Tension In Rivers State University Over Shooting Of Final Year Student × Tension In Rivers State University Over Shooting Of Final Year Student By Our Reporter Metro Hits: 123 There is palpable tension at the Rivers State University (RSU), Nkpolu-Oruworukwo, Port Harcourt following the shooting of Blessing Ogolo, a final year student of department of mathematics, faculty of sciences on campus recently. Blessing Ogolo who survived the gunshot denied allegations that he belongs to a cult group. Blessing Ogolo explained that before the last incident, some boys suspected to be students attacked him at the back gate of the institution with a gun and machete sometime ago and dispossessed him of his phone.
Punch Newspapers Sections Dennis Naku Published 16 March 2021 The police said they had arrested a suspected cultist and undergraduate of the Rivers State University, Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, for allegedly shooting a fellow student after the semester examination. The spokesman for the state police command, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in his office in Port Harcourt on Monday. Omoni said the victim, Blessing Ogolo, a final year student of Mathematics, was suspected to be a cultist, adding that investigations were ongoing. Ogolo, while recounting his ordeal, said he was shot at by his course mate in the company of others as he came out of the exam hall and denied being a member of any cult.