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This study investigated the operational dynamics of male violent offenders incarcerated in Abakaliki custodial center, Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey research design was adopted and purposive technique used to recruit 260 inmates charged with violent offenses. The data generated from structured questionnaire were analyzed using Predictive Analytic Software (PAS), with ordinary least regression, descriptive statistics and spearman rank order correlation techniques, employed in testing the variables explored. Findings revealed that this population use drugs to enhance criminal performance through being brutal; instilling fear in victims to secure their total compliance and submission; and suppressing regret for their criminal acts. Heroin, followed by, cocaine, cannabis, tramadol, and multiple drug use, were commonly used drugs in the population surveyed, with their offenses ranging from cultism, armed robbery, murder and burglary to kidnapping and assault and battery. Gaining insights into the changing operational knowledge, procedures and dynamics of violent offenders will (re)direct policy approach and action that are capable of increasing public and custodial safety. It will also orient and direct practical prison reforms for successful rehabilitation and reintegration of released inmates into the free world.

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Originally, the radical Islamic movement in the Northern Nigeria was thought to be as a result of their poor socioeconomic infrastructures, poor governance, and the hatred for Nigeria's interest in the Western lifestyles and education; their movement has interest in the Islamization of Nigeria as evidenced in the subtle and gradually submerged documents of the Islamic laws known as Sharia law in the 1999 Nigeria Constitution. This action is sensitively viewed as a'hidden coup de-tat agenda' in light of the rapid movement of the Sharia law in virtually all northern Muslim states in the nation. Why should the ideological Islamic legal principles of Sharia law (faith-based religion) occupy major sections of the Nigeria constitution? This is an indication of hidden agenda of the Muslim religion to turn the nation into an Islamic state.With great concern among Christians and the southern states, we surveyed259 Nigerians from various demographic backgrounds, to determine the degree of general perceptiveness of Islamization of Nigeria, the perceptiveness of Islamic legal ideological principle and its workability in Nigeria, the driving phenomena behind the imposition of Sharia law, the perceptiveness of Nigeria standing as one nation (in the midst of Islamic law), the perceptiveness of Nigeria as a nation at boiling-edge, political -economic instability as a result of Sharia law, and the perceptiveness of the Christian's opposition of the imposition of Sharia law.The implications of the general legal operations of Sharia law were examined.