EMERGING SOCIETAL CHALLENGES AND NIGERIA'S SUSTAINABILITY: THE GOVERNANCE PERSPECTIVE A KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Abstract

I feel highly honoured and privileged to have been invited to this intellectual workshop to share my thinking with you. I want to thank the School of Arts and Social Sciences very deeply in my heart for believing in me. The first letter of invitation was dated October 14, 2019, and then it was scheduled to hold in February 11, 2020. I admired the long term planning skill of the men and women of that School for the long notification. Then the unexpected happened, the usual character of the Nigerian university system often caused by the proprietors of the University, ‘strike’ since that is the only language they understand very sluggishly. At that time, I captioned my address to you as ‘Nigeria, the failed State Posture: The Nation-State building Paradigm’, to elongate the strike, Mr. COVID 19, arrived from China and locked everyone in. In January 20, 2021, another letter from the College arrived in my office, informing me that I will be the 'Keynote address presenter’ in today's intellectual convention to speak on ‘Emerging Societal Challenges and Nigeria's Sustainability’, I decided to stay within the theme of the conference, but to address it through the ‘Governance’ perspective or perceptual prism. Beyond this invitation, they also appointed me into the Board of their journal. To all of you who sat to pick me from the many that abound, let it be known to you that I am now a friend of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of this College. To whom much is given, much is expected. ] consider all these a great honour.