Nigeria - Going to University

University life is never dull. It seems over 500 kids have been expelled from Nigeria's 39 universities for indulging in a little organized mayhem. Over 32 people have died in two years, 12 in the first few months of 1999, and their deaths have been attributed to secret societies, or cults, with colorful names like the Pirates, Black Ax, the Buccaneers and the Green Berets. It seems that after the government banned student unions with political agendas, the groups quickly grew from their origins in the '80s on the University of Jos in the north and have now infiltrated places like the Edo State University Ekpoma, whose students have set up "Operation Flush," which enables students to "identify cultists and make the school uncomfortable for them." The cultist groups were created to correct the ills of Nigerian society. I guess they would get an "F" so far.