A conceptual lens helps answer this. It is what can be called the politics of moral impunity, a national architecture of silence that cuts across identity lines and allows violence to flourish. Four ...

Vigilante violence is so prevalent in Nigeria that suspicion of petty theft can get one killed. Experts say Nigeria must ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A mob in southern Nigeria killed 16 people — at least some of them when tires were forced over their heads and shoulders and set on fire — because they were believed to be kidnappers, ...

A picture shows an unidentified man suffering mob justice in a town in Bayelsa state. Reports alleged that he murdered wife. A picture circulating online media showed the woman beater clogged in a ...

Sir: For far too long, the issue of mob justice has become a recurring decimal in our national life such that many have become inured to it and accepted it as the norm. Contrary to what many may think ...

Nigeria is on the verge of passing a law to criminalise rampant mob lynching. Other countries have tried to do this and failed. Vigilantism challenges the formal boundary between crime and punishment, ...

First, Nigeria must strengthen security and respond to early warnings. The government should immediately implement a ...

The Lagos State Police Command has launched an investigation into a viral video showing a uniformed officer being assaulted by a mob over an allegation of stealing.The video, which began circulating ...

Five people were arrested over the assault in Greater Noida in which the students were beaten with sticks and metal chairs. Police stepped up security Wednesday in a northern Indian city where a mob ...