Nigeria will not exist in 20 years time, that is, unless Boko Haram magically disappears and Nigerians get some clear indication that Northern Nigerians completely reject their agenda (just like the majority of southeasterners do not condem MASSOB or Niger Deltan communities MEND); unless the ethno-religious milita's of each region also abracadabra and dissolve into nothing (incase you're forgetting them, this includes OPC, MEND, MASSOB, Boko Haram, and the rest); unless Nigerians start to banish the selection of the paramount leader by their ethnic background/affiliation and Nigerians start picking the best candidate regardless of ethnicity who will rule, ehm, lead the country; unless Nigerians stop pretending that everything is jolly with the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba; unless Nigerians start listening to the cry's of people who's land Nigerians rape to keep the country's nose above water; and unless Nigerians can stop marginalising parts of the country based on ethnicity and create an environment that will actually breed patriotic citizens (I've never seen, heard, or watched a patriotic Nigerian from 1970 till present) who will put the country's objectives over their own personal and ethnic agendas. The real reason for corruption (Westerners and Easterners rape other countries, not their own, Africans used to, when they had nation-states).

We all know that this is not going to change, because it has happened so many times all over the world, most similarly in Yugoslavia who failed miserably (I don't know much about it's history though) at their attempts of forced patriotism and nationalism, the kind that Nigeria seems to be crudely doing (painting everything connected or even associated to the government in green-white-green).

There are many people who have predicated or wished for the inevitable end of Nigeria, these people have been a minority for a long time until presently with their numbers growing. Of course, there are many people still chanting one Nigeria, and will never stop until another civil war, which seems to be the next step once MEND and Boko Haram find a good bridge. People will continue to be stubborn until it's too late, and as we've been seing over the last three years, all the events currently taking place in Nigeria supports the predictions of people who expect a break-up (including the CIA who accurately predicted the events of the first war). If you told an average Nigerian 10 or even 5 years ago that certain Northern Nigerians will strap explosives to themselves and bomb crowded areas like we've been seeing taking place in distant majority Muslim countries, they'd laugh and retell the famous line of a Nigerian loving their life too much to do such a thing, I was actually in agreement with this and many Nigerians were thankful for the kind of Muslims they shared a country with after September 2001. So what about the Nigerians we have now who claim there can never be another war or a break-up? What other truths are really lies in Nigeria?

What we have to do now is negotiate the best way to separate from each other without creating a hostiles situation where each country ignores the other. I'm most interested in the number are make-up of the countries people believe will rise up out of the fire of Nigeria.

For example, I believe that the Igbo ethnic group should be completely on their own or with Cross River communities only because of historical and cultural reasons. Let everyone start thinking ahead before it's too late.

20 years is too much,just before 3 years

Nigeria need to split into six nations, headed by first ministers. And at the center of what used to be one Nigeria there will be a ceremonial president, who controls the military only.  Just like we have here in the UK. problem solved.  

j.pilata:

20 years is too much,just before 3 years

There will still be ongoing issues related to Nigeria after a split.

"Nigeria is a British time bomb!"

BIAFRA, ODUDUWA, AREWA, MIDDLE-BELT, NIGER-DELTA & other nations shall b free.

It's only a matter of soon.

Instead of us to think about how we can develop ourselves individually, we are here taking about splicing. If we don't stop the way we behave now, when and if there is a split, those little countries will still have internal troubles