Several students at Obafemi Awolowo University were injured when heavy rainfall, accompanied by strong winds, tore off the ceiling of Oduduwa Hall during a lecture on Thursday morning.
Disclosing this in a statement, the university’s spokesman, Abiodun Olarewaju, said, “The torrential rainfall of early Thursday morning, accompanied with 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 statement added, “The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, 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 statement noted that the vice-chancellor followed two other students, whose cases demanded more medical attention to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), where the chief medical director, John Okeniyi, “physically supervised the proceedings.”
The vice-chancellor appealed for calm and urged students and staff to continue their academic and administrative activities.
He added that the university management had sealed off the amphitheatre, the venue of the unfortunate incident, until further notice.
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