Most jungle justice victims in Nigeria are later discovered to be innocent of the crimes they were accused of. According to Change in Africa (2021), at least one person is tortured or killed every day ...

The Lagos State police says it has recovered the charred body of a jungle justice victim, effectively closing the case. A statement from the Command said the charred remains of the robbery suspect who ...

The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Sunday, October 20, condemned what it described as dangerous and abhorrent trend of jungle justice. The police cautioned the general public on the consequences of ...

A video circulating online from Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, depicts the lynching of two gay men who were allegedly caught engaging in sexual intercourse. The men were stripped down to their underwear and ...

Famous afrobeats singer Skales has linked Nigeria’s lower crime rate to the widespread practice of extrajudicial punishments. In an interview on Just Vibes shared on X on Wednesday, Skales argued that ...

SIR: On March 25, about 16 hunters travelling from Port Harcourt to Kano for the Eid celebrations were fed to the flames in Uromi, Edo State on flimsy but fatal accusations of being kidnappers. It was ...

Residents of Calabar, Cross River State, woke up on Wednesday morning to the shocking discovery of a young man’s corpse along the Mbukpa-Eyo Ita axis of the metropolis. According to Daily Post, this ...

IT is troubling that mob action continues to assume frightening dimensions in Nigeria despite its illegality and the innocence of some of the victims after the fact. The latest incidents occurred in a ...

According to Change in Africa (2021), at least one person is tortured or killed every day by enraged mobs who take the law into their own hands. The report highlights that Cameroon and Nigeria record ...