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No fewer than nine suspects have been remanded by a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife, Osun State for allegedly beating a Final-Year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Okoli Ahize, to death. SaharaReporters had reported that Okoli Ahinze, a 500-level student of the school was mobbed to death for alleged theft. It was gathered that the deceased was beaten to death inside the Awo Hall on Monday. The student was said to have been rushed to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Ile-Ife after complications on Tuesday.
Okoli Ahinze was beaten to death at the Obafemi Awolowo University in southwestern Nigeria under a deeply controversial form of punishment unique to the university known as Scientific Maximum Shishi.