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A renowned Nigerian Professor of communication, Lai Oso, is dead. Oso died in a motor accident in Ijebu axis of Ore-Sagamu expressway on Saturday evening. The sad incident was said to have occured while the deceased was returning from Delta State University (DELSU). Where he was an external examiner at the department of Mass communication. "His SUV has reached Ijebu axis on the expressway before the car plunged  into a river,” a source revealed. Oso, in his lifetime, was a good man, a father and lecturer to many communication scholars and journalists across the world.  He was one of the pillars of communication at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), and a former Dean of School of Communication, Lagos State University (LASU).

The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible vessel with five passengers on board, its wreckage was eventually found last Thursday. The five occupants on board were killed in the process. The search had been spearheaded by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship. The five were on a voyage to see the century-old wreckage of the famous Titanic by the time this catastrophic implosion occurred. The robotic vehicle had found the debris of the submersible Titan on the seabed, “some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic,” reported Reuters. Named the Titan and operated by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company, its passengers included the company's founder and chief executive officer, Stockton Rush who also doubled as pilot of the Titan; British billionaire and explorer, Hamish Harding; Pakistani-born businessman, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, as well as French oceanographer and f