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Drug trafficking and penal policy in Nigeria

For the past one decade the Nigerian government has been engaged in what might be described as a multi‐pronged attack on drug trafficking, a phenomenon which ranks second only to political crisis as the major social problems in the country. The government has employed many legal, social and economic strategies, none of which seems to have effectively attacked the roots of the problem. It is to be noted that drug trafficking was not regarded as a major problem in Nigeria until fairly recently. For example, in the 1950's drug peddling was restricted to a few Nigerians who had traveled abroad and…