Nigeria will not become a great country until corruption is eradicated and the longer government tarries in actually fighting corruption, the greater the gap between the capability of the country to create jobs and actual job creation will be. Government officials like to say that “corruption is fighting back” leaving one to wonder why corruption is not fighting back and winning in any advanced country or the major emerging economies. The statement is clearly meant as a defense for an inability to tackle corruption effectively, a condition that should be unacceptable to all Nigerians. It will ensure that upcoming generation of leaders and workers place a premium on the making Nigeria great and will begin to erode the corruption culture. Nigeria saw the impact of low level corruption on job creation and development in the 1970s.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2018 03:00 UTC