Citizens for Nigeria - The People Have The Power!
Not A Soccer Match!
About 60,000 applicants turned up for the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) aptitude test in Lagos which held in the main bowl of the National Stadium.
Most of the large number of applicants that turned up for the test, which was held simultaneously in every state of the federation and the federal capital territory, expressed dismay at the high unemployment rates in the country. “The best thing is to leave this country, I am now convinced,” said Godson Anthony, one of the candidates. “My friends have been telling me all these years but I refused.” He also expressed dismay at the conditions under which he wrote the test. Candidates who came early were lucky to get seats under the covered VIP section of the stadium, while the rest had to sit in the blistering sun.
SOME political problems need a crude fix. Nigeria got one in 1999 when it returned to imperfect democracy after decades of ethnic strife and military rule. At that time, Christians from the south of the country feared being shut out of power by the more numerous Muslims of the north. To reassure them, the bosses of Nigeria’s dominant party—which, in this flawed democracy, runs the show—set up a system of presidential rotation known as “zoning”. Candidates are picked alternately from north and south behind closed doors and presented to voters in rigged polls.