the university confirmed to The Press that the Professor of Industrial/Environmental Chemistry died while observing Juma’at prayer yesterday.

Family sources said the late scholar would be buried in Ibadan today, according to Islamic rites.

Olajire was recently listed among the top scholars in the world, according to a ranking released by Elsevier B. V (Netherlands) and a team of researchers led by Prof. John P.A. loannidis from Stanford University, United States.

He was ranked 128th of 66,925 of the top world scientists in the world in March 2021.

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