By our reporter 12.11.2026
Four University of Nigeria Enugu students have died and six others needing medical intervention after allegedly consuming a mixture of controlled drugs and alcohol at a party.
UNN vice chancellor Professor Simon Ortuanya confirmed the deaths of the students saying they had been partying outside the campus celebrating with a student who had finished his final year exams on Wednesday November 11.
He said the students are from different departments of the institution contrary to reports suggesting they were all from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The vice-chancellor added that the university was working with security agencies to unravel the circumstances surrounding the deaths, which he described as “a death too many”, Ortuanya announced a three-day mourning period in honour of the deceased students.
“The management, staff and students of the University of Nigeria share in their grief at this difficult moment and pray for the repose of the souls of the departed,” he said.