Crimes in Nigeria
In-depth stories and reports on major crimes, notorious criminals, financial fraud, organized crime networks, and justice in Nigeria.
Usifo Ataga’s Death and the Ongoing Trial of Chidinma Ojukwu
In June 2021, the death of Michael Usifo Ataga, chief executive of Super TV, shook Lagos and drew nationwide attention. What began as a...
How Oil Wealth Fueled Conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Oil was first discovered in commercial quantity at Oloibiri, in present-day Bayelsa State, in 1956. By 1958, Nigeria began exporting crude petroleum, transforming the...
Nigeria’s Security Failures and the Growing Crisis of National Confidence
Nigeria’s security crisis has become one of the defining political realities of the country’s modern history. What began in different regions as separate forms...
The 1923 Tinubu Square Shooting, When a Lagos Courtroom Turned Into a Scene of Tragedy
In the history of colonial Lagos, few courtroom tragedies matched the shock caused by the killing of barrister Moronfolu Abayomi in August 1923. What...
Niger Delta Oil Theft Crackdown
Port Harcourt, The Niger Delta has long been the center of Nigeria’s oil wealth and its most persistent security challenge. While the violent militant...
Operation Wetie and the 1965 Western Region Election Crisis
In Nigeria’s First Republic, the Western Region stood at the centre of the country’s most intense political debates and rivalries. By the end of...
The Woro and Nuku Massacre, How a Night of Violence Shook Kwara State in 2026
In early February 2026, armed militants carried out one of the deadliest attacks in Nigeria in recent years when they stormed two villages in...
Nigeria’s 1966 Niger Delta Uprising, Isaac Adaka Boro and the Republic That Lasted Twelve Days
On 23 February 1966, Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, an Ijaw nationalist, proclaimed the Niger Delta Republic. He led an armed group known as the...
The Day a Yoruba King Went to the Gallows
In the history of colonial era justice in Western Nigeria, few cases left a deeper mark than the 1949 Efon Alaaye murder case. It...
Olu Onagoruwa at the Oputa Panel, Abacha’s condolence letter, The murder allegation that still echoes
Nigeria’s history is marked by moments when private grief collided with public power. Few of those moments remain as unresolved and unsettling as the...