Nigeria, Jan. 1 -- Corruption in Nigeria is not sustained by politicians alone. It survives because ordinary people help keep it alive, sometimes unknowingly, sometimes conveniently, and sometimes proudly.

Watch this space from tomorrow, Friday, as I begin a weekly column dedicated to examining the role of ordinary citizens in the reproduction and normalization of corruption in Nigeria. Rather than treating corruption solely as an elite or institutional failure, the series interrogates how everyday practices, often unconscious, socially accepted, and morally rationalized, sustain corrupt systems at the grassroots level.

SERIES CONCEPT

The column adopts an analytical and reflective approach to exposing the micro-level behaviors that ena...