"Money is not Nigeria's problem, but how to spend it"—this statement is famously attributed to General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s military head of state from 1966 to 1975. It captures a critical truth about Nigeria’s economic trajectory: abundance without direction leads to missed opportunities.
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