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<\/p>\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two-day downpour which resulted in the flooding damaged students\u2019 belongings such as books, foodstuff, school documents, electronics, laptops, generators, gas cylinders and other valuables.<\/p>\n
\u200eThe flood affected the students\u2019 hostels due to the poor drainage system around the property being occupied by the students.<\/p>\n
The Dean of Students Affairs at the institution, Prof. Wole Adebayo, while reacting to the incident sympathised with the victims and assured them that a lasting solution would be provided to avert a recurrence of such flooding in the area.<\/p>\n
The Special Adviser to Gov. Kayode Fayemi on Youth and Students Matters, Mr Moses Ademiloye, also expressed concern \u200eover the damage done to the students\u2019 properties by the flood.<\/p>\n
He assured the students that he would report their grievances to the governor for assistance.<\/p>\n
\u200eThe President of Federation of Ekiti State Students Union, Ekiti State University chapter, Mr Temitayo Alegbeleye, said that over 20 hostels were affected by the flood.<\/p>\n
Alegbeleye called on the governor to promptly assist the students affected by the flooding.<\/p>\n
The student leader urged landlords and caretakers of the hostels to find a lasting solution to the perennial flooding in the area to protect lives and properties.<\/p>\n
Miss Felicia Ajayi, one of the affected students who spoke on behalf of other victims, said that she had lost all her belongings to the flood.<\/p>\n
She lamented that all their vital school documents and personal effects were destroyed by the flood.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that the private hostels located outside the university campus were all affected by the flood.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No fewer than 100 students of the Ekiti State University in Ado-Ekiti have lost properties worth millions of naira to flooding following a downpour between Sunday and Monday which resulted in heavy flooding. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two-day downpour which resulted in the flooding damaged students\u2019 belongings such as books, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[12472,1770],"class_list":["post-149030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-ekiti-state-university","tag-flooding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}