HISTORY OF CORRUPTION IN
NIGERIA:
1. 1960 - 1966: Sir Abubakar
Tafawa - Balewa's tenure, no public
funds stolen.
2. 1966: Major - General Aguiyi
Ironsi's brief tenure, no public
funds stolen.
3. 1966 - 1975: General Yakubu
Gowon's tenure, very little corruption
creeping in.
4. 1975 - 1976: General Murtala
Ramat Muhammed's tenure, zero
tolerance for corruption and
indiscipline.
5. 1976 - 1979: General Olusegun
Aremu Matthew Okikiola
Obasanjo's tenure, rulers started
owning large properties running
into millions of dollars.
6. 1979 - 1983: President Shehu
Shagari's tenure, characterised by
weak leadership. Ministers and
other top functionaries had a field
day looting all the lootable public
funds and properties even though
the President himself was not
stealing any dime!
7. 1984 - 1985: Major - General
Muhammadu Buhari's tenure, zero
tolerance for corruption, indo -
lence and indiscipline. Corrupt
politicians were jailed a minimum
of 20 years in prison each!
8. 1985 - 1993: General Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida's tenure,
freed all the corrupt politicians
jailed by General Buhari. These
same freed politicians are majorly
the same set of politicians ruining
Nigeria now. During Babangida's
tenure public funds were being
carted away by public servants like
confetti. In one swoop about 12
billion dollars mysteriously
vanished!
9. 1993 - 1998: General Sani
Abacha's tenure, five billion dollars
stolen in his five years tenure
10. 1998 - 1999: General
Abdulsalami Abubakar's 11
months tenure, about 2 billion dollars
were alleged to have been
stolen. Anyway the man is among
the wealthiest people in the
country today!
11. 1999 - 2007: President
Olusegun Matthew Aremu Okikiola
Obasanjo's second tenure, his
bank account grew from twenty
thousand naira after emerging
from prison to being a multi-
billionai-re with choice properties
in Nigeria and major cities of the world.
Public infrastructure
declined massively and
gangsterism became the order of
the day by his party, the PDP.
Corruption prospered massively in
his tenure. In one swoop 16 billion
dollars just vanished, allegedly for
electric power projects but
darkness was supplied and is still
being supplied in large quantity. In
another mysterious disappearance
the sum of 300 billion naira (2 billion
dollars) meant for road
projects also vanished into thin air.
12. 2007 - 2010: Late President
Yar'a dua's tenure, a quiet reserved
and the messiah that did not live
long to be, the noiseless tenure. But due
to perpetual ill-health was
unable to tame corruption which is
the character and perfume of his
party men and women in the PDP.
Had a slightly large family but he
never allowed public funds to be spent
on feeding the first family.
13. 2010 - Present: President
Nnamdi Azikiwe Ebele Goodluck
Jonathan's tenure, full of noise but
empty of substance. Spends about
a billion naira per year for food for
himself, wife and two kids. In the
2011 election year about 2.6
trillion naira just disappeared from
the public till, which is the highest
disappearance of public funds per
year in the country's history! In tolerant
of criticisms. Suffers
acute inferiority complex and
seems to dislike any war against
corruption. A former Education
Minister and Vice President of the
World Bank, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili
accused his government and that
of his immediate predecessor of
not accounting for about 67 billion
dollars.
Since then his government
has been responding in the
manner of a headless chicken. They are
busy insulting the woman from Delta
with her great achievement and impact
in Nigeria Economy,
instead of stating in facts and
figures what they did with the
money. In fact, the SUNDAY PUNCH
newspaper of 25/11/2012
pointedly said about 31 billion dollars
were stolen since his
government came to being on May
6, 2010. His government looks
promising to hold the medal for
the most corrupt in the world.
May God Have mercy on my fellow
youths and give us the courage and
grace
to
save this country. AMEN

Brother u know nothing about Nig. Hx of corruption u re just writing fantacies of what u know nothing about. If U read books U'll get to understand dat d seed of corruption was planted from d onset by colonial masters when dey rigged d election without remorse 4 d nothernan 2 become p.minister den d men followed suit in presidential n gubernotorial elections in 64 n 65 respectively, these men looted public funds to enrich demselves n perpertrated chaos 4 dia selfish aggrandizment. The misdeameanor compelled Nzeogu n his cohorts 2 carry out d coup dat caused d civil war.
So u really know nothing about d Nigerian history of corruption . I'll suggest u should get enlightned b4 u post history u in fact know nothing about.