Nigerian True Crime: Principals and Principalities
A narrative Nigerian true-crime podcast exploring Nigeria’s past and present crimes—where history, myth, rituals, and notorious crimes collide in gripping, untold stories.
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The Roundtable: Season 1 Finale | Principals and Principalities (opens the original)
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Eleven weeks. Armed robbers, cultists, and men who cut deals with the devil before finding Jesus just in time. Now the season is over, and it's time to talk about what it all meant. In this special roundtable finale of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi sits down with a member of the show's production team and two of the podcast's most active listeners to look back on Season 1. They revisit the cases that stuck — Shina Rambo, Derico, Lawrence Anini, Ishola Oyenusi, and m
The Buccaneers | Principals & Principalities Podcast (opens the original)
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In 1972, at the University of Ibadan, a man named Bolaji Carew was expelled from The Pyrates Confraternity — the fraternity founded by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. His former brothers didn't just expel him. They declared him dead. They renamed him "Late Ahoy Rica Ricardo." In Pyrate culture, Bolaji Carew ceased to exist. In the real world, he was just getting started. In this episode of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi tells the full story of the Buccaneers Association
The Supreme Vikings Confraternity | Principals & Principalities Podcast (opens the original)
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In March 2021, a 27-year-old maritime student led his cult group in beheading a rival, filmed it, posted it on WhatsApp — then took the dead man's legs, hands, and private parts to a native doctor to be ground into charms. His name was Nzubechukwu Victor Okonkwo. He was a member of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity. In this episode of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi traces the Supreme Vikings Confraternity — also known as De Norsemen, the Adventurers — from its foundi
Supreme 'Eiye' Confraternity | Principals & Principalities Podcast (opens the original)
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In April 2019, Italian investigators hid a camera inside a cult initiation in Palermo, Sicily. What they filmed — a man stripped naked, beaten, sliced with razors, and forced to drink a mixture of his own tears, alcohol, and tapioca — became evidence in a case prosecutors called Operation No Fly Zone. The group behind it was founded in 1965 by seven idealistic students at the University of Ibadan who wanted to build something African, something free. They called themselves Eiye — the bird. In th
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