This sad incident happened in the Odunfa area of Lagos Island in Lagos on Sunday October 16th. Irate youths in the area clashed leaving two people dead and many seriously wounded. A man identified as 19 year old Charles Igbinovia, was matcheted to death by some of the youths during the clash. According to residents, the fight broke out when a masquerade said to be named Adakeja in the area was prevented from parading the street by some youths in the area. This led to an argument between supporters of the masqurede and the youths. A fight broke out which turned bloody.

Peace has however been restored to the area as police have been stationed in the area.

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Two women were shot dead by police at Daraja Mbili market in Kisii Town, Kisii County after the officers stopped to disperse motorcycle riders locally known as boda boda. According to an eye witness, a fight broke out after the police tried to disperse the motorcycle riders who had blocked the Kisii-Kisumu highway.

27yr old Edna Osoro who was selling tomatoes by the side of the road and another woman were shot dead in the process leading to chaotic scenes as missile-wielding protesters engaged the officers.

Ms Osoro’s father, John Osoro, was inconsolable as he wept over the death of his daughter.
“I have just seen the worst day of my life. How could my daughter die in such an unnecessary manner?” He said.

Ms Osoro died on the spot while the other woman died on arrival at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH).

Police found it difficult retrieving Ms Osoro’s body but were finally able to do so at about 9:30pm. They also partially removed the burning barricades on the highway before taking the body to the KTRH morgue.

Abisoye Taiwo, a 100 level student of Forestry and Wildlife Management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) in Ogun state was reportedly killed today after a peaceful protest by students of the school degenerated.

The students were staging a protest over insecurity on campus as some robbers attacked some hostels in the school last night, killing a 100 level Banking and Finance student in the process.

The angry students decided to stage a protest this morning as the spate of robbery attacks had increased within the school premises in the last one month. They accused the management of the school of refusing to address the issue by providing them adequate security.

The students claim that a bullet fired by one of the police officers invited by the school management to restore law and order within the school premises, hit the 100 level student who died instantly.

 Read a press statement from the school’s Student Union Government below

All academic activities including FPY,  PRACTICALS  SHOULD be halted until a lasting solution is found to the state of security. The university authority should write a letter of commitment to extend their security responsibilities towards the student environment off campus. The management should compel the Commissioner of police to come down to the protest ground this morning. If these are not done,  the protest will not end. The University gate will be locked.

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Ojelabi Oluwatobiloba

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Reports gathered that it all started when an ND 2 student of Accountancy department was knocked down and killed by a vehicle using one way on Tuesday.

The aggrieved students, on Wednesday, blocked the main road in a peaceful protest demanding the state government to install speed bumps on the road.

The protest reportedly took another dimension when the security operatives called to calm the scene reportedly teargas and bullets in the air and at the students.

Speaking to newsmen, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Student Union Government (SUG), Jafaru Habibu, explained that “the incident has been reoccurring in the school for sometime because we have lost a lot of students and this sparked a lot of reactions from students and we decided to embark on a peaceful protest.”

”While they were protesting the loss of their student on the Lafia- Akwanga highway, the police shot two of their students of which one died instantly while the other one has been rushed to the hospital.

”We are always paying all the fees the institution ask us to pay so they should also meet our demands, government has continued to turn deaf ears to our plea of constructing bumps along the school road,” he added.

The Registrar of the Polytechnic, Labani Joseph, said that the management had earlier appealed to the students to shelve their protest and go back to class saying that the management of the institution promised to look into the matter but the students paid deaf ears to their pleas.

He explained that, when the protest got to its peak, they had to invite the security operatives to calm down the situation, which led to the gun duel between the students and security operatives.

The Registrar, however, pronounced that, the school has been closed down indefinitely as a result of the crises.