The management of the University of
Ibadan on Monday shut the institution and directed the students to vacate the
campus on or before 6:00 p.m.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the students had earlier taken to the streets of Ibadan in
protest, alleging insensitivity on the part of the university management.
But the university’s Director of
Communications and Publication, Olatunji Oladejo, told NAN that the closure
became necessary in other to avert crisis.
He said that the Vice Chancellor, Prof
Idowu Olayinka, had convened an emergency meeting of the university Senate to
review the circumstances surrounding the development.
The University of Ibadan in its
wisdom has decided to shift the examination earlier scheduled for June to July,
2017,” Oladejo said.
He said that undergraduate students are
to resume back in school on July 17, while the post graduate students would
continue to stay on campus for their research activities.
The students at a congress on Saturday
passed a resolution to disrupt the forthcoming examinations if students were
not provided with identity cards.
They also asked the authorities
constitute the students’ welfare board as well as allow use of cooking
appliances that had been banned in the halls of residence.
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