I don't know anything about the event. Can someone tell us how he fought for peace and got killed.

who is he and what exactly killed him?

These guys made Great Ife great for us. Rest in Peace Afrika and other Comrades that made Ife a peaceful campus up till this day..

Senior colleagues in the building please enlighten we the young ones about the heroics of this legend

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they were murdered by the university VC sponsored machinery. But history will never forget their bravery and conscience to Nigerian education.

Many Indomie generation kids won't know this heroes or heard about them.

Rest on Martyrs

Afrika lives on, RIP afrika. Ever conscious ife, Great ife!!!

Afrika was murdered, He was murdered for advocating for a cultism-free campus. R.I.P

Bukden16:
How e happen!
You no even tell us ...

Very poor report

Blackfire:
Who send them?


Do you know the sacrifice I make to keep this shithole together




To be In this shithole, do you know what it takes?




Come no make me vex o

His sacrifices still reflects in OAU. Who are you to wanna form cultist in OAU like you see in Uniben and CO. OAU has zero tolerance to Cultism.

So you can wear your black or red and have no fear one bully will stop u.

RIP Great Afrika, Ajiter etc.U were all heroes.What a bad day it was

festacman:
OP please add some fresh to help others understand as well as appreciate the extent of sacrifice made by the martyrs being remembered.

okay sir

I watched a yoruba movie about this. 5 years back. Neva knew it was history

RIP Afrika

We are all heros OP

Stormyweather:
Live on George Iwilade (Afrika). It's disdainfully sad that the people who are enjoying peace today don't know the blood sacrifice that was used to pay for it.

July 10 is not one of those days to forget easily neither is it one we'll like to remember but for the continuous reign of peace, we often need to be reminded the price that was paid for it.

Current OAU students who can walk around the school at anytime of the day/night without harassment from cultists don't even know what price was paid. I sometime ago spoke with some students about the July 10th massacre but most of them are either ignorant about it, feigned ignorance or showed little or no concern.

I can't remember a more touching story that has helped form peace in Nigerian institutions. This freedom isn't enjoyed in most of the Nigerian institutions and there's been no Messiah (Afrika) to stand up for the students.
The true definition of heroism is when one stands up to fight a good cause. George was a secretary general of the SUG and he indeed represented the people unlike what we have in various institutions today.

It is a fervent prayer that one day the perpetrators of this hideous crime will be brought to justice.

read the full story below

https://www.nairaland.com/2309675/1999-cult-attack-oau-what

valenu:
I don't know anything about the event. Can someone tell us how he fought for peace and got killed.

Breifly, the student union, of which Afrika was a part of was involved in anti-cult activites...and on the night 20 years ago, the school was invaded by gunmen, suppsoedly cultists, who invaded the hostel, and shot dead several student union leaders, Afrika inclusive.

(One of the excos escaped via jumping out of a window, while another exco was busy with Palm wine drinkers club activites elsehwere)

It was big news back then

(Not an Ife student...an Ife student can tell the tale better).

Some inncoent students died too...one was a 500l medical student who was coming out of the bathroom, and was shot dead. Nothing to do with the whole thing.

THE WHOLE STORY HERE: https://www.nairaland.com/2309675/1999-cult-attack-oau-what

Bukden16:
How e happen!
You no even tell us ...

indomie generation

bobolistica:
who is he and what exactly killed him?

A brave student union leader, gunned down by cultists.

LINK to nairaland thread here

dejio42:
I watched a yoruba movie about this. 5 years back. Neva knew it was history


RIP Afrika


We are all heros OP

Can you help with the movie title ?

Jaymaxxy:
20 years after, the blood of our fallen martyrs still cry for justice.

RIP GEORGE IWILADE "AFRIKA"

YEMI AJITERU

TUNDE OKE

EVIANO EKELEMU

EFE EKEDE

May your killers never know peace.

thanks for the updated pictures

Here we are 20 years later, and more dan 90% of the students in OAU have no clue who dis guy is, and the killers are somewhere enjoying their lives.

NEVER KILL YOURSELF FOR A NIGERIA UNIVERSITY

AwkaetitiBabe:
His sacrifices still reflects in OAU. Who are you to wanna form cultist in OAU like you see in Uniben and CO. OAU has zero tolerance to Cultism.

So you can wear your black or red and have no fear one bully will stop u.

I send you a pm let's talk

AwkaetitiBabe:
His sacrifices still reflects in OAU. Who are you to wanna form cultist in OAU like you see in Uniben and CO. OAU has zero tolerance to Cultism.

So you can wear your black or red and have no fear one bully will stop u.

cults are gradually coming back to OAU. Ife town is known for rituals and cultism. It is impossible to eradicate cultism there

Telkart19:


Breifly, the student union, of which Afrika was a part of was involved in anti-cult activites...and on the night 20 years ago, the school was invaded by gunmen, suppsoedly cultists, who invaded the hostel, and shot dead several student union leaders, Afrika inclusive.

(One of the excos escaped via jumping out of a window, while another exco was busy with Palm wine drinkers club activites elsehwere)

It was big news back then

(Not an Ife student...an Ife student can tell the tale better).

Some inncoent students died too...one was a 500l medical student who was coming out of the bathroom, and was shot dead. Nothing to do with the whole thing.

THE WHOLE STORY HERE: https://www.nairaland.com/2309675/1999-cult-attack-oau-what

Thanks

I remember the story even though I was still in secondary school at the time. My sister gained admission into OAU two years later, all jambites were made to watch a documentary about the slain students with lots of gory photos. Cultists were the ones running the school before Afrika waged a war against them. Sadly he paid with his life but peace returned to the institution. Very few people will make that kind of sacrifice this day and age.

Continue to RIP Afrika

May their souls rest in peace. Theirs was a truly bold move. A rare act of bravery to protect the reputation of OAU as one of the few Nigerian universities with minimal cult activities. Ife was never a cultism hotspot. Some of these cultists started making brazen attempts to strengthen their nodes at Ife. They were rebuffed & heroically stopped. The supreme price was paid by these rare individuals.

Omoyele Sowore (The same one) fought a similar battle in Unilag several years before the OAU heroes. NTA network news even dedicated a portion of their broadcast to that brutal period. Several established cultists were apprehended and brutalized. It was a bold move if you know the Unilag of that era. While the Akoka campus only witnessed sporadic cult rivalry attacks, it was the national focal point where decisions were made. It was also the safe house for wanted cultists across Nigeria.

The reprisal was brutal. Sowore was left for dead. The rest is history.

I was was in university of Ibadan then. Although I can't remember the details again, but I can tell you that this ugly incident had the hands of certain key figures in the school management according to the reports we got. The killing was sponsored by men in the top echelon of the school management in order to clamp down on the SUG activism

pacificman:
die for nigeriaschool at your own risk

If others did not die, would you have the freedom to do anything today
Please mind what you say and how you say it.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3778862_3753971img20160422112948editpng3cad72e260c16d7700ac7dfce1f527f5_pnge1f97e77566337e6f01ffc44472ae367

Kenneth10110:


Can you help with the movie title ?

Dugbe Dugbe