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The Builders

Every week, one person who is building or fixing something in Nigeria. A borehole, a clinic, a cold room, a school at N100 a day, a legal-aid desk, a factory in Aba, a drone in a university lab. The scale does not matter. The problem must be real, the thing must exist, and you must be able to say what it cost.

Nigerian coverage of people who build comes in two kinds: funding news written for investors, and profiles that never ask what went wrong. This is the third kind. Same five questions for everyone, the data on the table before the dream, and nobody pays to appear.

The five questions

  1. 1

    What is broken, exactly, and how do you know?

    The specific failure, not the sector.

  2. 2

    What did you build, and what did it cost?

    Money, years, what you gave up. Numbers.

  3. 3

    What does the record say?

    We bring one figure on the problem, from our Response Panel, our research or the public record, and you react to it.

  4. 4

    What went wrong?

    The thing that broke, the money that did not come, the partner who left. No episode without this answer.

  5. 5

    What do you need that you cannot buy?

    Not funding. The permit, the road, the policy, the trust.

Are you building something?

Or do you know someone who is? Tell us. A student with a prototype counts. A cooperative counts. A clinic that has stayed open for nine years counts. We check that the thing exists before we invite anyone, so give us the one link that proves it.

We read everything and reply to what fits. Nobody pays to appear, and nothing is promised by sending this.

The rules

  • No pay to appear, no sponsored episodes, no launches dressed up as problems.
  • Every guest is checked on the public record before an invitation. What cannot be checked is not said on air as fact.
  • Politicians and candidates for office are not guests on this strand.
  • The episode is 25 to 35 minutes, on video, and the five questions do not change.