Final year varsity student kills colleague over iPhone

 A 21-year-old final year student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA) Olubodun Sanni, has been arrested over the alleged murder of one Miss Adekunle Adebisi Ifeoluwa.

Miss Adekunle was found dead on February 2nd, 2024 inside the one-room apartment she rented outside the campus.

She was a 300-level student in the Department of Economics.

Sanni was alleged to have stabbed his victim to death and stole her iPhone XR.

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Ondo police commissioner, Abayomi Peter Oladipo, who spoke while parading some suspects, said police discovered that the deceased phone was missing after the murder.

Abayomi stated that the police through the use of modern technology traced the phone to 21-year-old Sanni who is also a neighbour to the deceased in the hostel.

He said: “The recovered phone led to further questioning of the suspect who gave details of what happened in his confessional statement.”

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He said Sanni would be charged to court at the end of the investigation.

Abayomi also paraded one Umar Ibrahim who killed his friend, Mohammadu Adamu.

Umar reportedly killed Adamu while they were on their way to Ogali through Kogi state.

On his part, Umar said he killed Adamu when he noticed that Adamu and one Basiru planned to kidnap and kill him.