Crime

By Oluwatoyin Adegoke

A 400- level female student of a government-owned University in Ogun State, Adaze Jaja, has reportedly committed suicide in an hotel

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Command,  Omolola Odutola, said the 31 year old lady committed the act with  poisonous substance .

The PPRO explained that the scene of the crime was visited and the empty poisonous substance bottle was recovered.

According to the PPRO , the body of the deceased had been taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo University mortuary for an autopsy ,adding that  Investigation into the case had begun and the institution’s authority had been notified.

Foreign

Three Ugandan students were killed after a lorry rammed into their classroom at a school near the capital, Kampala.

At least 18 other learners were injured in the incident at Kasaka Secondary School on Tuesday afternoon.

The lorry got nearly halfway into the building and tore up part of the roof.

Uganda police said the lorry driver lost control and drove through the school fence before hitting the school’s computer laboratory which was occupied by students.

The driver, a 26-year-old man, has been arrested to help with investigations, police said.

Learning has been suspended for a week in the school located in the country’s central district of Gomba, which is about 130km (80 miles) away from Kampala.

BBC/Adetutu Adetule

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Tragedy struck at Claratian University of Nigeria, Nekede, in Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, as a seminarian, Suel Ambrose, slumped and died while acting in a drama on campus.

Reporters who visited the campus on Saturday morning were told by students that the deceased who hailed from Benue State was dramatising the role of the biblical Peter in the Passion of Christ when the incident occurred.

The drama is a representation of the activities about how Jesus Christ was crucified.

One of the students who simply identified himself as Mavis said the 25-year-old first-year student of Philosophy died on the spot.
The student said, “He was playing the role of the biblical Peter in the dream and that process when Peter cut the ear of one of the soldiers and Jesus fixed the ear and ask Peter to let them do their wish. You know how passionate the play is.

“So when the soldiers chase the disciples to drive them away from Jesus, the young man fell on the floor and started bleeding. We took him to our school hospital and the doctors did their best but he was not responding to treatment. We took him to the Federal Medical Center in Owerri where he was pronounced dead.

“The drama was in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in respect to the Easter celebration. He was born in 1997. He is a year one student and had the dream of becoming a priest in the Catholic church.”

When contacted the priest in charge of Student Formation in the university, Fr Chukwuemeka Iheme, said that the institution would brief the public after the “authority gives us permission to do so.”

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Crime

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a twenty year-old secondary school student, Segun Dosumu, to three weeks imprisonment with hard labour, for threatening to kill his teacher.

Segun Dosumu, who leaves at Iboro Yewa area of Ogun state had pleaded guilty to the charge when appeared in Court.

The Magistrate, Mr Sotayo on reviewing the charge convicted the accused of the charge.

He said that besides the admission of guilt, all the evidences presented in court had proven beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was guilty of the offence as charged.

The magistrate sentenced him to three weeks in the correctional centre with hard labour.

The sentence however has  an option of two hundred thousand naira fine.

Earlier while reviewing the facts of the case the Prosecutor, Mr. Wale Diyaolu had told the court that the defendant committed the offence at Eyinni Comprehensive High School, Iboro, Yewa North of Ogun.

He said that the convict, a Senior Secondary three student threatened to kill his teacher with a bottle.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 86 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun 2006.

Wale Oluokun

Education

Students and Teachers of Ibadan Grammar School, Molete Ibadan were yesterday afternoon forced to stay indoor by some Commercial Motor Cyclists.

Radio Nigeria observed that the Motorcyclists barricaded the main gate of the school around 3pm to retaliate injury inflicted on some of their members.

The leader of the Okada riders Wale Ajetumobi told Radio Nigeria that  the problem started when students of saint David, Molete and Ibadan grammar school, were fighting and throwing stones at passers-by.

Mr Ajetumobi said the efforts of some riders were rewarded with counter attacks.

He said that the students made use of dangerous weapons to carry  out the nefarious acts.

It took the efforts of officers of Operations burst before the gate was opened at around five o’clock in the evening.

Radio Nigeria visited one of the Victims that was injured in the sick bay, Mrs silifat Rasaz (a groundnut seller at the school gate) it was discovered that blood was still oozing out of her nose.Some parents that came to pick their children urged government to find a lasting solution to incessant clashes among students.

The parents suggested clearing a thick forest popularly called Brazilian bush located within the school as that was the hideout of the miscreants.

Reacting, the Police Public Relations Officer, Olugbenga Fadeyi said he was yet to be briefed of the situation.

Abisola Oluremi