Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. We don’t move state capitals around in this country very often, or at least we haven’t since the 19th ...

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When Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja in 1991, it was partly to find a “neutral ground,” a city not tied to any prominent tribe, region, or coastal chaos; thus, Abuja became the centre of ...