{"id":173255,"date":"2025-08-10T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/oau-seeks-police-help-over-missing-female-student"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:24:00","slug":"oau-seeks-police-help-over-missing-female-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/oau-seeks-police-help-over-missing-female-student","title":{"rendered":"OAU seeks police help over missing female student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has called on the Osun State Police Command to assist in locating a female student who has been missing for four days.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the University\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju on Sunday, the missing student was identified as Dorcas Oseghale, from the Department of Chemistry, with matriculation number CHM\/2021\/165.<\/p>\n<p>The institution reported that Oseghale was last seen on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at about 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, \u201cDorcas, a resident of Adesanmi House, Ibadan Road, Ile-Ife, had told her roommate she was going to buy food in front of the Students\u2019 Village along Ede Road but did not return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer roommate later tried to reach her on the phone, only to discover that both of her lines were unreachable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olarewaju said that \u201cat about 3:00 p.m. on 7 August 2025, the University Security Unit intercepted a report of a missing student on a students\u2019 social media platform and began tracking conversations related to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 6:10 p.m. the same day, a group of Chemistry students, together with Dorcas\u2019s roommate, Akinkuade Omobolanle Beatrice from the Department of Agricultural Extension, formally reported the matter at the University\u2019s Security Unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to what the University described as limitations in human and material resources, three security personnel were assigned to work with the students and relay preliminary findings to the Nigeria Police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian Police have enough manpower with sound professional and technical expertise to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the student,\u201d Olarewaju noted in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire commended the students for promptly reporting the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201ctheir vigilance showed they were their brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 keeper. He urged security agencies to do all they could to find Dorcas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bamire appealed to anyone with useful information on the student\u2019s whereabouts to contact the nearest police station or the University Security Unit immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The University spokesperson also assured that it will continue to work closely with the police and other security agencies until the matter is resolved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has called on the Osun State Police Command to assist in locating a female student who has been missing for four days. In a statement issued by the University\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju on Sunday, the missing student was identified as Dorcas Oseghale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-173255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OAU seeks police help over missing female student - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/oau-seeks-police-help-over-missing-female-student\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OAU seeks police help over missing female student\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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