Tag: history
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The Visa Dream Industry: How Agents Sell Migration as Salvation and Leave Migrants to Face Reality Alone
The greatest disservice we can do to prospective migrants is to sell them fantasy. The greatest service we can do is to tell them the truth. Migration can create opportunities, but it also demands sacrifice, resilience, adaptation, and sometimes starting over. A visa opens a border; it does not guarantee a future. Those who are…
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Nigeria’s Security Crisis Is a Symptom. The Real Disease Is a Broken System
Bandits are exploiting the weaknesses of the system. Kidnappers are profiting from the weaknesses of the system. Corruption survives because of the weaknesses of the system. Insecurity persists because of the weaknesses of the system.
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A Dysfunctional System That Rewards Disconnection
Across the country, citizens are being asked to make sacrifices. They are told to endure economic reforms, rising food prices, high transportation costs, unemployment, and declining purchasing power in the hope that better days lie ahead. Yet many of the actions of those in power suggest that the burden of sacrifice is not being shared…
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN NIGERIA: WHY THE SYSTEM REQUIRES MORE THAN RHETORIC
Many constitutional scholars have long argued that local governments in Nigeria are not truly a third tier of government in the same sense as the federal and state governments. Unlike the federal and state governments, local governments do not enjoy constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty over their existence, powers, and administration. Their legal status remains largely dependent…
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Oyo State, Local Policing, and the Future of Security Federalism in Nigeria
Effective national security is not measured by how much power is concentrated at the center. It is measured by how quickly and effectively security reaches the people at the local level.
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South Africa and Regional Migration: Between Economic Pressure, Legal Enforcement, and Social Perception
Xenophobia tends to emerge where these pressures intersect and where institutions cannot fully regulate or absorb economic competition at the informal level.
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Policing Nigeria Without Reforming the Police Is Hypocrisy
These officers are fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers and sisters. They are members of our communities too. The government must urgently reform the police, improve welfare packages and create conditions that restore dignity to the job. Truthfully, many of us condemning them would not survive two hours living in some of the barracks these officers…
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TRUE FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA (EPISODE 1)Who Should Control What in Nigeria?
By Oluwaseyi Oduyela One of the biggest misunderstandings in Nigeria’s political conversation is that federalism is treated as an abstract idea. It is not. Federalism is practical. It answers a simple question: Who should control the things that affect people’s daily lives? Right now, Nigeria’s answer is clear but problematic. The federal government controls too…
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Recycling Power: When Leadership Becomes a Closed Loop By Seyi Oduyela
Nigerians seem to be slipping back into a familiar cycle, where a small group once again determines the fate of over 200 million people. Take Ogun State as an example. The contest is shaping up around three former governors. One spent eight years in office with little to show and is now returning to the…
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Early Childhood Marriage Among Traditional Worshippers in Southwest Nigeria By Otun Adeosun
In Southwest Nigeria, early marriage is sometimes upheld among adherents of indigenous Yoruba religions. Religions like Ifá and Òrìṣà worship consider it a continuation of ancestral customs. It is often believed that marrying girls at a young age preserves their purity. It also ensures obedience. Additionally, it aligns with spiritual instructions received through divination. In…
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