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When Crime Finds Shelter: A Letter from Within, Not Above

Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- My brothers and sisters of the North, Let us begin with an honest truth that no culture, creed, or region can escape: crime is part of human nature. Wherever there are people, the... Read More


From Voters to Vendors: How Elections Became Market Days

Nigeria, Jan. 9 -- Assistant Corruption Officers series. Week 2, continuing seamlessly from Week 1. In theory, elections are sacred moments. They are the one time ordinary citizens hold power over t... Read More


When Enemies Become Assets: A Discipline My Northern Brothers Must Learn

Nigeria, Jan. 6 -- My northern brothers, let us speak plainly, without sentiment, without slogans, and without self-deception. Every person who matters attracts enemies. Every society that has weight... Read More


Kano Governor's Defection Saga: Democracy Exposed - What Nigerians Still Don't Understand About Politics.

Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- Here's a hard truth Nigerians must face: Politics is NOT a moral exercise. It is not a church sermon. It is not a mosque lecture. Politics is power, interests, calculation, and su... Read More


The Assistant Corruption Officer Series

Nigeria, Jan. 1 -- Corruption in Nigeria is not sustained by politicians alone. It survives because ordinary people help keep it alive, sometimes unknowingly, sometimes conveniently, and sometimes pro... Read More


Nigeria Did Not "Become" Corrupt -Corruption Was Designed

Nigeria, Dec. 31 -- 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, carefully, a... Read More


Nigeria Is Not Poor - We Are Simply Wasting What God Gave Us

Nigeria, Dec. 28 -- 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 poor. We are not unlucky. We are not curs... Read More


The Political Settlement Question: Why Some States Can Build Sovereignty- And Others Cannot (4)

Nigeria, Dec. 26 -- At the end of every discussion about reform, sequencing, incentives, and power lies a single, unavoidable question: what kind of political settlement governs the state? Policies d... Read More


The Political Economy of Failure: Who Profits from Disorder and Why Autonomy is Feared (3)

Nigeria, Dec. 25 -- 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 sovereig... Read More


Policy Architecture and Sequencing: How Sovereignty is Built- Not Declared

Nigeria, Dec. 24 -- Sovereignty is not achieved through announcements. It is constructed through sequencing. States fail not because they lack ambition, but because they attempt everything at once, in... Read More