The Nigerian leadership has once again embarked on a national past time of walking in the dark in ignominy. The minister of finance, Zainab Ahmed recently announced that the government of the day has concluded arrangement to sell some national assets to fund a one-year budget—that of 2021. You would be right to think that disposing of these collectively owned property could fund the nation for at least 10 years and lift Nigerians from poverty to prosperity within this period. No, in their reckoning, the generations to come should not...