Cultism among Nigerian Students: A Case Study of Recent killings in Nigerian Institutions of Learning

Cultist activities is one of the most dominant event now in Nigerian Institutions. This ugly experience is very terrifying among secondary school students. A recent report has it that nine (9) years old boy were killed, while two other students were injured as rival cult groups disrupt school Inter-House-Sports.

What a terrible experience among students. This nine years old boy is said to be a student of Agolo High School, Ikare Akoko, North East council area of Ondo State who was reportedly shot dead during the school’s annual Inter House Sports Competition on Thursday 10th March 2022.
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The investigation has it that school annual competition was successful as many students from various parts of Akokoland attended before the alleged two rival cult groups engaged themselves in supremacy battle hence the bloody clash during the competition.

The Inter-House-Sports competition went on peacefully until gunshots were heard which led to the immediate death of a student while two others were seriously wounded.

Even the police equally confirmed the incident.

We learnt that some people were shooting during the Inter-house sports and a nine-year-old boy was killed in the process while two others were injured.
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Also, cultists group has destroys more than ten thousand (10,000) Nigerians between the year 1996 to 2019

Even Students in the Nigerian universities campuses can attest to this. More than ten thousand ,(10,000) lives have been killed in cult-related violence within and outside school campuses between 1996 and 2019.

Over 40 different cult groups, with a total of over 12,000 chapters, operate in school campuses across Nigeria. These gangs have killed at least 10,000 people between 1996 and 2019.

Hundreds of thousands have been injured, harassed, raped, arrested, detained, suspended and expelled. Lecturers are being intimidated and blackmailed by cultists into awarding unmerited grades, fueling examination malpractices and academic dishonesty. The matter is being made worse as cult operations have spread to primary and secondary schools,” Mr Onyechere made this known in Abuja, Nigeria.

The only way for the evil activities is consensus among education stakeholders, government proactive step to sensitized the students on the dangers of campus cultism on education, students, staff, families, society and the nation at large. Stamping out campus cultism in Nigeria’s educational institutions requires prioritisation by the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government.
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In the relative report in Lagos, Nigeria, is the death of Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a twelve (12 years old pupil of elite Dowen College, in the Lekki area of the State. Happened as the result the fatal injuries the boy sustained from his colleagues’ attempt to forcefully initiate him into a school cult.
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Cultism seems to sink deeply into Nigerian school as Thursday 10th March 2022 in Akwa Ibom State, a suspected cultist stabs another student to death in Community Comprehensive Secondary School, Aka Offot, in the Uyo Local Government Area of the State. as suspected cultist, one Samuel Archibong, stabbed an SSS2 student, James Elijah, to death, on Thursday.

He ran away after stabbing James to death. Those angry students would have killed him if they had met him at home. They must have gone to his father’s house to revenge their colleague’s death, reporting
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With all these activities of the cult group in school system, it's no longer encouraging academic performance in the Nigerian Institutions as this instil fear in the school system.