Management closes down OAU, asks students to go home


Authority of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has announced closing that of the university till further notice.


The closure, according to a release by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olanrewaju, Friday evening, became necessary to forestall breakdown of law and order following the continuous protest of the students.


A 24-year-old, female, final year student of the Department of Foreign Languages Adesina Aishat, died and students blamed her death on the lackadaisical attitudes of the health personnel in the health care center of the university.

This, however, led to protest by students who insisted that the management must investigate the death of their colleague and punish those health officers for their ‘negligence.


Olanrewaju said, “on Tuesday, 28th September, 2021 Adesina Omowumi Aishat, reported to the Health Centre with signs and symptoms of a severe infection. She was promptly treated with some drugs prescribed 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, she was referred to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital for further management where she regrettably died on Thursday 30th September, 2021. 


“The management understands 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 prays for the repose of her soul. 

“However, management condemns 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, and engaging in other acts that are detrimental to their health and the safety of  the generality of the people. 


“Therefore, having exhausted all necessary avenues to call the students to order and allow normalcy to return to the Campus and its environs, the authorities of  Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, have accordingly closed down  the School until further notice. This is to forestall further breakdown of law and order.


“In view of this, all students are hereby directed to vacate their halls of residence and the Campus latest by 12:00 noon on Saturday, 2nd October, 2021.
“Consequently, the swearing-in of the newly elected Students’ Union officials has been put on hold, pending a review of the situation.


“In the meantime, the University management has put in place the machinery to unravel the circumstances surrounding the immediate and remote cause(s) of the crisis.”