Since obtaining political independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has struggled to grow her resources-endowed economy, meet the basic needs and social aspirations of the majority of our citizens and achieve democratic stability. She has therefore been unable to take her rightful place in the comity of nations as a global and regional powerhouse in consonance with her large and diverse population, huge natural resource endowments and the exceptional vibrancy and dynamism of her peoples and cultures.
There is broad consensus that this unsatisfactory state of affairs is largely attributable to governance failures, huge gaps in human and institutional capacity and significant constraints in generation, distribution and sustainability of resources. It is also widely understood that a high price would be paid for failing to quickly reverse the situation in terms of widespread human suffering in Nigeria and the destabilization of the entire West African sub-region.
The Ngozi Oditah Foundation (NOF) was established in 2004 by Professor Fidelis Oditah, SAN, QC, in memory of his late sister, Ngozi Oditah, to serve as a key source of support for organized non-religions and non-partisan efforts at systematically addressing the main factors behind Nigeria’s sub-optimal performance with regard to economic growth, human development and social political stability.