Talk:Corruption in Nigeria

Some specific criticisms:

1. The article is poorly written in general: the author rambles in an unprofessional manner, it contains numerous colloquialisms and questionable uses of other terms.
2. limited content: there is a brief introductory paragraph that mentions the advent of public administration and discovery of oil and gas as causes of corruption, but it does not provide a concise overview of the situation or the contents of the article, it is extremely disorganized. Then the "dynamics" section relies on "the culture argument" and mentions recent colonization as an imposed system that is too different from their tribal ways for Nigerian leaders to presently be able to overcome the urge to divert state resources. The remainder of the article is merely 1 section per administration with a 1 paragraph summary of the corruption during that time. Definitely room for expansion.
3. The article should include further information in the dynamics section to account for political, bureaucratic, judicial, economic causes of corruption, as well as the dynamics between federal, state, and local levels of government.
4. Perhaps expand the article with more sub-topics (perhaps replacing the summary by administration, or reducing it to a timeline rather than the bulk of the page).

• Suggested sub-topics:
• i. There should be a summary of the country's political organization, levels of government and bureaucracy with a theoretical explanation of how this can lead to corruption, supplemented by examples of how it has.
• ii. Oversight mechanisms: media and the judiciary, anti-corruption legislation, contract awarding processes and related regulations.
• iii. A separate section for corruption in the oil and gas sector
• iv. Use of the financial sector for corruption
• v. state owned enterprises

5. Citations: almost entirely reliant on newspaper articles... in fact, upon further investigation, many of the references aren't even from major newspapers, but rather no name websites that read more like blogs. There are some academic articles but they are not hyperlinked and most of them are from before 1990 (that explains the prominent place of the culture argument...). Michael Szpik (talk) 02:31, 20 February 2018 (UTC)Michael Szpik

Over the next couple months, I plan to a make a considerable contribution to this entry regarding Corruption in Nigeria. As of right now, the Wikipedia page on Corruption in Nigeria fails to give a thorough look at corruption in Nigerian society. The page starts out with a seemingly good introduction into the topic, referencing various ways of thought. Unfortunately, these ways of thought are not expanded on. As for the causes of corruption in Nigeria, the current entry rests solely on the outdated view that corruption is a cultural problem that cannot be fixed for it is customary. The entry goes onto to include history and cases of formalized corruption. The page focuses on political corruption, paying little mind to how economics incentives fuel corruption, and spends little time considering how corruption economically affects various sectors of Nigerian society. The overemphasis on state level corruption ignores how corruption influences Nigerian daily life. Failing to examine how regular people perceive corruption gives a skewed, overly government based look at the subject. I aim to address the vagueness of the current entry by adding new elements. With these new elements I aim to explore the different levels of corruption (ie. low-level opportunistic corruption and systematic corruption) as well as variations in causes of corruption for each, explore intersections corruption has with specific social institutions (Governmental sector, NGO sector, Education sector, Religious sector, Economic Development), stepping away from primarily state-level analysis of corruption, go into depth when examining different sectors of corruption (For the NGO sector: reasons behind the rise of NGOs, historical context, corruptions hand in NGOs), and examine all forms corruption in Nigeria against a new economic backdrop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nneoma134 (talk • contribs) 05:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

This article needs a serious rewrite. Bad sourcing, bad grammar, and bad explanations. 71.237.122.166 (talk) 19:44, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Desperately Needs Lede Improvement

It's all in the section title: this important topic needs a radical revision, particularly in the lede. It is incoherent, rambling, confusing and written in a personal essay-style. Beyond that, pretty much the whole article needs a lot of work.

GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 01:02, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Improvement Ongoing

A lot of improvement has been done. State level corruption is a main driver of corruption in Nigeria, so this has to be prominent on these pages. Societal corruption is in every society, and cannot be exactly contextualized by an article. In Nigeria, corruption is state prone and this is what the article focuses on primarily to name the major scandals and the cumulative impact of this on the society. Busanga (talk) 10:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)Busanga

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The corruption

They may say what you have written looks like a person or aggressive point of view, but in close view from a Nigerian perspective I see the truth and clear open view of your write article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ViciousProxy (talk • contribs) 00:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Social studies

List out 10 causes of corruption in nigeria and solutions 102.89.34.185 (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)