Time is running out to make Nigeria work as a unified entity. The truth is that Nigeria has learnt no lesson from its Civil War. The forces of self-determination are too strong to be tamed. They have grown bigger through many years defined by frustration. Nigeria will not work until there is justice and every region is allowed to “eat what they kill” and decide how to develop at their own pace.
Was Nigeria in its geographic sense created to last or was it a convenient contraption for extractive purposes? Since the birth of…