Godwin Onyeacholem

Nigeria has a frightening history of precariously balancing herself on the cliff’s edge from time to time.

To say that Nigeria’s National Assembly has been living in infamy since the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999 is to understate the severity of the country’s democratic woes.

As some of the most disagreeable voices on and off the floor of the Senate had threatened when the National Assembly was on recess, the so-called red chamber, on resumption, made good the recurrent ominous assertions by these elements.

Time was when the Nigerian civil society flourished with inspiring agility and genuine enthusiasm for public good.

Indeed, for any keen observer of governance in post-colonial Africa, Nigeria must be a very depressing address.

With the heightened frequency of astonishing disclosures of official graft, and its accompanying high-profile arrests, interrogations, detentions, recovery of looted funds, confiscation of property allegedly acquired fraudulently and prosecutions, no one is left in doubt that President Muhammadu

Over the years, it has been identified in countless studies that one of the core reasons Nigeria has failed to develop to its full potential is pervasive corruption.

In the light of almost two decades of horrendous governance under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) administration, the call for change by a large section of Nigerians was expectedly overwhelmingly loud.

The coincidence cannot be more striking.

Even as one struggles to make room for optimism in the destiny of Nigeria in these unsettling times, without doubt in the hope that those who now hold the levers of power will somehow manage to begin to find solutions to some of our lingering pains, some odd incidents take place and feed one’s su