12-Year-Old Student Slumps, Dies During School Hours in Akure

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A 12-year-old student, Boluwatife Oladipo, a student of Saint Louis Girls’ Grammar School in Akure, Ondo State, has collapsed and died during school hours. Boluwatife, a Junior Secondary School 3 (JSS 3) pupil, reportedly slumped while in class, leaving the entire school community in shock and mourning.

Sources revealed that the young student had allegedly made eerie statements predicting her own death shortly before the incident occurred, though these claims remain unverified.

Some of her friends recounting what happened, said that while she was playing with them, Boluwatife revealed that she felt as though she was about to die.

The late pupil according to an Ondo tabloid, told her friends she had urged her mother to have more children, but her plea had been ignored.

Moments later, she collapsed and was immediately rushed to the school clinic, where first aid treatment was administered before she was later taken to the University Medical Teaching Hospital (UNIMETH) in Akure, where she was pronounced died on arrival.

A teacher at the school who doesn’t want to be quoted revealed that it was ‘obvious the deceased girl knew she would die, based on her actions prior to the incident.

“Last Tuesday, classes were ongoing in the school when we were alerted that a JSS 3 student had fainted. We quickly rushed to attend to her,” the teacher said.

“We learned that the girl was playing with her friends outside the classroom. When the bell rang for the next class, which was Mathematics, they all ran inside.

“After they got into the classroom and the Mathematics teacher arrived, she put her head on the desk.

“Her concerned classmates went to her and tapped her, telling her that the teacher was already in the classroom.”

“It was gathered that upon getting to her, she raised her head and told her friends she wanted to die.

“The students alerted the teacher, who rushed to her seat”, the teacher added.

Speaking further, the teacher said, “By the time the teacher reached her, she reiterated, “I want to d!e.”

“The teacher had to call on other teachers, and the girl was rushed to the school clinic. She was said to have kept saying she wanted to die.

“Thereafter, she was rushed to UNIMEDTH. Upon arrival at the state hospital, the doctor on duty who attended to her observed her and noted that she was ‘paper white’ (she had a shortage of blood).

“Immediately, she was placed on a blood transfusion. During the process, she tragically passed away.”

However, Ondo State Ministry of Education is yet to issue a statement in respect to the development.