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spice123:
All you mentioned above @OP is just the popularity of PSQUARE music and not the impact. 2baba has made undeniable impact in the world at large. It is just like comparing Michael Jackson with Jay-Z. Oga na Oga anytime any day.

What do you define as "impact"? 2 face has one song that I agree changed the game. P SQUARE has multiple songs that changes the game. P SQUARE brings the attention of arabs, whites, asians, hispanics etc to African music and you claim they have not made an impact? I beg to differ. Outside Nigeria, 2 face is largely unknown. You can't make a worldwide impact and nobody knows your name. I still love 2 baba tho.

Can we talk about how 2Face continues to win all the hall of fame/Legerndary awards even though its been years since he really made great music. I'm not denying the fact that he is a King but outside Nigeria, in the rest of Africa and overseas, P SQUARE is the ish. Outside Nigeria, P SQUARE is recognized as the most formidable African musicians. Even in my unknown city in North Dakota, USA, they play testimony, alingo and chop my money at the bars/clubs. When are we going to start appreciating them?? The issue of P-SQUARE is the case of a prophet not recognized in his hometown.

Can we talk about how 2Face continues to win all the hall of fame/Legerndary awards even though its been years since he really made great music. I'm not denying the fact that he is a King but outside Nigeria, in the rest of Africa and overseas, P SQUARE is the ish. Even in my unknown city in North Dakota, USA, they play testimony, alingo and chop my money at the bars/clubs. When are we going to start appreciating them?? The issue of P-SQUARE is the case of a prophet not recognized in his hometown.

I KNOW THIS IS LONG, BUT IT IS WORTH THE READ (or scheme through it). THE TRUTH NEEDS TO BE TOLD ABOUT MADONNA UNIVERSITY. AS A FORMER STUDENT OF MADONNA UNIVERSITY USED TO BE A STUDENT THERE AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WORSE THINGS THAN THIS HAPPENS IN THAT UNIVERSITY. LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

Two students of Madon­na University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State, have told the horrifying story of torture they suffered in the hands of key officials of the tertiary institution.

The duo, Stanley Okoye, 23, a final year Civil Engineering student and Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, escaped death by the whiskers after they were allegedly abducted from their rooms February 3, 2015, in the dead of the night, in commando fashion, by the Chief Security Officer of the university, Okey Ogbonna and the Dean of Student Affairs, Rev. Fr. Isaac Nginga, a Catholic priest, in company of others and taken to a secluded area on the campus, where they were tortured, brutalized, dehu­manised and left to die, but through divine intervention, they lived to tell the story.
Stanley still needs to undergo special surgery in Germany on the spine to repair a major damage inflicted on him while the torture lasted. Aondofa suffered a dislocated jaw that required having his jaws held together with special dental wire to allow the injury heal. The duo would for the rest of their lives bear the burden of the deep psychological scars imprinted on their minds by the experience.
Accompanied by their parents, the victims who visited The Sun office in Onitsha gave a chilling account of what they passed through in the campus, and revealed the alleged moves by the university management to cover up the truth.

THEY WERE ABDUCTED AND TORTURED

Continuing, Stanley said: “These people were accompanied that night by an armed soldier, who is among our security guards in school. First, they asked for the room number of my friend and classmate, Lord Ga-Lim and I told them. They picked him up from his hostel and forced both of us into the vehicle. They first drove us to the administrative building and we alighted. Without any question, they descended on us after commanding us to lie down on the gravel. It was Rev. Father Isaac who hit us first with his belt, and the others then joined. They beat us with military belts, planks, batons, iron, stones and other dangerous weapons they could lay their hands on; they dealt mercilessly with us.

“All the while they were treading on us as we lay on the sharp, rough gravel. Not even our plea for mercy or cries for help could melt their hearts. Fr. Isaac even commanded the military officer to shoot us if we attempted to run away. In fact, the soldier fired the shot but narrowly missed me. I was coughing out blood and bleeding profusely but Ogbonna, the CSO hit me with his elbow and I fell down again.

“A police officer on duty at the station asked them whether we were involved in accident but they didn’t answer. In that state, I told the police that we were attacked by the same people, who brought us to the station and the police told them to take us to a specialist hospital or else we would die but they just took us back to the campus and dumped us in the campus clinic. I was in pains and we were struggling to hang on to life. They only gave us painkillers and sleep inducing drugs. It was one of the nurses who saw our condi­tion that night that I whispered my mother’s number into her ears and she used her phone, after hiding the number, to notify my parents about our plight.
“While we were in the hospital, they confiscated our phones, laptops and all our friends and roommates’ phones and communication gadgets to ensure that information about us did not leak to the outside commu­nity. We were dying in installments. On February 5, I was woken up by the CSO, who told me that my father was at the gate and wanted to see me. My dad was shocked when he saw my condition. When he tried to take a picture of me, they seized his camera and smashed it on the ground. After heated argument between my dad and the people at the gate, they immediately bundled my friend and myself to the Elele campus of the university in Rivers State, in the dead of the night without the knowledge of my father. We were in the hospital at Elele for about seven weeks shut out from the people and still under police watch even on our hospital bed. We underwent several surgeries because the doctor confirmed that my zygo­matic bone close to the spine was fractured. My friend had fractures on the lower and upper jaws.

I fainted when I saw my son –Okoye

Narrating how he heard about his son’s ordeal and the frustrations he encountered in the course of seeking justice for the victimized students, Chief Okoye told Sunday Sun that he was in Lagos when his wife called him from their Abuja home.

"On getting to the school gate, I was denied entry by the security peo­ple and left stranded for four hours. When I noticed that the matter was no more a small issue not to talk of the uncertainty surrounding my son’s life, knowing that his phone was already permanently switched off, I sought for external help through the military. It was the high command at the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu that assisted me before they could allow me to enter and stay by the side of the gate while they went to fetch my son. When they brought him, I fainted, upon seeing his condition".

“After regaining composure a bit, I asked him who did that to him and he pointed out the CSO, the Rev Father and some others. I wanted to take his picture in that state for practical evidence but to my surprise, another Catholic priest named Fr. Francis, who came in from Elele, Rivers State with two police escorts ordered the security men to smash my camera which is worth N300,000 to pieces, and they did. They also threatened to shoot me if I didn’t tread with cau­tion. After all arguments, we agreed that the children should be taken to either Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) or Uni­versity of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, but to my surprise again, as soon as I left, they bundled the children in that state to their headquarters at Elele, Rivers State.

“The children were kept in­communicado and detained in the hospital too. It was through military assistance that I was able to gain access to see them in the hospital but they refused to release them to us for proper medical care.”

Federal High Court to the rescue

Through the granted reliefs sought by the applicants, the management of Madonna University later released the wounded students from the hospi­tal though there are other pending matters in the suit. The case was adjourned till October 29, 2015.

Catholic priest, CSO remanded in prison custody, granted mysterious bail

On their release from the hospital in Elele, Stanley and Aondofa sought private treatment in other different hospitals. Stanley was admitted at Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Ogun State while Aondofa also went for corrective surgeries on his broken jaw. It was at the teaching hospital that the doctor revealed that Stanley would still require a corrective surgery abroad for his cervical region to avoid total and irreversible damage to the spinal cord as a result of the injuries sustained from the torture.

Incensed that the university man­agement showed no concern or even bothered to reach out to the aggrieved families of the brutalized students, who are solely bearing the spiraling cost of the victims’ medical bills, while the perpetrators of the acts have been walking about scot-free, Okoye petitioned the Commissioner of Po­lice seeking for criminal prosecution of the alleged culprits.

The petition signed by Barrister A.C Arinze of the chambers of G. E Ezeuko (SAN) and addressed to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, copy of which was obtained by the Sunday Sun, was entitled: “Petition Against Torture, Maltreatment, De­humanization, Unlawful Detention and Battering meted against Ifeanyi Stanley Okoye and Lord Aondofa Galim by staff and officials of Ma­donna University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State.”

Acting on the contents of the petition, and particularly moved by the pictures of the tortured state of the victims, the Commissioner of Police, after interviewing both parties and expressing serious dismay over the inhuman treatment of the students, ordered the detention of the duo of Fr. Nginga and Ogbonna Okey while others connected to the alleged crime were declared wanted.

Then on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Nginga and Ogbonna were arraigned in an Enugu Magistrate court presid­ed over by Nkemdilim Anibueze on a two-count charge of conspiracy and felony.

When the court registrar read the first charge against the defendants, an argument ensued between the police prosecutor, Anichima Boniface and the defence counsel from the chambers of Tony Muogbo, SAN, who argued that the first count charge preferred against the defendants was incompetent, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction to try the case.

After arguments, the magistrate ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison till the next adjourned date (July 21, 2015) for her to rule on whether the first count charge should subsist and on the issue of jurisdiction.

When the case was called on the resumed hearing, which was wit­nessed by Sunday Sun reporter and other journalists, a mild drama played out when the magistrate expressly granted all the prayers of the defence counsel and disallowed any objection from the police prosecutor or the counsel to the victimised students.

The magistrate, after ruling that the court did what it was supposed to do by remanding the suspects in prison custody when issues of competency of the court, charges or jurisdiction arose, later gave room for the counsel to argue their points.

The defence counsel, Tony Muogbo, SAN represented by Mrs V.C. Okoye told the court that the defendants had applied for and were granted bail by Agbani High Court, presided over by Justice Anidi, stressing that they had met the bail conditions. She explained that Friday and Monday, being November 17 and 20 respectively, were public holidays, therefore the defendants could not pay the necessary fees to obtain the certified true copies of the bail application.

The police prosecutor, Anichima, while addressing the court said that the argument by the defence counsel was a novelty to him because he had never heard that a defendant standing trial in a magistrate court could go to another court to seek and obtain bail when the magistrate hearing the case had not dispensed with it. The presiding magistrate in her ruling admitted the files as Exhibits A, A2, A3, A4 and E, which were enclosed in a big envelope. She stated that the case had been bonded over with the sum of N200,000 while the matter was adjourned sine-die pending when the Attorney General of Enugu State through the Director of Public Prosecution would give his opinion.

Before the magistrate could finish her remarks, the cleric and the CSO jumped out of the dock and in a jiffy, rushed to the door, followed immediately by other priests from Madonna University, who came to court in solidarity. Before the two lawyers could step out of the court, the defendants had already boarded a vehicle waiting within the premises and the driver zoomed off.

In a chat with Sunday Sun within the court premises, counsel to the brutalized students, Fidelis Mba­dugha expressed dismay over what transpired in the court, saying that there were indications that something transpired in secret before the court sitting. He said the proper thing the magistrate ought to have done was to first of all decline jurisdiction. He said the high court had no jurisdiction to grant bail when the matter was still pending in a magistrate court.

His words: “It is after a magis­trate court must have concluded and transmitted the case file to the DPP, and the DPP had prepared his opinion that the defendants could then apply for bail at the high court. The high court would then see the proceedings and records at the lower court before granting the bail. This kind of procedure has not happened in our justice system and we will study the situation and know the next step to take.”

Mother of Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, Mrs. Yemi Lim, who spoke to Sunday Sun from Benue State, where she lives, expressed sadness and dismay over the whole situation, alleging that the university authorities were eager to cover the truth.

“I’m not happy over the whole sit­uation. My son was tortured, assault­ed, locked up and would have died in that school but till today, nobody from the institution has communi­cated to us what actually happened. They performed surgery on my son without my signing any consent form. I was at the Elele hospital from February 17 to March 26, at my own expense but all I see is conspiracy of silence. I asked Fr. Mike at Elele to tell me the offence my son commit­ted but he said nothing. It is very dis­appointing and I say that this barbaric action must stop in that school. In 2013, two students were (allegedly) set ablaze at the Okija campus of the university. That matter was also swept under the carpet. I want justice to be done,” she said.

Another student brutalized for making noise

In the course of investigating this case, Sunday Sun also encoun­tered another student at the Akpugo campus of the university, who was allegedly brutalized for making noise during a church service in the campus. Sunday Sun learnt that the incident also involved the CSO and the cleric in charge of student affairs. He said they used military belt to beat him, and inflicted serious injuries on him. The scars of the injuries were still visible on his face since November 2014 when the incident happened.

In the interim, and particularly regarding the controversial circum­stances that led to the temporary discharge of the accused persons by the magistrate court, Chief Samuel Okoye has made a vow that the struggle to ensure that the victims get justice will continue. He threatened to petition the National Judicial Council, the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), National Human Rights Commission and other relevant bodies both in Nigeria and abroad over the matter. Okoye also punctured the claims by the uni­versity PRO that the students were cultists, saying that such labeling was also an indirect indictment on the university management.

“They can thwart the course of justice but it will only be for a while. How can a university where you have armed soldiers, policemen as well as other private guards, claim that my son is a cultist. Also, does the law allow anybody to become the arresting authority, prosecutor, and dispenser of justice at the same time in a jungle manner? They wanted to use my son for rituals but God said no. There are still so many unanswered questions about what happened to my son and his friend. The Rev. Father still needs to tell the whole world where they were taking my son and his friend in the dead of the night in the trunk of the vehicles after torturing them half dead, beating the university security and the police. If God did not expose this crime, we would have heard a different story about what happened to the students. Since this matter started, they have been busy trying to cover up by de­stroying evidence and reaching out to some people so that the matter would be swept under the carpet. That was why they destroyed my camera and also refused to release the medical records of the tortured students but I know that there is God in heaven who oversees the affairs of men,” Okoye said.
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Angelo's girlfriend must be r e t a r d!!! so her boyfriend is not to blame at all?? she's talking like Beverly forced herself on him. They both wanted each other. Some women are just so stupid! why would you want to marry a man who cheats on you, worse of all, publicly. SHAME!!!

Acidosis: This is the problem I have with Nigerian/African ladies... Always trying to imitate the wrong things..

Pls who is Kim Kardashian??

Why don't you give me names of qualified ladies instead of an Armelian slut..

Why not give me names of worthy women in the world who slept on reality shows with random men?

Did Obama's wife also sleep with Obasanjo before she became the no1 woman in the world?

Did Gate's wife sleep with Obama before she became the wife to a world known billionnaire..

"Yes, shes not the first Nigerian girl to have slept with a S.A guy".. BUT shes the first (Guiness Book) Nigerian hor. ny uncontrollably libido-slut to r a p e a S.A guy on a reality show.

Did you say "r a p e"? Beverly and Angelo are adults and they both CONSENTED to have sex!!! where does r a p e come into the whole thing! illiterate!!!

ogb5: The comments here make one wonder if nigerians really know what is happening to their country.

People are glorifying criminality.
very pathetic.

That young woman will bear the scare of this ordeal for the rest of her life. One will not be surprised if she commits suicide in the near future because of the experience.

Yet people are here online glorifying the crime.

She might just have been infected with HIV for no fault of hers

How does HIV come in did you hear that she was raped? that's how rumors will start spreading because of people like you.

she should work out and go to the gym! i've seen people with more children who still have flat tummies without surgery.

"So far, Genevieve’s starring in the movies has grossed over N83 million at the box office. Mirror Boy (described by the actress as her first major film and the first to put her at the box-office) made N18 million, while Ije netted N60 million turning out to be Nigeria’s highest grossing movie ever. But Genevieve had to share the money with Omotola, who also acted alongside her. If the sharing formula is 50-50, then Genevieve gets N30 million of the total gross."



this doesn't make much sense! so the money made from a movie is shared by the leading actors? what about the producers and the other cast members? Nonsense!

once Nigerian musicians start making money, they blow up like balloons! Look at Omawumi, orobo ki bo, she looks shapeless! mstcheeew.

on point!!!

its nice how many people have been saying "nigerian" and not "yoruba". That's good, we should learn to see ourselves as one. But if it were an igbo or hausa man, the stupid yoruba tribalists will start commenting rubbish and saying how they are the best tribe. Food for thought guys!

Black Friday is sooo overated! i went last year for the first time and i swore that would be my last too. They just put very few things on sale and most of them are items that are not popular, then you see people scrambling and buying things that they never even wanted. The camera i bought last year during black Friday spoilt after i used it twice. Its not worth the hype and stress at all!

Tiwa's face looks way much lighter than her arms. Too much make up! concealer is meant to cover blemishes not to change you skin color. She looks like Michael Jackson!

ceejay80s: wetin i take? Wetin bad for wetin i talk? France-French, Usa-English, Germany-German, Nigeria- Hausa,Igbo, Yoruba,Edo, Calabar, ibibio, efik,Pigeon, etc na wetin, just one country! Inshort naija for be a CONTINENT on its own

Nigeria has English as its official language! USA doesnt speak just English. There are spanish, Germans, Italians, Africans etc here and they all speak their language

topsyking: THE DAY I HEAR A IGBO MAN BECOMES THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA, I WILL RENOUNCED MY CITIZENSHIP..cos they will take us back to the craddle instead of moving us forward

u can also kill yourself who f@cking cares if u denounce your citizenship??

wizkid revelation of the year haba! we've known dat dude for more than 3 years now...nawa o

Callotti: Na even ARAB sef. . . .
Small blokos!
Abeg carry ya money go!
Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.
Who wan follow 'TALIBAN' sef. . .
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. . . . .

He's not arab dummie!! he's from south east asia, you can tell from his name.

mekaboy: NON SENSE, NA ENGLISH THEM GO CHOP ? BESIDES WHY MUST NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES KNOW THE MEANING OF AN ENGLISH WORD? DO THE WHITES KNOW THE MEANING OF OROBO ? IMAGINE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD RED CARPET AND ASK THE STARS WHAT IS OROBO? WILL YOU SAY THEY A DUMB FOR NOT KNOWING WHAT IT IS? ABEG FREE THEM JOOR.

HATERS, STAY HERE AND BE LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, WHILE THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY .

very stupid comment!!! how would they know the meaning of "orobo" when they don't teach them pidgin English their schools? In Nigeria, we are taught in English so it is expected that we know and understand it.

Developed countries understand that in order to outdo their competitors, they have to be able to speak their language. That is just common sense. Why do you think Americans study German, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese and Russian languages(etc) and vice versa?? I don't see how our local languages can help us compete on international levels. Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying our local languages are useless or anything like that, all i'm saying is you can't go to China for business and then speak Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa to them, neither can you go to any other African country and do so. Everybody knows China is the next big thing, its only wise to start thinking like them in order to be like or even greater than them. How can you think like them if you can't speak their language

Have you heard of something called "cheque". That's another means of payment instead of tithe. Besides, super rich men can afford a tithe of 45 million naira because that's only 10% of their income.

maclatunji: You are implying that N35 million and N10 million were delivered in cash to the two churches and the clergymen were "blissfully" ignorant of the donor?

searchcorp: Hey!!! Una own too much jare...

Don't they shoot clips and documentaries in projects abroad.

Haven't you seen slumdog millionaire. Did indians complain?

Infact, try watching the documentary on the real 'rick-ross' and u will conclude that every single black abroad is either a drug-junkie or a soon-to-be- drug-junkie.

Rest the matter ja re, atleast the video was not greenscreened(chroma). The original background was captured.

So?

Indians actually complained about "slumdog millionaire". You can google it. You should know your facts before you write.

na wa

its actually "change" and not "balance". Go and look it up in your dictionary dummy!

Farouk is just as guilty as Otedola. i pray Nigerians see thru his lies and stupidity. Didn't he just say that neither him nor any of his committee members collected any bribe? He has now changed his story now that he has been out-rightly exposed. He should go and hang himself! shameless man!

r u kiddin? the girls in the yoruba clothes look better?? shine ur eyes abeg!

hmm, Nairaland keeps editing my messages. I din't actually write "slow"

I actually meant "retarded" ,

Whoever is proud to graduate from that trash of a school must be f**King RETARDED! Why don't y'all say d truth, in ur hearts u wish u neva went to dat horrible place in the name of Madonna University. The schools gives u a truck list of rules and regulations like u're a freaking prisoner and u're proud of it If u needed that much rules to behave in a university then it shows that u were not mature enough to be in one. That is even the least of the issues with the school. I'm speaking from experience, so i know exactly what i'm saying. A school that will have your fellow students torment you in the name of "hall reps" is only fit for animals. We pay such high fees yet our classrooms and hostels are fit only for pigs. Imagine rats climbing ur bunk everyday and the school does absolutely nothing about it instead the Rev. Father tells us its "our fault". I totally regret the 1 year i wasted there, i'd have stayed at home if i knew. Thank God i left anyways.