Nigeria’s Infrastructure Gap may Increase with Continued Insecurity, Corruption
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, revealed that the country needs $1.5 Trillion to fix the infrastructure gap over the next ten years.
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, revealed that the country needs $1.5 Trillion to fix the infrastructure gap over the next ten years.
Based on these statistics, Nigeria’s democracy is classified as a Hybrid Regime. The hybrid regime is the next to the authoritarian regime. Nigerian earned this classification due to the poor state of its election processes and outcomes, the corruption index, judiciary performance, and press freedom.
While government and stakeholders continue to lament the challenge of paucity of funds to recruit more policemen to scale up policing and security in the country, revenue estimated at one hundred and thirty five billion naira (N135 billion), generated from attaching police officers to VIPs, banks and other corporate organizations are publicly unaccounted for.