johnmartus:
Probably she got killed because being a witch .

I can’t believe you just justified her been killed all cos you assumed she’s a witch. Well, You sound like a miner so I guess her death is normal to you

LILTJAY:
No pictures pr video evidence
.

A skull minner spotted,
No normal human will demand to see such graphic image.

Well done sir! CSM

Ndi iragbiji

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Just imagine living up to that old age and dying in the most gruesome manner.

Sad !

Lionnation:
Yorobandits on the loose

Is it true, that Due to the flatness of Igbo heads and their stubbornness, someone suggested they should be the target of skullminers, claiming it will give up more dollars?

Over to you Skullminers, its a new research that kills two birds with one stone.

This barbaruc trend must stop

What

Oghene1st:
Erudite Skullers at it again. Seems they are in all Afonja states undergoing skullership.

smallsmall:


Arrant nonsense, from all you tribal haterz on Nairaland. I guess it does not happen in Igbo land?
if the people/tribe you are all abusing decide to descend on you now, you'll be calling your "friendly-tribe" moderator for help.

Crime is Crime and it is a function of "opportunity meets demand".
If Govt wants to stamp out this violent crime, arising from an insatiable lust for quick money (and dont tell me it only happens in the SW, we still remember Okotooko, in Alaigbo), it is very easy: TARGET THE HERBALISTS, THE SHERMANS, THE ALFAS AND THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE ABLE TO WORK THIS HEADS AND BODY PARTS INTO MONEY.

SET UP A STING OPERATION THAT WILL ENSNARE THEN AND PUT THEM AWAY FOR GOOD.
If there is no demand for Human head from all these Herbalists, there will be no supply of the body parts.
But because a lot of our high level Politicians, the NASS members, governors past and present, aspiring Politicians are the ones who need these Herbalist, they have turned then into UNTOUCHABLES.

It is no secret, when you see an almost dead Politician suddenly receive the Vigour of a Youth, that they have done Human sacrifice.
Look around us, from Aso Rock, to Lagos, to Minna, to Kaduna, etc, the 80yrs Old Men and Politicians are looking younger than our 35yr old young Men but a few time back, you'd think they were about to die and wont last the year out!

This issue is becoming an embarrassment to Nigeria as a whole and a chronic problem needs a chronic solution, treat the HERBALIST as KIDNAPPERS< death sentence to them and anyone caught with Human Parts.
And such Justice should not take the whole Year or decades like Evans the Kidnapper!
For all we know, the Killer(s) could be some Nyamirrin IPOB boys trying to make it fast in the SW so they can drive G-Wagon to their Erosion land in December, to claim they have made it.

You addressed some good points, but your last paragraph ruins everything.
You should not have concluded your wonderful post in this manner.

johnmartus:
Probably she got killed because being a witch .

Ok only her head is the witch, other parts that where not taken are wizards abi?

If if if I slap you eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh.. ...

94 years old woman living alone,the children did not try at all.

Dayvidblue:


A skull minner spotted,
No normal human will demand to see such graphic image.

Well done sir! CSM

bloggers can write any nonsense for traffic

These guys skullarship no Dey finish. They should behead the wrong people, Tinubu, Buhari, Yahaya bello, Uzodinma hopelessness and leave innocent Nigerians. An average afonja man believes in juju more than anything. All of them are fetish and they know it. Associate with them with insurance from Jesus Christ else your case is ritual.

Oghene1st:
Erudite Skullers at it again. Seems they are in all Afonja states undergoing skullership.

(The story told below is undoubtedly about the ritual killings and "skull mining" in Yorubaland. Read it.)

Ritual killing ain't regional. It's national; it's everywhere in Nigeria, but you folks would rather advise your neighbours to do surgery for the speck in their eyes, while you treat your glaucoma with mere herbs. It doesn't work out that way.

EXCLUSIVE: Community Residents In South-East Nigeria, Others Desert Homes Over Rise In Ritual Killings


People were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 11, 2022

Some residents of Isiala-Ngwa and Ihiala in Abia and Anambra states have fled their homes over the rising cases of ritual killing in those places.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered from fleeing residents that people were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

A resident of Isiala-Ngwa named Ifeanyi Okoli, disclosed that persons had been disappearing from the area mysteriously with their mutilated bodies later discovered in the bush or roadside.

According to him, at least four persons have been killed in this manner in recent times with the dismembered body later found.

As a result of this, some residents afraid for their safety have been moving out of the place to other areas they consider safe enough.

"I moved away from the community more than one week ago over the rise in mysterious deaths and mutilated bodies.

"Ritual killings subsided here a bit some time ago but it appears the evil has returned.

"Everybody is living in fear around this place because they don't want to be a victim of ritual killing," Okoli said.

A community leader in the area, Ezekiel Mba, told SaharaReporters that they were worried about the situation, adding that ritual killers were wreaking havoc around Isiala-Ngwa.

"The police and other law enforcement agencies should come to our aid before it is too late.

"We don't have peace of mind again, ritual killers are causing serious problem," he said.

More residents are contemplating moving out of the area as a result of the situation, SaharaReporters gathered.

In Anambra, a student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, under Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, Kelechi Anyoku, told SaharaReporters that some of her colleagues in the area had moved out of their apartments following rising ritual killings and diabolical attacks in the region.

She said at least three mutilated bodies had been discovered along a major highway linking the town and other parts of Anambra in recent weeks.

"Both the student population and residents of the local government area, everybody is afraid and seriously concerned about the ongoing development.

"At least three bodies with several parts removed have been discovered in recent weeks.

"This is in addition to rituals like Okeite that young men do around this region. This is common among Internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, who release semen inside a lady and after sometime it decays inside her with the guy getting rich in the process.

"Many young ladies have been affected by this ritual, so a lot of us are afraid, we are careful of the places we go to these days," she said.

Uli and Ihiala communities share proximity with Okija – a sleepy town that shot to prominence in 2004 after decomposing human bodies were found at a shrine inside one of its forests during a police invasion.

Current Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, was in 2003 forced to take an oath of loyalty at the shrine by his then political godfather, Chris Uba, before he contested the state's governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party that year.

The Court of Appeal on March 15, 2006, nullified Ngige's victory, paving the way for Peter Obi of the All Progressive Grand Alliance to assume leadership of Anambra.

Disturbed by the latest development, a resident of Uwabakwem, a village close to Okija, Obinna Anokuru, told SaharaReporters that the activities of ritual killers were forcing people to move to safer places over fear for their lives.

"Everybody is afraid. The things happening these days are causing panic.

"Those of us who live here now ensure that we don't move far away from our houses late in the night or go anywhere without letting our family members know about our movement.

"It is the height of wickedness for somebody to kill a fellow human for ritual purposes. Something urgent has to be done about this evil in our land," he said.

Apart from the South-East, ritual killers especially individuals craving quick wealth have also been running riot in other parts of Nigeria, hacking both young and old to death in cruel ways.

A recent security alert by the police identified Ota, Lambe and Mowe in Ogun State, Ikorodu in Lagos, Ilorin in Kwara, Osogbo in Osun, and Oyo State as the major hubs of ritual killings in the South-West.

In an incident that shook Nigeria to its roots, a 20-year-old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, was on February 4, 2022 hacked to death in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by four boys for money ritual purposes.

The victim's boyfriend, Majekodunmi (19); his friend, Mustaqeem Balogun (her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend); and two accomplices killed Kehinde and were burning her head in preparation for a ritual when they were discovered and arrested.
Earlier on January 6 this year, residents of Otuja Harmony Estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos raised the alarm over the constant invasion of a cemetery in the community by suspected ritualists scavenging for human parts.

Five days later, the police in Ikorodu apprehended a mother and her son for being in possession of fresh human parts.

The son named Afeez Olalere disclosed that his mother encouraged him to kill his younger sibling for a money ritual.

“My mother took me to an herbalist who told me if I want to be successful in the Yahoo business (internet fraud), I will have to sacrifice one life and that person must be a sibling to me," he said.

In December 2021, two siblings, Monsuru Tajudeen and Lawal Tajudeen, were arrested by the police in the Iwo area of Osun State after a ritual den was discovered.

In other parts of the South-West, ritual murders were equally rife in the outgone year with law enforcement agencies unable to nip the menace in the bud.

According to General Secretary, Traditional Religion Worshipers’ Association in Oyo State, Femi Fakayode, the lack of appropriate sanctions for persons found to be involved in ritual killings in Nigeria is responsible for the rise in the disturbing trend.

Fakayode told SaharaReporters that no genuine traditional priest will perform money rituals involving the killing of a human because such is forbidden in their line of work and comes with severe repercussions.

He said those carrying out such rituals for young people seeking quick wealth will suffer the consequences no matter how powerful they may think they are.

"Check all the reported cases and those arrested for carrying out money rituals for members of the public, you will realise that none are traditional priests. Most of them are alfas.

"No real traditional priest will do such because the punishment is instant.

"These killings thrive because our laws are weak and punishment is almost non-existent for serious crimes especially when the offender has money to bribe officials.

"In our traditional system, the punishment for such heinous act is instant. You can't escape it.

"Therefore, we must go back to the traditional system, the way we operated before alien religion came in.

"If we go back to that system, even our leaders who are looting our treasury and destroying the country will buckle down," he said.

Renowned traditional priest, Chief Yemi Elebuibon, told SaharaReporters that those killing fellow humans thinking that it would make them rich are wasting their time as there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to them.

According to him, only honest and genuine labour could bring money and wealth in the long haul.

"There is really nothing like money rituals, there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to you in your house. That idea is erroneous and unfortunately many young people in Nigeria today are falling for it.

"One of the best ways out of this problem is for government to create jobs for youths across the country to get them productively engaged. A lot of them are idle and that is why the desire to make quick money is rampant among them.

"It is very sad how we have come to this point where people just kill another human because they want to be rich. It is sad," he said.

Spokespersons for the police in Abia and Anambra states, Geoffrey Ogbonna and Ikenga Tochukwu, when contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday, said that the cases will be looked into and appropriate measures would be taken to tackle the menace.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives called for the declaration of a national emergency of the rising cases of ritual killings across Nigeria.

Minority Leader of the House, Mr Toby Okechukwu, moved the motion during plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

He and his colleagues urged the National Orientation Agency and other stakeholders in the society to embark on vigorous campaigns to open the eyes of members of the public especially youths to the evils of ritual killings for money.

But according to a Lagos-based sociologist, Nike Adetutu, tackling this dangerous trend in Nigeria will also require the return to core morals and values in society.

According to her, training and monitoring at the family level has broken down and that is why there are young people with misplaced priorities and poor orientation everywhere.

"We must go back to the family system, where everything starts, we have failed in that area as a society.

"Parents are no longer giving the right training and monitoring to their children and that is why many of them have gone astray.

"The return to core morals and values will save us from all these problems. If we don't act fast, we may not be able to handle the disaster already looming," she said.

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Truthisunique2:
Something must be wrong with the average Yoruba Muslim

Shame let you mine a 94 year old skull, which destiny you wan suck for dried skull

(The story told below is undoubtedly about the ritual killings and "skull mining" in Yorubaland. Read it.)

Ritual killing ain't regional. It's national; it's everywhere in Nigeria, but you folks would rather advise your neighbours to do surgery for the speck in their eyes, while you treat your glaucoma with mere herbs. It doesn't work out that way.

EXCLUSIVE: Community Residents In South-East Nigeria, Others Desert Homes Over Rise In Ritual Killings


People were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 11, 2022

Some residents of Isiala-Ngwa and Ihiala in Abia and Anambra states have fled their homes over the rising cases of ritual killing in those places.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered from fleeing residents that people were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

A resident of Isiala-Ngwa named Ifeanyi Okoli, disclosed that persons had been disappearing from the area mysteriously with their mutilated bodies later discovered in the bush or roadside.

According to him, at least four persons have been killed in this manner in recent times with the dismembered body later found.

As a result of this, some residents afraid for their safety have been moving out of the place to other areas they consider safe enough.

"I moved away from the community more than one week ago over the rise in mysterious deaths and mutilated bodies.

"Ritual killings subsided here a bit some time ago but it appears the evil has returned.

"Everybody is living in fear around this place because they don't want to be a victim of ritual killing," Okoli said.

A community leader in the area, Ezekiel Mba, told SaharaReporters that they were worried about the situation, adding that ritual killers were wreaking havoc around Isiala-Ngwa.

"The police and other law enforcement agencies should come to our aid before it is too late.

"We don't have peace of mind again, ritual killers are causing serious problem," he said.

More residents are contemplating moving out of the area as a result of the situation, SaharaReporters gathered.

In Anambra, a student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, under Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, Kelechi Anyoku, told SaharaReporters that some of her colleagues in the area had moved out of their apartments following rising ritual killings and diabolical attacks in the region.

She said at least three mutilated bodies had been discovered along a major highway linking the town and other parts of Anambra in recent weeks.

"Both the student population and residents of the local government area, everybody is afraid and seriously concerned about the ongoing development.

"At least three bodies with several parts removed have been discovered in recent weeks.

"This is in addition to rituals like Okeite that young men do around this region. This is common among Internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, who release semen inside a lady and after sometime it decays inside her with the guy getting rich in the process.

"Many young ladies have been affected by this ritual, so a lot of us are afraid, we are careful of the places we go to these days," she said.

Uli and Ihiala communities share proximity with Okija – a sleepy town that shot to prominence in 2004 after decomposing human bodies were found at a shrine inside one of its forests during a police invasion.

Current Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, was in 2003 forced to take an oath of loyalty at the shrine by his then political godfather, Chris Uba, before he contested the state's governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party that year.

The Court of Appeal on March 15, 2006, nullified Ngige's victory, paving the way for Peter Obi of the All Progressive Grand Alliance to assume leadership of Anambra.

Disturbed by the latest development, a resident of Uwabakwem, a village close to Okija, Obinna Anokuru, told SaharaReporters that the activities of ritual killers were forcing people to move to safer places over fear for their lives.

"Everybody is afraid. The things happening these days are causing panic.

"Those of us who live here now ensure that we don't move far away from our houses late in the night or go anywhere without letting our family members know about our movement.

"It is the height of wickedness for somebody to kill a fellow human for ritual purposes. Something urgent has to be done about this evil in our land," he said.

Apart from the South-East, ritual killers especially individuals craving quick wealth have also been running riot in other parts of Nigeria, hacking both young and old to death in cruel ways.

A recent security alert by the police identified Ota, Lambe and Mowe in Ogun State, Ikorodu in Lagos, Ilorin in Kwara, Osogbo in Osun, and Oyo State as the major hubs of ritual killings in the South-West.

In an incident that shook Nigeria to its roots, a 20-year-old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, was on February 4, 2022 hacked to death in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by four boys for money ritual purposes.

The victim's boyfriend, Majekodunmi (19); his friend, Mustaqeem Balogun (her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend); and two accomplices killed Kehinde and were burning her head in preparation for a ritual when they were discovered and arrested.
Earlier on January 6 this year, residents of Otuja Harmony Estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos raised the alarm over the constant invasion of a cemetery in the community by suspected ritualists scavenging for human parts.

Five days later, the police in Ikorodu apprehended a mother and her son for being in possession of fresh human parts.

The son named Afeez Olalere disclosed that his mother encouraged him to kill his younger sibling for a money ritual.

“My mother took me to an herbalist who told me if I want to be successful in the Yahoo business (internet fraud), I will have to sacrifice one life and that person must be a sibling to me," he said.

In December 2021, two siblings, Monsuru Tajudeen and Lawal Tajudeen, were arrested by the police in the Iwo area of Osun State after a ritual den was discovered.

In other parts of the South-West, ritual murders were equally rife in the outgone year with law enforcement agencies unable to nip the menace in the bud.

According to General Secretary, Traditional Religion Worshipers’ Association in Oyo State, Femi Fakayode, the lack of appropriate sanctions for persons found to be involved in ritual killings in Nigeria is responsible for the rise in the disturbing trend.

Fakayode told SaharaReporters that no genuine traditional priest will perform money rituals involving the killing of a human because such is forbidden in their line of work and comes with severe repercussions.

He said those carrying out such rituals for young people seeking quick wealth will suffer the consequences no matter how powerful they may think they are.

"Check all the reported cases and those arrested for carrying out money rituals for members of the public, you will realise that none are traditional priests. Most of them are alfas.

"No real traditional priest will do such because the punishment is instant.

"These killings thrive because our laws are weak and punishment is almost non-existent for serious crimes especially when the offender has money to bribe officials.

"In our traditional system, the punishment for such heinous act is instant. You can't escape it.

"Therefore, we must go back to the traditional system, the way we operated before alien religion came in.

"If we go back to that system, even our leaders who are looting our treasury and destroying the country will buckle down," he said.

Renowned traditional priest, Chief Yemi Elebuibon, told SaharaReporters that those killing fellow humans thinking that it would make them rich are wasting their time as there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to them.

According to him, only honest and genuine labour could bring money and wealth in the long haul.

"There is really nothing like money rituals, there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to you in your house. That idea is erroneous and unfortunately many young people in Nigeria today are falling for it.

"One of the best ways out of this problem is for government to create jobs for youths across the country to get them productively engaged. A lot of them are idle and that is why the desire to make quick money is rampant among them.

"It is very sad how we have come to this point where people just kill another human because they want to be rich. It is sad," he said.

Spokespersons for the police in Abia and Anambra states, Geoffrey Ogbonna and Ikenga Tochukwu, when contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday, said that the cases will be looked into and appropriate measures would be taken to tackle the menace.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives called for the declaration of a national emergency of the rising cases of ritual killings across Nigeria.

Minority Leader of the House, Mr Toby Okechukwu, moved the motion during plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

He and his colleagues urged the National Orientation Agency and other stakeholders in the society to embark on vigorous campaigns to open the eyes of members of the public especially youths to the evils of ritual killings for money.

But according to a Lagos-based sociologist, Nike Adetutu, tackling this dangerous trend in Nigeria will also require the return to core morals and values in society.

According to her, training and monitoring at the family level has broken down and that is why there are young people with misplaced priorities and poor orientation everywhere.

"We must go back to the family system, where everything starts, we have failed in that area as a society.

"Parents are no longer giving the right training and monitoring to their children and that is why many of them have gone astray.

"The return to core morals and values will save us from all these problems. If we don't act fast, we may not be able to handle the disaster already looming," she said.

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pinkPUSSY:
This skull Mining is getting out of hand.. Honestly there are many things Yoruba need to do away with which I think some of all these Skull Miners get their inspiration from...

1), Removing of human skull inscription on Odua flag.. Out of whole countries in the world only Odua flag has human head on it

2), Being less obsessed with anything that has link with human skulls.. Their traditional rulers must quit such incantations

3), The Christianity in Yoruba Land need to speed up their efforts in their teachings, they should ensure that they teach people the dangers of skull Mining..

Infact the list is endless

(The story told below is undoubtedly about the ritual killings and "skull mining" in Yorubaland. Read it.)

Ritual killing ain't regional. It's national; it's everywhere in Nigeria, but you folks would rather advise your neighbours to do surgery for the speck in their eyes, while you treat your glaucoma with mere herbs. It doesn't work out that way.

EXCLUSIVE: Community Residents In South-East Nigeria, Others Desert Homes Over Rise In Ritual Killings


People were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 11, 2022

Some residents of Isiala-Ngwa and Ihiala in Abia and Anambra states have fled their homes over the rising cases of ritual killing in those places.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered from fleeing residents that people were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

A resident of Isiala-Ngwa named Ifeanyi Okoli, disclosed that persons had been disappearing from the area mysteriously with their mutilated bodies later discovered in the bush or roadside.

According to him, at least four persons have been killed in this manner in recent times with the dismembered body later found.

As a result of this, some residents afraid for their safety have been moving out of the place to other areas they consider safe enough.

"I moved away from the community more than one week ago over the rise in mysterious deaths and mutilated bodies.

"Ritual killings subsided here a bit some time ago but it appears the evil has returned.

"Everybody is living in fear around this place because they don't want to be a victim of ritual killing," Okoli said.

A community leader in the area, Ezekiel Mba, told SaharaReporters that they were worried about the situation, adding that ritual killers were wreaking havoc around Isiala-Ngwa.

"The police and other law enforcement agencies should come to our aid before it is too late.

"We don't have peace of mind again, ritual killers are causing serious problem," he said.

More residents are contemplating moving out of the area as a result of the situation, SaharaReporters gathered.

In Anambra, a student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, under Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, Kelechi Anyoku, told SaharaReporters that some of her colleagues in the area had moved out of their apartments following rising ritual killings and diabolical attacks in the region.

She said at least three mutilated bodies had been discovered along a major highway linking the town and other parts of Anambra in recent weeks.

"Both the student population and residents of the local government area, everybody is afraid and seriously concerned about the ongoing development.

"At least three bodies with several parts removed have been discovered in recent weeks.

"This is in addition to rituals like Okeite that young men do around this region. This is common among Internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, who release semen inside a lady and after sometime it decays inside her with the guy getting rich in the process.

"Many young ladies have been affected by this ritual, so a lot of us are afraid, we are careful of the places we go to these days," she said.

Uli and Ihiala communities share proximity with Okija – a sleepy town that shot to prominence in 2004 after decomposing human bodies were found at a shrine inside one of its forests during a police invasion.

Current Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, was in 2003 forced to take an oath of loyalty at the shrine by his then political godfather, Chris Uba, before he contested the state's governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party that year.

The Court of Appeal on March 15, 2006, nullified Ngige's victory, paving the way for Peter Obi of the All Progressive Grand Alliance to assume leadership of Anambra.

Disturbed by the latest development, a resident of Uwabakwem, a village close to Okija, Obinna Anokuru, told SaharaReporters that the activities of ritual killers were forcing people to move to safer places over fear for their lives.

"Everybody is afraid. The things happening these days are causing panic.

"Those of us who live here now ensure that we don't move far away from our houses late in the night or go anywhere without letting our family members know about our movement.

"It is the height of wickedness for somebody to kill a fellow human for ritual purposes. Something urgent has to be done about this evil in our land," he said.

Apart from the South-East, ritual killers especially individuals craving quick wealth have also been running riot in other parts of Nigeria, hacking both young and old to death in cruel ways.

A recent security alert by the police identified Ota, Lambe and Mowe in Ogun State, Ikorodu in Lagos, Ilorin in Kwara, Osogbo in Osun, and Oyo State as the major hubs of ritual killings in the South-West.

In an incident that shook Nigeria to its roots, a 20-year-old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, was on February 4, 2022 hacked to death in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by four boys for money ritual purposes.

The victim's boyfriend, Majekodunmi (19); his friend, Mustaqeem Balogun (her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend); and two accomplices killed Kehinde and were burning her head in preparation for a ritual when they were discovered and arrested.
Earlier on January 6 this year, residents of Otuja Harmony Estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos raised the alarm over the constant invasion of a cemetery in the community by suspected ritualists scavenging for human parts.

Five days later, the police in Ikorodu apprehended a mother and her son for being in possession of fresh human parts.

The son named Afeez Olalere disclosed that his mother encouraged him to kill his younger sibling for a money ritual.

“My mother took me to an herbalist who told me if I want to be successful in the Yahoo business (internet fraud), I will have to sacrifice one life and that person must be a sibling to me," he said.

In December 2021, two siblings, Monsuru Tajudeen and Lawal Tajudeen, were arrested by the police in the Iwo area of Osun State after a ritual den was discovered.

In other parts of the South-West, ritual murders were equally rife in the outgone year with law enforcement agencies unable to nip the menace in the bud.

According to General Secretary, Traditional Religion Worshipers’ Association in Oyo State, Femi Fakayode, the lack of appropriate sanctions for persons found to be involved in ritual killings in Nigeria is responsible for the rise in the disturbing trend.

Fakayode told SaharaReporters that no genuine traditional priest will perform money rituals involving the killing of a human because such is forbidden in their line of work and comes with severe repercussions.

He said those carrying out such rituals for young people seeking quick wealth will suffer the consequences no matter how powerful they may think they are.

"Check all the reported cases and those arrested for carrying out money rituals for members of the public, you will realise that none are traditional priests. Most of them are alfas.

"No real traditional priest will do such because the punishment is instant.

"These killings thrive because our laws are weak and punishment is almost non-existent for serious crimes especially when the offender has money to bribe officials.

"In our traditional system, the punishment for such heinous act is instant. You can't escape it.

"Therefore, we must go back to the traditional system, the way we operated before alien religion came in.

"If we go back to that system, even our leaders who are looting our treasury and destroying the country will buckle down," he said.

Renowned traditional priest, Chief Yemi Elebuibon, told SaharaReporters that those killing fellow humans thinking that it would make them rich are wasting their time as there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to them.

According to him, only honest and genuine labour could bring money and wealth in the long haul.

"There is really nothing like money rituals, there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to you in your house. That idea is erroneous and unfortunately many young people in Nigeria today are falling for it.

"One of the best ways out of this problem is for government to create jobs for youths across the country to get them productively engaged. A lot of them are idle and that is why the desire to make quick money is rampant among them.

"It is very sad how we have come to this point where people just kill another human because they want to be rich. It is sad," he said.

Spokespersons for the police in Abia and Anambra states, Geoffrey Ogbonna and Ikenga Tochukwu, when contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday, said that the cases will be looked into and appropriate measures would be taken to tackle the menace.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives called for the declaration of a national emergency of the rising cases of ritual killings across Nigeria.

Minority Leader of the House, Mr Toby Okechukwu, moved the motion during plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

He and his colleagues urged the National Orientation Agency and other stakeholders in the society to embark on vigorous campaigns to open the eyes of members of the public especially youths to the evils of ritual killings for money.

But according to a Lagos-based sociologist, Nike Adetutu, tackling this dangerous trend in Nigeria will also require the return to core morals and values in society.

According to her, training and monitoring at the family level has broken down and that is why there are young people with misplaced priorities and poor orientation everywhere.

"We must go back to the family system, where everything starts, we have failed in that area as a society.

"Parents are no longer giving the right training and monitoring to their children and that is why many of them have gone astray.

"The return to core morals and values will save us from all these problems. If we don't act fast, we may not be able to handle the disaster already looming," she said.

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November1857:
The number of people killed by skull miners in SW are more than those killed by Boko Haram and Bandits put together since their inception..

(The story told below is undoubtedly about the ritual killings and "skull mining" in Yorubaland. Read it.)

Ritual killing ain't regional. It's national; it's everywhere in Nigeria, but you folks would rather advise your neighbours to do surgery for the speck in their eyes, while you treat your glaucoma with mere herbs. It doesn't work out that way.

EXCLUSIVE: Community Residents In South-East Nigeria, Others Desert Homes Over Rise In Ritual Killings


People were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 11, 2022

Some residents of Isiala-Ngwa and Ihiala in Abia and Anambra states have fled their homes over the rising cases of ritual killing in those places.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered from fleeing residents that people were being hacked to death and their bodies mutilated by unknown persons, who go away with vital organs.

A resident of Isiala-Ngwa named Ifeanyi Okoli, disclosed that persons had been disappearing from the area mysteriously with their mutilated bodies later discovered in the bush or roadside.

According to him, at least four persons have been killed in this manner in recent times with the dismembered body later found.

As a result of this, some residents afraid for their safety have been moving out of the place to other areas they consider safe enough.

"I moved away from the community more than one week ago over the rise in mysterious deaths and mutilated bodies.

"Ritual killings subsided here a bit some time ago but it appears the evil has returned.

"Everybody is living in fear around this place because they don't want to be a victim of ritual killing," Okoli said.

A community leader in the area, Ezekiel Mba, told SaharaReporters that they were worried about the situation, adding that ritual killers were wreaking havoc around Isiala-Ngwa.

"The police and other law enforcement agencies should come to our aid before it is too late.

"We don't have peace of mind again, ritual killers are causing serious problem," he said.

More residents are contemplating moving out of the area as a result of the situation, SaharaReporters gathered.

In Anambra, a student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, under Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, Kelechi Anyoku, told SaharaReporters that some of her colleagues in the area had moved out of their apartments following rising ritual killings and diabolical attacks in the region.

She said at least three mutilated bodies had been discovered along a major highway linking the town and other parts of Anambra in recent weeks.

"Both the student population and residents of the local government area, everybody is afraid and seriously concerned about the ongoing development.

"At least three bodies with several parts removed have been discovered in recent weeks.

"This is in addition to rituals like Okeite that young men do around this region. This is common among Internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, who release semen inside a lady and after sometime it decays inside her with the guy getting rich in the process.

"Many young ladies have been affected by this ritual, so a lot of us are afraid, we are careful of the places we go to these days," she said.

Uli and Ihiala communities share proximity with Okija – a sleepy town that shot to prominence in 2004 after decomposing human bodies were found at a shrine inside one of its forests during a police invasion.

Current Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, was in 2003 forced to take an oath of loyalty at the shrine by his then political godfather, Chris Uba, before he contested the state's governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party that year.

The Court of Appeal on March 15, 2006, nullified Ngige's victory, paving the way for Peter Obi of the All Progressive Grand Alliance to assume leadership of Anambra.

Disturbed by the latest development, a resident of Uwabakwem, a village close to Okija, Obinna Anokuru, told SaharaReporters that the activities of ritual killers were forcing people to move to safer places over fear for their lives.

"Everybody is afraid. The things happening these days are causing panic.

"Those of us who live here now ensure that we don't move far away from our houses late in the night or go anywhere without letting our family members know about our movement.

"It is the height of wickedness for somebody to kill a fellow human for ritual purposes. Something urgent has to be done about this evil in our land," he said.

Apart from the South-East, ritual killers especially individuals craving quick wealth have also been running riot in other parts of Nigeria, hacking both young and old to death in cruel ways.

A recent security alert by the police identified Ota, Lambe and Mowe in Ogun State, Ikorodu in Lagos, Ilorin in Kwara, Osogbo in Osun, and Oyo State as the major hubs of ritual killings in the South-West.

In an incident that shook Nigeria to its roots, a 20-year-old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, was on February 4, 2022 hacked to death in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by four boys for money ritual purposes.

The victim's boyfriend, Majekodunmi (19); his friend, Mustaqeem Balogun (her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend); and two accomplices killed Kehinde and were burning her head in preparation for a ritual when they were discovered and arrested.
Earlier on January 6 this year, residents of Otuja Harmony Estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos raised the alarm over the constant invasion of a cemetery in the community by suspected ritualists scavenging for human parts.

Five days later, the police in Ikorodu apprehended a mother and her son for being in possession of fresh human parts.

The son named Afeez Olalere disclosed that his mother encouraged him to kill his younger sibling for a money ritual.

“My mother took me to an herbalist who told me if I want to be successful in the Yahoo business (internet fraud), I will have to sacrifice one life and that person must be a sibling to me," he said.

In December 2021, two siblings, Monsuru Tajudeen and Lawal Tajudeen, were arrested by the police in the Iwo area of Osun State after a ritual den was discovered.

In other parts of the South-West, ritual murders were equally rife in the outgone year with law enforcement agencies unable to nip the menace in the bud.

According to General Secretary, Traditional Religion Worshipers’ Association in Oyo State, Femi Fakayode, the lack of appropriate sanctions for persons found to be involved in ritual killings in Nigeria is responsible for the rise in the disturbing trend.

Fakayode told SaharaReporters that no genuine traditional priest will perform money rituals involving the killing of a human because such is forbidden in their line of work and comes with severe repercussions.

He said those carrying out such rituals for young people seeking quick wealth will suffer the consequences no matter how powerful they may think they are.

"Check all the reported cases and those arrested for carrying out money rituals for members of the public, you will realise that none are traditional priests. Most of them are alfas.

"No real traditional priest will do such because the punishment is instant.

"These killings thrive because our laws are weak and punishment is almost non-existent for serious crimes especially when the offender has money to bribe officials.

"In our traditional system, the punishment for such heinous act is instant. You can't escape it.

"Therefore, we must go back to the traditional system, the way we operated before alien religion came in.

"If we go back to that system, even our leaders who are looting our treasury and destroying the country will buckle down," he said.

Renowned traditional priest, Chief Yemi Elebuibon, told SaharaReporters that those killing fellow humans thinking that it would make them rich are wasting their time as there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to them.

According to him, only honest and genuine labour could bring money and wealth in the long haul.

"There is really nothing like money rituals, there is no spirit anywhere that will bring money to you in your house. That idea is erroneous and unfortunately many young people in Nigeria today are falling for it.

"One of the best ways out of this problem is for government to create jobs for youths across the country to get them productively engaged. A lot of them are idle and that is why the desire to make quick money is rampant among them.

"It is very sad how we have come to this point where people just kill another human because they want to be rich. It is sad," he said.

Spokespersons for the police in Abia and Anambra states, Geoffrey Ogbonna and Ikenga Tochukwu, when contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday, said that the cases will be looked into and appropriate measures would be taken to tackle the menace.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives called for the declaration of a national emergency of the rising cases of ritual killings across Nigeria.

Minority Leader of the House, Mr Toby Okechukwu, moved the motion during plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

He and his colleagues urged the National Orientation Agency and other stakeholders in the society to embark on vigorous campaigns to open the eyes of members of the public especially youths to the evils of ritual killings for money.

But according to a Lagos-based sociologist, Nike Adetutu, tackling this dangerous trend in Nigeria will also require the return to core morals and values in society.

According to her, training and monitoring at the family level has broken down and that is why there are young people with misplaced priorities and poor orientation everywhere.

"We must go back to the family system, where everything starts, we have failed in that area as a society.

"Parents are no longer giving the right training and monitoring to their children and that is why many of them have gone astray.

"The return to core morals and values will save us from all these problems. If we don't act fast, we may not be able to handle the disaster already looming," she said.

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pinkPUSSY:
This skull Mining is getting out of hand.. Honestly there are many things Yoruba need to do away with which I think some of all these Skull Miners get their inspiration from...

1), Removing of human skull inscription on Odua flag.. Out of whole countries in the world only Odua flag has human head on it

2), Being less obsessed with anything that has link with human skulls.. Their traditional rulers must quit such incantations

3), The Christianity in Yoruba Land need to speed up their efforts in their teachings, they should ensure that they teach people the dangers of skull Mining..

Infact the list is endless

Please is that a real human head for what occasion with the ooni?

Why should a 94 years old woman be living alone

Just South West?


The whole country is in need of state of emergency.

MyVILLAGEpeople:
A state of emergency should be declared on the south west on this ritual of a thing.

YoRuBas With Their SMELlInG WeALTh

Funny enough,more than half of General Overseers of churches in Nigeria is from Yoruba....so shameful

Funny enough,more than half of General Overseers in Nigeria is from Yoruba....so shameful

johnmartus:
Probably she got killed because being a witch .

dumbest

Truthisunique2:
Something must be wrong with the average Yoruba Muslim

Shame let you mine a 94 year old skull, which destiny you wan suck for dried skull

Even you self dey sound like a Ritualist. What do you mean by dried skull? What a very stupid and foolish statement. Idiot.

Is this what we have become as as a people? Too bad. This blasted country is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. It should be wiped of the map of the world as nothing good ever seems to come out it but horrible horrible vices not fit for humanity.

johnmartus:
Probably she got killed because being a witch .

With this kind of reasoning, it's better you just keep quiet.

The way everyone dey find bar ehn. Everyone wants to drive Benz. See we all cannot be rich. If everyone is rich, who will now now down for who na. Who will be a servant to the rich?

madukaanaya:
guys i need help.which can i study with one million budget.

Budget 100k go to Ogun state and apply for skull mining.

Unlike men who hate money, women like money and that's why they deserve to be killed for rituals. She was dating a rich yahoo boy and now they have used her. Women don't listen. Instead of dating poor men, they will go and fall in love with a yahoo boy. So let them be murdered cos they don't deserve to live like us who are saints.

I expected the blaady misogynistic evil Basta*"rds of Nairaland to write the ABOVE as usual because you people do not have any single sense. Just heartless dumb brains.

Oghene1st:
Erudite Skullers at it again. Seems they are in all Afonja states undergoing skullership.

are you well?. What's Muslims gotta do with this?. Ekiti Isa even majority Christians. Why can't you people in Nigeria talk without religious coloration?

MyVILLAGEpeople:
A state of emergency should be declared on the south west on this ritual of a thing.

exactly...but the problem is politicians aren't free from this crime

pinkPUSSY:
This skull Mining is getting out of hand.. Honestly there are many things Yoruba need to do away with which I think some of all these Skull Miners get their inspiration from...

1), Removing of human skull inscription on Odua flag.. Out of whole countries in the world only Odua flag has human head on it

2), Being less obsessed with anything that has link with human skulls.. Their traditional rulers must quit such incantations

3), The Christianity in Yoruba Land need to speed up their efforts in their teachings, they should ensure that they teach people the dangers of skull Mining..

Infact the list is endless

As long as you have head logo on your oduduwa nation flag the eagerness to mine skulls will not stop

pinkPUSSY:
This skull Mining is getting out of hand.. Honestly there are many things Yoruba need to do away with which I think some of all these Skull Miners get their inspiration from...

1), Removing of human skull inscription on Odua flag.. Out of whole countries in the world only Odua flag has human head on it

2), Being less obsessed with anything that has link with human skulls.. Their traditional rulers must quit such incantations

3), The Christianity in Yoruba Land need to speed up their efforts in their teachings, they should ensure that they teach people the dangers of skull Mining..

Infact the list is endless

. And what about the muslim folks among them? Asinine Being. Demented religious Bigot