Police Investigating Death Of LAUTECH 300 Level Student – Registrar

*Says LAUTECH authorities working with force to unravel mystery surrounding death

By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan

Authorities at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho on Wednesday, expressed sadness over the death of a 300-level student of Agricultural Engineering of the institution.

The institution’s authorities in a statement issued and signed by the Institution’s Registrar, Mrs Olayinka Balogun stressed that it is working with the police to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the 300 level student, Ridwan Oladipupo occurred off-campus.

She noted that despite the fact that “the University is non-residential, it has a composition of all security agencies that carry out surveillance operations in the student dominated Off Campus areas, every night.”

Mrs Balogun maintained that from the information available, the deceased left his off-campus hostel to go to an undisclosed location to study on the 24th of June.

The Registrar noted that when the Acting Dean, Student affairs of the Institution was contacted by the Police DPO at Owode Divisional Police on the 25th of June, 2025 on the discovery of a corpse, the identity could not be ascertained by the residents of the area or students after which the corpse was moved by the police to the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Mortuary.

“The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso has unofficially learnt about the demise of Mr. Ridwan Oladipupo, a 300-level student of Agricultural Engineering in the Institution”, she said.

Mrs Balogun added, “He reportedly left his off-campus hostel at Lawyer Ahmed Street, Ogbomoso, on Tuesday, 24th June, 2025, when he said he was going to study without disclosing where he would be”

” On 25th June, 2025, the Acting Dean, Student Affairs received a call from the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Owode Division of the Nigeria Police Force on the discovery of a corpse in front of Nurudeen Grammar School, along Under-G road, Ogbomoso. Efforts made by the Police and the Dean, Student Affairs to ascertain whether the deceased was a LAUTECH student did not yield much as neither students nor residents of the area could identify the body as at that time”.

” The Police moved the body to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Mortuary, and until that time, no official report had come to the university. It was gathered that the deceased’s father showed up at his Off Campus hostel on Sunday, 29th June, 2025, accompanied by a Police Officer and the occupants of the hostel were interrogated. Until now, however, there is still no official representation before the university.”

Mrs Balogun said “the matter is before the Owode Division of the Nigerian Police Force and the University will not want to jeopardize Police investigation.”