Publisher's Synopsis
The absence of social amenities as well as the prolonged challenges in social issues, majorly bothering on poverty, inequality and unemployment, has been on the rise in Nigeria. The potency inherent in her human and natural resources has thus not been fully exploited. This jinx of underdevelopment has not been broken and has invariably left development in the country a mirage. The merry-go-rounding around development and underdevelopment [as it were] has earned the country the status of a 'Third World Nation' characterized by pervasive poverty, disease pandemic, hunger and malnutrition, unemployment, child mortality, low life expectancy, illiteracy, unequal trade exchange; lack of initiatives etc. Categorically, Nigeria's development in underdevelopment has been blamed on corruption stemming from the notion of 'national-cake' and resulting in economic-hemorrhage. The need to expose the 'culprit'-corruption, has driven me to embark on this academic voyage so as to provide transfusion for the country and resuscitate 'her' from the corruption-induced-coma; after all, the effects of the cankerworm are far-reaching; involving the economic, political and social realms. I strongly believe that readers of this academic work will not only be exposed to the meaning of corruption or how it has become so attractive in present day, they will also be informed about the cost and consequences of corruption, the various forms in which it is perpetuated and scholarly opinions about the concept. At the same time, readers will be equipped with the knowledge of how corruption has further exposed Nigeria to underdevelopment with particular references to poverty, inequality and unemployment, as well as ways in which the menace can be curbed.
