Leadership Newspaper, Nigeria
by Orji Uzor Kalu
November 18, 2013

I learnt quite early in life that it is good to commend somebody if he achieves a rare feat or if he or she attains success in an enterprise or venture. It is for this reason I cherish any system that rewards people for their accomplishments. But what happens when such commendation is taken to another level – the level of praise-singing – to curry favour? This is the aspect that bothers me. Sycophancy, praise-singing and hagiography appear to have been institutionalized in our present-day Nigeria.

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http://leadership.ng/blog/181113/leaders...y-and-despotism