• ASUU suspends lectures Femi Makinde and Olaleye Aluko The Osun State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has directed its members at the varsity’s College of Education in Ipetu Ijesa to suspend teaching due to the brutalisation of lecturers and students on the campus. This is just as PUNCH Metro gathered that the air force men launched a fresh attack on private hostels occupied by UNIOSUN’s students late on Tuesday. The Chairman of UNIOSUN ASUU, Dr Seye Abiona, told our correspondent on the telephone in Osogbo on Wednesday that the move was necessary in order to protect the lecturers. Abiona, who condemned the attack, said the union might take a legal action against the Nigerian Air Force for the attack, saying either the college or the air force base might need to be relocated in the interest of peace. He said, “We have asked lecturers at the Ipetu Ijesa campus to suspend teaching until those who brutalised our members are flushed out and punished according to the law. The university has given the students a week break and we have directed all lecturers to suspend any activity at the campus. “I don’t know why the air force institute is located directly opposite the university. But may be the institute will be relocated to another place. I think that should be done to guarantee peace.” PUNCH Metro learnt that the rampaging air men continued the brutalisation of students of the university after the first two attacks carried out on the campus. Our correspondent gathered that the military men later stormed the private hostels where UNIOSUN students lived off the campus, beat them up and injured a large number of them. A student told our correspondent on the telephone that a 400-level student of the university, Francis Olanubi, was hacked with machete by the irate military men The Dean, Student Affairs, UNIOSUN, Dr Adebimpe Adigun, confirmed the fresh attack to our correspondent on Wednesday. She said, “They called me again that the air for
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