Category: Ideology & Social Change
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here is a particular kind of Nigerian sentence that ends every conversation about someone else’s success. “God did it.” Or “na grace.” Or, most tellingly, “e no be by power.” These phrases are not wrong, exactly. They carry a real theological tradition and a real comfort for people navigating an unforgiving economy. But somewhere along…
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As legitimate economic pathways narrow under the weight of inflation, unemployment, and a business environment made harder by exactly the checkpoint extortion and institutional dysfunction already described, survival pressure has pushed a measurable number of Nigerian households into some relationship, direct or adjacent, with illegal income.
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On the Afropolitan Podcast, rapper Ycee said Nigeria is experiencing an Olodo Uprising, a cultural moment where ignorance is celebrated, viral behavior is rewarded, and intellectual achievement is quietly mocked. He said we are accommodating the unintelligent so hard that they have become the majority.
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Nigeria’s First Lady told women who had received Renewed Hope Initiative grants that starting an akara or kuli-kuli business does not take much money. She said it with confidence. She said it with warmth.
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Good governance requires empathy. Empathy requires proximity. Proximity requires that the people making decisions about the lives of ordinary Nigerians have at least some meaningful, unmediated contact with how ordinary Nigerians actually live.
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On May 27, 2026, after Eid-el-Kabir prayers in Lagos, reporters asked President Tinubu about insecurity. Children from Oyo State were still in captivity. A teacher had been beheaded. His response was a theology lesson.
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A man facing N80 billion in money laundering charges was cleared by his party to run for the Senate. Another man under probe for N1.3 trillion allegedly went quiet after defecting to the ruling party. The president’s son was accused of paying Nigerians abroad to cheer. And the government says it is the citizens who…
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ASP Newton Isokpehi of the Anambra State Command went viral on Wednesday after threatening to kill any Nigerian who filmed him on duty. He has served for 26 years. He buys his own uniform. Welcome to the Nigerian Police Force, where the dysfunction is the product.
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A mathematics teacher named Michael Oyedokun was beheaded in Oyo State on May 17, 2026. Two other kidnapped victims appeared on video begging for their lives. Nigerians expressed outrage for about 48 hours. Then they went back to arguing about a celebrity’s personal life. This is political apathy in Nigeria, and it is not a…
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There is a video. That is the part that is different this time. Not the killing, because the killing is not new. What is different is that Nigerians watched it in real time. Saw a man tied up and helpless. Heard him beg. And then watched a uniformed officer in civilian clothes fire at him…