The state of Nigeria provokes despondency. Blatant criminality passes – off as governance. People of known criminal antecedents have stolen political power and are perverting governance for personal enrichment through unconcealed theft of public resources. The country’s development is arrested as the vast majority wallow in unmitigated poverty and misery. There is pervasive corruption of values. There is hypocritical delusion in the assumption that a multicultural society of indigenous peoples can be centrally managed through a dubious “federal” structure. Can the CSG help to moderate Nigeria’s multifaceted anomaly?