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The issue is those secondary school leavers already have intellect they can leverage. It's not the same game in NG. The education system fails to create people willing to learn the work. Paired with lack of policies to make business easier and here we are.

This cost them about $1 trillion. The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people. And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.

OBJ's first term was way better than Bola Tinubu's term. He also met oil sales at $19.20 per barrel. In 9 months, inflation dropped under Obasanjo, even when he had a running battle with Labour for increasing fuel prices. By 2001/2002, the effects of Telecoms Liberalisation had come into place, and economy had a 15% increase in GDP. From construction to Agricultural industry, there was growth. His wage awards, "Gbemu Aremu" started lifting hitherto dregs, like teachers and civil servants into lower-middle-class. What OBJ didn't do was tell people to sacrifice by totally removing subsidy and going ahead to insist on a Lagos-Calabar road for almost $13billion, and gifting it to Chagoury. Under OBJ, Chagoury was an outcast, being charged for money laundering by Switzerland and a Persona Non Grata in Nigeria. Under Bola Tinubu, he is the Special Friend of the President, recipient of GCON, and has First Options in several projects like Lagos-Calabar, Sokoto-Badgry, Benin-Akure-Ilesha, Apapa-TinCan Ports, Sagamu-Benin-Ore, or Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road. That is the main difference. Obasanjo ran what looked like an economy, and the economy responded. Bola Tinubu is running, what looks like a crony capitalism,and the economy is responding the same way, when innovation and fair competition are stifled. That is why no Bola Tinubu effort on economy has worked. That is why masses are groaning and based on economy alone, may likely vote it out.

Notice how Lagos had nothing to offer her aside from club nightlife. Lessons in there.

I’ve said this before. Forget the USD. Look at our neighbors. 3/4 years ago, the Naira was almost double the CFA, now it has crashed to less than half of the value of the CFA. Meaning if you go to Cotonou today, you need three times as much Naira than in 2021. That’s messed up

My own is, no state in Nigeria has invested as much in education over the last 25 years as Lagos. I don’t know what you guys expect to happen when other states are failing and people keep trooping to Lagos. Why do you think major cities across the world have homeless people?