The challenges of leadership and good governance in Nigeria

Abstract

Since time immemorial, one of the greatest challenges for leaders across the globe has been to the ability to predict the unpredictable successfully. The ones who could do so thrived, while the ones who missed the boat perished. These few years has brought to Nigeria something that, perhaps no one could have predicted. The banditry, corruptions and herds men activities in Nigeria have altered the core of our leadership and good governance completely. With the paper relying solely on the secondary source of data and analyzed its data through textual observations. It examines the challenges of leadership and good governance in the Nigeria. The finding reveals that, electoral malpractice is the main challenges of good governance in this new age. This study concludes that, effective leadership is the key to overcome the current challenges posed on the good governance in the Country. The paper, therefore, recommends among others, that the, electoral commission should be really independent, not by name in order to prevent the executive organ from influencing it. The pose of INEC Chairman should be advertised and the application of men with good moral standing should be considered. The executive should not be involved in the recruitment of INEC Chairman.