Missing UNIJOS final-year student found dead

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Adeyemo Temitope, a 500-level quantity surveying student at the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Plateau state, has been found dead.

His close friend, Meshak Gimba, a 400-level psychology student at the university, announced his death via X on Friday.

“Adeyemo Oluwafemi Temitope has now been confirmed dead. He has been found, but not alive,” Gimba wrote.

Temitope’s body was found three days after he was reportedly attacked by unknown assailants in Jos, the state capital.

Speaking to TheCable, Gimba said he had initially circulated Temitope’s picture on social media, declaring him missing, but received a call on Friday directing him to the University Teaching Hospital, where he found the body.

“We initially thought he went missing, and that was why I posted and circulated his picture on Facebook and included my number in case anyone finds him,” he said.

“But we got a call earlier today to come to the hospital, where we saw his corpse.”

According to Gimba, the student’s body was deposited at the hospital’s mortuary on Wednesday by local security operatives, who claimed he was attacked by yet-to-be-identified persons. Thecable