NIGERIA: KLEPTOCRACY OR DEMOCRACY?

When most Nigerians heard about the sudden demise of the former military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha who died on the 9^th of June, 1998, they thought the end has come completely to their sufferings, pains, government infliction, bad governance and the likes and believed that soon, things will be on the right track because his death would give room for the long awaited democratically elected government, which is widely believed to be the best form of governance with numerous benefits. The whole saga brought about democracy in Nigeria and on May 29^th 1999, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as the first democratically elected president of

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Dear Mr. President,

Sir, it is with great sense of disappointment that I write you this letter. Like many others I hoped that your election would bring a salutary change of direction to the country and that you will deliver the true dividend of democracy to the people going by the gospel of transformation you preached during your campaign coupled with your innocent look. Everyone had thought that the messiah has come to Nigeria and majority could not just wait to give you their mandate which they all did. However I have keenly observed that you have in turned paid evil for good to Nigerians who gave you their

NIGERIA’S DEVELOPMENT: A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILTY

The world knows that our system is decaying at an alarming rate, everybody knows that what we practise in the country is less of democracy but more of kleptocracy - a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretence of honest service which is often achieved by the embezzlement of