MONEKE, Francis Chidozie2024-08-132024-08-132024https://www.nigerianjournalsonline.com/index.php/ACBJ/article/view/4848/4711https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1593This article takes a critical look at the content of the right to development as provided in the African Charter on Human and peoples' Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, and interrogates the availability of that right in Nigeria. The article argues that an institutionalized culture of corruption is to blame for the failure of successive Nigerian governments to promote and foster the right to development because the resources for realizing that right are usually commandeered by the corrupt leaders.■ corruption; ■ development; ■ human rights; ■ cause lawyering; ■ judicial activism; ■ the Purport and Purview of the Right to Development; ■ the Right to Development as the Fountain Head of Other Human Rights; ■ corruption as the bane of the right to development in Nigeria; ■ fostering the Right to Development in Nigeria: ■ the bar instigating the bench in a robust engagement.enArticle