Emmanuel Edeh, the founder of Madonna University in Nigeria, has boasted that female students “do not lose their virginity” during their stay in the institution due to the high moral standards instilled in them.
Speaking at the 25th anniversary of the university, Edeh read out the institution’s values and how it stands out amongst its peers.
The clergyman said the varsity prides itself in “high morals, discipline, and decency”, adding that the school has no record of “cultism, molestation, or examination malpractice”.
Edeh, who did not provide evidence to back his comments, also bragged that the institution “stands out globally for maintaining the purity of its students”.
“Madonna University is known for high morals and discipline, thus the motto is: Decency in academics and morals. This is why every student who refuses to meet the required percentage of attendance for any course will not be allowed to sit for the examination,” he said.
“And also number two, 100 percent residency offered to us here. That means we do not allow our students to go and live in hotels or any other place and start coming to the school.
“Madonna is a university where there is no secret cultism, molestation, examination malpractice, no bullying, zero tolerance for hard drugs. Zero tolerance for sexual immorality. It is only in this university that it is maintained that girls who enter the university as virgins, graduate as virgins.
“You enter our university as a virgin and you graduate as a virgin. Tell me any other university in the whole world that can maintain it. That is why many people from London, America, England, and Germany when I meet them, they will say ‘father we want to marry a girl who is a virgin. And the only way to do that is to come to Madonna University.”
Madonna was founded in the late 1990s. It began full operation in 1999 as the first private Catholic university in the West African sub-region.
It also became the first private university to be approved by the federal government of Nigeria.
The varsity had its first campus at Okija, Anambra, before extending to Rivers and Enugu states.
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