Corruption in Nigeria is not just a headline or a political talking point — it is the invisible air that millions breathe, shaping the very fabric of daily life. My own family’s history is a testament to this reality.
In the 1950s, my mother borrowed an entire year’s salary from moneylenders just to pay a bribe for a teaching job at a religiously run school. It took her almost two years to repay that debt. My father, hospitalised for over six months in a government hospital in the early sixties, survived only by bribing critical medical staf
