Nigeria reached its post-hegemonic moment, not through a single dramatic event but through a slow, wearing away of legitimacy.
Military formations must traverse enormous distances to reach remote communities, while roads that should serve as arteries of commerce become vulnerable corridors for travellers.
This does not mean that state police are inherently doomed.
What appears easy in the short term compounds disaster in the long term.
An executive order is an instrument through which the president exercises constitutional power. It is not legislation. It cannot amend legislation.
Do Nigerian political leaders increase confidence in the electoral system? Or do they deepen suspicion?
The Nigerian president’s fall in Ankara cannot be wished away as a mere stumble without context.
Like Gregor Samsa before his metamorphosis, the salesman inhabits the margins of society, overlooked and underestimated, yet uniquely positioned to see what grand institutions often miss.
Every official involved in the arrest, detention, neglect, and concealment of Mrs Ifedi’s death must be identified and prosecuted.
