Frantz Fanon it was who said that “every generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it”. In the aftermath of the Kano terrorist attacks and the seven decades of routine ethno-religious mass killings in the North, ourgeneration must as Frantz Fanon said confront the unique mission of our time which must be fulfilled through the choice of freedom over slavery and of self determination over internal colonialism......................

There is no sane argument to keep Nigeria. It is a nation consumed by injustice, hatred, self destruction, it is also the mostfailed nation on earth incapable of providing the most fundamental right, which is the right to life without which any other right cannot exist and of providing the basic essentials such as electricity, pipe borne water etc. These are basic amenities that are taken for granted in the poorest African countries. In spite of being the 6 th largest oil producer in the world and the largest in Africa, Nigeria imports fuel. There is no other nation on the face of the earth with this level of failure. It is a nation that dehumanises her citizens and strips them of every human dignity. A nation that makes animals out of men. A nation that is at best a human zoo. There is a reason why Nigeriahas failed so exceptionally and it is her irreconcilable contradictions.

Any careful observer will realise that “one Nigeria” has always been a scam which even the loudest advocates do not believe in.It’s only been a convenient ploy to loot the nation. The so called one Nigeria leaders have contributed more to the destruction of Nigeria than anyone else. In anticipation of the nation’s eventual collapse, all of them are busy building their future outside Nigeria. These leaders send all their children abroad, buy housesabroad and stash their wealth abroad, yet these are the same leaders that sing “one Nigeria”. How long can we be fooled? Indeed is Nigeria not an already disintegrated nation? What is left of a nation where ethnic groups are returning to their enclaves because of ethno-religious crises or where a section of the country introduces sharia laws in violation of the constitution, or where terrorists bomb and kill innocents in churches and other locations on account of their religion and ethnicity? Must we wait for everyone to be killed before we realise that Nigeria cannot work?

Nigeria is a nightmare. We need to finally confront the reality of it’s impossibility as a viable nation and break-it up. The Scottish have just scheduled an independence referendum for September 2014 after centuries of union with Britain. In 1991, the Soviet Union, a nuclear world power disintegrated. In 1947, Pakistan seeking a separate nation for Muslims seceded from India. In 1993, following a referendum, Eritrea seceded from Sudan. In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated leading to more than 8 new nations. In 1993, Czechoslovakia disintegrated. In 1971, Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan. In 2002, East Timor seceded from Indonesia and in 2011 South Sudan seceded from Sudan. There is thus a long precedent of self determination by many nations around the world. Most importantly, none of the new nations have ever regretted their decisions to separate from their former nations in spite of whatever challenges they might be facing. There is no reason why the aftermath of Nigeria’s breakup scenario will be different.

The French live in France, the Irish in Ireland, the Germans in Germany amongst others, so why should so called Nigerians be forced to live with a myriad of disparate ethnic nations that is further divided along religious lines? Amongst former British colonies, three nations namely, Nigeria, Sudan and India were created with contradictions that made them impossible to function by particularly lumping significant Muslim populations with other ethno-religious groups. Out of the three, India and Sudan has disintegrated, only Nigeria remains. There is no nation in the world where significant populations of fundamentalist Muslims cohabit peacefully with other religions and this reality has been vindicated in Nigeria with the endless ethno-religious mass killings in the North. No matter how much we try to pretend, empirical evidence suggests that there will never be peace, harmony nor progress until there is a separation between the fundamentalist Muslims in the Sharia North and the rest. The route of disintegration travelled by India and Sudan must therefore, inevitably include Nigeria and the time is now.
Advantages Of Break-up:
(1)Accountability of Leaders
Amongst the many advantages of Nigeria’s break-up, the single greatest gain will be the possibility to hold leaders accountable in a new nation freed from Nigeria’s contradictions. It is no secret that Nigeria’s monumental corruption-patronage is fuelled and sustained by tribalism. It is impossible to effect the kind of radical and draconian measures needed to stamp out corruption without awakening the ghosts of tribalism. This is thesimple reason why there hasn’t been a Jerry Rawlings kind of revolution in spite of the monumental looting and destruction ofthe nation. It should be recalled that Major Kaduna Nzeogwu’s coup in spite of its shortcomings and excesses was fundamentally against election rigging-corruption, violence and misrule but the coup was defeated on the altar of Nigeria’s ethno-religious contradictions.

Nigeria thus provides a tribal shield occasioned by her contradictions to leaders who conscious of this “ethnic immunity” engage in unlimited looting. Nigeria’s Break-up will remove this important tribal shield and render the leaders accountable to their people with the possibility of severe consequences for recalcitrant leaders.

(2) Job Creation And Opportunities


Many people still do not realise that Nigeria’s breakup will open up many job opportunities. There are presently 36 states and 774 local governments in Nigeria that have to be accommodated by restricted quota in federal jobs such as the Police force, the Armed forces, the customs service, immigration service, the SSS, NNPC, PHCN, Nigeria airways, Nitel, NAFDAC, foreign missions and other boards and parastatals. Sharing thesepositions between 36 states and 774 local governments’ means that very few people within any jurisdiction gets employed in these services. Since every nation must have these essential services, it means that Nigeria’s disintegration will open up thesejob opportunities to only people from the new nations. Rather than sharing these positions with a myriad of states and local governments, these positions and many more will open exclusively to people from the new nation creating a lot of job opportunities.


(3) Reconstruction and Concentrated Localised Development

One of the advantages of breakup is localised construction to develop the new capital city and other national projects. Unlike Nigeria where every development was concentrated in Lagos and now Abuja while other areas were ignored to the extent thatthere were even official policies of marginalisation preventing the development of an international airport and other capacity building projects in other areas, the new nations must necessarily build such important and capacity building projects as an international airport and other infrastructure for their capital and other major cities without let or hindrance. Other national development projects around the new nations will also naturally be undertaken creating concentrated localised development and the attendant job creation opportunities.


(4) Increased Resources, Membership of The UN and Direct Foreign Aid

In present day Nigeria under the parasitic monkey dey work baboon dey chop system, resources from the 10 oil producing states, 6 in the Niger Delta, 3 in the East and 1 in the West plus resources from customs and excise duties accruing from goods imported into the country and value added tax from consumption are the chief sources of resources distributed to the 36 states and 774 local governments. This system robs resources from those who generate it to fund those who contribute nothing. For example, the 12 Northern sharia states with the highest concentration of local governments in Nigeria that contribute nothing is funded to the tune of more than four trillion Naira or $40 billion annually. Nigeria’s Breakup will free these resources and return it to those who generate the resources.

Breakup will also lead to increased investments and exploitation of natural resources such as coal, limestone, crude oil and others in parts of Nigeria where such activity has not been allowed in present day Nigeria. Local taxes generated from customs and excise, value added tax etc will be for the sole use of the location from where it is generated. Many African nations such as Rwanda,Uganda, Tanzania etc that thrive solely on foreign aid are all doing better than Nigeria. Breakup will lead to the establishment of international finance, aid and political organizations such as the UN, IMF, world bank, WHO, UNICEF etc in the new nations which will in turn lead to direct foreign aid andintervention for the construction of critical infrastructure and other social programs.

(5) Localised Education And Industrial Policy
It is not for nothing that other African countries have maintained a basic standard of education while education in Nigeria has practically collapsed. Nigeria’s leadership was dominated for long by the North that had no desire to encourage education since their own people hardly went to school, they also never encouraged youth empowerment, since they have groomed their own youths to become poverty ridden-destitute almajiri’s. Since a man cannot give what he does not have, it was never in the interest or calculation of erstwhile northern leaders to invest in education or youth empowerment, which has now birthed the crisis of collapsed education, youth unemployment, poverty and social chaos in the nation. Breakup will make it possible for the new nations to articulate and develop a robust education and industrial policy that caters specifically to their needs, aspirations and addresses the problem of poverty- youth unemployment.


(6)Biometric ID Cards And Social Security
Whereas less endowed African countries are well organised with a structured ID card system and a database that helps in planning, security and general administration, the politics of population manipulation and fraud by the north induced northern leaders to block all initiatives for a secure civic registration ID card system in Nigeria. Breakup will make it possible for the new nations to create a comprehensive database with biometric ID cards that incorporates fingerprints, digital photographs and DNA profiles. An added advantage of biometric identification is the creation of a social security system that provides a safety net for the citizens.


(7) Convening Of A Sovereign National conference
For so long the sovereign rights of each ethnic group have been suppressed through the consistent refusal to convene a sovereign national conference by selfish northern interests who want to maintain the status quo of social, economic and political injustices. Breakup will make it possible for the citizens of the new nations to convene a sovereign national conference on the basis of equality and exhaustively negotiate a covenant or constitution of association that respects the autonomy of all constituent units and creates a harmonious and prosperous nation.
( End Of Marginalisation And Apartheid
Since the end of the Biafra-Nigeria conflict, marginalisation and apartheid has been the official policy of the Nigerian government towards some sections of the citizenry that resulted in the near total absence of federal infrastructure in their region and the near total exclusion of those citizens from the upper echelons of government. Breakup will bring a definite and final end to more than four decades of marginalisation.


Conclusions:

The advantages of break-up are so many that there is neither the time nor the space to catalogue all of them. The undisputable fact remains that Nigeria is an unworkable and irredeemable failure. If other less endowed African nations canhave basic amenities and a measure of peace while Nigeria does not, then there is something seriously wrong with Nigeria and it’s time to finally confront the reality of the impossibility of Nigeria as a nation. Except for those who have chosen collectivesuicide or perpetual slavery, I see no reason why anyone would want to be part of a nation where there is marginalisation, injustice, inequality, oppression, ethno-religious mass murders and a total lack of progress. A nation where if you live in the North you are segregated into strangers quarters known as “sabon gari” because the northerners consider you a stranger who should not live in their midst. The same Northerners segregate themselves into Hausa quarters when they move down south because they don’t believe they should mix with strangers and yet this is the country we pretend to be a nation.

Is it not also true that a Nigerian from the South is safer living in another African country or anywhere else in the world as a foreigner than living in the North as a Nigerian where he would sooner be murdered on account of his ethnicity and religion? Where then is the nation in Nigeria? The worst lie is the lie a man tells himself. Nigerians have continued to lie to themselves that Nigeria is a nation when the reality and all empirical evidence have consistently proven otherwise. As Fanon said, it’s time to undertake the mission of our generation and breakup this contraption. The mass killings in the North will never end andthere will never be peace or progress in Nigeria until there is a breakup and permanent separation between the Muslim North and the rest of the nation. It is the greatest yoke holding the nation down the lifting of which will herald freedom, peace, prosperity and other profound changes.

There are many ways, means and options to break up this hopeless and useless nation. One of them is simply to de-amalgamate the North and the South, others include scheduling a referendum or plebiscite on self determination. Forthe sake of our children and the coming generation, Southern leaders and all men of goodwill must come together to actualise this divine and necessary duty as a final solution to save our children from the burden of being trapped in such a tragic and nightmarish contraption. The time is now!

By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
larry_peters@yahoo.ie

big-t:
Dude, you have a microscopic view about Nigeria. NO WEAPON FASHIONED, MADE, IMPORTED, BOUGHT, OR STOLEN AGAINST NIGERIA SHALL PROSPER!!!
and besides, if u r not contented with the affairs of this nation, Cameroun is not far!

confusion247:
Too bad that you are contented with what we have today as Nigeria? I can't believe that any human will be contented with a failed country. You are contented with the unnecessary killings in northern Nigeria? shame on you.

confusion247: OP don't allow yorubas and hausa/fulani hear you support biafra indirectly.

Les: Who get time read dat tall stuff?? *goin back to sleep, Just wake me up when 9ja finally divides......

Les: Who get time read dat tall stuff?? *goin back to sleep, Just wake me up when 9ja finally divides......

big-t:
sleep forever!
The secret u pple failed t know is that if Nigeria will divide, it must have occured before now!
Nigeria is held/glued together by a powerful force, and the force made her viable! The force is satan Himself!!!

Les: *waking up* God is never responsible for such a failed state cos watever he does is perfect.. *yawns, changes position and goes back to sleep#

big-t:

it shall be well with he that wishes Nigeria well!
Its time you f.u,cktard contribute to the development of this country other than being pessimistic!
Mind u, I am still sceptic about ur views. #OmoJatiJati!

big-t:

okay, wch country is perfect then? I need examples!

big-t:
sleep forever!
The secret u pple failed t know is that if Nigeria will divide, it must have occured before now!
Nigeria is held/glued together by a powerful force, and the force made her viable! The force is SATAN Himself!!!

big-t:

okay, wch country is perfect then? I need examples!

confusion247:
gbam....when last i checked, it was LUGARD that made the mistake of mixing oil and water in the year 1914.

confusion247: OP don't allow yorubas and hausa/fulani hear you support biafra indirectly. since we can not live in peace, let us live in pieces.

taharqa: NIGERIA IS NOT AND WOULD NEVER BREAK UP..... This Nation, notwithstanding her few missteps, wud fulfill its GREAT PROMISE to herself, her Citizens and Africa; she wud LEAD d Imminent RENAISSANCE of the Black World.... This Land Wud NOT Fall. NEVER

kettykin:

I can understand when the North frets about the Break up of Nigeria , but i can not understand the case of Yorubas, these people have one of the Largest Coastal Boundaries with the Sea , they are not land locked , they have oil and gas deposit in Ondo state and Bitumen deposit in Osun ,Ogun and Ondo. They have a population of more than 40 million people bigger than 90% of all african countries , in fact bigger than all the other western African countries and some European countries. The Yorubas have 2 of the Largest Cities in Africa lagos and Ibadan and a fairly large number of educated populace including a nobel laureate, which most African Countries don't posses, they have enterprenuers who are listed in Forbes as among the top richest fellows in the world which most independent African countries don't have, they have a large arable land and cash crops like cocoa which earns forex.
But why these people would rather sink and die in Nigeria is what i still can not understand or comprehend , not only are they prepared to die and sink in Nigeria , they are prepared to spend the last drop of their blood to prevent less interested even land locked people from leaving the sinking ship.
Why would a group of people be more interested in being second class citizens in a country where they are now Marginalized and killed by fulani herdsmen than rather opt out and be on their own

big-t:

God bless u pal!

kettykin:

I can understand when the North frets about the Break up of Nigeria , but i can not understand the case of Yorubas, these people have one of the Largest Coastal Boundaries with the Sea , they are not land locked , they have oil and gas deposit in Ondo state and Bitumen deposit in Osun ,Ogun and Ondo. They have a population of more than 40 million people bigger than 90% of all african countries , in fact bigger than all the other western African countries and some European countries. The Yorubas have 2 of the Largest Cities in Africa lagos and Ibadan and a fairly large number of educated populace including a nobel laureate, which most African Countries don't posses, they have enterprenuers who are listed in Forbes as among the top richest fellows in the world which most independent African countries don't have, they have a large arable land and cash crops like cocoa which earns forex.
But why these people would rather sink and die in Nigeria is what i still can not understand or comprehend , not only are they prepared to die and sink in Nigeria , they are prepared to spend the last drop of their blood to prevent less interested even land locked people from leaving the sinking ship.
Why would a group of people be more interested in being second class citizens in a country where they are now Marginalized and killed by fulani herdsmen than rather opt out and be on their own

kettykin:

I can understand when the North frets about the Break up of Nigeria , but i can not understand the case of Yorubas, these people have one of the Largest Coastal Boundaries with the Sea , they are not land locked , they have oil and gas deposit in Ondo state and Bitumen deposit in Osun ,Ogun and Ondo. They have a population of more than 40 million people bigger than 90% of all african countries , in fact bigger than all the other western African countries and some European countries. The Yorubas have 2 of the Largest Cities in Africa lagos and Ibadan and a fairly large number of educated populace including a nobel laureate, which most African Countries don't posses, they have enterprenuers who are listed in Forbes as among the top richest fellows in the world which most independent African countries don't have, they have a large arable land and cash crops like cocoa which earns forex.
But why these people would rather sink and die in Nigeria is what i still can not understand or comprehend , not only are they prepared to die and sink in Nigeria , they are prepared to spend the last drop of their blood to prevent less interested even land locked people from leaving the sinking ship.
Why would a group of people be more interested in being second class citizens in a country where they are now Marginalized and killed by fulani herdsmen than rather opt out and be on their own

kettykin:

I can understand when the North frets about the Break up of Nigeria , but i can not understand the case of Yorubas, these people have one of the Largest Coastal Boundaries with the Sea , they are not land locked , they have oil and gas deposit in Ondo state and Bitumen deposit in Osun ,Ogun and Ondo. They have a population of more than 40 million people bigger than 90% of all african countries , in fact bigger than all the other western African countries and some European countries. The Yorubas have 2 of the Largest Cities in Africa lagos and Ibadan and a fairly large number of educated populace including a nobel laureate, which most African Countries don't posses, they have enterprenuers who are listed in Forbes as among the top richest fellows in the world which most independent African countries don't have, they have a large arable land and cash crops like cocoa which earns forex.
But why these people would rather sink and die in Nigeria is what i still can not understand or comprehend , not only are they prepared to die and sink in Nigeria , they are prepared to spend the last drop of their blood to prevent less interested even land locked people from leaving the sinking ship.
Why would a group of people be more interested in being second class citizens in a country where they are now Marginalized and killed by fulani herdsmen than rather opt out and be on their own

Me_Aboki:

Possibly, they are afraid of being besieged (should that happen) by tsunami of very evil ppl who favor settling in other ppl's land as economic refugees, while always scheming & insulting their hosts, and also importing some of their wicked habits such as: kidnapping, armed robbery, cannibalism, drug-pushing, human trafficking etc - bad enough to stop many of them from returning home (even for Christmas) despite several calls from their political leaders (MASSOB) & inducement of free transport- it makes you wonder how bad home must be for them that they even prefer to risk death at the hands of Boko Haram (Abokis they hate) than return to the bossoms of their own ppl - ironic isn't it.

Me_Aboki: Its about Evil & Wickednes in some ppl