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Is Nigeria still a democracy?, By Cheta Nwanze

Reported by Premium Times on 30 May 2026. Read the summary below, then continue to the full story.

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Ololade Bamidele
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Nigeria has not collapsed into a full-blown dictatorship, but it is no longer functioning as a democracy either. Its institutions have failed to consolidate, leaving the country suspended in a political twilight. To understand Nigeria’s governance disaster, one must recognise its three overlapping systems: anocracy, kakistocracy and plutocracy. Within that toxic triangle, kleptocracy, neopatrimoni

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