Unruly behaviour

The criminogenic environment

By Lawi Auwal Yusuf

The nexus between our social environment and human behaviour is relevant in explaining Nigeria’s formidable crime rates. First, it is essential to understand the significance of socialisation in behaviour development.

Human interactions on both micro and macro levels provide a flawless context for learning behaviour from others. This learning occurs through these interactions that directly shape the socialisation process through observation of one’s environment, imitation, role modelling and expectation development.

So, human behaviour reflects what is learned in daily interactions with others. This socialisation process is influenced by individuals’ intimate groups and role models who similarly clout those close to them and serve as others’ source of learning.

Thus, deviation from society’s consensual values is not considered an innate human character predetermined by biological, psychological and or other natural factors, as argued by most social learning theories. Instead, it is a product of socialisation that determines the development of human behaviour through our perpetual interactions.

Given the foregoing, criminousness is like all other human behaviour spawned by social interaction. To wit, criminalness isn’t spontaneous. Untainted persons acquire their “knowledge” from external sources as they observe the tainted ones carrying out criminal behaviours. They learn and, subsequently, effectuate them.

Parents keep an eye on those your wards reach out to and teach them to avoid the toxic ones. Perhaps more importantly, don’t let those you are cynical of be their buddies. Be their pal yourself.

Lawi Auwal Yusuf wrote from Kano and is contactable via laymaikanawa@gmail.com.

Kogi Varsity fines more than 1000 students for unruly behaviour

By Ahmad Deedat Zakari

The management of Federal University Lokoja (FUL), has demanded that more than one thousand students of the institution pay the sum of one thousand naira for their unruly behaviour in the varsity’s campus.

FUL Registrar & Secretary To Council, Dr Rebecca Aimiohu Okojie disclosed this in a memoir she signed and dated Wednesday, December 14, 2022. She noted that the students destroyed a school property and were rude to the members of staff of the university

Consequent of the alleged bad behaviour, the school management requested that the students must do the following:

  1. Payment of one thousand naira ( N1000) at resumption in January 2023.
  2. Evidence of payment to be presented at Student Affairs Division in order to be cleared to write examination
  3. Presentation of Stamped Affidavit of good behaviour from High Court.

The management further condemned the act and urged the students be be of good character.

Part of the memoir reads:

“Management notes with discomfort the unruly and highly condemnable behaviour you displayed during the CBT examination that took place on 6th December, 2022 at the ICT centre Felele Campus. The said unruly behavior behavior led to the damage of university property, in addition to you being rude to Principal Officers at the venue

Federal University Lokoja as an institution of transformative learning, whose certificates and honours must be bagged by students found worthy in both character and learning, has neither place nor tolerance for the kind of reprehensible displayed during the examination under reference.”

However, The Daily Reality gathered that not all the students affected by the general punishment were present on that day for the examination.

An affected student who spoke to the Daily Reality on the ground of anonymity said it was the lack of coordination on the part of the institution that caused the chaos that led to a door being damaged.

“It was lack of coordination that led to chaos and a door being damaged as a result. Many exams were already taken that day and thousands of students couldn’t write the examination. Many suffocated and fainted as a result of their way the school handled the situation.”