A Critical Examination of Awolowo’s Regime of Mental Magnitude as a Cure to Social Vices

No state in the world is free from social ills. Every responsible government makes efforts at solving these problems. Social challenges such as: unemployment, robbery, terrorism, corruption, vandalism, illiteracy, violence, fraud, etc. have constrained the Nigeria’s development in spite of her natural and human endowment. Corruption is the most problematicthese and has haunted the potentials of the country. Despite governments (Past and present) governments to tackle this menace, such efforts have not paid off. Therefore, the paper seeks alternative to the cure of corruption in Nigeria in the moral and political philosophy of ObafemiAwolowo’sRegime of Mental Magnitude. The paper noted that the political philosophy is capable of serving as panacea toward the problem and brings sanity to the nation.