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  • ND 1 student matcheted to death in Ondo

    ND 1 student matcheted to death in Ondo

    Assailants have macheted to death a newly-admitted student of mass communication at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, (RUGIPO), Owo, on Tuesday in Ondo State.

    The student, identified as Oluwaseun Adeleye, was killed at Opomulero Street in Owo, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

    A student of the institution, who spoke under anonymity on Wednesday, said that the deceased, a course representative and musician, was a new student of the institution who resumed a month ago.

    “He was a fresher who had spent just three to four weeks on campus. In fact, he was a course representative. It is sad that we lost him. Unfortunately, he was macheted,” the source said.

    However, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Samuel Ojo, who confirmed the incident, briefly stated, “It was just unfortunate”.

    CSP Funmilayo Odunlami Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Ondo State, also confirmed the incident to newsmen on Wednesday.

    “Yes, it’s a case of suspected murder of one Seun Ojo Adeleye, a ND 1 student of mass communication,” the PPRO said.

  • Truck crushes female student to death

    Truck crushes female student to death

    Students and management of Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, have been thrown into mourning on Wednesday, when a truck crushed to death a female student of the institution.

    Mr Rabiu Mohammed, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution, stated this in an interview with NAN in Bauchi on Thursday.

    Mohammed said the victim, Faith Adesola, a new student of the institution, paid her school fees, and started attending lectures but was yet to complete her registration.

    This, he said, made it a little bit difficult to instantly trace her department after the accident but was later identified as a new student of the Department of Mass Communication of the institution.

    “There was an accident and one of our students unfortunately was crushed to death by a truck driver.

    “From the reports received from the Chief Security Officer, the Students Affairs Officer as well as Head of the Department, the student took a motorcycle and unfortunately, the truck hit the motorcycle.

    “This eventually resulted in the truck crushing the student and she lost her life in the process but the motorcyclist was unharmed.

    “We took her to our clinic where the doctor confirmed her dead, and we have deposited her corpse at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital’s morgue so as to plan on how to reach the family,” he said.

    According to the spokesman, Adesola is from Osun State but based in Jos.

    He called on students and the people of the area to remain calm, adding that the truck driver and the motorcyclist had reported at the nearest Yelwa Police Division.

  • How I killed my 8-year-old student – Teacher

    How I killed my 8-year-old student – Teacher

    A teacher accused of stabbing an 8-year-old student to death at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon  said she was “annoyed”after being excluded from a class, police said.

    “I got annoyed just three days after returning to work,” she was quoted as telling the police, after accusing another person who was not identified of stopping her from teaching a class.

    The female teacher in her 40s gave the statement to police after admitting she stabbed the girl on the second floor of the school when she was arrested on Tuesday.

    The girl was later pronounced dead at a hospital due to excessive bleeding.

    Police said the suspect was found to have received treatment for depression since 2018 and thought of killing herself while on a six-month sick leave that began in early December.

    She returned from her leave early, however, and on the day of the attack, purchased a weapon before returning to the school in search of a target.

    The teacher told police she waited for children to file out of an after-school class with the intent of dying together with a child.

    “I told the last child leaving that I would give her a book and took her with me to the audiovisual room where I strangled and stabbed her,” she was quoted as telling police.

    The suspect also stabbed herself and is currently recovering at a hospital.

    She was found to have showed signs of aggression earlier as well, including last Thursday, when she twisted the arm of another teacher on Feb. 6, for asking if anything was wrong.

    The two were separated by other faculty members, but no reports were filed with the police at the time.

    Police said they have asked the National Forensic Service to conduct an autopsy of the child’s body to help determine the exact cause of death.

  • 2024 UTME: JAMB announces three top scorers

    2024 UTME: JAMB announces three top scorers

    Three candidates scored 367 during the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and by that emerged as the highest scorers for the examination.

    This was revealed at the ongoing 2024 policy meeting by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday in Abuja.

    They are Olowu Joseph from Ondo State, Alayande David from Oyo State, and Orukpe Joel from Edo State.

    In 2023, Umeh Nkechinyere emerged as the highest scorer with a 360 aggregate score.

    JAMB earlier noted that it won’t announce the 2024 highest scorer to avoid a repeat of the “Mmesoma matter.

    Recall that Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student, claimed to score 362 as against her actual score of 249 in the 2023 UTME JAMB portal.

    “It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates, as it considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions,” Oloyede said

  • Final year student killed over N500 levy in Bayelsa

    Final year student killed over N500 levy in Bayelsa

    The police command in Bayelsa says it has begun a manhunt for the killers of one Francis Palowei, a final year student of the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amasoma, over N500 levy.

    The command’s Spokesman, ASP Musa Mohammed  said on Wednesday in Yenagoa that some youths killed the student over his alleged refusal to pay N500 levy to climb a sand dump in Amasoma.

    NAN learnt that the deceased was a student at the Social Science Education department of NDU and a native of Obrigbene in Ekeremor Local Council of the state.

    The sand dump serves as relaxation spot for most youths in the area.

    Mohammed said the state commissioner of police had ordered that the perpetrators should be immediately arrested and brought to justice.

    He urged the deceased colleagues to be calm as the command would fish out the killers.

    A resident of the community, who pleaded anonymity, said the incident occurred on July 15 and the sand dump was a place where students often go to relax, socialise by climbing to the height of the dump for fun.

    He said some youths of the area, seeing the concentration of students around the sand dump, decided to increase the levy to N500 from N150, which degenerated into argument.

    The community youth reinforced by calling other youths and subsequently the student was killed.

    The Public Relations Officer of NDU, Mr Ndoni Igezi, who also confirmed the incident, described it as unfortunate, stating that police were already on top of the situation.

  • Ajayi Crowther University student beaten to death over stolen phone

    Ajayi Crowther University student beaten to death over stolen phone

    A student of Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo, has been beaten to death by some of his colleagues for allegedly stealing a mobile phone belonging to one of them.

    A source within the institution told said on Saturday that the students started beating their colleague at around 10 p.m. on Friday after discovering that he was the one who stole a phone.

    The source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on behalf of the university, said that aside stealing the phone, the student was also said to have transferred a certain amount from the phone to another account.

    Some short video clips sighted by a NAN correspondent showed a male student beating his colleague who was seen rolling on the floor, while another was heard shouting ‘harder, harder’, indicating that he should beat him the more.

    The source said that the students were enraged by the theft of the phone and the transfer of the money from the account of the owner.

    The source further stated that the deceased was thrown out of the hostel on Friday evening, where he was discovered to have died early on Saturday.

    Meanwhile, the school authorities have announced the expulsion of the students said to have been involved in what they called the ‘fight that led to the death of a fellow student’.

    The institution, in a statement issued by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Femi Atoyebi, on Saturday evening, however, denied the reports making the rounds that those involved in the killing were members of a secret cult.

    “Contrary to what is trending, the university affirms that there is no cultism in the institution, just as the university has zero tolerance for any sort of anti-societal vices and misconduct.

    “It is important to stress that the expelled students do not belong to any cult group,” he said.

    Atoyebi said what actually happened was that the deceased was alleged to have stolen a mobile telephone.

    He, however, said that instead of reporting the matter to the university management, the expelled students could not control their emotions, adding that their actions led to the unfortunate death of the student.

    The spokesperson said that the institution reacted swiftly by handing over all the students involved to the police for investigation, assuring all that justice would be served.

    “The university remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring a safe, conducive, peaceful and godly atmosphere for learning,” he said.

  • Ododo visits Kogi varsity, vows to rescue kidnapped students unhurt

    Ododo visits Kogi varsity, vows to rescue kidnapped students unhurt

    Gov. Usman Ododo on Saturday expressed determination to rescue the nine abducted students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Kogi safe and sound from their abductors.

    The governor made the pledge when he visited the university campus on an assessment of the security situation in the wake of the security breach on the campus that led to the abduction of the students.

    Bandits had invaded the institution on Thursday night and abducted nine students, whose whereabouts still remained unknown as the assailants yet to make contact with the management of the institution.

    Ododo, who was taking round the surrounding by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Abdulraman Asipita, vowed to secure the safe return of the students from their abductors.

    “This visit is part of my concern for what happened on Thursday and to assure parents and management that every necessary step including non-kinetic measures have been activated to ensure the safe return of the abducted students.

    “I hereby wish to assure members of the university community of efforts of my administration to improve the existing security architecture on the campus.

    “We will do whatever it takes to return all the abducted students to the university and to reunite them with their families and friends.

    “It is our duty as a government to protect lives and property in all parts of the state. We are prepared to protect the students and that is why we allowed the students to stay on the campus.

    “It’s unfortunate that in spite of installed CCTV cameras in all the classrooms and the entire perimeter of the university campus the abductors still struck.

    “Our investigation so far revealed that all the cameras were switched off and this can only be attributed to sabotage by internal collaborators,” he lamented.

    According to him, security agencies are on their heels and that investigation is ongoing to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book.

    He disclosed that there would be regular review of the operation as more facts emerge from the investigation.

    “I am here to see things myself; to assess the situation and also to review the ongoing operation that will ensure the safe return of the students to the school. What is most important now is how to rescue our students unhurt.

    “We have the right information at our disposal but we can’t put all that out in the media. I want the parents and students to be calm as we are making concerted effort to secure the return of the students,” he said.

    Ododo commended the security agencies for their gallantry in minimizing the impact of the attack by preventing the attackers from gaining access to the university hostels.

    “Nothing will be spared to bring back the students and to prevent a repeat of such unfortunate attack on the university campus and elsewhere in the state, ” Ododo assured.

  • Two Ajayi Crowther University guards arrested for raping female student

    Two Ajayi Crowther University guards arrested for raping female student

    Two members of the vigilante group at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State has been arrested on Satruday for allegedly raping a female student of the institution.

    The management, in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Olufemi Atoyebi, said the university had set up its own internal panel of inquiry to investigate the allegation.

    Atoyebi said the suspects have been handed over to the police with a vow to ensure heavy penalty on anyone found culpable after a thorough investigation.

    He, therefore, assured all stakeholders that the institution would not tolerate any act of misconduct capable of tarnishing its enviable image.

    The statement read in part, “Management of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo received with shock a report of alleged rape of one of our female students on Thursday, May 9, 2024, by two members of our vigilance group.

    “The management promptly handed over to the police, the two people alleged to have committed the crime while the university has set up its own internal panel of inquiry to investigate the allegation

    “The management wishes to assure all stakeholders that ACU will not tolerate any act of misconduct capable of tarnishing its enviable image.

    “Raising Godly intellectuals is our primary goal in ACU and we will not allow any act of misconduct capable of diverting our attention from our goal. Heavy penalty awaits anyone who is found culpable after our thorough investigation.”

  • Court sets free 200-level student standing trial for multiple rapes

    Court sets free 200-level student standing trial for multiple rapes

    The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court in Awka, has discharged and acquitted Michael Arinze, 20, accused of raping three young ladies in Awkuzu, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra state.

    Arinze, a 200 level student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, was arraigned in July 2022, but pleaded not guilty to the eight-count charge of rape and armed robbery.

    The offences, the prosecution said, contravened Section 5 of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law of Anambra State 2017 and Section 347 of the Criminal Code Cap 36 Vol. II Revise Laws of Anambra State of Nigeria 1991, as amended.

    The defendant, who has been in custody for 21 months, was alleged to have raped and robbed his victims, two aged 21 and the third, 22 years, of their handsets and money at gunpoint.

    The prosecution alleged that the offences were committed on April 5, July 8 and July 15, 2022, respectively.

    Delivering judgment,  Justice Peace Otti said that the evidence of the witnesses produced by the prosecution were inconsistent.

    Otti said further that prosecutory evidence was inconsistent with the defendant’s confessional statement.

    “No independent witness testified to corroborate the story of the prosecution, no medical doctor was called as a witness to confirm medical reports and no medical report was also tendered to prove prosecution’s case.

    “The Court in criminal cases does not dwell on speculations, but on credible, vital and relevant evidence.

    “The guilt of the defendant was not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

    “I find the defendant not guilty and the defendant is hereby discharged and acquitted,” she said.

  • Dangote varsity reacts to report of student corpse found in hostel

    Dangote varsity reacts to report of student corpse found in hostel

    The Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology (ADUSTECH), Wudil, Kano State, said on Friday that no student died in the university’s students’ hall of residence.

    The university’s Dean of Students’ Affairs, Prof. Abdulkadir Dambazau, a statement in Kano urged the public to disregard the reported death of Yahaya Aisha Olabisi in the hall of residence

    “It has come to our attention of a recent statement made by some media outlets regarding the discovery of a student’s corpse at the students’ hall of residence. This is entirely false.

    “We wish to address this matter promptly and unequivocally refute these claims.

    “On April 23, 2024, we received news about the untimely passing of Yahaya Aishat Olabisi, a diligent and bright student of ADUSTECH, Wudil,” he said.

    Dambazau explained that Olabisi spent her last evening engrossed in her studies, diligently preparing for upcoming examinations.

    He said the following morning, after a shared breakfast with her roommate and a conversation with her father, the student expressed her intent to rest briefly before resuming her studies.

    The dean said that, however, destiny had a different plan for her, as in the early afternoon of the same day, concerns arose when Olabisi did not respond to attempts to reach her.

    He said that upon investigation, it was discovered that she had passed on in her sleep, in her off-campus residence.

    According to him, immediate measures were taken, as she was swiftly taken to the university clinic, where her passing was confirmed by medical professionals.

    “Given the circumstances, her remains were transferred to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), for postmortem analysis to ascertain the cause of her sudden demise’’, he said.

    Dambazau said that after honouring her memory and bidding her farewell, Olabisis was laid to rest on April 24.

    “We urge everyone to refrain from spreading or engaging with misinformation that may harm our university’s reputation and create unnecessary panic,” he said.