Nigeria, March 10 -- A Junior Secondary School (JSS) student at King's College Lagos (KCL) has died following a Diphtheria outbreak in the school.

The Chairperson of the Parents-Teachers Association (PTA), Peter Oluwaleye, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday morning that the student, whose name he did not disclose, passed away last week at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

In a statement dated 9 March, Mr Oluwaleye expressed condolences to the family of the deceased and updated parents on efforts to contain the disease's spread.

"The issue of Diphtheria disease in the College has actually blown out of proportion in some platforms, but the reality is far from the panic," he noted

"Regrettably, we lost one of our students ...