Rise and reclaim your country, Achebe challenges Nigerian youth

ChinuaAchebe, the author "Things Fall Apart," one of the world’s most popular novels, says the time has come for Nigerians to challenge their bad leadership, or be doomed.
The famous teacher and writer was speaking last Thursday at a meeting with the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu in his quiet home Bard College at Redhook/Annadale-on-Hudson, a two-hour drive from New York. As what was originally planned as an informal meeting blossomed into a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the Nigerian nation, Professor Achebe said those looting Nigeria needed to be stopped, and urged Ribadu to reach out to young Nigerians to rise up to the challenge of halting the corruption and ineptitude of the nation's rulers.“We should feel we have come around and that we missed the bus the first time and that the correction of the situation in our country is in our hands. We can’t call the British back even though some people have suggested that. But we can’t allow this to go on any longer. Already our people are getting used to living in that ugly style,” the professor of literature said.He declared: “This is the time to bring an end to it. If we do nothing, we are doomed.” The meeting with Ribadu, at the exclusive liberal arts college founded in Annandale–on-Hudson, started at about 2 p.m. and lasted for several hours. After 15 years as the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Achebe will be leaving the school at the end of the year to join the faculty of the Brown University as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of Africana Studies.

Nigeria’s Internet Anti-Corruption Fighters

Successive Nigerian governments have developed such thick skin that neither public opposition nor public demonstration inspires a change of heart if it is not accompanied by extreme violence
Nigeria’s Internet Anti-Corruption Fighters Our project explores the effectiveness of naming and shaming as an anti-corruption strategy. It is clear that the federal Government of Nigeria and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, shies away from prosecuting corrupt politically exposed persons.
Purported Corruption prosecution merely remains a potent strategy to destroy political opposition. Despite that, Nigerians have decided to take their destiny in their hands by exposing every witnessed acts of corruption. Yes, you may escape prosecution today, but how would you tell what an incoming administration would do?
Post-Ribadu, there appears to be a consciousness or what I call, FEAR, that the day of reckoning might come one day. Experience has shown that the political class has grown sensitive to being popularly perceived as being corrupt. This is demonstrated by the extent they go to counter public perception that they are corrupt.
Many politicians hire internet rats that crawl the internet sites and online forums to defend their name when their rapacious exploits are exposed; Tony Eluemunor is a veritable example. The extent he will goes to defend his master, James Ibori; the corrupt former governor of Delta State against known allegations of corruption is admirable. Had he devoted that amount of effort thinking up strategies to develop the country, Nigeria would beat Japan!