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<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for 2016 was <strong>33.60</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for was <strong>0.00</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for was <strong>0.00</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.
In 2017, the largest number of crimes in Nigeria were recorded in Lagos State. In the said year, Lagos registered about ** thousand crimes, by far the highest figure in the country. Abia followed with ** thousand cases. In Lagos State, Nigeria's largest city is located, the homonym Lagos. The city is also the largest in whole Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License information was derived automatically
<ul style='margin-top:20px;'>
<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for 2016 was <strong>33.60</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for was <strong>0.00</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
<li>Nigeria crime rate per 100K population for was <strong>0.00</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.