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At least 9 die in Nigerian campus gang fighting
More articles on this topic: Campus Cults, NigeriaLAGOS, March 8 (Reuters) – At least nine students have been killed in fighting between rival campus gangs in southwestern Nigeria in the last four days, police said on Tuesday.
One student was killed on Monday at the Ambrose Alli University in Edo state.
Three others were shot or hacked to death on Sunday in the latest outbreak of the tit-for-tat violence which has plagued Nigerian universities since the late 1980s.
Five other students at the university, 75 km (45 miles) north of the state capital Benin, were killed on Friday when the violence erupted, police said.
“We had to station men on the campus after one student was killed yesterday … so the situation is now under control,” a police spokesman said by phone from Benin.
Police said gang members were armed with shotguns, cudgels, axes and machetes. The campus gangs are referred locally as “cults” because of their initiation rituals.
In 2003, gang members at the university murdered five fellow students who were cooperating with the college authorities to identify them.
Detailed statistics are not available, but hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in clashes between rival gangs since the early 1990s at the more than 100 federal and regional universities and polytechnics in Nigeria.
Prostitution has also become a chronic problem in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.
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