One of the defining characteristics of both developing and developed nations is their commitment to institutional memory and administrative continuity. Economic growth, infrastructure, education and improvements in human welfare are rarely achieved within a single political administration. They come from long-term development plans that successive governments preserve and refine over decades. Successive administrative practices in Nigeria, however, often operates within what may be described as an  “Institutional Amnesia Cycle “, an approach that undermine policy continuity, technical capacity, public trust and real infrastructural development in the country.