yeah those are the major problems that Nigeria are supposed to face, but the insecurity problem it's what the president have always said to be solved in this country but I think it's something that can't be solved anymore. Cause all the leaders are the one's who don't want it to be solved because they're also doing things which are at of law, if you take a look at the bad side of it that because of the bad economy or cause of the insecurity, or because of the bad leaders that'll make we the cizitens to run from our own country. And we all know that the corruption doesn't start today but if they'll take the old leg and they don't want to accept change that means if you find a way of running out of the country then you should, because the people we have as our leader don't believe in change economy.
I can agree with you when you said our leaders are those who don't want our insecurity problems to be resolved. I don't think there's country that's got a plenty and solid leadership hierarchy like Nigeria as far as my knowledge is concerned. It's in Nigeria that we have 3 arms of government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary all having their duties and responsibilities to lead Nigerians aright. Let's start with the executive arm of the government which comprises of the President at the federal level, the Governors at the state level and the Local Government chairmen at the local government level. In Nigeria, there's 1 president, 36 governors and 774 Local government chairmen that are saddled with the responsibility of leading the nation at their own respective mandates.
Followed by the legislative arm of the government which comprises of the National Assembly and the State Assemblies. In Nigeria, we have 1 senate president, 1 Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, 109 senators, 360 federal representatives. That's at the federal level. At the state level, there's 1 Speaker each of the 36 states making them 36 in numbers. To calculate the total number of the members of all the 36 states Assembly, you may need to calculate based on each state level. Although the minimum number of members in each state is 24 while the maximum is 40. Now when we try to look for the average, we will have around 28 members per state. Going by this average, we can assume that we have around 30 members across each state and when you times it with the total number of 36, we will have around 1,080 members in the country. Huge right? Okay. Now let's also add the Councillors. Each local government council have around 10 councillors as their elective legislative councils. Now when you sum that up with the 774 LGAs in Nigeria, you have around 7,774 councillors in Nigeria.
In the Judiciary, you have the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in Nigeria with the Chief Justice of Nigeria known as the CJN as the head. Then the Court of Appeal which is the intermediate appellate court usually headed by the President of the Court of Appeal, then the Federal High Court headed by a chief judge, then the 36 state high courts, then the National Industrial Court, the Shari'a Courts of Appeal and the Customary Courts, then the Magistrate and District Courts and finally the National Judicial Council which serves as the administrative body of these courts.
We will then talk about the traditional rulers in the country which includes the first class emirs also known as the paramount rulers which are spread across regions of the country such as the the Sultan of Sokoto, the Ooni of Ife, the Emir of Kano, the Oba of Benin, the Obi of Onitsha among few others. Then second class emirs, and then third class emirs scattered across the various states of the country.
Yet, with all these exhaustive number of leaders in this country, we can't solve the problem of insecurity that's widespread in the country. Yet, these leaders have created synergies and collaborate among themselves when it comes to discussing issues of their own interest. Of recent, we've seen the president organizing meeting between himself and the traditional rulers in the country after he had met with the Nigeria Governors Forum ahead of the nationwide protests that started today which goes to tell you that these leaders can actually work together to bring about lasting solutions to the insecurity bordering the peace of the lives and properties of average Nigerians. Unfortunately, each of these leaders have their own interest and in most cases we've seen them fighting for their own individual or group interests rather than the interest of their followers or that of the citizens.
How can insecurity end this way?
