27th October, 2014
Jethro Ibileke/Benin
Unknown assailants have allegedly axed a 300-level student of the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, identified as Gbenedio Ejyroghene.
The gruesome murder of the deceased which took place in the Ugbowo Campus of the institution on Friday at about 7:00 p.m. Ejyroghene was axed in the head, killing him on the spot.
The University’s spokesman, Barrister Harris Osarenren who confirmed the murder of the student, said the killing has been reported at the Ugbowo Police Station and that the body has been deposited at the mortuary of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH.
He said investigation has commenced to unravel the circumstances that surrounds his killing.