One of the challenges facing Nigeria higher education is cultism. Secret cults have developed into socio-cultural menace and assumed a disturbing dimension in recent times on Nigerian university campuses. Cultism breeds gruesome acts of destruction, deviance, violence and homicide. This study constructed and tested a model for providing a causal explanation of cult membership in terms of socio - psychological and academic factors among university students in Southwestern Nigeria, with a view to developing an empirical approach that would further add to an informed understanding of the problem...

Teacher education is vital for the realization of a nation's development aspirations. The conception, incubation and delivery of any national development policy, as well as the reform and implementation of extant policies, are driven by the quality of teachers and their products within a functional educational system. Indeed, national and global models of development, including the millennium development goals revolve round the frames of quality education, beginning with teacher education. It is therefore important to have functional teacher education systems in Africa to help its citizens...