UNILAG students slumps and died on football pitch.

Simon Adokwu, a student at the University of Lagos’ Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Social Science, died while playing football, according to reports.

According to reports, Adokwu collapsed and passed while while playing football on the school’s grounds in Akoka, Lagos State.

After attending church, the late student walked to a field next to the university’s Human Resource Development Center to play football.

Adokwu’s colleagues hurriedly transported him to the hospital in an effort to save him, but the attending physician declared him dead there.

Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, the university’s public relations officer, who confirmed the event on Thursday, claimed that Adokwu informed his buddies he was sick before coming to the football field. But he still insisted on going ahead to play football.

“The DSA called his parents and when they came over, they said they would like to take his body but that is not our tradition. We still need to do an autopsy and post-mortem evaluation. At that point, we had to move his body to the LUTH, Idi-Araba,” she said.