Quality Leadership; Condition Precedent on Education for All by the Year 2015: Nigeria at the Crossroads

Abstract

Nigeria is a signatory to the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals in New York in 2000 and the Dakar ratification of that document geared towards substantially alleviating the effects of absolute poverty and achieving Education for all in its various manifestations by the year 2015. Through situation analysis, the paper posited that in the Nigeria characteristic manner of shifting the goal posts, the attainment of this goal is a farce. This is consequent upon misconceptions and inconsistencies resulting from the exercise of leadership by people whose pre-occupations are not in tandem with those whose affairs they superintend. The leadership is therefore challenged to be qualitative if the nation’s milestones would escape the disdainful story that portrays her as a country where noble policies suffer setback

Keywords: Quality, Leadership, Quality leadership, Education, Development.