Good Governance
Here To Serve
Book Preview By Nkiru Balonwu* Here To Serve : Speeches, Op-eds, Essays and Advocacy for Good Governance Oseloka H. Obaze (ISBN-978-0-9893821-7-5; New Albany, Ohio, USA; Ben Bosah Books, 2016; pp. …
Regulatory Agencies Failing Nigerians
Nigeria’s much coveted political and governance change will be greatly enhanced; if the nation’s regulatory agencies can be pressed to carry out their mandates in unfettered ways. Carrying forward President …
Caging Nigeria’s Ghost Workers
High among the problems bedeviling Nigeria’s public service is the scourge of ghost workers. The problem is now a national crisis and a huge drain on the national economy. In a nation where personnel costs represent forty percent …
Tweaking the Buhari Presidency
It’s a tribute to democratic values and governance elsewhere, to think that elected leaders in Nigeria will govern well. Insentiently, Nigerians know that is not the case, since Nigerian politics …
Salvaging Nigeria’s Local Governments
Nigeria’s moment of reckoning has arrived and it should be a season for purposeful leadership rather than a season of silly politics. In a nation suffused with developmental and other …
A Nation Steeped In Schizophrenic Amnesia
Like many Nigerians, I loathe commenting publicly about the ethnic restiveness in Nigeria. That disposition is not born of ambivalence. And I’m not uncaring about such troubling developments in our …
Social Media Assisted Governance
Governance challenges in Nigeria are broad, diverse and at times sudden. When a list assigning portfolios to President Buhari’s ministers-designate was posted on the social media on 1 November, 2015, …
Nigeria – Governance in E Major
E is for Expectations. In Nigeria, E is huge and roiling. Nothing defines governance now, more than expectations and at all levels. The level of expectation is so high, it …
Rebooting Nigeria
Nigeria in its present state is analogous to a dysfunctional computer. In both instances, there is evident systemic failure arising from non-responsive applications and institutions not operating as intended. Such …
The ‘Change’ Cabinet: God, Give us Men!
Nigerians should demand that the “bow and go” gesture be dispensed with, when President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees appear before the Senate for confirmation. Once a courteous indulgence, the gesture …