Nigeria, Oct. 23 -- To live in a Nigerian city during a power failure is to be reminded of how little one's citizenship actually weighs on the scale of governance. You pay your bills under the grinding weight of inflation, you adjust your household budget to accommodate tariff hikes, you fulfill every quiet, ordinary obligation required of a person trying to exist honorably within a fragile state. And then, without warning, the lights go out not because a storm damaged the grid, nor because a turbine failed, but because men with state power and guns decided that the law was a suggestion and violence was an institutional right.They have a case, but why punish the rest of us? What the thugs did did not affect their technical operations.In ...