{"id":132469,"date":"2024-09-29T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume"},"modified":"2024-09-29T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T09:48:37","slug":"corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corruption is a major challenge in Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senator Ali Ndume has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume stated this during an interactive session with newsmen in Kano on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur major challenge in this country is corruption.Uptill now, we have no law that can proactively or reactively address the issue of corruption in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see somebody in our system, especially in politics or government,and he is not corrupt,then he is lucky that he is God-fearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOtherwise,it is only in Nigeria that you steal money and you walk freely and you are celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you come into an area like this, people would start lobbying you and prostrate before you even when they know that the money was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only in this country that somebody had no money yesterday or last week,but the following week he buys 10 cars; buy jets and his family will celebrate with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said that in other developed countries, people would ask how, when and where he made his money but the reverse is the case here.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume said he had made several efforts to pass a law on unexplained wealth in Nigeria,but that such endeavours never saw the light of the day.<\/p>\n<p>He said he approached a former Head of State if he could sign an Executive Bill to that effect but he declined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp till now, there is no law on unexplained wealth Act in Nigeria and there is no Executive Order on it,\u201d Ndume said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern over the hunger in the country and called for an increased cultivation of food crops to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is hunger in the land and up till now we have not cultivated up to five per cent of our land, Nigeria is blessed with massive arable land.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Nigeria is blessed with cultivable land everywhere such that could be used to grow food crops and feed the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senator Ali Ndume has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the nation. Ndume stated this during an interactive session with newsmen in Kano on Saturday. \u201cOur major challenge in this country is corruption.Uptill now, we have no law that can proactively or reactively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":132467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[41,1027,254],"class_list":["post-132469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-corruption","tag-ndume","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Corruption is a major challenge in Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Ndume - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator Ali Ndume has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the natio ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Corruption is a major challenge in Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Ali Ndume has decried the level of corruption in Nigeria, saying the trend is a major challenge facing the natio ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-29T08:45:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-29T09:48:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1727590678.088141.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018Corruption is a major challenge in Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Ndume\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-29T08:45:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-29T09:48:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\"},\"wordCount\":355,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1727590678.088141.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"corruption\",\"Ndume\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/corruption-is-a-major-challenge-in-nigeria-ndume\",\"name\":\"\u2018Corruption is a major challenge in Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Ndume - 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