Nigeria, July 27 -- Prof. Tunji Olaopa

Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission

Lately, and in keeping faith with my research commitments, I had posed for myself the research question: what is that one most significant threat to the government bureaucracy, whether you call it the civil service, public service or the public administration system; a threat to it as the veritable back-end engine room that governments rely on to deliver on their promises to the people and to fulfill development vision and programmes commitments in a democracy? That one threat that keeps recurring, based on my investigation, is significantly disinformation or misinformation a la fake news; the whole post-truth alacrity and the diminution of objective facts...