Anti-riots policemen detain a protester during a demonstration at Ojota in Lagos on June 12, 2021 (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
It is no longer news that Nigeria dances on the brink of existent collapse, though according to a foreign expert on Nigeria’s political development, Ambassador John Campbell, ‘Nigeria have mastered the art of dancing on the precipice without falling over…’ Between 2015 and recent, the country’s unity is seriously threatened under the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari. And, there is not much he is doing to save it. The late literary giant, Chinua Achebe argued that, there is nothing absolutely wrong with Nigeria but rather with its leadership. The government of Nigeria is one of the most expensive governments in the world, with so much expended on its officials monthly.
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The trick to our economic renaissance does not lie in foreign direct investment (those will come if we have good security and our human capital is ready). Neither will we find the solution by racking up more debts. The trick lies in how to increase productivity – especially among our burgeoning youths – and how quickly we achieve economic complexity.
Three issues weighed on my mind as I contemplated this article:
1. An economic boom is coming, as it usually does, after a pandemic or war – but I reckon this opportunity may pass Nigeria by at this rate;
2. Nigeria is presently on a cliffhanger. It may explode anytime, given the centrifugal and centripetal forces yanking her in every direction, and it seems we cannot defend and justify her continued existence, even if our lives depended on it;