Collegiate confraternity violence in Nigeria

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The controversy surrounding collegiate confraternity violence in Nigeria erupted in 1999, when members of a Student Union Government at Obafemi Awolowo University were murdered by members of the Black Axe society. Numerous similar incidents involving murder, rape and torture have taken place in the years since the incident at a number of universities and colleges in Nigeria, where they have been termed as "cults" because of the secretive, violent procedures by which the fraternities operate. The controversy surrounding the confraternities has also tied a number of them with the militant uprising in the Niger Delta region.

[edit] List of accused organizations

National Association of Seadogs also known as Pyrates Confraternity
Neo Black Movement of Africa (often associated in the Nigerian media with the Black Axe Confraternity)
Buccaneers Confraternity
Temple of Eden Fraternity
supreme Eiye Confraternity
Supreme Vikings Confraternity
Klansmen Konfraternity
Blood Brotherhood a.k.a BB or 2 2
Jurists Confraternity
Maphites Organisation
Mafia Fraternity
Trojan Horse Confraternity