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The absorption of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has condemned, successful beardown terms, the attacks connected students of the instauration by immoderate hoodlums, who not lone robbed them of their valuables but besides inflicted injuries connected them.
A connection by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, said the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Simeon Bamire, called connected each information operatives, peculiarly the Nigerian Police and the Directorate of State Service (DSS) to further intensify their operational patrols astir the students’ areas.
Speaking connected the heels of the onslaught by equipped men connected Monday, October 20, 2025, astatine a students’ hostel identified arsenic Oreoluwa Hostel successful Moremi Estate wrong Ile-Ife metropolis, Olarewaju stated that the punctual actions of the University students’ national officials, who conveyed the injured students to the University Heath and Medical Centre, were applauded by the University administration.
According to the University Spokesman: “at the Health Centre, 3 (3) of the students who sustained heavy machete cuts to the caput and some hands, were identified and promptly treated are: Ogedengbe Emmanuel Oluwafemi, a portion 4 pupil of the Department of Management and Accounting (Matric. No:MAC/2021/235); Emmanuel Akinribiye, besides a portion 4 pupil of the Department of Management and Accounting (Matric. No: MAC/2021/110) and Olalekan David Okemiga, a last twelvemonth pupil of the Department of Mathematics (Matric. No: MTH/2019/027) who was besides beaten with a machete but miraculously did not prolong immoderate cuts.”
While condemning the attacks which occurred betwixt the hours of 2235 and 2330, the Vice Chancellor of the University appreciated the punctual effect of the officers and men of the Nigerian Police, A Division, Ile-Ife, and Oke-Otubu Division, Modakeke
Professor Bamire past called connected each lovers of acquisition to physique much hostels wrong the University field truthful that much students tin beryllium accommodated, protected and monitored by the University management.
The Vice Chancellor wished the victims quick recovery.
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