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  2. Black Axe (confraternity) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Axe is an international confraternity. It formed from the Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM) established at the University of Benin in Nigeria as part of the Pan African movement in 1977. The BBC has called the Black Axe a "mafia-style gang" with activities ranging from cybercrime, election fraud, human trafficking, illegal drug ...

  3. Obafemi Awolowo University massacre - Wikipedia

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    Black Axe (organized crime group) The Obafemi Awolowo University massacre was a mass murder of students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria on 10 July 1999. [1] Five students of OAU were killed and eleven injured. [2]

  4. ETA (separatist group) - Wikipedia

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    ETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna[c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [11] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [12]), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [13] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region. The group was founded in 1959 during the era of ...

  5. Organised crime in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Organised crime in Nigeria. Organised crime in Nigeria includes activities by fraudsters, bandits (such as looting and kidnappings on major highways), drug traffickers and racketeers, which have spread across Western Africa. Nigerian criminal gangs rose to prominence in the 1980s, owing much to the globalisation of the world's economies and the ...

  6. Confraternities in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Confraternities in Nigeria. Confraternities in Nigeria are secretive student groups within Nigerian higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since the 1980s. The exact death toll of confraternity activities is unclear. One estimate in 2002 was that 250 people had been killed in campus cult-related murders in the ...

  7. Talk : Black Axe (confraternity)/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    A single name needs to be picked as primary. Either Black Axe *or Neo-Black Movement *or* Neo Black Movement. Right now infoboxes are disagreeing with article and each other. Naraht ( talk) 14:53, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  8. Axé (music) - Wikipedia

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    Axé (Portuguese pronunciation: [aˈʃɛ]) is a popular music genre originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and carixada. The word Axé comes from the Yoruba term àṣẹ, meaning "soul ...

  9. Neo Black Movement of Africa - Wikipedia

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    However, various publications refer to NBM and Black Axe as synonymous, including the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. [12][9] In April 2024, reporter Biaca Bridger wrote, "Due to the secretive nature of the group it is difficult to ascertain the alleged links between the Neo-Black Movement and Black Axe.