Nigeria's Federalism - Designed for Competition, Trapped in Administrative Rivalry

Nigeria's Federalism - Designed for Competition, Trapped in Administrative Rivalry

Until Nigeria's federal system evolves from administrative competition to genuine economic competition among its states, international trade openness will produce dependency rather than industrial transformation.

Nigeria’s federalism: Designed for competition, trapped in administrative rivalry, By Dipo Baruwa

Yet, Nigeria’s federal competition has largely been administrative rather than economic. Political rivalry is intense, but genuine competition to build productive economies, attract investment, and develop industrial capacity remains limited. A federation designed to function as a multilevel and multiparty system has gradually constricted into one that increasingly resembles a unitary structure dominated by a […] The post Nigeria’s federalism: D…