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30 Figure 1.5 Number of violent deaths in Nigeria caused by road accidents, by state (June 2006-May 2014) Data collected by Nigeria Watch show that Lagos has the highest number of fatalities on the national level with 1,579, followed by Edo with 1,129 deaths, and by FCT (Abuja) with 1,046 deaths. On the other hand, Ebonyi (51 deaths), Taraba (68 deaths), and Akwa Ibom (91 deaths) recorded far fewer fatal road accidents. Lagos State The number of Lagos residents is contested. According to the 2006 census, its population stands at 9,013,534, contrary to the state government’s parallel count of 17.5 million. 41 A recent World Bank demographic trend analysis reported that the Lagos State population growth rate of 8% has resulted in its capturing 36.8% of Nigeria’s urban population, which is estimated to reach 49.8 million people. 42 In this context, fatal car accidents are a challenge, with 212 deaths reported in six months in 2006; 260 in 2007; and 306 in 2008. However, there was a large reduction in road accident fatality rates, with 156 and 68 deaths in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The figure went up again in 2013, with 119 deaths, but was moderate in the first five months of 2014 (Table 1.3). 41 42 http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/pagelinks.php?p=6 http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/pagelinks.php?p=6
Table 1.3 Yearly breakdown of road accident deaths in Nigeria (June 2006-May 2014) State 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 TOTAL Abia 0 28 12 3 1 5 57 42 5 153 Adamawa 0 0 54 10 39 13 30 12 2 160 Akwa Ibom 3 17 0 3 5 8 26 22 7 91 Anambra 36 22 30 78 98 35 69 96 28 492 Bauchi 23 17 69 24 65 124 88 76 19 505 Bayelsa 1 30 19 4 0 3 3 34 10 104 Benue 19 51 12 66 18 68 40 48 4 326 Borno 0 21 13 45 17 12 18 18 11 155 Cross River 34 21 54 10 10 10 6 26 18 189 Delta 44 82 181 39 184 44 62 112 50 798 Ebonyi 2 3 5 4 5 1 3 21 7 51 Edo 47 88 164 196 11 208 85 210 120 1,129 Ekiti 0 20 11 4 8 8 24 21 11 107 Enugu 0 5 2 40 61 44 27 35 30 244 FCT 48 80 159 120 198 134 87 162 58 1,046 Gombe 20 15 19 24 40 27 5 23 0 173 Imo 26 21 71 33 17 14 20 30 7 239 Jigawa 1 24 23 14 6 10 13 32 37 160 Kaduna 43 186 24 32 28 17 48 50 18 446 Kano 36 16 31 102 49 48 13 50 28 373 Katsina 36 80 8 64 52 121 50 83 10 504 Kebbi 11 0 1 10 36 38 3 43 7 149 Kogi 33 70 58 208 172 89 86 64 56 836 Kwara 39 29 34 50 34 21 47 43 22 319 Lagos 212 260 306 148 236 156 68 119 74 1,579 Nasarawa 4 64 12 29 2 7 10 19 20 167 Niger 21 18 40 37 94 70 13 51 48 392 Ogun 82 95 87 105 92 86 227 182 28 984 Ondo 67 81 59 34 148 106 53 20 15 583 Osun 13 88 75 14 9 27 29 28 27 310 Oyo 177 23 41 77 59 114 67 107 53 718 Plateau 4 9 31 33 18 32 10 40 0 177 Rivers 43 97 51 11 55 15 174 30 0 476 Sokoto 8 44 38 12 46 8 28 19 32 235 Taraba 5 9 20 11 5 1 5 6 6 68 Yobe 6 36 38 13 62 88 40 50 78 411 Zamfara 17 52 25 22 24 27 18 37 18 240 Total 1,161 1,802 1,877 1,729 2,004 1,839 1,652 2,061 964 15,090 31 Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, recorded the highest number of deaths from car accidents. Most lives were lost in the Ikeja axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (Table 1.4). The strategic location of the area places it at the centre of fatal car accidents, with a record of 266 car accident deaths. Another route that has claimed many lives is the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa Expressway. Oshodi is one of the most populated areas of Lagos State, with major industries located in
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Page 7 and 8: Contents LIST OF FIGURES vii LIST O
Page 9 and 10: List of figures 1.1 FRSC and Nigeri
Page 11 and 12: List of tables 1.1 Severity index o
Page 13 and 14: NDV Niger Delta Vigilante NHRC Nati
Page 15 and 16: Foreword The challenge of managing
Page 17 and 18: Introduction: Arguments for a quali
Page 19 and 20: customed to poor numbers shaping ho
Page 21 and 22: arrested and disappeared. As for Bo
Page 23 and 24: ual killings. As for the link betwe
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Page 29 and 30: Trends and patterns of fatal road a
Page 31 and 32: all accidents on Nigerian roads inv
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Page 39 and 40: Map 1.1 Fatalities caused by road a
Page 41 and 42: Figure 1.3 Vehicle types and road a
Page 43 and 44: Monthly analysis of fatal road acci
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Page 49 and 50: However, the administration of Gove
Page 51 and 52: has been a large increase in the nu
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Page 55 and 56: 39 Conclusion This study has examin
Page 57 and 58: Patterns and trend analysis of viol
Page 59 and 60: of Nigeria on the country’s dilap
Page 61 and 62: a need to bring indigenous investor
Page 63 and 64: and the population (Oputa Panel Rep
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Page 71 and 72: Figure 2.5 Number of deaths resulti
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Page 75 and 76: Conclusion 59 It is important to st
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83 Figure 4.1 Number of violent dea
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Okechuku had told the Police that t
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The situation in these areas is act
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Conclusion 89 Although the media ha
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Muslims, Christians and religious V
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From this point, the third part of
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several incidences of violence inst
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violent deaths (Figure 5.2) with th
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against the security forces and civ
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Figure 5.3 Violent deaths involving
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which have a lethal connection betw
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nored. Based on the data, they repr
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Table 5.3 Violent deaths of Islamic
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ment’s JTF to engage members of t
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ping demonstrates that religious ca
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the intervention of the security fo
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Although some of the victims are cr
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‘Court Martial’, respectively,
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chosen because the database started
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an annual average of 59% between Ju
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123 Figure 6.2 Number of violent de
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than other of its relations, it wou
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tervene more in violent incidents i
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tion of the security forces, notabl
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Farah Dagogo, a factional leader of
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ty outfit in the state, the Special
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however, that both the attackers an
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to leverage their ethnic and religi
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CRIMINAL CODE ACT (1990), Laws of t
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Part II Fieldwork and surveys: A qu
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A survey of violence-related deaths
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Figure 7.1 Percentage of violent de
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one. The LGA is included in Enugu E
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Table 7.2 Violent events recorded i
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Table 7.3 Demographic characteristi
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Figure 7.4 Percentage of causes of
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A Survey of violence-related deaths
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Politically, the LGA is divided int
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This has been a source of problems
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eferred to as ‘gatekeeping’, an
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169 Data analysis and presentation
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Summary of findings As noted earlie
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Table 8.2 Violence types and fatali
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News judgment Reporters, who are th
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cated in Ido-Osun, which were still
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A study of violence-related deaths
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flicts. While most of these fatal i
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tion, as well as poultry farming, c
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Table 9.2 Violent deaths in Kurfi L
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Matazu LGA: Socio-economic, politic
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Table 9.5 Violent deaths in Ingawa
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Ineffective news media coverage as
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State. Until they founded their res
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A study of violence-related deaths
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Gudu, Gwadabawa, Illela and Sakaba:
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market their harvests outside Sakab
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Table 10.2 Violent incidents in Gud
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Table 10.2 Violent incidents in Gud
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Table 10.3 Violent incidents in Gwa
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Table 10.3 Violent incidents in Gwa
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Compared with Gudu, Gwadabawa LGA e
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Table 10.4 Violent incidents in Ill
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frequency of incidents, the princip
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er, certain parts of Sakaba are kno
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Postscript: The next challenge: Sta
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