For decades, Nigeria’s sovereignty has persisted more as a theoretical construct than as an operative reality, independent in flag but dependent in policy, shaped by external prescriptions from London, Washington, and Bretton Woods institutions that prize compliance over true progress. However, in the last two years, beneath public frustration and global scepticism, the Tinubu administration seemed to have adopted a new posture to redefine sovereignty through economic realism rather than foreign approval. Still, sovereignty cannot be measured b
For decades, Nigeria’s sovereignty has persisted more as a theoretical construct than as an operative reality, independent in flag but dependent in policy, shaped by external prescriptions from London, Washington, and Bretton Woods institutions that prize compliance over true progress. However, in the last two years, beneath public frustration and global scepticism, the Tinubu administration seemed to have adopted a new posture to redefine sovereignty through economic realism rather than foreign approval. Still, sovereignty cannot be measured b