Those Who Say Nigeria is One Are the Country's Greatest Enemies

The Nigerian structure has failed no doubt, since 1960, or perhaps even beyond, stretching as far as the year of her Amalgamation - 1914. The systems are moribund, with mechanisms which will not only ruin our existence (as it did our forebears) but also rain havoc on generations yet on born. In fact, ours is already a failed generation: with the generation of lazy youths with lying tongues and bodies yearning for swindling and sundry corrupt practices. Nowadays, our youths criticize and curse on social media only, while they relax at home to bear the fact that our light flickers like dico light; bear the fact that there are no job vacancies, and when they apply for menial jobs, the company they work for (that thinks it is doing them a favour by employing them) either oppresses them by forcing them to do task not within the tenets of their jobs, or cuts their salary for flimsy reasons, yet the crazy youths feel obliged to keep a foolish calm because they fear of loosing their jobs.

To be fair, Nigeria won't move forward an inch in a million years to come. Rather, it would retrogress, as it has done consistently for the last century. The fact being that, there are too many nations inside this broken country, that demand their own separate existences in order for peace to reign, which in turn would pave the way for meaningful development in such localities. Presently, these many nations which constitute this incongruous country harbour great hatred against themselves, that they distrust each other, and for many years to come, this hatred may not be wiped out, and thus cannot plan.

The question now is, why do we continuously pretend that we are united than disunited, while future lives already smell of jeopardy? Let us shield our eyes to say the truth: Nigeria's existence should be peacefully reconsidered to save future lives from crumbling, as those of our generation had. The power in the centre is too enormous for a multinational state like Nigeria. Individual nations/tribes/regions/state inside Nigeria should be allowed to cater for themselves, have their own structures, control their own laws that govern themselves independent of each other, employ their own people, etc. Thereafter, a weak Central Government (which shall be the head of a con-federal system of government) could be supported by individual nations for the upkeep of a common military base.

Nigeria is not growing. Rather, it is fast falling like one of the heavenly bodies from space. The wave of its speedy fall is the one yet causing us discomfort. We should do all we can within rational context to keep it from crashing completely, because when it falls, there won't be a second life at shattering. Whoever, in this modern Nigeria, scolds you when you speak about restructuring, and even labels you as 'tribalistic' for baring your mind, is being hypocritical. He is one of those feeding on the maggots which come out from the rotting Nigeria, leaving the masses to bear the smell while listening to the cry of their stomachs.


Nigeria's current system has failed woefully. It is high time, we searched thoroughly for another way out of this dangerous woods, to save posterity, from experiencing what we and our forebears experienced.

Thank you.