Oladipupo Siwajuola, a student at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, who made news last month after getting declared missing by her mother, Mrs. Fijabi Oyindamola Omotayo, has been expelled from the institution.
The university cited ‘gross violation of university rules’ including involvement in fetish practices, drug peddling, impersonation, and dishonesty.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the university’s Director of Marketing and Communication, Dr. Joshua Suleiman, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, added that Siwajuola had deliberately left Ilishan-Remo campus on April 28, 2025, without authorization, disguising himself in a hoodie and sneaking out through the university’s teaching hospital gate.
‘His disappearance was neither accidental nor the result of negligence by the university.
Rather, it was a deliberate act, laced with a series of misconducts that violate the Babcock University Student Handbook’ the statement said.
Siwajuola, the statement added, returned to campus in company of his father on May 15, 2025, and was invited by the Security Services Department for an ‘interrogation’ during which he reportedly confessed to engaging in several acts of misconduct.
‘Among them was the purchase of a black soap from a traditional herbalist for N100,000, which contradicted his mother’s earlier claim that she had given it to him to treat a skin condition.
Siwajuola, admitted that the soap was intended for ritual purposes, as part of a ‘Yahoo Yahoo Plus’ scheme, a slang term for internet fraud mixed with fetish practices.
He revealed that he was engaging in fetish practices in an attempt to get rich quick.
He also confessed to engaging in drug peddling, borrowing N500,000 from an online loan app to fund gambling, and impersonating another student to open a bank account’ the statement added.
Siwajuola had also according to the institution sold his mobile phone without authorization and misled the buyer by claiming that his father had consented while contrary to the assertions made by his mother, the chap was found by his secondary school friends.
It was the mother of the friend he was staying with in Lagos, Sodiq, who discovered his presence in their home and alerted his family after noticing that the matter was being discussed on social media.
The university noted that following investigations, Siwajuola was found liable for multiple offences, including unauthorized exit from campus, possession and use of fetish materials, drug peddling, impersonation and dishonesty, unauthorized sale of personal property adding that in line with its disciplinary policies and global best practices, Siwajuola had to be expelled from the institution with immediate effect.
‘While we recognize the emotional weight of this decision, especially for the family involved, our foremost responsibility remains the safety and moral integrity of all students entrusted to our care’ Suleiman said.
The university also expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘sensational and baseless accusations’ made by Mrs. Fijabi Oyindamola Omotayo on social media, in which she had blamed the institution for the boy’s disappearance.
‘These claims were not only false but misleading.
However, in view of the responsible conduct shown by the student’s father, the university will not pursue a libel case at this time’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
