THE PREVALENCE OF CULTISM IN OUR SOCIETY AND ITS EFFECTS ON YOUTHS

Cultism has its deep root from the time immemorial. That is why there is hardly any society today where we do not have one cult group or the other.  Although, the aims and objectives of each cult group differs; in most cases they go any length in achieving their aims.

It prevalence in Nigeria societies could be trace back to the time when most us today are not yet born. That is why we have instances, where some people are born into it. The idea of belonging to cult group gang according to some people is for protection and in most cases to safeguard their interest. However, these interests a times are selfish and diabolical, as record has shown to us in many previous instances. However, when the like of Prof. Wole Soyinka and others inaugurated the pirate confraternity in the then university of Ife in 1953, it was meant to safeguard the interest of the generality of the students against the tyrannical tendencies of the authorities of our higher institutions then.