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Covenant University expels 29
..over student’s death
tayo elebijo
Senior Correspondent, Lagos
Twenty nine
students of the Convenant University Ota, Ogun State, have been expelled by the
school over the death of a fellow student who accompanied them to a night party
outside the campus.
The deceased, a 200
level student, identified as Aminu Johnson, had accompanied the 29 students to
a party in a popular night club on Victoria Island, Lagos, when he suddenly
became unconscious and died before medical attention could reach him.
The students had
sneaked out of the institution for the party which sources said, had in
attendance, students from other private universities like Babcock and
Igbinedion universities.
Before attending
the night party, the 29 students and the deceased had proceeded to a spot where
they allegedly engaged themselves in a drinking spree.
At the night club,
Aminu who was all the while in the company of three other students, began to
feel dizzy, prompting his three friends to attempt to assist him.
With his situation
not getting better, his three colleagues dragged him out of the party hall and
boarded a taxi-cab to seek medical attention.
Their first port of
call was St. Nicholas Hospital on Lagos Island, where the hospital authorities
refused to admit Aminu because the students could not afford to pay the
admission fee.
They had similarly
not paid the driver that took them to the hospital.
However, they
pleaded with the driver to take them back to the nightclub where they sought
assistance from the management.
The persistent
groaning by Aminu, did not allow them to wait for the N40,000 that the
management of the night club wanted to give them.
In a hurry, they
again, boarded the cab and headed to the General Hospital at Broad Street,
Lagos. By that time, the night club management had started to look for them at
the St. Nicholas where they had initially gone.
By the time some of
the officials of the night club caught up with the students with some money at
the hospital, it was too late as Aminu had died.
For fear of being
caught, the students hurriedly wrote Aminu’s full name in bold letters
and pasted it on his chest and left.
A police source, at
the Zone 2 Police Command Headquarters, Onikan, where the case was reported,
told Saturday Independent that all the students interrogated over
the matter said that nobody fought at the night club, thus ruling out any foul play.
Aminu’s
parents were, however, said to have not given the police enough time to
determine the cause of Aminu’s death before he was buried.
It was gathered that students of the school have for long,
been bribing their way out of the school premises to nearby villages to meet
with their female friends.
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