A final-year female student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State, has been allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.
The remains of her body were found in her boyfriend’s apartment in the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the Ondo State command, DSP Olayinka Ayanlade, who confirmed the incident on Saturday, July 26, 2025, said the victim was initially declared missing by her boss, who operates a POS (Point of Sale) business.
The boss of the female student was believed to had given the dead female student N2 million to be given to someone, but the money was not delivered nor deposited in the account.
According to the police; “The lady could not be found which led her boss to report her being missing. With the efforts to unravel the incident, the police tracked her cell phone, and the result pointed at her boyfriend.
“When the police got to her boyfriend’s house, his room was locked, they had to break the door into the room and found her decomposing body inside her boyfriend’s room,” the police said.
DSP Ayanlade also said that the landlord of the boyfriend and some other people, suspected to have facilitated the killing, have been arrested.
The spokesperson of the police however, declined to give the name of the victim and the boyfriend, who is still at large, saying; “I will not disclose the name of the murdered student for now, because it is a case of gender-based violence”.
The incident led to a peaceful protest by the students of the university which seriously impeded vehicular movement even as the police spokesperson for Ondo State command, said the protesting students have been addressed and normalcy returned to the town.
Speaking on the incident, the President of the Students’ Union Government (SUG) of AAUA, Akeem Salami, said they have received the shocking news of two students who were gruesomely murdered, having been kidnapped for days and condemned what he called the incessant killing of students of the university.
Salami said: “We were further bewildered by the news that the primary suspects of the crime are indigenes. The matter was taken up, and the police were actively engaged in collaboration with important stakeholders within the Akungba community, hoping this unfortunate incident would not recur.
“However, to our greatest surprise, we were rudely confronted with another terrible news of another student that was murdered by her boyfriend who also happened to be an indigene of the host community,” he said.
Salami also said that it was discovered that the female student was stabbed to death and left to decompose in her boyfriend’s room for more than three days.
He appealed to the state government, police and all associated bodies to stop the gruesome and incessant killings of students in the community.
