{"id":1918,"date":"2024-07-29T06:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/black-axe-nigerias-mafia-cult-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T06:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T06:52:28","slug":"black-axe-nigerias-mafia-cult-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/black-axe-nigerias-mafia-cult-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Axe: Nigeria\u2019s Mafia Cult &#8211; BBC Africa Eye documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ViTQ7N7iUQ0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Black Axe are one of the most feared and powerful organised crime groups in the world. The highly secretive mafia \u2013 referred to as a \u201ccult\u201d in Nigeria \u2013 have been accused of countless murders and are estimated to earn millions of dollars through internet fraud. But who is behind them? Are politicians involved? <\/p>\n<p>BBC Africa Eye has been investigating. Reporter Peter Macjob is on a journey to meet the Axemen face to face.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nAfrica Eye brings you original, investigative journalism revealing secrets and rooting out injustice in the world\u2019s most complex and exciting continent. Nothing stays hidden forever.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out all #BBCAfricaEye investigations here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/bbcafricaeye<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nSubscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViTQ7N7iUQ0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Axe are one of the most feared and powerful organised crime groups in the world. The highly secretive mafia \u2013 referred to as a \u201ccult\u201d in Nigeria \u2013 have been accused of countless murders and are estimated to earn millions of dollars through internet fraud. But who is behind them? Are politicians involved? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":1919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1561,1560,1556,1559,1558,1557,1576,434,1321,1318,15,1317,1320,1319,1323,169,1566,1563,1579,1569,1568,1577,1571,21,1562,1572,1575,1573,1574,1565,1564,1578,1570,1567],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-axemen","tag-aye","tag-blackaxe","tag-cultgroups","tag-cultism","tag-nigeria","tag-1576","tag-africa","tag-africa-eye","tag-africa-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-africa","tag-bbc-africa-eye","tag-bbc-africa-news","tag-bbc-investigation","tag-bbc-news","tag-black-axe","tag-black-axe-documentary","tag-black-axe-nigerias-mafia-cult","tag-campus-cult","tag-confraternity","tag-cult-clash","tag-cultist-documentary","tag-documentary","tag-documentary-2021","tag-eiye","tag-fraternity","tag-nbm","tag-neo-black-movement","tag-nigeria-documentary","tag-nigeria-investigation","tag-nigerian-mafia","tag-university-cult","tag-vikings-cult","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}