Nigeria’s greatest economic policy failure may be electricity – The one problem holding back every other sector of the economy

Every nation has one decision that quietly determines whether its economy rises or merely survives. For some, it was the decision to industrialise. For others, it was to educate their people, open their markets or build strong institutions. For Nigeria, history may conclude that our greatest economic mistake was something far more fundamental: We tried to build an economy before we built the power to run it. That single mistake now echoes through every factory that cannot produce competitively, every farmer who cannot preserve a harves