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Nigeria has taken difficult economic decisions—subsidy removal, forex reforms, fiscal tightening. The World Bank and IMF say the economy is stabilising.
But the Nigerian at the dinner table asks a simpler question:
What has changed for me?
This is why the Lekki–Olokola industrial corridor matters.
The coastal highway must do more than carry cars. It must connect factories, industrial parks, agro-processing centres, logistics hubs, power plants and new towns—and most importantly, Nigerians to jobs.
We cannot build one of Africa’s greatest industrial corridors and then import welders, pipefitters, electricians, scaffolders and technicians while unemployed youths in surrounding communities stand outside the factory gates.
Imagine training them before construction begins.
Then, instead of asking:
“What will this company give our community?”
They begin asking:
“How many of us can work here?”
That is the transformation Nigeria needs.
A stipend disappears.
A skill remains.
Stability must lead to investment.
Investment to production.
Production to jobs.
Jobs to income.
And income must ultimately reach the dinner table.
Otherwise, economic reform remains a statistic without a human face.
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To be continued…
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