Nigeria likes to speak the language of digital ambition. Our policy documents read like blueprints for a 21st-century education and workforce: a National ICT Policy that promises connectivity, a National Skills Qualification Framework that gestures towards employability, and digital literacy initiatives meant to prepare young people for a technology-driven economy. On paper, the vision is impressive. In practice, the distance between promise and reality remains uncomfortably wide.
The problem is not simply that good policies are poorly imple
