A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CULTISM AND THE NIGERIAN PHENOMENON
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The spate of almost daily despicable and weird front page headlines in Nigerian
Newspapers and Magazines about the murderous, ruinous and catastrophic
nocturnal activities of cultists in Nigerian educational institutions; has been a rather
vivid and graphic reminder of the total decay in Nigeria's national pSyche
occasioned by many years of ravenous, ~olent and corru'~l military dictatorships.
Tltis paper which is ruminations of a dyspeptic · ex~student, ·examines the ·
comparative global perspective of cultismjuxtaposi~git with the bghly explosive, .
vexing and contentious character of cultism in Nigerian educational institutions
highlighting the raison d'etre, the modus operandi, the;socio-politico-economic
consequences of o.Ut activities in the society . and· solutions to this · tmcanny
behaviour. Although the paper took exceptions in the above contending issues and
the fact that cultism is an ancient global phenomenoii, it nevertheless inclines
towards the perspective th~t ·cultism can be ·eradicated from Nigeria~ higher .
education institutions if the moral political will is developed to do so
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JA Political science (General)