The management of University of Ibadan (UI) has announced the immediate shut down of the institution following students’ protest today.
Students of the institution earlier today blocked the major highway on Mokola-UI-Ojoo while protesting ?the school management’s failure to issue ID cards which they paid for last session and this session at the rate of 650 and 1,300 respectively.
The aggrieved students gave the management two days ultimatum to constitute Students Welfare Board and set up fact finding committee to look into the issue of Hot-plates in halls of residences on Saturday.
In his reaction, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, stated that the closure of the school was to forestall breakdown of law and order on campus.
He ordered all undergraduates to vacate the campus latest by 6pm today. The VC however said that postgraduate students can continue with their lectures.
Olayinka informed students that efforts are currently being made to ensure that identity cards are produced and distributed starting from the middle of June.
He also said the Management has also issued a circular informing Deans of Faculties that students’ registration forms and any other valid University instrument be considered as sufficient for admittance into examination halls in the forthcoming first semester examinations.
The Institution had earlier fixed first Semester examination for June but the examination will now commence on July 17th.
