Nigeria’s next phase of growth must reach more people and places.

Nigeria’s next phase of growth must reach more people and places.

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A business owner wins the order, celebrates briefly, then watches the opportunity slip away because she simply cannot fulfil it. That tension, between potential and capacity, sits at the heart of Nigeria's economic conversation right now.

Growth is happening, but it is concentrated. The gains are landing in certain cities, certain sectors, certain hands, and the people and places just outside that circle are feeling the distance more sharply with every passing year.

For Nigeria's next phase to mean something real, the expansion has to travel further. More communities, more entrepreneurs, more regions need to feel it in practical ways, not just in headline numbers.

Originally published by BusinessDay.

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