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The Assistant Corruption Officer Series
Corruption in Nigeria is not sustained by politicians alone. It survives because ordinary people help keep it alive, sometimes unknowingly, sometimes conveniently, and sometimes...
Nigeria Did Not “Become” Corrupt —Corruption Was Designed
Let’s stop lying to ourselves.
Nigeria is not corrupt because Nigerians are bad people. Nigeria is corrupt because corruption was built into the system, deliberately,...
Nigeria Is Not Poor — We Are Simply Wasting What God Gave Us
There comes a moment in the life of a nation when denial becomes more dangerous than failure. Nigeria has reached that moment.
We are not...
The Political Settlement Question: Why Some States Can Build Sovereignty- And Others Cannot (4)
At the end of every discussion about reform, sequencing, incentives, and power lies a single, unavoidable question: what kind of political settlement governs the...
The Political Economy of Failure: Who Profits from Disorder and Why Autonomy is Feared (3)
Policy failure does not persist for decades by accident. Disorder that endures is almost always serving someone’s interest.
Nigeria’s recurring inability to secure energy sovereignty,...
