The President, Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC), and Professor Oludayo Tade on Sunday tasked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intensify effort towards securing Nigeria and Protecting Nigerians.

The NSC president stated that this is important because the insecurity problem facing Nigeria has both national and transnational dimensions.

“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.”

In a release signed by the NSC President and made available to journalists in Ibadan, Professor Tade stated that the just concluded 2026 International Conference of NSC was themed “securing Nigeria and Protecting Nigerians” emphasizing that government must improve the state of the economy to reduce to propensity to commit crime while sustaining attacks on bandits, kidnappers and terrorists.

Professor Tade admonished President Tinubu to review upward 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.

Speaking on the 4th International Conference of NSC which held at Cosmopolitan University 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.

“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 Oludayo 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.