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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 ...
Standard Axe and Tool Works (1892–1912), Ridgway, PA – Standard completed construction of a new plant in 1892 to produce all types of axes, mining picks, etc. One product was "Black Eagle," marketed as a "chemical process" axe and painted black. In 1894, the plant was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt.
Donald Cameron (born c. 1550), known as Black Taylor of the Axe ( Scottish Gaelic Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe) was a famed warrior of the Scottish Highlands during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. Born illegitimate, his father was Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 14th chief of Clan Cameron, and his mother was the daughter of the chief of Clan MacDougall.
In February 1999, student leaders organized a campus-wide search, which found eight secret cult members who were stockpiling machine guns and other weapons in their dorm room. This enraged the Black Axe confraternity, who organized a murder squad that hacked the student union secretary-general to death in his bed and targeted other student leaders.
The students exhibited black clothing, two berets and two T-shirts, that had been found in Ojuagu's bag, which was claimed to be the Black Axe uniform. Efosa was a known member of the Black Axe. He had been expelled from the University of Benin and was later admitted for a diploma programme in Local Government Studies in Ife.
Samuel W. Collins. Samuel Watkinson Collins (1802–1870) was an American businessman and founder of the Collins Axe Company in Canton, Connecticut . He was born September 8, 1802, in Middletown, Connecticut, one of seven children. His father was a successful lawyer in Middletown, and his mother came from Suffolk, England, and was apparently ...
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 company withheld information about the affected production dates. [159] Unilever had published more information about Telma cereals handled on the packaging line in which the contamination was discovered and that a Telma announcement had been made: "We again stress that all Telma products in the stores and in your homes are safe to eat.