201 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: THE PANACEA FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Knowledge is light, and light is the only element that is powered to end the dominance of darkness in every sphere of life. Knowledge itself has no values at a first instance until is process, structure, retained and shared. This paper seeks to analysis the nexus between how knowledge is acquired, transmitted in order to facilities connection for human development and implementing decision by governments in Africa, particularly in the Covid-19 Era. The Covid-19 Era was a monumental challenge to African Political leaders and needed to do something fast to get their people out of the troubles that came with Covid-19. Therefore, leaders were continuously looking for improve ways to enhance performance and results for their citizens, because each day, those in decision making position were saddled with the task to choose from sets of alternatives. “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers”-Plato. The research questions in this paper are; why authorities invest less in education? Why knowledge management implementation is necessary? How did Africa manage Covid-19? This paper adopts Comparative survey and descriptive method of research to analyses the nexus between knowledge management and good governance in Nigeria. Findings; This paper found out that there was lack political will by many inept decision makers in sudden challenging moment; as it was with the Covid-19 Era, which resulted to many deaths. That the major causes for bad governance in Nigeria is as a result of lack knowledge management. It is therefore imperative that those in authority to have the Political will, a philosophical mind shift for most institutions in other for knowledge management implementation in Nigeria.