Founder of African Forum for Restorative Justice (AFRJ)

He is an UNODC Expert on Restorative Justice;a British Chevening Scholar of Criminology; and was a Professor of Criminology and Head of Department at the Federal University Wukari Taraba State,Nigeria.He currently teaches Criminology at the School of Law and Criminology, University of Derby, UK.He holds BSc Psychology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), MSc Criminology (University of Leicester, UK) and PhD Criminology with specialism in Restorative Justice & Victimology at the Centre for Community and Criminal Justice, De-Montfort University Leicester, England, UK. He is an alumnus of the Rotary Foundation International “Group Study Exchange Programme” to California, District 5230 USA (2002).; an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Delegate to the Model United Nations Congress in New York, USA (2003) funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. He voluntarily disengaged from the Nigerian Prisons Service as Assistant Controller of Prisons (ACP), and has directed Research and Training at the Prisons Staff College Kaduna, and the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna respectively. He is internationally published, and has presented academic papers in Restorative Justice, Counter Violent Extremism and Victimology at international conferences in the UK, USA, Canada, The Hague; Bangkok, Valletta-Malta, South Africa, Mozambique, Addis Ababa, Morocco, Cairo, Egypt and Dakar, Senegal. He is an International Advisory Board member for the Restorative Justice International, USA, and Community of Restorative Peadagogy Researchers Network, UK respectively. He is also on the Editorial Boards of “International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice: Africa Volume” and the International Journal of Restorative Justice at the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. He is a member of the World Society of Victimology, member of the Nigeria Society of Criminology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK and Fellow of the Institute of Criminology and Penology, Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of a best seller book titled ‘Restorative Justice and Victimology: Euro-Africa Perspectives’ published in The Hague, Netherlands by Wolf Legal Publishers. His research and advocacy impacted on the mainstreaming of restorative justice in the Nigerian Criminal Justice System and the Correctional Service in 2019. His academic publications are available at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6787-0674