By DAUD OLATUNJI
ABEOKUTA- A load of 18-seater bus carrying students of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State on Tuesday somersaulted several times on Kobape road, along Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway in Obafemi Owode local Governmentarea of Ogun state, leaving three of them critically injured while others sustained various degree of injuries.
Also almost at the same time, Tragedy struck at the Aripako compound Oke-Sokori,in Abeokuta as one of the sons of the family, Nureni Makinde 30, was killed by a petrol tanker.
Vanguard gathered that, the students were on their way to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in continuation of their peaceful protest against the recent scrapping of their university by the state government when the front tyre of one of their buses suddenly burst and veered off the road thereby somersaulting severally.
According to eye witness, all the students were rushed to Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta where three of them were said to have sustained serious injuries.
When Vanguard got to the hospital, there was anxiety over the condition of some students who were identified as Olayemi Alaka, 300 level student of Mass Communication, Oyewole Moshood, 400 level Telecommunication,while the condition of one Fashina Olatunji (Humble TJ), 400 level, Health Education, was said to be a state of coma.
Speaking with newsmen at the FMC, Idi Aba, President of the Students’ Union, Oyekanmi Abdullahi, said the students were on their way to meet and plead with the state governor, Commissioner for Education as well as the Chief Judge of the state to rescind the decision that scrapped their university.
He however stated that the students were resolute in their demand to force the state government to reverse its decision on the planned conversion of TASUED to an institution under the Faculty of Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye.
Meanwhile, a 30 year old man and father of three, Nureni Makinde has been killed in his family compound by a petrol tanker.
According to an eye witness, the accident occurred at about 10:15am Tueday, when the petrol tanker took a one-way lane due to the on-going road re-construction project at Ibara/ Ita Eko/ Totoro road
and crushed Nureni, who was crossing the road.
ABEOKUTA- A load of 18-seater bus carrying students of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State on Tuesday somersaulted several times on Kobape road, along Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway in Obafemi Owode local Governmentarea of Ogun state, leaving three of them critically injured while others sustained various degree of injuries.
Also almost at the same time, Tragedy struck at the Aripako compound Oke-Sokori,in Abeokuta as one of the sons of the family, Nureni Makinde 30, was killed by a petrol tanker.
Vanguard gathered that, the students were on their way to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in continuation of their peaceful protest against the recent scrapping of their university by the state government when the front tyre of one of their buses suddenly burst and veered off the road thereby somersaulting severally.
According to eye witness, all the students were rushed to Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta where three of them were said to have sustained serious injuries.
When Vanguard got to the hospital, there was anxiety over the condition of some students who were identified as Olayemi Alaka, 300 level student of Mass Communication, Oyewole Moshood, 400 level Telecommunication,while the condition of one Fashina Olatunji (Humble TJ), 400 level, Health Education, was said to be a state of coma.
Speaking with newsmen at the FMC, Idi Aba, President of the Students’ Union, Oyekanmi Abdullahi, said the students were on their way to meet and plead with the state governor, Commissioner for Education as well as the Chief Judge of the state to rescind the decision that scrapped their university.
He however stated that the students were resolute in their demand to force the state government to reverse its decision on the planned conversion of TASUED to an institution under the Faculty of Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye.
Meanwhile, a 30 year old man and father of three, Nureni Makinde has been killed in his family compound by a petrol tanker.
According to an eye witness, the accident occurred at about 10:15am Tueday, when the petrol tanker took a one-way lane due to the on-going road re-construction project at Ibara/ Ita Eko/ Totoro road
and crushed Nureni, who was crossing the road.
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