NOUN lecturer killed in fire disaster

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February 10, 2017 12:16 PM

A senior lecturer at the National Open University has lost her life in a fire disaster that gutted her flat in Lagos.

The late Dr. Jumoke Odeyemi

The management and students of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), have been thrown into sorrow after one of its lecturers,

Punch reports that the deceased who had a doctorate degree in Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Ibadan, where she also had her bachelor’s degree in Language and Literacy and master’s degree in Education, was consumed in the fire that gutted her residence on Jemigbon Street, Apollo Estate, Ketu on Thursday, February 9, 2017.

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The victim who lived alone, according to residents, had reportedly bought a 30-litre jerrycan of fuel the previous day which she kept in her balcony of her two-bedroom flat and when power was restored, there was a spark which reportedly caught a mosquito net in one of the windows leading to the inferno.

The residents said they were awoken by the victim’s call for help but that the fire became fiercer when it got to the keg of petrol, it exploded and that made it difficult for anyone to rescue her.

Operatives of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and more than five water trucks from two fire stations in the area could not save the lady from death as the fire was said to be so ferocious that she was burnt beyond recognition.

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The deceased lecturer reportedly got married four years ago and had yet to have a child with her United States-based husband.

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