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…
UCGFs
No Friend No Foe
No Friend No Foe We often shy away from egregious grammar in the ignorance of supposed manliness. Agnotologics, ponerologics, repression, oppression, absurdity, deception and toxic entitlement all rolled into one…
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists?
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists? If you have the privilege to visit Warri, the former “oil city” of Nigeria in Delta State coastal Southern part and ask about the organisation that calls…
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…
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…