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Nigeria: A Challenging Case

Obe, Ayo

Dismantling that apparatus and making government open to even those whose precolonial experience was less transparent is throwing up a number of challenges for today’s Nigerians. This chapter 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.

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Initiative for Policy Dialogue
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February 4, 2010

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The opinions expressed in these papers represent those of the author(s) and not The Initiative for Policy Dialogue. These papers are unpublished and have not been peer reviewed. Please do not cite without explicit permission from the author(s). "The Challenging Case of Nigeria," The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 143-175.