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Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 1:36pm On Mar 03, 2025*

paul20517:
I have read through your post and while it is very unfortunate, all I could deduce is that you are either a pathological liar who is not ready for peace or someone else is giving you a wrong account of the events since you mentioned you are not directly involved.

In my opinion, there is no way an ordinary salary earner in a state university can have so much influence. Your lawyer turned against you, police turned against you both at local level and zone five, the clergy you mentioned, a parish priest also turned against you, you also expect us to believe he fixed a meeting with the parish priest just to haul insults at your mother? Anyone with a logical mind would see through your lies

You guys should settle the debt and wrap up the case.
I would also advise you think about your actions critically so you don’t end up being misled by a lawyer who is simply looking to get by, the money spent on lawyers can be used to offset this debt, be wise.

I think you’re misreading the entire thing, unfortunately, and have come to your own conclusions about it. That’s completely fine. That so called “debt” is not really a debt in the strict sense of the word and that’s why the other party cannot go to court to reclaim it. I’ll leave the debt matter for those who are directly involved. My involvement here is more about the illegality of using anticult and police to arrest and torture people. I’ve made that point clear enough. The initial lawyer who, according to you “turned against me” only wanted to extort us because he has seen that there’s money to be made from us. The other parties who are involved - police and anticult - answer to the highest bidder and they know there’s money to be made hence their actions. The priest only intervened from an impartial point of view but the man hijacked the meeting to his own scheme.

If after this explanation, you still think that it is normal and okay for people to use armed men to torture others then that is more your world view and it’s completely okay. When I brought this matter to the public I knew that everyone will see it differently, depending on what they’re looking for and who they are.

Thanks for commenting.

Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 8:51pm On Mar 02, 2025

Xisnin:
It is a shame that security agents are acting like mercenaries for hire.
This has been a problem for years.

I don't see the need in denying the financial obligations involved.
Since the victim is an adult, he definitely can tell if he owes money or not
because I don't believe such a powerful man who bends the police
and vigilante to his will can just randomly accuse your brother of owing him.

It is even surprising that the apparently powerful individual is an ordinary salary earner in a state university.

You guys should settle the debt and wrap up the case.

But if you choose to fight, the court can't save your brother regardless of verdict, if
the man's power and connection is as described. You must use all the advantage you
can get legal or illegal.

You should make him trend using social media influencers and highlight his job and
employer.

There are also various human rights group you can approach so the man will think twice
about going for the kill as he appears very desperate.

By the time he becomes very famous, all his backers will have no choice but to abandon him.

There are more insidious way to even the score and turn the table around if you are really ready for a war.

Thanks for your suggestions. I’m definitely trying to get him to be famous. On the money issue, the man could have actually met with my family or even went to court if he really wanted the money back. But he decided to choose violence. The thing with people who choose violence is that they get so blinded by it that they don’t think of anything else but violence. That becomes their hubris.

Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 8:42pm On Mar 02, 2025

Thomthom:
E no end there oo how are you sure the man that Could order Anti cultism to pick your brother up. The police Said he will be charged for criminal offence. Lawyer collect money, turn back against you people. How do you now think, if the matter reach court that same man no go bribe. Just settle with that man. Because Nigeria of today, Na money everybody dey pursue. No integrity again. Settle with that man by making provisions on how to pay him back. No let them do your brother strong thing oo. Big man can do anything and get away with it in Nigeria. So use ur sense.

He’s not a big man, unfortunately for him. He’s just a small town champion who happens to know one or two local people with power. At the end of the day, he’s all bark and no bite. The reason I’m posting the thing here is not to cry for help but to document the entire matter for posterity and in the event of further escalation. We already have the case in court and if they are insisting that a loan was taken or whatever, let them go to court and make a case like we did.

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Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 8:37pm On Mar 02, 2025

Patrick206:
I personally believe that the lawyer must have realized how unreasonable Iroro and Daniels case is and must have asked them to settle their creditors but it’s seems they would rather spend millions in court than to pay what they owe. What a shame! A broke Nigerian charge and bail lawyer must be deceiving the family

Unfortunately, this is deflection. The facts of the matter speak for themselves. There’s nothing you’ll say about anyone that will prevent the law from running its full course. That family hired armed gangsters to assault and attack an innocent boy over an alleged debt. We went to court to seek justice and remedy. We also documented everything online. If you have contrary information, do well to bring them up in a similar post rather than maligning people. It’s a very simple thing. Don’t go around threatening and harassing people. No one has maligned anyone here. This entire thread is based on stating the facts of the matter and nothing else. Those who try to evade justice and do illegal things tend to learn in very hard ways.

Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 2:35am On Feb 28, 2025

pcagbaji:
All I see here is that you are a troubled maker
You don't know how to make peace
That is why they are giving you hot hot

If you read this entire thing and think that the victim of anticult and police brutality is the troublemaker then I have nothing to really discuss with you. When it happens to you that you or someone you know is attacked violently and threatened, please be the peacemaker.

And by the way, no one is giving anyone “hot hot.” I am not directly involved in this matter other than to draw attention to it and to archive it for the future. That’s my own way of fighting. There are those who are using violence and there are those who are following the law and playing the long game. As you can clearly see, the issue is in court and a long game is in motion.

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Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 7:53pm On Feb 27, 2025

Update:

Earlier this week (week of February 24th, 2025), Mr Solomon Ighomuaye orchestrated a meeting with my mom through her parish priest. During the meeting, which my mother attended thinking that it was just a meeting with the priest, Mr Solomon Ighomuaye threatened to arrest my mother again with officers of NPF Zone 5. He showed no remorse and spoke to her in a threatening way even as he ridiculed the legal action we had already taken. They mounted undue pressure on my mother to withdraw the case from court, but she kept her cool until the meeting was over.

Crime › Re: Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 7:48pm On Feb 27, 2025

Update:

On January 30th, 2025, officers of the Nigerian Police Force stormed my family home in Abraka in the early morning, just a day after we filed a human rights enforcement petition against the DPO of Abraka Police Station (Fabian Ayameh), Inspector Chukwumah, and the Commissioner of Police. They arrested my mother as if she committed a criminal offence. There were up to 10 fully armed police officers who came to whisk her away despite all entreaties to let her come to the station herself with our lawyer.

This arrest, like the previous illegal arrest and detention of my brother last year, was instigated by a staff of DELSU, Ighomuaye Solomon, and his son, Talent Omovie Ighomuaye. They completely ignored Nigerian legal processes and the lawsuit we filed to seek justice after the first assault on my family members.

I wrote to the Delta State Police Complaints Unit and met dead silence. There was no help from a unit set up to help in these matters. Ditto their federal counterpart. Ultimately, my mother paid N100,000 for bail to officers of NPF Zone 5 in Benin. We have filed another petition at the High Court of Justice to seek justice.

Crime › Abraka’s Anti-cult And Other Illegalities In Nigeria by fratermathy(op): 12:53pm On Nov 29, 2024*

Nigeria happens to you one way or another. If it is not the government that is incompetent, then it is the various organs of governance that take incompetence to a whole new level. Every day, the nation outdoes itself and sets new minimum standards. Those of us lucky to escape the nation assume that the worst is over. The problem, however, is that Nigeria continues to happen to those you leave behind and, by extension, continues to happen to you. This is my short tale of how Nigeria happened to me through the experiences of my immediate family.

On Monday, November 25th, 2024, I received a call from my brother, Daniel. His voice had a rare urgency, and it seemed as if he was in mortal danger. The voice abruptly broke the silence of my morning contemplation, ushering in the terse words: “I am in trouble. Anti-Cult is beating me.” The image immediately formed in my mind. It was familiar, yet strange. It was urgent and grave.

One Mr. Solomon Ighomuaye, a non-academic staff of Delta State University, Abraka, invited the anti-cult group to arrest and intimidate my younger brother over questionable money allegedly owed to him and his son, Talent Omovie Ighomuaye. They detained my brother and tortured him for two days until he became sick. They threatened to shoot him in the leg. They also threatened to shoot my mom for daring to confront their violence. They promised to blind my father for insisting on seeing them eye-to-eye. They operated like a kidnapping gang and were trying to make us sell properties to repay a loan that we didn’t even understand. I forced them, through a show of fearlessness, to take the case to the police because the anti-cult group is unpredictable, volatile, and operates like a loose cannon.

The anti-cult group (or Anti-Cult Volunteer Corps) in Abraka is meant to be a civil organization that advocates against cult/gang violence in the rustic university town. However, as with many other seemingly well-intentioned groups, the anti-cult has become an oppressive apparatus used to illegally arrest, detain, and torture people, primarily students. Stories are rife in Abraka of this group’s inhumane treatment of innocent Nigerians. The irony is that the group has no legal or constitutional backing and should not be arresting anyone whatsoever. In fact, they should not be armed (as they currently are). When they came for my family, they had eight armed men who immediately started assaulting the young boy without provocation. When my father tried to confront them, they rented the air with gunshots that stirred my family to contemplate their mortality. Their violence cannot be excused under any circumstance. It has become the norm for people to fear law enforcement agents due to their capacity for undue aggression and brutality. Still, the anti-cult is at a whole new level: unhinged and largely unmonitored cultists/gangsters with weapons who launch daily campaigns of needless brutality and violence. Their paymasters often use them to settle scores with individuals, recover debts, and harass anyone who has been so marked.

The issue with my brother needed to become a police issue. The police, too, have their own issues, but at least they are not unhinged. They have a robust chain of command that can correct injustice or secure justice. If one knows what they’re doing, they can deal with the police with some sanity. When my brother’s case got to the Abraka police division, it was assigned to the investigating police officer, Chukwuma, who spoke with me and claimed that my brother had to pay the loan immediately or he would be detained and transferred to a criminal division. Being indebted is not a criminal offence, and it didn’t make sense that the police officer was making it seem like it was. This is Nigeria! Anything goes!!

I hired a lawyer, one Barrister Aaron Oghenetejiri Odjugo, to bail my brother the following day and paid him N480,000 in total. The lawyer ended up securing a repayment contract but abandoned the case at the point of obtaining bail because he wanted to extort me further instead of discussing matters like a professional. At some point, it seemed he was colluding with Mr Ighomuaye, and we felt he was working against our interests. He was impatient with my family and complained about the case he willingly took. He requested more money than was agreed from the onset and left my family stranded because they wanted to negotiate. My family had to get someone else to secure bail and paid N100,000 for that. After this situation, my interactions with Barrister Odjugo reveal that he’s a basic small-town lawyer managing to get by. I didn’t pursue him too much out of pity.

Between the point of the initial anti-cult illegal arrest and torture and my brother’s release, we received various threats. The anti-cult members threatened to shoot my brother, my mother, and other family members. Mr Ighomuaye threatened my brother more precisely, and Barrister Odjugo threatened my mother because she complained about his unprofessional behaviour that was unbecoming of a lawyer who should be taken seriously. But this is how Nigeria happens to you: the entire system is structured to ensure you are perpetually frustrated! People, even lawyers, issue threats with recklessness simply because they can. People feed on fear and violence. This is the national culture of my home nation.

Originally posted on: https://medium.com/@DiasporaNigerian/abrakas-anti-cult-unit-and-illegalities-in-nigeria-c7acc1443ec6

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Crime › Re: ‘Stolen’ Genitals: 2 Men Jailed 3 Months For Defamation Of Character by fratermathy(m): 7:17am On Oct 07, 2023

Finally, some sense! I’ve always wondered if anyone has actually seen, with their own eyes, cases of stolen geni*talia? How come we don’t have photos? If we can take photos of anything these days, why don’t we document missing genitals?

I hope the person gets better justice. We need scapegoats in order to learn.

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Politics › Re: Ovie Of Otuo: Comrade Oshiomhole We Know You, We Will Deliver You by fratermathy(m): 12:14pm On Jan 20, 2023

Sonnobax15:
just imagine...how can you say Delta igbo that has only few local government areas has a higher population that delta central(urhobo) that has 8?

If you think of Delta Igbo as the Igboid groups in Delta North, they actually have more local governments than Delta Central. Although this does not translate into having a greater population - reason being that local governments are sometimes created along ethnic lines rather than along population sizes. So, Delta North can have more local government areas in order to account for Ndokwa, Ika, and Enuani peoples who have been lumped into one district. Interestingly though, there are Urhobos in Delta South as well.

Can we authoritatively say Urhobos are larger than Delta Igbos? Not really. But if we break the Igboid groups into their smaller ethnic units, then the Urhobos are definitely larger.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Biden Grants Pardon For All Federal Convictions Of Simple Possession Of Marijuan by fratermathy(m): 12:18pm On Oct 07, 2022

tianshie:
The interplay of social behavior and economics. This was no interplay but based wholly on social prejudice. You do not have the talent to match your ambition. When you're corrected take it on the chin like a good lad and lay down.

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The thing about ignorance is that it creates a false sense of arrogance. Socio-economic has nothing to do with social behaviour. It is simply a conflation of sociological and economic factors: where sociological refers to the society’s structure in terms of race, gender, identity, culture, and other indices; and economic deals with the financial realities of such society, include the commodification of social categories like race, gender, identity, etc. This, in turn, creates situations where race, for example, as a commodified category could become the basis for certain laws. I could give you an entire dissertation about this but your arrogance makes me want to stop here. I won’t reply you any further.

Good luck.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Biden Grants Pardon For All Federal Convictions Of Simple Possession Of Marijuan by fratermathy(m): 3:12am On Oct 07, 2022

tianshie:
What socio-economic realities are you referencing? The clampdown on marijuana use in the US had its roots in racial prejudice. Black and Hispanics who, white people believed, were being morally and physically distorted by marijuana use. Look it up,

What do you understand by the compounded word “socio-economic”? It appears you have a simplistic understanding of it because everything you’ve said clearly have both social and economic bases.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Biden Grants Pardon For All Federal Convictions Of Simple Possession Of Marijuan by fratermathy(m): 8:46pm On Oct 06, 2022

God1000:
Britney Griners is serving 9 years jail term in Russia for being in possession of this substance.

I think it should be regulated by the government, otherwise people will abuse it.

But I believe biden took this decision after a painstaking consideration.

Marijuana mainstreaming is here to stay. Societies are dynamic in the way they make and update laws. The use and possession of marijuana were criminalized in response to the social-economic realities at the time when those laws were made. Today, our reality is different, and laws must be updated to reflect these new realities and scientific discoveries.

I wish Nigeria had such a dynamic legislative process. We continue to perpetuate laws that were made when the world was different. Some of our laws are not in synch with modern realities, and anyone who tries to question this becomes the political enemy of the cabal that benefits from retrogressive policies and laws.

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Education › Re: 95% of Nigerians can't Pronounce These Words Correctly. Take The Test by fratermathy(m): 3:08am On Jul 22, 2022

AndroBlaze:
You are shooting yourself in the foot with that argument; if they can Anglicise our words freely ( i.e. killing the meanings by pronouncing it wrongly) then every Nigerian should be allowed to Nigerianise (or Africanise) their words, which me and you agree we shouldn't do with bad pronunciations, unless backed up with meaingful history.

Instead of the English being lazy and calling him "Deli' (which means something entirely different in their language), they could easily be thought to pronounce it "Daylay" which at least would still give a semblance of the Yoruba meaning.

Anyway the research of Tsetse is freely available and my advice to you is before you put African words in your English lessons, you owe it to all of us as proud Africans to do research and just not repeat the "dictionary" pronunciation. Please see etymology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly#:~:text=13%20External%20links-,Etymology,rendered%20in%20other%20African%20languages

But again, you did well overall, this is just advice to go deeper into what you teach.

You make good points. I am one of those who believe in the bastardization of English as a form of postcolonial resistance. I do not make any pretences about how I speak English as a Nigerian, and I owe no one any apology for that. I live in an English-speaking country outside Africa, and everyone understands me well when I speak. Interestingly, I also teach undergraduate students using my educated Nigerian accent, and everyone is happy and mostly on the same page.

I do not quarrel with English phonetics. I know that subject all too well, but I fight with those who think there is a right way to speak English. There is no right way to speak the language. Most of the Op’s transcriptions are appropriate in a specific British context (and definitely not even in all of Britain). Pronunciations greatly vary in Canada, various parts of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, etc. In fact, we talk of Englishes rather than English these days.

Back to the topic. The Op did well for trying to educate people, but I think his following argument about speaking English in a particular way falls apart. My grandmother in the village, who is educated by the way, doesn’t understand American English, but she understands Nigerian English well. Should she learn to speak like an American just to impress someone who wouldn’t return such a favour to her? Definitely not!

We should all strive for intelligibility. Speak that you may be understood. However, do not be forced to speak like someone you’re not. If you fancy accents or spot on pronunciations and it comes natural to you, then you should go ahead and do it. However, do not make such a norm or an expectation. If the average joe in Nigeria pronounces /tetsi flai/ as /tsese flai/, we will all understand. In fact, any native English speaker in the world would understand. That’s what matters.

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Politics › Re: The Moment Tinubu Said 'Tweeting On WhatsApp' (Video) by fratermathy(m): 2:24pm On Apr 21, 2022

Indispensable85:
The whole idea behind the word tweet is to be heard or reach out. Either by sound or a written short message. Don't forget the word tweet was already extant before the app twitter came into existence.

That’s actually not true. The etymology of the word indicates prior usage in the context of bird sounds. Its association with social media started precisely in 2007 when Twitter became a thing. There are many sources for this, and I am happy to provide at least three if you ask. You may also counter my claim with your sources too.

Politics › Re: The Moment Tinubu Said 'Tweeting On WhatsApp' (Video) by fratermathy(m): 9:59am On Apr 21, 2022

Indispensable85:
A very simple assignment, go to your dictionary and read up the meaning of twitting. Come back and tell me thank you.

Hatred can truly make you stupid without knowing it.

See image for the dictionary definition of “twitting” - I assume the second one is what you meant based on how you use it as a verb.

And yes, I know twitting, which is captured in your post, is not the same as tweeting (which would be more appropriate but also has its primary semantic field in the context of Twitter).

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Christianity Etc › Re: Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin "Hears" From God On Camera. by fratermathy(m): 3:18am On Apr 20, 2022

Crime › Re: Video Of Vigilante Harassment Of Student In Oleh by fratermathy(op): 11:03pm On Feb 18, 2022

seborrhic:
Around which time did this happen?
If late in the night no one even has to be a vigilante to question suspicious movements.
It's unfortunately the kind of times Buhari has turned Nigeria into.
They may have used it to extort your brother,but if you must be out late in the night,then you must safeguard yourself against such extortion by going along with means of identification and receipts of valuable items or at least verifiable proof of their ownership.

Thanks for your comment. This happened around 9pm and my brother was returning from campus back home. Unfortunately he was extorted successfully and I don’t really care about the money now. But I want the awareness to be there because today it might be my brother and tomorrow it could be someone else’s. Who knows how many they extort but can’t do anything about it? They’re nothing but thieves and armed robbers disguised as vigilantes.

Crime › Video Of Vigilante Harassment Of Student In Oleh by fratermathy(op): 10:09pm On Feb 18, 2022*

Hello Nairalanders,

Please help me make this viral. My younger brother called me to report the vigilantes in Oleh community where a campus of Delta State University is located. They extorted money from him because "he did not move with the receipt of his laptop." He's a 400L student of Civil Engineering and was going home from campus when this happened. The vigilante that did this refused to identify himself or their vigilante outfit. He also refused to speak on the phone with me when I called. I asked my brother to make this video of the vigilante man holding his laptop - a student's laptop and asking for money in return. I wonder the kind of ordeal they put students through everyday if they do this. Social media is now the voice of the voiceless. Please I implore you to post this so that people can call the vigilante boys to order. Students should be not harassed for moving with laptops. In fact, all students should have their laptops.

Besides, since when have vigilantes become police officers that check laptops and all that? Is there a constitutional provision for that? Please I want them to be called to order and this is the only way I know how.

This happened in front of BMD Restaurant by the former army checkpoint, right after the Law Faculty Gate.

Stream the videos from these links:

https://streamable.com/n5swxq

https://streamable.com/rnzh1g

See screenshots below

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Politics › Re: Kperogi: There Was Always Something Suspicious About Abba Kyari by fratermathy(m): 7:00pm On Jul 29, 2021

"transparently dodgy"
A beautiful way to nail the point.

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Culture › Re: The Supernatural Fire Dance Of The Itsekiris by fratermathy(m): 2:26am On Jul 14, 2021*

Efewestern:
Every ethnic group in the Delta have got some kind of unique and weird dance. Some months back, I made a thread about the power dance of the Urhobo people, today, we will be having a look at the fire dance of the Itsekiri people of Delta State.

The fire dance is a supernatural dance by the Ajagbugbu group that involves stepping and dancing on burning fire without getting burnt.

The dance is presented on special occasions, like the burial of an OLU or the crowning of a new king.

Oniovo, do you have the video? I find this cultural display deeply interesting.

I also wonder how they do it. There must be a scientific reason for this, or at least an explanation (logical or not). Even if its "supernatural", I'm curious about its mechanism.

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Culture › Re: Meet The Anibeze People Of Bayelsa State, The Isoko Tribe Found In Bayelsa by fratermathy(m): 1:02pm On Jul 01, 2021

UGBE634:
I am not bothered about the other point but I wish to correct something. There is a group called Edo and that group is Bini. No group refers to theirselves as EDO when speaking their native tongue except Benin. There's nothing like Benin in Edo language, we call ourselves Iviedo and when we say that we are referring to Binis alone. likewise an Esan man will not call himself Oviedo but Oviesan. But if he is referring to the the Binis in his native language he will say Iviedo. and not Oviebini hence the term "Esangbedo". Bini is a Yoruba or itsekiri cum Colonial relic that stuck it makes no meaning in the language and to any Edo man. No Bini man will use it to refer to himself if not for easy identification so as not to confuse the Person he is communicating himself to.. infact No Bini use it except he is speaking English but same cannot be said of the Appelation of other tribes Esan, etsako, owan etc. Edo is used to refer to the city, the entire Bini speaking land, the people and the language. There is a language and a tribe called Edo and that is Benin. If you are familiar with the land, the city, language and the people you would know this. Other great Benins before me on this forum have written on this topic before, If you want me to search such threads out I can, PhysicsQed, Areafada2. Sincerely I am not alone, we all feel the same way.

Thanks for your explanation. Really helpful.

Travel › Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 19 by fratermathy(m): 3:37am On Jun 08, 2021

ManLikeB:
I recently got admitted into a school in Montreal, to my surprise I found out they are in the French speaking region. I would appreciate if there’s anyone here who knows the region thanks. Will advise me how to carry on

You'd get by just fine with English in Montreal as most of the residents are bilingual. As long as you're not too far away from the Downtown axis, you'll be alright. It may help to pick up French if you want to be fully integrated into the social life here but you can do just fine without it. There are lots of Anglophone students like yourself in the city.

Education › Re: How National Open University Of Nigeria Plagiarized My Essay by fratermathy(op): 2:46pm On Apr 28, 2021

zealousayo:
The way people plagiarize these days ehn...

It's quite unfortunate that an institution can condone and get away with it.

Education › Re: How National Open University Of Nigeria Plagiarized My Essay by fratermathy(op): 1:31pm On Apr 27, 2021*

fratermathy:
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Education › Re: How National Open University Of Nigeria Plagiarized My Essay by fratermathy(op): 1:26pm On Apr 27, 2021

HRSweetness:
Please, this should not be handled like a stroll under cool evening breeze.

We take too many things for granted in Nigeria.

This questions the quality of education Noun offers.

Fratermathy, could you also try to reach the founder of human rights radio and television through Berekete radio program.

In fact if you can do this and the ordinary president handles your case, you'll get more than a public apology immediately.

Thank you for your suggestion. I do not intend to take this issue lightly. If not for anything but for NOUN to wake up to their duty as an institution of higher education. There is a type of standard we expect of a university and it's unfortunate that they are not even bothered about that. No forward-looking university will ignore something as serious as plagiarism.

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Education › Re: How National Open University Of Nigeria Plagiarized My Essay by fratermathy(op): 9:32pm On Apr 26, 2021*

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Education › How National Open University Of Nigeria Plagiarized My Essay by fratermathy(op): 9:32pm On Apr 26, 2021*

Hello Everyone,

I have been forced to bring this issue to the public because of its implications. Before making this post, I gave the National Open University of Nigeria two whole months to remedy their wrong but they completely ignored my emails. I was very patient with them and even gave ample extra time after the deadline I gave to them elapsed. I am bringing this post here for two reasons: the first is to set the record straight and document it in public and the second is to get advice and possible volunteers who can help me take up the issue beyond this point.

In March, someone drew my attention to one of NOUN's courseware with the course title Studies in Written African Poetry (ENG 871). I noticed that significant segments of my essay (which was published in 2017) were plagiarised without any citation, reference, permission, or acknowledgement. Note that NOUN's courseware was uploaded in February 2021. I was very angry because as an academic, anyone could, in the future, assume that I plagiarized NOUN's work and not the other way around. I decided to write them about it (see screenshots 1-6 for my initial mail). I identified all the segments that were plagiarized in their essay. I even helped them do a plagiarism test on Turnitin and the score was over 60%. I wonder how a university that focuses on distance education would allow something as controversial as this to happen. Note that this is a postgraduate course!!! They are using plagiarized materials to teach Masters and Ph.D. students and cannot even accept that they have done wrong. What exactly do they expect their students to do if their courseware is riddled with plagiarized materials? I should also point that apart from my work, the said courseware also plagiarized Romanus Egudu's seminal book, Modern African Poetry and the African Predicament. I am sure that if a comprehensive plagiarism test is done on their course materials, at least 60% of them will show high percentages of plagiarism. In 2019, Prof. Peter Okebukola, the Chairman of the Governing Council of NOUN, lamented the rise of plagiarism in Nigerian universities and even went further to say 60% of undergraduate projects were plagiarized (https://guardian.ng/features/nigerian-universities-and-the-plague-of-plagiarism/). To think that a university under his chairmanship would be caught in this web at an institutional level is simply too sad.

The unfortunate thing is that the university never had the courtesy of replying to my friendly email. They deleted the course from their website (which shows that the email was received), but they did not delete the PDF file from their server. It is still accessible on https://www.nou.edu.ng/sites/default/files/2021-02/ENG871.pdf . My essay is self-archived on ResearchGate and accessible on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321776494_Trends_in_Modern_African_Poetic_Composition_Identifying_the_Canons.

Note that I archived the original page of their website where the course was listed (http://web.archive.org/web/20210318211118/https://nou.edu.ng/index.php/courses?field_faculty_name_value=All&field_level__value=All&field_semester_value=All&page=6). Compare with the current page https://nou.edu.ng/index.php/courses?field_faculty_name_value=Arts&field_level__value=800&field_semester_value=All.

See the attached screenshots for the instances of plagiarism in both essays. Rather than reply to me like a normal institution that takes matters of plagiarism and intellectual copyright seriously, they deleted the course from their page and simply pretended it never happened. I sent a follow-up email and gave a deadline for their response but it was not acknowledged (see screenshots for follow-up email). I also waited for almost a month after the deadline and no one even bothered to send a simple apology email from the institution.

I am using this medium to call out the National Open University of Nigeria for plagiarizing my work and FAILING to DELETE the plagiarized courseware from their server. The file is still accessible on Google's search system, and the university has proven irresponsible in handling this matter. I did not want to escalate this because I am an academic and this should be an easy issue, but the inefficiency of the university in handling this has necessitated my decision to go public. I have spoken with some lawyers already and still talking with others. I am only making this post public for record purposes. Plagiarism is a serious offence in academia and dishonesty is not to be taken lightly. I am disappointed at NOUN for pushing me to this point.

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Crime › Re: Gunmen Kidnap Family Of Five In Ondo, Demand N10 Million Ransom by fratermathy(m): 12:24pm On Apr 06, 2021

We have left the season of banditry and now in the era of "unknown gunmen". The monsters that our government is creating will soon bite them too undecided

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Celebrities › Re: Don Jazzy: Why I Didn’t Sign Falz, Simi, And Teni To Mavin Records (Video) by fratermathy(m): 1:03pm On Apr 05, 2021

Fucktardgirl:
Aboki and isoko is a french speaking tribe abi. I have gone to a trad wed in that part of delta and those are even more Igbo than I thought. they speak igbo, eat igbo food, they have same trad attire, have four market days. they answer Ajereh, Enebeli, Okoro, Oliseh, Emeke, etc. In Enugu, you have Ejereh, Okoro, Olisa and Emeka. No need telling you all this. Jusw make out to visit that place and see for yourself.

I won't argue with you, but as someone from Delta State, I will simply say that you are 100% wrong. Isokos do not identify as Igbos. Isoko people speak the Isoko language, a member of the Edoid cluster of languages. If at all, they're more like Edo people than Igbo people.

I won't respond to further mentions from you.

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Celebrities › Re: Don Jazzy: Why I Didn’t Sign Falz, Simi, And Teni To Mavin Records (Video) by fratermathy(m): 12:51pm On Apr 05, 2021

JidennaJason:
Oniovo, I thought he was from the Igbo speaking part of Delta State...

He has said it in interviews that he's Isoko. However, he was born in Umuahia and his mother is Igbo. It would appear that even his father's family has some Ukwuani connections because his father's middle name is Enebeli. At the end of the day, if he says he's Isoko, then that's what he is.

Celebrities › Re: Don Jazzy: Why I Didn’t Sign Falz, Simi, And Teni To Mavin Records (Video) by fratermathy(m): 12:44pm On Apr 05, 2021

Fucktardgirl:
Are you sure you are okay?
Don jazzy not Igbo? Na kenya he come from?

Sunsets:
What is Don Jazzy? Enlighten us, please.

Dikaveli:
don jazzy is where sir

I don't want to enter into the ethnic debate but just to set the records straight, Don Jazzy is Isoko, a minority group in Delta State.

If there's anything Nigeria teaches you, it's the fact that we shouldn't assume someone's ethnicity just because they appear like those from another group or speak the language of another group. Many people thought Burna Boy is Yoruba but he's not. People think Jazzy is Igbo but he's not.

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