24 September 2008
Lagos — The Federal Government has stepped up the fight against cultism in institutions of higher learning.
Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Dr Julius Okojie, has already issued a circular to all vice-chancellors, expressing government's concern over upsurge in cultism in tertiary institutions.
A publication by the NUC, yesterday, noted that the circular was at the instance of the Minister of Education, Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, requesting vice- chancellors to take urgent measures to review and strengthen existing laws against all forms of violence on the campuses, particularly cultism.
It also urged them to create conducive environment that would engender active participatory students unionism, to checkmate "aberrant tendencies" that could lead students into wrong hands and pastimes.
The circular directed vice-chancellors to ensure the "psychological rehabilitation and reabsorption" of students who had publicly renounced cultism and requested them to submit comprehensive reports on the level of compliance with the blue-print on cultism in their institutions, not later than September 30.
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