Last week, the editorial team of SOCIOSCOPE thought it wise to table the issue that pertains to the gross denigration of the environment by the powers-that-be. The reason for the editorial was the aggressive tree-cutting exercise that the school’s authorities embarked upon. If you remember correctly, at the end of the editorial, the people at the helm of affairs were urged to come out plain about the reason for their actions. However, till the time pen was been put to paper for this, no official release has been issued to this effect. That might only mean that the school’s authorities are of the opinion that we, as students, are so inconsequential that we do not have a say in what is done to our environment.
One would have expected the over-zealous tree -cutting exercise to have been watered down a bit by now, but the opposite is the case. It now appears as if the zeal with which they are cutting the trees has only climaxed. Some may see nothing wrong with cutting trees. But the truth remains that the student populace deserves to know the reason for the relentless tree-cutting. The student populace is tired of hearsay. We are tired of rumors. The strongest of all these rumors is that the school’s authorities want to generate revenue by selling the end products gotten from the trees.
If these rumors are anything to go by, one wonders if there are no other veritable ways through which money could be raised. Why have they chosen to embarrass nature in such a manner? If it is indeed true that the school plans to raise money by humiliating nature, one then wonders what is happening to all the money they get from Pre-Degree. Even after breaking the limit of N1000 which NUC set as the highest cost for writing Post-UME, one wonders if the money that was gotten would not be enough for whatsoever the school urgently needs money for. What about monies that are donated by the Alumni?
Even if the school’s authorities eventually derive the revenue they have been said to be looking for, will they use it in any way that will enhance the wellbeing of the student populace as a whole? One would, however, always want to state that something can ever be built on nothing. If the powers-that-be have something good in mind for cutting down the trees, it is important they know that nature deserves more respect than that which they deem fit for her.
Olofinlua Oyindamola
Ediotor-In-Chief
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
“I AM NOT A RAPIST” Students’ Union CSO says
There was anxiety last week Saturday over a case of attempted rape leveled against the new Chairman of the Security Committee, Mr. Aakson, by three female non-students. The girls were said to have come from Lagos state on the invitation of their boyfriends and friends who were identified as students of the University of Technology, Ile Ife and the Federal College of Education, Abeokuta for sight-seeing. According to the visitors, they were driving out of the campus from New Buka around 10.00 p.m. when the bumper of one of their three cars dropped. When the drivers of the other cars got out to pick the bumper, some boys who claimed to be members of the Security Committee were said to have come from nowhere to pounce on them and they started beating all the boys. The visitors were later detained at the Students’ Union building. At the Union building, the girls were detained but separately from the boys.
Some of the complainants
However, the most surprising part of the narration was done by the girls who alleged that the Chairman of the security committee in the person of Aakson had attempted to rape the three ladies individually, at separate times in the Students’ Union’s toilet.
One of the girls, Omoteniola, said, “We were taken to a building and beaten, the guys amongst us were locked up in a place that looked like a library while the three of us were in another room. Then, he called me and said he wanted to see me at the back. It was a toilet and I entered the toilet. He said he wanted to make love to me. I knelt down and begged him that he should not. Then, he asked me to hug him. I did this and was freed. Then, he called this one” (pointing at another girl).
The girl Omoteniola pointed at while recounting her experience stated, “When he called me, he was asking me about my boyfriend, I said he is just a student … he asked me to pull my skirt. I said no and was shouting. When he saw that I was shouting, he was trying to stop me and suddenly, he threw me away from the toilet. He then came back to me and asked me to allow him suck my nipples. I declined with a loud voice and he hit me with a stick and we went back to where we were detained.”
The third lady also narrated a similar experience. When SOCIOSCOPE correspondents went to the Students’ Union building where the case was meant to be reviewed, the question of who should moderate sparked off a heated agitation between some ideological boys and some other students who were one side and the Union leaders on the other side. At the end of it all, it was resolved by OAU students that the General Secretary of the Union, JJ Thompson, should moderate.
Another interesting but embarrassing angle to the scenario was the throwing of fisticuff that the whole event nearly resulted into.
During the proceeding, Aakson, the chairman of the newly constituted Security Committee denied all the allegations leveled against him while the case was dismissed on the basis of ‘no winner, no loser.’ Efforts to reach Aakson by SOCIOSCOPE correspondents after the dismissal of the case proved abortive.
Immediately after the dismissal of the case, asking the ladies and the boys what they felt about the resolution, one of the ladies cursed in tears, “Those two boys (referring to Aakson and Eleku) will never do well in life. Nemesis will one day catch up with them, unless they did not make an attempt to make love to us because the one in blue jersey also touched some of our sensitive parts.”
One of the boys that were allegedly battered lamented thus, “My friend is still been hospitalized. A bottle was broken on his knee but, as a Muslim, I leave vengeance to God.”
Some of the complainants
However, the most surprising part of the narration was done by the girls who alleged that the Chairman of the security committee in the person of Aakson had attempted to rape the three ladies individually, at separate times in the Students’ Union’s toilet.
One of the girls, Omoteniola, said, “We were taken to a building and beaten, the guys amongst us were locked up in a place that looked like a library while the three of us were in another room. Then, he called me and said he wanted to see me at the back. It was a toilet and I entered the toilet. He said he wanted to make love to me. I knelt down and begged him that he should not. Then, he asked me to hug him. I did this and was freed. Then, he called this one” (pointing at another girl).
The girl Omoteniola pointed at while recounting her experience stated, “When he called me, he was asking me about my boyfriend, I said he is just a student … he asked me to pull my skirt. I said no and was shouting. When he saw that I was shouting, he was trying to stop me and suddenly, he threw me away from the toilet. He then came back to me and asked me to allow him suck my nipples. I declined with a loud voice and he hit me with a stick and we went back to where we were detained.”
The third lady also narrated a similar experience. When SOCIOSCOPE correspondents went to the Students’ Union building where the case was meant to be reviewed, the question of who should moderate sparked off a heated agitation between some ideological boys and some other students who were one side and the Union leaders on the other side. At the end of it all, it was resolved by OAU students that the General Secretary of the Union, JJ Thompson, should moderate.
Another interesting but embarrassing angle to the scenario was the throwing of fisticuff that the whole event nearly resulted into.
During the proceeding, Aakson, the chairman of the newly constituted Security Committee denied all the allegations leveled against him while the case was dismissed on the basis of ‘no winner, no loser.’ Efforts to reach Aakson by SOCIOSCOPE correspondents after the dismissal of the case proved abortive.
Immediately after the dismissal of the case, asking the ladies and the boys what they felt about the resolution, one of the ladies cursed in tears, “Those two boys (referring to Aakson and Eleku) will never do well in life. Nemesis will one day catch up with them, unless they did not make an attempt to make love to us because the one in blue jersey also touched some of our sensitive parts.”
One of the boys that were allegedly battered lamented thus, “My friend is still been hospitalized. A bottle was broken on his knee but, as a Muslim, I leave vengeance to God.”
YES, GOD IS NOT A GOD OF THE YAHOO BOY
Yahoo – a rude, noisy person , according to the advanced learners’ dictionary.
Yahoo Yahoo – an internet based fraud business.
YAHOO – Young Anointed Highly Outstanding Obedient.
One of the most captivating themes of events I have ever heard in my life, for reasons best known to the ‘reasoner’, didn’t hold. This issue was big enough for me to pick up my rusty pen to write. A while ago, OAU was known to be a hyper active community in entertainment and this made me major my journalism prowess in entertainment. For some time now, the shows are beginning to roll up again and I was glad that after a long time of resting my pen, I would make an historic come back until ...
Hmmm, the month of May came and went with disappointments, I thought it was because these guys on campus are young and naïve. But alas, not only here on campus are shows flopping. The “Tribute to Michael Jackson” show that was meant to have been organized by the Social Director of the SUG was the first. After series of auditioning for interested artistes, my hopes were raised and I thought that was going to be the beginning of a new dawn in the OAU entertainment world. I would not like to mention more names but a couple of other shows were ‘flaw-full’ flops. I am not criticizing, get me right, but proper preparation prevents poor performance, as they say (if only it is true). To criticize these guys will be the worst thing for me to do, because they are a bunch of young determined individuals destined to change the world from their little angle. Imagine Durella’s show at Ilorin f**king up also because something was wrong somewhere. All events held in May were, to a large extent, below expectation. This problem is just inexplicable. That was in May.
In June, comes the most anticipated GOD OF THE YAHOO BOY, extremely creative words, loaded with TRIBUTES and INSULTS, the dictionary meaning perhaps doesn’t make any sense in the Nigeria of our time as the first thing that comes to mind when you hear YAHOO is the second meaning written above or at least to the most innocent of all men, an e-mail address. Is GOD the GOD of a YAHOO boy? Make your yahoo anything, it doesn’t change anything about the total concept. GOD is not mocked and I am not trying to do so. Logistics were said to have been put in place which with my ‘koro-koro’ eyes was not in place. My longest revolutionary dreams of OAU crumbled before my very eyes. Before I get too emotional, I congratulate the sponsors and facilitators of the programme, we hope to see more from you but a more appropriate word is most deserving for a proper event. Sh*t happens, as you said it was post postponed, I hope you would get a quarter filled Amphi on the latter date.
Lastly, don’t make this your last, the pros are failing, only the strong are standing. Remember, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Show us, with a more deserving name, that you can do it; you know what I mean YES GOD IS NOT THE GOD OF A YAHOO BOY.
Segun Adeyemi
Yahoo Yahoo – an internet based fraud business.
YAHOO – Young Anointed Highly Outstanding Obedient.
One of the most captivating themes of events I have ever heard in my life, for reasons best known to the ‘reasoner’, didn’t hold. This issue was big enough for me to pick up my rusty pen to write. A while ago, OAU was known to be a hyper active community in entertainment and this made me major my journalism prowess in entertainment. For some time now, the shows are beginning to roll up again and I was glad that after a long time of resting my pen, I would make an historic come back until ...
Hmmm, the month of May came and went with disappointments, I thought it was because these guys on campus are young and naïve. But alas, not only here on campus are shows flopping. The “Tribute to Michael Jackson” show that was meant to have been organized by the Social Director of the SUG was the first. After series of auditioning for interested artistes, my hopes were raised and I thought that was going to be the beginning of a new dawn in the OAU entertainment world. I would not like to mention more names but a couple of other shows were ‘flaw-full’ flops. I am not criticizing, get me right, but proper preparation prevents poor performance, as they say (if only it is true). To criticize these guys will be the worst thing for me to do, because they are a bunch of young determined individuals destined to change the world from their little angle. Imagine Durella’s show at Ilorin f**king up also because something was wrong somewhere. All events held in May were, to a large extent, below expectation. This problem is just inexplicable. That was in May.
In June, comes the most anticipated GOD OF THE YAHOO BOY, extremely creative words, loaded with TRIBUTES and INSULTS, the dictionary meaning perhaps doesn’t make any sense in the Nigeria of our time as the first thing that comes to mind when you hear YAHOO is the second meaning written above or at least to the most innocent of all men, an e-mail address. Is GOD the GOD of a YAHOO boy? Make your yahoo anything, it doesn’t change anything about the total concept. GOD is not mocked and I am not trying to do so. Logistics were said to have been put in place which with my ‘koro-koro’ eyes was not in place. My longest revolutionary dreams of OAU crumbled before my very eyes. Before I get too emotional, I congratulate the sponsors and facilitators of the programme, we hope to see more from you but a more appropriate word is most deserving for a proper event. Sh*t happens, as you said it was post postponed, I hope you would get a quarter filled Amphi on the latter date.
Lastly, don’t make this your last, the pros are failing, only the strong are standing. Remember, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Show us, with a more deserving name, that you can do it; you know what I mean YES GOD IS NOT THE GOD OF A YAHOO BOY.
Segun Adeyemi
CULTISTS CAUGHT IN OAU
On Thursday last week, two persons were paraded around campus, bearing cardboards that read: I AM A CONFIRMED CULTIST. The identity was not stamped on them for fashion sake; it was stamped on them after the union claimed to have carried out its own thorough investigation. Besides, the ‘confirmed cultist’ later on, with their mouth confessed to being cultist, they particularly confessed to being members of Black Axe Confraternity.
The entire story began when a one of the cultists, Ese Fregene, an extra student of the History department, approached a Part II student with the intention of making the young man their newest initiate. However, the young man that was approached smelled a dead rat. The intended-initiate alerted Goddey, and in turn, Goddey alerted Osemele who took up the case with assistance of some members of the Security committee. Prior to this time, Ese had invited the intended-initiate to a party in town, which the latter turned down.
It is important to mention that Ese had a record of crime for which he had been declared wanted by the union. The crime for which Ese was earlier declared wanted is that he went to somebody’s house where he beat the person and stole his phone and laptop. After a number of brilliant moves by the union, Ese was later on apprehended by Osemele, with the aid of some other member of the union. He was caught on the basis of his previous criminal record. It was later that the crime Ese had committed was linked with cultism. Ese eventually gave the cue that led to the arrest of his fellow cultist, Phil Odiah, a graduate of Dramatic Arts. When Phil was to be arrested in his house in town, he had already gotten a glimpse of the union personnel that were coming to capture him. On sighting them, Phil jumped down from three-story building in a ploy to escape from the long arms of the law. However, he was eventually caught.
When Osemele was interviewed by SOCIOSCOPE, he said he did not know about the arrest of the third member of the cult. But according Adelu James (BOBBY), the last member of the Black Axe fraternity was also apprehended in town. This last member escaped from the office where he was locked in the union building when the union executive went to the school gate area to intervene in a clash between the some students of OAU and the Nigerian Police Force. The face-off between students and the Police Force was triggered by the high rate of Police brutality to OAU students, especially those that are resident in town.
At the time the cultists were paraded by some union officials, the Students’ Union’s PRO, Bobby raised a pertinent issue about the fact that cultism thrives more in the Niger-Delta. He gave the example of the Killing of Afrika by Efosa, an Edo state indigene.
The cultists were subjected to the conventional Serious Maximum Shi-shi (SMS) of the union. At this juncture, it is imperative that it is mentioned that Ese appeared to have been more resilient in suffering that Phil. This threw a number of issues among spectators. People were wondering if the statutory SMS of the union will bring an end to any trace of cultism on this land. More so, at their initiation, cultists are subjected to punishments that are more gruesome than Great Ife’s SMS.
At the end of the whole show, the union leaders said that the culprits will be handed over to the school authority who will then take the appropriate action.
The entire story began when a one of the cultists, Ese Fregene, an extra student of the History department, approached a Part II student with the intention of making the young man their newest initiate. However, the young man that was approached smelled a dead rat. The intended-initiate alerted Goddey, and in turn, Goddey alerted Osemele who took up the case with assistance of some members of the Security committee. Prior to this time, Ese had invited the intended-initiate to a party in town, which the latter turned down.
It is important to mention that Ese had a record of crime for which he had been declared wanted by the union. The crime for which Ese was earlier declared wanted is that he went to somebody’s house where he beat the person and stole his phone and laptop. After a number of brilliant moves by the union, Ese was later on apprehended by Osemele, with the aid of some other member of the union. He was caught on the basis of his previous criminal record. It was later that the crime Ese had committed was linked with cultism. Ese eventually gave the cue that led to the arrest of his fellow cultist, Phil Odiah, a graduate of Dramatic Arts. When Phil was to be arrested in his house in town, he had already gotten a glimpse of the union personnel that were coming to capture him. On sighting them, Phil jumped down from three-story building in a ploy to escape from the long arms of the law. However, he was eventually caught.
When Osemele was interviewed by SOCIOSCOPE, he said he did not know about the arrest of the third member of the cult. But according Adelu James (BOBBY), the last member of the Black Axe fraternity was also apprehended in town. This last member escaped from the office where he was locked in the union building when the union executive went to the school gate area to intervene in a clash between the some students of OAU and the Nigerian Police Force. The face-off between students and the Police Force was triggered by the high rate of Police brutality to OAU students, especially those that are resident in town.
At the time the cultists were paraded by some union officials, the Students’ Union’s PRO, Bobby raised a pertinent issue about the fact that cultism thrives more in the Niger-Delta. He gave the example of the Killing of Afrika by Efosa, an Edo state indigene.
The cultists were subjected to the conventional Serious Maximum Shi-shi (SMS) of the union. At this juncture, it is imperative that it is mentioned that Ese appeared to have been more resilient in suffering that Phil. This threw a number of issues among spectators. People were wondering if the statutory SMS of the union will bring an end to any trace of cultism on this land. More so, at their initiation, cultists are subjected to punishments that are more gruesome than Great Ife’s SMS.
At the end of the whole show, the union leaders said that the culprits will be handed over to the school authority who will then take the appropriate action.
WATER SCARCITY HITS HARD AGAIN
Last week, long queues for water were noticeable in many halls of residence. The reason for the long queues that were noticeable is not unconnected to the dearth of water. This is because the incidence was so extreme to the extent that some at some points there was no single drop of water at halls of Residence like Faj and Sports. The scarcity especially hit those who habitually wake up late hard. This is the case because, early in the mornings, water runs, but the rate at which it runs eventually reduces as the day gains strength. In some of these halls of residence, residents had to go outside their hall if they would ever get water.
The effect the water scarcity had on the student populace is unquantifiable. Many students who did not know about the scarcity on time went late to their classes. in many other had to take to eating at junk as a result. The sincere desire of the studentry is that a drastic solution should be provided as soon as possible.
The effect the water scarcity had on the student populace is unquantifiable. Many students who did not know about the scarcity on time went late to their classes. in many other had to take to eating at junk as a result. The sincere desire of the studentry is that a drastic solution should be provided as soon as possible.
AUTOCRASH IN OAU: BMV SOMMERSAULTS
Very early on Sunday morning, cataclysm struck on a location on campus. It was a fatal an autocrash that involved a BMW car. The driver of the car was said to have been coming from the initiation of Dramatic Art students at Pit Theatre, heading to New Buka to pick someone up. The car derailed from the road from about eighty metres before it finally somersaulted into a ditch. The point where the accident occurred is the route that adjoins Faj with Awo.
Although the accident was a lethal one, no life was lost. Besides, only the driver was inside the car. The driver of the car came out only with some parts his body bleeding. But some of the onlookers suspected that he must have had some internal bleeding. Spectators, who had earlier rushed to the scene on hearing the noise that car made from their rooms, said that although when the driver was brought out of the car he was very conscious, he smelt of alcohol but it appeared as if he wasn’t drunk. The Students’ Union PRO, Bobby, was called on phone but he said he couldn’t come for security reasons. Prof, who was also called by the ETF hall chair, responded by texting the number of the CSO of the Students’ Union. Some members of the Security Committee who later came were the ones who later took the victim of the accident to the health centre.
A twist was given to the accident when it was discovered that the driver of the car was not actually the owner of the car. He had been driving a borrowed car. When the person who brought the car to school came around, he wept his eyes out. It was also discovered that the person who had brought the BMV to OAU was not even the owner of the car. He had driven his father’s car out without his consent. He was left in a fix.
At the scene of the accident, friends of the ‘owner’ of the car came around in three cars to express their condolence. It appears as though they were not concerned if the victim of the accident was still alive or dead. What seems to matter to them the most was how they would repair the car.
Although the accident was a lethal one, no life was lost. Besides, only the driver was inside the car. The driver of the car came out only with some parts his body bleeding. But some of the onlookers suspected that he must have had some internal bleeding. Spectators, who had earlier rushed to the scene on hearing the noise that car made from their rooms, said that although when the driver was brought out of the car he was very conscious, he smelt of alcohol but it appeared as if he wasn’t drunk. The Students’ Union PRO, Bobby, was called on phone but he said he couldn’t come for security reasons. Prof, who was also called by the ETF hall chair, responded by texting the number of the CSO of the Students’ Union. Some members of the Security Committee who later came were the ones who later took the victim of the accident to the health centre.
A twist was given to the accident when it was discovered that the driver of the car was not actually the owner of the car. He had been driving a borrowed car. When the person who brought the car to school came around, he wept his eyes out. It was also discovered that the person who had brought the BMV to OAU was not even the owner of the car. He had driven his father’s car out without his consent. He was left in a fix.
At the scene of the accident, friends of the ‘owner’ of the car came around in three cars to express their condolence. It appears as though they were not concerned if the victim of the accident was still alive or dead. What seems to matter to them the most was how they would repair the car.
CUTTING OFF THE HEAD TO CURE HEADACHE
There is a code of conduct for every society. Every human being that exists is expected to work within the scope of the rules set by the society. It could however be very disheartening for anyone to make an anomaly of the norm. Although some people have opined that rules are only made to be broken, certain rules in the society should not be broken.
This is not to be a class where morals are to be taught. It is only aimed at making it clear that, if one is wrong in any issue, one should be able to own up for what one has done. Last week, SOCIOSCOPE published news about a particular person that was ‘sexually harassed.’ The news was gotten from very reliable sources after which it was confirmed by the correspondent that carried it. However, maybe in the pang of the guilt and shame, the person whom the story is about came to this board to tear the news. Of course, by her actions, she tried to cover up the truth. However, such people forget that for anyone to attain success, the truth most be owned up to.
Why break a norm, when you are not ready for the repercussions? It is unfathomable why such uncultured people would rather advertise their dirty linens in the public in the first place. By tearing the news from the board, the person in question has further made it public how uncouth she is. It is time one advised her and other people like her to remember that cutting off the head is not the solution to headache. Today will always speak of yesterday.
Oyindamola Olofinlua
… the great soul …
This is not to be a class where morals are to be taught. It is only aimed at making it clear that, if one is wrong in any issue, one should be able to own up for what one has done. Last week, SOCIOSCOPE published news about a particular person that was ‘sexually harassed.’ The news was gotten from very reliable sources after which it was confirmed by the correspondent that carried it. However, maybe in the pang of the guilt and shame, the person whom the story is about came to this board to tear the news. Of course, by her actions, she tried to cover up the truth. However, such people forget that for anyone to attain success, the truth most be owned up to.
Why break a norm, when you are not ready for the repercussions? It is unfathomable why such uncultured people would rather advertise their dirty linens in the public in the first place. By tearing the news from the board, the person in question has further made it public how uncouth she is. It is time one advised her and other people like her to remember that cutting off the head is not the solution to headache. Today will always speak of yesterday.
Oyindamola Olofinlua
… the great soul …
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