Super
Falcons Coach, Florence Omagbemi's 15-year-old son, Samson, has died in
a swimming pool at a hotel in Effurun, Delta State.
Coach of the Super Falcons of Nigeria, Florence Omagbemi has lost her 15-year-old son, Samson.
It was gathered that 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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