TOWARDS THE PANACEA FOR NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC CRISIS: CAPACITY BUILDING OR MIRACLES?

Abstract

This study considered both capacity building and miracles in the quest for the panacea for the Nigeria’sEconomic Crises. With the tool of the theories of multiple intelligence and divergent thinking adoptedby this study: It was discovered that miracles will endorse laziness, enhance superstition, encouragecounterfeit prophecies and launch the Nigeria’s economy down the drain since it is not proactive.Capacity building will enhance creative intelligence and innovations, ability to adapt to any givenvicissitude and making significance progress even in the midst of stressful circumstances. This studyconcludes that concerted efforts should be made by both the Nigerian state authorities and the churchtowards investing in capacity building and promoting it. The churches should direct their resources tobuilding skill acquisition centers, affordable schools for talents discovery and mastery, manufacturingindustries and the likes instead of building of more cathedrals, empty halls and embarking on projectsthat wields zero economic value. Primary and post primary institutions in Nigeria should restructuretheir academic syllabus to accommodate reflections on creative intelligence. This study adopted boththe primary and secondary means of data collection. The required hypothesis and deductions weredrawn strictly on the qualitative analysis and synthesis of the collated data made via culture centeredand phenomenological approaches.