IFETEDO, OSUN– Wild undergraduate demonstrations have actually rocked the Ifetedo School of Osun State University (UNIOSUN) following the tragic death of a final-year trainee, Grace Osunlakin.
Requiring a total overhaul of the campus health matrix, the angry student body alleged that institutional neglect and a closed night center directly added to the undergraduate’s death, a claims the university management has actually strongly denied.
The deceased, a final-year scholar in the Department of Criminology and Security Studies, died late Wednesday night, triggering hundreds of mourning schoolmates to block institutional roads on Thursday early morning.
Conflict Emerges Over Alleged Center Closure
According to testaments from protesting student leaders, Osunlakin, who was historically asthmatic, established acute breathing distress throughout daytime hours and managed to visit the university’s school health centre for scientific intervention.
The trainees declared that instead of putting her under observation, center workers supposedly dismissed her, recommending her to return to her off-campus hostel to rest.
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The trainee collective mentioned that her medical condition weakened drastically later that evening.
When her roommates hurried back to the school center looking for emergency situation oxygen stabilisation, they allegedly discovered the university health centre totally locked and without graveyard shift workers.
“The clinic informed her to return and rest when she first grumbled,” an undergraduate protester claimed. “Later on, when her asthma degenerated into a full crisis, we ran back to the school center however discovered it locked.
We ultimately rushed to carry her to an external community medical facility on a motorbike, but it was currently far too late.”
Management Points to Off-Campus Routine Traffic Delays
Reaffirming its commitment to trainee well-being, the university management promptly turned down the accusations of scientific carelessness, describing the protesters’ narrative as heavily prejudiced and deceptive.
In a main business declaration provided by the university’s spokesperson, Mr Adesoji Ademola, the institution verified that while Osunlakin had a recorded history of asthma from her very first year, center logs showed she was last medically managed at the university center on March 26, 2026.
Citing internal investigative briefs put together from the victim’s close housemate, Miss Durosinmi Mariam, the university reported that Osunlakin really returned from a night Christian fellowship in the area before suffering intense, unexpected stomach pains rather than a respiratory asthma attack.
The declaration kept in mind that the victim went to the toilet, where she wept out in deep distress before being assisted back to her room.
The management discussed that when the students arranged an evacuation at about 11:30 p.m., emergency situation transport logistics were maimed by an unannounced traditional Oro routine curfew taking place across the Ifetedo neighborhood.
In spite of the high-risk cultural blockade, the undergraduates handled to convey Osunlakin through motorbike to the Neighborhood Health Centre in Ikija, Ifetedo, where she was noticable dead on arrival.
The university administration has appealed for calm, guaranteeing the trainee union that an external autopsy and full administrative panel inquiry have been released to discover the precise medical timeline.