This year’s Colloquium will bring together stakeholders including policy makers, academics, members of Civil Society Organisations and ‘The People’ to tell our own unique Nigerian story of what it means for the government to act as a social investor in the lives and the future of its people. Is it simply a great campaign tag line? Is it a mere ideology with no real incremental/ socio-economic benefits? Or is it as we would wish it to be, a necessary policy action which we must take as a nation if we are to see any real development in our nation.