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  • OAU 200-level student dies after falling inside hostel soakaway

    OAU 200-level student dies after falling inside hostel soakaway

    Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has lost a part two student of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Miss Ayomikun Ajibola.

    Ajibolla died after she fell into a soakaway in BVER, one of the private hostels in the Students Village.

    The Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, made this known in a statement to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Ile-Ife, Osun state.

    Olarewaju said that the university management “is saddened by this unfortunate incidence”.

    He said immediately the news got to the school’s management, it mobilised fire men from the university and some staff of OAU teaching hospital, who through concerted efforts got the student out.

    “Accordingly, she was immediately taken to the OAU Teaching Hospital, where she was certified dead.”

    He said that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, led his management team to the scene, and sympathised with the students and commiserated with the parents of the deceased.

    “Prof Ogunbodede, who described the incidence as tragic and unacceptable, promised to critically look into the circumstances that led to the student’s death and mete out appropriate sanctions against those involved or whoever is found culpable.

    “The vice chancellor, therefore, appealed to the students to remain calm and be law abiding as the police, who have been briefed, are also investigating,” Olarewaju said in the statement.

  • Congress of universities dissociates self from ASUU strike in OAU

    Congress of universities dissociates self from ASUU strike in OAU

    The Congress of Universities’ Academics (CONUA), Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) branch, has dissociated itself from the indefinite strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the institution.

    Chairman of CONUA, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, said on Tuesday, in Ile-Ife, that the strike action by ASUU was not necessary.

    OAU ASUU on Monday embarked on an indefinite strike over non-payment of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA).

    Sunmonu, however, said that since the school management had taken appropriate steps by meeting the academic union three times on payment of the EAA, the strike was uncalled for.

    He said, “we have started constructive engagement with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, on the payment of the allowance. But for now, we don’t know what is delaying the payment.

    ” The complaint given by the Vice Chancellor is that he has two different templates of payment and we think that as the Chief Executive Officer, he must decide on the best way to disburse the money”, Sunmonu said.

    The union leader, however, said that the University authorities had directed the audit unit to look at the two templates and submit a report to the Vice-Chancellor to do the needful.

    ” With this arrangement, I don’t think we need to disrupt the academic calendar by going on strike.

    ” Why should we punish innocent students on this matter?

    “I believe the outcome of the audit unit will be out soon and things will be sorted out”, he said.

    UNIVERSITY REACTS:

    In a related development, the management of the institution in a statement by Public Relations Officer, Biodun Olanrewaju, said that the academic staff union of the university were not on strike.

    Olarewaju, while assuring parents, guardians, alumni and friends of the University of uninterrupted academic calendar, urged students to go about their normal academic activities.

    The University informed the students, parents or guardians, that the overwhelming majority of the academic staff in OAU were not on strike. Nor do they intend to go on any strike action.

    “In actual fact, lectures are ongoing and students are being attended to by lecturers in their respective departments.

    “In addition, the University management wishes to appreciate majority of our lecturers. They have the interest of the students at heart, and have been teaching and attending to students”, he said.

  • OAU lecturers begin indefinite strike

    OAU lecturers begin indefinite strike

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife branch, on Monday commenced an indefinite strike over non-payment of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) to its members by the university’s authorities.

    This is contained in a communique issued after the union’s Congress, signed by Dr Ademola Egbedokun, ASUU Chairman, OAU branch and made available to newsmen in Ile-Ife.

    Egbedokun said that the strike was part of the resolutions reached at the ASUU emergency congress.

    “The congress noted that there was no serious commitment on the part of the university to effect the payment of EAA to deserving members.

    “Congress also observed that all political and diplomatic means to resolve the imbroglio had failed.

    “Consequently, the congress resolved that total, comprehensive and indefinite strike should commence immediately.

    “The strike must not be called off without a congress’ resolution to that effect.

    “Payment of EAA must be based on ASUU’s computation. Anything short of this would be unacceptable,” he said.

    Egbedokun said,
    accordingly, the strike Coordinating Committee should be set up to monitor the strike.

    According to him, based on the above and on the strength of the permission granted by ASUU National President, the Chairman, on behalf of the Congress, has declared the commencement of ASUU strike.

  • [REVEALED] CCTV shows how hotel owner, son killed OAU student

    [REVEALED] CCTV shows how hotel owner, son killed OAU student

    Closed Circuit Television has revealed how Obafemi Awolowo University post-graduate student, Timothy Adegoke was killed in his hotel room.

    This was revealed by founder of an Ibadan, Oyo State-based radio station, Agidigbo FM, Oriyomi Hamzat, in a video posted on his Instagram page on Friday.

    Oludare had lodged at Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife when he came to write his examinations in OAU late last year before he was murdered by the owner, Rahmon Adedoyin, his son, and staff of the facility.

    Hamzat, who is also a human rights activist, said on Friday that the police had given him authorisation to reveal the content of the CCTV that showed how Oludare was killed.

    He revealed that there will soon be a court case on the matter.

    He also disclosed that among the four suspects, three had been declared wanted as it was only Adedoyin that was in the custody of the police.

    He said, “They entered his room at 12 midnight. We have seen the CCTV but the police have taken them away. It was revealed that they entered by 12:00am. Who are the suspects that killed Timothy? Moshood who is like a personal assistant to Adedoyin and an accomplice was involved as CCTV showed he entered, then Adedoyin entered, and Raheem, the son of Adedoyin and managing director of the hotel entered.

    “After some minutes, we saw that they went out of the room. As they went out, they wrapped Timothy’s corpse with a hotel duvet, and tighten it with a rope. They then put it in a big carton and tighten it again with a rope. They put his body in the boot of a car and drove out.”

    Hamzat said as the police continued their investigation on the matter, the family will begin preparation for the burial of the deceased.

  • Hoodlums attack OAU Vice Chancellor, other top management officials while inspecting newly built hostel

    Hoodlums attack OAU Vice Chancellor, other top management officials while inspecting newly built hostel

    Hoodlums on Monday attacked some management staff of the Obafemi Awolowo University, including Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede.

    The staff members had tried to visit a hostel built on land claimed by members of a community near the university premises.

    The hoodlums were reportedly hired by the land claimants.

    They shot sporadically for several minutes in an attempt to chase the management team away.

    Unable to access the hostel, Prof. Ogunbodede said the university management will continue to pursue peace with the community.

    He also stressed that the management will seek roundtable discussions to prevent future attacks.

    Although no life was lost, the hoodlums brandished cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.

  • Finally, UTH conducts autopsy on late OAU post-graduate student

    Finally, UTH conducts autopsy on late OAU post-graduate student

    Osun University Teaching Hospital (UTH), on Monday, conducted autopsy on the late Timothy Adegoke, a post-graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the autopsy, scheduled for 11:00 am., did not commence until 2:30 pm., due to late arrival of the deceased’s family and other logistics.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, had, on Sunday, told NAN that the autopsy was delayed because the deceased’s family insisted on being part of the process.

    Opalola, however, said that the autopsy would now be carried out today (Monday) at Osun University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.

    It was learnt that the family of the deceased presented a pathologist to be part of the autopsy process, while the police pathologist and the investigating police officer (IPO) for the case were all witnesses to the autopsy process.

    The autopsy, which was conducted by a UTH Consultant Pathologist, Dr Waheed Oluogun, was concluded at 6:30 pm.

    Oluogun, however, said that the result of the autopsy would take two to three weeks to be ready.

    The pathologist also said that by the time the result is ready, it would only be made available to the police.

    The deceased’s family, through their counsel, Mr Naheem Adekilekun, said that comments on the autopsy would be made after the result was out.

    Adekilekun appealed to the police to prosecute the case without fear or favour to any person(s) found culpable.

    NAN reports that Adegoke was said to have travelled to Osun State to sit for an examination at OAU Distance Learning Centre, Moro, Ife North Local Government Area of the state, when he was declared missing on Nov. 7.

    The remains of the deceased were later reportedly evacuated from a forest on Ede/Ife road by the police.

    The police said that six suspects, said to be staff members of Hilton Hotels and Resort, Ile-Ife, and the owner, Ramon Adedoyin, were arrested by the police after investigation revealed that the late Adegoke checked into the facility before he was declared missing.

  • Death of final year student: OAU students reject, protest management’s shutdown of institution

    Death of final year student: OAU students reject, protest management’s shutdown of institution

    Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife have protested against the closure of the school on the directive of its management.

    The aggrieved students trooped out as early as 7:30am on Saturday as they stormed the streets within and outside the campus in Osun State.

    They shut the campus gate and blocked the major roads leading to the school, insisting that the management must rescind its directive on the total shutdown of the campus and that students should vacate the hostels.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the university management had ordered the closure of the school and directed students to vacate the hostels following a protest sparked by the death of a final year student, Aisat Adesina.

    When the students’ union officials said they have zero confidence in the health facility.

    They blamed Aisat’s death on personnel who they said did not attend to her properly when she was rushed to the medical facility.

    “The first thing we want the management to do is to open our school with immediate effect; we want it now,” said Salvation Grace who is the Vice President-elect of the union.

    “We want justice for Aisat, we want justice for Korede (another late student), we want justice for every student who went to that health centre in their lifetime and were not treated properly.”

    But the management of the institution had a different view, saying the closure of the school was a necessary decision to take at the moment.

    OAU Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, explained that the management took the decision after appealing to the students on four different occasions.

    “If you say you are protesting, it is your fundamental human right,” he said. “But you should not allow that protest to lead to violence.

    “Blocking the Ife-Ibadan Highway and the Ife-Ede Highway for nine consecutive hours is not right. We now envisaged a situation that as things were going, the university should be proactive and do the needful.”

    Meanwhile, sources said late Aisat would be buried on Monday at the school’s cemetery.

  • OAU shuts down, orders students out of hall of residence

    OAU shuts down, orders students out of hall of residence

    The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, have closed down the institution until further notice, following students’ protest over the death of their colleague, and in its bid to forestall further breakdown of law and order.

    This was contained in a release issued by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju on Friday, in Ile-Ife.

    In view of the action, all students have been directed to vacate their halls of residence and the campus, latest by 12:00 noon on Saturday, 2nd October, 2021.

    Olanrewaju had on Friday issued a press release which stated that on Tuesday, 28th September, 2021, one Aishat Adesina, a 24-year old female, Part 4 student of the Department of Foreign Languages, had died.

    The release said that the deceased had reported to the university’s Health Centre with signs and symptoms of a severe infection.

    She was promptly treated with some prescribed drugs and asked to report back as an out-patient. She reported back to the Health Centre in the morning of Thursday, 30th September, 2021.

    Upon examination, the release said, she was referred to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, for further management where she regrettably died on the same day.

    Olarewaju stated that the management understood the grief resulting from this untimely death within the community and sympathises with the parents, friends, colleagues and the entire students of the University on this sad loss, and prayed for the repose of her soul.

    In the meantime, the University management has put in place a machinery to unravel the circumstances surrounding the immediate and remote cause(s) of the students’ protests.

    Consequently, the swearing-in of the newly elected Students’ Union officials has been put on hold, pending a review of the situation, the release said.

    Management also condemned in strong terms the continuous and uncontrolled protests by the students culminating in unbridled brigandage, blocking the Ife/Ibadan and Ife/Ede highways and other adjoining roads that could be used as alternative routes to the school.

    It further stated that students’ engaging in other acts that were detrimental to their health and the safety of the generality of the people was opposed by the school authorities.

  • ‘Buhari failed three times’, OAU reacts as student commits suicide

    ‘Buhari failed three times’, OAU reacts as student commits suicide

    The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, has said that the suicide committed recently by a student of the university was not as a result of academic failure.

    Olarewaju, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, in Ile-Ife, added that failure in life go beyond academic performance.

    Emmanuel Adedeji, a 200-level student of Management and Accounting of the University, committed suicide recently.

    Olanrewaju asserted that people failed in different human endeavours, noting that whenever such happened, taking one’s life should not be the next thing.

    “So, whether you are wealthy, in middle or lower class of the society, individuals have different challenges in life,” he said.

    The university image maker admonished people to take things easy, saying that excellence in academic performance does not mean that one would make it in life.

    “And failure academically doesn’t mean that things would not go well with such a person in the future.

    “Dropping out of school doesn’t mean total failure in one’s life time. Dangote is not a professor, but the richest man in Africa.

    “To the Glory of God, President Muhammadu Buhari failed three times, to clinch the job. But when he contested the fourth time, he won; now running his second term.

    “President Joe Biden of USA had so many matrimonial calamities; lost a son, a wife, but today he is the President of USA,” the PRO explained.

    Olarewaju advised all and sundry not to write themselves off and contemplate suicide.

  • OAU undergraduate commits suicide

    OAU undergraduate commits suicide

    A 200-level student of the Management and Accounting department of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Osun State Emmanuel Adedeji has committed suicide.

    According to reports, Adedeji took Sniper in the school premises and died a few minutes later.

    A student of the institution confirmed the development. He said Adedeji’s corpse was discovered behind the Mechanical department popularly known as Spider building.

    OAU Public Relation Officer Abiodun Olarewaju confirmed the development.

    He said: “We appeal to parent and guidance to please let their children know that failure or depression occasioned by whatever suicide should not be an option.

    “We want to sympathise with the parent and friends of the deceased. The boy was at his formative age. We heard that the boy left a suicide note. It pains us that the boy is dead. The reason for is action is not yet known.”