The persistent increase and alarming rate of criminal activities experience recently in Nigeria is a cause for concern to all and sundry. This is a sharp contrast to the olden days when traditional methods and measures were used in controlling crime as against today’s modern methods. Arguably the sophistication of weapon used by the security agents recently has not significantly reduced crime–this is because of the manifestation of the social disorganization in the normative system. Consequently, this presentation retrospectively x-rayed the traditional methods of crime control in Efik kingdom in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The work examined how crime and criminal related activities were addressed in the past with a view that if these methods can be applied contemporarily to arrest the meteoric rise in crime, its occurrence can be reduced in the present Nigeria since the modern or Western methods have not dealt with crime significantly. To explain the phenomenon of crime, anomic theory was considered and base on the findings the study recommends as follows: traditional methods should be encouraged to compliment the efforts of the government security agencies and the rituals aspect in the traditional methods that are repugnant to natural justice and offends morality should be jettisoned for collaboration to effectively check crime.