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

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 ...

Washington must look for steps that stop ongoing attacks, prevent future ones and demonstrate that Nigeria is committed to ...

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 ...

Across Nigeria’s highways and farm paths, in markets and dormitories, and even in churches and mosques, faith has become a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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