PREMIUM TIMES
…for anyone thinking about their children, the long-term is palpable every single time you look into your child’s eyes. For it is not about ourselves that we are creating these scenarios, which we hope will provoke and inspire; it is for them. But the foundation has to be laid by us. What we do today, what we already did yesterday, and what we will do tomorrow will all combine to shape the Nigeria of 2060.
An independent Nigeria hobbles into another year, turning 63. With elections around the corner, a rare opportunity has come for citizens to make their voice heard, casting a ballot for someone who will, in their eyes, lead Nigeria on a path of improvement. It is no longer news that Nigeria is facing a number of existential challenges, including unprecedented security threats, declining oil revenue, separatist agitations, large scale youth unemployment, growing crime rates, a wave of migration and brain drain, and severely underfunded health and education systems.
