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Judging from the trend of opinion in the media and the tenor of conversations online, it seems that Nigerians have reached a rare consensus on the object of their collective wrath. He is the Northerner, particularly the Muslim “Hausa-Fulani” Northerner with the emphasis of the indictment varying from the generic category of “Muslim” to that of “Northerner” or “Hausa-Fulani” depending on who is doing the indicting and the circumstances. From the barrage of anti-Northern invective online, it is clear that the Northerner is considered the diabolical, greedy and power-hungry embodiment of all that is wrong with Nigeria.

Nigerians have consensually used these same adjectives before about another group – the Igbos. At one point in our history, the Igbos were the national scapegoats. As Chinua Achebe wrote in 1983, “Nigerians of all other ethnic groups will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo.”

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interesting article. Nonetheless, it says exactly what some of us have stated continuously. The inclination for an anti-nationalistic control of Nigeria's wealth, by a few 'insiders', recruits willing participants from all corners of Nigeria.

The privileged few must then find a potent 'Achilles heels' of the general populace that will aid their divide-and-conquer dominance. For Nigeria, the 'elixir' is our unevolved  and clannish desire to seek enemies.  This blinds us from seeing those, from every corner of Nigeria, who enslave Nigerians from north to south and from east to west.