Sifting
Every election season in Nigeria produces the same flood, and by now I know the shape of it before it arrives. The screenshots that are not screenshots of anything real. The video clips trimmed at the…
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Governance
Leadership, policy, public administration, and how decisions affect society at scale.
Natural Resources in Nigeria: A Blessing or a Curse
When Nigeria discovered oil in commercial quantities, it was celebrated as the dawn of prosperity. The black gold beneath our soil was supposed to lift millions out of poverty, fund education, build i…
Nigeria Has Reformed Its Economy Before.It Has Never Saved It. This Time Must Be Different.
In Oslo, a quiet institution manages $1.5 trillion on behalf of 5.4 million Norwegians. It owns shares in over 9,000 companies across 70 countries. It holds real estate on three continents. In 2024 al…
The Training That Led Nowhere
Nigeria is good at announcing programmes. It is less good at finishing them. In 2024, the National Directorate of Employment launched a national skills acquisition and startup capital initiative un…
Impunity in Uniform: The Ongoing Crisis of Nigerian Policing
For millions of Nigerians, a police encounter is not a source of safety, it is a source of dread. The killing of Mene Ogidi in Effurun, Delta State, on April 26, 2026, has once again forced the countr…
When Insecurity Defeats Investment
Across Nigeria, abandoned farms tell silent stories. They are not empty because the soil is infertile or because young people lack ambition. They are empty because insecurity has become stronger than…
What bad governance does to young people’s hope
I think one of the saddest things bad governance steals from people is not just comfort or opportunity, but hope. Especially for young people. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes fr…
The subsidy and the sacrifice
On May 29, 2023, barely minutes into his presidency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu uttered four words that would reshape daily life for over 200 million Nigerians: “Fuel subsidy is gone.” It was a declaration as…
Conviction
The insults started coming in around the time I made it clear I was not joining the chorus. Not aggressive insults at first, just the soft kind, the ones people deliver with a smile because they think…
same script, new law
There is a particular kind of pain that comes not from the first betrayal, but from the ones that follow. The kind that settles quietly into your chest and stops feeling like shock. The kind that, b…
Naming Our Ruin, Accepting Our Fate
A nation cannot pray its way out of problems it refuses to structurally solve.
BBenjamin Onuoha M.May 24, 2026Governance4 min readcollective resignationmay nigeria not happen to you
The Clock Is Ticking
There is a conversation happening in every corner of Nigeria — in Lagos traffic, on Abuja streets, in the markets of Aba and Onitsha, and in the lecture halls of Zaria and Uyo. It is a conversation ca…
The Culture of "Emi Lo Kan": Selfishness, One-Upmanship, and Its Toll on Nigerian Society
Picture a neighbourhood on a hot afternoon. The power goes out again. Within minutes, the street erupts in a familiar chorus: generators roaring to life, one after another, every household retreating…
Reforms in the Electoral Act, 2026 (1)
1. Nigeria now has a new electoral Act ahead of the 2027 elections 2. The Electoral Act, 2026 made a lot of reforms to the previous Electoral Act of 2022. 3. The Act solves some problems, but also creates new ones.
Where Do We Go From Here
I reflect on what it means to step inside the structure I once critiqued, and why carrying the outside with me is the only thing that makes the inside worth it.
The Unravelling
On angry voices, false advocates, and the quiet difference between performing governance and doing it.
The Ballot and the Block Button
Why Online Political Bullying Is a Democratic Problem
Colonized Nation, Colonized Minds
1. Colonialism caused more than economic exploitation, infrastructural retrogression or political anarchy in the colonies. 2.InNigeria, the goal of the British was to exploit natural resources and other state resources for the British government. 3. The British also ruled solely as the royal power in England directed, regardless of whether it favoured the people. 4. Nigerians turned ou to be selfish, greedy, corrupt, low self esteem, suspicious and envious of one another because of the colonial style of leadership. 5. This style of leadership continues today and will need a hard reset to change for the better.
Renewed Hope or Renewed Hardship ?
Nearly three years after Nigeria removed its fuel subsidy, the promised temporary hardship has become a daily struggle for millions. Rising inflation has pushed basic necessities such as food, transportation, and electricity further out of reach, while many families are forced to make difficult choices between survival and education, leaving increasing numbers of children out of school.
Docility
The "Nigerian" quality of being readily trained, managed, or handled; a willingness to accept control without resistance.