John Maynard Keynes once remarked that "in the long run we are all dead." It was not an argument against reform. It was a warning that governments cannot ask people to endure present hardship indefinitely while promising future prosperity. That warning has become increasingly relevant in Nigeria.
Over the past three years, the government has undertaken one of the country's most ambitious economic reform programmes in decades. Fuel subsidies were removed. The naira was floated. Electricity tariffs rose. Interest rates climbed to their highest
