Armed robbery: OAU condemns attacks on her students

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has condemned, in strong terms, the unnecessary attacks on her students by some hoodlums who not only rob them of their valuables but also inflict injuries on them.

The Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, made this known in a statement he issued on Tuesday.

Speaking on the heels of an attack by some armed men on Monday, 20th October, 2025, at a students’ hostel identified as Oreoluwa Hostel in Moremi Estate within Ile -Ife metropolis, Olarewaju stated that the prompt actions of the University students’ union 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, three (3) of the students who sustained deep machete cuts to the head and both hands, were identified and promptly treated are: Ogedengbe Emmanuel Oluwafemi, a part four student of the Department of Management and Accounting (Matric. No:MAC/2021/235);
Emmanuel Akinribiye, also a part four student of the Department of Management and Accounting (Matric. No: MAC/2021/110) and Olalekan David Okemiga, a final year student of the Department of Mathematics (Matric. No: MTH/2019/027) who was also beaten with a machete but miraculously did not sustain any cuts.”

While condemning the attacks which occurred between the hours of 2235 hours and 2330 hours, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, who appreciated the prompt response of the officers and men of the Nigerian Police, A Division, Ile -Ife, and Oke – Otubu Division, Modakeke, also called on all security operatives, particularly the Nigerian Police and the Directorate of State Service (DSS) to further intensify their operational patrol around the students areas so that ” our students will not be living in fear while going for, and coming from lectures”.

Professor Bamire then called on all lovers of education to build more hostels within the University campus so that more students can be accommodated, protected and monitored by the University management.

The Vice Chancellor wished the students quick recovery and thanked God for sparing the lives of the victims.