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. Each episode delves into a different case, blending investigative storytelling with cultural context. The podcast sheds light on how crime intersects with Nigeria's rich and complex traditions. It offers listeners a unique perspective on criminal cases that are often overlooked by mainstream media.
Episodes
The Buccaneers | Principals & Principalities Podcast
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 o
The Supreme Vikings Confraternity | Principals & Principalities Podcast
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-Kin
Supreme 'Eiye' Confraternity | Principals & Principalities Podcast
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
Neo Black Movement of Africa or The Black Axe Confraternity | Principals & Principalities Podcast
On July 7, 1977, nine university students in Benin City led by anti colonialist ideals and a desire to unify and eradicate classism in their universities started a confraternity. They picked up a symbolic axe to break the chains of colonialism. Nearly fifty years later, that symbol belongs to one of the world's most powerful transnational criminal organizations — responsible for over 200 deaths in
A man called Stone | Principals and Principalities Podcast
In 1990, a well-raised boy from a good family enrolled at the University of Ibadan. He was not poor. He was not desperate. He had every reason to walk a straight path and become someone great but instead, he took an oath, changed his name to Stone — and he became one of the most dangerous cultists his community had ever seen.In this episode of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonoj
Abiodun Egunjobi: Godogodo | Principals & Principalities Podcast
On Sunday, September 9, 2012, a street in Agege, Lagos was turned into a war zone before noon. Bureau de change operators were shot on sight. A Rapid Response Squad van was ambushed and every officer inside killed. A policeman was chased down on foot, shot, and his rifle collected. The man who ordered it had been doing this — across eight states — for over a decade. His name was Abiodun Egunjobi.
Okwudili Ndiwe: Derico Nwamama | Principals & Principalities Podcast
In December 2000, 55 passengers on a Lagos-to-Onitsha bus were executed at Upper Iweka Road, Onitsha. The man who ordered it was 22 years old. His name was Okwudili Ndiwe — better known as Derico Nwamama — and he was already the most wanted criminal in Southeast Nigeria.In this episode of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi tells the full story of Derico Nwamama in Anam
Olusegun Adeshina Adisa Kuye: Shina Rambo | Principals & Principalities Podcast
In the early 1990s, one name brought Southwest Nigeria to a standstill: Shina Rambo, : Nigeria's Most Feared Armed Robber. In this episode of Principals and Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi tells the story of Olusegun Adeshina Adisa Kuye in Abeokuta, Ogun State, who became the most feared armed robber in modern Nigerian history — hijacking luxury cars in broad daylight, storming poli
Babatunde Folorunso: Baba Oni Lace | Principals & Principalities
He robbed banks in expensive lace. He escaped from Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison. And on the day the Lagos firing squad came for him, he still showed up dressed in his signature attire.In this episode of Principals and Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi tells the story of Babatunde Folorunso, aka Baba Oni Lace, the armed robber who became one of the most infamous criminals in Nigeri
Lawrence Anini: The Law | Principals & Principalities
In 1986, one man brought Nigeria's Bendel State to its knees. Lawrence Anini — known as "The Law" — robbed banks in broad daylight, killed eleven police officers, ambushed a Police Commissioner, and evaded an entire nation for four terrifying months. But how?In this episode of Principals & Principalities, host Ayomide Odubonojo-Kinoshi unpacks the true story of Nigeria's most
Ishola Oyenusi: The Doctor of Death | Principals & Principalities
In 1971, a 26-year-old armed robber named Ishola Oyenusi terrorised Lagos with a gang known as the Dangerous Seven — robbing banks, killing a police officer, and escaping prison so many times that Nigerians believed he walked through walls. But was "The Doctor" truly supernatural, or did he have powerful humans “Principals” inside Nigeria's police and military?In this premiere episode of Principal
Introducing...Principals and Principalities
What really hides in Nigeria’s shadows?From forgotten political assassinations and colonial-era injustices to ritual killings whispered about in hushed tones… from money rituals and spirit possession to ogbanje myths, occult societies, and accusations of witchcraft — this podcast dives into the stories that sit at the uneasy crossroads of crime, belief, and power.Told in a gripping narrative style
