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
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa KBE (Dec 1912- Jan 1966) a native of Bauchi was Nigeria's first and only Prime Minister. He was a lover of British culture and he favoured maintaining close ties with the British, a move which endeared him to the colonial masters. Sir Abubakar was also a defender of the North's special interest and an advocate of Nigerian unity. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in December 1912 in modern-day Bauchi State in Northern Nigeria Protectorate. His father Yakubu Dan Zala was a slave who worked in the house of the district head of lere a district within the Bauchi Emirate. Balewa began his education at a Quranic school in Bauchi; during the second British administration, colonial administrators pushed for Northern Nigerian natives to attend elementary school. Therefore after Quranic school Balewa was among the children sent to Tafawa Balewa Elementary School. Like many of his political contemporaries he later studied at Barewa college then known