【全非资讯·尼日利亚】Nigeria Has the Scale of a Power. It Still Needs the Economy of One

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Africa's most populous country has the market, energy and entrepreneurial talent of a global power. What it still lacks is the productive machinery that can make scale work for its citizens.

Nigeria is already a continental power. Its population, market, financial system, technology companies, diaspora and cultural industries give it influence few African countries can match. Lagos is a commercial capital; Nollywood and Afrobeats shape global culture; Nigerian banks and entrepreneurs operate across borders.

The paradox is that scale has not translated into broad prosperity. Businesses pay an industrial tax for unreliable electricity, infrastructure remains inadequate and insecurity disrupts production and investment. Millions of citizens remain poor in a country rich in oil, gas, agriculture and human talent.

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The origins of that failure lie partly in the economy Nigeria built around extraction. Colonial Nigeria was organised around exports of cocoa, groundnuts, palm products, cotton and other commodities. Petroleum later transformed public finance and foreign exchange, but also deepened dependence on a single volatile source of revenue.

Oil should now be treated as capital for an economy beyond oil. Nigeria's gas can support electricity, fertiliser, petrochemicals, steel, cement and other manufacturing. The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano pipeline embodies that logic: infrastructure connecting energy to inland industrial and population centres, rather than merely carrying raw material to a port.

The most immediate obstacle is not a shortage of ambition but a shortage of dependable power.

The most immediate obstacle is not a shortage of ambition but a shortage of dependable power. Nigeria has installed generating capacity estimated at about 13,500 megawatts, yet historically supplies only a fraction of it through the grid. Reuters has reported that instability and inadequate power cost the economy billions of dollars annually.

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