As a keen observer, then active student, and later storied contributor to Nigerian business landscape and sectoral
reforms discourse for almost three decades, news of the enactment of the Business Facilitation Act (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act No. 5 of 2022 (BFA) - in February 2023 - evoked some emotions in me. First, was “better late than
never”. It was apparently a ‘parting gift’ from the terminal President Buhari administration, and another laurel to its
legislative cap.³