From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has involved the Osun State Police Command in its search for a female student of the institution who has been missing for four days.
The Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, in a statement on Sunday, August 10, explained that the student, identified as Dorcas Oseghale, of the Department of Chemistry with matriculation number CHM/2021/165, was last seen on the evening of Tuesday, August 6, 2025, at about 8:00 p.m.
According to Olarewaju, Dorcas, who resides at Adesanmi House, Ibadan Road, Ile-Ife, said that she was going out to buy food in front of the students’ village, along the Ede Road axis of the university, but she did not return. Her roommate made several attempts to reach her by phone but discovered that her two lines were not reachable.
“At around 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7, 2025, a report of a missing female student was intercepted on a students’ social media platform, and the Security Unit of the University started tracking the conversation around the incident. But around 6:10 p.m. on the same day, a group of Chemistry students, alongside a female student, Akinkuade Omobolanle Beatrice, from the Department of Agricultural Extension, identified as her roommate, reported a case of a missing student at the Security Unit of the University.
“Considering the complexity of the case and its limitations in terms of human and material resources, the Security Unit of the University then detailed three of its personnel to lead the students and report its preliminary findings to the Nigerian Police, who have enough manpower with sound professional and technical expertise to unravel the mystery surrounding the ‘disappearance’ of the student for further investigation.”
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, has lauded the students of the University for being their brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, thanking them for quickly noticing that one of them is missing and promptly reporting the same to the appropriate quarters.
Prof. Bamire appealed to the police and other security agencies to do all within their power to help find the missing student.
He also appealed to anybody who may have useful information that can assist the security agencies in the whereabouts of Dorcas Oseghale to report to the nearest police station or the security unit of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
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