Student Killed in Juju Contest

A 16- year-old secondary school student in E kit iS tate, Favour Mathew died on Thursday evening after being hacked by another student, K eh in de Ti mil eh in within the school premises. Favour, who was in Senior Secondary 2 of A do Grammar School before his untimely death was said to have been in juju contest with the suspect on who actually had superior power during which he was hacked in the chest and later died at the E kit iS tate University Teaching Hospital( E KS U TH ), Ad oE ki ti. Several sources confirmed to journalists on Friday at the school that Favour, who was from Ebira extraction of Kogi State, actually brought the weapons but was killed after the axe and knife wrapped with white and red scarf could not pierce the suspect who overpowered him and stab bed him in self defence. The school has now been taken over by police with the main gate locked for fear of alleged reprisal attack which emanated from threat issued by the dec ease d’ s family that they would invade the school in protest on Friday.