Breaking news!!
Pandemonium broke out among the
maintenance staff of the Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun
State, when fire broke out in Room
304, Block A, Moremi Hall of the
university on Wednesday morning.
The raging inferno consumed books,
clothes, matresses, food stuff and
electronic gadgets before it was put
out by the institution’s fire fighters,
thereby curbing it from spreading to
other rooms in the block. The fire,
which occurred at about 11am in the
female hostel, according to sources, is
the second in the university this year.
It will be recalled that similar
incidents occurred at the Awo Hall of
the institution while the students were
on holiday early this year. Yesterday’s
incident occurred when most of the
occupants of Moremi Hall had gone
home for the harmattan semester
holiday. The cause of the fire
outbreak could not be ascertained,
but an eye witnesses disclosed that it
could be due to a power surge that
might have occurred immediately the
school’s electricians rectified the fault
that had affected supply of electricity
to the hall. Normalcy has since
returned to the hall at the time of filing this story.