The three greatest problems that Nigeria as a nation has today is official corruption, resource mismanagement and lawlessness. As a Nigerian that has personally traveled and lived in a number of countries, both in the developed and in the developing world can publicly and boldly declare that the future of the Nigerian nation remains very bleak and uncertain as long as the reign of the official corruption, the mismanagement of her state funds and lawlessness or the rule of brutality continue daily and unabated.
The money that should be primary used to modernize her national infrastructures, to improve our health care services, to provide Nigerians with their basis social services, to pay truly living wages to hardworking Nigerians and to provide the Nigerian children and youths with the 21st century education go directly and corruptly into the hands of the handful of public elected and appointed officials. No country in all reality will succeed in meeting her own basic needs and that of its own citizens if the money that is officially budgeted for all these things listed above are stolen, wasted and mismanaged by its own public officials.
Finally, no country can stop the regime of the official corruption from its public service and the mismanagement of its own resources by its own state officials if these officials have constitutional immunity and are all above the rule of law or the supreme law of that country. These are the main reasons why Nigeria since her independence from Britain in 1960 has not witnessed any significant national development to date.
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