Authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) have closed
down the school, following students’ protest.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, said the closure
was as a result of protest by students and to prevent a breakdown of law and
order.
Undergraduates were ordered to vacate campus latest by 6pm
yesterday.
The institution had fixed the first semester examination for
June, but it will now begin on July 17.
The vice chancellor said postgraduate students can continue
with their lectures.
The protesters blocked the Mokola-UI-Ojoo Highway, causing a
gridlock.
This followed students’ resolutions at a congress last
weekend that the management be given two days to constitute a students’ welfare
board and set up a fact-finding committee to look into the issue of hot-plates
in halls of residence.
The students said there would be no examinations if the
university failed to issue them ID cards, which were paid for last session and
this session at the rate of N650 and N1,300.
The university management said in a statement that efforts
are on to ensure identity cards are produced and distributed, starting from the
middle of next month.
It issued a circular, informing deans of faculties that
students’ registration forms and other valid university instruments would be
considered as sufficient for admission into examination halls in the coming
examination.
THE NATION
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