“Squatting” is no stranger to the majority of Great Ife students. Though it has different definitions according to individual perspectives, it could be simply explained as “an act of illegally occupying a building, space or land”. In the OAU context, the squatting picture can be painted as a situation where there are other students apart from the legally allocated occupants inhabiting a particular room. These extra students are called “squatters”. Squatting as an act has always been in constant condemnation by the University’s management as strictly illegal and hence not allowed.
The newly admitted freshmen has found themselves in a rather unusual situation of exceeding the usual quota admitted every year. Statistics has it that over 7,000 freshmen (against the usual of about 5,000) were admitted for the current academic session. The unusual increase in population sure comes with different challenges for the management, one of which is majorly fixing the 2,000 (extra) fresh stude…
The newly admitted freshmen has found themselves in a rather unusual situation of exceeding the usual quota admitted every year. Statistics has it that over 7,000 freshmen (against the usual of about 5,000) were admitted for the current academic session. The unusual increase in population sure comes with different challenges for the management, one of which is majorly fixing the 2,000 (extra) fresh stude…