The Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to intensify efforts aimed at securing the nation and safeguarding its citizens.
Speaking on Sunday, NSC President, Professor Oludayo Tade, stressed that addressing Nigeria’s security challenges is critical, noting that the problem has both national and transnational dimensions.
He emphasized that stronger, coordinated measures are required to tackle insecurity effectively and restore public confidence in the government’s ability to protect lives and property.
In a release issued at the end of the 2026 International Conference, the NSC President emphasized that government must improve the state of the economy to reduce the propensity to commit crime while sustaining attacks on bandits, kidnappers and terrorists.
The conference was themed, “Securing Nigeria and Protecting Nigerians”.
Professor Tade admonished President Tinubu to review upward the welfare packages for security personnel who became incapacitated or lost their lives in the counter-insurgency campaign, adding that heroes protecting Nigeria and Nigerians and their families deserve better welfare protection.
He said, “As the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, the president must protect the territorial integrity of Nigeria and then ensure that Nigerians are free from fear of travelling on the roads or being abducted from school and their communities.
“The first constitutional duty is to protect lives and properties, and not doing that efficiently indicates failure. Nigerians need to experience and feel secure, and Nigeria must be protected from terrorists entering the country.
“Their local collaborators in and outside government must be fished out and punished. The president must display political will to secure Nigeria and Nigerians.”
Speaking on the 4th International Conference of NSC which held at Cosmopolitan University, Abuja, Professor Tade stated that the keynote speaker, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja called on the federal government to perform its work of protecting Nigeria and Nigerians.
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“Nigeria is tearing at the seams because of a profound sense of insecurity amongst citizens who feel that the situation is so terrible that disintegration may not be that bad.
“Even that option is, however, just another pathway to chaos as the outcome might be worse. The only way forward is for the Nigerian State to do its work, secure the country, and protect citizens.
“Our first step should be to realise that in spite of everything going on, there is value in protecting Nigeria”
According to Professor Ibrahim, “The Nigerian State is undergoing a three-dimensional crisis. The first one affects the political economy and is generated mainly by public corruption over the past four decades that has created a run on the treasury at the national and state levels threatening to consume the goose that lays the golden egg.
“The second one is the crisis of citizenship symbolised by ethno-regionalism, the Boko Haram insurgency, farmer-herder killings, agitations for Biafra, militancy in the Niger Delta and indigene/settler conflicts.
“The third element relates to the frustration of the country’s democratic aspirations in a context in which the citizenry believes in “true democracy” confronted with a reckless political class that is corrupt, self-serving and manipulative. These issues have largely broken the social pact between citizens and the State”.
At the conference, Professor Tade and his executive team were returned for a second term in office following what was described as exemplary leadership of the society.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees, NSC, Professor Etannibi Alemika praised the executive and called for greater research evidence on the social problems confronting Nigeria to help policy actors make informed decisions.
The International conference had in attendance scholars and practitioners from within Nigeria and the international community and had the President, Canadian Sociological Association, renowned expert in the field of criminology and terrorism, Professor Temitope Oriola in attendance.
