NIJ STUDENT DECLARED MISSING

A female National Diploma1 student of Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Deborah Abidemi Adedeji has been declared missing for over three days.

Adedeji, who did not start the second semester examination with her colleagues, has been said to have absconded from home since Thursday last week. It was gathered from some of her friends that Adedeji was pregnant,but according to her mother, Mrs Adedeji, who visited the Institute campus in Ogba yesterday said it might be as a result of her first semester results in which she performed below expectations, that she is not pregnant. "She is not pregnant and if she is, that does not give room for her to run away, but i suspect that it might be as a result of last semester results, which she performed below expectations" the mother said in Yoruba. Having earlier linked her absence from home to a full-time student colleague, Onotanemere John, that he usually take her out to church vigils and programmes, Onotanemere, in a quick reaction denied it, saying "I just know her in the class and we don't talk, talk less of taking her out, moreover I always go home every weekend, so that does not give me chance to leave the confines of the school on weekdays". However, hands are still on deck to know the whereabouts of Deborah, as the case have been reported to the Management of the Institute.But it is not clear whether the parent has reported the case to the appropriate security agent.