Documented criminal cases from Nigeria are added only when reliable sources support a substantive account, with court outcomes distinguished from allegation and unresolved questions.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when the available record supports a sufficiently definitive legal or investigative outcome. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially contested outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Eight-year-old Victory Chikamso Nmezuwuba was murdered in Port Harcourt in 2017. Ifeanyi Maxwell Dike and Ugochukwu Nwamiro were convicted by a Rivers State High Court in 2020.
Open case file →Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, widely known as Evans, received life imprisonment in one 2022 Lagos kidnapping case and a separate 21-year sentence in another. Later murder allegations remained separate proceedings and are not presented as convictions here.
Open case file →Kolade Johnson was fatally shot during a police anti-cultism operation in Lagos in 2019. Former inspector Olalekan Ogunyemi was dismissed and later convicted of manslaughter, receiving life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 25 years.
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Oluwabamise Ayanwola disappeared after boarding a Lagos BRT bus in 2022. Driver Andrew Ominikoron was convicted of her murder by the Lagos State High Court in May 2025; his lawyer announced an appeal.
Open case file →A violent armed-robbery campaign in Bendel State became a national crisis in 1986 and exposed police corruption. Lawrence Anini was captured, convicted and executed in 1987.
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The postgraduate student was killed after checking into an Ile-Ife hotel in 2021. Three defendants received death sentences; the hotel owner's conviction was upheld on appeal in 2025.
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Nigeria's Head of State was assassinated during the failed February 1976 coup. Lt.-Col. Buka Suka Dimka was captured, tried by a military tribunal and executed with other convicted plotters.
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Maryam Sanda was convicted in 2020 for Bello's 2017 killing in Abuja. Nigeria's Supreme Court dismissed her final appeal in December 2025.
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Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo, 11, was murdered in 1996. The case produced multiple convictions and acquittals on appeal; Vincent Duru's murder conviction survived Supreme Court review.
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Five-year-old Hanifa was kidnapped and murdered in Kano. Abdulmalik Tanko and Hashimu Isyaku were convicted, and Tanko's sentence was upheld on appeal in December 2025.
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The 26-year-old graduate disappeared after responding to a fake job opportunity. Uduak Akpan was convicted of murder and rape in August 2022; two co-defendants were acquitted.
Open case file →Cases in which responsibility remains unresolved, materially incomplete or legally contested.
A rush-hour bomb attack at Nyanya Motor Park near Abuja killed more than 70 people in April 2014. Boko Haram claimed responsibility, and in 2026 Zakaria Garba pleaded guilty and was convicted for planning and participating in the attack while other alleged accomplices remained at large.
Open case file →Lagos politician Funsho Williams was murdered at his Ikoyi home in 2006. Six accused men were acquitted in 2014, and reliable Nigerian reporting still described the assailants as unidentified in 2026.
Open case file →Lagos lawyer Bolanle Raheem was killed at a police checkpoint on Christmas Day 2022. Police officer Drambi Vandi was convicted of murder in 2023; no later appellate judgment was located in the current review.
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Four defendants were convicted in June 2026 and a fifth was acquitted. A later final appellate disposition was not located in the most recent review.
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Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls in April 2014. Many escaped or returned later, but dozens remained missing in 2026.
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The Newswatch founding editor was killed by a parcel bomb at his Ikeja home in 1986. No perpetrator has been convicted.
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Two trial convictions were overturned in 2013, and the Supreme Court dismissed Lagos State's abandoned appeal in January 2026.
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Two former police officers were convicted in 2017 for two of the six deaths, while accountability for the other killings remained incomplete.
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Four University of Port Harcourt students were killed by a mob in 2012. Three men were convicted of murder; several others were acquitted or discharged.
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Two men were convicted in 2017 and two co-defendants were acquitted; no later appellate disposition was located in the latest review.
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Deborah was killed by a mob at a college in Sokoto in 2022. No principal perpetrator has been convicted.
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Nigeria's serving Attorney-General was murdered at home in 2001. Suspects were prosecuted and acquitted; no one has been convicted for the assassination.
Open case file →Names, outcomes and status labels are tied to available records. Allegation is not rewritten as conviction, and unresolved cases stay unresolved.
Crime by Region avoids graphic spectacle and does not glorify offenders. The archive is designed for factual research and careful reading.