Black Axe blended the historical religion of Nigeria with anti-colonial activism, leading some to call it a cult. [1] [5] It adopted violence to make its members "strong men". [1] It claimed to fight against oppression, saying that its members would only …

2021年12月13日 · But for decades he was a senior member of Black Axe - a Nigerian mafia-style gang tied to human trafficking, internet fraud and murder. Locally, Black Axe are referred to as a "cult," a nod to...

Beginning with the killing of a student at Obafemi Awolow University in Ile-Ife that prompted former president Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 to give the vice-chancellor six months to wipe out cult groups (This Day 12 July 2004; Daily Champion 3 Sept. 2004), the Black Axe has been linked with bloody inter-confraternity fighting for several years (ibi...

2021年7月7日 · The Black Axe Confraternity (Aye Axe-men) is an offshoot of the Neo-Black Movement of Africa a Pan African movement that emerged from the University of Benin in Edo State in the late 1970s. The Neo-Black Movement of Africa has repeatedly been associated with the “Black Axe”, a notorious fraternity involved in violence and killings on ...

2025年1月12日 · The commissioner of police added that on Oct. 15, the police also arrested two cultists, Samuel Ojenuga and Abdullahi Yusuf, members of the Aye Confraternity, for alleged murder. “Ojenuga...

2024年12月11日 · Nigeria woke up to a disturbing viral video from Ibadan, showing the brutal murder of an Aye cult member by an alleged Eiye cultist. The gruesome act, captured live, has sparked a nationwide...

2016年4月8日 · Nigeria passed the Secret Cult and Similar Activities Prohibition Law in June 2004, which banned a number of cult groups, including the Eiye (SAS May 2005, 21-22). Media sources report on cases in which the police arrested people for alleged membership in Eiye, including the following:

LAGOS— Six suspected members of Aye and Eiye cult groups that have been terrorising Imoren area of Ikorodu, Lagos, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. Arrested alongside the...

2021年12月13日 · Prominent politicians in Edo State and a member of the APC have been linked to a violent cultist group responsible for hundreds of unsolved murders in Nigeria, and multi-million dollars internet...

According to Nigerian media sources, " [a]t least" one (Premium Times 25 Jan. 2021) or three persons (Vanguard 24 Jan. 2021) were killed in a clash between "rival cult groups," the Aiye and Black Axe confraternities, in January 2021 (Premium Times 25 …