The two missing students of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo state have been found dead three weeks after they went missing.

Andrel Eloho Okah, of the Department of History and International Studies in the Faculty of Art, and John Friday Abba, of the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture at the state university, were found over the weekend.

Colleagues of the duo began searching for them when they failed to attend classes and they reported their disappearance to the police.

A security source confirmed to TheNation on Sunday, July 13, that both students have been found dead.

"It’s sad to inform you that the two missing AAUA students have been killed by their suspected abductors, and their dead body have been found where they kept them," the source said, according to the publication.

“Some of our men are already on their way to recover their c0rpses inside the bush at a border town between Akoko and Ekiti,” the source said.