Ogiri John Ogiri

By Ogiri John Ogiri. There is a reason I love the public universities, Polytechnics and Colleges particularly the federal government-owned institutions. Honestly, it is difficult for any student to graduate with a first class degree or diploma without working hard and showing sufficient academic and intellectual justifications for such an award. I graduated from Kaduna Polytechnic with a distinction a few years ago. I knew how hard it was getting that grade. As a public institution, Kaduna Polytechnic ensured that every student provided sufficient proofs of intellectual cum academic capabilities to justify that he or she was worth every single mark one obtained. So I was made to work hard for whatever grade I eventually got.  I literally burned my midnight candles all through, read voraciously every academic material or literary work I ever came into contact with, held free tutorial classes with my course mates and other like-minded students and contemporaries just to s...

By Ogiri John Ogiri Good leadership, accountability, transparency and respect for the rule of law and due process have been identified by political scientists as fundamental indices for evaluating the existence or otherwise of good governance in any political system. Now let me explain. Leadership is the art/process of motivating and influencing group behaviour towards achieving some specific, well-defined, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely goals in line with the overall interest of the majority of the public. A good leader should be accountable, transparent as well as show genuine respect for the rule of law and due process. To be accountable is to be responsible. For me, accountability is responsibility. To be able to offer good governance, a good leader should be able to account for his or her actions and accept responsibility for both success and failure. A good leader should not engage or be seen to engage in blaming others or past administrations for his or her embarra...