CULTISM: A GAIN OR A PAIN? (A must read article for all student)
By: Samuel Iyiola "Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners". — Benjamin Banneker Cultism has emerged as one of the most damaging and dangerous trends now harming Nigerian students' life. These organizations' actions have resulted in the suffering and death of many innocent persons. They became painfully popular and infected the country's educational institutions like a dangerous virus, destroying the lives of young people through heinous acts such as torture, fraud, painful inscriptions on the bodies of new members, voodoo rituals, murders, drinking of human blood and urine, use of hard drugs, intimidation of bystanders, armed robberies, kidnapping, and so on. What is cultism? According to Steve Bruce (1995), the cult is a ‘loosely knit group organized around some common themes and interests but lacking any sharply defined and exclusive belief.' While Oxford Advanced Learners' Dicti