EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian professor impregnates 16-year-old student

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Farooq A. Kperogi

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As the father of a teenage girl, this got my blood boiling!!

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian professor impregnates 16-year-old student


Facts have emerged on how a professor and former head of the department of criminology at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Adewole Atere, had sex with and impregnated a teenage student of his department, Precious Azuka.

The victim, Azuka, was in her first semester at the university when she met the don in March 2017. She was 16 years old then. The brief meeting was followed by a message of love from the professor through one of his subordinates in the department, Chinedu Abrifor, a PhD holder.

According to both audio and documentary records of evidence exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Abrifor simply told Azuka then that she was ‘mature enough’ for Mr Atere.

While appearing before a fact-finding committee set up by the office of the then acting dean of students’ affairs, E.O Adeyemi, Azuka said; “A few days after Dr Abrifor approached me, he accompanied Prof. Atere to my hostel and they took me to their house at Aiyegbaju where I spent the night. I was returned to the hostel by 6 a.m. the following day. This practice continued for weeks.”

The development led to disagreement between Azuka and her boyfriend, Kayode Fasanya. Mr Fasanya, who started dating Azuka, his classmate, in January 2017, quickly broke the relationship as soon as he was aware of the professor’s love affair with his girlfriend.

How the bubble burst

Less than two months into their amorous relationship, Azuka noticed she was not well. Medical test confirmed she was pregnant.


“I opted for abortion instantly but a doctor I saw said he doesn’t do it. So, when I got to the hostel, I took lipton tea and lime which made me to experience serious blood flow. When I didn’t see my menstruation the following months, I didn’t bother. I thought it had cleared,” she told the investigating team.

But by July, Azuka’s physical appearance had indicated she was pregnant. Her story was also on many lips within and outside the hostel.

She said one of her friends, who was staying off-campus, identified simply as Priscilla, took her to an unnamed laboratory official at Oye Ekiti general hospital, a government-owned health facility.

“The laboratory official introduced me to Dr. Dada who eventually helped me out on Wednesday, July 26,” Azuka said.

Because the pregnancy was already about 21 weeks, PREMIUM TIMES learnt the doctor said dilation and curettage (D&C) could no longer be conducted, and thus offered to induce Azuka to labour. “I was asked to return to the hospital as soon as the foetus was expelled.”

On the morning of July 27, 2017, Azuka went into labour and expelled the foetus.

Foetus found by cleaners

As they were busy packing the refuse at the hostel, one of the cleaners found a well wrapped cellophane bag dripping blood. The cleaner reportedly called the attention of her colleagues who noticed the freshness of the item and the need to trace its source.


“It was a Thursday morning and most of the students in the hostel had left for lectures. So it was easy to identify which room still had its occupant around. That was how Azuka was found in the room writhing in pain. She had lost so much blood that she could hardly talk,” a university ource who asked not to be named told PREMIUM TIMES.

Azuka was rushed to the university’s clinic where she was placed on admission. She was discharged the following day, July 28, 2017.

Students’ affairs unit sets up fact-finding committee

Following a petition addressed to the university by an Ado-Ekiti-based legal practitioner, Olaolu Ayodele, the acting dean of students’ affairs on August 10, 2017, caused the university’s hostel management committee to set up a fact-finding sub-committee to look into the matter.

The committee had the school’s health centre director, Olawale M.O, as chairman and an administrative officer, Oye campus hostel, Ajewole F, as secretary. Other members were the female hall warden, Bakare L. and the head of maintenance unit, Mr. Adebayo, an engineer.

The sub-committee’s report, which was submitted to the vice-chancellor’s office on August 14, 2017, was accompanied by a memo from the acting dean of students’ affairs, E. O Adeyemi.

The report reads in part; “In the cause of our investigation, we gathered that after Azuka had been discharged, on August 2, 2017, Dr. Abrifor called her and Kayode Fasanya for a meeting in his office at the faculty. On getting there, Dr. Abrifor asked them to meet him at the mini campus junction by 6 p.m. same day where they were driven to Ifaki Ekiti for another meeting.

“At the meeting, Azuka said Dr. Abrifor accused Kayode Fasanya of impregnating her, and this led to an argument which was later settled when Dr. Abrifor made a call to his wife and asked her to calculate conception from March to July. She did and said it would be between 21 to 22 weeks, which was exactly what the test result claimed.”

The report stated that the lecturer immediately apologised to Fasanya but asked him to claim responsibility to protect Prof. Atere’s image. “He also promised that the money spent on the abortion would be refunded, and that Fasanya would be rewarded handsomely including good academic grades.”

According to Azuka, Mr Abrifor called Mr Fasanya again at about 8 a.m. the following day that he should come with Azuka to their house at Aiyegbaju but Azuka was indisposed and so could not go.

The report added; “When Fasanya got to Aiyegbaju, he met Dr. Abrifor and Prof. Shola Omotola of political science department. They repeated the request that Fasanya should claim the pregnancy but he told them he would think about it. They also said a meeting with the director of administration on the campus, Mr. Odusanya, had been scheduled for Tuesday, August 8, when all parties involved would sign an agreement that would be binding. But according to her, this meeting never held.”

Meanwhile, Azuka said on the evening of August 10, Mr Abrifor sent her N20,000 through Adeleke Abiodun, another student of the department. She said the doctor charged N13,000 for the abortion but she deposited N11,500 and was to pay N1,500 if she had returned for medications as scheduled.

In the report, the committee said Mr Fasanya also gave the same statement when he appeared before it.

The acting DSA in his memo advised the management to set up another panel that would be empowered to invite Messrs Atere, Omotola and Abrifor for questioning on the matter.

He also recommended that “appropriate disciplinary action should be taken against anyone found guilty to forestall future occurrence and redeem the confidence of both the students and the general public on the university.”

University sets up another probe panel

Following the alleged ‘questionable’ silence of the vice-chancellor, Kayode Soremekun, on the matter, some disgruntled members of the university’s Senate raised the matter at one of the Senate meetings. They reportedly accused the VC of an attempt to sweep the matter under the carpet.

In response, the university set up another panel headed by a former dean of the institution’s faculty of education, Solomon Olorundare, a professor.

Mr Olorundare, who has since returned to the University of Ilorin, was at the time on sabbatical leave at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti.

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Olorundare said his committee met with all concerned parties and submitted its report to the vice-chancellor.

Prof Atere

Asked about his committee’s verdict, he said it would not be proper to spill the beans.

“We have since submitted our report and I am back to my university, UNILORIN. I think the university should be reached for the report of our findings and recommendations.”

Alleged randy lecturer abruptly resigned from FUOYE

Rather than waiting for the outcome of the probe, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that Mr Atere suddenly resigned his appointment.

The manner with which he resigned has again raised fresh dusts on the campus, with some of his colleagues accusing him of abscondment and others saying he was protected by the vice-chancellor.

Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES is aware the embattled professor is now a lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.

Why we couldn’t sanction Atere –FUOYE VC

In a telephone interview with our reporter, the vice-chancellor of FUOYE, Kayode Soremekun, said since Mr Atere had left the service of his institution, he could no longer bring any charge against him.

He said the existing law of the university at the time Mr Atere left permitted resignation without notice.

“I had no power to stop him when he tendered his resignation letter because the law allowed him then. We have just reviewed our law to ensure that appropriate steps are taken before anyone could retire or resign. In fact, we have submitted it to the governing council and what we are waiting for is the approval,” he told PREMIUM TIMES.

The VC also claimed he stopped further action when the victim’s parents said they were not interested in prosecution.

“They sent one reverend sister to me that we should lay the matter to rest. So what do I do in that circumstance? The decision was theirs I think,” Mr Soremekun said.

The vice-chancellor also denied receiving any report of any subcommittee from the office of the then acting dean of students’ affairs.

Prof.-Kayode-Soremekun

“I am not aware of any report by any committee set up by any dean. I have told you why we could not act. And if I may ask, why are you just bringing up this issue at this time? This matter happened two years ago now,” Mr Soremekun said.

Documents counter VC

Contrary to the vice-chancellor’s claim, the document containing the university’s conditions of service, which was approved in 2015 by the institution’s governing council, clearly spells out conditions to be met when exiting the system.

According to the document, item ii under the subject of ‘resignation of appointment’ reads as follows; “A professor or other officer of equivalent grade not a principal officer as defined by the Act unless he is appointed for a specific contractual period, may terminate his appointment after having given to the council not less than six month notice in writing of his intention to do so. In exceptional cases, vice-chancellor may waive part or all of such notice and shall thereafter report to the council.”

Sources within the university system said Mr Atere’s case did not qualify for such ‘exceptional cases’ intended by the clause.

DSA memo

“In fact, Prof. Atere erred by his abrupt resignation and his action qualified for abscondment,” one source said.

Azuka speaks

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Azuka, who is now in 300 level, reiterated that Mr Atere was responsible for her pregnancy.

She, however, declined further comments, saying all she wanted at this time was to graduate.

She said she has since reconciled with Mr Fasanya and that they are back as lovers.

“I don’t want to talk about this matter again. I think I have survived it and I have moved on.”

Mr Fasanya could not be reached for comments as his telephone line was not available as at the time of filing this report.

It isn’t true – Atere

The accused lecturer has said the allegation is not true but refused to explain his own side of the matter. When called by our reporter, Mr Atere simply denied his involvement, saying; “That is not true. It is not true.”

But rather than taking time to explain further, he simply hung up the phone, and has since refused to pick our reporter’s call.

On his part, Mr Abrifor said he could not say anything on the matter. He added that for him to talk on the matter, he would need a letter of approval from the vice-chancellor as the representative of his employer.

Meanwhile, in one of Mr Abrifor’s recorded conversations with Mr Fasanya after sending Azuka N20,000, he had expressed worry over the committee’s enquiry into the matter.

Medical doctor doubts his involvement

The medical doctor at the Oye-Ekiti general hospital who allegedly assisted Azuka to abort the pregnancy, Mr Dada, said he was not sure he saw any patient called Precious Azuka on July 26, 2017.

During a telephone conversation with our reporter, Mr Dada said he would need to trace the hospital’s record to ascertain his involvement.

“I am not sure aborting pregnancy is my case. The only thing is that when I get to office I will check record if I ever had any encounter with such patient at all. I am Dr. Dada of general hospital, Oye-Ekiti but we don’t do abortion at the hospital,” he said.


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Okechukwu Ukaga

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So sad and very disgusting, to say the least. 

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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This is a very worrying report of what still goes on in the Nigerian university system.  The academics involved have to bury their heads in shame; so has the two students involved who CONSENTED to the shenanighans particularly its aftermath.  But strange are the ways of love.  Like I said in the case of the Finance Professor considered on this Forum once the aggrieved complicit student refuses to pursue a case to its logical conclusion there is not much anyone else can do.

Premium Times needs to be commended for a brilliant investigative journalism.

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segun ogungbemi

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We have heard the story from one side with documented witnesses but we have not heard from the criminal suspect who teaches criminology, Prof. Atere. 
Let us get him to tell us his own story. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 

Moses Ebe Ochonu

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Según Ogungbemi,

Did you even read the story. The rapist, Professor Atere, was given a chance by the the newspaper to tell his side of the story but hung up on the reporter. With the level of detail--disgustingly graphic detail--in the story and the clear evidence of statutory rape, multiple ethical violations, and a massive coverup involving several of the offender's colleagues and the VC, you are still asking for the other side. This is why sexual predation is difficult to stamp out in Nigerian universities. There is a mutual protection society. The the first instinct of our home-based colleagues when one of them is accused of predatory behavior is to try to deflect or dilute the criminal behavior while sometimes blaming the victim.

segun ogungbemi

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Yes, Moses I have read everything concerning the matter but as the Yoruba say, an elder who based his judgement on one side of a story without both sides is wicked.  
The fact that someone had made several attempts to get Professor Atere to tell his own story without success doesn't mean we should give up. It does mean applying the principle of justice as justice and no middle way to it. 
I was involved in the investigations of fellow colleagues in some of the universities that I had served before my retirement three years ago at the age of 70 and based on my experiences it is not morally right to jump to a conclusion without Professor Atere's own side of the case. 
If after several other attempts and he is not willing to tell the whole world his own side of the case, then we can make our judgement on the basis of the evidences at our disposal. 
But I am sure he has moral conscience and it will not give him peace wherever he goes until he faces justice. 
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 
 
  

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Apparently, instead of rushing to any conclusions Professor Según Ogungbemi is prepared to give the accused the benefit of the doubt until the trial is concluded.

According to the Nigerian Criminal Justice system, isn’t an accused presumed innocent until proven guilty? 

The rapist, Professor Atere, was given a chance by the newspaper to tell his side of the story but hung up on the reporter.”?

It’s ridiculous to assume that just because Professor Atere did not want to tell his side of the story to some sensation-hungry newspaper reporter or some rival at the university masquerading as a reporter, it means that he does not have a “his side of the story” to tell. And why should he want to tell his side of the story to a newspaper that could possibly distort his words or misquote him – after all he is not seeking a trial out side of the law courts or a newspaper trial, atrial by public opinion?

Professor Atere should be given his legal right to present his side of the story in a Nigerian Law Court and not in some Naija newspaper which might even distort his version of what actually happened.

Of course given power relations as a factor when predator professors exploit their students from that kind of vantage point,on the surface at least, it’s not looking too good for the Professor, even if it's possible that it was the alleged victim that enticed, lured and seduced the professor with her female charms, manipulated him into having an affair with her (sex for grades) even blackmailed him into continuing the affair – and then there’s the jealous boyfriend who would probably like to get even with the professor, would love to see him properly screwed - by the law – for what the Professor has been doing to his girlfriend/former girlfriend.

This too has all the elements for a good shorti story: Psycho the rapist


OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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I was about to reply Moses yesterday that the profile of Prof Ogungbemi that I have does not look like someone who would be unable to read a few paragraphs before coming to a hasty judgement but its better you fleshed up that profile by indicating that you have participated in such investigations yourself.  I was however too tied up.

I wanted to develop my response by adding that from clues left in the story it would appear an arbitration had taken place (thank God Moses is a sekl-declared certified arbitrator) and as an afterthought simeone has decided they are no longer satisfied with the original terms of the arbitration (your guess is as good as mine whom it could be.)  

That was why an official was asking why a case that occurred two years ago was now being re-opened by the newspaper (where was the newspaper when the events originally happened two years ago and why is the paper just reporting it two years later? Did the paper pay the source for the"scoop'?

From my own personal assessment of the love saga, the original intentions if both central parties Atere and the student the intention was noble: a genuine relationship.

If Atere wanted a stereotypical fly- by- night adventure with his student why would he employ a typical African traditional courtship laision with a gi- between who was many times present at the early stages (it is if such courtship that the Yoruba coined the aphorism' Toko ba mo oju aya tan, alarina a yeba) Abriba an ethnic kinsman if the student was the 'alarina' ( a well known wife of the late Aare Abiola stated in an interview that was how the early part of their courtship was staged.)

The problem was the unplanned pregnancy that prematurely blew the lid off the whole affair and the problem of lack of adequate communication that followed.

Seeds of mistrust must have been sown in Atere's mind by the fact his girlfriend had not totally terminated her relationship with her former boyfriend and that was why I also had a word or two for the former young lovers who intriguingly are now back together.   Matters were not helped by the fact that it was immediately she started the relationship with the professor that she got pregnant for him (which,by the way is NOT impossible) The only way to establish paternity would have been to await the arrival of the baby and conduct a paternity test.  For reasons best known to the prof he did not want this option and termination the preferred option opened the can of worms.

Why did the student behave in this way( get pregnant and leave it so late since she was not exactly a baby or minor at the time?)

It appears she did not exactly trust the professor's protestations of love and needed something to 'tie him down' to her so he does not abandon her for the next available young female once he had his fill of her but it backfired because of the professors mutual distrust of the paternity (of the pregnancy) in view of my previous remark on the former boyfriend.
  
Moses use of the phrase 'cover up' is not very helpful in the current situation.  Of course it IS a cover up but the question: to what intent?  That is why I would prefer the phrase: 'damage limitation exercise.'

Instead of joining the VC in the blame game I would commend his administrative genius in seeking a way out in arbitration rather that a heavy handed sanctions on the professor given the particularities of this case which he would have ferreted out from the multiple investigations instituted.  Here is why:

A university is an ongoing integrated economic unit.  The place of a university of technology to a nations development is of especial importance.  The politico-administrative position of VCs dictates they are able to resolve all problems encountered in administration with a view to fulfilling givernment's objectives in establishing the institution in the linger term. It is the age old  Benthism or utilitarianism: the greater good for the greatest number of people.

If the VC had not adopted arbitration as a form of Benthism the damage to the reputation would have affected irs ability to recruit further students ( because of concerns by parents) impacting government's program of universities of technology as crucibles of the nations technological development.  

A VC cannot police the lecturers activities in campus yet they must find practical solutions to problems so thay livelihoods of the generality of law abiding staff and faculty are not put in jeopardy by the misjudgments of a few.

I stated in the case of the OAU Finance lecturer you cannot legislate live: love happens! (It is an aspect of what is called transference in psychoanalysis) It however behoves people in positions of responsibility to weigh the impact of their actions on colleagues (and the jobs of their colleagues.)  

Prof Atere was forced to do last what he should have done initially once he discovered he had extra- academic feelings for his student and definitely when he received news of the pregnancy-relocate to another institution.  The pregnancy might in fact truly not be his but he could not honourably stay on campus fighting that battle.

Yes, we may never know any more on the matter from Prof Atere as this silence would be part of the conditions of arbitration which someone has willfully broken to the press.

OAA.



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Yes, Moses I have read everything concerning the matter but as the Yoruba say, an elder who based his judgement on one side of a story without both sides is wicked.  
The fact that someone had made several attempts to get Professor Atere to tell his own story without success doesn't mean we should give up. It does mean applying the principle of justice as justice and no middle way to it. 
I was involved in the investigations of fellow colleagues in some of the universities that I had served before my retirement three years ago at the age of 70 and based on my experiences it is not morally right to jump to a conclusion without Professor Atere's own side of the case. 
If after several other attempts and he is not willing to tell the whole world his own side of the case, then we can make our judgement on the basis of the evidences at our disposal. 
But I am sure he has moral conscience and it will not give him peace wherever he goes until he faces justice. 
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi. 
 
  

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI,

Seriously? A university professor impregnates a 16-year old and you want to make excuses for the professor? She is 16 years old for God’s sake. This need not be “he said” “she said” or prayers. DNA can easily resolve this. And if DNA shows that the child is fathered by the professor, then it is statutory rape or at least it should be statutory rape in civilized society.

 

From my own personal assessment of the love saga, the original intentions [i]of both central parties Atere and the student the intention was noble: a genuine relationship.”—Olayinka Agbetuyi

 

She is 16-years old and entrusted to the school/professors to look after. I am speechless that there are people in this List-Serve that will defend the professor. If you are defending this professor, please close your eyes and imagine that this 16-year old is your daughter or granddaughter. Do you still feel the same way about the professor? If still you do, you have questionable morals.

 

God forgive this generation.

 

All the best,

Gozie

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The report reads in part; “In the cause of our investigation, we gathered that after Azuka had been discharged, on August 2, 2017, Dr. Abrifor called her and Kayode Fasanya for a meeting in his office at the faculty. On getting there, Dr. Abrifor asked them to meet him at the mini campus junction by 6 p.m. same day where they were driven to Ifaki Ekiti for another meeting.

“At the meeting, Azuka said Dr. Abrifor accused Kayode Fasanya of impregnating her, and this led to an argument which was later settled when Dr. Abrifor made a call to his wife and asked her to calculate conception from March to July. She did and said it would be between 21 to 22 weeks, which was exactly what the test result claimed.”

The report stated that the lecturer immediately apologised to Fasanya but asked him to claim responsibility to protect Prof. Atere’s image. “He also promised that the money spent on the abortion would be refunded, and that Fasanya would be rewarded handsomely including good academic grades.”

According to Azuka, Mr Abrifor called Mr Fasanya again at about 8 a.m. the following day that he should come with Azuka to their house at Aiyegbaju but Azuka was indisposed and so could not go.

The report added; “When Fasanya got to Aiyegbaju, he met Dr. Abrifor and Prof. Shola Omotola of political science department. They repeated the request that Fasanya should claim the pregnancy but he told them he would think about it. They also said a meeting with the director of administration on the campus, Mr. Odusanya, had been scheduled for Tuesday, August 8, when all parties involved would sign an agreement that would be binding. But according to her, this meeting never held.”

Meanwhile, Azuka said on the evening of August 10, Mr Abrifor sent her N20,000 through Adeleke Abiodun, another student of the department. She said the doctor charged N13,000 for the abortion but she deposited N11,500 and was to pay N1,500 if she had returned for medications as scheduled.

In the report, the committee said Mr Fasanya also gave the same statement when he appeared before it.

The acting DSA in his memo advised the management to set up another panel that would be empowered to invite Messrs Atere, Omotola and Abrifor for questioning on the matter.

He also recommended that “appropriate disciplinary action should be taken against anyone found guilty to forestall future occurrence and redeem the confidence of both the students and the general public on the university.”

University sets up another probe panel

Following the alleged ‘questionable’ silence of the vice-chancellor, Kayode Soremekun, on the matter, some disgruntled members of the university’s Senate raised the matter at one of the Senate meetings. They reportedly accused the VC of an attempt to sweep the matter under the carpet.

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In response, the university set up another panel headed by a former dean of the institution’s faculty of education, Solomon Olorundare, a professor.

Mr Olorundare, who has since returned to the University of Ilorin, was at the time on sabbatical leave at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti.

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Olorundare said his committee met with all concerned parties and submitted its report to the vice-chancellor.

Asked about his committee’s verdict, he said it would not be proper to spill the beans.

“We have since submitted our report and I am back to my university, UNILORIN. I think the university should be reached for the report of our findings and recommendations.”

Alleged randy lecturer abruptly resigned from FUOYE

Rather than waiting for the outcome of the probe, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that Mr Atere suddenly resigned his appointment.

The manner with which he resigned has again raised fresh dusts on the campus, with some of his colleagues accusing him of abscondment and others saying he was protected by the vice-chancellor.

Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES is aware the embattled professor is now a lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.

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Why we couldn’t sanction Atere –FUOYE VC

In a telephone interview with our reporter, the vice-chancellor of FUOYE, Kayode Soremekun, said since Mr Atere had left the service of his institution, he could no longer bring any charge against him.

He said the existing law of the university at the time Mr Atere left permitted resignation without notice.

“I had no power to stop him when he tendered his resignation letter because the law allowed him then. We have just reviewed our law to ensure that appropriate steps are taken before anyone could retire or resign. In fact, we have submitted it to the governing council and what we are waiting for is the approval,” he told PREMIUM TIMES.

The VC also claimed he stopped further action when the victim’s parents said they were not interested in prosecution.

“They sent one reverend sister to me that we should lay the matter to rest. So what do I do in that circumstance? The decision was theirs I think,” Mr Soremekun said.

The vice-chancellor also denied receiving any report of any subcommittee from the office of the then acting dean of students’ affairs.

“I am not aware of any report by any committee set up by any dean. I have told you why we could not act. And if I may ask, why are you just bringing up this issue at this time? This matter happened two years ago now,” Mr Soremekun said.

Documents counter VC

Contrary to the vice-chancellor’s claim, the document containing the university’s conditions of service, which was approved in 2015 by the institution’s governing council, clearly spells out conditions to be met when exiting the system.

According to the document, item ii under the subject of ‘resignation of appointment’ reads as follows; “A professor or other officer of equivalent grade not a principal officer as defined by the Act unless he is appointed for a specific contractual period, may terminate his appointment after having given to the council not less than six month notice in writing of his intention to do so. In exceptional cases, vice-chancellor may waive part or all of such notice and shall thereafter report to the council.”

Sources within the university system said Mr Atere’s case did not qualify for such ‘exceptional cases’ intended by the clause.

Michael Afolayan

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"We have heard the story from one side with documented witnesses but we have not heard from the criminal suspect who teaches criminology, Prof. Atere. Let us get him to tell us his own story." ". . . but as the Yoruba say, an elder who based his judgement on one side of a story without both sides is wicked."  (SO) 
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Oh no, Professor Ogungbemi, even the Yoruba say a thief is a thief; you don't dignify his deed by talking of "a benefit of the doubt." That's why they say rhetorically, "K'á penu pò k'á b'ólè wí . . ." Literally, all that the criminal needs is collective castigation; no need to blame the owner for putting his/her stuff in the wrong place - pure and simple. The story here is clear. What else do we need for this man to know that he is a shame to the academic calling, and a criminal to decent folks? This is a proverbial shepherd who is killing and eating the sheep. It is blatant statutory rape in a decent society, for which a professional would have his or her license revoked, never to be reinstated. Sir, this professor is a rapist. The evidence is there! We no longer have to hear his own side, which he has refused to give, anyway, except, perhaps if he could tell us he was not the one who did it but the next question would be why did he resign in the heat of the moment? If this has happened elsewhere, the VC that harbored him would be in trouble; the new VC that hired him would be in trouble; all those accomplices would be in trouble, and even the parents who said they did not want the case persecuted would be in trouble because they are mandated reporters who should let the law run its course. Sorry, I can't see this matter the way you saw it and I pray this culprit is thrown the book. So sickening!

Michael O. Afoláyan
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Gloria Emeagwali

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This is all starting to sound like yellow journalism.
Today we are competing with    America's  National Enquirer.

Let us be cautious.

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Michael Afolayan and Gozie, thanks for your moral clarity in this matter. I'm in disbelief of some of the posts I have read on this matter. I think our moral sensibility has become deadened and jaded by the ubiquity and frequency of these sickening scandals in Nigerian universities. In fact, Olayinka Agbetuyi crossed a line with me with his posts on this matter and I have as a result added him to my filter list, meaning I will no longer have to read his contributions and do mental acrobatics to try convince myself that he wrote what he wrote and that his account was not hacked. I need to preserve my sanity and will no longer be associated with people and contributions I consider below my moral and intellectual thresholds of what constitutes decency and empathy.

Gloria, I know you have an Afrocentric reflexive impulse that causes you to view things solely in terms of how they might portray Africans, Africa-based academics, and black people in general. It is the leitmotif of your interventions. I get that. However, I want to encourage you to sometimes look beyond that as in many cases you do not know the subtext of the issue(s) under consideration. Moreover, that discursive bromide, valid in some cases as it may be, is in many cases grossly inadequate as a lens and could even become an alibi for exculpating or legitimizing the infractions of wrongdoers. In this particular case, I would return your own advice to you and ask you to be cautious and not dismiss this clear case of statutory rape and sexual predation by an authority figure in a situation of serious power asymmetry. More importantly, I want you to be cautious because there is a lot more to this matter beyond the newspaper report that you do not know. I'll leave it at that for now. Professor Solomon Atere is an egregious offender of the worst kind. He is a recidivist who is a disgrace to the Nigeria academy and to Nigeria as a country. He belongs in jail, not in the classroom. And yes, Michael Afolayan is right; all his enablers and protectors, including his colleagues and the two VCs, need to pay a steep price for giving this predator aid and comfort.

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Moses.

It is troubling that a self declared arbitratrator would allow his Christian ethics unduly influence his so-called abritrational skills.

I do not consider anybody in this forum doing me a favour by reading my posts.  

I also do not write to satisfy and play to the gallery of American pro-feminist notions of political correctness.  The world is not created to satisfy pro American views.

We do not condone the type of behaviour of the female involved in  this affair in our family and thats why our girls do well.  But in this affair teo adults were involved young and old.

On this note I invite well wishers to celebrate with the Agbetuyi the occasion of my niece Busayo recording a First in Economics following in the footsteps of yours truly.

OAA



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Michael Afolayan and Gozie, thanks for your moral clarity in this matter. I'm in disbelief of some of the posts I have read on this matter. I think our moral sensibility has become deadened and jaded by the ubiquity and frequency of these sickening scandals in Nigerian universities. In fact, Olayinka Agbetuyi crossed a line with me with his posts on this matter and I have as a result added him to my filter list, meaning I will no longer have to read his contributions and do mental acrobatics to try convince myself that he wrote what he wrote and that his account was not hacked. I need to preserve my sanity and will no longer be associated with people and contributions I consider below my moral and intellectual thresholds of what constitutes decency and empathy.

Gloria, I know you have an Afrocentric reflexive impulse that causes you to view things solely in terms of how they might portray Africans, Africa-based academics, and black people in general. It is the leitmotif of your interventions. I get that. However, I want to encourage you to sometimes look beyond that as in many cases you do not know the subtext of the issue(s) under consideration. Moreover, that discursive bromide, valid in some cases as it may be, is in many cases grossly inadequate as a lens and could even become an alibi for exculpating or legitimizing the infractions of wrongdoers. In this particular case, I would return your own advice to you and ask you to be cautious and not dismiss this clear case of statutory rape and sexual predation by an authority figure in a situation of serious power asymmetry. More importantly, I want you to be cautious because there is a lot more to this matter beyond the newspaper report that you do not know. I'll leave it at that for now. Professor Solomon Atere is an egregious offender of the worst kind. He is a recidivist who is a disgrace to the Nigeria academy and to Nigeria as a country. He belongs in jail, not in the classroom. And yes, Michael Afolayan is right; all his enablers and protectors, including his colleagues and the two VCs, need to pay a steep price for giving this predator aid and comfort.

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I was prompted to read the story by Olayinka's response describing both the academic and the 16 year old as adults.

After reading the story, I am almost speechless.

The whole thing is evil.

The girl, who might be better seen as a child, could have died.

The scope of the story suggests there is no ameliorating side to it.

Relations with such a vulnerable creature by an adult in that context is deeply problematic in the first place.

He then allowed her to get pregnant. After that, she was farmed off to a dangerous abortion process that could have killed her.

The man needs to shout out his story to any who wants to hear if he truly has any other story to tell. Instead, he has run off and is keeping silent.

I'm fully with Moses in his condemnation of any efforts to give any benefit of doubt to the predatory academic.

Certain things must be unequivocally condemned.

toyin




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Dear Olayinka Agbetuyi,

Let me first congratulate your niece for a well earned First.  I pray she will gain many more firsts and laurels as she engages in her great career.

Now to the other issue.  For the sanctimonious and those who think mere public outpourings absolve them, I will remind them of what Emeritus Professor David Ijalaiye used to tell us when he was moulding our young lives, "Blessed are those whose sins are covered."  The rule of audi alteram partem hear the other side is Germane here.  The Professor has no business having sex with a 16-year-old.s it may be, the matter must be resolved and punishment issued by competent forums.  Administrative disciplinary tribunals or law courts.  There must be due process.

Instead of Farooq Kperogi and Moses Ochonu to gather money and other resources together to prosecute the shameless Professor Atere, they will come here to bellow worthless grammar.  The correct way to go is to get in touch with NGO's active in this area.  Get the victim and the parents to file an action in Court after engaging child and women's rights activists.  That is striking a blow against the reprehensible behaviour like this.   Huffing and puffing here and bellowing self-praise couched as if it is commendation is a worthless exercise.  I expect no less from those who display excessive narcissistic self promotion.

Cheers.

IBK 


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Who steals the goose from off the common

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Who steals the common from off the goose

 

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When we take things that we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

 

The poor and wretched don’t escape

If they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

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Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Toyin


I have not in any way said I supported the professor; I supported the DAMAGE LIMITATION exercise by the university in the interest of all. I tried to understand the professor in a broad minded non western way.

Those who support the current western zeitgeist method of analysis conveniently forget that westernization grew out of Christianity and Mary mother of Jesus was bethrothed to Joseph roughly about the same age as this student following similar tradition, went on to get pregnant, pregnancy that was conveniently ascribed to God. 

Yet these derivatory hypocritical westerners see nothing wrong with that!

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I was prompted to read the story by Olayinka's response describing both the academic and the 16 year old as adults.

After reading the story, I am almost speechless.

The whole thing is evil.

The girl, who might be better seen as a child, could have died.

The scope of the story suggests there is no ameliorating side to it.

Relations with such a vulnerable creature by an adult in that context is deeply problematic in the first place.

He then allowed her to get pregnant. After that, she was farmed off to a dangerous abortion process that could have killed her.

The man needs to shout out his story to any who wants to hear if he truly has any other story to tell. Instead, he has run off and is keeping silent.

I'm fully with Moses in his condemnation of any efforts to give any benefit of doubt to the predatory academic.

Certain things must be unequivocally condemned.

toyin




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Dear All.

May I seize this opportunity to remind that there is no need to inform the Forum in a condescending and patronizing way of a members wish to block another member from their list .

Forthwith any member that attempts that with me will be met with a corresponding level of insulting reply.

Meanwhile I will continue to respond to the posts of any ostriches with their heads buried in the sand.

Professor Ogungbemi we appreciate your supreme self restraint in the face of undue provocation by baby/ eaglet professors without requisite evolution to a mature sensibility of accommodating divergent views from theirs and snitching at others behind their backs, who constitute themselves into tin gods with feet of clay on the Forum.  

Those who are not up to the small toes of others who feel gentrified by the American academy to the extent that they behave as though others feed from their palms

Those who see gerontocrats today will one day evolve into the league of gerontocrats and will be referred to as such by the up and coming.

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We have heard the story from one side with documented witnesses but we have not heard from the criminal suspect who teaches criminology, Prof. Atere. 
Let us get him to tell us his own story. 
Segun Ogungbemi. 

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by irresponsible adults, including an ABU Lecturer certified to be HIV positive (with hepatitis to boot), not murderous acts? Please, let me know if these irresponsible
university Lecturers are walking free on Nigerian streets! Indeed, such irresponsible sexual behavior of these Lecturers would have prompted my legendary Baba
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Moses, You are free to dismiss my comments and twist them to fit your agenda as prosecutor -in -chief.
This is definitely a serious case for the criminal justice system and should not be sensationalized in tabloid fashion.  

On a more academic note, let me congratulate two people whose books I have just read.Firstly there is Ezumezu written by Professor Chimokanam of the University of Calabar, a wonderful contribution to African philosophy.
The sober critique of  Verran and others is welcome. Even Sophie did not escape the philosopher’s erudite commentary.I really loved the last chapter most. The acceptance of the Eurocentric account of the Renaissance was a bit surprising and a wee bit disappointing - but then  I remembered that the author was not a hard core historian but  a hard core African philosopher, so to speak. I plan to do a follow up review in CHOICE. Congrats to the University of Calabar. 
The other author that merits congratulations is Abdul Karim Bangura for Falolaism.  This majestic work encapsulates a meeting of great minds of both the author and the illustrious subject.Bangura offers an intellectual map through the maze of academic abundance, scholarly fecundity and brilliance.
I plan to sit down and read these two books again, line by line, and produce more detailed reviews in due course.

Gloria Emeagwali 

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The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young

Unfortunately, lie detector tests are chronically unreliable. Just as are conspiracy theories. Take Epstein’s suicide for example.

When discussing the pros and cons of establishing whatever grade of innocence/ guilt through a fair hearing, I should still side with Philosophy Professor Según Ogungbemi all the way and not with the very disagreeable dissenters who are eager to depart from the usual criminal justice procedure and arrive at what they presuppose is the truth according to a devious/ deviant Ochonu & Co system , by not listening to whatever other side or sides of the story. The truth of the whole matter must be clear to them if only they neglect paying attention to e.g. this salient point which a good lawyer would surely make one of the cardinal points of contention when throwing doubt on at least this aspect of the nauseating story: According to the Premium Times report :


The medical doctor at the Oye-Ekiti general hospital who allegedly assisted Azuka to abort the pregnancy, Mr Dada, said he was not sure he saw any patient called Precious Azuka on July 26, 2017.

During a telephone conversation with our reporter, Mr Dada said he would need to trace the hospital’s record to ascertain his involvement.

I am not sure aborting pregnancy is my case. The only thing is that when I get to office I will check record if I ever had any encounter with such patient at all. I am Dr. Dada of general hospital, Oye-Ekiti but we don’t do abortion at the hospital,” he said.”

In my humble opinion, justice should be better served by dragging the said Professor and all the witness to a court of Law and not merely to the disciplinary committee of a university senate which is desperate about saving its own good name that’s under threat of being tarnished, thereby putting itself in good stead to be recruiting more innocent and vulnerable children, daughters, sisters, other peoples’ wives, girlfriends, by concealing those kinds of sexual dangers – sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, rape, that they could be in for when the law does not make a statutory example of predator sex-offender professors who are wolves in sheep's clothing – some of them paedophile wolves in search of innocent lambs, for sex-sacrifice. Wolves that parents and students should be warned about - and protected from.

The tender age of the victim in this case brings into question the still culturally acceptable practice of child marriage. The last time this was vigorously discussed was the case of one Senator Ahmed Yerima and his child bride - and when I tried to explain about the Islamic norm in the so-called “Nigerian Village Square” which hypocritically prides itself on “free speech” – they refused to allow my post to surface and that’s why I have not been there since and have no intention of ever returning there. They are not important.


Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Olayinka, 

You state  'I tried to understand the professor in a broad minded non western way.'

Really? 

What does such a way consist in?

Seeing the power relations of age, authority and pastoral care between the married lecturer and the 16 yr old student   as that of fellow adults to be judged in the same moral context?

 Not addressing the mortal danger her life was put in by that abortion?

Could you please explain what sources of morality, unifying Africa, you are drawing upon to construct your understanding of an Africa wide moral code?

 What is  the relationship of such a construction of Africa to the  hybridization of Africa, as in our communicating in English using Western created digital media, most of us having had no education within a traditional African context, and living largely if not purely Western lives and like many here, working on Africa and teaching Africa in Western style academies within Africa and the West?

The West, which you are referencing to excuse the power asymmetry in this context, has long gone past the Biblical period you reference, even if your claims about Mary's age are factual. Are Africans to remain stuck in time while others move forward?

Even then, is there no difference between the relationship between the academic in this contemporary account  and Joseph, Mary's husband, even if we choose to compare a story of doubtful historical accuracy  with a contemporary social drama?

Are openly married life and clandestine relationship between mature, married teacher and child student identical?

I congratulate Moses on his unflinching calling out of the evils in Nigerian society and academia, even, as with Kperogi, they are being told that their verbal outrage has no value, and that they should take practical action to be truly serious, yet, most humanities scholarship and public intellectual activity is purely verbal, recognizing the power of verbalization on the human mind, as attested by the effect on govt decisions through the pressure of  social media even  in such a wobbling democracy as Nigeria's and a host of other potent modifications in society enabled by social media, and often through the verbal initiatives of communicators.

Evil must be condemned without equivocation, no qualifications, no side condemnation of the people calling out evil, thereby subtly upholding the celebration of evil with one side of the mouth while claiming to condemn it with another.

Please calls for insults and engaging in insults should be avoided. Reasoned characterization of negative values is different from insulting. Such social refinement is critical to an educated mind, as recognized even in the sensitivities of classical Yoruba discourse with its subtle variations of address in  various situations. An insult free space is priceless for fraternity and the sharing of ideas.

Years before Cambridge Open Engage by Cambridge UP has opened this year and well before their broader opening to the public next year as a space for scholarly discussions which will also be a pipeline for academic publication of the presentations on its platform, thereby unifying the capacities of  self publishing scholarly sites and social media networks, as academia.edu is building and evoking such robust debates as developed at Moyo Okediji's Facebook based University of African Art,   USAAfrica Dialogues   has been playing a similar role, a rarity in the online world to the best of my knowledge, through  USAAfrica Dialogues'    affiliation with the Toyin Falola Network. 

Such an achievement is not gained cheaply. 

We should protect the nurturing character of the space.

thanks

toyin


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Professor GE:

Thank you very much for drawing our attention -- on "a more academic note" -- to the two wonderful books:  Jonathan O. Chimakonam's 215-page Ezumezu: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies (Springer 2019); and  our own Abdul Karim Bangura's 532-page Falolaism: The Epistemologies of African Knowledge  (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). Both books , in high quality, remind a serious reader of such recent past African philosophical greats as Willie E. Abraham's The Mind of Africa (1962; 2015, Sub-Saharan Publishers); Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization and Development (1964); F. Abiola Irele'sThe African Imagination, (Oxford, 2001; 296 pp); Kwame Anthony Appiah's  In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Methuen; Oxford, 1992; 366 pp), among others.    In fact, a recent great book of similar high intellectual quality is Toyin Falola's Understanding Ogbu Kalu (Carolina Academic Press, 2019; 589 pp.). Maybe, Professor GE. you can review both books by Professors Chimakonam and Bangura! for African and Asian Studies Journal, published by Brill Academic Press of Europe. If so, please let's know! Again, thank you very much for drawing our attention to both wonderful books in the realm of African philosophical writing!

A.B. Assensoh & Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Co-Book Review Editors , African and Asian Studies Journal, (Brill).




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Moses, You are free to dismiss my comments and twist them to fit your agenda as prosecutor -in -chief.
This is definitely a serious case for the criminal justice system and should not be sensationalized in tabloid fashion.  

On a more academic note, let me congratulate two people whose books I have just read. Firstly there is Ezumezu written by Professor Chimokanam of the University of Calabar, a wonderful contribution to African philosophy.
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I may take up the offer at some point. Thank you.

I am sure that you will agree with me that Chimakonam’s work is indeed a profound philosophical treatise that merits a separate review.   Bangura’s
Falolaism achieves what no one has been able to do so far, namely, bring together diverse methodological and epistemological models for explaining Africa - through a deep analysis of Falola’s vast intellectual work. That, too,needs a separate review.

 We have a lot of unfinished intellectual work to do as academics and scholars. 


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Professor GE: 

Please, help us, at your pace, with two separate reviews of the two 2019 works by Professors Chimakonam and Bangura, with the preference of
which review you choose (1) to do first; and (2) to be completed as a Review Essay, much longer than the other.

Most certainly, while both works are extraordinary in intellectual depth, we totally agree with your great assessment that they should be reviewed 
separately. So, like a tennis game, the ball is in now your court, as a scholar we very much respect and admire! If you need a template for our review 
format, you can visit a copy of our refereed Journal (African and Asian Studies Journal), which has Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo of Cornell 
University & Wells College as our Editor-in-Chief.

Many thanks in advance, Professor GE. 

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Despicable. This is another example of the use of influence and exploitation of vulnerability by an entity holding some power over an individual. The situation might seem somehow consensual but that does not diverge from the fact that it was wrong in the first place. The phenomena of sex for grades is a shocking reality that needs active measures of prevention.

Edson Santos

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