Nigeria, June 14 -- We now live in an age where justice no longer wears only a wig and gown. It wears makeup, faces a camera, and trends in 280 characters. The courtroom has been cloned, first by talk shows, then by the roaring, merciless coliseum of social media. And Nigerians, exhausted by slow institutions and hungry for catharsis, have crowned these platforms as new temples of conflict resolution. Media trials carry the public along, they promise transparency, and they offer reputation damage control with the speed of a livestream. Yet, as sociologist Erving Goffman warned in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, once the performance leaves the backstage and becomes public spectacle, control over the narrative is lost. We confus...