Law school student dies after alleged rooftop fall in Lagos hostel

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the decease of a 23-year-old Nigerian Law School student, Faith Alayande, successful an incidental astatine the institution’s hostel successful Victoria Island, Lagos.

The pupil was reportedly recovered unresponsive wrong the hostel premises connected Friday, August 7, 2026, aft allegedly jumping from the rooftop of the four-storey building.

The authorities Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Adebisi, confirmed the incidental successful a telephone conversation, saying the substance was reported to the constabulary by the hostel matron.

According to Adebisi, a hostel mate and a comparative of the deceased reportedly discovered a enactment believed to person been written by Alayande and began searching for her.

She said the pupil was allegedly located aft she had jumped from the rooftop of the hostel building.

“I tin corroborate the incident. The deceased reportedly wrote a termination enactment and, earlier her hostel mate and a comparative could find her, she jumped from the rooftop of a four-storey building,” Adebisi said.

She added that constabulary officers visited the country aft receiving the report, portion the deceased’s remains were subsequently evacuated to a morgue for preservation.

A information analyst, Zagazola Makama, who besides reported the incidental connected X, said different pupil discove...