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Germany did it!
Abacha did it!!
Goodluck Jonathan can do it!!!

Argentina playing on the counter, as expected.

chukxie: There are more functioning security cameras in just one Province in China than there are people in Nigeria. That explains a lot.

You mean in just a province in China there are more than 160 million CCTVs? That's taking exaggeration to a whole new level.

Forwetinnah: There should be stricter rules in medicine, because when the architect builds a shaky house and it collapses. .where do they take the victims to? When a Mechanical Engr manufactures a faulty car, where do they take the victim to? I know a female Doc who travels to Dubai to give birth to her kids cause she can't stand the risk of letting her colleagues deliver her; why? She has a rear blood type. I've also witnessed a case where a patient was the one who told an intern doctor(male) that her "consultant" had taken her off a particular drug...meanwhile the doctor had 'opened her file, read through it' and was about injecting the said prescription into her drip( no supervision ) for him mind now him dey "on call" and dey do him" rounds"!! Word around was that the intern doctor was a relation of the MD in UPTH then...smh

Your argument may not be wrong, but the thing is, with a less motivated or low quality ENGR you stand little chance being alive to have the privilege of calling a doc.

You need engrs to PREVENT occurrences that you may need docs to help correct; most may not live to get that correction and besides, like a yoruba proverb, a scar can never be like the original skin.

More and more, better technologies come out aiding and even slowly fading out medical guys, as in other areas of life. In the future, we may need less docs, but guess who is developing these technologies? Engrs. If the producers of the MRI scanners made mistakes, doctors will be operating parts they have no business opening up.

I think the role of doctors as life savers, though a fact, is overrated. Engrs save many lives by preventing catastrophic occurrences that can befall anyone, anytime.

justi4jesu: Doctors should earn more than any other profession or Politicians in any country. IMHO

Because you cant buy life..

And Engrs....? I'm sure you're here because you've never been in a building collapse or a sinking ship or a plunging plane.

Ilekere: Really happy to be out of the dump called Nigeria.

We'll miss u

OrlandoOwoh: If the claim by one of the posters here that the cultists drove into the campus to the sports complex car park at 3:30AM is anything to go by, then the gate men at the main gate or the one at Road 7 would have aided them. The reason being that at night the gates are locked till 5AM.

They came in much before then and mixed with the crowd of strange faces on campus.

asalimpo: Sayg no dislike ,is like sayg nobody shud boo at a football match Or at a stale/dry joke.
Or no critcal commentary in d newspaper against your state guv,president etc.
A dislike button will make nl,more like d real grim world. With all its shades of ppl.

Who's liking who.
Hmm. Well it can hav its gud sides. E.g if sb u respect likes ur comment it boosts u more than if u ddnt know who. But um its going to b used for hookg up more or less. Like guy keeps liking babes post until d babe gets d "message" and starts "honkg" back.
Nairaland cud add a ban button. To stop certain monikers commentg,liking/disliking ur post. Or a group feature to restrict a discussion just to certain groups without d discussion being private. E.g theyre dscussions only females want to engage in, males etc.
Avatars besides usernames wud b nice.
On ppl creatg new usernames to troll, topic posters cud ban all posters registered after d topic was created(for a period of time).

I saw an idea here that can be useful but don't how feasible it is for seun.

If you have a ban tab that allows a maximum of 2bans, else you have to unban to make space for the "new ban"; then that will be great. If the person being banned by another quotes or mentions that person, then the post is automatically hidden for some hours ( or deleted) before making it visible later, maybe much after the discussion has moved on. This can be 2-3hrs.

Alternatively, or in addition, the operator of a thread can have the powers to "ban" for like 15mins. The ban works like the ban tab where the person's post isn't visible until 15mins later.

There should be a polling section, with special apps where people can vote in on any subject matter.

Any thing that needs voting, from Mr and miss Nairaland to no. of Hausas online can be done here. Different sections can take turns to use this feature and the use can be regulated by a mod.

judyeze1: [size=18pt]are you saying the student burn than the hall over this video , awolowo is no more a hero.. pro independent western nigeria against anti western nigeria independent like tinubu, mike adenuga etc..

video of the independent day of Western Nigeria 15th November 1957

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzZ1Dfl-Dg

Is this musiwa?

ObiChiz08: Mehn! So touching.
And the culprits are freely roaming about every nook & cranny of this damn country

I'm so sure some of them are politicians now, ruling us.

seanswitch: "On Saturday, 7 March 1999, a group of members held a meeting in Ife town. After the meeting, they drove back to the campus. On the main road, Road 1, leading into the campus, they were overtaken by some students in another car. For whatever reason, they were enraged and gave chase to the students. The students, seeing them in pursuit, raced hastily to the car park outside Angola Hall and ran into the adjacent Awolowo Hall for safety. The Students’ Union, which had also received information that secret cult members were gathering in a house in the senior staff quarters, mobilised in response to the incident. Led by George Iwilade, the Secretary-General, a group of them drove to the house, officially occupied by Mr. F.M. Mekoma, and forced their way into the boys’ quarters. They found nine individuals inside, eight of them students of the University, with a submachine gun, a locally manufactured gun, an axe, a bayonet and the black clothing and regalia of the cult. The University authorities were informed, and the members of the secret cult were handed over to the Police. They were held in police custody and taken to the Chief Magistrate’s Court where two weeks later they were granted bail.

The case was heard on 31 March, and to the utmost amazement of everyone, the Chief Magistrate discharged and acquitted the arrested individuals. The students who had apprehended the cult members were not called as witnesses. The investigating police officer, Corporal Femi Adewoye, claimed that the witnesses could not be located and actually stated in Court, “I tried to contact the complainants in this case, all to no avail. To date, there is no complainant in the case. Since all the accused persons denied the allegations against them and there is no complainant, there is no way the allegations can be proved.” This was the submission of the prosecuting police officer! Usually, in such cases, witness’ summons were served through the University Administration but this did not happen. The trial was concluded in two court appearances in eight days.

The Chief Magistrate also ordered that the submachine gun be sent to the police armourer and the other exhibits be destroyed, thus eliminating all the evidence, and making it impossible to re-open the case. The Judicial Enquiry recommended that the Magistrate be reported to the Judicial Commission for appropriate disciplinary action. Nothing came of this, as nothing came of all the other recommendations of that Panel.

After the arrests of the cult members, the University, under pressure from the students, issued a release suspending them without serving them with letters of suspension. Shortly afterwards, the University was closed as a result of a student crisis. When it re-opened three months later, the cult members returned to the campus and were seen attending lectures. The students raised an alarm once more. In response to this, the University issued a release on 2 July re-affirming the suspensions of the cult members. The letters of suspension were dated 8 July and it is doubtful whether those affected actually received them before the tragic events two days later. Even then, one of the students, Bruno Arinze, was left out. I eventually suspended him on 23 July.

The cult involved in the episode of 7 March was the . Four major reasons have been advanced as to the genesis leading to the mayhem on 10 July. One, to which I subscribe, was that the was avenging the humiliating treatment of its members by the Student Union leaders in March 1999.

On the night of 9 July 1999, the Kegites, members of the Palm Wine Drinkers’ Club, held a “gyration” (party) in the cafeteria of Awolowo Hall. The party was in full swing, when, at around 3.30am (now 10 July), a group of masked individuals, wearing black clothing, drove through the main gate and proceeded to the car park next to the Tennis Courts in the Sports Centre. They disembarked there and went on foot along a bush path to Awolowo Hall, where they violently interrupted the gyration, firing guns and also wielding axes and cutlasses. The group was probably all young men, although there is a persistent story of at least one woman among them. Some of the partygoers were shot, though none of them was killed. The partygoers ran for their lives, a few actually throwing themselves through glass doors.

A group of the gunmen chased the partygoers as far as Mozambique Hall. Other groups proceeded to the rooms. They first entered Room 184, where they shot and killed Efe Ekede, a Part II Psychology student. In Room 230, they shot Charles Ita, a Part II Law student. A group of the attackers then shot Yemi Ajiteru, a Part II Religious Studies student, through the head in the corridor outside the Kegites’ headquarters. In Room 273, they found George Iwilade (Afrika), the Secretary-General of the Students’ Union and a Law student, and shot him through the head, along with another occupant, Tunde Oke, a Part 1 student of Philosophy, who was shot in the abdomen. When the attackers got to Room 271, the room allocated to the suspended Students’ Union President, Lanre Adeleke (Legacy), they found that he had escaped. Legacy was in his room when he heard the first gun shots. He hurriedly went to his door, looked out, and saw two of the attackers on the next floor, firing shots. He ran back into his room and broke through the partition of the kitchenette into the next room’s kitchenette. He heard them shouting, “Legacy, come out!” and escaped into the next room. During the course of the incident, the attackers also shouted the names of “Afrika”, George Iwilade, and “Dexter”, the Chief of the Kegites, demanding that they come out.

The band of thugs proceeded to Fajuyi Hall on foot, where they shot and killed one more student. That individual, Eviano Ekelemo, a medical student, was certainly not a student activist, but they shot him anyway. The murderers left Fajuyi Hall on foot and went through the bush path behind the Hall back to their vehicles. They drove to the Students’ Union building, which they ransacked. They returned to their vehicles and drove out of the University through the main gate. The security staff, having heard gunfire, fled for their lives. Thus the exit of the marauding thugs was unchallenged.

The students with gunshot wounds were taken to the Health Centre and from there to the Teaching Hospital. Tunde Oke was still alive but died on the operating table. Four others, George Iwilade, Yemi Ajiteru, Efe Ekede and Eviano Ekelemu, were brought in dead. Eviano Ekelemu bled to death from gunshot wounds to the groin and thigh. The other three died from gunshot wounds to the head. In each case, the weapons used were shotguns, fired at close range. Charles Ita and five others who were shot in the Awolowo Hall cafeteria, survived. Twenty-five others received minor injuries, which were sustained during the stampede out of the Awolowo Hall cafeteria and later on during the attack.

In the aftermath of the attack, the whole university was enveloped in fear and there was chaos in the halls of residence. However, within a short time, the President of the Students’ Union, Lanre Adeleke, was able to restore order and mobilise his colleagues. The students went to the town searching for the perpetrators in locations where cult members were thought to be living. They “arrested” three individuals and brought them back to Awolowo Hall. These were Aisekhaghe Aikhile, a Part I student of Agricultural Economics, Emeka Ojuagu, and Frank Idahosa (Efosa). Efosa and Ojuagu were arrested in a public transport vehicle that was about to leave Ife.

The students exhibited black clothing, two berets and two T-shirts, that had been found in Ojuagu’s bag, which was claimed to be the uniform. Efosa was a known member of the . He had been expelled from the University of Benin and was later admitted for a diploma programme in Local Government Studies in Ife. The three of them were savagely beaten and tortured in the Awolowo Hall “Coffee Room”, the traditional venue for such events. The inverted commas have been employed because coffee had not been known to be served there for many years. Efosa and Oguagu are said to have confessed to participating in the attacks during their “interrogation”, and Efosa is said to have gone further to state that the attack was organised to avenge the humiliating treatment of the members who had been arrested in Mr. Mekoma’s house on 7 March.

In the course of the interrogation, Aisekhaghe Aikhile died, and his body was taken to the hospital mortuary. The interrogations also yielded the information that 22 members were involved, six from the University, four from the University of Lagos, four from the University of Ibadan, and eight from the University of Calabar. There was also a separate claim that more students from the University of Benin were also involved.

The VC, Professor Wale Omole, had been out of the country on 10 July 1999, the day of the attack and in his absence, the Deputy VC (Academic), Professor A.E. Akingbohungbe, was in charge. Soon after his arrival, the VC was summoned to Abuja to give a report of the incident the day after he returned to campus. On 14 July, his suspension was announced by the Government. It was against this background that I was tracked to the UK and summoned to return immediately and assume duty as the acting VC of the University.

When I arrived on the campus on 18 July, I promised the students and the rest of the university community, that the university would do everything in its power to bring the perpetrators to justice. I took this undertaking extremely seriously.

The first step was to visit the Commissioner of Police, Mr. J.C. Nwoye, in Osogbo. I raised the issue of the nine individuals who had been arrested in March and discharged by the Chief Magistrate. He promised that a vigorous and thorough investigation was in progress on the matter. He then expressed concern that the University authorities had not officially reported the murders to the Police despite repeated requests. On my return to the University, I wrote the required letter, once more indicating our strong fears concerning a connection between the March episode and the murders, and requesting that the nine individuals involved be re-arrested.

A total of 12 individuals were arrested and charged to court over the three weeks following the murders, including Efosa and Ojuagu. Only one of those involved in the March episode was among those arrested. The other eight could not be located. Two of them had obtained their transcripts and resumed their studies in France. The students brought information on the whereabouts of a major suspect, Babatunde Kazeem (Kato), and we provided a vehicle so that the Police could go with the students to the address in Lagos and arrest him. Kato was a former student who had been “advised to withdraw” from the University as a result of academic failure. He had been apprehended by the Students’ Union in August 1997 when he admitted to being a secret cult member. He was subsequently handed over to the Security Department, but there is no record of what happened after that. We also provided the Police with information on three other individuals, “Innocent”, “Yuletide” and “Ogbume.” Sadly, nothing came of this, even though we provided Ogbume’s address in Victoria Garden City, Lagos. The arrested persons were charged to the Ile-Ife Magistrate’s court for the murders.

The Judicial Commission of Enquiry was eventually inaugurated in Abuja on 18 October, but did not start work until 24 November, and eventually arrived in the University on Sunday, 28 November. The Chairman was Justice Okoi Itam. There were six other members, including Professor Jadesola Akande, an experienced and highly respected academic and university administrator, and Ray Ekpu, the journalist. Ms. Turi Akerele was later deployed as legal counsel to the Commission. A flamboyant but highly capable alumnus, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, led a team representing the students.

The Commission’s report was submitted in February 2000 and was released, along with the Government’s white paper, later that year. The Commission expressed its strong belief that seven named individuals had participated in the killings—Frank Idahosa (Efosa), Didi Yuletide, Kazeem Bello (Kato), and four individuals who were identified only by their nicknames or Christian names—Innocent, Athanasius, “Ochuko”, and “Chunk.” The last was identified as the then head of the secret cult. The Commission also recommended the investigation of 16 other individuals, including Emeka Oguaju and the nine involved in the 7 March episode. The Panel criticised the police investigation of the case and recommended that the Inspector-General of Police should set up a special task force to take it over. I have already mentioned the recommendations concerning the Chief Magistrate who hastily tried and acquitted the 7 March culprits, as well as Efosa’s lawyer.

It took me several months, and a number of visits to Abuja, to obtain the Commission’s report and the White Paper. Dissatisfied with the progress of the court cases, and armed with the report, I visited the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige. After I had expressed my concerns over the case and highlighted the Commission’s recommendations concerning its investigation, he assured me that, although the case was being prosecuted by the Osun State Attorney-General’s office, his Ministry would work with that office. He sent for the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Musiliu Smith, who agreed that he would immediately establish the recommended special task force. This he did, and a senior police officer, ACP Tonye Ibitibituwa, soon arrived in Osogbo with a team. However, in spite of the efforts of this task force, no further arrests were made. We also liaised with the Osun State Attorney-General, who assured us that his office was seriously following up the case. I must say that he did personally prosecute the case.

As I have stated, the cases against those charged in the Chief Magistrate’s Court for belonging to an illegal organisation eventually came to nothing. However, we were very hopeful of a successful prosecution of the murder cases against Efosa and company. The case in the Osogbo High Court, which commenced on 9 April 2001, wound on. Evidence for the prosecution was taken from a number of students and some other witnesses. There was adjournment after adjournment. In mid-2002, the Judge hearing the case was transferred to Iwo, and the case along with it. There was a further delay while the exhibits were also subsequently taken to Iwo. To the amazement of everyone, the Judge upheld a “No Case” submission by the defence on 5 November 2002. The three accused persons were released and they subsequently disappeared…

These are the people that will eventually become our politicians and super elite. I wont be surprised if they already are in such capacity.

Then they started marching towards the TV /library/ coffee room, where guys who were sleeping were sent scampering for their lives. Guys and girls were jumping down from those three places! One jumped onto the walkway roof going towards awo annex and tried running on it. He crashed down and probably broke his leg cos he couldn't move afterwards. I thought he was dead meat but the cultist simply walked up to him with a glance and moved on he was not the target.

The now started forming rows, marching like soldiers. From what I could see, these ppl were led by a lady-not too tall.

Then they dispersed in groups in different directions. Some some went to block 7and 8 where the SUG guys were staying and I could hear the gunshots and helpless cries. I was too numb to be afraid.

Then they started shouting: "they said this is the great awo hall!!", "show us how great you are!!!" "Come out now!!!!" "this is war!!!" "COME OUT NOW!!!". Apart from gunshots and the wails of victims, you could hear a pin drop.

My roommate then had a rush of blood to the head and wanted to come out. "Fvck! Fvck these guys men!! Awo hall fears no one!!! I honestly strangely wasn't afraid but I was having a clearer head and angrily told him to shut the fvck up. Couldn't decide if I was angry with him or at our helplessness.

Suffice to say, one of them fell in the long drain going across the hall and we knew they weren't from OAU. That drain is too big to miss.

After some mins the volume of the gunshots reduced and people started coming out. Some fled for the jungle behind the hall others went straight to block 8 where we heard the most cries. The deed had been done. Some shouted that they had killed Africa and started crying.

Terrible memory to relive, terrible site. Doors dented and having imprints of shoes used to barge in, door handles gone and in place of that the is a hole the size of an orange. They simply shot through the door handle with the bullet splattering in different directions afterwards.

I lost my lesson mate that night. Couldn't hide quickly, stayed in the bed. One of the bullets that splattered simply swarmed him on the bed. By the time people could get to him, his bed was soaked in blood. Some of the smaller bullets actually went into the wall behind him.

For to Faj and Eviano's blood was dripping down from the 2nd floor as if someone poured a bucket of water.

I've said enough a beg. Leaving the rest where it is.

datalossvictim1: Hmmnn karma did iwilade wrong then. They should have reported the matter to the police instead of beating them to numbness. It is difficult to stop violence with violence. Very sad!

Well, there should have been more excos there but like I mentioned earlier, their was a crack amongst the and most of the SUG guys were acting in individual capacity- mostly. Besides Africa was super popular and was already seen as the SUG president-in waiting by that time. Guess he wanted to show leadership/bravery etc at that point.

I did fear that this incident might back fire, but I didn't envisage what came afterwards.

On the very night, around 4am ( about the time when the campus is most quiet), I was reading, facing my window in room 105 facing the cafe area where the keggites were. After some time I noticed that the songs had abruptly stopped. I looked up and saw Awo cafe was empty.

While still wondering, the first shot rang out like riffle! Someone shouted "aro!" (Mad person) thinking it was knockouts for jokes. Then i heard the loudest gun shot in my life, it must have been a shotgun and at 4am, it reverbarated round the whole hall. Someone quickly added "eleyi o ki nse aro o!" (This isn't for jokes). As if on cue, everyone started switching off their lights. The lights beyond reach were stoned with shoes.

The hall area became dark with the only lights coming from the Awo cafe and TV room/library areas. Then the third gunshot, just like the second. I actually saw this person. He was in the cafe, faced the hall area and shot through the huge glass there. It was the only time I docked and reality really set in - these were cultists!!! It is not a movie!!!

A day before the hit. The Angola car park had lots of cars with their plate numbers covered. Some had the ø symbol so I just guessed it was a sigma phi test party. Besides OAU is the headquarters of keggites and they were also having their "ilia de world" parapo then. So lots if strange faces looking pensive.

Lots of guys felt the faces seen were too strange for comfort and they reported to the SUG. The crack in the SUG however did not allow the info to go round and for preventive action to be taken. The info did not especially get to Africa and it became a huge problem for the SUG after the killings.

OK. So I don't know how it is now, but this was OAU during my Stay there. Political positions were hotly contested for along ideological lines. We had the DSM (Democratic Socialist Movement-if I remember correctly), they had affiliations with Gani Fawehinmi; there was PACESETTERS-a little like DSM; then there was UJCM (University Joint Christian Mission)- the Christian ideology . Make no mistake about UJCM's influence on political affairs then.

After elections, the SUG was expected to work as a unit regardless of ideological affiliations.

There were always differences amongst the SUG but never did the crack become evident like the Legacy-Africa-Faro era. It also led to the success of the cultists' hit

Sad day in OAU then... Free info, prior to this incident OAU was NOT the headquarters of cultism. You could walk on the campus anywhere and at anytime without any fear of molestation. This holds true till now I guess, and it was same for most of the late 90s. Most cultists stayed off campus and kept their secrets secrete.

I was in block 1 Awo hall. Saw everything live, too shocked to look away. It was surreal, unbelievable.

Days before the hit, the SUG had a tip off of some cultists who had just come back from another hit somewhere and were with their guns. Their place at the school quaters was raided and they were caught- with their guns. The were given "shishi to infinity"- oau guys will understand this more. This is the highest form of beating that anyone can get.

I was there when they started the beating...anything people laid their hands on was freely used. In a minute they were already covered in blood. I went to class and came back to meet the guys still being beaten, they were by now not looking like humans-probably not feeling anything. Sat on the Angola car park with occasional lashes from students before they were taken away. Iwilade (Africa) supervised the beating.

Brb. Gotta explain something to hard-headed Carpenter here.

MisterLongman: Ejo Le fe ro............................ Fvck your lame excuse

Why the swear words? I didnt mention you did I?

I could care less about any of the teams winning. Stop being juvenile.

In other news, Dele Aturu RIP.

Should have started with his strongest players van gaal. It was vlah's first penalty and at this stage that was a too much of a risk. lt affected others who were not also mentally Strong.

Dull game. Probably to be settled by penalties.

Boring half.

Chino72: Pictures of me?? More like you are saying you have pix of Psquare? I am doing this so that you can start posting it asap!

If you do not post it now, I will flood this thread with red earth mud house that can only be seen in yolobarland..

Chinonso, I'm more than that. You are a child in the body of an adult. If you want to throw your toys out of the pram be my guest, but let it be out if this thread, OK?

Chino72: You want people to go to that rural area called oshun to do what?

Oshun that does not have a single decent hotel for visitor. In the whole of oshogbo there is no decent barbing salon!

98% of oshogbo resident do not have toilet facilities..

You know people still have pictures of you right? You need to learn to keep quiet.

For me, the winners should come from this pick. They represent the more unique black beauties. Most of the half castes just have the skin tone and little else:

Miss Ondo and miss Ekiti have chances too though.

At 7-0, the camera pans on Ronaldo doing commentaries and the commentator went:

"That's Ronaldo in the commentaries box, (chuckles) he has to keep talking!

Tony kroos goes to Brazil dressing room:

"Knock knock!"

"Who's there?"

"Kroos"

"Kroos? Kroos who?!"

"Krooooooosified! Laid behind a stone, he lived to die, rejected and alone...!!!"

The Brazilians are not shocked anymore, they don't have that luxury. The Germans have been utterly domineering for any feeling of shock to last long. Now they are just disappointed.

Germany teaching everyone how to play effective tiki taka

5-0

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