OAU shuts down, students to vacate halls of residence October 2: Official

OAU shuts

OAU

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have shut down until further notice, following students’ protest over the death of their colleague. 

In a statement on Friday by the school’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, the varsity management said the shutting of the school was to forestall a breakdown of law and order.

All students have been asked to vacate their halls of residence and the campus latest by 12:00 noon on October 2.

The students are protesting the death of a 400 level student of the institution, Aishat Adesina, accusing the school’s health centre of negligence in her death.

The deceased was a 24-year-old student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts, and had visited the health centre on Tuesday to treat an infection.