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Ondo Varsity Students Arrested for Drugging, Raping Colleague

Mega Icon — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:21:17 +0000

Two students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, have been arrested by the police for allegedly conspiring to drug and rape a 20-year-old female undergraduate of the institution.

The spokesperson for the Ondo State Police Command, Olusola Ayanlade, announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure, the state capital.

According to him, preliminary investigations showed that the victim was invited to the residence of her long-time friend, 19-year-old Queen Sodo, also a student of the Ondo varsity.

“Trusting in the longevity of their friendship, which began in secondary school and continued into university, the victim accepted a drink provided by her friend, which was later found to have been laced with drugs, causing her to lose consciousness,” the statement read.

Ayanlade said once the victim became incapacitated, Sodo allegedly stepped out of the room, summoned her male co-conspirator and kept watch while the act was being carried out.

He added that a neighbour became suspicious after hearing unusual and inconsistent noises coming from the room and immediately raised the alarm.

“The victim was subsequently rescued by a neighbour who noticed the strange noise,” he stated. “She was found naked, unconscious and in a compromising position with the arrested male suspect, and was immediately taken for urgent medical attention.”

Ayanlade said the victim was later referred to a specialist hospital for comprehensive treatment and was currently recuperating.

He further noted that the suspects had confessed to their involvement and roles in the crime. Exhibits recovered from the scene included the bottle of the drug-laced drink identified by both the suspects and the victim.

The police spokesman added that the suspects were being held in lawful custody and would be transferred to the Gender Desk Office in Akure for further discreet investigation and prosecution.

Ayanlade assured residents that the command remained committed to tracking down criminal elements in the state and ensuring they face the full weight of the law.

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Ondo varsity student commits suicide

Mega Icon — Thu, 13 May 2021 14:38:44 +0000

A 200-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko has committed suicide.

20-year-old Feranmi Fasunle of the Department of Political Science was reported to have taken a poisonous chemical which resulted in her death.

Sources from the university community, hinted that the deceased took the poison in her room and started gasping for breath.

She was rushed to the University’s Health Centre from where she was referred to other hospitals but she died this morning.

The spokesperson of the university, Victor Akinpelumi, who confirmed the incident, also expressed sadness on the incident, noting that the reasons for her action remained unknown but sources said it might be connected to a failed relationship.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), had earlier submitted that Nigeria has the highest suicidal rate among African countries in 2016 with over 17,000 lives lost to suicide.

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My Take On Adekunle Ajasin University’s Fee Hike || By Tosin Oluwalowo

Mega Icon — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:12:26 +0000

IF you have not read or heard about the increase in the school fees of Ondo state owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, the negative reactions that followed should have made you aware.

The governing council of the institution finally released fees payable by students of the institution, with the least payable being N120,000 and the highest payable being N200,000 for fresh students. If anyone at this stage thinks the between N23,000 and N27,000 hitherto paid before now in the institution is reasonable and should be maintained, that person is not in tune with current happening.

I therefore support moves by the state government to increase the fees payable in the school in order to be able to cope with adequately running the school. What antagonists of the fee hike have been saying which holds water is that if the government really is in dire need of money to run the institution and other functions of the government, it should look inwards and block wastages in the system.

Between February and March this year, local online newspaper, Sunshine Herald, did an in-depth reports on some obvious wastages seen in the 2018 budget signed into law by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. Some of these include N4 billion set aside for the construction of a new governor’s lodge and another N140 million to renovate the old one. Another N1.2 billion is to be spent on purchase of cars for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, and magistrates in the state, while N1.4 billion was earmarked for gifts for the governor’s visitors.

Many are of the believe that if this and many more of the irrelevant spendings are curtailed, the state will be able to fund education and many other neededs.

Like I said earlier however, in reality, it is expected that the government increases fees payable in Adekunle Ajasin University which I believe is needed. The increment, I, however, believe is unreasonably too much and anti-masses. Jacking up fees from the meagre amount of between N23,000 and N27,000 to between N120,000 and N200,000 does not portray wisdom.

If the government wants to increase fees which I have agreed is needed, I believe the amount payable should never have been allowed to go beyond N80,000.

Another wise way the government could have increased the fees is to peg the fees payable by returning students to something reasonable, and put some greater increase in those payable by new students. This can be continuously done every session until the amount in mind is achieved.

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This is an example. Let’s say the returning students are made to pay around N80,000, new students can be made to pay N150,000. The next session, the new students who paid N150,000 last session will be in 200 level and will continue paying same amount, while the new students will be made to pay a new fee of between N180,000 to N200,000. This way, in 3 years, the institution would have regularised the increase without much drama and pains.

Except there is a form of review to the amount released, many students of the Adékúnlé Ajásin University will have no choice but to drop out, as they may not be able to afford the new amount when some of them should be thinking of graduating.

It is important that the government of Rotimi Akeredolu think and rethink many of its many policies, as it is fast losing the goodwill with which it rode into power.

Tosin Oluwalowo writes from Akure.

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