The management of Obafemi Awolowo University,OAU,Ile -Ife has asked students of the institution to proceed on a two week mid simester break.
The development is coming after series of protests by some Indigenes of Ile-Ife over the emergence of Professor Adebayo Bamire as the Vice Chancellor of the Institution.
Protesters had besieged the institution carrying charms and fetish objects to register their grievance over the new VC.
As a result, students were prevented from entering the Campus.
But the action attracted widespread criticism and condemnation by people from various walks of life including the Ooni Of Ile – Ife, Oba Enitan ogunwusi and Nobel Laureate,Professor Wole Soyinka.
Radio Nigeria gathered that the decision for students to go on break was reached at a management meeting of the School held on Saturday.
A statement by the registrar, Mrs.M.I Omosule indicates that the break would take effect from Monday,28th March,2022.
It would be recalled that the Academic Staff Union Of Universities,ASUU had been on strike since February 14,2022.
After a month,it extended the strike for another two months for government to yield to it’s age long demands.
Leadership of ASUU in OAU had equally declared an indefinite strike over unpaid academic earned allowance but members of a parallel academic union on the campus,the Congress of University Academics,CONUA had refused to join the industrial action and and had been teaching the students.
Sola Agboola
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