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Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is remembered by many for its spectacular action, but beneath the explosions and high-speed chases lies a profound lesson about the nature of disorder. Throughout the film, Batman captures criminals and appears to restore order to Gotham City. Yet every victory proves temporary because the city’s greatest enemy is not…
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived in the United Kingdom for a state visit hosted by King Charles III, many Nigerians were drawn to the spectacle, the horse guards, the royal reception, and the symbolism of Commonwealth ties renewed at the highest level. Yet, beyond the optics lies a more consequential reality: this is the…
Nigeria’s worsening security situation has pushed the country into one of the most consequential governance debates of the Fourth Republic: whether the time has come to decentralise policing. Across the country, communities face daily threats from insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, farmer–herder conflicts, and organised criminal violence. Yet the responsibility for policing over 200 million citizens remains…
I watched the funeral this week with a heaviness that refused to lift. A young woman, 26 years old. A rising voice. A life that had barely unfolded. The tears were raw, the kind that come when potential is buried alongside flesh. Ifunanya Nwangene should have been planning tours, recording sessions, and new beginnings. Instead,…
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx asserts that, “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on…
In the famous Pirates of the Caribbean films, Tortuga is introduced as a place where disorder has settled in and made it comfortable. It is noisy, violent, indulgent, and strangely functional. People drink, fight, recruit allies, lose fortunes, and bury grievances all in the same breath. Authority is not absent, but it is weak, improvised,…
I have spent over seven years teaching in secondary schools across Kaduna and Ibadan, and the last two years lecturing at the university. This means I have seen Nigeria’s education system from both ends. I have taught teenagers still struggling to understand simple sentences, and I now teach undergraduates who are expected to question…
