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Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:29pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva:I disagree with you on OAU losing steam after July 10 1999. After the attack students put more effort at dealing with cultists. 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by dedons: 1:30pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Ok |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:30pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Tobtex: things but there must be a reason behind this..what happened exactly |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Neduzze5(m): 1:31pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Obafemi Awolowo University massacre The Obafemi Awolowo University massacre was a series of shootings and murders which took place against students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife , Osun State, Nigeria on Saturday, July 10, 1999. It resulted in the deaths of eight people and injuring of 11, all of them students at OAU. It was perpetrated by an organized death squad of 40 members of the Confraternity branch at the university. They invaded the Awolowo Hall of the university at around 4:30 A.M., clad in black trousers and black T- shirts, their faces hidden by masks; they carried and made use of shotguns and hatchets against students. [1] List of victims Died George Akinyemi Iwilade,AFRIKA (secretary- general of the students' union and founder of the AFRIKA FORWARD MOVEMENT, AFORM; shot in the head on his bed, then smashed on the head by an axe wielded by one of the members) Tunde Oke (a 21-year old student activist and member of Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM, the Nigerian section of CWI). Eviano Ekelemu Efe Godspower Ekpede Yemi Ajiteru Injured several people were injured directly and indirectly from the ensuing confusion and stampede. ↑Jump back a section The response At around 4 p.m., Lanre Adeleke, the president of the students' union, called an assembly of the students' union members in Oduduwa Hall; he then demanded for Vice-Chancellor Wole Omole's resignation due to Omole's past impeding of the union's anti-cult activities. A N10,000 reward was placed by the union for Omole's capture, resulting in a student takeover of the entire campus and the kidnapping and ransoming of Omole's wife, who was on her way to church on the following Sunday, July 11th. [1] Students also erected roadblocks at the university entrances, impounded vehicles and launched vigilante searches to flush out the killers. After raiding a local police station to regain a suspect that they had turned over to the police after fears of police leniency surfaced, a suspect named Frank Idahosa Efosa admitted that he had overheard Omole being referred to as the "patron" of the Black Axes and also overheard that Omole had offered a large bounty for the deaths of the student union leaders. [1] By July 14th, the Nigerian Universities Commission , headed by education minister Tunde Adeniran, recalled Omole from his position of Vice-Chancellor, and a multi- million naira investigation to uproot the confraternities was launched through the Nigerian university system; the Olusegun Obasanjo government, on the 15th, ordered police to patrol the university campuses. The day before the funeral, Adeniran addressed a student union rally on the matter of the reinstatement of expelled students. Also, over N45,000 was raised by the student union, 30,000 of which went to the organization of the funeral. Funeral four of the "July 10th martyrs" were buried on July 20th, 1999, at university cemetery. Around 20,000 people attended the funeral, including students from various institutions, workers, lecturers, parents, market women, and journalists from throughout Nigeria. A local woman donated the five coffins for the dead. The people that turned out thereafter proceeded in a long convoy of buses and cars to Iwo, the hometown town of George Akinyemi Iwilade(AFRIKA), late secretary general of the student union and founder of the Afrika Forward Movement (AFORM), a socio-political organization promoting African culture and values.Afrika was laid to rest on the family,s land in an emotional and befitting atmosphere. July 10th every year is marked by AFORM and the students of OAU in remembrance of these martyrs. Two other injured victims later died in hospital, and their funerals were held separately. SOURCE http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Awolowo_University_massacre 6 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:31pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva:Ife (OAU) realy lost steam! when OAU sneezes den, others including FG catches cold! 3 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Afam4eva(m): 1:33pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Ola Johnson: cogitoErgo: Maybe i used the wrong word. But after that incident, a lot of applicants became wary of OAU. That event coupled with the incessant strikes that OAU experience made the school's popularity to wane. You can't compare OAU of today to OAU of yesteryears. 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Demdem(m): 1:34pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Jarus: I gained admission into Ife 2001, two years after. If ur sister stayed in Moz that year, I surely must have come across her. 1 Like |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Jarus(m): 1:34pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Ola Johnson: Yeah Maximum Shi Shi. We enjoyed a cult-free campus. Woe betide you if you were caught having teh slightest trace of cultism. 3 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by fittty(m): 1:34pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
colombiana: Ahhhh I remember that bloody day it was badoo omo mushin that saved me, u nid to see him dodgin the bullets and giving the cultists flying kick I cud haff die yhoooo Interesting! 3 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by wellmax(m): 1:35pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Hmmm, Great Ife memories... |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Jarus(m): 1:35pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Demdem:She was in Moz, but was Hijabian sister, a mosque-goer. In fact they were in Awo mosque when that incident happened. Remember Awo Mosque is beside the Awo cafe, venue of kegite induction. 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by samwizzye(m): 1:37pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
In ssce den....just passin by, rip 2 dose gr8 hero 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Jarus(m): 1:39pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva: I agree Ife is losing steam, but it's not primarily because of that incident. ASUU strike/student unrest also contributed. Plus exit of world class teachers it used to parade in the 80's to early 90's. That said, it takes greatness for OAU to still attract the volume of applicants it receives on annual basis despite all those setbacks. I chose Ife in my UME just a year after that incident. To me - and many people - it was either Ife or no other varsity in NIgeria. We were undeterred by all those. 5 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by jerikoyan(m): 1:39pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
RIP to the gallant Heroes. Of The Greatest IFE |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Barrywilly(m): 1:39pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
It was a terrible day. I lost my friend and colleague, George Iwilade aka Africa, because of his bushy hair and refusal to wear black and white as we were forced to wear as law students. He was in 300 level then. Machete was not used on him, but his head was shattered bc of the close range shot. He was killed in Awo hall short after he retired to bed around 2:30am during a world keggites gyration nite. He was eloquent and SUG Sec Gen and heir apparent to Lanre Legacy. Others killed include Efe 200 level psychology, Ajitoni xtra year student. Eviano was killed in Faj Hall for no just reason other than running accidentally into the cultists on the staircase. May their souls rest in peace. Please note, no one was convicted for their murders. But at least two cultists were killed by the students in a retaliatory attacks. 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by bellong: 1:40pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
sanniemoe: Abeg,broses I was quite young then. What happened? From my own knowledge of cultism,I know cult group fight rival groups only,so what could have led to the shooting spree? Why were these guys killed? For someone to be shot and axed,that means the person was a rival.. Can someone please shed more light here OAU had and probably still have an aggressive and zero tolerance stand against cultism. Because of this, cultists from other institutions came with the sole purpose of eliminating the students' union executives who were known to be in forefront against cultism. That is the reason for the attack, none of those killed was a cultist. They came for the executives but only got one of them killed while the other four students were collateral damage 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Jarus(m): 1:41pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
cogitoErgo: The radical tradition reached is peak in early 90's, but the Ife we attended in early to 2000's stil had a trace of 'cold-inducing sneeze'. |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:41pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva:Incessant strikes have never wane applicant choosing the school in JAMB. FYI, three months after its strike in 2007, WEBOMETRIC still saw no reason why it shouldn't be ranked the best in the country. 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by dayokanu(m): 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva: How do you mean by the bold? 1 Like |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Afam4eva(m): 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Ola Johnson:Not to derail the thread, but when will you lot learn that Webometrics strictly used a web algorithm in their ranking. 1 Like |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Demdem(m): 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Jarus: Ha, I don't think I ever came across her then. The mosque was surely situated there. Infact there was a short cut for us coming from Angola to pass through the fence beside the mosque enroute the cafe itself just to avoid the long PG road journey. That place was eventually closed. |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Demdem:You did Moz 101. |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by dayokanu(m): 1:47pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
During the attack I was in ODLT upon hearing the gunshots decided to go back to my room in Faj when I met the guys in SUB with all the Okada guys fleeing Well I fled into the amphitheater |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by dayokanu(m): 1:49pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
sanniemoe: Abeg,broses I was quite young then. What happened? From my own knowledge of cultism,I know cult group fight rival groups only,so what could have led to the shooting spree? Why were these guys killed? For someone to be shot and axed,that means the person was a rival.. Can someone please shed more light here Around March 1999 some Outside cult guys attacked a student and they were arrested and paraded nakked all over campus by Africa. They were handed to the school authorities for punishment and were released by the school The guys now came for a revenge on July 10 and targetted Afrika since he was the one who humiliated them 3 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Jarus(m): 1:49pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
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Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Oduduwaboy(m): 1:49pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
"...when i remember Soetan water run away me eye o ; aye aye water run away me eye o " "...when i remember Africa , water run away me eye o ; aye aye water run away me eye o" .....aaaaaah! o ma se o! Eviano!Afrika!!!...... i remember the motorcade leading to the burial ground near All souls chapel...it was glorious but sadly premature....i remember Ekundayo delivering Eviano's oratory!!!! ...well we shall all go someday. Yes that was the day i lost all fear of death!!! Great ife i hail thee!!!!....& sleep well our beloved & dont let the worms bite !!! 2 Likes |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by dayokanu(m): 1:50pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Afam4eva: Before the incident After the incident, OAU still remained the safest school in the whole South regarding cultism. And at no time did the popularity wane maybe the coming of strikeless private Universities gave people other options 1 Like |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Nobody: 1:51pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Jarus:I was actually there at OAU 1995 to 1999. I went for service 2000! |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by jerikoyan(m): 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Demdem: Hum.....badoooooo nah una dey disturb us for awo anex bk A. abi ANGlOMOZ |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Demdem(m): 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
Ola Johnson: Why won't I. Infact I had to console my own in there after the incidence. But to be honest, my CGPA took a hit for this however I recovered fast before it was too late. |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by Demdem(m): 1:55pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
jerikoyan: Stayed in Angola for my first year. AWO -3 in second and the rest was spent in the exclusive AWO Annex |
Re: July 10 Cult Attack In OAU, Ile-Ife by daruche(m): 1:57pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
It was a terrible early morning attack on the students of O.A.U.Africa was actually axed by the cult guys.I saw Eviano the friday nite before the attack, he lived next to Toilet Avenue on medical Floor, Fajuyi Hall.I was staying at Fajuyi Annex at that time. I saw the cult members on a single file while they passed through Fajuyi on there way to sports hall.Some of the cult members were chasing Faruq the PRO.They were shouting "LIVE AND LET LIVE" O.A.U student come out. A gun shot was fired in front of my room and we counted 75 bullet holes on the door of the room they targeted.We ran into the bush behind Fajuyi hall and there vehicles was moving on the road from Health center through Archi Studio to Moremi and down to Fajuyi up to Sport center. 2 Likes |
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