Integrity as infrastructure: The role of moral collapse in Nigeria’s institutional breakdown

    Bunmi Oyinsan | YSOT | Apr 15, 2026    
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It is Monday morning in a public secondary school in Nigeria. Students gather for morning assembly, their uniforms neatly worn, even if mostly faded. A teacher arrives thirty minutes late, unhurried and unapologetic. At that moment, the first lesson of the day is delivered without a single word: the rules are flexible, and authority is exempt from them.

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