The family of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a pupil of the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, who died under controversial circumstances, has demanded a coroner inquest into his death. The news of Sylvester’s death went viral last Wednesday following a social media post by his cousin, Perry Oromoni, who alleged that some senior pupils of the […]
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Sylvester Oromoni Snr, the father of a Junior Secondary School two pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has vowed not to bury his son until justice is served. This is just as the family marked the deceased’s 12th birthday posthumously on Saturday during which a cake designed as airplane and pilot uniform […]
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Sylvester and parents. Photo: The Cable But for his untimely and gruesome death earlier in the week, the household of the Oromonis was supposed to buzz with excitement as Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), a Junior Secondary School two pupil at Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, would have clocked at 12 today. His painful exit on Tuesday notwithstanding, […]
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Urge speedy implementation of panel recommendations Tell aggrieved persons to go to court for redress A coalition of concerned Civil Society Organisations, DefendLagos, has expressed readiness to join Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, in the proposed “Walk for Peace” by the state government to bring harmony and healing of Lagos, aftermath of #EndSARS, October 20, […]
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Lagos State Ministry of Education has shut down Dowen College Lekki Phase 1 indefinitely to allow for investigations into how one of its pupils, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, died under allegedly controversial circumstances on Tuesday. The closure follows a visit by the Education Commissioner Mrs Folasade Adefisayo and other top officials of the Lagos State Ministry […]
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Lagos State Ministry of Education has said it would unravel what led to the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a 12 year old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki who died under allegedly controversial circumstances on Tuesday. This comes as the school closed today following the family’s claims that the boy died as a result of […]
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Sanwo-Olu at Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo Students, activist to join Walk for Peace The row generated by the White Paper on the #EndSARS report is yet to abate. Some aggrieved women who claimed to have lost loved ones in the October 20, 2020 Lekki Tollgate incident stormed the Ikoyi residence of Lagos State Deputy […]
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Lagos Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu Controversy has trailed the death of a pupil of Dowen College, Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), in the Lekki area of Lagos State. While a family member alleged that the Junior Secondary School 2 pupil died from the injuries he sustained during an assault by colleagues who wanted to initiate him into […]
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Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) • Adegboruwa kicks, says white paper full of inaccuracies, cover ups • HURIWA, George, others blast Sanwo-Olu over white paper The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), yesterday, explained that many contradictions in the report of the state’s judicial panel on police brutality made the findings of […]
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Lagos State Government has rejected the resolution of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters that no fewer than nine persons lost their lives when armed soldiers stormed the Lekki toll gate to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020. This claim, which was contained in […]
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