Nigeria, a former British colony, had no name until 1914; the Nigeria of today consisted of diverse ethnic groups scattered across what is the country’s current geographical space. The ethnic groups were not united within a single country or empire in pre-colonial days. In July 1899 the British House of Commons officially approved the name after an article suggesting various names f…
Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available data or analysis to help us understand the reasons behind such failures. This book provides an authoritative examination into why very large projects in Nigeria have failed so ba…