Following the death of a 300-level student of Agricultural Engineering, Ridwan Oladipupo, which occurred off-campus, the management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) has said it is working with the police to unravel the mystery surrounding the incident.
The institution’s registrar, Mrs Olayinka Balogun, expressed sadness over the death of the promising young man.
She said, “Even though 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.”
She noted 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.
Balogun stated that when the acting Dean, Student Affairs of the Institution was contacted by the police Divisional Police Officer 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 police moved the corpse 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.
“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 at that time.
“The Police moved the body to the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Mortuary, and until that time, no official report had come to the university.”
