Tributes have been pouring in after it was confirmed that renowned Nigerian scholar, Prof. Pius Adesanmi was among those that died in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline.
The Canada-based university don, who held both Nigerian and Canadian passports, posted a photo from Addis Ababa Airport, Ethiopia, hours before the plane took off.
The plane, which was bound for Nairobi, Kenya, went down in the early hours of Sunday.
The late Adesanmi, who was a Director at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, Canada, was a professor of English.
Nigerians from all walks of life have been flooding Twitter with tributes and belows are some of them.
[…] Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with families of the two Nigerians, Amb. Abiodun Bashua and Prof. Pius Adesanmi, who lost their lives in the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on […]
[…] Media Mogul, Mo Abudu has lent her voice to the ill-fated Ethiopian airline crash that occurred on Sunday. […]
[…] Dele Momodu, has revealed what Nigerian professor, Pius Adesanmi who died alongside 157 others in the Ethiopian Airline plane crash, told him before the unfortunate […]
[…] died on March 10 aboard an ill-fated Ethiopian airline, flight 302 which took off from Addis Ababa and was headed to Nairobi but crashed barely six minutes after […]
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