Nigeria: Beyond the NECO Disaster

23 March 2010
opinion

What can anyone say? We all knew it would come to this, we just did not realise it would be this soon. Now that the proverbial shit has hit the fan, we may be forced to seriously consider how to clean up this mess. That is if we care to pay attention at all.

While the nation remains focused on the "hide and seek" between Yar'adua's people and an anxious citizenry, on the genocide-mess in Jos and its' environs, or even on the colossal losses in Kano, Maiduguri and Bauchi recent market fires, all flaring up within some 48 hours, which destroyed over N10 billion worth of merchandise, details of yet another disaster, with much longer lasting consequences, were being released, this time by the Minna based National Examination Council, NECO. No one seems to be paying attention.

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