majekdom2: has your presence in UK made you the richest man that makes you call his memebrs poverty stricken ... wake up . these members are the ones your type are working for.
shut your fckg trap you dumb follower of a white man's religion. Oyedepo has scammed the shi.t out of you id.iots and you are too busy licking his anus that you cant even see it. Who in their right mind would follow a theif and con artist like Oyedepo - let me guess a brain dead imb.ecile like you.
I work and earn my money honestly not like your Commander in thief Oyedepo who spins you fairy stories about reaping your reward in a non existent heaven. This is why you will remain under the foot of the white man for life.
ChokolateBoss: Some of u who support anything done by anyone who brands himself as a man of God need to realize that its d westerners that brought this same Christianity to us and they are not all immoral/irreligious atheists.
They brought Christianity to you and they used it to keep majority of you in mental bondage, come to the west and you will marvel at how nobody bothers with going to church here. Only Africans and carribean people go to church (enslaved people with enslaved minds) in huge numbers because majorify of Africans are downtrodden and poverty stricken, many are looking for a fictititious God in heaven to come down and solve their problems.
Japan is a great and powerful nation but guess what? they expelled Christian missionaries from their country in the 19th century because they knew that foreign religions mean only one thing - mental enslavement of the indigenous people, the majority of Africans are mentally enslaved to their white European oppressors.
Nigerian Pastors Fleece Believers USA-Style: Bishop David Oyedepo Owns a Gulfstream Jet and Several BMWs
October 16, 2014 by Terry Firma
Nigeria has long been known as the home country of countless Internet scammers, but Reuters reminds us that some of the country’s megachurch pastors have devised their own get-rich-quick schemes modeled after shining U.S. examples like Benny Hinn, Paul Crouch, and Jim Bakker.
Some of the churches can hold more than 200,000 worshippers and, with their attendant business empires, they constitute a significant section of the economy, employing tens of thousands of people and raking in tourist dollars, as well as exporting Christianity globally. …
[TB] Joshua draws miracle-seekers from all over the world with claims that the holy water he has blessed cures otherwise incurable ailments such as HIV/AIDS.
And Ebola!
We see giving as the only way to be blessed. Blessing other people is a way of keeping the blessings flowing,” said [David] Oyedepo (pictured), whose blessings include a Gulfstream V jet and several BMWs.
The untaxed prosperity and typical lack of accountability are ruffling some feathers.
“They don’t submit accounts to anybody,” says Bismarck Rewane, economist and CEO of Lagos consultancy Financial Derivatives. “At least six church leaders have private jets, so they have money. How much? No one really knows.” … As the churches have charity status, they have no obligation to open their books, and certainly don’t have to fill in tax returns — an exemption that is increasingly controversial in Nigeria, where poverty remains pervasive despite the oil riches.
The pastors argue their charity work should exempt them. “We use the income of the church to build schools, we use the income of the church to serve the needs of the poor,” David Oyedepo, bishop of the popular Winners Chapel, told Reuters in an interview. “These are non-profit organizations.”
In a country where the average worker pulls in about ten dollars a day, Nigeria’s megachurch pastors are financially fortunate indeed.
In 2011, Forbes magazine estimated the fortunes of Nigeria’s five richest pastors. Oyedepo topped the list, with an estimated net worth of $150 million. He was followed by “Pastor Chris” Oyakhilome of Believers’ LoveWorld Incorporated, also known as the Christ Embassy and popular with executives and politicians, [who has] $30 million to $50 million.
A former banker at Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa, who declined to be named, recalled being approached five years ago by a church that was bringing in $5 million a week [$260 million a year] from contributions at home or abroad. “They wanted to make some pretty big investments: real estate, shares,” he said. “They wanted to issue a bond to borrow, and then use the weekly flows to pay the coupon.” In the end, he said, the bank turned down the proposal on ethical grounds.
Nothing about this obscene wealth-generating machine will change anytime soon.
A national conference to debate Nigeria’s constitution this year proposed that the megachurches should be taxed. But with an election coming up in February, it is debatable whether President Goodluck Jonathan, who is close to several megapastors, would risk upsetting these influential men and their hefty congregations with a fat tax bill.
Neighboring Cameroon, at least, isn’t quite so reluctant. As I wrote a half a year ago, Cameroon’s government has been closing prosperity-gospel churches that “rip off vulnerable people” and are therefore deemed “harmful to society.”
MASTER SCAMMER OYEDEPO THINKS HE IS DEALING WITH POVERTY STRICKEN, IGNORANT NIGERIANS, MY ADVICE TO HIM AND HIS FELLOW CRIMINALS IS COME TO THE UK AND WATCH HOW FAST THAT YOUR £93M FORTUNE WILL MELT AWAY IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES ON COURT CASES THAT WILL BE BROUGHT AGAINST YOU:
Laughing on his private jet - the £93m pastor accused of exploiting British worshippers
By George Arbuthnott
A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return.
Followers are ferried in double-decker shuttle buses to the church, handed slips inviting them to make debit card payments, and are even told obeying the ministry’s teachings will make them immune from illness.
Today’s Mail on Sunday revelations about the Winners’ Chapel movement, which holds charitable status, have prompted the Charity Commission to carry out an assessment of the church – one of the fastest-growing in the UK.
Winners’ Chapel is part of a worldwide empire of evangelical ministries run by Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher David Oyedepo, who has an estimated £93 million fortune, a fleet of private jets and a Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Dubbed ‘The Pastorpreneur’, he was accused earlier this year of slapping the face of a young woman he said was a witch. The assault case was struck out but is being appealed.
Branches of the church have sprung up in major UK cities in a huge recruitment drive centred on Mr Oyedepo’s ‘prosperity gospel’. This claims that congregants who make regular donations and pay tithes – a ten per cent levy on their income – will be rewarded financially by God.
Followers are urged to target vulnerable people such as the lonely, the sick, the homeless and the suicidal as potential candidates for conversion.
Last night, Labour MP Paul Flynn said Winners’ Chapel was cynically exploiting supporters. ‘They [Winners’ Chapel] are making clearly spurious claims and it seems to be a cynical exploitation of the gullible,’ he said.
Referring to the slapping incident, Mr Flynn added: ‘What is also alarming is the reported violence and the lack of respect for the status of women. It’s taking us back to a previous age of ignorance and prejudice that we all thought the church had escaped.’
This newspaper’s investigation can further disclose: Congregants are handed a payment slip requesting payments using cheque, cash or debit card when they enter London’s Winners’ Chapel. Donations to the ministry in England almost doubled from £2.21 million to £4.37 million between 2006 and 2010. Mr Oyedepo’s superchurch in Nigeria received £794,000 or 73 per cent of the charitable donations paid out by the British Winners’ Chapel between 2007 and 2010. This was despite claims in Africa that he is enriching himself at the expense of his devotees. The registered charity has spent £6.81 million on evangelism and ‘praise, worship and fellowship’. The church’s ‘Joseph Squad’ preaches in British prisons and has a weekly broadcast named ‘Liberation Hour’ on satellite and cable TV here.
In the past three years, Winners’ Chapel churches have been established in Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford, adding to those in London, Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow.
An undercover Mail on Sunday reporter attended Sunday services at Winners’ Chapel’s ‘London HQ’ in Dartford, Kent, which attracts 1,000 congregants – chiefly African and Caribbean immigrants. It is run like ‘a business conference’ by Mr Oyedepo’s son, David Oyedepo Jnr. Packed buses deliver singing worshippers from South-East London, Essex and Kent to the huge auditorium.
The reporter saw a payment slip being given to every person entering the church encouraging them to donate money by cheque or cash or to fill in a form with their debit card details. The slip said tithes should be paid separately using a ‘Kingdom Investment Booklet’ and the reporter was informed that payments could also be made by phone. A pastor told the worshippers: ‘You shall be financially promoted after this service in Jesus’s name if you are ready to honour the Lord therefore with all your givings, your tithes, your offerings, your Kingdom investment, your sacrifices.’
Congregants were told to fill in their slips and hold them above their heads while the donations were blessed
The service was interspersed with testimonies. ‘I received a bill from the bank that I didn’t understand, so I prayed,’ said one congregant. ‘A few days later, the bank wrote to apologise for their mistake – Hallelujah!’ ‘Hallelujah,’ the audience shouted back.
Congregants were told they could gain favour by persuading others to follow Mr Oyedepo’s teachings. His son said: ‘Look around you. Someone is sick and already wishing he or she were dead, that is a fruit ripe to harvest. Someone is confounded and considering suicide as an option, that is another fruit that is ripe to harvest.
‘Someone else is lonely and wondering if there is any future for him, that is another fruit ripe to harvest.
‘Also there are many men and women, young and old that are homeless, these are fruits ripe to harvest.’
The reporter was taken, with 20 other new recruits, to a room where preachers gave sermons claiming acceptance of the Lord would prevent them ever being ill or suffering misfortune.
The Mail on Sunday has seen video footage of Mr Oyedepo striking a woman across the face and condemning her to hell after she said she was a ‘witch for Jesus’. He attacked her in a Winners’ Chapel superchurch, believed to be in Nigeria, in front of worshippers. A separate video shows him saying: ‘I slapped a witch here last year!’
In May, he was sued for £800,000 over the alleged assault. The case was struck out – a decision which is now reported to have been appealed.
The Winners’ Chapel movement, also known as the Living Faith Church, has hundreds of churches in Nigeria and across Africa, the Middle East, the UK and the US.
Mr Oyedepo has received fierce criticism in Africa. One Nigerian journalist accused him of ‘leading a growing list of pastorpreneurs – church founders exploiting the passion and emotion that Christianity commands to feather their nests’.
Catholic Cardinal Anthony Okogie criticised such preachers for placing materialism above Jesus’s message. He reportedly said: ‘They have been skinning the flock, taking out of the milk of the flock.’
Among Mr Oyedepo’s fleet of aircraft are said to be a Gulfstream 1 and Gulfstream 4 private jets. It is also claimed he and his wife, Faith, travel in expensive Jeeps flanked by convoys of siren-blaring vehicles. He is the senior pastor of Faith Tabernacle, a 50,000-seat auditorium in Lagos reputed to be the largest church in the world, and runs a publishing company that distributes books carrying his message across the world.
His other business interests span manufacturing, petrol stations, bakeries, water purification factories, recruitment, a university, restaurants, supermarkets and real estate. The latest addition is a commercial airline named Dominion Airlines.
A Charity Commission spokesman said: ‘The Charity Commission is currently assessing what, if any, regulatory role there is to play with regard to the complaints made against the World Mission Agency. It is important to clarify that this does not constitute an investigation at this stage.’
Winners’ Chapel administrator Tunde Disu declined to comment.
Very good for that s.tupid fake bishop - the thief wants to come to the UK with his fake prophecy to deceive dumb Africans (most Europeans are not interested in religion) Good on the brits - keep the fool out by any means necessary, don't let the theieving charlatan and his satanic "church" anywhere near the shores of the UK, let the thief stay in Nigeria where he is free to deceive and rip off dumb Nigerians.
This set up of a man asking his wife to submit her salary to him is a clear cut case of abuse and control. This can only happen in a society where men are allowed to get away with abusing women and of course Nigeria is such a society. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a wife helping to pay bills and contribute to the running of her home, but to ask her to submit her salary to her husband as if she is mentally retarded and incapable of running her own affairs is simply exploitation and abuse. This type of scenario normally happens in a situation where the the woman was desperate to get married to the man and feels that without the man she has no life, if such a man knows this he will abuse the situation and start making unnecessary demands on the woman. Therefore women should realise that marriage is not a do or die affair but merely a union between two people who love each other and intend to help raise and nurture a family together, it shouldn't be used as a means of exploitation. Men who engage in this type of behaviour are usually the type of men who married for ulterior motives for example in the US a lot of Nigerian men import young women from poor family backgrounds over to the US, they get them to work as nurses and then insist that the money these women make is "submitted" to them every month for "projects back home", the woman effectively becomes modern day slaves to this man's demands and any attempt to break out of such a set up is met with extreme anger and violence from the men - is that what marriage is all about? would any man wish his sister to undergo such treatment at the hands of any man? To say that the man does this in order to "help" the woman manage her finances is a major insult and slap in the face to Nigerian women as I see Nigerian women as some of the most hardworking and industrious women out there, the average Nigerian woman juggles her personal career with the raising of her children and does a good job at it, come to the west and you see western women who do not cook and prefer to go out clubbing with their female friends rather than stay home with their husband and kids. Ask any western woman to submit her salary to you each month and see whether that marriage will be in existence the next day. Some women in the west even divorce their husbands as soon as he loses his job not to talk of asking her to submit her salary to you every month. I have sisters and would never stand by and watch any of their husbands make such demands on them.
He's just using her, he knows she's desperate to stay married at any cost and will submit to any kind of abuse if she gives in to his demands the next one will be worse, did she get married to be abused or to share her life with a man she loves?
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Education has nothing to do with a person's ability to perform whilst in political office - what was Muammar Qadaffi's educational qualification - did it stop him from commissioning the Great Man made river - a network of underground pipes which ran across the sahara desert supplying water to the people of Libya and neighbouring Egypt?
did it stop him from setting up a social welfare system which guaranteed free education to all Libyans from the cradle to the grave?
what has ability to provide for your people got to do with educational qualifications.
The problem with many educated illiterates like this professor is that they equate oyibo's man knowledge with knowledge which benefits Africa. this dumbo professor should understand that his PHD is about as worthless as used toilet paper the minute he leaves the shores of Nigeria and attempts to use it to get a job in the west.
Jonathan is useless there is no doubt about it but the reason for his uselessness has nothing to do with his education and everything to do with his willingness to be a pawn and puppet of the west. this useless proff needs to get his argument right and focus on the real enemy, is Okonjo Iweala not supposedly educated, what has she done with her so called education apart from enrich herself and impoverish her own people.
Its only in Nigeria that you get people like this proff boasting about PHD, in the west does anyone care whether you are a PHD holder or school cert holder, proff come to the west and see your mates driving cabs.
we live in an age where young women are obsessed with looking like celebrities, people like this girl should understand that those celebrities have the money to pay for the best surgeons in the world , undergoing surgery to any part of the body is no joke, and undergoing surgery in Thailand at the hands of a quack is an invitation to an early death. This is the second Nigerian girl I am hearing about who has died trying to enlarge her buttocks - well RIP but hope this serves as a lesson to other young women who are obsessed with looking like their celebrity idols.
new2020: This jungle justice mentality must stop. Do you know a woman can accuse you falsely of ra$pe? This man could be innocent. Why quick to judge this guy. For all the white nights and maginas beating this man up...YOU ARE A FO$OL! Your turn is coming...have you walk down the street and a woman you have turned down many times but wants that attention badly, just start shouting r$ape r$ape r$ape, what would you do? I'm not absolving him of the alleged crime but what IF he is innocent and accused wrongly? The police and court are there for these reasons.
SEUN...stop changing my word from RA$PE to MOLEST. When I type RA$PE, I know what I'm saying. Both words have different meanings. You can only molest an underaged girl not a grown azz woman.
based on the story I would imagine that the young woman had been badly bruised and beaten hence the students decision to hunt for the assailant and drag him to the campus to be interrogated.
Serves the i.diot right, I don't agree with jungle justice but ra.pe is one of the worst thing a man can do to a woman, I believe the assailants had enough information to verify that this I.diot was the culprit. He's very fortunate that students were administering the beating, had it been that he was caught by a mob outside the campus he would have been six feet under by now.
CityNG: Oponu Ide, it is not my place to consider any alleged suffering of the children. I continue to be proud of the Father returning to them. Instead of asking me what or why am I proud of the father, you went on an assumptious and idiotic rant. If assumptious aholes are your idea of leaders then your lineage is apathetic. A mouth breather like yourself has no iota of learning to teach even a lemming. Go crawl back into the hole you came out of.
You refer to 8 years of abandonment as "alleged suffering" you must be a psychopath, perhaps you've abandoned your own kids hence your stance, after all which decent human being would make excuses for a man who abandoned his own flesh and blood for a whole EIGHT YEARS - YOU MUST BE A PSYCHOPATH WITH NO HUMAN FEELINGS WHATSOEVER!!! I pity anyone who comes into close contact with you.
Please if you have any intention of procreating just go for vasectomy now as your kind will only y create children who will grow up to become a danger to society due to the abuse they have endured in their formative years - a word is enough for the wise!
Not for the salacious reason you used just to rouse the rebels.
That you only saw one story on this topic shows your lack of humanity and education.
By the way, never ever lecture me on what is done overseas. I'm on Nairaland for a reason you dunce.
Go and pity yourself, you knuckle dragging troglodyte.
Ignoramus have you considered for one second what those poor children have had to endure for eight years of their lives because of the negligence of their sociopathic father ? You are totally devoid of any humanity hence your disgraceful support for a shiftless sociopath who abandoned his own children. Look at the youngest child, how old was she when this sorry excuse for a human being abandoned her to the whims and caprices of total strangers, I believe you are of the same ilk as this useless detritus that is passing himself off as a human being.
I will continue to lecture you on what is done overseas because you are still at a rudimentary stage of evolution and therefore require guidance and advice from your betters, learn to be grateful when you are being educated. fool
Anyone can have a child and call themselves "a parent". A real parent is one who puts their child/children above their own selfish needs and wants - prospective dead beat dads/mums take note.
CityNG: I'm very proud of this Father and happy for the children.
Now they need to be left in peace to rebuild their relationship.
If the Father is reading please know that some of us are educated and we would like to know what happened and why you decided to leave the children.
To the numbut mouth breathers, cast yee the first stone he who has not sinned before.
You are proud of a man who abandoned his own flesh and blood for a whole 8 years, I pity you.
Do you know what they call these kind of men in the west? Deadbeat dads! Had it been that this fool did this in any western country by now he would have been cooling off in jail with accumulated child support payments awaiting him upon his release - if you know you are not ready to be a father wear a condom when having s.ex its very simple.
just watched the video of the father's reunion with his children, you can see from the son's body language that he has not forgiven his father and it will take a long time for that boy to forgive him for what he did to him and his siblings.
Abandoned child syndrome is a behavioral or psychological condition that results primarily from the loss of one or both parents, or sexual abuse. Abandonment may be physical (the parent is not present in the child's life) or emotional (the parent withholds affection, nurturing, or stimulation).[1]
Parents who leave their children, whether with or without good reason, can cause psychological damage to the child. This damage is reversible, but only with appropriate assistance.[2] Abandoned children may also often suffer physical damage from neglect, malnutrition, starvation, and abuse.
I pity those children, they will have trust issues throughout their lives, as the very people who should have been there for them abandoned them at such a vulnerable stage in their lives,who knows the kind of abuse they have been subjected to for the past 8 years, both parents are a disgrace, particularly the father who should have been arrested. This is why I like the west, had this happened in the west the father would never have been allowed to have access to them again as he has totally damaged them for life (I don't even know what to say about their mother).
I believe the man would never have claimed them if he had not been exposed by the newspapers.
I just watched this and it really does raise a lot of serious questions, the guy on the floor does look fake and the child was definitely faking - if indeed this ebola pandemic is a hoax it wont surprise me as HIV aids though not a fake disease was manufactured by the US govt to wipe out blacks, gays and other elements in society perceived as a threat to the west.
West Africans in the US now being openly discriminated against because of ebola:
Ebola Fears Turn Into an Epidemic of Racism and Hysteria
By Andrew Jerell Jones
Thus far, there have been just eight confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States following an outbreak in West Africa. Far more contagious here has been a new virus of hysteria — and of the sort of ignorant discrimination that immigrants in general and Africans specifically have endured for decades.
People are being shunned and mocked for having visited, or even for simply having been born in, Africa — and anywhere in Africa will do, afflicted with Ebola or not. Others face discrimination simply for living in the same neighborhood where a single Ebola patient once lived. Politicians and pundits have seriously discussed closing our borders to entire nations. Panic is dividing the country at a time when the U.S. and indeed the whole world needs to pull together to solve a viral health crisis.
Early signs of Ebola hysteria came after Liberian Thomas Duncan became the first person in the U.S. reported to have the disease a few weeks ago. Even before Duncan died from Ebola, immigrants who lived in his Dallas, Texas neighborhood faced discrimination and other forms of disrespect. They were turned away from local jobs, stores, and restaurants, while frightened tutors refused to work with their children.
Sixty miles southeast of Dallas, Navarro College earlier this month denied admission to two Nigerian students, not because they were diagnosed with Ebola but simply because they were from a country stricken by the disease. Never mind that Nigeria did a remarkable job in containing Ebola, went six weeks without new cases, and this week was declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization.
Such racial embarrassments aren’t confined to Texas. The week before last in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, a Guinean high school soccer player from Nazareth Area High School was subjected to chants of “Ebola” from opposing players on rival Northampton High School’s team. The chants left him in tears. Northampton’s head and assistant coach have since resigned from their positions and disciplinary action against the heckling players is pending. Meanwhile, a few parents in Mississippi decided to pull their children from a middle school after discovering the school’s principal returned from a trip to Zambia, a country nowhere near the Ebola outbreak.
Liberia’s immigrant population in Staten Island, New York, reportedly the largest outside of Liberia, is also subject to unfortunate discrimination thanks to Ebola. “When they see you’re African, they’re kind of afraid to even shake your hands, you know, to talk with you and stuff,” one Liberian male told NY1. Another man said that while doing his school’s physical, the examiners “had to pull me, isolate me, ask me questions like how long I been here, just from knowing that I’m from Liberia,” according to the news channel.
The Village Voice awkwardly added to the stereotypes last week. A story about how the Ebola panic affected the Nigerian Independence Day Parade was headlined “Cloudy With a Chance of Ebola?” The piece, apparently written by a writer of Nigerian descent, was a generally thoughtful exploration of the intersection of ignorance, nationality, and health concerns, but commenters could not get past the headline, which was criticized as “disrespectful,” “stupid,” “ignorant,” “offensive,” “despicable,” “racist,” and worse.
More worrisome than grassroots Ebola hysteria are the calls for official national security policies rooted in the same sort of ignorance. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Michigan) is among those in favor of a ban on travel to and from countries stricken with Ebola outbreaks. “No, you’re not coming here, not until this situation is solved in Africa ,” Upton said recently. “We should not be allowing these folks in, period.” Talk-show host and noted icon of religious tolerance Bill Maher has also thrown his support behind the idea of national quarantines.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden has done his best to try and combat this sort of hysteria with facts. “We don’t want to isolate parts of the world, or people who aren’t sick, because that’s going to drive patients with Ebola underground, making it infinitely more difficult to address the outbreak,” Frieden wrote in a blog entry last week. Charity organization Doctors Without Borders also poured cold water on any national lockdown ideas last month, saying that a ban placed on Sierra Leone would not prevent Ebola from spreading.
That sort of educational outreach is sorely needed right now. Spouting racist chants, discriminating against entire neighborhoods, nations, and continents, and isolating whole countries will only create unnecessary division around a health problem that requires a unified response.
mywakeupcall: what programs have YOU created towards bringing this into fruition?
btw, love your neighbor as yourself..whether green or purple. ..lingering on the past won't put an extra doctor in that hospital, crying over spilled milk wont stop foreign trade etc. just teach love. for one and another.
if I set up a school which teaches pan Africanism and African history in Nigeria tomorrow , its people like you that will still try to tear it down with your negativity and criticism, I am one person and can only do so much.
You advocate that Africans should love everybody but you don't seem to understand that the European cant even stand you and has been working tirelessly to remove you from the face of the earth, this is what the people you love think of you:
Medical student 'endured racist taunts by NHS doctors who wanted virus to kill off Africans'
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 13:02, 28 March 2013
A former medical student who sued her college for £5.5 million because she claimed she was 'bullied by racist colleagues now practising in the NHS as doctors' has lost her court case.
Virginia Jibowu, 27, claimed that a string of white students harassed her, with one woman student attacking her and that she was told to ‘grin and bear’ casual racism.
Another female student allegedly suggested introducing a killer disease into Africa to wipe out all the blacks.
But it is understood that the London County Court found in favour of London's King's College in November 2011, and ruled that they had not racially discriminated against Ms Jibowu.
The college had strenuously denied the allegations, and said it was pleased that the court had found in their favour.
Miss Jibowu, who is of Nigerian origin, alleged that she missed out on a career as a doctor after a sustained campaign of abuse at London's King's College medical school.
She alleged that the college ruined her career by trying to ensure she failed her course and then expelling her.
She sued the college, which is part of the University of London, for failing to prevent her having to study in a ‘hostile and humiliating’ environment.
Miss Jibowu says that the college refused to investigate many of her allegations of racism.
She kicked off her claim against the college for harassment, race discrimination, victimisation, negligence and breach of contract at Central London County Court.
Miss Jibowu, of Lambeth, south London, sought £5.5 million in damages for loss of career earnings, injury to feelings and reputation and punitive damages.
In legal papers submitted to the court she said: ‘All of the alleged racists are now practising as doctors in the NHS.
‘This ingrains the problem of institutional racism within the medical practice.
‘They were not interviewed.
‘At no point has the college accepted that it was at fault for allowing an institutionally racist and victimising, hostile studying environment to exist.’
Miss Jibowu's mother Anne Giwa-Amu gave evidence of her daughter's college ordeal.
Miss Jibowu says she was forced to enrol on the college's six year extended medical degree course for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in September 2002.
She says that students on that course had to wear a special badge, which led to them being bullied by counterparts on the regular five year degree programme.
Company director Ms Giwa-Amu said: ‘She was devastated when she discovered that she was being unfairly sidelined on an experimental course because she was at Lambeth College.
‘Virginia told me that she was being subjected to racial harassment by groups of students at King's College.
‘She tolerated it in order to fulfil her ambition of qualifying as a medical doctor.’ During clinical groups, Miss Jibowu was warned to expect casual racism from staff and patients and told to ‘grin and bear it’, the court heard.
On a hospital placement in Hastings in 2006, a woman student allegedly suggested introducing a virus in Africa to ‘kill off the Africans’ so that the whites ‘could move in’.
Ms Giwa-Amu said: ‘I was horrified that a person with such extreme views would be on the medical programme.’ The court heard that Miss Jibowu's male clinical partner bullied her.
Thanks for the article. You see, some of our people who live in the USA are busy running their mouth. They don't realize that when push comes to shove, even those who were born and raised in America to African parents will feel the heat. I see many of them come on Nairaland to cuss Nigerians out and I laugh. I was also born in the west and spent a greater part of my life there but I am not ignorant of the fact that when the chips are down, even if you were born and raised in the west, that would not matter to the whites as long as one has African parents or is black. You can see what this teenage football player is now going through despite being born and raised in USA. Whites don't even like their fellow citizens who are black from slavery descent much less those who are Africans or born to African parents. I feel for Africans currently living in USA. Whew, are they in for a bumpy ride. Most Americans are born bigots so I can imagine how they would use this ebola incidence as a license to discriminate. Thank God my family encouraged me to leave USA back then so that I can take part in NYSC.
I am very well thank you bros, hope you are keeping well and I agree with everything you've posted. I've been closely monitoring this ebola pandemic and I knew that it would just be a matter of time before the backlash against west Africans (or any Africans for that matter) living in the west would start. Just the other day a Liberian man who works in the US fell sick with flu and was asked not to come into work by his supervisors as his co workers suspected that his cold might be Ebola:
Liberian man told to stay away from work for Ebola concern
Posted: Oct 18, 2014 3:26 AM GST
Updated: Oct 18, 2014 4:17 AM GST
Reported by Anthony Miller
WRENTHAM, Mass. (WHDH) - A Liberian man in Wrentham says he has been told not to come to work because of Ebola concerns.
Kevin Makor works at the Wrentham Developmental Center, he says he's recently come down with a common cold, but because of a chain of events his coworkers are concerned.
"Whenever the weather changes I always get a cold,” he said. “It's kind of hard right now."
Makor's cousin ONeal also works at the center, he recently missed a few weeks of work due to a car accident, but rumors spread that he went home to Africa.
Soon after Makor says he caught a cold, but on Wednesday went to work anyway.
The next day, he says he got a call from his supervisor.
"He said somebody made an anonymous call and told the campus police that Kevin has been in contact with someone who traveled to Africa lately and he's showing signs of Ebola,” he said.
Makor says neither he, nor anyone in his family has been to Liberia as of late.
He says his supervisor told him to stay home until he got a doctor's note clearing him of the deadly disease.
"I'm Liberian and if I go to any doctor right now and ask a question like that there would be concern,” he said.
The Wrentham Developmental Center is a facility that houses the developmentally disabled, Makor says understands taking precautions, but says this is too much.
"It makes you kind of feel isolated, it makes you feel like there's some form of discrimination."
comments from american and UK daily mail readers following Liberian President's pleas for help regarding the ebola crisis in her country:
eyLexi, Sherman Oaks, United States, 24 minutes ago
Save their citizens so that they can keep reproducing babies that live in the mud and starve.
Alphonse Dee, Surfside, United States, 36 minutes ago
What exactly is the Liberian government and the other two similarly afflicted doing about this problem and what has it done in the past 20 years to improve sanitation within its borders? Or, are those subjects "off-base" and not to be questioned?
Phil711, Luton, United Kingdom, 6 minutes ago
Nothing, they plan this, they know that we have to step in when it spreads and we have to use our resources and money to help them while they can sit back and do nothing, that simple really, they know what their doing and British, Americans, and French and being taken as mugs
meagain377, cheltenham, United Kingdom, 46 minutes ago
It is no loss.
retired, Thomasburg, 51 minutes ago
Exaggerate any crisis to get money, that is how these countries operate, yet more people die of Malaria than Ebola.
Catherine, Colorado USA, 54 minutes ago
I believe now with the unbecoming a global problem. much more research funding will be allocated to the treatment of Ebola. I'm sorry help is comings late, I admire the media and this dignified President.
Concerned, San Francisco, United States, 1 hour ago
Do people who are so backwards they fear help, really worth any trouble on our part We are talking about the direct defendants of the very ones who sold their own people into slavery for two hundred years. That's right folks, look it up. These backward places are just going to risk healthy American lives to save people too s$
Concerned, San Francisco, United States, 1 hour ago
We do have a stake in the Ebola crisis, but she and her country won't like the appropriate solution, as it would leave that country a smoldering mess.
AnAmericanAbroad, Somewhereintheworld, 10 minutes ago
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Thats about right, tuxtla, Mexico, 1 hour ago
So stop eating all that crap food that carries the virus.
BeeVeeZee, London, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
Of Course cash would be preferrred I'm sure the President and his crew could do with some new cars and lavish houses
pete, sanfran, 2 hours ago
Considering what they have done to their country after decades of support, they really are not that much worse off anyway.
Ebola Chants in Racist Attack on African Football Player in Pennsylvania
By Dominic Gover October 16, 2014 16:53 BST
Football player Ibrahim Toumkara, 16, was tormented during a school match when rival players directed "Ebola" chants toward him.
The incident took place in the US state of Pennsylvania. The Nazareth School teenager was "left in tears" when players for Northampton district school shouted "Ebola" at him.
Toumkara's mother and father are in Guinea, which is one of the West African countries in the grips of the Ebola outbreak,
The spread of Ebola from West Africa has caused alarm, with with cases emerging in the United States amid mounting concerns at the slow response by the international community.
Being tormented with Ebola chants was enormously distressing, said police: "There were tears coming down his eyes. He was visibly shaken by this; that it got to that level on the field."
Outcry over the event led to the resignations of Northampton's coach and assistant Speaking to local media, Toumkara said: "I'm really disappointed in the outcome — that things came down to what they did in the end."
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