ABSTRACT
Nigeria’s underinvestment in infrastructure, historically estimated at 1.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contributed to its increasing challenges. Increasing Nigeria’s infrastructure investments to 60% of its GDP requires a strategic move anchored on pragmatic, visionary, and transformational leadership. Pragmatic leadership is result-oriented, and it involves placing emphasis on practical issues to accomplish set goals. A return to the concept of national development planning and investment-led economic growth model in Nigeria is advocated, if the country is intent on increasing its infrastructure stock and catalyzing economic development. In public sector governance, institutions are central to the development process. The economic and socio-political development of most countries is dependent on their public institutions. With public-private partnership infrastructure projects, skills and competencies are required to ensure the successful delivery of infrastructure projects under the public-private partnership’s framework.
