Two UI students die within a day

Two students of the University of Ibadan identified as Adegoke Adedayo, a final year student of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, and Adeyemo Oluwaseun Ayomide, a 200 level student of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, has been confirmed dead.

The students reportedly died over the weekend within 24-hours, in separate tragic encounters. According to the student’s union of the institution, Adedayo was allegedly shot by robbers around the Pre-Boye axis, in Ibadan on Saturday, October 16, and all efforts to save his life proved abortive as he was unable to make it to the hospital, while Oluwaseun was reportedly hit by a car along Mobil Filling station, UI-Ojoo road.

The university authority is yet to release an official statement over the tragic incidents.