Time, in Nigeria, is not just measured - it is negotiated. A meeting fixed for 10:00 a.m. begins at 11:30, not because clocks have failed, but because people have chosen to interpret them differently. A wedding invitation that says “12 noon” is understood, by cultural consensus, to mean something closer to mid-afternoon. Yet that same society will arrive at an international airport three hours early, queue before dawn at a visa centre, and log into a global work call at exactly the scheduled minute. The contradiction is not incidental. It is the lived expression of a deeper tension: Nigeria operates with two clocks.