Nigeria At the Threshold - Elections As State Design, Not Elite Ritual

Nigeria At the Threshold - Elections As State Design, Not Elite Ritual

Nigeria does not need another cycle of hope deferred. It needs a shared agenda, institutional discipline, and a renewed social contract anchored in obligation, justice, and productivity.

Nigeria at the threshold: Elections as state design, not elite ritual, By Dipo Baruwa

Elections should not be moments of emotional mobilisation followed by collective amnesia. They should serve as checkpoints in a longer process of national design, review, and course correction… Citizens, civil society, the private sector, labour, professionals, and the diaspora are to engage in the process not merely as voters, but as co-architects of Nigeria’s future. […] The post Nigeria at the threshold: Elections as state design, not elite r…

Algorithms at the Ballot: Nigeria’s Crisis of Electoral Technology and Public Trust

By Gabriel Ameh For years, Nigeria’s elections have been defined by long queues, ballot snatching, and bitter disputes at collation centres. By 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) promised a different story, one in which technology would succeed where institutions had repeatedly fallen short. The introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) was presented as a water…