For most Nigerians, 1st October every year is a day to celebrate our independence from colonial rule. But fifty-nine years down the line, nothing has really changed. Some Nigerians say we are worse off now than we used to be under colonial rule. Where that is not true, they can not be blamed because the state and its polity have refused to improve. The white man may not be directly calling the shots, but we are surely still living under the heels of a privileged few.
Browsing: Democracy
Godfatherism has become a norm in Nigeria’s political environment, where an individual can hardly hold political office either by appointment or election without patronizing a godfather because of their power and influence. Although godfatherism is not new in Nigeria but it has assumed a ludricrous dimension in the current Nigeria’s political dispensation.
Talented Nigerian youths who made a lot of financial, mental, and time sacrifices to become graduates cannot get gainful jobs but a child of a politician who has never spent a semester in school throughout his academic years can easily get the most prestigious job which he knows nothing about.
It’s Democracy Day in Nigeria. June 12 from today becomes the day to commerate our democracy as well as remember…
