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Nigeria Continuous Failing

Nigeria’s continuous failing, as a civilization, attests to the consequence of such a culture. Every time I watch CNN, Market place Middle East I see very articulate young people from the Gulf States unfold their dreams; yet few of them are as articulate as the many Nigerians in that hall at the University Collage that I addressed in London; I am reminded of why Nigeria lies prostrate in an age of progress. The moment also reminded me of Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi’s comments to me on return from the OPEC meeting as head of Nigeria’s delegation in 1998. While some delegations like Indonesia had smart looking youngmen with laptop computers feeding information to the leader of their ...

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they do and how it affects everybody around them. Yet another of the eight is visioning. Low citizenship in political actors, poor visioning and limited awe on the part of many who occupy leadership positions ensure that Nigeria continues to be talked about as a country of great potential with hardly any real progress. This is so evident in the cost of governance palaver and the reaction of the National Assembly to comments by the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. In trying to intimidate the Central Bank Chief they miss the point. It is not about the quantum of waste, five percent, 10% or 25% of the budget.

It is about the social justice of income distribution and about value added to the advance of the Common Good and the enhancement of the quality of life of most of society. It is evident that the Nigerian people are not getting value for the cost of its legislators. In serious democracies the benefit of the legislature is in the rigor which the “complex redundancy” it ...

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