NIGERIA @66: BOOMING BANKS, STRUGGLING NATION, WHERE IS THE PROMISED PROSPERITY?

By Blaise Udunze As Nigeria celebrates 66 years of independence, it must ask whether the country has delivered the prosperity and opportunities its people were promised. Beyond the official celebrations, political speeches and repeated claims of national achievement, Nigerians must confront a more important question about the country’s actual progress. Is Nigeria becoming an economy in which its people can increasingly determine their own economic future, or are we merely becoming better at managing the symptoms of longstanding structural weaknesses? The banking industry provides a useful lens through which to…

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