The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 27-year-old student of the Nigerian Law School, Yola Campus, Ojajuni Ayomiposi, an indigene of Ondo State, under circumstances currently under investigation.
According to a statement from the command, the incident was reported on Sunday, December 7, by the Chief Security Officer of the institution. It stated that on December 6, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Ojajuni returned to the campus in a tricycle, visibly unsteady, and jumped over the fence into the hostel premises. A security guard who went to check on him found him vomiting and unconscious.
The student was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was admitted but later pronounced dead while receiving treatment. His body has been deposited at the hospital mortuary for autopsy, and investigations are ongoing.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Ojajuni’s death may have been a suicide following his alleged barring from writing the Bar Final examinations at the Yola campus. Sources indicate that he had been issued a series of queries by the Law School authorities and was later informed that he would not be allowed to sit for the professional exams, which reportedly began the same day. This news is said to have deeply affected him.
Ojajuni was a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University. The Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, has ordered a discreet and thorough investigation to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the student’s death.
