Genre: Nigerian Crime Thriller, University Drama, Mystery, Supernatural Thriller, Romance. THE CAMPUS OATH. They said Ibrahim was a cultist. Then a video of his execution went viral. He was on his knees. A police officer stood over him. And just before the gun was fired, Ibrahim looked directly into the camera. Zainab knew him. He was her coursemate, her friend - and only days earlier, he had warned her that something dangerous was happening on campus.
In Sokoto, Umar Farouk has spent months investigating students who disappeared without a trace. His own younger brother is one of them. Then an anonymous account sends him another video of Ibrahim's death. The message attached contains only seven words: 'This is only the first. Three states. One oath.' In Benin, Blessing Ekhator discovers that her boyfriend, Tunde, has been hiding something from her.
A photograph on his phone connects him to police officers, a respected university lecturer, and a strange symbol appearing on the wrists of dead students. Soon, the three strangers are following the same trail. Kaduna. Sokoto. Benin. Students are disappearing. Police records are being altered. Cult groups are being protected by people who are supposed to stop them. And behind everything stands a respected man named Dr. Adeyemi Ogunlade.
But the deeper they dig, the more they realize they are not investigating a normal criminal organization. There is an oath. There is a history. And something buried beneath Nigeria's university campuses may have been waiting for them long before they were born. Because some secrets don't die when the people who know them are killed. They wait for someone else to discover them.
