Security Mapping: Guide To Threats, Crime And Terrorism Hotbeds In Nigeria (Part 1) (Updated)

Aim: This project is designed to map or collate salient risks, threats, safety concerns, atrocious crimes, terrorism or violence extremism hotspots representative of Nigeria’s cities and 36 states of the country.  This research became exigent given the paucity of up-to-date official crime survey and statistics in Nigeria.

Extra-judicial Killings, Right To Life Of Gunshot Victims in Nigeria

Food For Thought:

‘’First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one to speak for me’’. – Martin Niemöller

Scores of Nigerians die untimely, yearly due to extra-judicial killings usually by overzealous Nigerian security operatives and through gunshot injuries. Aside from the ‘’collateral damages’’ and factual extra-judicial killing of Boko Haram suspects sequel to the ongoing counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in North-East Nigeria, Nigeria’s erstwhile Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, reportedly accused the Nigeria Police Force of being responsible for not less than 7, 108 deaths in the last four years as at December 2012.

Extrajudicial Killing: Police Gun Down 26 Suspected Cultists in Rivers State, Nigeria

PORT HARCOURT – At least twenty six suspected cultists have been reportedly killed by men of the Rivers state Anti Robbery Squad, SARS , in  a forest around Obesemini community in Egi part of Ogba Egbema Ndoni local government area.