Reasons gathered are that the Pyrates failed to practise what it stands for, it failed to uphold the creed and several illegal activities went unchecked. Details are contested, but it appears that in 1972 former Provost of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education,Dr Bolaji Carew and Kunle Adigun discontinued their membership to the Pyrates confratetnity. In the late 1960s, campuses were roiled by the Nigerian Civil War. For almost 20 years, the Pyrates were the only confraternity on Nigerian campuses. Membership was open to any promising male student, regardless of tribe or race, but selection was stringent and most applicants were denied. Roughly analogous to the fraternities and sororities of North America, the Pyrates Confraternity proved popular among students, even after the original members moved on. When fellow students protested a proposal to build a railroad across the road leading to the university, fearing that easier transportation would make the university less exclusive, the Pyrates successfully ridiculed the argument as elitist. The organization adopted the motto 'Against all conventions', used the skull and crossbones as their logo, while members adopted pirate-themed confraternity names such as ' Cap'n Blood' and ' Long John Silver'. Soyinka would later note that the Pyrates wanted to differentiate themselves from 'stodgy establishment and its pretentious products in a new educational institution different from a culture of hypocritical and affluent middleclass, different from alienated colonial aristocrats'. Soyinka and his confraternaty peers observed the university was dominated by wealthy students associated with the colonial government and a few poorer students who often mimicked the wealthy students meanwhile, campus social life was dictated by tribal affiliation. They dubbed themselves 'Magnificent Seven'(G7). In 1953, author Wole Soyinka (later a Nobel Prize winner) and a group of six friends formed the Pyrate Confraternity at the elite University College, Ibadan, then part of the University of London.

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