Balogun Sultan, a second-year National Diploma student, met his untimely end on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, near the WAEC Bus Stop in Yaba just steps away from his campus. He had spent the day sitting for examinations under the institution’s distance learning programme and was heading home to Lagos Island when tragedy struck.
Good Samaritans wasted no time rushing the critically wounded student to Military Hospital Yaba, where doctors performed emergency chest surgery in a desperate bid to save him. Their efforts proved futile. Sultan did not survive.
The killing has sent shockwaves through the Yabatech community and beyond, raising urgent questions about rules of engagement, the protection of civilians during military operations, and accountability within the Nigerian Armed Forces. Students and residents have taken to the streets and social media to demand justice, calling for a transparent investigation into how an innocent exam-taker became a casualty of a security exercise.
