Armed Robbers Kill OAU Student In Hostel

Armed Robbers Kill OAU Student In Hostel

A 300 level student of the Department of Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo
University, Abiodun Babalola, has been killed by suspected armed robbers
that attacked his hostel located along Ede road, Ile Ife.

According to reports, Babalola lived in an out-of-campus students’
residential hostel known as ‘Adam and Eve’.  The armed robbers, who were
said to have attacked the students with dangerous weapons, inflicted
injuries on them and Babalola died as a result of the injury he
sustained during the incident.

Confirming the unfortunate incident, the Public Relations Officer of
the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, in a statement released,  said the
students were attacked in the wee hours of Saturday December 22nd with
dangerous weapons by unknown persons who inflicted varying degrees of
injuries on them, before carting away their money, phones and other
valuables.

Olarewaju mourned the death of the student and prayed God to give the family the fortitude to bear the loss.