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Secretary to Ekiti State Government, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, consoling Mrs. Esther Okunofua, mother of late Joseph Okunofua, when Ekiti State Government delegation paid a condolence visit to the family of the slain student of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti; in Ido-Ekiti…on Friday. A human rights lawyer, Mr. Morakinyo Ogele, on Thursday, dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, before a High Court in Ado Ekiti, seeking N1 billion in damages over the alleged killing of two students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). Also joined in the suit is the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti. The late students, Kehinde Dada, a 100 level student of the Department Agriculture and Horticulture and Okonofua Joseph, a 300 level Biology Education student, were both hit by bullets, allegedly fired by the police and died. The students were protesting over epileptic power supply in the university. Ogele filed the suit according to Order 11 Rule 1 of the Fundamental R...

resumption of normal academic activities was on Friday raised by the management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) as the panel earlier set up to investigate events leading to the tragedy that greeted the September 10 bloody protest by the students, has submitted its report. Two students of FUOYE, Joseph Okonufua and Dada Kehinde, were shot dead allegedly by security agents during a protest by the students to press home their demand for adequate power supply by the Benin Electricity  Distribution Company (BEDC) to the twin campuses of Ikole and Oye and their environs. A press statement on Friday from the office of FUOYE’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Geoffrey Bakji, said the university management team had paid warm visits to the parents of the deceased and had since put in place an investigative panel. The statement further reads in part: “The panel has interacted with the students’ body, all security agents involved in the crisis, state government, the two com...

Sex for grades': Undercover in West African universities Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana. Female reporters were sexually harassed, propositioned and put under pressure by senior lecturers at the institutions – all the while wearing secret cameras. Reporter Kiki Mordi, who knows first-hand how devastating sexual harassment can be, reveals what happens behind closed doors at some of the region’s most prestigious universities. How have you been impacted by our investigation into sex for grades? If you would like to share your experience with BBC Africa Eye,  contact us here. Further information and support for anyone affected by sexual assault can be found throug...

NANS Released Full Report On Fuoye Crisis, Ban Fayemi and Wife From Schools, Requests For 20 Million Naira For Slain And Injured Students. NANS REPORT ON THE GRIEVIOUS KILLING OF STUDENTS AT FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, OYE-EKITI. PREAMBLE: After three months of darkness, students of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti resolved to stage a protest against the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, the disco in charge of that area. The protest was called at the instance of the students who massively mobilized themselves to express their displeasure and was led by the Students Union Government. In the early hours of 9th September, 2019, the students had mobilized themselves and gathered at the Ifaki-Ikole-Omuo highway to draw attention to their plight with presence of police officers drawn from divisions under the Police Command, Ekiti State. The protest ended peacefully around noon and the students dispersed. Soon after, the convoy of the wife of Ekiti State Governor drove into town and w...