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There's Not Enough Reasons To Develop Nigeria
And i will explain why.
The Nigerian state was never designed to serve the Nigerian people, and the elites who run it have no incentive to fix it. This is largely because politics is not about ideology or public service. It's in fact, the most lucrative business in the country. The state operates as a vehicle to capture and distribute oil wealth.
The political class, across ethnic and regional lines, shares a unspoken agreement: protect the status quo so everyone can get their turn at the cake. If a politician builds good roads, reliable electricity, and world-class schools, they have less money to share around or store in foreign bank accounts. And because the government's money comes from oil wells and not the taxes of thriving businesses, the government does not actually need its citizens to be productive or wealthy to survive.
A country works when there is a basic deal: citizens pay taxes and obey laws, and the government provides security, infrastructure, and justice. In Nigeria, that contract is completely dead.
If you are a middle-class or wealthy Nigerian, you are a mini-state unto yourself. You drill your own borehole for water, buy your own generator for electricity, hire private security to stay alive, and pay out of pocket for private healthcare and schooling. And because the people with the education, money, and influence have successfully insulated themselves from the failure of the state, there is no sustained, existential pressure from the top or middle class to force a systemic reform. The poor are left to survive on miracles and hustle.
Someone would say, "but Nigerians are famous for their resilience and entrepreneurship." Well, there's is a dark side to this. It breeds wicked, selfish citizens, largely because the system is also brutal, which means survival requires an individualistic, hyper-competitive mindset.
When institutions fail, people stop relying on rules and start relying on connections ("connections"), bribes, and cutting corners. If you try to follow the rules strictly, the system crushes you. We normalise the abnormal. Instead of demanding functional public transportation, people adapt by waking up at 4:00 AM to sit in traffic. Instead of demanding a working national power system, they buy a bigger generator or nowadays, extra solar power storage batteries. The incredible capacity of Nigerians to adapt to suffering has inadvertently become a pressure-release valve for the government; the people adapt so well that the elites never have to fix the root cause.
We have also institutionalised extortion in public service, even the every institutions meant to protect and enforce order have been corrupted into predators. From the police officer at a checkpoint to the customs official at the port, the primary goal of many public offices is to extract money from citizens and businesses.
If a young entrepreneur builds a successful business, they are not rewarded with government support; they are targeted by regulatory agencies looking for bribes. This creates a massive ceiling on growth.
So in essence, Nigeria is not broken by accident. It is working exactly as it was designed to work for the few hundred thousand people at the top who profit from the chaos, while the energy, brilliance, and potential of 200 million plus people are burned as fuel to keep the broken machine running.