Prof. Oludayo Tade is a distinguished academic in the department of Sociology, University of Ibadan where he teaches Criminology, Victimology, and Security Studies. His research spans protests, violence, financial fraud, farmer-herder conflicts, and cybercrime, rape, kidnapping, and migration and diaspora relations among others. As a public intellectual, he contributes to national issues in Nigeria through media writings. He has won Science Communication prize awarded by Conversation Africa. He is the pioneer President of the Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC) and Head of Communications at Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN). His research has been supported by prestigious institutions such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) and the African Studies Center, University of Michigan. He recently investigated the primacy of cash and uptake of digital currency in Nigeria funded by Maiden Labs. Professor Tade has trained more than 2,000 security personnel on interagency collaboration to neutralize national security threats.
As an IFG fellow at MIASA, Prof. Tade’s research will examine the disruptive capacity of Nigeria’s Naira redesign policy implemented in 2022 which limited access, availability and use of cash, causing cash scarcity or crisis in the cash dominated economy. He probes how the policy hampered access to and moderated the use of cash causing crisis and how the unintended consequences of the policy can shape evidence-based policy making on the primacy of cash in social and commercial transactions in Nigeria and beyond.
Selected publications
Tade, O. (2024). “Shoot Me and Let Me Die”: Cash Scarcity and the Performance of Deviant Nude Protest in Nigeria. Protest, 4(1), 30-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/2667372X-bja10058
Tade, O., & Adeniyi, O. (2023). ” I prefer to remain old school and be safe”: Fear of fraud and governance of risk in Nigeria’s cashless ecosystem. Salus Journal, 11(2), 120-132. https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.354592722260988
Tade, O., & Momodu, J. A. (2023). ‘Life is More Important Than money’: Ransom Mobilization and Delivery to Kidnappers in Northeast Nigeria. Deviant Behavior, 44(9), 1401-1415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2197548
Tade, O. (2022). Nature of frauds in Nigeria’s banking ecosystem, 2015-2019. Journal of Financial Crime, 29(4), 1241-1248. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-08-2021-0185
Tade, O., & Adeniyi, O. (2020). Dimensions of electronic fraud and governance of trust in Nigeria’s cashless ecosystem. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 64(16), 1717-1740. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X209280
Tade, O (2023). Cash capture and the ‘nudity’ of Nigerian depositors. Business Day, February 19, 2023 https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/cash-capture-and-the-nudity-of-nigerian-depositors/#google_vignette.
Tade, O., & Faisol Olaitan, M. (2024). ‘They Collected Money and Used Hammer to Remove My Front Teeth’: ‘One-Chance’Criminality and Victimisation Experiences in Lagos Transport Corridors. Deviant Behavior, 45(6), 787-802. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2266095
