For a long while now, students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife havebitterly complained about living under formidable conditions supposedly provided by the management of the school.
On the 30th of November, after a congress which had been called a few days before, the Students’ Union of the school took to boycotting lectures with a peaceful protest to make their grievances known to the school management and to the world at large.Some of the reasons for the protest were the poor welfare conditions experienced by students on campus.
These include inconsistent electricity supply, scarcity of clean water, dilapidated toilets and bathrooms, which obviously need renovation, re-fumigating of the halls of residences which were fumigated in October but weren’t effectively fumigated and some other reasons.
On Tuesday, 1st December, 2015, the Management of Obafemi Awolowo University shut down the school immediately with claims of the school having a “mid-semester break”. There are speculations that the management shut down the school because they received a security information that the students planned to disrupt the upcoming coronation of the New Ooni of Ife in order to seize the opportunity to get a chance to discuss with dignitaries that would be present at the globally-recognized ceremony.
The President of the Students’ Union, in person of Mr Omotayo Akande, (TY), recently debunked all claims of there being a planto disrupt the upcoming coronation ceremony.Students have taken the measure embarked on by the management as one to silent them so as not to let the world know about the extremely horrendous conditions on campus.
The students of Obafemi Awolowo University have, however, decided to take the road popular and efficient-the Social Media- as it is thought that the world could be invited to intervene in bringing back wellness to the school.Below are spine-chilling pictures of the state of school’s halls of residence as at December, 2015.
On the 30th of November, after a congress which had been called a few days before, the Students’ Union of the school took to boycotting lectures with a peaceful protest to make their grievances known to the school management and to the world at large.Some of the reasons for the protest were the poor welfare conditions experienced by students on campus.
These include inconsistent electricity supply, scarcity of clean water, dilapidated toilets and bathrooms, which obviously need renovation, re-fumigating of the halls of residences which were fumigated in October but weren’t effectively fumigated and some other reasons.
On Tuesday, 1st December, 2015, the Management of Obafemi Awolowo University shut down the school immediately with claims of the school having a “mid-semester break”. There are speculations that the management shut down the school because they received a security information that the students planned to disrupt the upcoming coronation of the New Ooni of Ife in order to seize the opportunity to get a chance to discuss with dignitaries that would be present at the globally-recognized ceremony.
The President of the Students’ Union, in person of Mr Omotayo Akande, (TY), recently debunked all claims of there being a planto disrupt the upcoming coronation ceremony.Students have taken the measure embarked on by the management as one to silent them so as not to let the world know about the extremely horrendous conditions on campus.
The students of Obafemi Awolowo University have, however, decided to take the road popular and efficient-the Social Media- as it is thought that the world could be invited to intervene in bringing back wellness to the school.Below are spine-chilling pictures of the state of school’s halls of residence as at December, 2015.
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