OAU Kilonshele News Outfit

Agbele Oluwatofolafun For months now, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has grappled with overcrowding as its record student intake, reportedly nearing 12,000 new admits, pushes lecture halls, hostels and testing facilities to breaking point. While expanded access brings more students to campus, many say the growing population is eroding learning conditions and welfare. Lecture venues across faculties overflow daily, forcing students to stand by windows, sit on floors, or listen from outside. Classes often get postponed, merged, or shifted to inadequate spaces when halls fill up. Ola, a Part 3 Mass Communication student, described the chaos in Agric LT, their main venue. "There are over two hundred students in our programme. People squeeze themselves beside others, they sit on the staircase, and even at that you'll still see some people standing. But na because say we no get choice sha. Other lecture halls are either being used or maybe they are even small...

Benjamin Oluwakasayo Emmanuel For many Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) students, juggling classes, projects, tests, and personal life demands creative strategies. While some thrive through strict routines and priorities, others admit the balance comes at a steep cost or feels outright impossible. Inioluwa, a Part 3 Broadcast Journalism student, described effective time management at OAU as not an easy task, especially with heavy workloads. "Being a Part 3 Communication and Language Arts student who has a lot of class projects, assignments, tests and yet still needs to attend classes, it has not been easy," she said. Her solution: building a personal structure. She attends classes diligently, completes campus tasks on time, and reserves home time for personal activities. "To manage time from my own perspective is to study and know oneself and also build structure according to priority," Inioluwa explained. Jeremiah, another student, insisted effective ti...

Adebimpe Oluwatofunmi For the past few weeks, there has been a scarcity of buses on the town-gboro and campus routes at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), where students have had to queue long distances before entering a bus. The chairman of the Transport Management Commission, Adebisi Adeyinka Samuel, has attributed the crisis to a sharp rise in student population that has stretched the campus bus service beyond its capacity. Mr Samuel, a student of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences who is popularly known on campus as Icon, said the situation should not be described simply as bus scarcity but as a crisis caused by sudden overpopulation and poor dispersion of lecture times. “I don't want us to take it as bus scarcity. Being for the fact I think what the major problem is over population,” he said. He explained that in recent years, OAU typically admitted between 3,000 and 5,000 students per session, but this academic year the figure reportedly rose to between 10,00...