The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has declared three days of mourning in honour of its late Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, who passed away at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on Saturday.

During the mourning period, which commences from Monday May 14 to Wednesday May 16, all lectures, statutory meetings and other university activities at its three campuses (Akoka, Yaba and Idi-Araba, including its staff schools) will not hold.

The school authority in a press statement confirmed that the VC suffered a heart attack while in his office at the Department of Computer Science but managed to call his doctor who came to his rescue and took him to the medical centre in an ambulance.

He was subsequently transferred to LUTH where he was diagnosed as having Myocardial infarction.

Myocardial infarction refers to a situation whereby a blood clot stops blood from flowing in a heart (coronary) artery.

“He was resuscitated before being transferred to the High Dependency Unit in Ward E8 of LUTH. Unfortunately, he suffered a second heart attack and all efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. Post mortem examination has since been carried out and this has confirmed the cause of death to be of Cardiac Origin,” the statement added.

The university has also set up a burial committee headed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Research) Prof. Babajide Alo.