A Nation Under Strain

Nigeria confronts today not a succession of misfortunes but something altogether more menacing: a convergence of them. Across this vast, fractious republic, insecurity, hunger, the progressive demolition of education, and the accelerating erosion of institutional trust are no longer running along separate tracks. They have fused into a single, defining national affliction. What lends this moment its particular gravity — and its acute political urgency — is not the weight of any single crisis in isolation, but the manner in which each amplifies and entrenches the others, constructing a self-reinforcing cycle that now presses against the very foundations of the Nigerian state.
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