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Gunmen Abduct Ex-Provost in Ogun

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By Olusegun Folarin

Former Provost of the Federal College of Education, Osile, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dr. Ayodele Ajayi has been abducted by gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers. 

A family source told Radio Nigeria that Dr Ajayi was on his way to Abeokuta from Olodo around 7 o’clock in the evening with his wife and driver when the suspected kidnappers hijacked the car around Ikija community along the Abeokuta – Ibadan road in Odeda Local government area of the state. 

Some residents of the area claimed that they heard sporadic gunshots as the suspected kidnappers attacked many motorists at the scene before taking the couple and their driver away. 

They maintained that the wife and the car were later abandoned while the whereabouts of the former Provost was still unknown and his phones kept ringing out without anyone picking up the calls. 

Some witnesses also claimed that the driver was killed during the attack and called for the urgent intervention of the state government and security agencies to check the rising cases of armed robbery and kidnapping in the area. 

The residents alleged that more than ten people had been victims of attacks between Olodo and Osiele axis of the Abeokuta – Ibadan road in recent times, leading to the death of three persons, including a large-scale farmer in the community. 

In a reaction, the State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Miss Omolola Odutola confirmed that a man, whose identity was yet unknown was reportedly abducted at the scene and the police with other security operatives had been on the trail of the abductors.

The PPRO who sought the people’s support through the provision of relevant information that could assist in rescuing the victim said his vehicle which was abandoned by the abductors had been recovered by the police. 

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FCE Students Protest Installation Of CCTV Cameras

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Federal College of Education (FCE), Akoka, Lagos State students staged a huge protest against the school’s decision to mount CCTV cameras around the female hostels on campus.

The protest, according to DAILY GIST, began in the early hours of Friday after the School’s Dean of Students, Wahab Azeez, was accused of entering the hostel at midnight to chase female students out over some behavior he couldn’t condone that he saw through the cameras. Some students said that CCTV cameras were mounted almost everywhere in the female hostel, robbing them of their right to privacy.

Some female students even said that the school administration and lecturers had been watching their nakedness and nudes since the cameras were mounted, claiming that their lecturers had told them so to their faces.

“The Dean sent some students out of the hostel because he saw them on CCTV camera and he came around 12 a.m. to chase the students out of the hostel,” Latifat Abiodun, a female student and an Exco of the Student Union Government (SUG), told THISDAY.

In addition, the SUG’s Electoral Chairman, Morakinyo Oluwafemi, claimed that the school’s Dean inappropriately invaded the female hostels at night.

“We are in a school where lecturers threaten students with exam failure if they become agitated. The Dean broke into the female hostel at 12 a.m., and we have no idea what he was doing there at the time. We don’t have a good study atmosphere here at Federal College of Education, Akoka; the sewage pipes are all down, and there is no compliance with the federal government’s law of social distancing in the school during COVID-19.

“The hostels house over 7,000 students, far beyond the facility’s capacity,” he said.

Ibrahim Olubade, the SUG’s Secretary General, explained the school’s decision to install CCTV cameras in female hostels despite the school’s lack of other essential learning facilities.

“Although the institute does not have a school portal to verify student records, the management installed a CCTV camera in the female student’s hotel. There are several items that can be done to assist students. The school does not have enough restrooms. Finding bathing water near the school is usually difficult. The management is doing little about the overcrowding in the classrooms and hostels. We’ve written letters and protested on many occasions, but they don’t seem to notice.

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