Destiny E. Agwanwo (Ph.D), Rowland Olumati (Ph.D), "Spiritual Intelligence as An Aspect of Crime Control Strategy: Evidence From Some Selected Law Enforcement Agents," The Global Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences, Vol 16 (2019). Available at:
Abstract
The focus of this paper was on spiritual intelligence as an aspect of crime control: evidence from some selected law enforcement agents. The researchers adopted the socio-metry method of qualitative research. The study utilized both the primary and secondary method of data collection. Key informants interviews (KII) were conducted with some of the law enforcement agents identified to be spiritually intelligent so as to get the much needed information from them on spiritual intelligence and how it has helped them in carrying out their crime control responsibility. The findings of the paper showed that crime rate has become a huge social problem and government efforts to avert the problems have proven abortive as some of the criminals adopt spiritual means in perpetrating some of these crimes. Hence, the recourse to spiritual intelligence as a policing strategy to curb or control some of these crimes by some law enforcement agents. The findings also revealed that spiritual intelligence is helpful in the control of crime. The paper recommends a mix of physical and spiritual intelligence as panacea to crime problems in Nigeria (my emphasis).
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The Global Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences (GOJAMSS) is domiciled in Madonna University, Okija in Anambra State of Nigeria.
The journal is particularly domiciled in the Sociology/Anthropology Department of the institution.

Contrary to the vexatious attempts by Prof. Falola to befuddle the issues in this debate by raising hallucinations and babalawo's claims to the level of "fact", these superstitious, pseudo-scientific beliefs and claims and their policy implications can--and must--be studied (with the requisite scientific distance) by anyone who is serious about public policy in Nigeria. I've copied and pasted below the citation and abstract of one such study that I came upon recently. Of course, there are many others by social anthropologists and other social scientists, many of whom Prof. Falola knows or has mentored.
Oludayo Tade, "A Spiritual Dimension to Cybercrime in Nigeria: The 'Yahoo Plus' Phenomenon," Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences, vol. 23, no. 2013.
Abstract
Cybercrime in Nigeria is largely perpetrated by young people and students in tertiary institutions, and are socially tagged yahoo yahoo or yahoo boys. Yahoo boys rely on their computer dexterity to victimise unsuspecting persons in cyberspace. A new phenomenon in cybercrime is mixing spiritual elements with internet surfing to boost cybercrime success rates. This paper examines the factors underlying this spiritual dimension (cyber spiritualism) to cybercrime, and discusses some of the strategies employed in perpetuating cyber crime. Using Space Transition Theory of cybercrime, data were generated on yahoo boys and those involved in yahoo plus. The clampdown on Internet fraudsters by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in-group conflict among yahoo boys over social recognition, reduced victimisation and delayed success, and mass media enlightenment were reported factors influencing the fusion of spiritual elements in cyber crime. The methods used include ase or mayehun (incontrovertible order), charmed or magical rings (oruka-ere) and incisions made around the wrist, which are used to surf the net, while ijapa (tortoise) is used to navigate profitable sites. Unsuspecting victims fall under the spell of the ase via phone conversation where spiritual orders are made to the victims without their objecting.
--I hope that many of you have also heard, in some Christian circles, that Obama practiced occultism in the White House!
The occult is a reality in many societies, most especially in Africa.
As Toyin Adepoju does, there is the academic side, but there is also the practical side.
The Marabout, the Pastor and the Babalawo are using different media.
TF
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You are just as bad as the professor. He cannot stand back and engage in a cool headed analysis- but neither can you, apparently.. How about engaging in some serious research into the U.S Stargate project and letting us know the outcome of such an investigation? Are scholars not supposed to
have an open investigative mind in their research?
The issue here is this:
Have the US FBI and CIA etc ever used psychics? Yes or no?
Whether the outcomes were successful or not is not the issue.
I have no vested interest in this discussion but I remember shaking my head years ago
when the Chanda Levy case surfaced. The issue about the FBI use of psychics was
openly discussed then.
Now as for your man at the NDA, well that is another story for another day.
He does not have much credibility, given the way he approached the subject.
I never said that he did - so don't put words in my mouth, so to speak.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>
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Gloria,
The CIA investigated ESP and other mind control technics and claims and even experimented with using psychedelic drugs to induce that effect. They were acting on claims that those techniques work to extract information from prisoners of war, make people do things they would not normally do, and that the Soviets were using them. The CIA poured millions of dollars into the investigation over several years, found the claims to be bogus, and abandoned the entire research/investigation. They never actually used it since they couldn't prove its veracity. ESP and claims about mind control and mind altering with or without drugs are not the same as using "ghosts and spirits" but even if they were, why are we dignifying something that was investigated with millions of dollars and found to be useless and bogus? Why is the Nigerian military inviting someone who peddles that kind of discredited crap to lecture our generals, to urge them to use the discredited nonsense of using ghosts and spirits for military intelligence gathering?
As I stated, I know of no police case in the US that has ever been solved with psychic consultation. Your own story that you posted says as much.
Let's not dignify tragic academic nonsense. I see a case of pandering here. I abhor pandering. I don't even want people to pander to me. If you catch me peddling BS, call me out directly on it. Especially if the BS is a dangerous one that may harm the vital work of the military in a country beset by several threats to her sovereignty.
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:13 PM Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
I have heard of the FBI using psychics but not the military.
The first time I heard of psychics and the FBI was in terms of the death of a Washington
intern named Chandra Levy. CNN alluded to this matter in a Dec. 2007 article
entitled "Visions of death. Can psychics see what detectives cannot."
In that article they point to Kathlyn Rhea a psychic investigator in California
with some successes. One critic points to numerous dead end cases.
But this is not to endorse the professor. He can't even spell.
What about the CIA and psychics? I did a quick check and found out about the Stargate project that built on a secret US army unit established a 20 million dollar project in the 1970s to investigate potential psychic phenomena including extrasensory perception.
GE
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