“National development is often described as the process of improving the quality of life of a nation’s citizens by increasing the citizens’ living standard, creating conditions conducive to the growth of the citizens’ self esteem and increasing the citizens’ freedom of choice by enlarging the range of their choice variables”. Isreal. F. Adu (cut from Olusegun Obasanjo The Presidential Legacy 1999-2007).
If words were to be sufficient to liberate a people, if rhetorics were to be adequate to salvage a nation’s situational impasse as Nigeria appear to be entangled in presently, then there would not have been the need for dictionary entries of such words as pragmatism, actions, dynamism, competence, productivity and progressive. These and their likes are evidently lacking in Nigeria of the present. The definition of the above-mentioned literary words and the implementation thereof in the running of national affairs in Nigeria as a nation is amply sufficient to lift the ai