Nigeria: Before the APRM Verdict

Do Nigerians need the Country Review Team of highly eminent Africans currently criss-crossing the country's territorial landscape to tell her how bad things are or the need to remedy her deficit areas and provide the enabling environment for the propagation of the ideals of development and consolidation of liberties and best practices? Here are highlights of her (Nigeria) own assessment of her foibles and frailties as documented by a team of her own assessors made up of citizens of Nigeria. Kunle Somorin reports on the 30 pitfalls that could make Nigeria fail APRM.

The frenzied publicity and reception accorded the Country Review Team of the African Peer Review Team by the political apparatchiks underscores the significance attached to the continental initiative that midwife the process of peer review of the leadership at all levels of governance in Africa.


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