Industrialization always improves the lives of the people. Nigeria is the center of Africa so if the country have access to raw materials and can produce stuff like how Indians did it then maybe Nigeria can catch up.
In Nigeria, we have access to raw materials but lack the necessary technologies to convert them into finished products. This is why we export raw materials to developed countries at a lower cost while importing finished goods from them at a higher cost, thereby enriching developed countries while impoverishing ourselves. We can only complain but do nothing because we are not prepared to compete with the developed countries.
Unfortunately, even when technologies are imported, they are obsolete, making it difficult to compete with the products of developed countries in the global market. To illustrate how bad things are, a Nigerian would prefer foreign-made products over locally-made products. This is simply because locally made products appear to be substandard and inferior to foreign-made products. This disparity can be explained by the type of technology used.