Windy rain has wreaked havoc at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), destroying property worth millions.
The Informant247 gathered that the rain with its strong wind occurred at the weekend in the institution, saying some of the facilities affected are the mast of the Network Operating Centre (NOC) housing several internet radios, the Chemical Engineering lecture theatre, the Life Sciences lecture hall, the Department of Biochemical Engineering, the Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres, where about 40 computers were affected, the Geology and Mineral Resources Department, electric poles, and the General Studies Division (GNS) Unit.
Others are the Animal Houses for the Central Research Laboratories, the Secretariat of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Secretariat of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the UNILORIN Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Building, the Admission Office, Security Unit, new Anatomy Building (College of Medicine), Directorate of Legal Services Unit, UNILORIN Stadium, Education Technology Workshop, as well as the Department of Adult and Primary Education.
The windy rain also destroyed the University Health Services, the Faculty of Law, the old University Library, the Language Laboratory (Faculty of Arts), the Counseling and Human Development Centre, and the Student Affairs Unit.
Prof Wahab Egbewole (SAN), the vice chancellor, University of Ilorin while speaking on the development, expressed mixed feelings over the havoc wreaked on the campus of the university by the windy rainfall.
Egbewole, who led other principal officers on a campus-wide tour to assess the level of damage done by the rain said he was glad that it occurred when students were on a break following the directive of the Federal Government to shut all universities for the period of the 2023 General Elections, adding that if not for the break, no one could predict the extent and consequences of the havoc.