Lagos mother fights off suspected ritualist attempting to abduct kids
Asked why he attempted to kidnap the pupils, the suspect said, “I came from Ibadan. I used to come to Lagos to kidnap children. We will kidnap and put the children inside a vehicle and take them away.
“I have kidnapped a lot of children around Berger, Iyana Ipaja, Ikotun, Iyana Iba. I am Temitayo Olafisoye, my colleague is Kayode Akinola. We came from Apata area in Sango, Ibadan.
We usually use the children for money rituals.”
9 hrs ago
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/lagos-mother-fights-off-suspected-ritualist-attempting-to-abduct-kids/ar-AAVBu8T
Many Nigerians believe that magic charms can allow humans to morph into cats, protect bare skins from sharp blades and make money appear in a clay pot.
These beliefs are not just held by the uneducated, they exist even at the highest level of Nigeria's academia.
Dr Olaleye Kayode, a senior lecturer in African Indigenous Religions at the University of Ibadan, told the BBC that money-making juju rituals - where human body parts mixed with charms makes money spew out of a pot - really work.
no-one can hide from the grisly images of the bodies found recently with missing limbs and empty eye sockets in a resurgence of the sinister money-making juju rituals.
21 March
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60749496
Prophets of the Groves [1 Kings 18:19]
Spiritual and magical powers, despite their denial by dominant culture, have become a ubiquitous part of Nigerian lives
On August 4, 2004, some 50 officers of the Nigerian police, including elements of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), raided a complex consisting of a number of shrines in Umuhu Okija village, in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
In the [wooded groves] where the principal shrines were located, the police found human skulls and the remains of dozens of corpses, some of them dismembered, some in coffins, others lying by the side of the path.
The case attracted massive interest in the Nigerian press, particularly when it was confirmed that leading politicians had visited the shrine and sworn oaths there.
Feb 27, 2022
https://thenationonlineng.net/teen-killers-on-the-prowl-ritual-killings-escalate-as-underage-boys-gun-for-easy-money/
Money ritual: Anxiety over growing national evil
Nigeria has never been at such crossroads as another monster of gargantuan size and stature – ritual killing for money – bulldozes its way into the national psyche, staring every one in the face. It has the dimension of a national malaise.
Denying this evil is awful, fruitless and needless.
That is the reality many are now slowly, but regrettably beginning to acknowledge.
13th February 2022
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/money-ritual-anxiety-over-growing-national-evil/
Nigerian ‘Voodoo’ Politician In UK Jail Ordered To Hand Over N100Million Illicit Earnings
she put her victims through a Juju ceremony - a humiliating ritual designed to exert control over them
Prosecutor Simon Davis said: “A chicken was used to hit them on their naked backs and chests and then they had to eat the heart of the chicken which had been killed.
“On a number of occasions, the priest cut their skin with a knife and rubbed black powder in the wounds
“After the appointment with the voodoo priest, Sandra packaged pieces of hair individually from their heads as well as pubic hair and wrote names on the packages.
“She told them ’You have now eaten of the devil and if you do not pay, the devil will kill you.”
She was arrested by NCA officers after landing at Heathrow airport on a flight from Lagos on 24 August 2017.
24 Mar 22
https://saharareporters.com/2022/03/24/human-trafficking-nigerian-%E2%80%98voodoo%E2%80%99-politician-uk-jail-ordered-hand-over-n100million