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Black Axe. The Black Axe, also known as the Neo Black Movement of Africa or the NBM of Africa, is an international confraternity founded at the University of Benin in Nigeria as part of the Pan African movement. Its aims include the promotion and advancement of African culture and arts globally by striving to revive, retain, and modify where ...
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 ...
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 high level of lawlessness ...
The Mafia Meets the Black Axe; 3: Turkey Kids, Guns and Steel; 4: Germany The Crisis Goes Corporate; Credits. 12.21.16. The 21st Century Gold Rush
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]
Black Axe: Nigeria’s Mafia Cult: Charlie Northcott Peter Macjob The Black Axe are one of the most feared and powerful organised crime groups in the world. The highly secretive mafia – referred to as a “cult” in Nigeria – have been accused of countless murders and are estimated to earn millions of dollars through internet fraud. 52:10
The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this ...
Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Black Axe (aka Neo-Black Movement of Africa) Black Axe, Aiye, NBM July 7, 1977: University of Benin: Benin City, Nigeria: Active Black Cobra of Ife: Ife, Nigeria: Active Black Scorpion: Early 1990s Nigeria Blood Spot: Nigeria Active Brotherhood of the Blood: Two-Two, Black Beret Early 1990s