Nigeria, April 9 -- Nigeria is currently a man holding a multi-trillion dollar lottery ticket, who is too busy fighting over peanuts to cash it in. We sit on 37 billion barrels of oil and 215 trillion cubic feet of gas - a hydrocarbon inheritance that should be our springboard into the future. Yet, as the global energy transition accelerates, this wealth has an expiration date. In the global energy world, the "box office" is closing, and Nigeria is on the verge of being left with a void ticket.

The Atlantic Advantage: A "Home Win" We are Missing

The irony of our failure is sharpened by the chaos elsewhere. With the conflict in the Middle East threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz - a chokepoint for 20 per cent of global oil - Ni...