A female student of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) identified as Adaeze said to be a 200-level undergraduate of accounting department of the institution has been found dead in her apartment in Aluu, a community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Penpushing reports that the corpse of the undergraduate was found on Friday in her off-campus residence in the community near the university, while as at the time of filing this report the cause of her death was still unknown.
The Dean of student affairs of the university, Prof Chima Wokocha who confirmed the incident said Adaeze’s body was found in her off-campus residence and brought to a health facility in the school by some of her neighbours.
Penpushing further reports that Wokocha said the management of the institution and the police had visited the scene of the incident and that the parents of the late female undergraduate had also been notified of the incident.
“She didn’t die in the university hostel. She died in her off-campus residence in Aluu and the scene of the ‘crime’ was visited by the management of the university, including my humble self. The police were there with us also. We acknowledge the fact that she had taken a substance and passed out because there was a bottle of a substance that was found by her side. The parents have come there and I think they are making arrangements to take the body’, he said.
Penpushing also reports that the Rivers State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko confirmed the incident, stating that investigation had commenced to ascertain the circumstances that led to her death.
The police spokesperson added that the Divisional Police Officer in the area said that the landlord of the victim’s apartment came to report that he saw his tenant on the floor,adding that on visit to the scene it was noticed that foam was coming out from the nose and mouth of the deceased
“So, the DPO went there, they saw foam coming out from her nose and mouth and they also saw an insecticide close to her (the student). So they rushed her to the hospital where she was confirmed dead,” she said.
Penpushing reports that the latest incident occurred barely two weeks after, a 24-year-old man, Damian Okoligwe allegedly killed and dismembered his 20-year-old girlfriend, Justina Otuene, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
The lady’s decomposing body was later found at the residence of the suspect, a 400-level student of Petrochemical Engineering of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), who as at the time of filing this report has been arrested
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