Nigeria is one of the strangest political creations of the twenty-first century: a country whose society often appears decades ahead of its state. Across the world, Nigerians increasingly operate inside systems of extraordinary sophistication - global finance, artificial intelligence, digital commerce, entertainment, logistics, medicine, academia, venture capital - while at home, the machinery of governance still frequently resembles an analogue republic confronting a digital civilisation.
The contradiction is impossible to ignore. In Lagos,
