Tension heightened on Friday afternoon
at the University of Ibadan following the circulation of a letter
purportedly written to all staff by a Boko Haram group threatening to
wreak monumental havoc through ceaseless bombings of the institution,
beginning from this Saturday.
The university’s sin is that it is first in the country that brought in and entrenched western education.
Reports say both teaching and
non-teaching staff were in panic at the moment as others were discussing
the message which is now widely circulated within the university
community.
No official reaction has been made to the mail.
It was gathered that while some
lecturers got the mail through their institutional e-mail addresses,
others were copied through social platforms such as WhatsApp to share
the letter.
In the alleged mail, the group
“al-wilayat al-Islamiyya Gharb Afriqiyyah” described University of
Ibadan as an embarrassment to Nigeria for bringing western education.
Security has been strengthened at the
university gates with scanning and ‘stop and search’ being carried out,
leading to many resuming work very late as they spent nothing less than
an hour at the gate while traffic snarl was witnessed owing to the
security threat.
While saying that UI doomed the nation ,
the purported letter threatened to begin detonation on the campus,
adding that most staff and students are going to die before independence
day.
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