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It was a black Tuesday evening in Ilesa, an ancient town in Osun State, when armed men killed at least nine people. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that four persons identified as ...

In Ogbodu-Aba community, masquerades, cultural festivals are prohibited The ban was placed in 2019 after repeated Masquerades brutality Divergent reactions continue to trail the ban In the remote Ogbodu-Aba community, ...

Cult attacks are not unusual for citizens of Ilesa metropolis. Ilesa and its surrounding areas appear to be unique since they consistently endure cult attacks, in contrast to other towns ...

Ilesa repeated cult attacks Three students accidentally shot by armed men suspected to be cultists One shot in the eye, another shot in the waist while the third was shot ...

Tension in Ilesa metropolis over repeated cult attacks Two people and shop owners close early over attacks  Tension in Ilesa metropolis as locals continue to live in fear and despair ...

The menace of cultism over the years has eaten deep into the educational system, as more Students are daily initiated into different cult groups across campuses. Unlike before, cult and ...

A 17-year old female student of Community Secondary School, Ikot Ewa in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State who went to school with a gun has confessed to ...

A teenage student of Community Secondary School, Ikot Ewa, in Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River State and 12 other alleged criminals have been arrested and paraded by Police ...

The Kogi State Government has approved the sum of N 450 million counterpart funds for the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). The State Commissioner for rural development, Hon ...

19 suspected cultists have been arrested by the Lagos state police command following the cult clashes at Alakuko, Dalemo and Kola areas of the State. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the crisis ...

There was palpable fear and tension in Alakuko, a Lagos-Ogun border community, following resumed cult violence on Wednesday. According to a report by The Nation, the hoodlums had since carried ...

Ken Nnamani, former senate president and chieftain of the All Progessive Congress (APC) has stated that the party may find it difficult to produce a good candidate like President Buhari to ...

A rival cult suspect has been killed by gunmen suspected to be cultists at Ugbori community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the deceased identified ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have killed a suspected cultist, Owolabi Oludipe, aka Somori. Oludipe was shot dead on Sunday while he and his gang allegedly engaged policemen ...

Tragedy as unknown armed men suspected to be cultists have brutally killed a male student of the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara, in Ethiope West Local Government Area. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt ...

Men of the Nigeria Police Force Ogun state command have arrested three members of Eiye confraternity for threatening to kill one Teslim Lateef because he refused to be initiated into ...

By now, we're all more than aware of the threats facing our planet. Industrial revolutions, growing populations, never-ending urban development, deforestation, extensive agriculture, and our remarkable reliance on fossil fuels ...

The Ogun police command, on Wednesday, paraded 25 suspected members of the dreaded buccaneer cult group, who they arrested during an alleged initiation ceremony in Abeokuta. Parading the suspects at ...

A 23-year-old student, Emmanuel Itoro Thomas, of Community Secondary School, Mbaise, in Imo State was on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison for involving in cultism. The State High ...

Members of the Eiye and Aiye cult groups who embarked on a supremacy battle in Ifo area of Ogun state which led to the killing of one of them simply ...