Nigeria has a question hanging over it, and it is not a small one: who is actually doing the thinking?
A growing chorus of voices is pushing past the usual hand-wringing about what is wrong with Africa's most populous nation and moving toward something more useful. The conversation is shifting to solutions, to the kind of clear-eyed planning that turns potential into actual, lived progress for ordinary people.
At the heart of it is institution-building. Not the word as a buzzword, but the real work of creating systems, structures, and bodies that can deliver economic and human development consistently, across governments and generations.
The voices driving this conversation are asking harder questions about what it takes to move Nigeria from a country of enormous promise to one that makes good on it. That shift, from potential to delivery, is where the real debate lives.
Originally published by BusinessDay.