Lagos or Eko, apart from being cosmopolitan, is the largest city in Sub-Saharan Africa, whose population is as large as that of Ghana. Apart from being the business hub of Nigeria, it is the Second fastest growing city in Africa and the Seventh in the World.

WITH a few days to May 29, the handover date, two major talking points have gained prominence and remained in the front burner of public discourse as Nigeria marches to a new start at the presidency. Surreptitiously though, there is a third.

The global recess that led to a number of corporate failures across the globe in 2008, redefined the need to enhance financial reporting and regulatory frameworks across the world. For instance, in Nigeria alone over the last few years, there have been two waves of collapse in the banking sector following reforms made by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

A ONE time American president, Richard Nixon, once wrote that: power is not for everyone because it takes a unique kind of man to win the struggle for power. It takes qualities like courage, perseverance, self-confidence, and especially, the belief in one’s ability to change the course of history to win the struggle for power. Interestingly, these traits are very similar to those required for good leadership.

Have we brought this upon ourselves? As a Nigerian priest resident in Rome, it is always a nightmare confronting the barrage of existential questions concerning my beloved fatherland. Ever since I left the shores of Nigeria and boarded that first flight that brought me over to Europe, I am always bombarded with one question that has today become a millstone— ma padre perche sempre Nigeria? (But Father, why always Nigeria?) The deluge of this question has been such that I have decided to publicly monologize my agony.