The Roles Of Nigeria's Role Model In Nigeria

A role model, according to Microsoft Encarta Dictionary (2009 Edition), is "somebody to be copied: a worthy person who is a good example for other people."

Against this simple yet clear description of who a good role model is, with regard to apparent cases of willful theft, mindless looting of treasuries, mismanagement of resources, absence of visionary leadership, impunity, premeditated falsehood, pervasive corruption in high and low places across the land of recent, it is no wonder then that many, out of sheer resignation to fate, continue to ask this probing question: who and where are the role models in the Nigerian system?

Truly, any concerned Nigerian, old or comparatively young, who was perhaps familiar with how the age-long, good

The reader, in the publication, had lamented thus: "Is there any trusted public officer left in Nigeria?... why can't people be honest in doing their jobs according to laid-down rules? Nigeria can never move forward with people with no integrity or probity like this in public administration. I am just tired and ready to check out!...."

Interestingly, in her continued stride to propagate the core message of her Re-branding Nigeria Project, while realising the fact that a good, prosperous society is built through the meaningful efforts of individuals constituting the human community, Prof. Dora Akunyili, Nigeria's immediate past Honourable Minister for Information and Communications, called for what is referred to as personal or self-branding, which begins with individual Nigerians.

One cannot but agree with her that the task of positioning the country in a good stead in the comity of nations should, indeed, start from individuals, families or homes as these constituents or units are microcosms of the larger