Nigeria: a challenging case
Working Paper #113
Paper 184kb pdf
This paper examines how different aspects of Nigeria’s history and political and socio-economic make-up encapsulate several of the factors that make attaining and sustaining a viable transparency regime particularly difficult in many countries. These range from the effects of colonial cobbling together of numerous ethnic groups and a colonial heritage of secrecy, to the corrosive and corrupting effect of long years of unaccountable military dictatorship against a background of increasing economic dependence on income from petroleum resources. It is in this challenging environment that a campaign for greater transparency is being waged.
About the Author
Ayo Obe
President
Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization
Publication Information
Type | Working Paper |
Program | Transparency |
Posted | 01/01/07 |
Download | 184kb pdf |
# Pages | 50 |