UI Students Protest Death Of Student Who Died After Health Centre Rejected Him

The students of the University of Ibadan this morning moved out in

their hundreds ignoring lectures to protest the death of a student,

Mayowa Alaran, a 200L student of Human Kinetics who suddenly

slumped due to an asthma attack while watching a football match at

his hostel hall yesterday night. Mayowa was rushed to one of the

school clinics by his friends, but the nurses told them they will not

attend to him except they present his clinic card. Mayowa later died

some minutes after when he got no medical treatment.

The aggrieved students who protested his death, blocked the Mokola-

Oojo road, which made a lot of motorists turn back. Some of them

were heard saying the school’s health officials killed the boy.