Benin Nigeria as has been said earlier was formerly known as the ‘City of Blood’. It would have been apt for it to also be known as the ‘Land of Witches and Wizards’.

Idahosa grew up in the midst of witchcraft and idolatry. His late father was utterly disappointed that Benson could not become the deity priest that he had desired while his Grandmum remained a fervent idolater till death.

Some months after the dedication of The Faith Arena, then the largest Church Auditorium in the whole of Africa at Upper Adesuwa, GRA, Benin, by Archbishop, the news went round Nigeria, that witches from all over the globe had met in the State of Chicago in the USA and had decided to hold their first international conference.

The venue was fixed as Benin City. The Chief Host, an academician of Bini Origin held a press conference and informed the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Benin as well as newspapers such as The Tribune, Sketch and Punch with arrogance that this first world conference hosting witches and wizards would hold in Benin.

Soon enough Idahosa was informed and true to himself, in the next edition of ‘Idahosa and You’, a program of the Idahosa World Outreach, he said it could not be true as it was impossible.

The press met Idahosa and asked what exactly was not possible and what were the consequences if any? ‘Witches from the world could not come to Benin’ insisted Benson, as he would ‘kill them all’. The city became a buzz.

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