Pyrate Confraternity
| National Association of Seadogs | |
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| NAS | |
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| Founded | October 1952 University College, Ibadan |
| Type | Social |
| Mission statement | To uphold human dignity and maintaining a just and progressive society shorn of discriminatory and unmeritorious considerations |
| Motto | Against all moribund conventions |
| Colors |
Yellow, Red and Black |
| Symbol | Skull & Cross Bones |
| Headquarters |
 Nigeria
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| Website | www |
| The National Association of Seadogs is the oldest confraternity group in Nigeria after it was founded in 1952. | |
The National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as Pyrates Confraternity is a confraternity organization in Nigeria that is nominally University-based. The group was founded in 1952 by the "Magnificent Seven" to support for human rights and social justice in Nigeria.
Due to the increase of tribalism among social life of students and the increasing population of "wealthy" students to a relatively few "poorer" students in the University College, Ibadan, the National Association of Seadogs was formed as a body in order to combat these societal ills. Founded in 1952 by seven friends made up of renowned Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Wole Soyinka, Ralph Opara, Pius Oleghe, Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede, Nathaniel Oyelola, Olumuyiwa Awe and Sylvanus U. Egbuche who adopted the name "Magnificent 7", the Pyrates Confraternity went on to become the only confraternity on Nigerian campuses for almost 20 years. Membership into the confraternity was open to students who were bright academically regardless of their tribe or religion.
Since one of the tenets of the confraternity was for members to be the best in their education pursuit, some members who struggled to live up to the task left to form rival confraternities like the Buccaneers Confraternity and the Eye Confraternity thus leading to societal violence including the famous Operation Wetie in 1965.
Presently, the Pyrates confraternity is present in all the southern states in Nigeria and also has branches in some parts of the world including the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States. Some sinister confraternities have been formed to copy the Pyrates confraternity which led the Pyrates confraternity to dissociate itself from these "smaller cults" and also operate outside university campuses.
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