Following Thursday morning heavy rainpour that caused the roof to collapse, injuring over four students during a class session, the management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has given the directive to shut down the school’s amphitheatre.
The school’s management led by the vice chancellor Professor Adebayo Bamire visited the injured students at the school clinic.
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Speaking, the OAU spokesperson Abiodun Olarewaju, in a statement, urged the university community “to go about their academic and administrative activities without any form of untoward action.”
The statement read in part, “The torrential rainfall of early Thursday morning, accompanied by a whirlwind, which started as students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, were having a lecture, SER to be precise, in the amphitheatre of the Oduduwa Hall, affected the ceiling of the amphitheatre as it fell off and injured a few of the students.
“The Vice-Chancellor led other principal officers to the Medical and Health Centre of the university and ensured that the injured students were given adequate medical attention.
“The Vice-Chancellor also followed two other students, whose cases demanded more medical attention, to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, where the Chief Medical Director, Prof John Okeniyi, physically supervised the proceedings.”
