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Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by ElSudani: 5:35pm On Mar 23, 2025
nairalanda1:
You mean regions.

Under which people were.agitatiing for more regions even states before 1967.( Hence Midwest region)

Regions did not work. Gowon did not create states for nothing..there was agitating on the ground
Yes, strong regions as in Australia, Canada, Germany etc. States/regions that are strong enough to sustain their own economy not these dependent little centers of sharing federal allocation.
Rather than bring government closer to the public we've only managed to bring corruption closer.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by DomPerignon: 5:41pm On Mar 23, 2025
ElSudani:
Yes, strong regions as in Australia, Canada, Germany etc. States/regions that are strong enough to sustain their own economy not these dependent little centers of sharing federal allocation.
Rather than bring government closer to the public we've only managed to bring corruption closer.
. And you think your Biafra with the current five SE states will be more viable ?
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by ElSudani: 5:43pm On Mar 23, 2025
DomPerignon:
. And you think your Biafra with the current five SE states will be more viable ?
My Biafra lol. You must be new on Nairaland.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by Tellmeastory: 5:46pm On Mar 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
Nigeria houses the three largest ethnic groups in Africa, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. This is a major reason why Nigeria is simply not workable

Ideally, a country should have just one majority ethnic group, or at the very worst, two

To have three major ethnic group in one country is disaster because it means that at any given time, at least one of those ethnic groups will not be happy with what is going on in the country

Another reason why a country with three majority ethnic can never work is that each of those ethnic group know that their numbers are larger than most countries in Africa. Most countries in Africa are not up to 10 million people, but Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are individually over 40 million each.

They should have been three different countries. The only way Nigeria might have worked is if the country was run as a confederation, where the three ethnic groups are countries of their own, within a country, but with a weak centre

No country with three major ethnic groups is workable, it will be eternal political fight forever
THIS GUY, YOU ARE STUCK IN THE 1970s.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOUR DAD.

NIGERIA HAS MOVED ON.

THE STATES ARE LIKE MINI COUNTRIES ON THEIR OWN.

THEY ARE EVEN COMPETING AGAINST EACH OTHER NOW IN INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

THEY HAVE AUTONOMY TO DO SO MANY THINGS, FROM HARNESSING THEIR RESOURCES TO TAKING OUT FOREIGN LOANS, TO GENERATING THEIR OWN POWER.

SOON WE WILL HAVE STATE POLICE, FOR WHICH THERE IS A BILL AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

SO FACE YOUR STATE GOVERNOR MR GIDGIDDY, AND STOP DISTURBING PEOPLE, YOU BLASTED IPOB TERRORIST TRAITOR.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by Frank488: 6:19pm On Mar 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
Nigeria houses the three largest ethnic groups in Africa, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. This is a major reason why Nigeria is simply not workable

Ideally, a country should have just one majority ethnic group, or at the very worst, two

To have three major ethnic group in one country is disaster because it means that at any given time, at least one of those ethnic groups will not be happy with what is going on in the country

Another reason why a country with three majority ethnic can never work is that each of those ethnic group know that their numbers are larger than most countries in Africa. Most countries in Africa are not up to 10 million people, but Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are individually over 40 million each.

They should have been three different countries. The only way Nigeria might have worked is if the country was run as a confederation, where the three ethnic groups are countries of their own, within a country, but with a weak centre

No country with three major ethnic groups is workable, it will be eternal political fight forever
The stupidity of Yorubas are the problem we are facing.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by gidgiddy(op): 6:38pm On Mar 23, 2025
Tellmeastory:
THIS GUY, YOU ARE STUCK IN THE 1970s.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOUR DAD.

NIGERIA HAS MOVED ON.

THE STATES ARE LIKE MINI COUNTRIES ON THEIR OWN.

THEY ARE EVEN COMPETING AGAINST EACH OTHER NOW IN INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

THEY HAVE AUTONOMY TO DO SO MANY THINGS, FROM HARNESSING THEIR RESOURCES TO TAKING OUT FOREIGN LOANS, TO GENERATING THEIR OWN POWER.

SOON WE WILL HAVE STATE POLICE, FOR WHICH THERE IS A BILL AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

SO FACE YOUR STATE GOVERNOR MR GIDGIDDY, AND STOP DISTURBING PEOPLE, YOU BLASTED IPOB TERRORIST TRAITOR.
World poverty capital and 6th most insecure country in the world? You are right, Nigeria had moved on, but not to better things

And please, nobody is controlling their resources. If they did, they wouldn't be given federal allocation every month
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by gidgiddy(op): 6:45pm On Mar 23, 2025
DomPerignon:
you are a blatant liar.

The minorities in the SS suffered most under the British created Eastern region and went through hell under Biafra occupation.

An Ijaw man has become President and an Annang man is currently the Senate President with an Ikwere man serving as Minister of the FCT .


Even when your Ekpa came out with his list of cabinet members for his online Biafra republic , he didn't even have the sense to include one person from the SS you so much covet into his Biafra Government in exile.


It's either Nigeria or we go our separate way .
Biafra is never an option
There was no Eastern Region when those minorities formed different Militant groups, killing people, blowing oil installations and terrorising people for years. Which means that there was something Nigeria wasn't doing right

Anyway, the point of this thread is that a country with three majority ethnic group is not workable. Why Nigeria has never worked
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by gidgiddy(op): 6:47pm On Mar 23, 2025
Frank488:
The stupidity of Yorubas are the problem we are facing.
If there were no three major ethnic group, that wouldn't even be necessary
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by ValarDoharis: 6:48pm On Mar 23, 2025
There is internal strife, why can't you guys see it? Nigeria cannot work with three major ethnic groups.

Have you wondered why Nigeria keeps going down since 1960?
alanto:
But nobody is fighting Nigeria, it's only the igbos that are fighting themselves. The terrorism in northern Nigeria is not tribal. Boko Haram or I SWAP are not killing because they are not happy in Nigeria, issue with bandit herdsmen and local farmers is more the same communal clash going on in many SE state but guess who's killing his tribesmen and other people because he's not happy with Nigeria? The Igbo man. From Ojukwu to Kanu to Ekpa. Same ideology, same nzobu zobu approach.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by ValarDoharis: 6:48pm On Mar 23, 2025
There is no major ethnic group in the US
CoronaVirusPro:
Flimsy excuses!

Does Nigeria have more ethnic groups than the US, India and China? Yet those countries are winning with their population and diversity.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by Ojiofor: 8:44pm On Mar 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
Are the rest of Nigeria interested in a country that works?
But they are not complaining rather every tribe is seeking to have their fair share of the national cake.
Moreover name one African that works?It is an African problem, take a good look at South Sudan that fought for 30 year to gain independent only to turn the bullets on themselves and become the poorest African nation.
Greed will not allow Africans to fix their society.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by LandlockedApes: 8:53pm On Mar 23, 2025
Nigeria should never have existed in the first place.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by alanto: 10:30pm On Mar 23, 2025
ValarDoharis:
There is internal strife, why can't you guys see it? Nigeria cannot work with three major ethnic groups.

Have you wondered why Nigeria keeps going down since 1960?
Every stable economy have gone through what Nigeria is going through, right reforms, right policies and we are looking at better days. Same old shi and it'd be same ol shi.
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by tiwasiaife(m): 10:36pm On Mar 23, 2025
alanto:
But nobody is fighting Nigeria, it's only the igbos that are fighting themselves. The terrorism in northern Nigeria is not tribal. Boko Haram or I SWAP are not killing because they are not happy in Nigeria, issue with bandit herdsmen and local farmers is more the same communal clash going on in many SE state but guess who's killing his tribesmen and other people because he's not happy with Nigeria? The Igbo man. From Ojukwu to Kanu to Ekpa. Same ideology, same nzobu zobu approach.
They mentioned Nigeria boom 💥 you start mentioning Igbos.
You see why Igbos don't want to do anything with you.
Is it by force to be one country?
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by gidgiddy(op): 10:44pm On Mar 23, 2025
Ojiofor:
But they are not complaining rather every tribe is seeking to have their fair share of the national cake.
Moreover name one African that works?It is an African problem, take a good look at South Sudan that fought for 30 year to gain independent only to turn the bullets on themselves and become the poorest African nation.
Greed will not allow Africans to fix their society.
They are not complaining? You mean the vast majority of Nigerians are happy and joyful the way Nigeria is? You APC guys should stop deceiving your selves, you don't decieve anyone. As bad as PDP was, you APC people made Nigeria much worse 10 years of presiding over Nigeria

Yes, the two Sudan's fought war for over 30 years and many died. Much more died in just 3 years of the Nigerian Civil War to keep Nigeria one. Is Nigeria any better than South Sudan? Nigeria has been world poverty capital and is currently 6th most insecure country in the world. So what positive has Nigerian unity brought?

And some African countries are working, check South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and even Ethiopia. Those countries have gone far, beyond Nigeria
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by DomPerignon: 10:50pm On Mar 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
They are not complaining? You mean the vast majority of Nigerians are happy and joyful the way Nigeria is? You APC guys should stop deceiving your selves, you don't decieve anyone. As bad as PDP was, you APC people made Nigeria much worse 10 years of presiding over Nigeria

Yes, the two Sudan's fought war for over 30 years and many died. Much more died in just 3 years of the Nigerian Civil War to keep Nigeria one. Is Nigeria any better than South Sudan? Nigeria has been world poverty capital and is currently 6th most insecure country in the world. So what positive has Nigerian unity brought?

And some African countries are working, check South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and even Ethiopia. Those countries have gone far, beyond Nigeria
So what do you suggest?
Re: A Country Like Nigeria With 3 Major Ethnic Groups Is Not Workable by Ojiofor: 11:59am On Mar 24, 2025
gidgiddy:
They are not complaining? You mean the vast majority of Nigerians are happy and joyful the way Nigeria is? You APC guys should stop deceiving your selves, you don't decieve anyone. As bad as PDP was, you APC people made Nigeria much worse 10 years of presiding over Nigeria

Yes, the two Sudan's fought war for over 30 years and many died. Much more died in just 3 years of the Nigerian Civil War to keep Nigeria one. Is Nigeria any better than South Sudan? Nigeria has been world poverty capital and is currently 6th most insecure country in the world. So what positive has Nigerian unity brought?

And some African countries are working, check South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and even Ethiopia. Those countries have gone far, beyond Nigeria
Even if they are not happy how many of them are killing their own people to convince them to leave Nigeria except Ipob?
You can question Nigeria unity from now till your old age you can't even convince Igbo elites to join your directionless hopeless agitation for Biafra whose fate was decided in 1970.North African countries are doing slightly better than Sahara Africans because they are Arabs. The Ethiopia that is fighting endless tribal civil war and starvation? What a joke.
SA is doing better than other African countries for a reason and since black South Africans took over the country it is gradually going down due to corruption.
Stop ascribing political party to me I wonder why in your delusional imagination I become Apc man. Show me any evidence of my support for Apc government and their leaders since 2015 I will deactivate my account.
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