Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 4 – The Deviation University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) started as idealistic brotherhoods with the reverie of changing some aspects of society. Most founding members never believed it would achieve its aim, become a prominent phenomenon, or even become a menace to society (which…
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Social Crisis
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 3 – The Manipulation Many members of the public want to understand the thinking that perpetuates University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria for their multitude of hapless members. The analogy of the “Failed Abusive Father Syndrome” is quite useful. The failed abusive father…
Social Crisis
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 2 – The Extortion 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…
Social Crisis
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria – The Claims
Fraternities Are Viruses in Nigeria – The Claims There are many “university campus grown fraternities” (UCGFs) in Nigeria today, some old and some new, but they all claim to be the “saviours” of the Nigerian society. Their claims for existence and continuity are noble but false. These fraternities now have…
Corruption
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria In 1953, the Pyrates Confraternity (PC), an all-male campus fraternity, began at the University of Ibadan (then a college of the University of London) by seven men. The most famous of the seven being Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. University education in Nigeria was just half…
Social Crisis
Fraternities and the Tolerance of Psychopaths
Fraternities and the Tolerance of Psychopaths The Nigerian university campus grown fraternity (UCGF) tended to start well but end up acquiring a good number of psychopaths. Most members of these fraternities are serial victims of these psychopaths (sometimes the same ones) who eventually and permanently hold the reins of power….
Social Crisis
Fraternal Criminality as Charity
Fraternal Criminality as Charity One growing and disturbing phenomenon of Nigerian university campus grown fraternities (UCGFs) is their transformation into “charities”. It is a purely criminal phenomenon. Set up by criminals purely for the benefits of a cabal of criminals who run these fraternities. It is just another ruse for…