Female Cults or Prostitution Rings?

While female students of universities in other countries are busy with their coursework, their counterparts in Nigeria are busy joining  female cults. Some of these cults emulate their male counterparts such as the “Black Axe”, "Vikings", "Eiye", “Pyrates” etc. On the other hand, the female cults take up more feminine names as the "Black Bras", "White Bras", the "Blue Angels", etc.

Eye witnesses report that while their male counterparts try to prove their dominance by risking death in violent clashes between rival university cults steeped in black magic, the female cults indulge in all sorts of bizarre activities such as - "sex parties, lesbianism, robbery, rape, extortion, theft,” said a 24 year-old law student of Imo State University, Owerri.

The origin of Nigeria’s student cults started out as innocent organizations during the anti-colonial campaign era. The  “Pyrates” now known as 'The Nigeria Association Of Seadogs' (NAS) was  founded in 1954 at then University College, Ibadan, for political discussion by Nobel Peace Award winner, Professor Wole Soyinka. By the 1980s, the “Pyrates” became steeped in violence and fought for supremacy on campuses with their rivals from the "Buccaneers", which later took up the name 'Nigerian Association Of Sea lords', and “Black Axe”. Violence took over the activities of the cults ever since.

Nigeria’s modern “Campus Cults” are criminal gangs usually operating in and around the country’s campuses often killing fellow students. Politicians also use them as thugs and mercenaries hired to carry out assassination of their opponents. "..When someone is initiated, they are traditionally beaten to the ground with their assailant hitting them below the head to prevent noticeable bruises. They must then stand up and be beaten to the ground over and over again. They take concoctions and participate in rituals. Some of them die during the initiations- ” said Mr Oka, a former member. The concoctions are a mixture of drugs, alcohol and blood drawn from animals.

Nigeria has more than 100 universities, which boast of more than 30 different cult groups. Members of each group wear distinctive bandanas, head wears, and use particular handshakes to identify themselves. For instance those in the “Black Axe”, wear black bandanas, the “Black Eyes” wear yellow, the “Pyrates” favor blue and the “Mafia” choose red, etc.

Female cults, which started much later has not yet taken  to the frenzy of violence and fight for supremacy on campus that characterized their male counterparts. Rather they are often associated with organized campus prostitutions. Their members are easily identifiable by their flamboyant lifestyles on campuses. "..You can see a non-working female student driving a 'baby jeep' on campus, her parents won't ask her how she got it.." said  Bimbo, a 20 years old female student or University of Lagos. Uche, a 2nd year student of Uniport said in her first year she was once invited by her room-mate to what her roommate described as an 'off-campus party' but became curious when she told her to wear something very tight and sexy inside She declined the invitation. "The next day she came back with large sums of money and lots of gifts", she added. She later learned the party was actually a sex-party organized by a female cult for some 'big boys' in town.

A former member of a popular female cult who spoke on the condition of anonymity revealed that most 'big guys' and politicians are behind the female cults. They get 'jobs' from these guys. However, a source close to one of the cults informed that the 'jobs' is prostitution ( Campus runs, group sex, sex-parties, sex orgies) that come in various names like 'house warming', 'house parties', 'pool-side parties', 'conference' etc. While their male counterparts hunt for macho and rich boys on campus for membership, their female counterparts are on the look-out for young, innocent, beautiful, and sexy girls for initiation. "..so what's beauty got to do with being tough? So you guess what they do". Hinted Chijioke, a third year student of University of Benin. Recently too the female cults are largely responsible for the surge in the number of  homosexuals  (lesbians) on Nigerian campuses, as well as the increase in dare-devil, female armed robberies.

What is surprising is that Nigeria, with it's teaming population of people addicted to religion; churches and mosques at every nuke and corner, appears helpless in the face of the rising morale decadence amongst its youths. A male student put it this way "...with the female cults providing easy access to sex for the politicians and the upper class, law enforcement agents are not in any hurry to clamp down on them". Evil! Evil indeed in a culture that prides on the sexual innocence of women.

Put together by Imoonline News Crew