Beyond Concrete: Enugu’s Bet On Talent And The Future

Nigeria has become remarkably good at celebrating what government can photograph. Roads, bridges and public buildings offer visible evidence of activity; they can be commissioned, named and displayed as proof of performance. Yet some of the most consequential acts of government are less visible. They involve building institutions, developing human capability and creating systems whose value may only become apparent years later.
That distinction matters in a federation. Nigeria’s 36 states should be laboratories of development—places where ideas are tested against local realities, improved through experience and, where successful, replicated elsewhere. The next phase of Nigeria’s develop...