OAU resumes Nov 5

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has announced resumption details for students to complete the disrupted 2019/20 second semester examination.

A statement issued on Friday and signed by the university’s public relations officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, disclosed that students are to resume to their various halls of residence on November 5, while their aborted examinations will continue on Saturday, November 6, “in tandem with what was previously on ground.”

Mr Olarewaju noted that the decision was made at an emergency meeting of the Senate held on Friday.

The university was shut down on October 2 following a protest by the students over the death of a final year student of foreign languages department, Aisha Adesina.

The statement reads in part: “Parents and guardians are hereby advised to inform their children and wards, particularly those who have already finished their examinations to stay at home so that none of them would use the excuse of the reopening of the University to do something untoward,” the statement said.

It added that the vice chancellor of the university, Eyitope Ogunbodede, charged the students to be law abiding and not to engage in anything that could further elongate the session.