Nigerian Football Mourns As Super Falcon’s Coach, Florence Omagbemi’s Son Drown In Hotel Pool

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 l
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.