Stories from UNODC Nigeria

UNODC holds a moot court simulation on serious crimes

Abuja, 11 August 2022 - From 14 to 15 July, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held its first state level moot court simulation on serious crimes for North East Nigeria. The moot court was framed under the " Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Nigeria to Collect Evidence and More Effectively prosecute Terrorism and Other Serious Crimes with Respect to the Rule of Law", funded by the United States Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). 

Moot court participants included judges from Borno State Judiciary, investigators from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), prosecutors from the Borno State Ministry of Justice, defense lawyers from the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON), and representatives of the National Judicial Institute (NJI).[Read More]

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Building youth resilience to violence and crime through social developmental approaches to crime prevention

Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, 2 to 4 August 2022:  Nigeria's youthful population , particularly in the Niger Delta region, are facing multiple challenges that include low level and quality of education and health care, poverty, and unemployment, which makes them more vulnerable to drug use, gang violence, cultism, piracy, riverine and other maritime crimes, all of which are prevalent in the Niger Delta region and are adversely affecting the life and safety of young people as well as the local communities and pose security risks.

It is against this backdrop that the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime, through its crime prevention project, titled  "Combating Piracy and other Maritime Insecurity using community-based strategies" in the Niger Delta  and working in close partnership with the Government of Bayelsa State has supported the development of the Crime Prevention strategy for Bayelsa State and is building local capacity to effectively address violence and crime at the community level, including through social developmental approaches that engage at-risk youth.[Read More]

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Awareness raising mission on GRIDS program and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in Cameroon during the Interpol workshop on drug control technics.

Yaoundé, 3 rd August 2022-The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recently participated in a workshop on drug control technics organized by the Interpol Regional Office of Cameroon in Yaoundé for the benefit of police, customs, gendarmerie officers and Cameroonian prosecutors. 

This initiative had two (2) approaches: Trainings and awareness-raising presentations. The trainings were focused on the activities of judicial police officers, which range from the detection of offences to the transmission of files to the judiciary and investigations. These themes have been taught by specialists from the judiciary, the police and customs of Cameroon. The Awareness-raising presentations targeted Interpol's knowledge, drug trends in Central Africa and, above all, new psychoactive substances and non-medical synthetic opioids.

In this regard, the Regional Technical Officer, RTO was able to present the GRIDS programme in that it is original and innovative in its approaches to tackle the new psychoactive substances and non-medical synthetic opioids trafficking. The presentation focused on the Mission of the SINCB, the GRIDS programme tools to combat NPS smuggling, the trainings provided to frontline officers and especially the importance of the IONICS platform.[Read More]

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