Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- The ills of cultism in Akwa Ibom secondary schools have become the focus of public discourse in the state, hours after the state government indefinitely shut a technical college in Uyo because of violent students' protest.

The school, Government Technical College, Ewet, is notorious for violence clashes either among the students or against another secondary school nearby.

Cultism is believed to be the remote cause of the violence which, the police said, has left a divisional police officer hospitalised after he was attacked by students.

Two teachers in the school have sustained serious injuries, while 11 students have been arrested so far, according to the police.

The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, during plena...