Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has commiserated with families and the management of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, over the death of students during a stampede on Friday.
DAILY POST had reported that two students of the university died on Friday when some students and suspected hoodlums thronged the Convocation Square at the institution and looted rice meant for distribution as palliatives. Sule, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Ibrahim Addra, and made available to newsmen in Lafia, condoled with the families of the deceased students and the management of the university over the incident.
“The sad incident occurred when suspected hoodlums and some misguided students forced their way into the school’s convocation ground to cart away the rice kept at the venue meant for distribution as palliatives to students,” the statement explained. It added that the governor plans to distribute rice and N5,000 cash to students in all tertiary institutions in the state to cushion the economic hardship.
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