Spatio-temporal pattern of highway crime in Kogi state, Nigeria

Over the past two decades the principal highways of Nigeria have been progressively reconfigured into volatile corridors of predatory violence that now encompass armed robbery, abduction for ransom, carjacking, and human trafficking. Although highway insecurity is widely acknowledged as a national emergency, fine grained empirical documentation at strategic transit bottlenecks such as Kogi State remains conspicuously thin, and policy continues to rely on aggregate national narratives that obscur