A poignant article in the Financial Times of London of January 31, 2022, asked the question, “What is Nigeria’s government for?” as its headline. Written by David Pilling, the piece scornfully described the sheer absence of public services in the country and wondered how the citizens function in such a state.
“Almost all the energy, drive and wealth creation in Nigeria happens outside government…’’, Pilling writes, adding, rather wryly, “Nigeria desperately needs an administration whose energies go not into preserving its own privilege, but into providing public goods – basic education and health, rule of law, security, power, roads and digital infrastructure.”
