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The Black Axe is an international confraternity. It was founded in 1977 as the Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM of Africa) 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 necessary those ...
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 previous decade, [1] while ...
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] It was perpetrated by an organized death squad of 40 members of the Black Axe Confraternity branch at the university. They invaded the ...
World's police in technological arms race with Nigerian mafia. Charlie Northcott - BBC Africa Eye. August 27, 2024 at 7:09 PM. The operations to tackle the Black Axe gang included arrests made in ...
Brotherhood of the Blood. Two-Two, Black Beret. Early 1990s. Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Enugu, Nigeria. [2] Buccaneers Confraternity (aka National Association of Sea Lords) Fine Boys, Ban Boys, Alora, Bucketmen, Lords. 1972.
According to internal documents, the confraternity helps members to immigrate illegally to Europe. Nigerian fraud rings have been exported to Europe, America, and Asia (see external links section). In 2015 a sophisticated car theft ring run by the Black Axe organised crime ring was busted in Toronto, Canada. The ring had stolen more than 500 ...
It has served as a training site for Nigerian foreign-trained doctors, who are required to pass the medical licensing examination organized by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. The operation for the first Siamese twins to be separated in sub-Saharan Africa was carried out at its teaching hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching ...
Headquarters. Nigeria. Website. www.nas-int.org. The National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as the Pyrates Confraternity, is a confraternity organization in Nigeria that is nominally University-based. [1] The group was founded by Prof. Wole Soyinka in 1952 by the "Original Seven" to support human rights and social justice in Nigeria.