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  2. Black Axe (organized crime group) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Axe, a sector of the Neo Black Movement, is a confraternity in Nigeria that originated around 1977 at the University of Benin. It now operates as an international criminal organization, whose main activities include human trafficking, money laundering, and fraudulent online operations.

  3. Obafemi Awolowo University massacre - Wikipedia

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    The attack was carried out by members of the Neo Black Movement of Africa aka The Black Axe. A confraternity infesting Nigerian society, particularly the country's universities, and responsible for large amounts of violent crime.

  4. Confraternities in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The Neo-Black Movement of Africa (also called Black Axe) emerged from the University of Benin in Edo State. In 1983, students at the University of Calabar in Cross River State founded the Eternal Fraternal Order of the Legion Consortium (the Klan Konfraternity ), and the Supreme Vikings Confraternity (the Adventurers) were ...

  5. Organised crime in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Police in Toronto became aware of the presence of the Black Axe gang in 2013. The gang exerts influence over Canada's Nigerian expatriate community and is predominantly involved in scamming. Authorities estimate the Black Axe's membership in the country at approximately two-hundred. France

  6. List of Axe products - Wikipedia

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    Black: Minimalistic designed can with very dark Axe logo Subtle and finetuned smell: "less is more". Marketed with the Blackstage concerts. there is also a «night version». Present 2016 You: Minimalistic designed can with "You" underlined. Special "Movember" edition in black and blue can in Australia and New Zealand. Present 2017 Australia

  7. Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe - Wikipedia

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    Chieftain of the Taylor sept of Clan Cameron. 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.

  8. Xhosa Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh Xhosa War is often referred to as the "War of the Axe" or the "Amatola War". On the colonial side , two main groups were involved: columns of imperial British troops sent from London, and local mixed-race "Burgher forces", which were mainly Khoi, Fengu, British settlers and Boer commandos , led by their commander-in-chief, Andries ...

  9. Tomahawk - Wikipedia

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    A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and European settlers later introduced heads of iron and steel.

  10. Labrys - Wikipedia

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    The labrys, or pelekys, is the double axe Zeus uses to invoke storm and, the relatively modern Greek word for lightning is "star-axe" (ἀστροπελέκι astropeleki) The worship of the double axe was kept up in the Greek island of Tenedos and in several cities in the south-west of Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times in ...

  11. Mouse Guard - Wikipedia

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    The Axe marches on Lockhaven with the captive Lieam. While tracking the treacherous Axe army, Saxon and Kenzie found a new ally in an old hermit mouse named Celanawe, claiming to be the ancient hero of mice: The Black Axe.