A yet-to-be-ascertained number of students have been injured in the collapse of the ceiling of Amphitheatre of the Oduduwa Hall at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

It was gathered that the incident occurred following a downpour in the early hours of Thursday, May 16, 2024.

Confirming the incident, the university, in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Abiodun Olarewaju, said the students were having a lecture in the Amphitheatre when the ceiling collapsed.

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.

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“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 OAU spokesman stated that the Vice-Chancellor also followed two other students, whose cases demanded more medical attention to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), where the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof. John Okeniyi, supervised the proceedings.

He quoted Bamire as appealing for calm and urging students and staff to go about their academic and administrative activities without any form of untoward action.

Olarewaju added that the OAU management has sealed off the Amphitheatre until further notice.

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