The College students’ Union Authorities (SUG) of the College of Ibadan (UI) has confirmed {that a} 300-level legislation scholar continues to be unaccounted for following an assault on a convoy coming back from a spiritual convention in Imo State. Her title has been given merely as Tomisin.
SUG President Temidayo Adeboye disclosed the event in a press release issued in Ibadan on Friday. In accordance with him, Tomisin was kidnapped alongside seven others whereas travelling with the Nationwide Normal Director of the Scripture Union Scholar Fellowship, Mr Uwem Cosmos.
How the Incident Unfolded
The group was coming back from the Scripture Union Nationwide Convention, held on the Camp of Religion in Okigwe, Imo State. Studies point out that contact with Tomisin was misplaced whereas the convoy made its means again to Ibadan. Though unverified, some accounts recommend the convoy misplaced contact round Uli in Anambra State, elevating additional questions on precisely the place the assault occurred.
Tomisin is described as a key determine inside the fellowship. The SUG president famous that Tomisin serves because the Nationwide Secretary of the Scripture Union Scholar Fellowship, Nigeria, and the fellowship’s Vice President, College of Ibadan chapter. Her absence solely turned obvious days later, after she failed to seem for scheduled exams.
SUG Pushes Again on Viral Studies
As panic unfold on-line, conflicting claims in regards to the scale of the kidnapping started to flow into. Adeboye moved shortly to right the document.
He said, opposite to reviews circulating on social media, just one scholar of the college was amongst these declared lacking after communication with the group was misplaced. He added that the union had already begun working with related events to resolve the scenario, noting that the union has “initiated the required engagements to determine the information surrounding the scenario” and has already established contact with related non secular organisations and safety businesses to facilitate applicable intervention.
Adeboye was agency in dismissing the extra alarming figures making the rounds. In accordance with him, reviews claiming that eight College of Ibadan college students have been lacking are inaccurate, with Tomisin being the one College of Ibadan scholar at the moment unaccounted for within the incident.
Notably, the SUG president defined that the scholar’s disappearance turned obvious after she failed to sit down for her college examinations on each Monday and Tuesday. He additionally confirmed some aid for the college group: one other College of Ibadan scholar from the Division of Music, who additionally attended the convention, returned safely.
College Responds, Campus Sources Add Element
UI’s Director of Public Relations, Mrs Joke Akinpelu, confirmed the establishment’s consciousness of the incident. Nonetheless, she clarified that the college had not been formally briefed on the journey beforehand. She defined that the scholar left the college with out formally notifying the establishment of her vacation spot.
Individually, campus sources have supplied a clearer timeline. In accordance with the Union of Campus Journalists at UI, Tomisin was travelling in a convoy of about eight people who included the Fellowship’s Nationwide Normal Director, Eng. Uwem Cosmos, when contact with the group was misplaced on Sunday, 14 June 2026. The convention itself reportedly ran from June 11 to 14 earlier than the convoy set off for Ibadan.
Campus reporters additionally disclosed that friendship management had since reached out to school administration. The College of Ibadan Scripture Union fellowship president, Mr Olabisi Mayowa, confirmed particulars of the kidnapping and clarified Tomisin’s position, noting she travelled in “the place of the nationwide secretary, and she or he went there within the convoy of the final director of the scripture union.” Mayowa additional revealed that the fellowship’s headquarters formally notified the college, stating that the headquarters had reached out on Monday to the college administration in a letter addressed by way of the Dean of the School of Regulation, Prof. J. Akintayo, and that the Vice Chancellor had been knowledgeable by way of that letter in regards to the incident.
Prayers and Stress Mount for Her Launch
Past official statements, anxiousness continues to ripple by way of the college group. College students and members of the Scripture Union fellowship have referred to as for prayers and pressing efforts to safe the discharge of all these nonetheless being held.
For now, each the college and the fellowship say engagements with safety businesses stay ongoing. As of this report, Tomisin’s whereabouts stay unconfirmed, and no official replace on her security has been launched.