OAU scandal: Monica Osagie seduced me with nude pictures, says dismissed ‘sex-for-marks’ prof

Richard Akindele, the lecturer dismissed from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) after a panel found him guilty of sexual misconduct, says Monica Osagie, the student involved in the controversy, seduced him with nude pictures.

According to New Telegraph, Akindele said this in his reply to a query issued to him by the university.
OAU had set up a panel to investigate the allegations levelled against Akindele who went into hiding after the scandal broke.
On June 20, Eyitope Ogunbodede, vice-chancellor of the institution, announced that the governing had approved the sack of the lecturer.

In a report, New Telegraph quoted Akindele as saying sometimes in November 2017, Osagie sexually harassed him in his office by pulling off her dress and revealing her body.
He reportedly also presented screenshots of the WhatsApp messages between him and his accuser.
“I know the lady in the audio recording to be an MBA regular student. I recall sometimes in November 2017 when she came to my office in company of some of her other MBA students/colleagues to inform me they failed a course that I took with another lecturer and pleaded that they should be upgraded,” he reportedly wrote.

“But I informed them that it was not possible because the result has been submitted and approved by the department. They left my office, but the lady returned alone to my office some few minutes after they had left begging me to upgrade her to an ‘A’.
“She confessed that she did not fail the course, but that she had two other courses in the Department that she failed (not any of which that I am involved) but that she would need an “A” in my own course to boost her CGPA to get to an average of 50 to enable her obtain an MBA degree.

“I promptly turned down her request. She knelt down and held my legs pretending to be begging me, but was actually romancing me. I shouted at her to stop her madness, but she immediately stood up, raised her gown up to cover her face and I noticed she was not wearing any pant.

“I was afraid she could shout to attract other people and it may be difficult for me to defend myself of sexual assault. So I had to gently tell her to calm down and that we will do it five times on another day and place to which she agreed and gently left my office. I had to do that to save myself from any possible accusation of sexual assault which may be difficult to prove if she had shouted on that day. Of course, she attempted calling me at other times and seeing me after that day, but I kept avoiding her.
“Since then, she kept sending messages to me regularly describing how good she is in bed and how badly she needs to sleep with me and get an “A” in the course, all of which I resisted.”

Akindele alleged that the day the leaked phone conversation was recorded, he deliberately played along because two unknown vehicles with unidentified men and a lady suspected to be Osagie had trailed him from OAU campus to Moro Campus, where the MBA programme was being run.

“On that fateful morning, I left my office on campus for Centre for Distance Learning (CDL), Moro to go for the MBA lecture. As I was driving out of the university, I noticed two vehicles following…” he wrote.

“I was somehow scared and wondered what the occupants in the cars were up to. While still wondering, my phone rang and it was the lady in question calling, but I did not pick. When the phone rang the third time, I picked and sensing danger with cars behind me, I decided to play along with her request, and that was what led me to demand five times of sex and for her to come to my office.

“I have evidence and proof that she naked herself and harassed me sexually and I have a naked picture she sent to my WhatsApp contact, pressing that she wanted to have sexual intercourse with me. I have known this lady to be a bad behaved lady and as if she is a psychotic person….”

Akindele said if truly he had wanted to sleep with the student, he would not have demanded five sessions of sex, saying dating a girl would not ordinarily begin with the request for five times.

The dismissed professor said it was only unfortunate that the girl was faster in implicating him.

When TheCable contacted Abiola Akiode-Afolabi, lawyer to Osagie, she said she did not want to get involved because the university had taken a decision.

“The university has done its findings, and a decision has been made on the matter. This is just an after talk, and I don’t want to get involved,” she said.

“If he feels in anyway, the university didn’t do what they are supposed to do, he has the right to go to court. He cannot subject this discussion to a public court. Why didn’t he raise this issue right from the onset? Why is it being raised months after the decision has been made? The case is also being investigated by the ICPC.” - The Cable

In an interview with CNN, Osagie said Akindele was her mentor but that their relationship went sour after he made sexual advances towards her.

We’re at war with riffraff, morons in Aso Rock – Charlyboy

Veteran musician-turned activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy yesterday described the present crop of leaders in the country as morons and riffraff.

Speaking at the 2nd edition of the Cross River State Young And Emerging Political Leaders Summit in Calabar, he lamented the killings going on in the country, saying that such wanton destruction of human lives was alien to the average Nigerian.

He also said when Nigerians leave the shores of the country, they become better, but live as slaves back home.

He said: “We are at warfare, we are at war with riffraffs, we are at war with thieves, we are at war with arrogant and ignorant fools, morons who have decided to kill us.

“But I am on a mission, a mission to challenge, a mission to ginger, a mission to ginger the Nigerian youths to take over. Our country is in dare need of direction, no prayer, no miracle can do this, it is all in the palms of our hands.

“The only way to take over from the riffraffs in Aso rock is to come together, coming together to build a formidable force.

“After all, we don’t have experience in killing, we don’t have experience in looting, we don’t have experience in Boko Haram.

“When we leave the country, we are better and our wings are spread, but here we are treated like slaves.”

“Nigerian youths can take over, we can take over in two ways, we either take over collectively or take over divided but we can’t take over divided, we can only take over if we do this together,” Charlyboy said. - Daily Post

Fayose: When I saw ‘old man’ Buhari beside the president of France, I said ‘Oh my God’

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has fired yet another shot at President Muhammadu Buhari whom he believes is too old to lead the country.

At a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the governor commented on the visit of President Emmanuel Macron of France to Nigeria.

Aged 40 years, Macron is one of the youngest leaders in the world. His Nigerian counterpart is 75 years old.

Fayose said Nigerians deserve a younger president.

“We are having these problems in our country because an old man is our president. When I saw the picture of President Buhari and the president of  France, I said ‘Oh my God’,” he said.

“This country does not deserve to be led by an old man.”

Fayose also said he had been asked to come out to receive Buhari who is expected in the state on Tuesday but that he would not do so.

It is a tradition for governors, irrespective of political differences, to receive the president whenever he visits their states.

“I got a letter yesterday, they said I should come and receive Mr. President because he is coming on the 10th. But I’m not coming. Receive him for what? I cannot receive him. The president has not done 100 metres of road in Ekiti,” he said.

“They said I should tell director of SSS to come to Abuja, the director that is Kayode Fayemi’s friend, what is my business with that?”

The governor also accused the federal government of closing nearby Akure airport in Ondo state, so PDP leaders would not be able to attend the party’s rally in Ekiti.

“I want to condemn the federal government here today,” he said.

“Whosoever has taken that action is very shameful. That’s not the spirit of democracy. Why did you close the Akure airport today? You closed Akure airport so that our leaders will not come to this rally. Today, we are now landing at Ilorin and Ibadan. That is not patriotic. That’s shameful and unleader-like.”

Fayose did not spare the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in his accusations.

INEC, Fayose alleged, is planning to rig the July 14 governorship election in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“INEC wants to rig for APC,” he said. “We know your plans. We know how you are planning to release ballot papers to the APC. We know what they are planning in Ondo and Kogi states. Ekiti is a no go area.”

Calling on his supporters to shun violence, Fayose, however, urged them not to be intimidated.

“If you think you will come and use police to intimidate us, we will follow you bumper to bumper. Since Monday, they’ve been arresting PDP people. I want to tell you my people, I don’t want us to join them violence for violence. The most important day is on the 14th, don’t allow them to provoke us. We must be prepared for this election.” - The Cable

Fulani herdsmen killing: Pastor Enenche attacks Presidency over ‘land for life’ comment

Pastor Paul Enenche of the Dunamis International Gospel Center (DIGC) has blasted the Federal government for asking Nigerians to donate land for ranching to prevent deaths.

Dr. Enenche was reacting to a statement recently credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina that “You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment if you are dead, how does the attachment matter.”
Responding to the statement, Enenche described Adesina’s comment as symptoms of primitivity of mentality, primordial sensibility, retrogressive discretion, bankruptcy of ideology and cerebral sclerosis.”

Speaking during a morning service in Abuja, Enenche said, “It is an insult on our collective sensibility for anyone to suggest that the killing of innocent Nigerians is justifiable if cattle colony is not accepted.
“What a senseless, useless, worthless suggestion! Such quality of suggestions are only symptoms of primitivity of mentality, primordial sensibility, retrogressive discretion, bankruptcy of ideology and cerebral sclerosis.”
The General Overseer added that “It is therapeutic failure at the highest level for when drugs expire; they can neither remedy nor be remedied. God is on the throne and it shall not happen.”


Enenche’s remark is coming at a time the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, lambasted the Presidency for making such comment, saying Nigeria was now worse than an animal farm. - Daily Post

Obasanjo failed woefully - Soyinka

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recorded “sumptuous spectacular failures” in the 11 years he steered the affairs of the nation as military Head of State and civilian President, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said.

Soyinka’s assessment of the former leader is contained in the preface to his 148-page book, “Intervention VIII: Gani’s Unfinished Business”.

He described Obasanjo as having a phobia for education and intellectualism.

According to Soyinka, Obasanjo’s records in office are clothed with lies, deceptions, misrepresentations, distortions and denigration of others.

The former president could not be reached for comments yesterday.

Noting Obasanjo’s genuine attachment to the nation, Soyinka said it would be most unjust to label him an outright failure, notwithstanding that Obasanjo readily does so to his predecessors and successors in office.

He said: “However, to state starkly that he has recorded sumptuous, spectacular failures in the total of 11 years of managing the Nigerian real estate is to stay within arguable borders, and that is where we choose to pitch our tent, daring even the most devoted of his apologists to dispute such an obvious assessment.”

The Nobel laureate said it would be the highest form of moral dereliction to fail to present a glimpse of a dark, sinister side of such “a paternalistic, caring figure”.

“This is a recurring decimal which now presents itself as a dedicated, even passionate rescue miss omer for a nation that is unarguably in need of a moral compass and competent leadership.”

Soyinka faulted Obasanjo’s “seductive pretensions of ease and benign, protective assurance among school pupils”, noting that even Adolf Hitler loved children so much that “he created a Nazi Youth Brigade, a mind bending induction from which a subsequent leadership generation still strives,  remorsefully, to dissociate itself”.

The poet said: “Not for  moment does one intend a comparison with that universal criminal, Adolf Hitler. We merely propose that cultivating the image of a committed child educationist in one’s dotage does not obliterate certain records, such as that instance when, as Head of State  our subject ordered that mothers, on their way to handover a letter of protest at the incineration of their children on the tarmac of Port Harcourt airport, should be stopped by all means…

“Compared to such a spectacle of infanticidal horror and executive callousness, the educational phobia that led to a policy of rabid anti-intellectualism under his watch may be deemed mere trivia. Yet the damage done to a nation through such an unhindered  detestaion of educational institutions as the stamp of his ruling mandate remains to plague the nation.

“And there are other acts of anti-intellectualism provable against our born-again educationist and developer of youthful minds, implemented at a time when it crucially mattered- under His Watch! This crafted images of childhood love constitute an obscenity, and remain offensive to any people of memory and discernment.

“Even the crassest of such petulant deeds of misgovernance, born of insecurity, can however be mitigated, even amnestied by a late life penitence, and willingness to abuse the hypocrisy of self-exculpation.

“Such mitigation cannot however be conceded if our subject persists in burnishing his rulership records with the ragged cloth of lies, deceptions, misrepresentations, distortions and persistent denigration of others – including non Nigerians, some of whose records in their zones of responsibilities, objectively leave his self attributed achievement open to dispute, and even outright dismissal.

“Mitigation cannot be rationally considered if the nation’s present condition of intra-religious hospitality of the most blood curdling dimensions can be traced all the way back to his policy of appeasement when forces against national cohesion through religious fundamentalism first unfurled its banner.”

Soyinka wrote on the much publicized “bid” by Obasanjo for a third term  – an allegation the former President denied. He said if he had wanted a third term he would have asked God who would have given it to him .

Soyinka said: “There can be no amnesty for a leader who lavished bribe on legislators in his attempt to subvert the constitution  and foist himself on the nation as civilian dictator for life, yet continues to deny it. Such denials are insultingly offered in the face of robust, documented and repeated affirmation of this treasonable conduct, including by a number who collected his money and ran.

“The denials continue from this practised obscurantist, depart open admission by those who were co-conspirators against democracy. The opportunism of image laundering in a season of popular discontent is a further denigration of the public capacity for objective discernment.

“And yet, despite such glaring crimes of both commission and dismissive contempt, Nigerians are a people of almost hyper-naturally gifted for bypassing the past, cauterising their memories even to the point of collective perdition, determined to move into the future.”

The playwright condemned Obasanjo’s efforts at building a nationwide coalition for a new leadership. He said:  “When, however, such an individual under the lens moves yet again to insert himself into a process of national recovery, attempts to hijack both tested and untested efforts, frustrate new energies, recruits and recycles jaded and equally compromised figures, the a gauntlet had been thrown at the feet of those who ‘watch the watchmen’, and a renewed battle line is drawn against any such Coalition of the Corrupt and its Convener.”

Continuing, Soyinka said Obasanjo, who is the subject of the “Interventions”, “strikes one as being tormented by a hidden past, probably experiences the urge to make amends- don’t we all? I would not dare encroach on the province of psychologists but, with my limited deductions from a lifetime of literary engagement, I would diagnose, in this leading character, symptoms of a child at heart.

“Alas, it is of that confused precocious that seeks to be relived, through exposure, of the burden of hidden malfeasances, in order to deserve notice, acceptance,  and restoration to parental love through correction, even punishment, however painful.

“In adult life, as the child grows increasingly confronted by mortality, the expression changes to- a search for redemption. The path taken in pursuit of such a benign closure however reveals which of the many emotions have triumphed over the rest.

“Summatively, it is the precocious child of malice that prevails. Three ponderous volumes of creative mendacity in a supposed autobiography- “My Watch”- attest to this, evoking that anguished cry from one of the celebrated creations of unrelieved malice of the theatrical world. In a moment of absolute spiritual nakedness and moral self-confrotnarion, he exclaimed: “Evil, be thought my good!”

“So has it been with the aspiring mongoose known as Bros Shege, raised and bred in the sinister hatcheries of Otta Farm.” - The Nation

65-year-old man kills son’s wife, commits suicide in Delta

The Commissioner of Police in Delta state, Mohammad Mustafa, has confirmed the alleged killing of a woman by her father-in-law, Mr Adesco, who subsequently killed himself in Erovie quarters in Ozoro in Delta.

Mustafa said that the command had begun investigation into the incident to unravel its cause.

“We have since begun investigation into the matter with a view to unravelling the circumstances that may have led to the incident,” he said.

According to a witness, who pleaded anonymity, 65-year-old Adesco, who was a famous hunter in the community, had a misunderstanding with the deceased woman earlier in the morning.

He said that the late Adesco committed the crime in the afternoon after the woman returned from farm.

The witness said that people from Aradhe/Ovrode community of Delta, the deceased woman’s place, have however gone to inquire about the cause of their daughter’s death.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident, which was described as double tragedy, grounded business and social activities in the community for over three hours as the people rushed to the scene to have an understanding of what transpired. - Daily Post

Landlord remanded for allegedly killing tenant’s son with pestle

An Ota Magistrates’ court on Friday remanded a 50-year-old landlord, Samuel Omosule, who allegedly killed his tenant’s son by hitting him with a pestle.

Omosule, who lives at No 4 Ire-Akari str. in Ota, is facing a charge of murder.

The Senior Magistrate, Mr G.E. Akan, said that the accused should be remanded in prison pending the legal advice from State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The prosecutor, Insp. Rosemary Samson, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 1 at his Ota residence.

Samson said, “the accused hit a 4-year-old boy, his tenant’s son, with pestle, which led to his death.”

However, the plea of the accused was not taken when the charge was read.

she said that the offence contravened Section 316 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

Another victim of Bodija market clash dies

Another victim of the last week Thursday’s clash that occurred between men of the Oyo State Police Command and butchers at the Bodija market, Sefiat Mutiat is dead.

She reportedly gave up the ghost on Thursday.

DAILY POST gathered Friday morning that the victim, a fashion designer, who sustained gun shots as a result of the clash over the relocation of butchers in all the 11 local government areas and 14 local council development areas in Ibadan, died at the University College Hospital (UCH) after spending days at the hospital for treatment.

It could be recalled that one of the relatives of the victim had earlier raised the alarm that the victim will undergo surgeries on her breast, womb and spinal cord. 

Though details of her death is still sketchy as of the time of filling this report Friday morning, DAILY POST, however, gathered that her family had spent over N800,000 in the hospital to revive her before she finally died yesterday. - Daily Post