richeso:
Nigeria will start making sense when we no longer see any group or part as Majority and Minority.
as a One country, one people. Majority and Minority should not exist in the first place. everyone should have equal right.

till today, in the east, you will see military presence as if they are about to fight war, you can't feel the sweetness of home when u keep seeing soldiers with guns in almost all the roundabout. come to lagos..as busy as it is..how many military checkpoint will you find?

till today, 80% of the eastern part are highly, i mean highly under-develop..you hardly can count any federal project. go and check with your own leg and confirm this.

Nigeria will be one when igbo man can be gov of lagos or hausa man can be gov of delta state.

for now.. bon 9ja.

LastSurvivor11:
Good morning afonja, this is what we have been shouting. Nigeria is never one and can never be one..
As simple as that..

kingzizzy:
Nigeria is still what Lord Lugard who created it made it to be, a forced union of people. Nigeria has never been one. If we remember, several tribes fought so as not to be included in Nigeria. Ijaws fought Lugard in the Akasa/Nembe battle. Igbos fought Lugard in the Arochukwu and Ekumuku wars. The Sokoto Caliphate also fought.

Sadly, all of them eventually fell to the superior firepower of Lord Lugard.

When Ojukwu tried to breakout with his people, the same guns Lugard used where once more employed to make sure everyone stays together "by force".

Nigeria is all about unity by force.

mars123:


All we want is a lawful, prosperous, nation where different individuals can thrive. That's all that matters.

2016v2017:
Based on the recent happenings in Nigeria,like the massacre,in Borno ,Benue,Enugu,Abia,Mile 12 last year in Lagos,now Ile Ife the latest crisis,not forgotten of Zaki Biam though,I begin to wonder in confusion, if Nigeria is really one Nigeria or trying to be one Nigeria.
What throw me off balance in my state of confusion is the current event in this new government ,such as the drama of custom boss Ali, the SGF,Magu's case and the current IGP Idris who called all Ile Ife,yoruba indigenes criminals.He arrested only yorubas and provided cover for their rivals Hausa/Fulanis.
Can someone educate me what one Nigeria means or what it means to be one Nigeria.
No insult please.

kingzizzy:


Not possible. Have you seen where properity comes to a people fighting each other?

Nigeria has a unique situation of having the 3 largest ethnic groups in Africa, each of them over 40 million people. It is not possible to have 2 captains of a Ship let alone 3.

Do you know how embarrassed I feel as an Igbo man knowing that Im from a tribe of over 40 million but I dont have my own country? But Gambia that are less than 2 million are a country, sierra Leon is just 6 million but is a country, Togo is just 7 millon but is a country. The population of Gambia, Togo and Sierra Leon is not even up to half of Igbos but Igbos dont have their own country and are stuck in Nigeria answering to a colonial mantra called 'one Nigeria'.

Laughable

kingzizzy:


Not possible. Have you seen where properity comes to a people fighting each other?

Nigeria has a unique situation of having the 3 largest ethnic groups in Africa, each of them over 40 million people. It is not possible to have 2 captains of a Ship let alone 3.

Do you know how embarrassed I feel as an Igbo man knowing that Im from a tribe of over 40 million but I dont have my own country? But Gambia that are less than 2 million are a country, sierra Leon is just 6 million but is a country, Togo is just 7 millon but is a country. The population of Gambia, Togo and Sierra Leon is not even up to half of Igbos but Igbos dont have their own country and are stuck in Nigeria answering to a colonial mantra called 'one Nigeria'.

Laughable

mars123:
im sorry i don't feel the same way you do. Its not only igbos that don't have a sense of entitlement. Every suffering Nigerian doesn't. Its no surprise that igbo political office holders don't speak in this manner because they have their own share of the national cake.

And Nigerians are not alone in fighting each other. If you were exposed you would know that this world is not a perfect place.

What this country needs my brother is a functional system of government working for ITS PEOPLE. only then too will having your own separate country as igbos be easily realizable.

enigma3000:
if Nigerai is one there will be no need calling it one

mars123:
im sorry i don't feel the same way you do. Its not only igbos that don't have a sense of entitlement. Every suffering Nigerian doesn't. Its no surprise that igbo political office holders don't speak in this manner because they have their own share of the national cake.

And Nigerians are not alone in fighting each other. If you were exposed you would know that this world is not a perfect place.

What this country needs my brother is a functional system of government working for ITS PEOPLE. only then too will having your own separate country as igbos be easily realizable.

mars123:
im sorry i don't feel the same way you do. Its not only igbos that don't have a sense of entitlement. Every suffering Nigerian doesn't. Its no surprise that igbo political office holders don't speak in this manner because they have their own share of the national cake.

And Nigerians are not alone in fighting each other. If you were exposed you would know that this world is not a perfect place.

What this country needs my brother is a functional system of government working for ITS PEOPLE. only then too will having your own separate country as igbos be easily realizable.

Olu317:
What functional system will work? Since 1960, which was when Nigeria had her independence, nothing tangible worked for all the groups toward central unification of Nigeria. This was even during regionalism. And from 1970 till date, mention one thing that had made Nigeria United? Non because this is a forced relationship that won't see the light of day! The system will never change because one part want the status quo to continue in the like manner . Forget it. Nigeria is an aberration calculating all the years spent together as ONE PSEUDO AND UNWORKABLE COUNTRY. Who will make it work?

Ahmadgani:
Nigeria is not one and unfortunately not trying to be. Recent happenings showed that nigeria's unity is only on paper

RZArecta:
Nigeria isn't one and it's not even trying to be one. Your president divided the country into 97% - 5% few weeks into his junta while his idíotic party classed those who voted against them as wailers. Fulani herdsmen and their cows have more rights than you as a human being while you could be arrested just for being from the wrong tribe

mars123:
nice question. Maybe God will come down and make it work for Nigeria because the people are too blind and small for their own good.

Officially aren't we one? Don't we have a national assembly, united in whatever it is they are doing? Our judiciary and executive don't fight along ethnic lines do they? And this is the representation of the people isn't it?

I know a man who disturbed my ears for 3years against the APC government in Benin. On election day he became mobilizer for the chicken change they were handing out. So you should know that i don't care about what people rant on social media. A real life struggle for emancipation is what people including the FG will take serious.

Meanwhile, it is a lot easier to fight for Nigeria to become functional than to fight for Nigeria to breakaway because of the amount of people that will buy into your struggle. Igbos, Hausas, Yorubas. And it is only when we become functional (except you fight a war and defeat the FG) that separation is possible. As we yamayama so, bros another century go pass, we still dey like this.

2016v2017:
Based on the recent happenings in Nigeria,like the massacre,in Borno ,Benue,Enugu,Abia,Mile 12 last year in Lagos,now Ile Ife the latest crisis,not forgotten of Zaki Biam though,I begin to wonder in confusion, if Nigeria is really one Nigeria or trying to be one Nigeria.
What throw me off balance in my state of confusion is the current event in this new government ,such as the drama of custom boss Ali, the SGF,Magu's case and the current IGP Idris who called all Ile Ife,yoruba indigenes criminals.He arrested only yorubas and provided cover for their rivals Hausa/Fulanis.
Can someone educate me what one Nigeria means or what it means to be one Nigeria.
No insult please.

Olu317:
What functional system will work? Since 1960, which was when Nigeria had her independence, nothing tangible worked for all the groups toward central unification of Nigeria. This was even during regionalism. And from 1970 till date, mention one thing that had made Nigeria United? Non because this is a forced relationship that won't see the light of day! The system will never change because one part want the status quo to continue in the like manner . Forget it. Nigeria is an aberration calculating all the years spent together as ONE PSEUDO AND UNWORKABLE COUNTRY. Who will make it work?

Olu317:
Officially Nigeria is One. But reality speaks otherwise. Are you looking at official arrangement or reality? If you stand by official arrangement, then it is till infinity. However, it is a time bomb. If Russia could stood and force herself since 862AD and proper establishment in 882AD,still collapsed in 1991 despite their military might. You better be a realist and not an ideologists like less than 0.1% governing Nigerians inclusive their subordinates who aren't holding any political positions. No country fight civil war twice and survive. Show me one unification of Nigeria entity. Is it the Army? Does the appointment of government agencies officials unify Nigerians? Do employment in Nigeria recognise the best brain without quota system? With all the noise making of Nigeria Army, how many modern military kit do Nigeria has to defend her citizens? What have you benefited as a citizen of Nigeria?These are the problem being thought about by some who see it as cheat to them. What about resource control? The ILE IFE crisis,do you think it wasn't an aggravated anger? Forget the political office holders in Nigeria because they are minority when the real issue begin. All of them will run. The reality is that no matter how they try, Nigeria can't be ONE. Even America democracy gives condition for self determination despite majority of them all being European stocks cum Middle Easterners,Indians and Africans. Do you know how many Nigerians have traveled out of the country for greener pastures? Brain drain is all that has happened and will continue to happen until the inevitable happens.The earlier the better for all to see that the day of reckoning isn't far. But timing is all that matters. Do you know it's all about oil in Niger delta? Do you know the expiration of oil blocks is 2017? Watch out for the unraveling from some people who are from another part of the country on how they will seek to get on board as owners of Oil blocks. Do you think PMB came back because he is healthy? is this the Nigeria you think will change? 100 years from Now, Nigeria Will struggle to have a steel complex despite iron ore within parts of the country. Common dairy milk farm or Birds Farm, Nigeria doesn't have what it take to feed her citizens . Nigeria is a false country and failed state.

drss:
one nijeriya is an artificial lie phrase created to decieve pipul dat d con3 is one. nijeriya was never, has never been, n will never be one.