Author : Christina Katsouris
Publisher : Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781862032958
Nigerian crude oil is being stolen on an industrial scale. Some proceeds are laundered through world financial centers, polluting markets and financial institutions overseas. This report explores what the international community could do about it.
Author : Igbinovia, Patrick Edobor
Publisher : Safari Books Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2014-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788431380
Oil Thefts and Pipeline Vandalization in Nigeria focuses on leakages in oil revenue through thefts and vandalisation which has now become a national shame and embarrassment. The book presents a scholarly evaluation of the evolution, etiology, causes, nature, extent, characteristics, legal aspects, trends rationale and modus operandi of the phenomena in the country. This study is a substantial academic contribution to our knowledge on the subject matter for further research by social scientists and scholars, legal practitioners, law enforcement professionals, criminal justicians, corporate officials and other interest groups and stakeholders.
Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 019049431X
Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.
Author : Victor Ukpong
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3668831645
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 4, University of Ibadan, language: English, abstract: This work articulates that Nigeria’s security is troubled by transnational crimes prevalent in West Africa by making an important argument that since West African states lack the capacity to uphold the basic demands of statehood within their territorial domains, they unavoidably serve as safe havens for trans-organized criminal networks, which has grave implications to Nigeria’s domestic concerns.
Author : Rufus Akinyele
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004396284
A volume in honour of Stephen Ellis as a follow-up to the public presentation of his book on the history of organised crime in Nigeria This Present Darkness at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 2016.
Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564322258
Attempts to Import Weapons
Author : Judith Burdin Asuni
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Conflict management
ISBN :
Introduction -- An enabling environment -- The blood oil business -- Nigerian attempts to tackle blood oil -- International attempts to tackle blood oil -- Recommendations for tackling blood oil.
Author : Professor Kato Gogo Kingston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :
In a report published by the famous United Kingdom's Chatham House in 2013, Nigeria's crude oil thieves are systematically upgrading their techniques and expanding their tentacles in one of the fastest growing global black-markets. Hence, the unlawful activities of the bandits are becoming a menace to the crude oil industrial sector of the country. In the same Chatham House report, it was the belief of the authors that, the illicit activities are backed by powerful private entities in Nigeria including “politicians, military officers, militants, oil industry personnel, oil traders, and organized criminal groups.” The report further indicated that: “Nigeria offers a strong enabling environment for the large-scale theft of crude oil. Corruption and fraud are rampant in the country's oil sector. A dynamic, overcrowded political economy drives [the] competition for looted resources. Poor governance has encouraged violent opportunism around crude oil and opened doors for organized crime[s].” It is against the backdrop of the Chatham House report that this paper seeks to explore the complex issue of crude oil racketeering in Nigeria. Also, the paper argues that, the illicit crude oil banditry is being tackled by the Nigerian government though inefficiently. In furtherance of the discourse, the paper attempted to engage, in legal analysis of the recent case of MT Anuket Emerald v. FRN pin-pointing the critical issues of prosecution evidence which drives the cases of illicit crude oil transactions in the country. Despite the widespread nature of the menace, conviction rates are very marginal compared to the magnitude of the problem. The paper thus, attempts to unravel the nature and consequences of the laxity in the handling of cases of crude oil racketeering with regards to the admissibility of evidence illicitly obtained by the prosecutors.
Author : Ifeanyi Ezeonu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134887973
Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of market rationality in variegated forms of capitalism. Ifeanyi Ezeonu explores the ascendance of the fundamentalist form of market economy in Nigeria; the complicity of the state political and security apparatuses in the corporate expropriation of the country's petroleum resource wealth; the deleterious effects of this neoliberal architecture on the local population, as well as community resistance strategies over the years. This book offers a major contribution to research on state-corporate crime and the crimes of the powerful. Key reading for scholars and students in the areas of criminology, international political economy and sociology, this book will also be rich resource for researchers and non-governmental agencies working in the areas of environmental protection, human rights and sustainable development in the Global South, especially the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Idowu Adegbite
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :
Nigeria is a country that is richly endowed with both human and natural resources. Chief among the natural resources is crude oil, which has been the mainstay of the country's economy for decades, yet an average Nigerian lives on less than the equivalent of one US Dollars a day. Clearly, there is a disconnect between the endowment and the standard of living of majority of the people. Considering the available resources, the country is not developing at the rate expected, so many things are responsible for this stunted growth, they include, but are not limited, to corruption, mismanagement, unbridled stealing of the country's crude oil and other criminal activities. The fulcrum of this paper is the negative effects of the stealing of Nigeria's crude oil on the climate and how it has clipped the growth of the economy. In recent times climate change has taken the front seat in global discourse, there has been a growing concern about changes in the climate and the quest that no stone must be left unturned in addressing the issue. Good climate is a sine qua non to sustainable development. The acts of human beings had been fingered as the causes of adverse changes in the environment, such deviant behaviours includes those acts associated with crude oil theft such as oil spillages; illegal oil pipeline breakages; illegal bunkering of crude oil; environmental degradation; deforestation; etc. This egregious state of things was possible because of lack of good governance flowing from lack of respect for the rule of law. The deleterious effects of such acts of man described above are manifest in a myriad of social and economic malaise such as scarcity of potable water translating into health hazards and thus lowering the standard of living of its masses. Further there has been huge and recurring loss of revenue that could be used to mitigate the effect of climate change and the setting up of processes to properly address adaptation to natural changes in the climate and also to delimit deforestation in Nigeria. Some other effects includes pollution of land for agriculture; accumulation of harmful substances in food webs; diminishing biodiversity and people resorting to less environmentally friendly means of generating electricity and power. These factors represent some of the challenges which have impeded the country's likelihood of achieving the much touted millennium development goals (MDGS) of the current government in Nigeria. This work posits that there is a strong bond between good governance, sustainable development and climate change. The paper analyses these concepts as they relate to crude oil theft in Nigeria and its impact on climate change in Nigeria. It observes that sustainable development will naturally thrive in an environment of good governance and proper equitable utilization of the country's crude oil resources. The paper concludes that with the enthronement of necessary enforcement machineries for good governance in Nigeria, the currently booming international crude oil theft syndicate and its attendant ills would be stemmed thus ensuring sustainable development in Nigeria.
