Nigeria, March 1 -- As the ship of the Nigerian state seems rudderless, unsure of anchorage and lost at sea, its political leaders appear clueless, unconcerned, unperturbed, aloof and bereft of ideas and solutions to the myriad of problems currently confronting the so-called giant of Africa. The current socio-economic woes and heightened insecurity of lives and properties of the Nigerian people is a cumulative effect of many years of faulty and mostly neoliberal economic practices that are hinged on a most corrupt political structure of the Nigerian state. Consequently, twenty-four years of unbroken civil democratic rule have not yielded dividends in the form of improved welfare and security for the Nigerian state and its people.

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