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Black Axe and The International Cult Confraternities of Nigeria

2020/9/29
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Nigeria's confraternities, originally formed as student groups fighting against British colonial rule, have transformed into international crime networks, with the Black Axe being the most notorious. These groups have expanded their activities from campus protests to global criminal operations, including email scams, human trafficking, and drug smuggling.

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They began as freedom-fighting pirates, swashbuckling for African rights. But over the decades Nigeria's confraternities descended into vicious cults. Among them one group has spread across the entire world, and Law Enforcement is only now just learning how dangerous the Black Axe really is.

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