65th Independence Anniversary: Celebration without accountability is empty – ActionAid

…says Nigerians suffering successful the midst of plenty

By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja

As Nigeria marked its 65th Independence Anniversary, ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has declared that solemnisation without accountability is meaningless, informing that millions of Nigerians proceed to endure successful the midst of plenty.

Country Director of AAN, Dr. Andrew Mamedu, successful a connection yesterday, lamented that contempt six-and-a-half decades of nationhood, the state remains plagued by corruption, insecurity, inequality, hunger, mediocre healthcare, wide unemployment, and governmental victimisation. He noted that these challenges person persisted owed to anemic governmental volition and deficiency of determination to code them.

According to him, “nearly 39 per cent of the colonisation inactive unrecorded beneath the planetary poorness enactment of $2.15 per day. Growth has not translated into shared prosperity. Inflation supra 20 per cent successful 2025 has further eroded household incomes, worsening the outgo of surviving crisis.”

While acknowledging humble advancement specified arsenic caller obstruction projects, private-sector investments similar the Dangote Refinery, and improvements successful agriculture and coagulated minerals, helium stressed that these gains are overshadowed by heavy structural weaknesses, including Nigeria’s over-dependence connected crude lipid for revenue.

Mamedu commended Nigerians for sustaining 26 years of uninterrupted ideology since 1999 but argued that law regularisation unsocial was not capable without genuine reforms to amended lives.

He outlined urgent demands including:

Full and transparent remittance of substance subsidy savings to the Federation Account for societal investment.

Comprehensive overhaul of the acquisition sector.

Healthcare betterment to guarantee quality, affordable services nationwide.

Coordinated, people-centered responses to insecurity.

Stronger anti-corruption measures and governance reforms.

Passage of the Special Seats Bill for Women to beforehand gender-inclusive governance.

Fiscal federalism reforms to springiness states greater assets control.

Transparent appointments successful INEC and the judiciary to warrant credible elections.

“As we commemorate 65 years of independence, ActionAid Nigeria emphasises that solemnisation without accountability is empty. Nigerians merit safety, dignity, justice, and adjacent opportunities. The clip for existent betterment is now,” Mamedu said.

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