Abba Kyari: From Hero To Villain
Abba Kyari was shot to fame in 2017 when the kidnap kingpin, Evans, was busted. He was that super cop who led the trailing of Evans to his affluent Magodo stowaway where he was finally arrested. Read more about Governance As the OC SARS in Lagos back then, he was reportedly dreaded in criminal […]
Anti- Corruption Laws And Policies In The Nigerian Legal System
Corruption is the abuse of public power for private benefit. The notion of corruption as the abuse of public power for private gain could be seen as a conflict between the obligation to exercise public power in the public’s interest, and the self-interest of an individual to use or exploit them for private gain. […]
Don’t Celebrate Criminals – Tuface
Internationally celebrated afro-pop singer, Innocent “Tuface” Idibia, has been very vocal lately on topics such as voters’ education, good governance and the herdsmen crisis. This time he has something to say to youths who celebrate criminal-minded politicians. Speaking Out The popular singer, who rose from the boy group “Plantashun Boys” to becoming one of Africa’s […]
10 Ways to Protect Your Phone from Being Stolen in Public
I know right? If we all had a nickel, for every time something was stolen from us in public. Public theft has increasingly become rampant. It’s starting to feel like a legit job people get trained for. People that perpetrate such heinous acts, ride on other people’s negligence and or ignorance to cart away with valuables like […]
Evans Disappears?
Waking up to the news of Evans’s Disappearance on Saturday, 8th July, 2017, had many spectators who had been observing his scripted activities in dismay. Chukwuduneme Onwuamadike, a suspected kidnapper kingpin, popularly referred to as Evans was reported by a popular newspaper to have “vanished”. One wonders what magic tricks he must have used to […]
Ibrahim Magu Replaces Ibrahim Lamorde as the Chairman of EFCC
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has been replaced by Ibrahim Magu, who is a top level official of the Economic and Governance Unit of the EFCC. Ibrahim Magu and Lamorde worked together in the operations department with Lagos as the base. Lamorde’s most recent assignment was as member of the […]
Quicksand: Which Way Nigeria?
It seemed so wrong what was just witnessed. It was a blatant mockery of the whole system, pure and simple. It seemed so wrong the way they carried on like they were debating over a football match in the confines of their homes or over a few green bottles. It seemed wrong to me […]
Be Careful! 5 Tips for Preventing Child Kidnap
Once it was internet fraud, then human trafficking took the centre stage of Nigeria’s multibillion Naira underworld industry. Today, kidnapping seems to be the new ‘big thing’ for criminals looking to make a quick buck. Inasmuch as we intend to equip rather than scare our readers, our attention was brought to this rising trend because […]
Community Service As A Form Of Punishment In Nigeria
Neither the criminal code act nor the penal code act of Nigeria makes provisions for community service as a form of punishment for minor offences and misdemeanor. You would think that an amendment to correct this gaping lacuna would be in effect or at least underway by now, but this is not the case. No […]