The Ogun police command has arrested eight members of a dread cult group, ‘Black Axe’, also known as ‘Aiye’ while mourning one of their members who died recently. The command spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday. According to the statement, the suspects were arrested on September […]
Emotion ran high, as 23-year-old Olamilekan Ibidokun, gave a blow-to blow account of how he lost his sight after he was attacked by members of the Aiye confraternity in the Ketu area of Lagos, for refusing to join the confraternity. The incident, according to him, occurred in December 2016, during a street carnival in the […]
The Police Command in Benue says it has arrested 96 persons over alleged house breaking, theft, armed robbery and cultism in Makurdi, the state capital. A statement by its Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Catherine Anene, said on Monday in Makurdi that the suspects were arrested following complaints from residents of Welfare Quarters, Yarkiyo, wadata, Ankpa […]
A 35-year-old pregnant woman, Risikat Saliman, was shot dead during a bloody clash between suspected cult groups at Aleke community in Ikorodu, Lagos State on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that dozens of suspected cultists invaded Aleke community market around 8p.m. and started shooting sporadically, killing the woman. The Baale of Aleke, […]
Five suspected cultists have been arrested with human skulls in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State. They were arrested and paraded at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC. Speaking during a press conference in Calabar on Friday, the State Commandant of NSCDC, Danjuma Elisha, said the suspects were arrested in the […]
Unidentified gunmen suspected to be members of cult groups have allegedly killed over eight people in two communities of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Rivers cultists in different operations in Bua Bangha, Luebe Loore Communities on Monday, and Tuesday had allegedly killed the said number of victims. The Rivers cultists had killed […]
The Cross River State Police on Wednesday recovered three human skulls from 55 suspected cultists it paraded for Cultism and sundry crimes at the Headquarters of the Command. Parading the suspects, Commissioner of Police, Cross River State, Abdulkadir Jimoh told Newsmen that the security architecture of the command has been rejigged to put the police […]
The Students’ Union President of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Adegboye Emmanuel and another suspected student, Olanrewaju Taiwo are cooling their heels at a police detention cell after they were busted and arrested on Sunday while allegedly initiating prospective members into a secret cult group. Emmanuel and Taiwo are suspected to be members of the Neo Black […]
After years of trailing one of the most wanted and vicious cultist, armed robber and kidnapper in Imo state, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Imo state Police Command, on Christmas Day, December 25, 2019 gunned down Charles Onjioru popularly known as K1. K1 was tracked to Umuohuka Awarra in Ohaji/Egbema LGA of […]
No fewer than 25 Secondary School students have allegedly been suspended for belonging to “Marlians’ Female Secret Cult”, the mother of one of the students disclosed this in a social media outburst. Although the woman didn’t disclose the name of the school in the Friday Facebook post on Lailanews page, she however said the school […]
