AHOY Is No Longer Just A Men’s Greeting

September 23, 2021 By Grimot Nane Zine in Institutions, UCGFs Tags: AHOY, Change, Grimot Nane, Pyrates Association, Pyrates Confraternity Leave a comment

Many Men have squandered their fine capabilities but have remain relentless in their assiduous attempts to discover information on the Pyrates Association. To be invisible, though present, is a remarkable feat. You cannot see or hear it, but it’s always there with you; seeing and hearing everything you do. To the uninitiated, such capabilities may appear magical, but its mere wisdom in action, if wisdom can be mere. Yet, Men have become curious to know secrets about others beyond their reach because they no longer have secrets of their own, nor the ability to keep them. Men have their rigid illusions and mischief to blame for their self-inflicted loss.

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Nathaniel Oyelola Rejects Davy Jones Locker

June 5, 2021 By Grimot Nane Zine in Institutions, Musings, Short Stories, UCGFs Tags: Davy Jones Locker, Fiddlers Green, Grimot Nane, Lyonesse, UCGFs 2 Comments

A strange event floated into my quiet space like an aimless freak and stunned me harder than a shockwave. The idigo lights had come on indicating a great personality or deity was scheduled to visit Davy Jones Locker for some unpur knownpose or is it unknown purpose. Then the light went out, making my eyes fall to the ground then return to its sockets with a little dust that itched them. Such a one-in-a-billion chance event had to be a cancellation or an error. I was worried.

Hitherto that moment of the lights, I was there alone in the gigantic cavern brainstorming the fate of Davy Jones Locker if Nigeria breaks up. “Against Tribalism,” I said aloud. Will the 4-7 Creed be scraped or revised or undergo its own Tower of Babel? What concerns a map-maker with chromium content of stainless steel? I was shivering a little despite wearing thick woolly socks, a trouser over tracksuit bottoms, two jumpers, a black beret, and a great coat. There were only a few candles burning with still flames and darkness seemed ready to pounce on me. Not a place for the gregarious.

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Dino Melaye Adopts the Pyrates Confraternity: A PR Coup?

August 11, 2020 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Relations, UCGFs Tags: Dino Melaye, Grimot Nane, National Association of Seadogs, public relations, Pyrates Confraternity, Social media Leave a comment

[Former] Senator Dino Melaye – SDM – (Twitter handle: @dino_melaye) on the 4th of August 2020 tweeted a cynically edited video clip of members of the Pyrates Confraternity singing his name in elated spirits. The comment that accompanied the clip SDM presented was, “SDM loved everywhere… even Pirates [Pyrates].” Call it narcissism, the tweet appeared to be a subtly devised public relation’s [PR] coup by SDM and perhaps it has worked well. Several Pyrates reacted on social media platforms professing that SDM was a fool to think the Pyrates were praising him because they, in reality, were mocking/condemning him for his bizarre resistance of arrest antics widely televised in 2018. The High Command of the Pyrates Confraternity in the person of the NAS Capoon stepped out to make a press release showing that not only were they not praising Dino Melaye, but they had also for ages used songs creatively to address the ills of the politics and politicians in Nigeria. These reactions looked like the were they responses SDM had hoped for from the Confraternity. He might even suffer Pyrate-envy since he is not a Pyrate.

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Fraternities Are Viruses In Nigeria 13 – The Disintegration

August 8, 2020 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: dictatorship, Grimot Nane, leadership, poison, Power, Professional Bad Leaders, violence 1 Comment

The leading University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGF) have had a long run of durability in their existence. Like many glorified dictatorships, autocracies and predatory cults, their enduring survival is a function of the longevity of the founder or historical leader. There is no retirement- some are late and some are present.

The “cult of personality” of the historical leader prevents the development of consistent and well-enforced institutions, laws or rules within the UCGF. His changing moods, whims and preferences rule the UCGF as he pleases. The challenges to his inconsistencies are few and attract punitive sanctions. The outcome is that the UCGF is always in a state of permanent uncertainty; every member has to wait for the latest deceptions, half-truths, excuses, threats, punishments, exclusions or instructions of the leader to know what will happen next. Keeping members guessing is one of the most ancient tricks of cult leaders. The problem resulting is that the cult leader never lives forever. He will eventually become too ill or senile to lead, or he will pass away someday. That is when the succession battles and disintegration begin; he never thought any successor a good enough replacement. The scramble for power on his departure can be desperate and violent – many will eat and drink poison.

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How I celebrated Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him

July 14, 2020 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Short Stories, UCGFs Tags: ceremonial, Davy Jones Locker, Grimot Nane, punishment, Pyrate, wole soyinka Leave a comment

Ballpoint-pen portrait of Wole Soyinka

Yesterday, as I was making octopus pepper soup, I decided to have a sip of seaweed kinkana, a mild alcoholic spirit. Paramole had given me the recipe to make the still when he returned from the Great Gangway. The Davy Jones Locker rendezvous was quiet, cold and sterile as usual but also inspirational and unencumbering. I must emphasise I love the place; it is my kind of place; it is my home now. I only use my submarine to come onshore these days, which is not often.

My unfailing experience was, an hour before a Forgone Terrors arrives at the Davy Jones Locker rendezvous, the Entrance would turn deep indigo or even purple. It is a signal for me to get ready to Mascot a Forgone Terror to the Great Gangway in any manner I choose. Now, for the first time in my experience, the Entrance turned blood red. It was a signal that an unauthorised person was arriving. I had never seen this happen and wondered who would appear at the Entrance. Was it the Devil himself, Sir Francis Drake, Vasco Da Gama, Black Beard, William Kidd, Calico Jack or the god, Poseidon? I knew it had to be a man by the laws of natures. The pepper soup was ready and scenting fine, and what a meal! No more sips.

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Black Spots and Human Rights

August 13, 2019 By Grimot Nane Zine in UCGFs Tags: despair, discipline, injustice, National Association of Seadogs, punishment Leave a comment

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the First Time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been – Hannah Arendt

When punishment becomes too common or an overused resort, it indicates a poorly governed organisation or institution that can do no better than wield a stick to cover up the open corruption of its leadership and its day to day affairs. The more the rotten the organisation, the more the punishment meted out to its members. Punishment thus becomes the best way the organisation or institution secures impunity from its very own corruption and decadence. Some organisation uses Black spots as its primary method of discipline and punishment within while simultaneously claiming to be “defenders of human rights” without.

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What Pirate-Captain Entities Should Be Doing for Democracy

June 6, 2018 By Grimot Nane Zine in Institutions, UCGFs Tags: civil disobedience, democracy, drug abuse, Grimot Nane, jobs, memes, Nigeria, Political debate, social justice, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

There is a keen fascination among young men, particularly at leading schools and universities around the world with the “captain-pirate” mode of rebellion or disobedience against the injustices and excesses of the status quo in society. It is not surprising. The literal meaning of a pirate and the piratical life is one of thieves and the means of thieving, respectively. Its significance in the context of fraternal orders of young men is consanguineous with the metaphor of Robin Hood – stealing from the rich or powerful to give to the poor or weak. The young or seasoned pirate, as he solemnly swears at his initiation, under the direction of his captain is thus necessarily an agent of social justice in society.

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The Bad Brother’s Victims 3: Namadi Sambo

January 11, 2018 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: bad brother, death, drug abuse, Grimot Nane, initiation, National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, victimisation, wole soyinka 1 Comment

Namadi Sambo is yet another victim of Wole Soyinka’s and the Pyrates Confraternity’s mischief. As an ambitious and bright student, in 1974 Sambo as an architecture undergraduate at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria) chose to join the Pyrates Confraternity. Namadi Sambo later became Governor of Kaduna State and subsequently the 13th Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We must understand that Islamic Northern Nigerians, particularly of the Hausa-Fulani stock rarely ever join University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGF) since their ethos goes against the everyday sensibilities of Islam. Sambo’s (and others) interest as a Hausa-Fulani to join the Pyrates Confraternity seemed like a breakthrough in expanding the network of membership among Northerners. Nigeria is lucky today to have him alive considering the consequences of his initiation into the Pyrates Confraternity.

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The Bad Brother’s Victims 2: Usani Uguru Usani

January 11, 2018 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: bad brother, Grimot Nane, National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, victimisation, wole soyinka Leave a comment

Usani Uguru Usani is another example of the protean victim Wole Soyinka, and the Pyrates Confraternity create. Again, in the late 1990s, Usani was made a commissioner in the cabinet of three governors from 1995 to 1999 holding various portfolios in Cross Rivers State. He was then seen as a future governor the state and today he is currently Minister of State for Niger Delta in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. However, if the Pyrates Confraternity had their way, his political career would have ended a long time ago.

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The Bad Brother’s Victims 1: Ben Oguntuase

January 11, 2018 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: bad brother, cult, Grimot Nane, National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, wole soyinka 1 Comment

Ben Oguntuase is a prime example of being a systematic victim of the mischief of Wole Soyinka and the Pyrates Confraternity. A very bright and energetic graduate of petroleum engineering from the Universities of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Louisiana (USA), Big Ben as he was often called, quickly rose through the ranks of National Oil plc (an oil marketing concern). And was a star in the corporate class of Nigeria. By the late 1990s, he had become the Capoon of the Pyrates Confraternity (a.k.a. National Association of Seadogs International). One thing he tried to achieve as the Pyrates Capoon was to eliminate the heinous and proliferating incidences of University Campus Grown Fraternities’ (UCGF) violence causing death, mayhem and ruin to the lives of so many young higher education students across the country. It was a great national concern of the day which persists. As noble as this quest of Ben Oguntuase was, it cost him his brilliant career at the singular order of Wole Soyinka.

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Who is He, the Bad Brother? Wole Soyinka & His Goons

December 31, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: bad brother, crime, National Association of Seadogs, punishment, Pyrates Confraternity, wickedness, wole soyinka Leave a comment

Wole Soyinka and his “goons”, as the man affectionately calls them, are the “Bad Brothers” and the Pyrates Confraternity is the “Bad Brotherhood”. It is only the long staggering history of theft, manipulation, racketeering, corruption, abuse, brutality, slavery and many inhumane practices that unambiguously establish the justification and evidence of the descriptor “Bad”.

The physical and psychological victims of this very “Badness” run into the thousands but have no voice and fear a vicious myriad of accusations, smears and violence if they speak out. There are the survivors too. But most of them have cut their losses with the Confraternity even in their daily thoughts. Hundreds of men blindly every year join the association, not knowing the realities within. Such men with high expectations of personal advancement but end up with one invariable outcome (cf. the road to Europe via Libya). Many within the Confraternity are still suffering as victims. And these members held captive, only cope through mutual [imposed] mechanisms of sheer learned helplessness and stupefaction; alcohol and song provide much solace. The adopted but subtle indoctrination associated with aggressively absorbent cults around the world is well-documented. These are in evidence in every prescribed action and thought of the Confraternity.

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The Bad Brother’s Nemesis: 2

December 30, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Eschatology, fire, Grimot Nane, organisations, Otuka, transparency, wickedness Leave a comment

Fire!!! Fire!! I have to repeat it, Fire!!! When two or more Otukas gather, a fire is nearby ready to consume habitually bad men mercilessly. No ashes remain, and the Fire is too hot to scream in. Kegs of rum and seas of brine cannot quench it. The Fire though is always a potentiality, and it is only the purity of the human spirit. The Otuka encases that which turns him away from such an eschatology of the wicked. Inevitably, sometimes it has to be done. Plenty of indications, no announcement required.

May one resort to God’s word in this endeavour? For those who read the Bible or never will, I want to interest them in the “Book of Kings” 1: v 9-10;

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The Bad Brother’s Nemesis

December 29, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in UCGFs Tags: Grimot Nane, Otuka, wickedness Leave a comment

The Otuka (a.k.a. Akanda Eniyan) is born into this world very lonely, living on his terms, mostly. He misunderstands everyone else; he is someone everyone else misunderstands. For those he encounters, everyone else is his challenge, and he is everyone else’s challenge. Trouble? His life is never easy even if gifted, successful, influential or content and is harder when this is not the case. He, as the intersection of misunderstandings, cannot find a like mind as others naturally, e.g. as thieves and drunkards do. What frustration! Yet he thrives.

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Professor Soyinka’s and the Pyrates Confraternity – I Disagree!

September 12, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: cult denialism, Grimot Nane, Military rule, National Association of Seadogs, Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore, Pyrates Confraternity, UCGF, UCGFs, wole soyinka 1 Comment

Comment: Over the past six years I have written several articles about the wrongs and decadence of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGF) (some deleted) with insider knowledge. I more recently even developed two essay series out of them, namely, Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria and The Leadership of a Bad Brother (both which do not names persons or fraternities) with another series in making that does mention names. A major international media house and a documentary filmmaker have even contacted me for my expertise on the matter. However, over a decade before me, Omoleye Sowore (in 2002) had written one of the most important articles on the source problem of cults (UCGF) in Nigeria and its possible remedies. I am sure many readers will agree.

Sowore writes: “It takes a lot of gut to disagree with someone of Professor Soyinka’s standing in the world. In almost every sense he has used his courage, expertise, connections and skills to intervene on behalf of Nigeria to obtain freedom from terror, democracy and respect for human rights, it is common knowledge that he has done very well and I mean excellently well in his capacity as a literary giant, activist, Nobel laureate and Pan Africanist. Continue reading →

The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Level Seven

June 18, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: abuses, Boiss, emergence, Eschatology, greed, Grimot Nane, impotence, Professional Bad Leaders, UCGF, wickedness Leave a comment

When the realm governed by the Bad Brother is hollowed out from the inside by the purposeful preponderance of evil, excesses and abuses to the point everything that held it together is so polluted and its rules irreparably unenforceable, a power vacuum is created. That is the art of negotiating oneself out of power by sloth. Folly. The high and mighty in society that once gave credibility and legitimacy to the realm turn their honourable backs and conveniently depart gradually if they were not expelled earlier. The least among men devoid of rectitude, creativity and intelligence then come into ascendance and potentially power by way of hunter-gather style ambition. The realm then gets hollowed out further till the skin breaks from the inside to the surface. Only the memories remain and the smell.

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The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Face Six

March 31, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Boiss, Grimot Nane, revolution, subversion, UCGF, wickedness Leave a comment

Boiss dey! Boiss always do right where the Bad Brother has done evil, and they invariably succeed in the end. The tables have now turned for the better, and the seating arrangements have changed for good as they should have a very long time ago. Not until the revolution is complete do guynes believe it.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 12 – Corporate Delusions

February 25, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Charity, corporations, delusion, fraud, gangsters, Grimot Nane, military, tax, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

“We are bigger than U.S. Steel” many members of UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities) in Nigeria will tell you, vaingloriously about their “brotherhood”. Do not take such folly seriously; it is evidence the ‘mask of sanity’ fraternities has fallen off the cliff that once held them so high. However, now they see themselves as large facsimile corporations. Just as on LinkedIn, you will see corporations that have thousands of employees, UCGFs make favourable comparisons with such organisations based on their thousands of members.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 11 – Slavery?

February 21, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: abuses, cult denialism, delusion, ethnicity, exploitation, Nigeria, punishment, slavery, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

To be in a UCGF (University Campus Grown Fraternity) as a member in 2017 under the terms and conditions they currently operate is to voluntarily be a slave unless you are a “Slave Master” or his favoured client. The fight to be a slave master is the goal of many an unwitting ambitious UCGF member or rookie, except where does it get them? (See: Climbing the “Fraternity Ladder”: KIngs of Nothingness http://wp.me/p1bOKH-zC). We must be reminded that slavery in the present happens in many spheres of life but not visible like the times’ people were bound in chains; it is perpetuated today as mental bondage and too many fall for it. Masters of such practices abound in arenas where profit and obedience are the chief goals.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 10 – Poor Imitators

February 17, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: abuses, Africa, democracy, ethnicity, free speech, Grimot Nane, Nigeria, organisational failure, UCGF, UCGFs, USA Leave a comment

Whether university campus grown fraternities (UCGF) have done either good or evil to the societies in their countries of origin (e.g. the USA) is debatable. In the American-formation, without any idealisation, their “honour codes” are both formidable and strictly adhere. Honour” among brothers is a precious matter for American fraternities. Interestingly, their Nigerian imitators as ‘free-for-all fraternities’ are observably oblivious to the very meaning of honour and devoid of working honour codes. It may be the reason UCGFs in Nigeria are more like “street gangs” than collectives of educated men.

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The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Flash 5

February 6, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: death, followers, freedom, Grimot Nane, Professional Bad Leaders, UCGF Leave a comment

The end of the era of the leaders who are bad brothers need not be obscure, it must never be.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 9 – The Silencing

February 5, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: freedom of speech, Grimot Nane, Nigeria, oppression, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

The existence, approaches and attitudes of the UCGF in every day matters as well, and unusual ones are bifurcated in many senses. Probably the worst form of bifurcation most visible in the conduct of the leadership of UCGFs is their attitudes towards freedom of speech, especially criticisms or critiques. In keeping with their “advertised” ideals, tenets and intentions, the leadership of UCGFs find it very easy and desirable to make audacious press releases that brazenly critique or question the failures, incompetence and crimes of the government of the day. But are equally extremely punitive and vindictive towards their members who are brave or naïve enough to point out theirs. What is the place of ‘freedom of speech’ in the traditions and culture of UCGFs?

A climate of fear usually grips most members oppressively when it comes to freedom of speech proffered within the UCGF. Fear gripping proud elites? Sanctions and disapproval are the main instruments by which the fear finds its way into the minds of members. A motto UCGFs should sell to the public is “silence is golden” even when it means “No Freedom of Speech” within; this is another bifurcation. The smallest of criticisms by a complainer can easily suffer the fate of a major infraction by the UCGF leadership. Sycophancy is very much welcome and encouraged within the fraternity by the leaders.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 (Extended) – The Hopper

February 5, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Cheaters, Grimot Nane, Grudgers, Hoppers, Nigeria, selfish gene, Suckers, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

In FAVIN (Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria) Part 5 (see: http://wp.me/p1bOKH-pT) the issue articulated was the presence of Cheaters, Grudgers and Suckers in the membership constitution of UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities) based on the understanding of Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. From keener observation, that there is another prevalent category of character within UCGFs that has a more insidious nature and maybe more of a threat to unsuspecting members of the fraternity and society than the dreaded Cheater.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 8 – The Bounty Takers

January 11, 2017 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: extortion, Grimot Nane, learned helplessness, UCGF, UCGFs, violence Leave a comment

Fraternities in Nigeria are now specialists in accumulating “financial bounties” with their leaders appropriating them; it is tantamount to corporate malfeasance. It may be unfortunate if not tragic that while the founders of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) established them, perhaps for noble intentions, they have come to embody the very antics of “corporate malfeasance”. Operating just below the radar or not facing criminal prosecution is not evidence of clean hands. UCGFs depend mainly on the money members contribute and as their sizes have increased so has their kitties. Financial bounty taking by leaders in UCGFs is strictly about misappropriating members’ money and funders’ largesse, perennially. The bounty taking activities of UCGFs did not start one day or overnight. The bounties came in phases and often took years or decades to perfect. The bounties are now known as “returns.”

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Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What?

September 11, 2016 By Grimot Nane Zine in Elections, Governance, UCGFs Tags: APC, Democracy in Nigeria, National Association of Seadogs, PDP, Pyrate Leave a comment

There are very few people on record who have been more critical of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria, including the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) a.k.a. the Pyrates Confraternity (PC) than myself. I have written a score of articles [on this publication] that question the existence, motives, evolution and modus operandi of UCGFs with conclusions that are damning. I am neither a defender nor supporter of UCGFs. We may, however, take strong exception to Governor Adams Oshiomhole (APC) using the [former] membership of NAS in a smear campaign against Osagie Ize-Iyamu, from an opposing party (PDP), to get him disqualified/discredited in the dying minutes of the (now postponed) 2016 Edo State gubernatorial elections. Continue reading →

The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Angle 4

August 13, 2016 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Boiss, Grimot Nane, punishment, religion, UCGF, victims, wickedness Leave a comment

Everyday people in this everyday world of ours bear witness to everyday evil and wickedness every single day, directly or indirectly. To be consistently and confidently nefarious, one has to have some sort of power and loads of impunity to float it. Spectacular evil in the name of power is something we see on television carried out by large organisations and many rich countries of the world with the thought of empire in question. Or it is exacted by extremists. How about the non-spectacular evils of the power-seeking bullies that affect us insidiously every day? The fourth instalment of The Leadership of a Bad Brother is further emphatic witness;

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The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Round 3

July 18, 2016 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Boiss, Grimot Nane, theft, UCGF, victimisation, wickedness Leave a comment

The third instalment of The Leadership of a Bad Brother has the same context and focus on the first two. The random presentation of thoughts is intended to reflect the haphazard manner by which victims of bad organisations and bad leaders order their thoughts privately. Some respondents have questioned where this diary is heading. The author intends to open a dialogue with readers about direct personal experiences of tyranny/abuses, within any kind of setting they have worked or belonged. Whether it is a voluntary organisation, corporation or government agency. The participation of the reader in this dialogue can make open that which is hidden and potentially held change things. Not many contributions received so far.

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The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Number 2

July 13, 2016 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Boiss, centralisation, exploitation, Grimot Nane, organisations, Professional Bad Leaders, UCGF, victims Leave a comment

The diary titled The Leadership of a Bad Brother (http://wp.me/p1bOKH-Db) is herein given its second rendering. It is the case the bad leadership, especially of the professional kind, is an increasing occurrence as well as having gained broad unwitting acceptance in society and therefore nothing is done about. However, bad leadership mostly is unexpected and obscured thrives. We shall continue to examine the nature and incidence of bad leadership as it affects the lives of people individually and collectively, whether formally or informally, legally or illegally, secretly or openly.

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The Leadership of a Bad Brother

July 7, 2016 By Grimot Nane Zine in Musings, Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Boiss, freedom, Grimot Nane, theft, UCGF, wickedness Leave a comment

These musings as ordinary as they are have been inspired daily by reflections on the leadership of someone I can best describe as a “Brother”. Put together as a diary, it is an attempt to make sense of the tyranny an individual with the help of a few cronies can exact on people of means but no voice. It also attempts to present an eschatology of the end of tyranny as is observed. Each entry tells part of the story as appropriately as is possible.

The art of making powerful enemies mostly depends on one’s willingness or compulsion [either] not to care or to care so much about what others do in your actions and reactions. When making enemies be prepared. – 30/06/2016

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 6 – The Selection

November 12, 2015 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Cheaters, Grimot Nane, Grudgers, subversion, Suckers, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

If you live in a home with illustrious parents with lots of affluence and you have brothers, there is a reasonable likelihood that you have a member of a UCGF in your household. Fact! The primary insidious practices of the Cheaters that run UCGFs have always been to recruit as many members of high ability (used as Suckers) and those with inherited high social status in their ranks (also Suckers). Members of UCGFs from humble backgrounds make up the numbers and used as cannon fodder.

Even though none of the original members of the older UCGFs were medical students or later medical doctors in their own right, they ensured that the most significant number of their future recruits were medical students. Medical students were ten times more likely to be recruited as a member of a given UCGF than those who were studying something else. At that time, the 1970s and 1980s, medical doctors had the best career prospects of any profession in Nigeria; it was an investment in the future for the UCGF.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 – Selfish Genes

November 5, 2015 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: Cheaters, exploitation, Grimot Nane, Grudgers, Nigeria, selfish gene, society, Suckers, UCGF, UCGFs 3 Comments

If you have read “Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria” parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 you will not need any introduction to the hypocrisy and psychopathy of UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities). UCGFs are simply organisations that trumpet the ‘mantra of altruism and selflessness’ to society and their unwitting members. In reality, they are driven by creating ‘selfish social genes’ [as Richard Dawkins would describe them]and breeding cadres of Suckers, Cheaters and Grudgers.

The irony is UCGFs were primarily set-up to fight against “Cheaters” the tricks, manipulations and evils in society (by self-appointment) on behalf of the “Suckers” in society by being the “Grudgers” in society! Today Grudgers have the invariable status of ‘persona non grata’ within UCGFs. Not only have UCGFs been monumental failures in their pursuit and attainment of their respective causes, e.g. a fostering a “just society”, but many of their members also deserve to be in the slammer!

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Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation

October 3, 2015 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: exploitation, greed, Grimot Nane, Nigeria, organisational failure, Richard Dawkins, UCGF, UCGFs 1 Comment

Most University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) started as idealistic brotherhoods with the reverie of changing some aspects of society. Most founding members never really believed it would achieve its aim, become a prominent phenomenon or even become a menace to society (which they have become). Most of the young founders were academics and intellectuals, but none were good organisers; “Frankenstein’s monster” came too early. The plethora of organisational failures that came to plague UCGFs is infectious.

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Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0

August 29, 2015 By Grimot Nane Zine in Culture, Elections, Social Relations, UCGFs Tags: Grimot Nane, National Association of Seadogs, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, political economy, wole soyinka Leave a comment

The bickering between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and ex-President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) continues. Sometimes simmering sometimes crackling it will never stop. There is no love lost between the two men. Obasanjo is the hedgehog and Soyinka is the fox if one uses Isaiah Berlin’s understanding of great characters. However, the bickering in question is over the contents of the memoir “My Watch” by Obasanjo which has seen Soyinka caught out with a hat trick; Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0!

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Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion

August 26, 2015 By Grimot Nane Zine in Social Crisis, UCGFs Tags: extortion, fraud, Grimot Nane, scandal, social justice, UCGF, UCGFs Leave a comment

University campus grown fraternities (UCGFs) recently have as a rule and mode of evolution taken their preaching about government “badness” and their prescriptions of the “common good” to ever-dizzying heights. UCGFs have the fullest right to critique any part or aspect of the government it deems worth their while. However, when it comes to the corruption that happens within the realm of the government UCGFs are vocal. The UCGFs have to look at their wreckless yet systematic practices of corruption within the boundaries of their organisations. UCGFs are a sophisticated corruption virus in society.

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