LASU student dies after armed robbery attack in Lagos

The absorption of Lagos State University, LASU, has announced the decease of 1 of its students, Boluwatife Joseph Otabor, pursuing injuries helium sustained during an equipped robbery onslaught successful the Iba country of Lagos State.

Otabor, a pupil of the Department of History and International Studies successful the Faculty of Arts, reportedly succumbed to his injuries connected Tuesday, June 2, 2026, aft spending respective days receiving aesculapian treatment.

In a connection issued on Thursday by the Acting Coordinator of the Centre for Information and Public Relations, Mr Olaniyi Jeariogbe, the assemblage described the incidental arsenic tragic and expressed heavy sorrow implicit the student’s passing.

The Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, connected behalf of the institution’s management, staff, students and the full assemblage community, extended condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased.

According to the university, the onslaught occurred off-cam...