Higher Education and the Challenges of Secret Cults

Abstract

It is a truism that secret cult, as the name signifies, is secret and evil. On the other hand, challenges in whatever form posing a threat to higher education, which is conceived with the aim of bringing light and emancipation to mankind should be surmounted. This paper critically examined the challenges posed by secret cults to higher education using the descriptive survey design. The sample for the study comprised 400 of 300 level students of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the University of Benin, Benin and the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye. Rapid increases in the recorded incidences of violence attributed to cult subcultures were witnessed. The findings showed that cult/gang groups operated violently and that a lot of people (especially students) had been maimed and many lives had been lost through their activities on many Nigerian university campuses. Panacea to this ugly incidence within the higher education set-up is proffered as lasting solution.

Key Words: Higher Education, Secret Cults