Corruption in Nigeria is not sustained by politicians alone. It survives because ordinary people help keep it alive, sometimes unknowingly, sometimes conveniently, and sometimes proudly.
Watch this space from tomorrow, Friday, as I begin a weekly column dedicated to examining the role of ordinary citizens in the reproduction and normalization of corruption in Nigeria. Rather than treating corruption solely as an elite or institutional failure, the series interrogates how everyday practices, often unconscious, socially accepted, and morally rationalized, sustain corrupt systems at the grassroots level.
SERIES CONCEPT
The column adopts an analytical and reflective approach to exposing the micro-level behaviors that enable corruption to thrive. By shifting attention from political officeholders to societal norms and individual actions, it challenges dominant narratives that externalize blame. Drawing on satire, sociological insight, moral reasoning, and grounded Nigerian social realities, the series seeks to provoke critical self-examination rather than sympathy, and awareness rather than outrage.
