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  • Oromoni’s death: Accused Dowen College student suffers shock after police interrogation

    Oromoni’s death: Accused Dowen College student suffers shock after police interrogation

    Mr Samuel Inyang, father of one of the senior students of Dowen College, Lagos, accused of beating the late 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., has said that his son suffered from shock and paroxysm after returning from police interrogation.

    Paroxysm is a sudden attack or outburst of emotion or activity.

    Inyang, a trader, testified on Monday at an Ikeja Coroner’s Court unravelling the circumstances surrounding the death of the student.

    He was being cross-examined by counsel to Lagos State Government.

    Inyang said that he was satisfied with advice from Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) released on Jan. 4.

    “”Ever since my son was detained and released, he has been going through a lot of trauma. He cries at night.”

    George referred Inyang to paragraph 17 of his Witness Statement on Oath to ascertain the credibility of the medical condition of his son.

    “You mentioned that your son has a medical condition. How did you know? Are you a doctor? Did you take him to a hospital for check up?” George queried.

    The witness responded, “My son has been shaking and weeping since he came back from police station. He has paroxysm.”

    Questioning him further, George said, “How did you come about the word – paroxysm? Do you know the meaning?”

    The witness replied, “After my discussion with my lawyer, we came about the word – paroxysm.”

    Probing the witness further, George asked if his son had no reason to appear before the coroner.

    He replied in the affirmative.

    The Coroner, Mr Mikhail Kadiri, had objected to Inyang testifying. He said that the witness had no credible evidence to give because he was not the student.

    “The witness is not relevant in the inquest. The actual witness is one of the students.

    “I will prefer the witness (student) himself. If he does not want to come, I will have no choice than to summon him.

    “The position of the deceased’s family is that he was beaten and given a poisonous substance.

    “The witness in the box is not the student of the school. What evidence does he have to tender?.

    Counsel to Inyang, Mr Olumide Akinimi, had prayed the court to allow him to testify since his son was a day student, not a boarder.

    “My lord, the witness is here to testify that his son is a day student as against the notion that he is a boarder,” he had said.

    The coroner adjourned proceedings until March 14.

    The Oromoni family that the 12-year-old student died on Nov. 30, 2021, from injuries sustained in an attack by five senior students of Dowen College for refusing to join a cult.

    It was also alleged that he was forced to drink a substance by his attackers.

    Advice by the Lagos State DPP released on Jan. 4, however, disputed the allegations.

    It stated that an autopsy revealed the cause of the student’s death as acute bacterial pneumonia due to severe sepsis.

  • Few months after Oromoni’s death, Dowen College expels student for bullying

    Few months after Oromoni’s death, Dowen College expels student for bullying

    Barely four months after the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, an embattled school Dowen College has expelled a bully from the school.

    The student, who was bullied, has also been withdrawn from the school by his parents.

    The principal of the college, Mrs Adebisi Layiwola, made this disclosure yesterday under cross-examination by Lagos lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) before the coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri.

    Mr Falana asked if the witness was aware that some parents had withdrawn their children from the school because of bullying allegations.

    “No. I cannot remember,” the principal replied.

    When asked if she was aware that a parent came to Maroko Police Station to complain that her son was bullied.

    She said: “Yes it is true. The boy has been withdrawn after Sylvester’s case, and the boy that bullied him was expelled after the death of the deceased.”

    Mrs Layiwola also told the coroner, that a condolence letter was sent to the deceased’s family through an email and WhatsApp.

    She said: “The school sent a letter of condolence to the family via a normal way of delivery. It was sent by email and WhatsApp but I can’t say which email now and I also called the father immediately it happened.”

    Mrs Layiwola, who said she got to know about the deceased sickness eight days later, claimed that she called the deceased’s mother immediately she heard of his death.

    The Coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri, adjourned proceedings till March 7.

  • UMOREN: How DSS gave me questions and answers to rehearse- Suspect

    UMOREN: How DSS gave me questions and answers to rehearse- Suspect

    Uduak Akpan, the first accused person in the murder of Iniubong Umoren, a final year student of the Department of Philosophy, University of Uyo, on Wednesday, told an Akwa Ibom State High Court how the DSS officers gave him the answers and the questions to rehearse before his video recording.

    Umoren admitted he was the person speaking in the video CD played before the trial judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang.

    The defendant informed the court that he was tortured to sign a statement given to him at the Department of Security Services.

    At the resumed hearing on trial within trial in Uyo, the state capital, on Wednesday, the suspected murderer said he signed the statement to avoid more slaps and beatings from DSS officers.

    The trial judge had adjourned the case for a mini-trial to be conducted, in order to determine the voluntariness of that statement.

    Recalled that counsel to Uduak Akpan, Barr. Sampson Adula, had, last week, objected to its admissibility on grounds that it was not made voluntarily.

    Speaking while being cross-examined during the mini-trial, Uduak Akpan who is facing a two-count of rape and murder admitted that he was the person speaking in the video CD played in the court, but stated that the DSS officers gave him the answers and the questions to rehearse before the video recording.

    He said, “They said I should practice those questions and answers and they also said when they start recording that I should give them the answers according to what I practiced.”

    The first accused had also disowned the statements that two Police officers, the IPO and ASP had testified that he made to them in the course of their investigation in the matter.

    However, when cross-examined in the trial-within-trial, the DSS investigator, Ama Okeke (PW10) told the court that the allegation that the first accused made the statement the Prosecuting Counsel sought to tender in evidence involuntarily was not correct.

    The prosecution witness testified that the DSS has a standard interrogation room with electronic gadgets, cameras, recorder, pen, tables, chairs etc, where a suspect could relax to write or make his or her statement voluntarily.

    “And when the first accused person was in this room, he was asked if he knows why he was in the DSS? My Lord he had voluntarily told my team that it is because he killed Iniubong Ephraim Umoren”, Okeke also testified.

    The witness further testified that it was not also correct that the video recording of the first accused which was played in the court was as a result of questions and answers as alleged by the first accused person, noting that his team only asked Uduak Akpan to narrate what happened that led to the death of Iniubong Umoren.

    The court admitted the video Compact Disc (Video CD) that was played in court in evidence, marked as exhibit two in trial-within-trial.

    However, Justice Nkanang adjourned the case till February 24, for ruling on the trial-within trial and also for the conclusion of the evidence of PW10.

  • OAU 200-level student dies after falling inside hostel soakaway

    OAU 200-level student dies after falling inside hostel soakaway

    Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has lost a part two student of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Miss Ayomikun Ajibola.

    Ajibolla died after she fell into a soakaway in BVER, one of the private hostels in the Students Village.

    The Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, made this known in a statement to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Ile-Ife, Osun state.

    Olarewaju said that the university management “is saddened by this unfortunate incidence”.

    He said immediately the news got to the school’s management, it mobilised fire men from the university and some staff of OAU teaching hospital, who through concerted efforts got the student out.

    “Accordingly, she was immediately taken to the OAU Teaching Hospital, where she was certified dead.”

    He said that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, led his management team to the scene, and sympathised with the students and commiserated with the parents of the deceased.

    “Prof Ogunbodede, who described the incidence as tragic and unacceptable, promised to critically look into the circumstances that led to the student’s death and mete out appropriate sanctions against those involved or whoever is found culpable.

    “The vice chancellor, therefore, appealed to the students to remain calm and be law abiding as the police, who have been briefed, are also investigating,” Olarewaju said in the statement.

  • Students without 70% attendance won’t take examinations in Ogun – Education Commissioner

    Students without 70% attendance won’t take examinations in Ogun – Education Commissioner

    The Ogun government says students without 70 per cent attendance will no longer be allowed to sit for examinations in its schools.

    The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, stated this on Tuesday during a visit to Abeokuta Girls Grammar School, Onikolobo.

    Arigbabu explained that the measure was taken to curb absenteeism in schools.

    The commissioner said that this was part of measures put in place to reduce misdemeanor in schools, and advised students to shun behaviors that would bring shame to their families, schools and the state.

    Arigbabu said that to make the measure effective, private schools had been directed not to admit any student expelled from a government school.

    “Absenteeism of learners in schools is worrisome to us as a government. This, we believe, is also part of the behavior that we frown at.

    “We have therefore ensured digitalisation of names of all our learners, this will make it impossible for anyone that does not record 70 per cent attendance to sit for any examination,” he warned.

    On the case of a viral video of some students smoking Shisha in a school in Ogun, the commissioner said that the suspended students had been pardoned and have returned to school after undergoing counselling.

    Earlier in her remarks, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs Abosede Ogunleye, charged the students to face their studies and shun acts that could undermine or destroy their future.

    Welcoming the commissioner and her team to the school, the Principal, Mrs Tolulope Fasanya, appreciated government for rehabilitating and re-integrating the girls to school.

    Fasanya promised that such incident would not happen again in the school.

  • [REVEALED] CCTV shows how hotel owner, son killed OAU student

    [REVEALED] CCTV shows how hotel owner, son killed OAU student

    Closed Circuit Television has revealed how Obafemi Awolowo University post-graduate student, Timothy Adegoke was killed in his hotel room.

    This was revealed by founder of an Ibadan, Oyo State-based radio station, Agidigbo FM, Oriyomi Hamzat, in a video posted on his Instagram page on Friday.

    Oludare had lodged at Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife when he came to write his examinations in OAU late last year before he was murdered by the owner, Rahmon Adedoyin, his son, and staff of the facility.

    Hamzat, who is also a human rights activist, said on Friday that the police had given him authorisation to reveal the content of the CCTV that showed how Oludare was killed.

    He revealed that there will soon be a court case on the matter.

    He also disclosed that among the four suspects, three had been declared wanted as it was only Adedoyin that was in the custody of the police.

    He said, “They entered his room at 12 midnight. We have seen the CCTV but the police have taken them away. It was revealed that they entered by 12:00am. Who are the suspects that killed Timothy? Moshood who is like a personal assistant to Adedoyin and an accomplice was involved as CCTV showed he entered, then Adedoyin entered, and Raheem, the son of Adedoyin and managing director of the hotel entered.

    “After some minutes, we saw that they went out of the room. As they went out, they wrapped Timothy’s corpse with a hotel duvet, and tighten it with a rope. They then put it in a big carton and tighten it again with a rope. They put his body in the boot of a car and drove out.”

    Hamzat said as the police continued their investigation on the matter, the family will begin preparation for the burial of the deceased.

  • Just In: Police nab suspect in connection to murdered UNIJOS student, Jennifer

    Just In: Police nab suspect in connection to murdered UNIJOS student, Jennifer

    One suspect in connection to the gruesome murder of Miss Jennifer Anthony, a 300-level student of the University of Jos, Plateau State has been arrested by the police.

    Jennifer, a native of Akwanga Local Government in Nasarawa State who had gone missing on the eve of the New Year was found dead in Jos.

    She was last seen with her boyfriend, a suspected ‘Yahoo Boy’ now at large where they reportedly lodged at a Hotel along Zaria Road Jos.

    Jennifer’s eyes were plucked off and other parts of her body mutilated, indicating she might have been murdered for ritual purposes.

    The deceased was a student of Special Education and Rehabilitation Science.

    Meanwhile, report just coming in indicate that the prime suspect has been traced to Bida Bidi, Jos North where the mum owns a private school.

    The report also states that the father of the suspect is a lecturer in the same institution where the deceased was schooling.

  • SS3 student allegedly beats teacher to death in Delta

    SS3 student allegedly beats teacher to death in Delta

    An SS3 student of Erhimu Secondary School, Abraka, Delta State, Michael Ogbeife, on Thursday allegedly beats his teacher until he died.

    The teacher Joseph Ossai, reportedly had a fight with the student which resulted in his death.

    The late teacher was in charge of Agricultural Science and Biology in the said school until his demise.

    The SS3 student is said to have fought with the teacher after he (Ossai) flogged his younger sister, Promise Ogbeife who was involved in a dispute with her classmate.

    According to sources from the school, Michael angrily left the school’s premises after his sister was flogged, returned back and headed straight to the staff room for a fight with the teacher.

    Some sources alleged that the suspect went home to get a charm before the fight.

    Ossai is said to have collapsed after punches from the student that left him with a bleeding nose and blood gushing out from his mouth.

    He was rushed to a private clinic in the Abraka and then to the government hospital where he was confirmed dead.

    The school’s proprietor, Mr. Erhimu, in his reaction said he was yet to receive full details of the incident as he was absent from school when the incident occured.

    The police spokesman in the Delta state, DSP Bight Edafe, confirmed the incident, saying, “Suspect is nowhere to be found for now but sister is in protective custody.”

  • OAU shuts down, orders students out of hall of residence

    OAU shuts down, orders students out of hall of residence

    The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, have closed down the institution until further notice, following students’ protest over the death of their colleague, and in its bid to forestall further breakdown of law and order.

    This was contained in a release issued by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju on Friday, in Ile-Ife.

    In view of the action, all students have been directed to vacate their halls of residence and the campus, latest by 12:00 noon on Saturday, 2nd October, 2021.

    Olanrewaju had on Friday issued a press release which stated that on Tuesday, 28th September, 2021, one Aishat Adesina, a 24-year old female, Part 4 student of the Department of Foreign Languages, had died.

    The release said that the deceased had reported to the university’s Health Centre with signs and symptoms of a severe infection.

    She was promptly treated with some prescribed drugs and asked to report back as an out-patient. She reported back to the Health Centre in the morning of Thursday, 30th September, 2021.

    Upon examination, the release said, she was referred to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, for further management where she regrettably died on the same day.

    Olarewaju stated that the management understood the grief resulting from this untimely death within the community and sympathises with the parents, friends, colleagues and the entire students of the University on this sad loss, and prayed for the repose of her soul.

    In the meantime, the University management has put in place a machinery to unravel the circumstances surrounding the immediate and remote cause(s) of the students’ protests.

    Consequently, the swearing-in of the newly elected Students’ Union officials has been put on hold, pending a review of the situation, the release said.

    Management also condemned in strong terms the continuous and uncontrolled protests by the students culminating in unbridled brigandage, blocking the Ife/Ibadan and Ife/Ede highways and other adjoining roads that could be used as alternative routes to the school.

    It further stated that students’ engaging in other acts that were detrimental to their health and the safety of the generality of the people was opposed by the school authorities.

  • Auchi Poly ND 1 student commits suicide

    Auchi Poly ND 1 student commits suicide

    A 23-year-old student of Auchi Polytechnic has committed suicide.

    According to reports, the National Diploma (ND) 1 student of Public Administration was found dangling from the ceiling of his room on Friday night.

    He was said to have left a terse suicide note behind.

    According to a source who pleaded anonymity, he instructed that his mobile phone be given to one Sandra whom he begged for forgiveness in the suicide note.

    The source said that the Sandra was his girlfriend and that they were course mates.

    “Solomon was in class on Friday and left for home after class. We only came home later in the evening to find him dangling from the ceiling of his room.

    “He was a very quiet boy who took his academics very serious. He doesn’t go out and never showed any sign of depression whatsoever,’’ the source said.

    The polytechnic spokesman, Mr Mustapha Oshiobugie, who confirmed the incident, said he was yet to be briefed on the details.