Non-governance and Nigeria’s disappearing civic space

Daily Trust· 2h ago· 1 min read

Maybe the greatest problem in Nigeria today is the way in which the nation has lost its moral campus, and with it, civic culture. When our youth look at our leaders, they see clearly that there is no good example to copy. Yes, they see what is today called success. The bad guys are very successful. Success is here reduced to its most crass elements; they have stolen massive amounts of money from the treasury and can drink the most expensive whiskies and champagnes, travel round the world and move in convoys of dozens of cars though sadly for that successful Nigerian, he or she can only travel in one car at a time. I read the society pages in the press and this week, there are stories of how a “big boy” has spent hundreds of millions of naira on a party for his latest girlfriend. And as my readers know, Nigeria is indeed the most “religious” country in the world in competition with no.…

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