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Confraternity Nickname Date founded Institution Location Status References Aborigine Ogboni Fraternity: Imesi-Ile, Osun State, Nigeria: Active [1]Big Five: Early 1990s Rivers State University
The confraternities were thus provided payment and weapons to use against student activists, though the weapons were often used in deadly inter-confraternity rivalries. [2] Sociologist Emeka Akudi noted that some university vice-chancellors protected confraternities known to be violent and used them to attack students deemed troublesome. [1]
Until the 1990s most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard, and the Guardian continued to expose public and private scandals. [3] Laws related to the media, including newspapers, are scattered across various pieces of legislature.
De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria is a Nigerian confraternity, founded at University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria by students with the nicknames of "Risenangel De Chamelus" "Fons et Origo", "Captain Trupence Njamena" and "Eric the Red". The group was founded in 1970 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria as a ...
News Central TV is a Nigerian independent 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria. The parent company, News Central Media, was founded in 2017 by Anthony Dara. It began broadcasting in August 2018. Its primary focus is producing news and current affairs programs on Nigerian and global issues.
Confraternities had their beginnings in the early Middle Ages, and developed rapidly from the end of the twelfth century. The main object and duty of these societies were, above all, the practice of piety and works of charity. [2] Some confraternities were very widely spread, especially in the cities of the Middle Ages.
Bala, an outspoken religious critic, was arrested after a group of lawyers filed a complaint with the police about the social media post. He then spent two years in prison awaiting trial before ...
There are many instances of violence between the Black Axe and other confraternities. At least 53 people were injured or killed between March 2009 and June 2013 in fights between the Black Axe and their rivals, the Eiye confraternity. [11] On 10 July 1999, forty members of the Black Axe drove to Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife. [5]