Students Paralyse UI 
Published on August 16, 2010 by pmnews · 37 Comments
University-of-Ibadan
Muslim students of the University of Ibadan, UI, this morning paralysed activities during a protest against the institution’s refusal to expel a part four law student, Miss Seun Olubunmi Adegunsoye who preached gospel in the school mosque last Friday.
Adegunsoye of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Church, according to reports, preached at the mosque last Friday to the Muslim faithful.
While she was preaching, the Muslim students mobilised themselves, attacked the lady and beat her mercilessly.
The school’s security men rescued her and took her away for questioning.
Sources saidhe institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Olufemi Bamiro, appealed to the Muslim students not to foment any trouble, promising that the issue would appropriately investigated.
However, the Muslim students went haywire when they found out that the institution’s bulletin which was released this morning did not report the incident and the punishment the school authority has meted out to the preacher.
The students who barricaded all the entrances leading to the premier university and carried placards prevented both academic and non-academic staff from gaining access into the school this morning.
Among the inscriptions written on their placard were: “No to terrorism. No religion should be allowed to terrorize us in our countryâ€; “We will not take any unreligious act from any religious groupâ€; “We will do everything possible to protect our religionâ€; “We will not accept insult from any religionâ€; “Olubunmi should be expelled from UI because she has done what is wrongâ€; “Olubunmi should be arraigned before a court of law for preaching in the mosqueâ€.
According to a leaflet signed by a student called Almin, they demanded that Adegunsoye be expelled from the school and charged to court.
Other demands include: Investigating religious leaders behind the lady, carry out medical examination on the lady to find out whether she is mentally sound, ban Christians from preaching in public places in the school, and punish anyone who facilitated her release from the school security net.
Official reaction from the institution could not be sought as at the time of filing this report but it was gathered that the VC would address the press later in the day.
The school’s PRO, Mrs. Joke Akinpelu who was on leave, rushed down to see what was happening but she was also prevented from entering the school.
Her words, “I can’t say anything now because I am on leave but I have called the VC who will later address the press. As you can see, I can’t even enter but I will see if I can jump the fence to enter the premises and see how we can bring the situation under control.â€
—Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan
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Yes we know that she has cross her bounday but the Muslim student have done the worst. They are suppose to wait and see what the school authority will do and not to take law into their hand. I believe they have support from outside.
PM news, please be objective in your reporting. The lady was not beaten mercilessly as you reported but was handed over to the school authority for proper sanctioning. She disguised herself as one of worshipper in the mosque and started shouting while the prayer was on and that is what infuriated the people. It will have a terrible headline if reverse has been the case.
To the Muslims and others, you guys better repent now before its too late. All Miss Seun Olubunmi Adegunsoye did was in you peoples best interest. A word is enough for the wise.
The Bible says in the book of Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. God wants ‘ALL MEN’ including women as well. Not Christian alone
If you are alive and yet to give your live to Christ, the wish of God concerning you is to simply repent and accept The Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.
The reporter of this news is very biased. D way he reported this case that has been correctly reported by other newspapers shows dt d reporter is not meant to be a reporter.
While I support religious tolerance, I will still condemn the lady’s action if it is true. Showmanship is not a good way to be a true Christian. There are a thousand and one would-be converts still remaining in the nooks and cranies of the South not to talk of the North. Whatever was her motive, it wasn’t a good way of fostering religious cohesion among people and nations and the University authorities should caution her seriously and warn others of her kind not to look for ignoble ways of fanning the embers of religious discord. I dont support her expulsion but I do know her life might be in serious danger if she is left to stay in the school
A food for thought to all and sundry is that a true hero and warrior is not the one that takes the risk of removing the beard of an active lion but the one that uses tact and discretion in taking on the lion
Expelling her is too far! why is the muslims always going too far on every minor issue ? i think the school authority should be left to settle the matter.Stop going extrem on every issue! learn how to embrace peace! Dont make your religion look inferior.
They should have advocated and protested for expulsion of the cultists on the campus or are they afraid of the cultists.I dont know why these so called muslim are found of attacking christians.
Muslims are always intolerant and fighting for their god, allah. God fights for the christians because he is living. Mohammed died and is decomposed in mecca. Jesus rose and is alive. That is why they are always intolerant
Please be honest,how will you react if i enter your room & tell you my father is better than you father in the presence of your kids.The lady is lucky to be alive & thank God she did it in South West where religion tolerance is still bearable & for you supporters,i hope you will accompany her to the North to do say.
PM news, you refused to publish my comment yesterday because you are not objective. Are you have with these nonsense written below? You are not behaving like a professional and the earlier you the better for you. Expect protest boycot of your paper by Muslims.
Granted. The lady was wrong by going to preach in the mosque. But those muslim fanatic students displayed an unacceptable act of babarism by locking the gates and accusing christians of being behind the religious “assault”. They have bult mosques all over the UI campus and still, they complain that people are preaching. They have their loud speakers blaring outside noisily in the citadel of higher learning but christians dont complain. When they bite christians, we dont complain but when the christians pinch them back, they begin to make noise. Christians have always beleived that a true and living God will fight for himself and thus, they would not fight back only pray. The lady should be punished if found guilty but these slaves of allah should learn to be more tolerant. I guess their god should be able to fight for himself.
Why?
@ogbeni naija, i think u also need service of a psychologist like d lady who infringed on d right of others to freely practice their religion. I can understand that ur nature as a religious bigot covered ur face from studying d bone of contention b4 rheeling out abuses on Muslim brothers. I also appeal to d Muslim brothers to thread softly, allow peace to reign & give d school authority a benefit of doubt whether they will treat d case fairly. Enough of religious crisis in d country!!!
Rubbish.If these Bin ladin cousins-at-arms decides to go further,christians fellowships will end it for them and we shall see who looses.Is the ASSAULT meted out to her not enough?If you cry HOLY JIHAD, student christians fellowship will cry ARMAGEDDON too.
RUBBISH.
These guys are crazy, none of them protested against the hardship in the land, against the bad infrastructure in the school and in the country. They are fighting against their sister, fighting for ‘God”. I am afraid of this country and the future with these kind of characters(Terrorist). This is pure robbish, foolishness, ignorance and stupidity.
I am not supprised. Every opportunity to show religious extremesim would be used. Of every thing to struggle about in Nigeria, this is it. IGNORAMUS TERRORIST wake up, the future of your country is bleak.
the height of intolerance, stupidity @ its peak, total badadash!
Is it not a free world?
U av the freedom to choose whether to listen, accept or not abi ?
Let me katch U Bin Ladin’s protesters again……bunch of religious dwarfs.
Sumtin Doeth Thou!
this is just balderdash, they don’t really know what took them to school. they should be expelled not the female student because they took justice into their hands by beating up the fellow female student.
preaching is freedom of speech, if they like they should listen. this is when segregation starts among religion even in the learning institute.
for God sake, the girl they wanted expelled is a human being that has a future, after being beaten then she should be expelled?
what about those that beat her up, is it criminal or not?
are they also not committed an offence? hypocrites!
Why did the girl go to the mosque to preach?to me it is not logical…I do not blame the muslims…just that they over reacted….the preacher poured petrol in naked fire
you writters have derailed from the fact on ground. why should that christain lady walk up to the mosque when most chruches lack credible pastor to preach to them? now the chriatains are right for their wrong act, but if the muslim has acted same it would have been in CNNand BBC labelling it TERRORISM IN U.I. what name will they call it now? hypocrism and hatred is just what they preach not salvation as claim.
you writters have derailed from the fact on ground. why should that christain lady walk up to the mosque when most chruches lack credible pastor to preach to them? now the christains are right for their wrong act. but if the muslim has acted same, it would have been in CNN and BBC labelling it TERRORISM IN U.I. what name will they call it now? hypocrism and hatred is just what they preach not salvation as claim.
Tell no lies,claim no victory,always tell the truth.i will like to appeal to our muslim brps & sist to sheath thier sword and let peace reign,what the xtian sister did is provocative,but let us allow the university authority handle the situation in a civilized way.
Guys. I am in Ibadan, and UI and this is not what actually happened. The reporter intentionally distort the facts to suit whatever evil intent he has. The true story was that the lady disguised as a muslim woman, went into the Mosque and pretend to pray on Friday Prayer. At the point of standing up for prayer. She stood up right INSIDE the mosque and started preaching. I can authoritatively tell whoever wish truth that “SHE WAS NOT ATTACHED NOR MERCILESSLY BEATEN”. The VC actually commend the muslims for maturity in the case. It was inthe news of NTA and BCOS. I am terribly ashamed of this reporter for going to press with fabricated story. And You Guys who send comments. PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ IN NEWSPAPERS.
People should try being objective in cases like this… the lady in question was wrong, plain fact… why being overzealous in her attempt 2 preach her gospel… there were no students to talk to in the whole school and she had to go into a mosque to preach during the muslims fast period…i mean!
However, the muslim students should lead by example…2 wrongs dont make a right… she’s done wrong, has been reported to authorities… I would have expected them in the spirit of ramadan to forgive and ask the authorities to release her while a few of them can meet with her to counsel her on their displeasure with what she did and why she should not do such again.
Islam is the religion of peace and this is a citadel of learning, their should be more display of maturity here.
I am a Muslim
I am very surprise about subjective judgement of some people, you abuse our leaders all the time for not being upright, but when it comes to say the truth on certain issues, an average Nigerian will prefer to base judgement base on selfish interest. Therefore, it is not only our leaders that are selfish but the majority of Nigerians who are always economical with the truth.
How can someone go to other people’s place of worship and be condeming for their beliefs?. This is an act of highest fanaticism and this should be condemn first where our people/society are not corrupt. Before you criticise the action of the other party.
I strongly believe that most Nigerians are not religeous but mindly and religeously corrupt, that is why we found it difficult to constructively criticize our leaders for looting. In Nigeria, an average Christain will support his christain brothers in government for looting while an average muslim will do the same.
It is sad, sad story all the ways.
Nag
Idiots!!!! After beating up the lady (they are supposed to be fasting), they want her expelled. The bible says, the gospel will be preached everywhere, to every nook and cranny. If a moslem has gone to preach in a church, the christians will not beat up anyone, no one will be converted to Islam and civility will be the order of the day. Christianity is the real religion of love and peace.
To Toyin: Please kindly think well before u comment anything. If u have nothing to say, it’s good to keep mute. Though, I don’t support the students’ riot, yet u needn’t to say that Bible says …… bcos life has changed. We need to respect other people’s belief. Everyone knows that she’s wrong. So, u needn’t call them idiots.
We know the girl was over zealous but the muslim student have even done worst than she did. We will say they should expel all of them. They would have waited for the school authority to discipline the lady if found guilty. God will help our Country. These are the set of people that will pass out and begin causing troubles in the country all in the name of religion.
First of all this news report lacks objectivity, What Mr. Gbenro Adesina reported here is not entirely the truth.I would suggest you read THISDAY news paper 16th August 2010 for an unbiased report of the incidence.Excerpt here
“The Christian female student, identified as Oluwaseun Adegunsoye, a 400 Level Law student, according to sources, was said to have disguised as a Muslim worshipper, covering herself with a veil, and lined up at the upper chamber of the mosque reserved for females.
It was gathered that that trouble started during the service when a female student of the school who was seated among female worshippers suddenly shouted, “Jesus will soon come, you should accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour . Allah cannot save you. Except you accept Christ in your life, you are not safe. Allah is not God, Jesus is Godâ€.
She reportedly began her preaching when the congregation was silent, waiting for the prompting of the Imam to go into prostration and thereafter sought to escape before the prayers could be concluded but was prevented by some female worshippers.”
to ayo, jay and the silly man call ogbeni naija, you guys are sick, somebody disguised as a muslim in order to gain access to the mosque to preach, if they kill her are they guilty? they can protest aginst cultist because the cultist did not go beyond their territory. i weep for these country because we have being brain washed by our religion affiliation to the extent that we don’t recognise other people fundamental right to association. just this sunday some group of jehovah witness came to my house when they said they want to preach to me, when you see ma working.
Ogbeni Naija thank you so much, at least for once i enjoy you! At least if it were to be the cultist that is in dis scenerio, none of them will be around to say anything. However, b/c she is a christian, she is to be condenmened. Tell me, why will they expel her? Because she told them the truth? Is it in the NUC constitution that they should expel students for that? These muslim students are nuts! Did u say islam is a religion of peac? No! I disagree!
Lets come to think of it, how would one just disguised as a muslim sister and sneak her way into a mosque to preach christianity, its crazy. And for those condemning the action taken against her, it realy means they too can emerge to do such thing in the future. Despite the fact that nigeria is a big nation, there is no other place for her to preach christianity, exept mosque. That is how they do gener8 mayhem. DAMN HER AND HER SUPPORTERS.
SEUN DID THE RIGHT THING BUT IN A WRONG WAY, SHE SHOULD BE COUNSELLED AND NOT CRUCIFIED
Both the lady and the mulims are etremists.We don’t need such in our world. The bible says wisdom is the principal thing.
Muhammed was a false prophet. Only Jesus Christ is the Savior, the Son of the Living God, the true God, not the false god “allah.” Jesus died on the cross for you sins and rose again from the dead, and lives in Heaven. Believe on Him, ask Him to forgive your sins, follow Him and read the Bible, and you will live eternally in Heaven. If you are a Muslim, and you die, you will not wake up in paradise – you will wake up in an eternal hell.
Pls, what is the hazzle abt? Is it what Seun said or where she said it dat is creating this unrest? Well,whichever the case may be, i felt that the islamic clerics in that mosque should hav simply sat her down and convinced her otherwise if they have superior opinion to what Seun claimed is right. Pls, can we allow God who both parties claimed to serve judge?