​[TRENDING VIDEO] Public outrage erupts over alleged assault of student by Coal City University staff

A tense altercation recently unfolded at Coal City University in Enugu State, capturing significant attention on social media. The incident reportedly began when an Associate Dean approached a student regarding her missing classes. This initial questioning escalated when the student allegedly brushed the staff member’s hand away.

The situation quickly spiraled into a confrontation involving hostel staff. Video footage of the incident depicts multiple women restraining the student amidst a scene of shouting and physical blows. Following the struggle, the student’s room was subjected to a search for illicit drugs, though reports indicate that nothing was found.

While the university has maintained silence regarding the matter, the footage has ignited widespread condemnation from online viewers, many of whom describe the staff’s physical response as excessive. The event has sparked a broader conversation regarding the enforcement of strict discipline within Nigerian private university hostels.

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Here are some of the reactions:

eth.aina™ 💫✨ (@ETH_Aina): The man that held the girl’s hands when she wanted to fight back, God will destrøy him. The hostel staff that bullied her, God will take her and her children will not d!ë well. The Reverend Sister will not make heaven. The cameraman or woman and other bystanders will be humiliated. God will pûn!sh the girl being harassed for not looking for stones to break the heads of her oppressors.

Neytiri🌹 (@thefateofkathyh): She no get friends?? Them dey watch as the women dey beat her.

(@PalmTreeFlex): Which stupid reverend sister. These low lives and that fat fuck hiding behind Christianity are just useless.

Chukwumeka🖤 (@chukwue…): Dem dey check for hard drugs how? From where to where? And TF do you mean by you’re a reverend sister? Why TF is anyone man handling a student?

Ezi Emela (@MsEziEmela): Useless foolish women. Can someone help me get that students contact pls. Since they want to ask who is she. They are mad.

Sora 🏳️‍🌈💥 (@thejadedang…): Genuinely I would’ve been arrested because I swear to god, I’d have drawn blood from both of them. We don’t beat this old monsters enough and that’s the problem. By time we beat one of these demons to the point of hospitalization, they’ll learn to keep their hands to themselves.

Edikan (@Edikan_v): I fear I might spend a considerable amount of time in jail if I have kids.

QeyBunch (@qeymusicc): My father wasn’t king kong, he wasn’t bigger than everyone but you see these teachers? If this was my sis & my dad had dealt with them, they’d prefer to sell tomatoes in the market than teach again, I’m not even joking. 😔

Chimdimma Ike (@Chimdim…): Nigerian parents/elders are such weak links. Her parents should have razed down the school by now.

Chimdimma Ike (@Chimdim…): See what adults are doing to a child forgodsakes! No one has been sacked, rather they are punishing her. Nigeria is not a sane place.

Chuky Unadulterated (@Chuk…): How in the world would school staff, Reverend sister gather to be beating someone? Don’t they have a way of disciplining students? What in the ghetto ness is this?

chisom (@thatmehdude): May everyone party to her harassment be struck by a vehicle.

Mazi Uche (@DiokparaNri): This is not fight but an assault on the student. The so called Rev Sister and a hostel staff physically assaulted the student and the student’s parents should take a legal action against them.

CROWNPrince (@CrownHod): This is madness! She is assaulting an adult.

Heavenly~Céline (@celine_a…): I cannot be in the settings and watch you maltreating someone like this. I don’t mind to take the consequences but not under my watch.

AGABA (@MartinUba2): That sister get luck. The slap no touch am well 😂.

Heavenly~Céline (@celine_a…): This is all shades of wrong. Adults can’t put their emotions in check. They should have allowed the young girl to have proper fight, she will beat the heck out of them. Only 1 slap to the rev sister, her eyes first blur.

Aji. (@AjiOfLA): I don’t like as she can’t fight sha.

Dabbie (@DabbieElla): This thing happened to me during my school days, this hostel warder accused me of cooking in the room, meanwhile I was studying for exams. She asked me to bring out my stove and pots which I did but she still insisted I was cooking after she felt my stove and post and they were all cold. She said I should bring down my bag, that I may have hid the hot one in my bag, omoh it turned into a heated argument cuz I refused to bring down the bag… The kind of hot slap I collected that day rewired my home training, I just locked the room and be@t some stars out of her eyes, before the main warders could arrive my friends helped me escape. And that was how I left the school hostel. Very f***d up place 😔