The Federal University of Oye (FUOYE), Ekiti State, declared Saturday as a lecture-free day following the death of a student.
The school management declared the lecture-free day to honour a student of the institution, Taiwo Gbolahan, who was hit by a truck along the Ikole-Oye highway.
Gbolahan was reportedly on his way to submit an assignment at the Oye Campus from the Ikole Campus of the institution.
Gbolahan was a 100-level student of the Department of Quantity Survey.
Woke Balogun, the Special Adviser on Media Matters to the Vice-Chancellor, Abayomi Sunday Fasina, a professor, stated the incident Saturday morning.
The statement expressed the Vice Chancellor’s condolences to the family of the deceased.
The university also explained that it responded immediately by taking the deceased to the hospital and footing his bill.
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“Immediately the news got to the university management that the accident occurred, we sent an ambulance and logistics to admit the deceased at Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti.
“His parents were informed, and his daddy was at the hospital. The university shouldered the hospital bill, and treatment for him began earnestly; it was when he was in the theatre that the unfortunate happened.
“The Vice-Chancellor and the entire university send their condolences for this unfortunate loss.
“Consequently, I wish to declare that Saturday, December 17, is hereby declared a lecture free-day as a mark of respect for the lost soul.”
The Vice-Chancellor appealed to the students to remain peaceful and not choose to take laws into their own hands.