Nigeria, Dec. 30 -- A society does not collapse only when guns are louder than laws. It also weakens when citizens begin to suspect that the text meant to govern them can be quietly edited after the constitutional ceremony has ended. When a law loses credibility, enforcement becomes a contest of power, not a discipline of legitimacy. Compliance becomes a gamble, not a civic duty. That is the unsettling shadow now hanging over Nigeria's 2025 tax reform project. This agenda was sold as economic renewal, but it is now threatened by a credibility crisis that strikes at the heart of constitutional order. The Tinubu administration's tax reforms were introduced with an ambition that, on the surface, is difficult to quarrel with: modernise Nigeri...