Nigeria, April 10 -- On the collapse of ethical limits, the death of shame, and the quiet normalisation of boundless impunity in Nigerian public life.

"I was watching politics today yesterday, if there was any way for me to break the screen, I would've shot Seun"

This remark was made by Nigeria's Minister of the Federal Capital Territory during a media chat in which he threatened to shoot a journalist, Seun Okinbaloye of Channels Television for expressing his views on the decimation of opposition parties in an attempt to establish a one-party dominant state. His attack received public condemnation, with 14 civil society groups calling on the minister to retract the statement and tender a public apology. This incident, among many others,...