A coroner sitting in Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday barred journalists and other interested parties
from covering and witnessing the inquest.
The registrar of the court announced the hearing was mainly for lawyers, and urged journalists and other
interested parties to leave the courtroom.
A representative of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ikeja branch, Benard Oniga, said “Journalists will be shut out from covering the inquest this week because minors will be testifying.”
It was learnt that the decision was taken because some of the senior students of Dowen College accused of
beating the deceased were in court to testify.
The case aims to unravel the circumstances that led to the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College
Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr.
