Reporting Crime in Contemporary Lagos

Samson Folarin

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Pages:: 203–214

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004396289_010

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This chapter contains a graphical description of crime in Lagos and the challenges of reporting it. The content is enriched by the findings from the author’s face to face interviews with crime suspects and victims of crime, as a reporter with the Punch Newspaper in Nigeria. The chapter highlights the connection between the status of Lagos as the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria and the high level of crime in the metropolis; the huge investment in security infrastructure and the low level of human and capital development; and the danger the crime reporter is exposed to in the course of duty. While admonishing Lagosians to take necessary precaution to avoid becoming crime victims, the author stresses that every member of the society has a role to play in reducing crime to the barest minimum.

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Crime, Law and Society in Nigeria

Essays in Honour of Stephen Ellis

Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, Volume: 37

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004396289

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 30 Apr 2019

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