JUST IN: A Refuted LASU Student Activist, Allegedly Assassinated Amidst Tussling With School.

Yusuf Nurudeen, a well-known student activist at Lagos State University, was killed by unknown gunmen just hours after appearing before the university’s disciplinary panel on trumped-up charges that many have described as an attempt to victimize the activist.

JUST IN: A Refuted LASU Student Activist, Allegedly Assassinated Amidst Tussling With School.

Comrade Yusuf Nurudeen, a famous student activist at Lagos State University, was assasinated by unknown gunmen some hours after appearing before the university’s disciplinary panel on a case filed on trumped-up charges that many have described as an attempt to persecute the comrade.

A pseudonymous staff-activist of the University who has publicly solidarized with Mr Nurudeen was also apparently to have been shot in the attack and presently in coma.

Eaglesforesight gathered from Campus Tracker, that Mr Nurudeen was shot and died on Wednesday evening after attending a panel session at the Lagos State University where he was charged with admission racketeering and unlawful possession of university documents. The panel’s schedule and sitting have been unusually postponed since January 2020 for reasons that the management has not revealed.

Speaking on the case before he was assasinated, Mr Nurudeen claimed it was an attempt to frame him as retaliation for his outspoken opposition to the university administration’s anti-student and anti-worker practices, which he was obligated to undertake as a leader of the Education Rights Campaign.

“As everyone would recall, there has been an attempt on several occasions to entrapping me on a case of admission racketeering. This is retribution for my principled opposition to the anti-student and anti-worker policies of the University administration in his capacity as a leading member of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and a renowned student activist on campus,” Mr Nurudeen wrote in one of his press releases.

His arrest was especially contentious because it was carried out in a gestapo-like way by officers of the State Security Service SSS. Several organisations and unions, including the Socialist Workers’ League and the Lagos State University Student Union, have criticized the SSS’s arrest as being excessive and that the force used was in no way proportional to the crime he was charged with.

Mr Nurudeen was a recognized voice in the university community who’s passionate advocacy against what he described as ”anti-student” and anti-worker policies” caused him to express views and stance that were deemed critical of the university management. He was also recently married six months and has a son who is three months old.

Several quarters are conducting information to unravel Mr Nurudeen’s assassination and  Eaglesforesight would bring more update when we have it.

Reporter: Ayoola Babalola, CEO and Publisher Of Campus Tracker.