The Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), established in 1870 and officially registered as an NGO in 1999, serves as a civil defense organization collaborating...

(/vɪdʒɪˈlæntɪzəm/) is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. A vigilante is a person who practices...

are a group of Nigerian youth vigilantes in the south-eastern region of Nigeria. Activities of the vigilante group include targeting perpetrators of robberies...

"Armed group abducts 32 people from southern Nigeria train station". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 November 2023. "41 Dead After Bandits, Vigilantes Clash in...

This is a list of wars involving the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its predecessor states. Mbaise Rebellion Battles against the British 1902–1917 –...

weapons and has female members. The vigilante group numbers over 26,000 in the northeastern Borno and Yobe States, of which only 1,800 receive a salary...

portal Islam portal Religion in Nigeria Blasphemy law in Nigeria Polygamy in Nigeria ... in contrast to other vigilante groups like the Bakassi Boys in the...

The Nigerian police are notorious for vigilante justice. The Niger Delta saw intense attacks on oil infrastructure in 2016 by militant groups such as...

Niger Delta Vigilante (abbreviated NDV) is an armed militia group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The NDV is led by Ateke Tom. The group is composed...

rules of conventional physics and had the ability to teleport. According to the Nigerian media, it took the effort of the leader of the vigilante group named...

same day that the Nigerian army and vigilante groups had killed 35 Boko Haram militants, freed 97 women and children and claimed one of the women was a...

regionalist, and vigilante organization in Nigeria. It is also known as the Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM) or the Revolutionary Council of Nigeria. It is based...

والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also...

Issakaba is a 2001 Nigerian film directed by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen. Loosely based on real events, it depicts a group of vigilantes called the Bakassi...

was apprehended without resistance. The incident is one of the most well-known cases of vigilante justice in West German history. It sparked extensive media...

Peoples Congress (OPC), Agbekoya, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and vigilante group. The operatives of the security outfit will assist...

22 March – 14 people are rescued from kidnappers by the Nigerian Army and local vigilante groups in Katsina State. 24 March – Kuriga kidnapping: The pupils...

Confraternities in Nigeria are secretive student groups within Nigerian higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since...

Association of Nigeria (sometimes also called MACBAN) is a loose partisan advocacy group centered on promoting the welfare of Fulani pastoralists in Nigeria. The...

Turkey's 24). For Nigeria as a whole, this figure is 93, with 62% of these cases attributable to police violence (mainly vigilante justice). Boko Haram...

jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. The conflict is taking place within the context of long-standing...

produced in 2001 by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, and it depicted the origin of the vigilante group and their encounter with Nwamama. Akande, Segun (15 March 2018)...

forces vigilante group called the Yan Sakai who also murdered six of Turji's siblings. Turji also claims his father tried to sue the Emir of Zurmi (to...

2015. "Nigeria's religious police: Out on patrol". The Economist. 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2015. Olaniyi, Rasheed (2005). Community Vigilantes in Metropolitan...

The group has no known military presence in Nigeria since 2015, but several of its members appear to be still active. The SPLM-IO accused JEM of supporting...

an Islamic state in Nigeria. Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani...

Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group in Nigeria. They are primarily found in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo...

phones. A vigilante group from Aluu was alerted with the impression that the students were criminals disturbing the community. Before the vigilantes arrived...

inefficacy of the Nigerian government, armed vigilante groups have sprung up in many farmer communities. This situation would often lead to vicious cycles of bloody...

group in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The group's former leader John Togo claims that their main goal is to secede from, and gain independence from Nigeria...