The virulence and magnitude with which Nigerians engage in crime has been explained in many ways. Some writers trace the root to 3 (three) main events: the incursion of the military into politics in January 15, 1966, the 1967 – ...
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THE CRIMINAL IN ALL OF US: The Nigerian Perspective (1)
The paper posits that the Nigerian society derives benefit from the existence of crime because the Nigerian clime works to maintain rather than to eliminate crime. Because in Nigeria crime seems to pay, because the benefits far outweigh the costs, ...
Read More »POLITICS OF CONSPIRACY: BOKO HARAM PERSPECTIVE
The conspiracy theories attempting to explain the Boko Haram crisis can be marked into two broad categories: one focusing on machinations of internal actors, the other on external actors. Internal actors may include the disgruntled northern power elite who, having ...
Read More »PROPOSED AMNESTY FOR BOKO HARAM: A PRACTICAL APPROAH
There have been mixed feelings surrounding the proposed amnesty for faceless members of the Islamic militant sect (a.k.a Boko Haram), leading some people to opine that Federal Government’s attempt is a waste of time and resources. This is coming on ...
Read More »BLOOD DIAMOND GAME A CABAL IDEOLOGY
Nigeria whose name was embraced following the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorate in 1914 by empire builder Sir Frederick Lord Lugard became an independent state in 1960 and a republic in 1963, Nigeria is currently divided into 36 ...
Read More »IMBIBING THE CULTURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
The way things currently stand in the country has clearly shown that there is an urgent need for Nigerians to become more security-conscious in their day-to –day life. Since the global emergence of the new understanding of the concept of ...
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