Super Falcons of Nigeria, Florence Omagbemi ‘s
15-year-old son, Samson is dead.
Samson and one of his classmates reportedly got drowned
in a swimming pool at a hotel in Effurun, Delta State, where they had gone to
for an after exams party.
Media officer for the Nigeria U-23 team, Timi Ebikagboro,
announced the boys’ death via a Facebook post.
The Facebook post explained how a teacher took JSS 3
students of Challenge International School, Kolokolo Udu Road, Warri, to Golden
Tulip along PTI junction Effurun for “an after exam party.”
He wrote, “Am just in a sad mood, how on earth will a
teacher take JSS students to a hotel in Effurun for an after exam party and in
the end 2 of the innocent students got killed and thrown into the hotel pool,
one of two dead kid is the “son” of our own Florence Omagbemi, Super Falcons
head coach.
Please, I beg all of you to put her in your prayers, she
needs all our support in this her trying times, I hope the Delta State Ministry
of Education will act on this?”
Meanwhile the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has
joined in the mourning and also sent condolences to Coach Omagbemi who last
year led Nigeria to her seventh Africa Women Championship title in Cameroon.
The Federation, through its official Twitter handle,
@thenff, wrote, “Our prayers are with @NGSuper_Falcons Head Coach, Florence
Omagbemi who lost her son, Samson, on Wednesday. May his soul rest in peace.”
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