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By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat Nigeria is one of the greatest countries in the world, whose greatness is being held back by numerous self inflicted vices. While the country is blessed abundantly in all fronts, its greatest undoing is the lack of visionary leadership, which some analysts have described as Nigeria’s natural disaster. Successive governments in Nigeria have blamed the complexity of the country for their failure in office and some even argued that Nigeria is a difficult country to govern. However, this piece is not to debate whether or not, Nigeria is a difficult country to govern since every country has their own peculiar difficulties, the focus is to proffer workable solutions that if implemented can set the nation on the path of progress. To my understanding, any visionary leadership can fix Nigeria in just 72 hours and position the country for greatness. By fixing Nigeria, I do not mean a sudden transformation from third world to first world. What i meant is simply to c

Kwara Must Change has uncovered another heart breaking and endemic rot in Kwara State education sector, particularly in Kwara North and Kwara South Senatorial District in which a whole school only has one staff, who functions as teacher, cleaner and head master/mistress. Our latest discovery signifies how unimportant the state government considers education in this part of the country. In the course of Kwara Must Change’s engagement with the people across the state, we discovered that several primary schools have only one staff, that manages the administrative affairs of their schools as head master/mistress, as well as serves as teacher and cleaner all at the same time. The super staff, in addition to administrative duties, also teaches all students in all classes, from primary 1 to primary 6. Furthermore, the extra ordinary staff also teaches all subjects including Mathematics, English, Social Studies, Science, Home Economics, Art etc. At first glance, Kwara Must Change thoug

I do not know what Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set out to achieve with her book,‘Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines’ but if it is to help repair the damage done to her image on account of her last stint in public service, I doubt that some of the excerpts from the book in the public domain will help in that regard. Her own account: "I was privileged that part of my daily routine was to join the President and his family and his few close friends in Christian fellowship and morning prayers in the Residential Complex of the Villa. It was a way to gain strength for each difficult day. The prayer normally began at 6am so by 5:45am every day..." Prayer is the master-key, someone sings. But the Minister of Finance having to be a part of daily routine of prayers with the President at 6 a.m? Was that really about the prayer or a yearning to be a part of a kitchen cabinet, masquerading as prayer warriors? Madam had to be in a prayer session with the