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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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252 Drug Suspects Arrested in 2023 -Osun NDLEA Commander

 

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Osun State Command, says its men arrested 252 drug suspects between January and December 2023.

In a statement on Saturday in Osogbo, the NDLEA Commander in the state, Mr Chidi Nnadi, said  the suspects comprised 214 males and 38 females.

He said  the command secured the conviction of 57 suspects, whose sentencing ranged from three months  to five years imprisonment.

According to the commander, 47 cases are pending in court.

He said that the command seized illicit drugs weighing 1,909.69kg during the period.

“Within same period, the drug supply reduction efforts led to the discovery and destruction of 9.5 hectares of cannabis farms (23.759 tonnes of cannabis sativa) at Ifedayo and Oriade local government areas,” he said.

“The agency had a brief counselling intervention with 79 people who use drugs (PWUD) and embarked on awareness/sensitisation programmes in religious houses, schools, motor parks, markets, and workplaces,” he said.

He denied that Osun was the second-highest cannabis-producing state in the South West.

The commander thanked the agency’s Chairman, Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), and the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, for their efforts to rid the state and the  nation of substance abuse.

(NAN)

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