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Christmas Day Tragedy: Hit-and-run driver kills OOU final year student, Boluwatife Oyeleye in Ajah

                                 Christmas Day Tragedy:?Hit-and-run driver kills OOU final year student,?Boluwatife Oyeleye in Ajah (Photo)
 A final year Urban and Regional planning student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University identified as Boluwatife Oyeleye was on Christmas Day killed by a hit-and-run driver in Lagos.

According to reports, she  had gone out for a Christmas outing and was returning home around 6:30pm, when she was hit by a vehicle while trying to cross the Lekki-Epe expressway at the Ajah-Ilaje axis.

It was gathered that she had headphones in her ears before the incident happened on Ilaje Road.

The driver however fled. A bike rider later assisted Boluwatife to the roadside and called on passersby to help rush her to the hospital, but no help came until she gave up the ghost.

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