The Nigeria 2025 Scenarios project that kicked off in November 2006 was launched today, 11th March 2008.
The Nigeria 2025 Scenarios is a story of 4 alternative futures for Nigeria and how Nigeria could evolve in the future, thereby painting images of plausible trajectories for the evolution of the country until the year 2025.
The scenario project was organized by the African Leadership Institute in collaboration with LEAP Africa.
35 individuals from different works of life through series of workshops and meetings, came together to analyse the factors that will influence the future development of the nation. The result of their brainstorming sessions are four logically consistent and thought provoking scenarios of the future of Nigeria, they include:
The scenario project was organized by the African Leadership Institute in collaboration with LEAP Africa.
35 individuals from different works of life through series of workshops and meetings, came together to analyse the factors that will influence the future development of the nation. The result of their brainstorming sessions are four logically consistent and thought provoking scenarios of the future of Nigeria, they include:
- Parambulator: A roundabout story of how to get from where you were to where you were in about 18 years.
- Shine Your Eye: A story of a people that seek salvation from a small clique of leaders who are able to deliver some economic gains at the high price of brutal repression of individual freedom and self actualization.
- Jaga Jaga Republic: A story of how self-seeking leadership, endemic corruption, a populace rendered supine by apathy and superstition, ethnic distrust, religious strife, and elitist power struggle all contribute to destroying the Nigerian nation.
- We don Win: A story of how, with remarkable foresight and fortitude, Nigerians are able to raise their nation from its slumber to become Africa’s largest economy and a leading member of the G20.
These scenarios present a vision of the future and propose a set of robust strategies that could be employed to jumpstart the nation's transformation and improve Nigeria's global competitiveness.
The scenarios are indeed interesting, I have just viewed the scenarios website. I hope that we will be able to realize our potentials in the near future. One thing though, is that the change that we desire lie in our hands. It will first begin within one's circle of influence. Like Covey says, private victory before public victory.
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