…Foundations laid, delivery still chasing vision three years on
In March 2026, a Nigerian startup founder posted a message on social media that would have been almost unthinkable a year and a half earlier.
“I once said I no longer drag Bosun because he is fixing foundational problems,” she wrote.
The responses came quickly. Some welcomed the change in tone with cautious optimism. Others jokingly revived an old nickname, calling him ‘Farmer Bosun’, a reference to the slow, often unseen work of planting seeds whose results may only emerge years later.
The immediate trigger was President Bola Tinubu’s approval of Nigeria’s GIS-enabled alphanumeric digital postcode system, a reform that had lingered in policy discussions for nearly two decades without meaningful progress. For many in the technology ecosystem, it was evidence that at least some of the minister’s long-term projects were beginning to materialise.
Few ministers entered office carrying the weight
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