NO election is complete in the United States without a comprehensive background check on the candidates.

THE emerging global political thought is that most government leaders in developing economies solve personal and parochial problems with public funds while ignoring the common-health of their people. In such economies, the line between national wealth and the leader’s wealth is so thin that many of the leaders are seen as the state.

THE emerging global political thought is that most government leaders in developing economies solve personal and parochial problems with public funds while ignoring the common-health of their people.

There are several categories of leaders we can talk about in oil producing communities in Nigeria. There are youth leaders, who usually provide leadership for the militant wing of the community; there are appointed or elected elders, most of whom are elders that are often a blend of illiterates, semi-literates and literates; and there are activists and agitators, some of whom are appointed by the respective communities, and some others gradually become leaders because of the prominence and visibility secured from their robust activism.

NIGERIA as we know it, was a contrivance of imperial Britain . Prior to the partition of Africa and the claim of Britain on Nigeria, various nationalities with centuries of historical existence and flourishing civilizations occupied the territory which was to later become Nigeria.