A Professor of Economics at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Clement Ighodaro says Nigeria’s inability to achieve economic development is as a result of corruption.
Professor Ighodaro, while delivering the two hundred and seventy-ninth inaugural lecture of the institution, wants Nigerians to begin to look inwards for ways to get out of it.
Family members, colleagues and friends of Professor Ighodaro who gathered at the Akin Deko auditorium listened with rapt attention as the university don applied econometrics to statistically analyse the corruption situation in Nigeria and its.
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In the lecture, titled ‘Nigeria paradoxes: Implications of public corruption for sustainable economic growth and development’, Professor Ighodaro says corruption must be tackled collectively starting from the family unit.
He also advised the incoming government of Bola Tinubu to adopt a self-actualisation policy where those in government start with themselves before getting to members of the public to fight corruption successfully.
Editor: Oloyede Oworu
