Combating Corruption for Sustainable Develemental Growth in Nigeria: Exploring the Paradigm of Divine Option (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION In Nigeria, corruption has been identified as the major bane of urgently needed development. Corruption remains the greatest threat to the attainment of sustainable development and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and even to the continued existence of the Nigerian state. As Arowolo (2010) puts it corruption inhibits socio-economic development and denies equitable distribution of wealth and makes sure some sections of the country, which are considered ethnically disadvantaged to remain worst off in the distributive arrangement of national resources. Corruption has proved ubiquitous mixing with individual blood and societal life, where officials not only personalise public office but also personify it.