Nigeria’s Arrested Development

Did Nigeria start out on the right path and derail along the way? Or did Nigeria always lack progressive leadership from the get-go? At independence in 1960, Nigeria had a workforce that was among the best-educated in Sub-Saharan Africa and the country had just discovered substantial deposits of crude oil. With vast human and mineral resources at its disposal, the young federation appeared poised to become a model for African infrastructural development and social progress. It would not b

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