so far i'm concern eiye is a secret cult not confraternity.u people should better repent and serve god.

redsun:

The concept of brotherhood in nigerian universities confraternities,if positively channeled can over ride the tribal disunity and cankerworm in nigera.The concept of one for all and all for one,tribe,language or state not withstanding.

As bad as it may seem,there are lessons to learn from them.

biina:

Bloody criminals have the gall to be celebrating an anniversary
Cultism, like armed robbery and man slaughter, should be punishable by death.

bashali:

even in new york too eiye is here. is eiye not all the south universities.

kshow1:

The people who formed this confraternity in 1969 never knew it will be bastardise like this so i think it will be unfair if we now call the founders names.
Note that you cannot call Prof. Wole Soyinka names simply for the fact that he was part of the founding member of the pyrate confraternity (PC).

kshow1:

The people who formed this confraternity in 1969 never knew it will be bastardise like this so i think it will be unfair if we now call the founders names.
Note that you cannot call Prof. Wole Soyinka names simply for the fact that he was part of the founding member of the pyrate confraternity (PC).

I do not think they are in eastern universities.

biina:

I will call all of them, including Soyinka, criminals as they have failed to take any steps to curb the criminal behaviors of their members.
The fact that they can celebrate an anniversary and act oblivious to the atrocities committed by their members makes it more irritating. Rather they are spewing rhetoric of the innocence of their organization as if the rest of Nigeria were so gullible.

Soyinka has been busy criticizing the government, but has made little effort to sanitize an organization he partly founded. He condemns the government for the poor state of university education, but will work to cleanse the fraternities that have made same institutions into living hell for innocent students. He is guilty of hypocrisy and can be judged complicit of the crime.

At that time, Wole Soyinka, Olumyiwa Awe, Raph Okpara, Aig-Imokhuede, Ben Egbuchie, Nathaniel Oyelola and Pius Oleghe (who were known as the "Magnificent Seven" formed the Pyrates Confraternity at the University of Ibadan.

Aloy.Emeka:


Most reports claim that the first manifestation of a campus confraternity (or campus cult) was in 1952. At that time, Wole Soyinka, Olumyiwa Awe, Raph Okpara, Aig-Imokhuede, Ben Egbuchie, Nathaniel Oyelola and Pius Oleghe (who were known as the "Magnificent Seven" formed the Pyrates Confraternity at the University of Ibadan. The purpose of the confraternity was to combat societal ills and conformist degradation, which were being exhibited not only by students, but by society at large. According to the Pyrates, the first graduates of the University of Ibadan were elitist, as they were highly privileged since they were the first graduating class of Nigeria's first university [1]. Most of the university students adopted elitist behavior, imitating the dress of the colonialists and mimicking their culture. Wole Soyinka, who was code-named "Captain Blood," together with his colleagues felt that the pretenses should be stopped. A notable incident that further provoked the Pyrates occurred after many privileged students organized a demonstration against the construction of a rail-line that was to be built across a road leading to their campus. The students were afraid that improved transportation access to the university would reduce its exclusivity. The Pyrates decided to fight what they believed to be elitist nonsense. They succeeded not only in ridiculing the students' argument, but also accomplished the construction of the rail-line [2].

Membership in the Pyrates Confraternity was offered to intellectually promising men with no discrimination as to race, color or tribe. The majority of those who applied to join the Pyrates were not accepted. The activity of members was rigidly controlled and the group promoted non-violent dispute resolution. From 1953 to 1972, the Pyrates was the only confraternity on Nigerian campuses [3].

The Emergence of Pseudo-Confraternities

In the early 1970s, several confraternities emerged. In 1972, a member of the Pyrates Confraternity, Dr. Bolaji Carew (code-named "Late Ahoy Rica Ricardo", and other members were accused of not following the teachings of the confraternity and were unexpectedly expelled. As a result of this incident and other problems, the Pyrates pulled out of Nigeria's universities. They then registered themselves in Nigeria under the name of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS). Carew later founded the Buccaneers Confraternity (also called the National Associations of Sea Lords). In the formation of the new confraternity, Carew took with him many elements of the Pyrates, including similar attire and symbols of the cult as well as its highly regimented and hierarchical structure (The Midweek Telegraph, August 10-16, 2005). The origin of confraternity violence dates back to Carew's 1972 saga and the birth of the Buccaneers (The Midweek Telegraph, August 10-16, 2005).

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1262

Aloy.Emeka:

I don't know why you are bent on blaming Wole Soyinka for all the lives lost in secret cultism. I posted an article above to let you know he was not the only guy that started the sea dogs besides, there intents could be different than what is obtainable now. Bottom line is the govt has failed us and the people are angry hence the series of decapitations within and outside our various institutions. They had slavery in america, the KKK rose into power after that but nobody is blaming the founding fathers for the mayhem they cause. the younger generation should take charge and resist these groups. I was in the Nigerian university and we knew the secret cult members and all it takes is for us to have a secure avenue where we can report them and have them taken out from the midst of those that came to school to learn.

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