The University of Port Harcourt has banned, what it described as pleasure swimming, in its Olympic-size swimming pool, following the death of a student of the Rivers State University in the pool on Sunday.
Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Owunari Abraham Georgewill, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
He said the move became necessary to forestall future occurrence.
His statement reads,
“We wish to inform all staff and students that the University of Port Harcourt swimming pool is an Olympic size swimming pool and henceforth we are placing a ban on pleasure swimming in the pool.”
“Kindly bear with us as this is done to forestall further unfortunate incidents as it happened yesterday Sunday 12th September 2021. We lost a student of Rivers State University who came to swim for leisure with his three friends.”
