The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, on Tuesday, paraded 40 suspected cultists said to be members of the Eiye and Aiye Confraternities. They are being alleged to have committed a series of crimes ranging from armed robbery to killings within the state. At the state police headquarters in Abeokuta, the state capital, Oladimeji said the suspects had been …

The Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Army University, Biu (NAUB), Prof. Kyari Mohammed has called on the matriculated students of the institution to justify the confidence reposed in them by their parents and guardians. The Vice Chancellor was addressing the 977 students who were offered admission into the various programmes in the university on Tuesday, out of which 870 have …

Obukobo Oghenerukhewe, also known as Mayor, was shot and killed by gunmen on Tuesday, according to the Edo State Police Command, which said it was a cult-related killing. Mayor was a final-year student at the University of Benin (UNIBEN). State command Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Chidi Nwabuzor said the late Mayor, who was also the Chief of the Kegites …

A rival group clash at Agbowo junction, opposite the University of Ibadan main gate has left a suspected cultist dead. It was gathered that the cultist identified as Eboto has been allegedly shot dead by a rival cult group on Monday night by some rival cultists who stormed the area in the afternoon and were allegedly hunting one another over …

The Lagos State Government has advised students in schools across the state to shun bad gangs and cultism and exhibit diligence in their academics. The guidance was given, according to a statement on Tuesday, during the monitoring and compliance exercise on school resumption for the second term across the state by the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo. Adefisayo, who …