Ex-Minister Reveals Those Behind Nigeria’s Woes in Education, Healthcare, Sends Message to Citizens

• Former minister, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has sent a message to Nigerians while noting that no government is capable of providing solutions to all problems within a nation
• Ezekwesili expressed her concern over the government's failure, saying it is responsible for the numerous problems and situations Nigeria is faced with at the moment
• The minister further noted that the needs of the country are humongous, and even the best government acting alone would not be able to solve all of them

A former minister of education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has revealed that governance failure is behind Nigeria’s woes in the education and healthcare sector.

Ezekwesili noted that no single government was capable of solving all the problems of the country alone.

Ezekwesili tasks citizens

The ex-minister urged citizens to be part of the process of solving problems in society, The Punch reported.

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She spoke when her team at Human Capital Africa, an accountability initiative, paid a visit to Not Forgotten Initiative School, a non-profit school set up to provide free access to education in Abuja.

The HCA donated N2m and adopted the school for intervention programmes as part of activities to mark Ezekwesili’s 60th birthday.

Ezekwesili lamented that the classic failure in governance suggests that citizens must also play their role in developing society, Vanguard report added.

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Meanwhile, the former Nigerian minister was appointed as an ambassador of the Ukrainian government’s ‘Grain from Ukraine’ programme by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The appointment came amid the harsh effects of the global food crisis.

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The programme is an initiative of the Ukrainian government to assist countries suffering from acute food shortages following the war with Russia.

Former minister Oby Ezekwesili reveals her preferred presidential candidate

In another development, Ezekwesili said there was no way she would leave the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and vote for the other top two candidates, in the 2023 general election.

According to the former minister, the top three candidates in the 2023 race can easily be rated with publicly available information.

She said her ratings of the top three contenders show the former governor of Anambra state is ahead of other contenders.

Source: Legit.ng