CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Immorality among students is a major problem in the society today. It has been very disturbing that everybody is expressing a deep concern over it. Considering the considering the speed of its occurrence and the associated danger it has brought to many of its addicts. Which has population that fall victims of the act are students, but where it is most pronounced is among the tertiary students all over the world i.e both nationally and internationally.
Immorality can be emulated in different ways, but before making emphasis on the types of immorality is normally used to define the term immorality i.e. immorality is normally used to describe persons or actions. In a broader sense, it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, belief, religions and work of arts; to say that some act is immoral is to say that it is the violation of some moral laws, norms or standard.
An immoral man is a sick man, i.e. a man who is physically and spiritually sick. He may be physically healthy, but he is psychically and spiritually sick and he experiences internal disharmony. He has missed the way that leads to internal harmony, peace of mind, happiness and self fulfillment. Since the moral way of life and immoral way of life are opposites or antithetical, it is obvious that both cannot lead to the same goal, two roads going opposite directions cannot lead to the same goal or destination. If the moral way of life i.e. the way of honesty, integrity, altruism, self less services, e. t. c, is the way that leads to internal harmony, peace of mind, happiness and self-fulfillment, it is obvious to any right thinking person that the immoral way of life, i.e the way of dishonesty, fraud, selfishness, corruption, embezzlement of public funds, e. t. c, can only lead to the opposite direction.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Immorality could be a part of group pattern and it is a social situations and act of freedom. To do as one pleases. A person seeking happiness along an immoral way of life- fraudulence, dishonesty, embezzlement of public funds e. t. c, has missed the road. He can never be happy because he lacks the necessary requirement (the condition-sine- quo-non) for happiness is moral rectitude (philosopher Aristotle) the great statesman.
Immorality among students could be as a result of:-
Poor parental care or upbringing. Peer group. Everybody is doing it. Spiritual problem. Psychological problem