Grave-Digger Held for Skull-Sale Sideline November 12, 2001 8:13 am EST LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian grave digger with a sideline in the sale of human skulls has been arrested while trying to deliver two fresh specimens to a customer, police said on Saturday. "We arrested a man yesterday in the Ikeja area of Lagos with two fresh human heads," Mike Okiro, Lagos state commissioner of police, told Reuters. In Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with more than 110 million people, many believe witchcraft involving the use of human genitals, eyes, tongues and skulls can make them instant millionaires. "The man said he has been in the business of supplying human heads to people for some time now. He was taking the two fresh heads to a new customer when our men arrested him," Okiro said. "The man said each head fetches him about 15,000 Nigerian naira ($131). We are investigating the case to establish how he came about the heads and who his customers are." Police were also on the trail of another man who allegedly chopped off the heads of three people he had kidnapped. "We have recovered the three headless bodies and are still looking for the man believed to have cut off their heads," Okiro said. Ritual killing to provide body parts for witchcraft is common in some parts of Nigeria. In August, three men hoping to be millionaires were arrested in the southwest for possessing a fresh human skull, which they said they bought for 500 naira and planned to use in money-making rituals. A 13-year-old girl confessed in July to taking part in the ritual killing of 48 people in the last seven years after being initiated into a secret cult. The girl told police in the northeastern city of Maiduguri that the body parts of victims, among them a two-year-old boy, were usually removed and sent to the cult headquarters in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos.