Nigeria's public officeholders should begin to pick lessons in information management from their more civilised counterparts abroad. Among those that have made full disclosures to the people they lead, in recent times, is the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, who shocked the whole world early this week with his sudden resignation; the pope [his real name is Joseph Ratzinger] said he took the decision due to health reasons and old age.
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, always updates his countrymen on treatments for his cancer. The whole country is united in prayers for his survival. Also, the immediate past United States secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, had to inform her compatriots that she was taking some days off to attend to her health.
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