Kunle Adebajo, a 500 level student of the faculty of law, has been suspended by the management of the University of Ibadan for two semesters over article on poor hostel facilities.
Mr Adebajo, a student journalist, wrote under the title “UI: The irony of fashionable rooftops and awful interiors”, in The Guardian of April 2016 about poor facilities at the university.
He drew attention to the deplorable state of the facilities at the Nigerian premier university.
Piqued by the article, the university, two days after the publication, asked Mr Adebajo to face a disciplinary committee,
In the following months, the student continued to face disciplinary charges which he defended before he was eventually told he had been rusticated for two semesters at the end of May.
But it was on Friday that the rustication of Mr Adebajo became public, with his colleagues within and outside UI accusing the university authorities of being anti-free speech and oppressive.
“It is true, I was rusticated by University of Ibadan UI) for an article written in 2016,” said Mr Adebajo on Facebook. “The verdict was made three weeks ago.”
Mr Adebajo, now suspended, is a student of the Faculty of Law where he was rounding off his degree as a 500-level student.
When PREMIUM TIMES contacted the Vice Chancellor UI, Idowu Olayinka, he described the suspension as an internal matter.
