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  • Father of missing AAUA student confirms daughter’s death

    Father of missing AAUA student confirms daughter’s death

    •Seeks justice

    By Rasheed Aladejana

    After 25 days of uncertainty, the father of Miss Andrel Eloho Okah, a student at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), has confirmed the discovery of her lifeless body at the mortuary of Ode General Hospital, Ekiti State.

    Miss Okah, popularly known as Annie Vincent, was declared missing on Friday, June 20, 2025. Her disappearance sparked widespread concerns on and off campus, with several reports claiming her body had been found alongside that of another missing student, Mr. John Abah.

    However, in a detailed statement released on Tuesday, July 15, her father, Rev.  Vincent Itive Okah, dispelled the initial media reports, stating that only his daughter’s remains have been found.

    “Before today, a lot of news agencies, media houses and bloggers had published that the bodies of my daughter and Mr. John Abah were found. This is not true,” he said.

    According to him, it was not until July 15 that he saw his daughter’s corpse for the first time at the Ode General Hospital mortuary, where he was informed that her body had been deposited since Sunday, June 22, after villagers discovered it by the roadside and alerted the local police.

    Okah hailed the Ondo State Special Anti-Kidnapping Unit for their efforts in uncovering the truth behind his daughter’s death. He confirmed that three out of four suspects involved in the abduction and killing have been apprehended, while one remains at large.

    “My daughter was a victim of circumstance, as confessed by the suspects.

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     “They have admitted to kidnapping and killing her. I give credit to the Ondo State Special Anti-Kidnapping Unit for their tactics, experience, and resilience,” he said.

    While the police investigation continues, Okah is calling for public support to give his late daughter a befitting burial, describing her as a young woman full of promise.

    “She was a star . All I want now is to commence her journey to mother earth with dignity,” he added.

    He revealed that the body will be transported from Ode, Ekiti State, to Iyede in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State for burial. He also urged AAUA students, particularly the Students’ Union Government (SUG) and student body, to honour her memory.

    Okah further called on the public, human rights activists, NGOs, and the media to continue following the case to ensure justice is served. He also stressed that Mr. John Abah remains missing, although suspects have confessed to his murder as well.

  • Aaua students appraise dress code enforcement

    Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) have expressed mixed feelings on the capability or otherwise of the security unit of the institution in enforcing the school’s dress code.

    This is despite management’s claim that the security unit is doing its best in that regard.

    Checks by CAMPUSLIFE show a seeming but relentless war by AAUA against the rise in indecent dressing on campus.

    Akin Steven, a final year student of Microbiology, described the institution’s dress code  as a step in the right direction, adding that the security unit has been fair with respect to enforcement.

    He said: “Most students due to peer pressure, exhibit indecent dressing to probably ‘want to belong’ to the high class on campus. So management has actually done the right thing in that direction.”

    Supporting Steven is Daramola Aderayo, a 100-Level Mass Communication student.

    “It is a good decision on the part of the management as this inappropriate appearance had made a lot of students fall victim of sexual abuse. It has also given some students bad names,” Aderayo said.

    According to Banjoko Blessing, a 400-Level student of Guidance and Counselling, the security unit has not fared well enough in enforcing the dress code directive by management.

    Aderemi Adeola from the Department of Linguistics praised the management for laying emphasis on appropriate dressing, saying it would decrease the rate at which some students especially females dress to class.

    She berated some security officials who have cashed in on that to unnecessarily harass students and sometimes demonstrate favouritism. She gave an instance of a colleague who was harassed despite appearing  ‘appropriately dressed’.

    Corroborating Adeola, Adetona Henry, a 200-Level Physics/Electronics undergraduate, blamed the security unit for often going out of bounds.

    “I was about to enter the school through the small gate when the security asked why I was dressed in this manner. He asked me to go and change my dress. Despite my appeal to see reasons with me, I was not allowed to enter the school,” Henry said while narrating his ordeal at the hands of the security officers.

  • ‘Law has an important role to play in fighting environmental crimes’

    A professor of Law at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Olubayo Oluduro, has advocated the application of Law in surviving  environmental disaster in Nigeria.

    Oludoro delivered the university’s 14th inaugural lecture with the theme: Surviving the Armageddon: the law as elixir for environmental crimes in Nigeria’s oil industry.

    He described law as a tool for social engineering, a highly efficient means of countering environmental crimes and inducing necessary changes, preferable to other instruments of change.

    Oludoro said: “The advantages of Law as an instrument of effecting the preferred change can be attributed to the fact that law is seen as legitimate, and institutionalised backed by mechanisms of enforcement. More importantly, it can adapt itself to change social circumstances without necessarily changing its form or structure.

    According to him, environmental Armageddon refers to any environment that is under assault, siege or war of any type which contribute to its destruction. He cited the environment, individuals, communities and future generations as victims of environmental crimes.

    He noted that the ‘ecological Armageddon’ already in Nigeria as experienced in the Niger Delta ecosystem is depicted by endemic water shortage, global warming and pipe lines explosions, thus a negative impact on human, animal and plant life which is nothing short of environmental catastrophy.

    Oludoro proposed stricter enforcement of environmental regulations as a tool in addressing issues of environmental crimes in the Nigerian oil industry,

    “When an environmental violation put the environment or public health at risk, environmental protection is compromised and there are significant societal cost that may warrant sanction,” Oludoro warned.

    He urged the contributions of the civil society and environmental NGOs in the advocacy and enforcement of environmental crimes in Nigeria through training and capacity building in corporation with regulatory agency and governmental authorities.

    “NGOs may help to undertake an active role in the enforcement of environmental crimes by educating the public through media campaign on the need to report incident of potential environmental harm, garner popular  support to lobby the government, support more efficient monitoring and enforcement actions, shame corporations and push for change in policy,” he added.

    He, however, decried the notion that the enforcement of strict environmental standard especially in a developing country may hinder rapid development and economic growth. He, therefore, urged the government to break from the current model of development at any cost to development that is humanly sustainable, and which meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the capacity of the future generations to do same.

    “Until international mechanisms develop measures to hold oil MNCs who violate human right accountable for their actions, prosecution at the domestic courts remain one of the only mechanisms for reining in their activities. Hence the need to develop the domestic forum for criminal prosecution of violators of environmental crimes,” he added.