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  • OAU student electrocuted while retrieving football from nearby compound 

    OAU student electrocuted while retrieving football from nearby compound 

    A yet-to-be-identified student of the Centre for Distance Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has tragically lost his life after being electrocuted while attempting to retrieve a football from an unknown compound.

    The incident occurred at a hostel along Ife Express Road in Moro, where the student had been playing football with his colleagues.

    According to eyewitnesses, the ball had landed in a nearby compound, and the student volunteered to scale the fence to retrieve it. He was electrocuted in the process.

    “He had picked the ball but unknowing to him that rainfall had exposed a naked wire at the place he wanted to climb up from, he got electrocuted and was rushed to Catholic hospital at Ipetumodu where he was confirmed dead.”

    When The Nation contacted the management of the school through its spokesperson, Abiodun Olarewaju confirmed the incident on Sunday. 

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    He said, “It is unfortunate that we recorded an incident that was not too palatable yesterday where we lost a prominent youngster. One of our CDL students who was aspiring to come to the university after the completion of the programme.

    “Report had it that they were playing football in the evening and the ball fell into a compound that was fenced and unknown to the young boy, he jumped into the fence because he was the one that played the ball into the compound and it was a rule that anybody who played the ball into the compound will go to retrieve it.”

    He added, “In compliance with the rule, the boy went in there and we were told that that was the first time the boy would play with them. So, he went in there, retrieved the ball, and threw it out to his colleagues, but when he wanted to come out, he climbed the fence but unknowingly put his hand in a life wire and got electrocuted.

    “It was when his colleagues felt he should have come back to the pitch that they went to check and saw that he was there shivering. They rushed to him, one of them picked a stick and removed the life wire from his hand, and rushed him to the facility at the Center for Distance Learning in the university.

    According to him, he was brought in dead and they took him to another hospital where they said the boy was already dead. The Director of the CDL, Professor Femi Koya had already contacted the parents to relate the unfortunate incident to them.”

  • How 18-year-old OAU student was murdered for rituals

    How 18-year-old OAU student was murdered for rituals

    The police have given insights into into how an 18 – year old undergraduate students at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile – Ife, who was initially deemed missing, was murdered and his head, two wrists harvested and sold for N100,000 to body parts dealers. 

     Quadri Salami was last seen on November 8, 2023 by the family. When he was no where to be found, his father reported the matter at the Kemta Divisional Police Headquarters on November 14.

    However after weeks if painstaking investigation, detectives unravelled the mysterious disappearance and located a shallow grave where the boy’s remains were interred on December 6. 

    The arrest of Akeem Usman, who was in possession of the victim’s phone, implicated another suspect – Ifadowo Niyi, which  exposed they committed the heinous crime by slaughtering Quadri. 

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    A statement by the Ogun police spokesman SP Omolola Odutola, reads: “The Ogun State Police Command has unraveled the disappearance of one Quadri Salami “m” 18 year old a 100 level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, whose father reported at Kemta Police station on the 14th of November 2023, as a case of a missing person, that since the 8th of November he had not set his eyes on his son and all efforts to locate him proved abortive.

    “The Commissioner of Police CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha, made a  significant breakthrough today the 6th of December 2023 when he personally led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in Ajebo area of Abeokuta to a shallow grave to exhume the decomposing body parts of the deceased  after a tracking clue beamed at one Akeem Usman “m” who was arrested in possession with the victims phone. He implicated one Ifadowo Niyi “m”  that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering the victim one Quadri and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes.

    “Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrists, and paid the sum of one hundred thousand Naira into Akeem Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts.

    “The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to Internet fraudsters and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for “Awure” a crime against humanity.

    “Among their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they have used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole”

    “The suspects are now in Eleweran at SCID for continuation of discreet investigations and will definitely be prosecuted.

    “The CP remain committed to ensuring that justice is served and will continue to investigate further to bring all perpetrators to face the full extent of the Law. Stating that such criminal involvement endangers innocent lives urging parents to collectively work together with the police in Ogun by giving volunteer information to eradicate such nefarious practices.”