ew national failures are as intimate, punishing and economically ruin- ous as Nigeria’s power crisis. It is not an abstract policy issue debated F in official circles; it is the daily darkness that shuts businesses early, drains profits through generators, disrupts production lines and forces house- holds to live with uncertainty. The real tragedy is not just that Africa’s largest economy still struggles to keep the lights on, but that this failure has become normalised, often explained away as inevitable rather than recognised for what it is-a collapse of policy coherence, market discipline a…