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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. [1] [2] Its most notable crime is the Obafemi ...
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]
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 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, while the Exam Ethics Project lobby group estimated that 115 students and teachers had been killed between 1993 and 2019. A poster warning against confraternities in Nigeria.
The following is a listing of enterprises, gangs, mafias, and criminal syndicates that are involved in organized crime.Tongs and outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as terrorist, militant, and paramilitary groups, are mentioned if they are involved in criminal activity for funding.
Black Axe (aka Neo-Black Movement of Africa) Black Axe, Aiye July 7, 1977: University of Benin: Benin City, Nigeria: Active Family Confraternity (aka Cosanosyra Mafia Confraternity) Campus Mafia, Mafia, Ciao-Sons 1978 University of Ilorin: Ilorin, Nigeria: Active Green Circuit Association International: Maphite 1978 University of Benin
Criminal activities. Drug trafficking, weapon trafficking, robbery, contract killing, money laundering, racketeering, extortion, illegal gambling, murder, prostitution. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American organized crime emerged following the first and second large-scale migration of African Americans from the Southern ...
Ago-Iwoye is a city in Ogun, Nigeria of the Ijebu Kingdom. [1] [2] It is located in the Ijebu North Local Governmental Area and the main town comprises seven contiguous districts: Ibipe (considered the leading settlement), Isamuro, Idode, Odosinusi, Igan, Imosu, and Imere. [3] [4] The main campus of Olabisi Onabanjo University is located 7 km ...