Chinua Achebe of blessed memory, in one of his classics, had identified lack of leadership as the problem of Nigeria.
While the above has been proved to be true, another challenge facing the country is the refusal of citizens to accept and adapt the dynamics of change, which is necessary and inevitable for a people yearning for progressive development. Nigeria is a country in need of change and transformation. The administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, understands the need for the people to do things differently in order to achieve the President’s Renewed Hope agenda.
Another major reform in the federal civil service is the introduction of examinations for those seeking to become permanent secretaries which has been going on successfully in some years now but which some ‘powerful and well connected’ people have seen as offensive because it is seen as an affront to their age-long retrogressive interventions, as in the case of the recently conducted written exam.