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Osun student electrocuted with plugged phone

A 100-level student of University of Ilesa, Osun State, Gbolahan Ojolo, has reportedly died of electrocution triggered by lightning strike in his hall of residence in Ilesa, the Nation reports. Ojolo, a student in the Department of Business Administration, was said to be charging his phone and playing a game on it at the same time when thunder struck. Confirming the incident in a statement on Saturday, the Registrar of the University, Funso Ojo, said the incident happened on Friday. Ojo’s statement partly read, “The Management of the University of Ilesa, Osun State, deeply regrets to announce the tragic and untimely death of one of its students, Gbolahan Ojolo, a 100 Level student of the Department of Business Administration. “The unfortunate incident occurred in the evening of Friday, April 18, 2025. Gbolahan was electrocuted while playing a game on his mobile phone, which was being charged in his room at a private hostel located near the Prototype Engineering Development Institute ju...
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Ogbomoso: Don’t present instrument of office to Afolabi Olaoye – Court orders Makinde

 

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso has ordered Governor Seyi Makinde not to present any instrument of office or certificate of office to Prince Afolabi Olaoye as the Soun of Ogbomoso.

The position of Soun of Ogbomoso became vacant as a result of the demise of Oba Jimoh Oyewumi.

Makinde had on Saturday approved the selection of Olaoye as the Soun-elect.

The court has, however, restrained the governor, the Attorney General of the State and the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters either by themselves, agents or officials from presenting any instrument of office in any form of ceremony or issuance of certificate of installation to Olaoye until the final determination of the mandatory injunction already filed before the court.

Justice K.A . Adedokun gave the order on Thursday while ruling on a motion ex-parte filed by one of the contenders for the Soun of Ogbomoso stool, Prince Kabir Olaoye.

Adedokun also gave an order restraining Afolabi Olaoye from parading, representing or presenting himself as the candidate for any ceremony for the issuance of certificate of installation or wear any regalia resembling that of the occupant of the stool of Soun of Ogbomoso Chieftaincy pending the hearing and final determination of the mandatory injunction already filed before the court.

The judge also ordered the appellant to serve the motion on notice for mandatory injunction on all the 12 respondents in the suit.

“I am convinced that the application is one of the instances where this honourable court is empowered by Order 48 Rule 8 to exercise its discretion.

“One of the situations which an injunction is designed to combat is to arrest a fait accompli which the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 12th respondents have attempted to foist on the circumstances of this case. In this situation, the application is ordered as prayed,” it ordered.


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