Tell Magazine

    Some civil servants and their collaborators in the private sector exploit the high unemployment situation in the country to fleece desperate job seekers   Amina, surname withheld for legal reasons, finally got a job at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, after a one-year compulsory national youth service at the National Assembly, though she did not apply for the job. “My uncle who got me the job told me he paid a lot of money to someone so I could get the job. They just told me to go and resume at my station in a…

    With various agencies generating huge revenues, government can conveniently meet its financial obligations to enhance socio-economic development of the country. But systemic leakages over the years remain a major challenge   When Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, told Nigerians at an interactive session with the Senate Joint Committee on Appropriation, Finance, Public Account and National Planning, last August, that the country was not broke but had only cash flow troubles, she was stating the obvious. This is because the various government revenue-generating agencies have strengthened their capacity, especially in recent years, resulting…