Nigeria, April 12 -- A nation does not collapse all at once. It erodes - layer by layer, system by system - until what once appeared unshakable begins to give way under the weight of forces it can no longer contain.

Over the past three weeks in THE SUNDAY STEW, we have stirred a bitter pot. We have examined the liquidity of kidnapping, the territorial siege of banditry, and the ideological ghost of insurgency. Together, they form The Insecurity Triad - a structural anomaly that has come to redefine the Nigerian experience.

This is not merely a collection of crimes.

It is a system.

The Commodification of Life

In Part I, as the series began on 22 March, we confronted kidnapping - not as isolated criminality, but as an organised economi...