The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has shut the school’s amphitheatre following a Thursday morning rainstorm that caused its roof to collapse during a class session.
Four students of the varsity were injured after the roof collapsed.
The school’s management led by the vice chancellor Professor Adebayo Bamire visited the injured students at the school clinic.
OAU spokesperson Abiodun Olarewaju, in a statement, urged the university community “to go about their academic and administrative activities without any form of untoward action.”
The statement read in part, “The torrential rainfall of early Thursday morning, accompanied by a whirlwind, which started as students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, were having a lecture, SER to be precise, in the amphitheatre of the Oduduwa Hall, affected the ceiling of the amphitheatre as it fell off and injured a few of the students.
“The Vice-Chancellor led other principal officers to the Medical and Health Centre of the university and ensured that the injured students were given adequate medical attention.
“The Vice-Chancellor also followed two other students, whose cases demanded more medical attention, to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, where the Chief Medical Director, Prof John Okeniyi, physically supervised the proceedings.”
