The boy is Omagbemi’s son from a previous relationship before she got married.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday, June 15 announced the death of Omagbemi’s son, Samson who died on Wednesday, June 14.
The Delta State born coach lost her dad, a retired civil servant who died in December and had to rush to Warri immediately for the funeral just after returning from Cameroon where she led the Super Falcons to win the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON).
The 42-year-old former midfielder lost her husband, Adams Onuja an indigene of Kogi State in 2009.
Reports, however indicate Omagbemi’s son, Samson O. Atamako was among other other boys taken out by their teacher for ‘an after exam party’.
Former U23 media officer and Delta-state based journalist, Timi Ebikagboro, confirmed the sad news on Wednesday.
Ebikagboro’s post which was put up late on Wednesday explained how a teacher took JSS 3 students of Challenge lntl. School Kolokolo Udu road, Warri to Golden Tulip along PTI junction Effurun for “an after exam party”.
There was no account of how the two 15-year-old boys died, but the post explains that their bodies turned up in the hotel’s pool.
Ebikagboro’s facebook post explains:
“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 tho dead kid is the “son” of our own Florence Omagbemi Super Falcons head coach, pls 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?”
