Nigeria, Dec. 27 -- Nigeria remains under the klieg lights. Regrettably, this is not for all-too-positive reasons. There is a clear correlation between her domestic policy and governance dissonance and her discernible loss of global leverage. Once considered Africa's bellwether, Nigeria has since fallen on hard times. Relatedly, she has also lost the capacity to deploy both hard and soft power in tackling national interest matters. For now, she straddles the BRICS and the G-20 blocs and yet is neither a full member in either, which makes conversations with her international partners very awkward. It's extremely sad that Nigeria is being described as a "now disgraced country." But she has perhaps, unwittingly earned that sobriquet and come...