A year two student of the University of Port Harcourt has been found dead in her apartment.
The lifeless body of the student simply identified as Adaeze was found on Friday in her apartment in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the Rivers state but the news only recently came to light.
Adaeze’s death comes barely two weeks after the decomposing body of a 300-level undergraduate of Biochemistry, Justina Otuene, allegedly killed by her boyfriend Damian Okoligwe was found in the latter’s residence along NTA Road, Ozuoba in Obio/Akpor LGA.
Okoligwe, a 400-level student of Petrochemical Engineering also in UNIPORT has since been arrested by the police.
Speaking on the latest incident, the Dean of Student Affairs, UNIPORT, Chima Wokocha, said the lifeless body of the student was found in her off-campus residence and brought to a health facility in the school by some of her neighbours.
According to Wokocha, the late Adaeze died as a result of consuming a substance He said, ‘we acknowledge the fact that she had taken a substance and passed out because there was a bottle of a substance that was found by her side.’
“Her parents have come there and I think they are making arrangements to take the body.”
