PataAlhaja:


The same South-west that is the top-most investment destination and the most peaceful and accommodating of all the Southern regions is what you labelled as the South's major problem.

I'm sure you a pained, jeaolous, flat-headed Osu.

Pascopele:
https://www.facebook.com/378496789374369/posts/exposed-45-cultists-slangs-and-their-meaning-be-at-alert-in-grave-situation-bein/621961418361237/

It was neither a fiction, nor hearsay, but a true account of the author’s foray into the dark world of cultism as an undergraduate, and the sheer vanity that climaxed his escapades and nearly despatched him to the great beyond.

Yet, it is an account of how unsuspecting youths who gained admission to the nation’s tertiary institutions were lured with promises that seemed too tantalising to resist; but turned out to be a death sentence in the end.

Olurin is the author of the yet-to-be-launched book ‘I am not a cultist: Not everybody gets a second chance’, which chronicles his life as a notorious cult member who dominated his ‘territory’ with ease and ‘deleted’ those who could not genuflect or kowtow to his authority.

Going down memory lane, the author recalls how indifference on the part of his parents led to their misconception about his true identity. He therefore warns parents to always pay attention to their children’s future as they grow, to identify their character traits.

“If I would be honest,” Olurin begins, !i was desperately in love with power; it was this quest that made me crave power for control of everything around me. I must admit I always wanted the world to revolve around me – my comfort, pleasure and convenience. I desired that others see and interpret everything through my eyes, make me happy, meet my needs, and refrain from offending, upsetting or irritating me. I wanted to be understood, acknowledged, appreciated, praised, valued, attended to, catered for, respected admired and listened to. I love to be in absolute control.”

And when he eventually secured admission into the polytechnic, the author began to look for individuals that would help fulfill his long-time cravings; he soon found them. His life in their company was rosy, but for a short while; until he was one day tricked, alongside other unsuspecting students, into joining a social club. They were then ferried into a jungle where they were initiated into cultism.

However, he and others soon realised the anticipated life of bliss once dangled before them had melted into a life of discomfort. Their lives were remotely controlled by ‘superior’ colleagues; and the ‘lower ranked’ have little chances of protesting because the system is simply autocratic.

“For instance,’’ the author says, “the superior can order a member not to appear on campus for the next one week. Such one would suddenly be given a mission to keep him busy outside campus. That could make someone fail a course. The superior can collect a junior member’s belongings for more than a semester and may not even return them. In other cases, if the member is the brilliant type, he could be asked to write exam for the superior leaving his own studies unattended to.”

Olurin says parameters for being lured into cultism are anchored on a tripod – physical, financial, and intellectual ‘ruggedity’. Ruggedity, Olurin explains, simply means capability; noting that physical ruggedity translates to muscular or well-built individuals who can be trusted to lead an onslaught against perceived individual or rival groups on or beyond campus. Financial ruggedity involved those with rich parental background whose resources are often deployed to oil the group’s operations either through procurement of weapons, or providing funds for logistics in the event of an attack against rival groups or bribing security officials to get their arrested members off the hook should problem arise. Intellectually ruggedity are the eggheads who impersonate for other members during examination.

But, generally, students who are curious about excessive or extravagant life of certain individuals on campus or rather those who simply want to ‘belong’ by associating themselves with these high spenders, are also easy targets as their curiosity lead them to what they never planned for.

The book also highlights the organogram in cultism. A unit is charged with recruiting new members. There is another department which disseminates information to members; and still the account unit collects members’ dues and levies; the security unit spearheads attacks; it has a sub-unit which takes care of weaponry; and another- a search unit’ usually scans new grounds for conducting initiation rituals for new entrants, to mention just a few.

The book portrays some of the cult members, equipping themselves with ‘juju’ for spiritual protection which often makes them over confident and indulging them in more atrocities. However, the juju sometimes boomerangs in the heat of operation, leaving the wearer with little or no chance of survival.

Olurin warns young ladies on campus who are easily attracted to young but rich and influential males that appear to have whatever they want at the tip of their fingernails. Once a lady finds two male undergraduates threatening brims and fire against each other because of her, then its time she runs off, the author advises.

Some cult groups also court the friendship of prominent unions and individuals across academic and non academic staff who are close to the management, and therefore can use their influence to tilt judgment in their favour whenever the need arises.

Even though he admonishes lecturers and other senior workers to be sociable to students, Olurin warns them to desist from any secret affair or undue familiarity with them. Rather, they should be in inspiration leading students aright and pointing to them the risk involved in associating with bad company.

During his visit at The Nation’s corporate headquarters in Mushin, Lagos, Olurin, now a social crusader, said beyond the Pyrate Confraternity, which was established in University of Ibadan in 1952, with noble goals to fight colonialism and push for equal society, there is proliferation of various anti-social groups on campus laying claim to similar goals. He listed these as: Sea Lords or Buka; Air Lords or Supreme Eiye Confraternity; a.k.a Aiye; Klu Klux Klan (KKK), Mafia, among others.

Once a cult member, forever a member, and the reality of sudden death is just a matter of time, Olurin explains.

He says there are some cultists who manage to survive the stormy ambience of campus cultism, only to pay the ‘supreme price’ years after they have graduated.

According to him, some met their waterloo from rival gangs on their wedding day or birthday, while others get killed during family vacation or old friends party.

Recounting the inspiration behind the book, Olurin said: “This book aims to correct a very wrong notion for joining cult groups in our campuses today. With hundreds of promising individuals already killed across different campuses due to cult activities and even more thousands losing the essence of a hopeful future. A craving for power should never go overboard into ruin and damage to others and oneself. The desire for attention and control shouldn’t lead many more students to engage in vicious and destructive vice,”

…And then “I’m not a cultist’ was born.
https://thenationonlineng.net/my-life-as-a-cultist/

hidhrhis:

Eleribu

loopman:


The same noise you made in 2015 and 2019?

Nobody takes an Ibos man serious in Nigeria

kollinzgee:
Fulani killings will not end anything soon,it didn't start today and it will only get worse our future and generations to come is at stake our ancestral lands is at stake..our farmers in rural areas are afraid of going to their various farms because of fear of being attacked by fulani herdsmen this is a threat ro food security..let us separate in peace without a single shot it is achievable so we can all protect ourselves from this invading babarians before it's too late half of this killings are not even carried by the media we are just seeing a few united now for referendum...

Igbo,Yoruba, ijaw , anangs, ibibio lets unite..
On U.N. Referendum we stand no going back..

Peace....

loopman:


Lmaooooo. You are a weak ibo.

Atiku and Wike are waiting for you to ask for PDP ticket.

You open mouth and asking an Eewedu & Amala Awusa Party for Presidential ticket because of “equity and fairness” same you couldn’t demand from PDP in 19 years

If I call you what comes to my mind, mods will ban me

Obalatule:
Even your jihadist uthman Dan fodio fled Gobir when Hausa people wan comot him head....Nnamdi Kanu will fight from wherever

hidhrhis:
[s]True talk
Come and fight for ur people here
Kanu come and lead us to our freedom
Come to Nigeria and lead us as a true leader

Their won't be election come 2023
We biafrans will fight to establish our country
We will get Viagra before December
Mark my words

The Igbos all have conflicting ideology
Some are hoping kanu will come and fight for his people but kanu is really scared

The second part is the nairalanders online fighters,online soldiers
They sit down in their room typing rubbish,bragging but to organise a protest and help their moo-moo leader they won't do that
I know they will quote me but Im very weak in online fighting
What really makes me laugh the most is that Igbos still believe the u.s and Donald Trump will come and give them Viagra
They believe they will get it through their radio programme and online ranting
100 years to come una no fit get viagra talkeless of biafra[/s]

loopman:


Lmaooooo. So you agree that you’ve been slaving for the Northerners since 1959.

Just for you to play opposition for 8 years, you are shouting Biafra

Parasites

loopman:


This is the scenario that we expects and hope for, not this noise about Presidency or Biafra and the reason we are fighting to retain Edo. We know Ibos will not vote for a S/Westerner on APC ticket.

If however you lose backing the wrong horse again, just know there will be consequences for you in Nigeria and in SW in particular

It will shock you like Gbaja election shocked you

dayveed1:
you're a foolish man.

loopman:


Put him on the ballot and put all your ibo candidates together against him, he will beat them all before 2pm on Election Day.


You have no place in APC

loopman:



Fashola alone dwarfs the combined achievements of all those you’ve listed

loopman:


You didn’t vote Buhari either

You better keep shouting for your Biafra like NK and now Nwodo. We want to get rid of you out of SW

tamdun:

Did ekwueme contest or not?

AntiWailer:


The power that be went to bring Obasanjo out.

Because of MKO abiola, they were going to hand over to South East.

It might be behind Ur understanding , it does not mean it is a lie

loopman:


Mention that one igbo man in your own estimate.

Clown circus should be a thriving business in ibo land

loopman:



Lmaooooo. Naive

isthatso:


and that is why the presidency of Nigeria will continue to elude you. You always hide from your truth.

isthatso:


[s]My friend please STFU and listen to some sense. This thing is not about gra-gra, chest-beating, insulting other tribes impotent declarations or empty threats from a position of weakness. if it were Nigeria would have had a SE president or we would have seen a republic of Biafra by now.

The 1st thing you people have to understand is your reality

1. you dont have the constitutional means to secede, that was taken away by your very own Ironsi when he introduced decree 34 and removed referendum from our constitution.
2. You dont have the military might to execute a secession as the Biafran war should remind you.
3.You dont have the numbers to win a national election without an alliance with the north or the North/SW
4. You dont have the trust of the rest of these regions based on your actions since independence firstly the North as a result of the 1966 coup and now the SW from your actions since 2015.
5. You dont have the support of the international community.
6. Most of the things you are fighting for now, you had in 1966 but you were not satisfied...regional autonomy,resource autonomy etc. So you should really ask yourselves...what is the Ibo man's problem? You need to understand you are checkmated, you are the ones who paited yourselves into a corner and that a man in a weak position does not make threats.
7. You need to learn strategic thinking because every step the ibo man has taken since independence has left them in a worse position than before that action.

You say you want to be president, you have to rebuild bridges and trust, so people will vote for you...that is a long way off because it is easy to destroy than to rebuild. If you want to leave you have to find a constitutional means or a military means....good luck with that! Making Noise on Nairaland does not change your reality.

threatening that the world will burn down is just hot air. there will be no ibo president and nothing will happen but more noise because you do not have the means to leave....it's not even in your interests if truth be told. You need Nigeria more than any other region in the country....sorry to burst your bubble but your livelyhoods are dependent on the rest of Nigeria more than any other region. When you recognise you cant do it on your own, the question you the need to ask yourselves is this......Why would the rest of Nigeria vote for an ibo man and then ask why wouldn't they? if an SW man for example wants votes from the SE there is no point going to Enugu saying "vote for me i will build roads". If they dont trust me, they dont care if I really intend to build roads. You need to know what issues they have and address it to stand any chance.


SE presidency will never happen until you change your ways, if you do, maybe in 20 years there will be an Ibo president. In the interim, SS is very possible in fact I will be very thrilled with Amaechi as president[/s]..

35824L:
The north will back the southwest in 2023. The unity of Nigeria cannot be jeopardized.

Patrioticman007:
Like Dump Trumpet like PMB they both hate protests as angel death is to mankind.

Let Nigerian youths rally around in 2023 for a realistic change, on the ballot papers, not these skirmishes.

Parada:
Igbos must cry blood 2023 after they do not get presidency.