Self-Kidnapping for Profit: A Desperate Crime on the Rise In recent years, Nigeria has witnessed a disturbing rise in self-kidnapping, a crime where individuals deliberately fake their own abduction, often to extract ransom money from family members, employers, or associates. What began as rare, isolated incidents has grown into a troubling trend, fuelled by economic hardship, unemployment, and the increasing normalisation of ransom payments in genuine kidnapping cases. Criminal Method Typically, a person will go into hiding and use a third party, or even a second phone line, to contact their relatives...