I'm reading this on Wikipedia now:

Early years

Born in Lagos, Martins joined the local football club F.C. Ebedei at the age of 14, having been scouted by manager Churchill Oliseh while playing on the streets of his hometown.Martins is an alumni of the Obafemi Awolowo University named after his maternal grandfather. After a year with the club, Italian Serie C side A.C. Reggiana made a move for the player. After a two-month trial, Martins and fellow Ebedei teammate Stephen Makinwa signed youth contracts with the club in 2000. His first season in Italy saw Martins break into the first team squad, and later in the year Serie A sides Perugia and Inter made offers for the forward.[3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Martins

The bolded part refers.
There are two things here that I think are not correct.
1, That martins is an alumnus of OAU.
2, That Obafemi Awolowo was his maternal grandfather.

First, I have read Martins profile time and again and I have never come across his gaining admission to OAU, not to talk of finishing. I'm 95% sure this can't be true, because I know OAU would have been celebrating him with Soji Fasuba, Olumide Oyedeji and a couple of OAU alumni that are making/made waves in sports.
Second, I'm 100% sure of this. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whom OAU was named after, cannot be the father of Martins' mother, the Alhaja that died recently. We all know Awo's children(late Segun, Oluwole, Tola, Tokunbo, Ayo). And the final straw: Obafemi is even his first, not family name.

So before I go ahead and delete that sentence from Wikipedia via edit function, anyone know if I'm teh one that is wrong?

Its definitely a goof cos i never hear or read from inception of Martins popularity relating 2 Awo or Alumni of OAU

Wiki can be updated by anybody. I can go there and write Martins finished his PhD from Harvard. and it would be there for people to read.

dayokanu:

Wiki can be updated by anybody. I can go there and write Martins finished his PhD from Harvard. and it would be there for people to read.

Yup its totally editable!! that's why most schools would usually not accept references from Wiki

A-40:

Yup its totally editable!! that's why most schools would usually not accept references from Wiki

Except Naija schools.

BlueDiva:

Except Naija schools.

word!

A-40:

Yup its totally editable!! that's why most schools would usually not accept references from Wiki

My GF mentioned this . . but i never believed . , DK . .good contribution

BlueDiva:

Except Naija schools.

wetin concern Naija schools with source anyway. Whether wiki or google or akarakoro.com, nobody cares

BlueDiva:

Except Naija schools.

You are wicked!

Name names please.

@ topic,
Wiki goofed big time. You can go ahead and make the necessary corrections.

ha ha una don come. don't disrespect the elite institutions of nigeria. didn't they break top 1000

SO MARTINS IS THIS POPULAR.

HMMMMM LET THEM PRAY FOR HIS SO THAT HIS CAREER WILL BE REVIVED NOW THAT SHEARER IS IN CHARGE

Pack of lies. . never did take them serious

@poster
it seems ur informtion re totally incorrect. I ve checked the wiki page of obafemi Martins and i found noting related to what u posted.
Pls always confirm ur source b4 posting

OOLUSEG:

@poster
it seems ur informtion re totally incorrect. I ve checked the wiki page of obafemi Martins and i found noting related to what u posted.
Pls always confirm ur source b4 posting

It was just edited, obviously because of this thread. It was still there at least by yesterday morning when I checked last. I attempted editing it, deleting that sentence, but I wasn't registered, which was a prerequisite for editing entries, and I didn't ahve time to fill any form in registration details.
My quote up there was directly copied from the page. Probably somebody reading thsi has done the editing.

The last editing was done this morning,8.25 am, by one 'astonishingdee'

(cur) (prev) 08:25, 14 April 2009 Astonishingdee (talk | contribs) (16,942 bytes) (→Early years) (undo)

Check edit history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obafemi_Martins&action=history

whats all these beefing about,must you crucify yourself if Martins is not what he is said to be.

alex406:

whats all these beefing about,must you crucify yourself if Martins is not what he is said to be.

Who is beefing who here? We are trying to correct a misinformation

OOLUSEG:

@poster
it seems ur informtion re totally incorrect. I ve checked the wiki page of obafemi Martins and i found noting related to what u posted.
Pls always confirm ur source b4 posting

I edited it.

wikipedia isn't absolutely unreliable. the Sensitive topics like evolution, Islam etc require edits done by approved posters and not just not any tom dick and harry.

It's the personal biographies and obscure topics that can't really be trusted.

wetin concern Naija schools with source anyway. Whether wiki or google or akarakoro.com, nobody cares

Na only Wiki? na Chiki

Wiki my ass.

I used to rely on wikipedia but henceforth, i will stop sourcing info from there if every tom dick and harry can edit info there.

azeezbaba:

Wiki my ass.

I used to rely on wikipedia but henceforth, i will stop sourcing information from there if every tom privates and harry can edit information there.

I don't think you need to stop sourcing info there. I'm sure at laest 95% of teh info there are correct.

Some funny clown probably added that rubish there.

I'm logging in now to wiki to add that he's a graduate of MIT with a distinction in Software Engineering.

@poster

Good job for bringing this up, and getting it corrected. More research.

its was an error, i am family friend n know them very personally i mean martins family, NO connetion/relation at all, errorrrrrrrrr.