Causes and Effect of Deterioration in Students’ Hall of Resident in Nigeria Tertiary Institution

Abstract

-Students' housing still remains the major area of concern with increasing in students' population as a result of increasing enrolment into tertiary institution of learning over the years. One of these problem include inadequate infrastructure facilities due to overcrowding, which has indeed met with renewed interest in sourcing and researching the best practicable approach towards providing efficient and supporting academic driven environment. The study aim at examining the causes and effect of deterioration in the students' hall of resident in ObafemiAwolowoUniversity,Ile-Ife, Osun-State, Nigeria, 270 questionnaires were administered in all the nine hall of resident namely Fajuyi hall, Awolowo hall, Angola hall, E.T.F. hall, Post Graduate hall, Sport hall, Alumni hall, Mozambique hall and Moremi hall. Data collected were presented through the use of tables, graphs, photographs and regression analysis. The study revealed that there is a level of dissatisfaction with the poor state and condition of available students' housing facilities, the inadequacy of the existing facilities which has created high level of illegal squatter and occupancy ratio has invariably led to over utilization of the available resources putting the facilities in more deteriorating conditions.