Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Christian Oku ( Transport & Aviation Correspondent)
Nigeria has built thousands of kilometres of roads and expanded airports, seaports, railways, telecommunications infrastructure and urban centres.
By Dorothy Akpan (Real Sector Correspondent)
Nigeria has repeatedly attempted industrialisation. The First National Development Plan emphasised industrial development and even contemplated an integrated iron-and-steel complex.
By Zainab Abdullahi (Health Correspondent)
Nigeria has produced important health programmes and institutions, including primary healthcare initiatives, immunisation campaigns, teaching hospitals, the National Health Insurance system and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
There have also been significant successes in combating infectious diseases and expanding maternal and child-health programmes.
By Stephanie Ebri (Education Correspondent)
Nigeria has achieved enormous expansion in education. At independence, the country had only a small number of secondary schools and two major tertiary institutions. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 2025 Independence address cited more than 23,000 secondary schools and hundreds of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education by 2024.
By Ojone Enejoh (Energy Correspondent)
No sector better explains Nigeria's underdevelopment in 66 years of Nigeria's nationhood than electricity. For decades, governments have announced power projects. There have been: National Electric Power Authority (NEPA); Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) unbundling;
generation and distribution privatisation programmes; the Electric Power Sector Reform Act; the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading framework; the transmission investments; the renewable-energy initiatives; the rural electrification programmes; and, more recently, the Electricity Act 2023.
By Ojone Enejoh (Energy Correspondent)
The nation's Petroleum financed Nigeria's transformation, but it also became one of the principal reasons that transformation remained incomplete.
