One could write volumes about the problems and failings that abound in the Nigerian State. From television interviews to roadside conversations, political roundtables to beer parlour discussions, there is no lack of commentary on the myriad of issues bedeviling the sleeping giant of Africa.

When the Chibok Girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, the then opposition All Progressive Congress condemned the Jonathan administration most stridently for not swinging to action immediately and for keeping the public uninformed about the saga.

We should be appreciative that, as it did recently by being the first country to appoint dead people to public office, ours has made history again as the country where the cash snake was first identified

For the past two and a half years, former President Goodluck Jonathan has maintained that his administration fought corruption like no other government before it, which is why in 2014, Nigeria made her best ever improvement on the annual Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, moving from 144 the previous year, to 136, an 8 point improvement.

A situation where local manufacturers are victimised or hounded by security agents at the behest of some vested interests will only result to capital flight