Organised crime in Nigeria
| Founding location | Nigeria |
|---|---|
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Territory | Nigeria, Africa, Europe, Canada, United States |
| Ethnicity | Nigerians |
| Membership | 30,000 full members 300,000 associates |
| Activities | scams, drug trafficking, drug production, money laundering, arms trafficking, human smuggling, trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation, prostitution exploitation, illegal waste smuggling, murder, kidnapping, corruption |
| Allies | Black Axe |
Organised crime in Nigeria includes activities by fraudsters, bandits (such as looting and kidnappings on major highways), drug traffickers and racketeers, which have spread across Western Africa. Nigerian criminal gangs rose to prominence in the 1980s, owing much to the globalisation of the world's economies and the high level of lawlessness and corruption in the country.