•Former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris and a python The Managing Director of Kano Zoo, Sadik Kura Muhammad, has confirmed that a python which escaped from the residence of a former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been recovered and evacuated, along with other wild animals, to the zoo. The python’s [&he...
•Obafemi Awolowo University The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has promised to immortalise Mr Olabode Olawuyi, a veterinary technologist who was killed by a lion in the university zoo. The Registrar of the University, Mr Adetunji Bakare, stated this yesterday at a one-day workshop to mark the first anniversary of Olaw...
•Lion A lion has reportedly killed its handler at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) zoological garden, Abeokuta. The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Babaji Duale, reports Daily Independent. However, the male beast was reported to have been put down immediately. Duale, a native of Bauchi State, was a trained handler of...
•Lion in a zoo The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) community was today thrown into mourning after a lion at the school’s zoo killed a veterinary technologist Olabode Olawuyi. According to the school’s spokesman Abiodun Olarewaju, the victim who has been in charge of the Zoological garden for over a decade was attacked this afternoon when [&he...
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