Many innocent citizens of Nigeria have lost their lives to the virtually annual ethno-religious crisis  that is bedeviling Nigeria over the decades especially in the northen part of the country. Shall we continue to lose more lives  in the name of unity? shall I say  maintaining the ill-fashioned and imperial-oriented Lugard's  philosophy of amalgamation to the detriment of a lasting peace? At a period like this,it is fitting to underscore the resolved referendum plan by Sudan to nip in the board the politico-religious tension bedevilling their nation for long. A REFERENDUM TO DIVIDE NIGERIA IN TO  CONFEDERATE STATES /SUFFRAGAN STATES WILL DEFINITELY BRING THE PERCEIVED RELIGIOUS TENSIONS TO A LASTING SOLUTION. the blunt truth is that Nigeria is living in a cosmetic belief of unity and peace. What is latently keeping Nigeria together now is her Oil resource. Belief it or not(though not praying for it), next  year or even this year again, another religious crisis will be prosecuted in another part of the Northern Nigeria. NORTHERN NIGERIA IS EVIDENTLY  MOST  VOLATILE AND PRECARIOUS PLACE IN THE WEST AFRICA AS FAR AS RELIGIOUS FANATICISM  AND MASACRE IS CONCERNED, LET US DIVIDE NIGERIA NOW FOR PROPER IDENTITY AND SECURITY OF LIVES.

You're going to get attacked by untalented and visionless people without any ideas apart from 'one Nigeria' in 3, 2, 1. . . . . . .

Why take a referendum? we have had a sovereign national conference and we could have one again, the irony is interests are just so many such activities nearly amount to a waste of time, think of all the numerous plans, blueprints and election that would have made not only N.Nigeria but the other regions into a better place. what happened to all those ideas? did anyone listen? i think Nigeria's situation is like a cup,and like a cup it is getting full, only a war or revolution(sad as it is) can make people wake up to the reality that we have ourselves to blame and are responsible for our misfortune.

We allowed the opportunity to slip in 1960 -  In order to achieve it now much blood must be shed!

"Nigeria was granted full independence in October 1960, as a federation of three regions (northern, western, and eastern) under a constitution that provided for a parliamentary form of government. Under the constitution, each of the three regions retained a substantial measure of self-government. The federal government was given exclusive powers in defense and security, foreign relations, and commercial and fiscal policies. In October 1963, Nigeria altered its relationship with the United Kingdom by proclaiming itself a federal republic and promulgating a new constitution. A fourth region (the midwest) was established that year. From the outset, Nigeria's ethnic, regional, and religious tensions were magnified by the significant disparities in economic and educational development between the south and the north"

You're going to get attacked by untalented and visionless people without any ideas apart from 'one Nigeria' in 3, 2, 1. . . . . . .

of course one nigeria! one forum of massacre!

I passionately asked for a very serious ponderance on this topic by nairalanders if they understand the enormity of innocent souls lost to northen-manufactured pogrom in nigeria's history. Lets egender revulotion regardeless of what our national representatives are propagating at abuja. i foresee another full scale civil war.lets make hay will the sun shines.Nigeria is not solidly united as we percieved. A U.S SUVERY HAD PREDICTED THIS, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THAT NIGERIA IS ON THE VERGE OF BREAKING BY 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!the unfolding developments seems to atune to that prediction.

With all these thigns happening, am now beginning to reget the advice my friend gave me when we left university. He asked me what I would like to do, I told him I'ld work a little, then enter business and politics to help save the Nigeria. He laughed mercilessly at me and said he was looking for a student visa to move into Cananda and naturalize there, that Nigeria has no remedy at all.

After the discussion, I was pitying him and he was as well pitying me. But today, I am beginning to prove him right and I believe he made it to Cananda because he was comitted to the vission.

With all these thigns happening, am now beginning to reget not taking the advice my friend gave me when we left university. He asked me what I would like to do, I told him I'ld work a little, then enter business and politics to help save the Nigeria. He laughed mercilessly at me and said he was looking for a student visa to move into Cananda and naturalize there, that Nigeria has no remedy at all.

After the discussion, I was pitying him and he was as well pitying me. But today, I am beginning to prove him right and I believe he made it to Cananda because he was comitted to the vission.

Well Goldmind, i say the same thing to myself all the time; but who will fight for the defenseless if we all move away ?

it is being speculated that the g.o.c in jos and his moslem millitary counterparts fuelled the second phase of the jos mayhem which claimed the lives of a larger number of nigerian citizens.it is a call for objective and thorough investigation