Silent SOS
A student can raise an alert by voice or a discreet trigger. The alert is designed to pass between nearby phones once relay is validated.
SOS: working in the prototype. Phone-to-phone relay: in development, not yet validated.Research brief · Campus safety
Crime in Nigerian universities: what the data shows.
Students face theft, sexual violence, assault, cult attacks and kidnapping — often in off-campus hostels that campus security rarely patrols. Here is the latest published research, with every figure linked to its source.
Mysafehub enhances emergency response. It supplements, and does not replace, campus security and the emergency number 112.
37%
of higher-education students report experiencing sexual violence
BMC Public Health (2024)
28
students killed on campuses in 20 months (Jan 2023 – Aug 2024)
Daily Trust (Sept 2024)
78
students kidnapped from campuses in the same 20 months
Daily Trust (Sept 2024)
2,012
crime incidents logged at one campus (UNILAG) in four years
UNILAG records, 2012 to 2015
70%
of female and 30% of male students reported gender-based violence on campus
12-university survey, March 2026
How often, and what kind.
Crimes reported around student hostels
Share of reported cases across 180 hostels near the University of Jos.
Source: African Journal of Geographical Sciences (2025) — University of Jos student residences
Students killed on campus, by region
Media-reported cases within campuses, excluding highway abductions. 28 deaths, Jan 2023 – Aug 2024. Most southern deaths were cult-related clashes.
Source: Daily Trust (Sept 2024) — campus insecurity, Jan 2023–Aug 2024
One campus, four years of incidents
2,012 incidents at the University of Lagos (2012–2015). Larceny alone was over half.
Source: UNILAG records, 2012 to 2015
Sexual violence prevalence
Students reporting rape, attempted rape or sexual harassment: 37% of 21,937 students analysed (30,114 surveyed), past 12 months, public institutions, 2021 data. 43% of female and 30% of male students reported it.
37%
more than 1 in 3 students
Most common security threats
As ranked by university security staff.
- Cult-related activity
- Kidnapping
- Drug offences
- Illegal firearm possession
- Room break-ins
- Stealing and pilfering
- Sexual assault
Why response is slow
Barriers reported by the same security teams.
- Too few security personnel and patrol vehicles
- Poor lighting across campus
- Porous, unfenced campus boundaries
- No modern security tools or electronic devices
- Low security-awareness education
Off-campus studies near Akungba-Akoko and Jos found crime concentrated in hostel areas far from police posts, while one area close to a police station recorded far fewer cases. Surveys also show victims of sexual abuse often stay silent for fear of reprisal.
Faster alerts, clearer locations, safer routes.
The research points to the same gaps again and again: help arrives late, security doesn't know where to go, and victims are afraid to speak. Mysafehub is built for those gaps.
Security sees exactly where
Campus security and student watch teams get the alert on a responder radar with distance and direction — no guessing which lodge.
Live in the appDanger pins for everyone nearby
Students drop hazard pins — an attack on the back-gate path, a burglary on Ring Road — so others avoid the area in real time. Needs a connection. Pins will be moderated.
Live in the appSiren and screen beacon
A loud siren and flashing screen draw attention and help responders find you, including a hidden or trapped student.
Live in the appConfidential reporting
A reporting channel to a university-designated office, designed to protect the reporter's identity. Not yet available.
PlannedHotspot data for planners
Pinned incidents build a map of where crime clusters, helping universities place guards, lights and patrols where they matter.
In developmentMysafehub has not yet been measured in a campus deployment, so we don't claim a specific reduction in crime rates. A campus pilot would track response times and incident counts before and after rollout.
All sources
- BMC Public Health (2024) — national study of 30,114 students, 18 institutions
- African Journal of Geographical Sciences (2025) — University of Jos student residences
- UNILAG Journal of Humanities (2019) — University of Lagos crime records 2012–2015
- Daily Trust (Sept 2024) — campus insecurity, Jan 2023–Aug 2024
- Journal of Educational and Social Research (2020) — 325 university security personnel
- Middle States Geographer — off-campus crime hotspots, Akungba-Akoko
- Africa Polling Institute (2019) — rape and sexual abuse in tertiary institutions
- International Journal of Higher Education (2020) — 932 respondents, 9 institutions
- AllAfrica (March 2026) — 12-university survey on gender-based violence