Today 1st of October, 2023 marks Nigeria's 63rd Year of Independence. 63 years after been freed from colonial rule by Britain, Nigeria is indeed standing strong with a population of over 200 million people and an uninterrupted democracy that's already lasted for 24 years not a lot, but for Nigerians it's a milestone considering the 33 years spent in military rule. Now for most people the fore mentioned information is common but there is a much more popular question ask on every Independence Day celebration- how developed is the country since from 1960- it is also no secret that the answer to this question is much more negative than positive. But today we are not going to talk about the development status of the country but rather the most important and glaring issue the country has faced since 1960, "unity". In 1914 the British colonial administration led by Lord Lugard fused together three regions from Western Africa, the conservative Nothern Nigeria Prote
Northern Nigeria the established home of Nigerian politics, with a land area that covers more than half the country's land mass. 660.000km2 out of the 993.000km2 of the country is covered by the north, northern Nigeria is home to many historical and political events, 10 out of the 16 post-colonial rulers have come from the north starting from the first and only prime minister the country has laid host to. Among the many good things about the region there must be a lot of negativity infact it is fair to say the region has witnessed more negativity from 1960 till date. Northern Nigeria holds at least 80 percent of the country's poverty rate, it's population mostly illiterate, it was also responsible for the killing of over three thousand Igbo living in the north a massacre that led to the Nigerian civil war. In this modern day the region has been shrouded in terrorism starting from Boko Haram, to banditry. One would wonder why the region would be guilty of such inhuma