Cult clash claimed six lives in Edo State

Six people have been killed in Benin City, following a cult war. Sources say the clash was between Aiye confraternity and Black Axe members.

Aiye fraternity and Black Axe have been engaged in an age-long supremacy battle, which has left over 30 dead and several others injured in the past three years.

Nosa Ebohon, an engineering graduate of the University of Benin who was popularly known as ‘Biggie A.K.A JUJU of UNIBEN', was among those reportedly killed along Adolor College Road.


He was said to have been invited by an unknown person to a beer parlour. On arrival there, two armed youths shot him in the chest.

Sources have, however, attributed the renewed gang war in the state to fallout occasioned by the ‘sharing formula’ of largesse from politicians in the just concluded governorship election in the state.