The rescue team of the Kwara State Fire Service and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have recovered the remains of a 200 level student of the University of Ilorin that drowned in a river in the campus.

Already, the remains of the deceased have been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary for autopsy.

The deceased, according to THISDAY checks, had been declared missing since Saturday after attending a keep fit exercise organised by the "Man o' War club of the university.

The deceased whose name was given as Onikenku Michael Atunde of the Department of Science Education was said to have gone missing after he went to a river behind the Park and Gardens area of the institution.

THISDAY further learnt that the rescue team of the state fire service and NEMA had been working round the clock since Saturday in search of the deceased until his remains were discovered in the river on Sunday night.

The management of the institution in a condolence statement issued in Ilorin on Monday signed by the Institution's Deputy Director of Corporate Affairs, Alhaji Kunle Akogun, said, "The management of the University of Ilorin has commiserated with the family of late Michael Onikeku, a member of Man o' war club in the University of Ilorin who died on Saturday.

This condolence signed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academics, Professor Sidikat Ijaya, noted that rescue efforts were coordinated by the management with local divers, Unilorin fire services and other related agencies that swung into actions immediately after the report of the incident came to the management's notice.

Akogun's statement said, "Professor Ijaya, described Michael's death as a great loss to the university community describing Michael as a gentle, responsive and responsible student who believed in working for humanity".

The statement therefore prayed to God Almighty to comfort his family and give them the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

Among the people that were at the scene to receive the remains of Michael are the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Technology and Innovation, Professor Gabriel Olatunji, the wife of the Vice-Chancellor, Doctor Taye Ambali; the Dean students Affairs, Professor Omoteso; the Chief Security officer of the University, Mr. I. M. Tijani, the Director COMSIT, Professor Musa Isiyaku Ahmed, team from the university of Ilorin clinic lead by the Chief Medical Officer who represented the Director, Dr. Odunola Adekeye.