By OLABODE OPESEITAN
Nigeria is undergoing a quiet revolution—sector by sector, institution by institution. Yet many former public office holders remain unable, or unwilling, to acknowledge this seismic shift. It’s not just political blindness—it’s a failure of moral calibration.
Mediocrity cannot recognize greatness. And those forged in the complacency that led Nigeria to despondency will struggle to comprehend the velocity of change now underway.
From derelict roads to a restructured transport ecosystem—marked by gradually increasing CNG-powered public fleets, record-breaking kilometers of rehabilitated highways, and multimodal corridors linking once-isolated regions—Nigerians are witnessing a transformation that defies the inertia of past decades.
They can see revitalized hospitals. They can see factories roaring back to life. They can see decades-old, abandoned infrastructure projects—brought to completion in Enugu, Ogun, Kaduna, and across virtually every state.
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They are reeling under the pains of hard economic realities triggered by the inevitable reforms, but they are also beginning to see the signs—clear, grounded, and verifiable—of genuine growth and sustainable development.
The merchants of despair and revisionist nostalgia may peddle confusion—but Nigerians, awakened by the quiet revolution around them, now reject myth for proof, noise for progress. They know those who broke Nigeria. And they know those who are rebuilding it.
The path is far from painless. But it is, for the first time in decades, purposeful. As hardship yields the first fruits of structural rebirth, government must remain focused. It must intensify efforts to lower living costs, audit ineffective policies, and drop what no longer serves the people. Visibility is rising. Significant improvement in people’s standards of living must follow.
