Sweetie, you have not "worked in the development sector" because there is no such thing. You have actually spent 2 decades dancing like a monkey in a suit in exchange for oyibo man's NGO funds, and because Nigerians historically have always lost their ability to think once they encounter money, you have deluded yourself into thinking that this is "work."

Newsflash: Your "career" is imaginary. It only exists because rich and powerful white men decided that giving you some money to use for 2 decades worth of "seminars," "capacity building," "webinars," advocacy," and suchlike Abuja-based tomfoolery is strategically useful to them, by creating cover for the funding pipeline that supports their actual geopolitical agenda for Nigeria.

You are not and have never been a player on the board. You're not even an important part of the NGO headfake machine - you're just a moderately useful and entirely disposable/fungible organic cloaking device that has sentience and believes that it is a main character.

As I always say about Nigerians, you're a piece of meat on a fork that thinks it is the dinner guest as the table.