Under new management.(challenges face Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's first democratically elected president)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 15, 2000 | Copyright information

Nigeria's new president has made a promising start on repairing the damage done by his predecessors. But he has a mountainous task ahead of him, reports Robert Guest

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to th...

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