Nollywood actor Daniel Etim-Effiong has opened up about a difficult experience during his university years that significantly shaped both his life and his faith.
The actor revealed in an interview with Taymesan that he was once expelled from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, after being wrongly accused of cultism.
He explained that the incident shocked him deeply and left him emotionally broken, especially because he believed he had done nothing wrong.
After leaving school, Etim-Effiong moved to Jos in Plateau State.
He said the new environment gave him a sense of freedom, but that freedom came with anger and confusion.
During that period, he picked up habits such as smoking and womanizing, actions he linked to frustration and disappointment with life.
He explained that the situation affected his relationship with God.
At the time, he was actively involved in Christian activities and was a member of a student fellowship.
He had expected support when the accusation surfaced, but according to him, the fellowship refused to stand by him or protest his expulsion.
The lack of backing from people he trusted left him hurt and discouraged.
As time passed, the actor said he gradually stopped attending church, feeling abandoned and let down during one of the most difficult moments of his life.
He said: “That same year I got expelled from the university for belonging to cult, for belonging to confra. Which confra? I was a church boy.
“It was in Jos I started smoking, it was in Jos I started womanizing, because I was free and it was just like I was almost like angry at God.
“I’m like ‘Why did you let this thing happen to me? like I was an SU, you didn’t even defend me.
“I told the fellowship in FUTMINNA then that ‘You guys should protest.’”
