IF media reports are anything to go by, cultism is alarmingly on the rise in tertiary and post-primary institutions in Nigeria, a development that has raised grave concerns in many quarters, prompting several calls on government to take urgent steps to stem the tide. Indeed it is said that many have lost their lives to campus terrorism, especially cult wars among rival groups, while several have dropped out of school without actualising their ambition and dreams.

Lagos State Police Command has arrested three alleged cultists suspected to be terrorising Lagos Island and environs.

“Today it is Kaikai. Tomorrow we may hear of poisonous Garri; so will the government also ban the consumption of Garri because it killed a few. Government should trace the source of the problem of the killer drink and deal with it rather than impose a ban,”

This is the story of Oke-Afa-Magboro, a sleepy, but fast growing community situated between Arepo and Ibafo in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State. The community whose land stretches from the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway with its only entrance located beside the overhead bridge before the camp ground of Mountain of Fire and Miracle MFM, inward Ibadan, has over the years been neglected by successive administrations in Ogun State.

The joy that greeted the February 21, 2013 signing of the Share Sale Agreements and Concession Agreements between the Bureau of Public Enterprises and the 14 preferred bidders for 15 of the 17 companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has since faded in most parts of the country. Indeed it has been complaints galore by consumers/subscribers across the country.