By Our Special Correspondent
The management of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, has refuted reports that two female students died as a result of a fire incident at a female hostel, which occurred at it’s Main Campus on Monday.
The hostel was gutted by fire in the early hours of Monday, resulting in the destruction of properties, credentials, cash and other valuables of about 68 female students.
The vice chancellor of the university, Professor Lawal Bilbis who spoke through the Dean of Students Affairs, Professor Aminu Mode, confirmed that no life was lost and only three students were injured.
According to him, two of the injured students had since been treated and discharged from the University’s Clinic, while the third one was referred to the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, where she was responding to treatment.
Bilbis said that fire was suspected to have been ignited by gas cylinder from one of the rooms at the hostel, adding that several cylinders, electric cookers and water heaters had been seized from students to avoid such incidences.
He said that the affected students were relocated to new hostel and given new mattresses and pillows.
“We will try our best to assist them in terms of their lost credentials, as well as render immediate assistance to them for their subsistence,” Bilbis added.
Meanwhile, the school management has set up a seven-man committee, to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the inferno, as well as advise on the possible long term assistance to be offered to the affected students.
