How Not to Build Public Infrastructure
A light rail project is the latest example of empty promises in Nigeria. Plus: Luxury homes in an unlikely boomtown.
The abandoned Idu Station in Abuja, Nigeria.
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In July 2018, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria at the time, boarded a gleaming new train linking the capital city, Abuja, with its airport. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Buhari hailed the system as “evidence that we are a government that delivers on its promises.”