It is obvious that Nigerians are passing through hard times and unfavourable conditions of living, making many psychologically lose their mind and sense of citizenship. The deteriorating situations have been so severe these days making survival very difficult for the masses. It is worrisome that we have leaders who are supposed to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians through good leadership and Governance, our leaders are supposed to have the desire to promote development as well as provide social and human advancement, however these indications of improved standard of living have eluded us because our leaders are not ready to sacrificed for the people, they only conformed to “Nigeria system” of operation, adversely the country have been struggling with development, advancement, and forwardness ,but unfortunate, no achievement have been made, Nigeria have nothing to show as the giant of Africa; it believe in anything goes. A good leader may be elected but because of our bad system the leader may end up at not thing. Some of the elected leaders just want to make money and exhausted names. leadership in Africa is a means of enrichment, they are selfish, self-centre, shallow rooted and lack focus, they are suppose to provide good Governance and development but unfortunately unable to perform. This paper is focus on the means and panacea to improve citizens living conditions and restored confidence of the people, through improve leadership and Governance, these can be achieved through, good policies; policies that are people oriented; policies that are people focus, and above all, there should be policies “monitoring and evaluation”, immediately policies are established they should be monitored, to make sure they achieved their purpose and evaluate their performance to give feedback report to the people. The method used for collating data is secondary means; data are collated from the media, research work, Government policies and programs, NGOs, commissions, civil society, interviews, public confabs etc. A conclusion is drawn through my recommendations on electing good leaders that are ready to sacrifice for the people and not mere names, Leaders that will ameliorate the suffering of the people beyond the philosophy of leadership and good Governance.