{"id":71003,"date":"2025-07-19T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71003"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:41:42","slug":"kogi-university-probes-lecturers-death-cautions-public-against-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/19\/kogi-university-probes-lecturers-death-cautions-public-against-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi University Probes Lecturer\u2019s Death, Cautions Public Against Rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The management of Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba, has launched an investigation into the sudden death of Mr. Olabode Ibikunle, a lecturer in the Department of Social Science Education.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ibikunle reportedly died last Thursday while in the company of Miss Glory Ojochegbe, a student of the same department; a development that has sparked public concern and speculation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Friday, the university\u2019s Registrar, Yahaya Alilu, expressed deep sorrow over the loss and urged the public and media to avoid speculation as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sudden demise of Mr. Olabode Abimbola Ibikunle in the company of Miss Glory Ojochegbe Samuel (Matric No. 24GE2034), is a tragic and disturbing event,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The university also dispelled rumours linking another student, Miss Bello Yahaya Lubabat of the Department of Educational Administration and Planning, to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It warned against spreading misinformation that could harm innocent individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming its commitment to justice and transparency, the university called for restraint and responsible reporting while the investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The management of Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba, has launched an investigation into the sudden death of Mr. Olabode Ibikunle, a lecturer in the Department of Social Science Education. Mr. Ibikunle reportedly died last Thursday while in the company of Miss Glory Ojochegbe, a student of the same department; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71005,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71003\/revisions\/71005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}