The management of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, has suspended two students with immediate effect over allegations that they cyberbullied the institution’s suspended Students’ Union Government president, James Iyanuoluwa Adio.
This was contained in a statement published on the university’s official news portal on Friday, attributed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Professor Tajudeen Opoola, who is the Acting Vice-Chancellor.
The two students, identified as Alao Iyanuoluwa Odunayo and Olawale Abiodun Samuel, were accused of conspiring to cyberbully Adio “by posting his private affairs online for Adio’s inability to meet their financial demands.”
The management said it frowned at the duo’s involvement in what it described as conduct capable of denting the image of the university.
It added that investigations into the matter were ongoing, but ordered the two students to proceed on suspension immediately, stressing that the institution was determined to purge itself of any behaviour likely to tarnish its image.
Adio was suspended by the university last week alongside the Deputy Director, Students Affairs, over allegations bordering on extortion.
He was accused of being indirectly involved in the illegal collection of ₦1,000 from first-year students for practical sessions, with ₦700,000 said to have been traced to his personal account.
His suspension was followed by the circulation of an explicit video allegedly involving him, which trended widely on social media and drew the intervention of the National Association of Nigerian Students.
