At the time of his death, Onifade was a sophomore student of history at
Tai Solarin University of Education. He was
interning as a reporter with
Gboah TV, a Lagos-based online news channel. On 24 October 2020, Onifade travelled to Abule Egba in Lagos State to cover the #ENDSARS protest for Gboah TV. From there, he had gone to cover an attempted break-in at a government facility in Agege. He was later arrested. Onifade was last seen alive later that day in police custody at
Ikeja. It was at this point that he was reportedly hit by a bullet and carried away in a police van. His body was found six days later at a mortuary in
Ikorodu, Lagos. The circumstances that led to Onifade's death were kept away from his family and from the public, and his body was not released to his family for burial. The injustice of Onifade's death sparked sustained calls for investigation and justice advanced by media rights organisations such as the
Committee to Protect Journalists, the
International Press Institute, the
Media Foundation for West Africa and the
Media Rights Agenda. On October 17, 2024, four years after his death, a
coroner's inquest was commenced at a Federal High Court in Lagos on the orders of the court. == See also ==