BREAKING: Babcock Varsity Expels Student For Buying N100,000 Soap From Herbalist

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Oladipupo Siwajuola was expelled from Babcock University in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, for engaging in “gross violation of university rules,” which included drug sales, fetish practices, impersonation, and dishonesty.

In early May 2025, Siwajuola’s abduction gained widespread attention as his mother claimed on social media that the institution had breached its duty of care.

Siwajuola had purposefully left the Ilishan-Remo campus on April 28, 2025, without permission, hiding in a hoodie and slipping out through the teaching hospital gate, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday and signed by Dr. Joshua Suleiman, the university’s director of marketing and communication.

“His disappearance was neither accidental nor the result of negligence by the university.

“Rather, it was a deliberate act, laced with a series of misconducts that violate the Babcock University Student Handbook,” the statement read.

The school said that on May 15, 2025, Siwajuola was brought back to campus by his father and received an official debriefing invitation from the Security Services Department.

He allegedly admitted to a number of misdeeds in his voluntary written testimony, which was later verified in front of the Disciplinary Committee.

“Among them was the purchase of a black soap from a traditional herbalist for N100,000, which contradicted his mother’s earlier claim that she had given it to him to treat a skin condition.

“Siwajuola, admitted that the soap was intended for ritual purposes, as part of a ‘Yahoo Yahoo Plus’ scheme, a slang term for internet fraud mixed with fetish practices.

“He revealed that he was engaging in fetish practices in an attempt to get rich quick.

“He also confessed to drug peddling, borrowing N500,000 from an online loan app to fund gambling, and impersonating another student to open a bank account,” the statement said.

The statement added that Siwajuola had deceived the buyer by stating that his father had approved the sale of his personal phone without permission.

The university disclosed that Sodiq’s mother, the parent of a friend he stayed with in Lagos, was the one who found him in their home and informed his family after observing the escalating online controversy, in contrast to his mother’s public assertion that her son was found by his friends from secondary school.

Siwajuola was found guilty of a number of offenses after investigations, according to Babcock University, including drug sales, fetish material possession and use, impersonation and dishonesty, and the unapproved sale of personal property.

The institution said it was forced to fire Siwajuola immediately in accordance with its disciplinary procedures and international best practices.

“While we recognise the emotional weight of this decision, especially for the family involved, our foremost responsibility remains the safety and moral integrity of all students entrusted to our care,” Suleiman said.

Additionally, the university voiced its disapproval of the “sensational and baseless accusations” that the student’s mother made on social media, accusing the school of being involved in the boy’s abduction.

“These claims were not only false but misleading.

“However, in view of the responsible conduct shown by the student’s father, the university will not pursue a libel case at this time,” the statement added.

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