We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan.

Numerous of successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian split with the Soviet Union in 1989, Singapore's secession from Malaysia in 1965, Ireland's independence from the UK, and countless others.

Nigeria's impotence as ungovernable, divided, separate, hostile, and unequal nation is apparent for all to see. Nigeria, as we know it, is dead! The country is irrevocably broken along ethnic, linguistic, geographical, religious, and cultural lines. The sooner the Nigerian people accept this, the sooner the break-up and the sooner we can move on.

From time to time, the break-up of Nigeria becomes inevitable to many of us who believe that “In the course of human events, it is necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them.” We're in one of those periods now, and while the reasons are unique, the historical moment is not new. In 1953, the northerners considered secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be an independent nation. 

The words of our founding fathers that Nigeria is not one country remain prophetically instructive. 

Listen to them: 

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French.’  The word ‘Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not,” Chief Obafemi Awolowo said in 1947. 

“Since 1914 the British government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country,” Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said, “but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs, and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite... Nigerian unity is only a British invention.” 

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe argued in 1964 that “It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we [Nigeria] should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be child's play if ever it comes to our turn to play such a tragic role.” 

The recent proclamation of northern youths and the ultimatum given to Igbo people to vacate the north within three months shed much needed light on why Nigeria is not, and will never be, one united nation. There is no mystery as to how we got to this point. There is also no mystery as to who to blame. There is no need for conspiracy theories. The polarization of public life exacerbated by government corruption and incompetence has become so tense it led to widespread civil disorder, culminating in chaos and crises.

Nigeria is fast approaching a complete collapse. For long, many of us have raised alarm that our government and the way the system is being run are not working, and cannot guarantee delivery of basic essential services. The ominous declaration of the northern youths has left Nigerians in fear of what tomorrow may bring. While all this plays out, Nigerians watch in horror and amazement from the sidelines and wonder when the inevitable will occur.

Inequality between the looting ruling class and the poor has become increasingly intolerable. The native tyrants in the National Assembly, better still, National Asylum, are in stupor of random pleasures and whims, feasting on plenty of food and sex, and reveling in the non-judgment that democracy is civil religion. From all indications, our democracy is in retreat, close to being destroyed by vast corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and fraud. Those in Abuja couldn't care less about our people. They couldn't care less that for 58 years we couldn't get along.  They couldn't care less that Nigeria is as good as dead. Nigerians are angry – Igbos, Hausas, and Yorubas. They are all angry for being sick and poor and tired of being cannon fodders. They are tired of being jobless and hopeless. Brother is turning against brother. Killing of families and children are the norm rather than the exception. Nigerians are nickel-and-dimed to death in their everyday life. Workers, if paid at all, are paid peonage wages. The nation's peonage wage is at subsistence level. This is simply incompatible with self-determination.

With subsistence living, Nigerians are constrained into a desperate state. Their horizon is limited to the present day, to getting enough of what they need to make it to the next. The minimum wage in Nigeria is N18,000 per month. This is criminally below the poverty line. That's a scrambling, anxious existence, narrowly bounded. It's impossible to decently feed, clothe, and shelter yourself on a wage like that, much less a family, much less have money to see the doctor,  or pay for your kids college, or participate in any of those good things of life. Down to the peon level, the pursuit of happiness sounds like a bad joke.

The critical mass of our people is kept in peonage. All its vitality spent in the trenches of day-to-day survival with scant or no opportunity to develop the full range of its faculties. That's why I'm miffed by the numbed-out, dumbed-down, make belief Nigerians who still believe that Nigeria could be saved from falling apart. This is deceptive and uncharitable given our past political history and the present political realities of our nation. Those who see future or unity in one Nigeria are deluded, ignorant, unrealistic. They don't know what's real, what's possible, and can't differentiate fact from fiction.

How can the proponents of one Nigeria explain the humiliation and insult heaped on Vice President Osinbajo when the Chief of Thief Abba Kyari referred to him as “Coordinator of National Affairs” instead of Vice President? The freest and fairest presidential election in our history was won by MKO Abiola. The election was annulled by a northerner. He was robbed of the presidency and he was killed.  If Osinbajo and Abiola were Hausas, nothing of such would have happened to them. Examples of such second class treatment abound. We need not bury our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich as if all is well with a troubled and traumatized nation suffering from history of division and disunity.

Nigeria is a country divided against itself and cannot stand. Nigeria is virtually bankrupt. The clamor for separation is the manifestation of a nation grounded as it were, without hope of moving forward after 58 years. I believe it's too late to save Nigeria from disintegration. Our union for the past 58 years has produced no peace, no progress, and no prosperity for the poor majority. The only beneficiaries and the loudest advocates of one Nigeria are those profiteers from the miseries of the pulverized poor – the ruling class.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/06/13/too-late-save-divided-hostile-unequal-nigeria-bayo-oluwasanmi

Good to know we still have some afonjas with good thinking faculty

I still is their kids on nairaland that need to be flogged

This guy never drink hydraulic soup, the brain still dey sharp

Finally the silly dullard has killed this promising country that was handed over to him just in less than two years.


May it never be said of me that somebody's worse performance is better than my best!

Adaowerri111:
This guy never drink hydraulic soup, the brain still dey sharp

Naija e don pafuka

Lalasticlala

Jombojombo:
We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan.

Numerous of successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian split with the Soviet Union in 1989, Singapore's secession from Malaysia in 1965, Ireland's independence from the UK, and countless others.

Nigeria's impotence as ungovernable, divided, separate, hostile, and unequal nation is apparent for all to see. Nigeria, as we know it, is dead! The country is irrevocably broken along ethnic, linguistic, geographical, religious, and cultural lines. The sooner the Nigerian people accept this, the sooner the break-up and the sooner we can move on.

From time to time, the break-up of Nigeria becomes inevitable to many of us who believe that “In the course of human events, it is necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them.” We're in one of those periods now, and while the reasons are unique, the historical moment is not new. In 1953, the northerners considered secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be an independent nation. 

The words of our founding fathers that Nigeria is not one country remain prophetically instructive. 

Listen to them: 

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French.’  The word ‘Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not,” Chief Obafemi Awolowo said in 1947. 

“Since 1914 the British government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country,” Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said, “but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs, and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite... Nigerian unity is only a British invention.” 

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe argued in 1964 that “It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we [Nigeria] should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be child's play if ever it comes to our turn to play such a tragic role.” 

The recent proclamation of northern youths and the ultimatum given to Igbo people to vacate the north within three months shed much needed light on why Nigeria is not, and will never be, one united nation. There is no mystery as to how we got to this point. There is also no mystery as to who to blame. There is no need for conspiracy theories. The polarization of public life exacerbated by government corruption and incompetence has become so tense it led to widespread civil disorder, culminating in chaos and crises.

Nigeria is fast approaching a complete collapse. For long, many of us have raised alarm that our government and the way the system is being run are not working, and cannot guarantee delivery of basic essential services. The ominous declaration of the northern youths has left Nigerians in fear of what tomorrow may bring. While all this plays out, Nigerians watch in horror and amazement from the sidelines and wonder when the inevitable will occur.

Inequality between the looting ruling class and the poor has become increasingly intolerable. The native tyrants in the National Assembly, better still, National Asylum, are in stupor of random pleasures and whims, feasting on plenty of food and sex, and reveling in the non-judgment that democracy is civil religion. From all indications, our democracy is in retreat, close to being destroyed by vast corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and fraud. Those in Abuja couldn't care less about our people. They couldn't care less that for 58 years we couldn't get along.  They couldn't care less that Nigeria is as good as dead. Nigerians are angry – Igbos, Hausas, and Yorubas. They are all angry for being sick and poor and tired of being cannon fodders. They are tired of being jobless and hopeless. Brother is turning against brother. Killing of families and children are the norm rather than the exception. Nigerians are nickel-and-dimed to death in their everyday life. Workers, if paid at all, are paid peonage wages. The nation's peonage wage is at subsistence level. This is simply incompatible with self-determination.

With subsistence living, Nigerians are constrained into a desperate state. Their horizon is limited to the present day, to getting enough of what they need to make it to the next. The minimum wage in Nigeria is N18,000 per month. This is criminally below the poverty line. That's a scrambling, anxious existence, narrowly bounded. It's impossible to decently feed, clothe, and shelter yourself on a wage like that, much less a family, much less have money to see the doctor,  or pay for your kids college, or participate in any of those good things of life. Down to the peon level, the pursuit of happiness sounds like a bad joke.

The critical mass of our people is kept in peonage. All its vitality spent in the trenches of day-to-day survival with scant or no opportunity to develop the full range of its faculties. That's why I'm miffed by the numbed-out, dumbed-down, make belief Nigerians who still believe that Nigeria could be saved from falling apart. This is deceptive and uncharitable given our past political history and the present political realities of our nation. Those who see future or unity in one Nigeria are deluded, ignorant, unrealistic. They don't know what's real, what's possible, and can't differentiate fact from fiction.

How can the proponents of one Nigeria explain the humiliation and insult heaped on Vice President Osinbajo when the Chief of Thief Abba Kyari referred to him as “Coordinator of National Affairs” instead of Vice President? The freest and fairest presidential election in our history was won by MKO Abiola. The election was annulled by a northerner. He was robbed of the presidency and he was killed.  If Osinbajo and Abiola were Hausas, nothing of such would have happened to them. Examples of such second class treatment abound. We need not bury our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich as if all is well with a troubled and traumatized nation suffering from history of division and disunity.

Nigeria is a country divided against itself and cannot stand. Nigeria is virtually bankrupt. The clamor for separation is the manifestation of a nation grounded as it were, without hope of moving forward after 58 years. I believe it's too late to save Nigeria from disintegration. Our union for the past 58 years has produced no peace, no progress, and no prosperity for the poor majority. The only beneficiaries and the loudest advocates of one Nigeria are those profiteers from the miseries of the pulverized poor – the ruling class.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/06/13/too-late-save-divided-hostile-unequal-nigeria-bayo-oluwasanmi

Niger-Area has been dead and buried since 1967. There is no amount of sacrifice that will bring it back to life. Anybody who is still clinging on the hope that Niger-Area can be resurrected is irreparably blind and dumb.

Let everybody find their bearing!

If you get married to a lady and over 50 years after your marriage she could not deliver, won't you divorce her and move on?

Beress:
Let everybody find their bearing!

If you get married to a lady and over 50 years after your marriage she could not deliver, won't you divorce her and move on?

You are wise!

Meanwhile, I can see seunmsg looking at the thread tru the window...

I have a dream that one day my people shall have their own Brown Roof Republic

Oluwabusobomi... What about u

Finally somebody that said it as it is.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.The earlier Nigerians understood this,the better for everyone.

Just why some people keep hoping against hope for 'a better Nigeria' is mind puzzling.

A house built on a bad foundation will eventually collapse, Nigeria was built on a bad rickety foundation.

The zoo called Nigeria is a criminal enterpise

Wait for them, they will be here to sing One zoo

This country is no longer working.

Lalasticlala what's up na

Some people really think they have an opinion to share even though it's from a misinformed state of mind. One of the advantages of the Internet is, it has afforded this kinda people a platform to air their views... School in Nigeria with a malfunction institutions, you need to be an outlier & think outside the box to talk and do differently... We have example of nations that were more diverse and populated than Nigeria and still went on to use this as a strength to build a great nation. Things sometimes gets wrong to get right. All foundations are builds differently. If ours wasn't well laid, we are not too old to rebuild, reform and restructure... No great nation had it easily. Do your research and prove me wrong! The problem is everybody wants it sharp sharp in Nigeria. That's why we have the yahoo boys, kidnappers, cases of armed robbery and all manner of social vices I the country... Nobody wants to do due diligence and be patient to start a business or a movement and be patient to watch it grow and flourish. But people, businesses and even nations that has endured, tolerated, and worked diligently has been proven to be great and successful

[s]

Jombojombo:
We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan.

Numerous of successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian split with the Soviet Union in 1989, Singapore's secession from Malaysia in 1965, Ireland's independence from the UK, and countless others.

Nigeria's impotence as ungovernable, divided, separate, hostile, and unequal nation is apparent for all to see. Nigeria, as we know it, is dead! The country is irrevocably broken along ethnic, linguistic, geographical, religious, and cultural lines. The sooner the Nigerian people accept this, the sooner the break-up and the sooner we can move on.

From time to time, the break-up of Nigeria becomes inevitable to many of us who believe that “In the course of human events, it is necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them.” We're in one of those periods now, and while the reasons are unique, the historical moment is not new. In 1953, the northerners considered secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be an independent nation. 

The words of our founding fathers that Nigeria is not one country remain prophetically instructive. 

Listen to them: 

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French.’  The word ‘Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not,” Chief Obafemi Awolowo said in 1947. 

“Since 1914 the British government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country,” Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said, “but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs, and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite... Nigerian unity is only a British invention.” 

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe argued in 1964 that “It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we [Nigeria] should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be child's play if ever it comes to our turn to play such a tragic role.” 

The recent proclamation of northern youths and the ultimatum given to Igbo people to vacate the north within three months shed much needed light on why Nigeria is not, and will never be, one united nation. There is no mystery as to how we got to this point. There is also no mystery as to who to blame. There is no need for conspiracy theories. The polarization of public life exacerbated by government corruption and incompetence has become so tense it led to widespread civil disorder, culminating in chaos and crises.

Nigeria is fast approaching a complete collapse. For long, many of us have raised alarm that our government and the way the system is being run are not working, and cannot guarantee delivery of basic essential services. The ominous declaration of the northern youths has left Nigerians in fear of what tomorrow may bring. While all this plays out, Nigerians watch in horror and amazement from the sidelines and wonder when the inevitable will occur.

Inequality between the looting ruling class and the poor has become increasingly intolerable. The native tyrants in the National Assembly, better still, National Asylum, are in stupor of random pleasures and whims, feasting on plenty of food and sex, and reveling in the non-judgment that democracy is civil religion. From all indications, our democracy is in retreat, close to being destroyed by vast corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and fraud. Those in Abuja couldn't care less about our people. They couldn't care less that for 58 years we couldn't get along.  They couldn't care less that Nigeria is as good as dead. Nigerians are angry – Igbos, Hausas, and Yorubas. They are all angry for being sick and poor and tired of being cannon fodders. They are tired of being jobless and hopeless. Brother is turning against brother. Killing of families and children are the norm rather than the exception. Nigerians are nickel-and-dimed to death in their everyday life. Workers, if paid at all, are paid peonage wages. The nation's peonage wage is at subsistence level. This is simply incompatible with self-determination.

With subsistence living, Nigerians are constrained into a desperate state. Their horizon is limited to the present day, to getting enough of what they need to make it to the next. The minimum wage in Nigeria is N18,000 per month. This is criminally below the poverty line. That's a scrambling, anxious existence, narrowly bounded. It's impossible to decently feed, clothe, and shelter yourself on a wage like that, much less a family, much less have money to see the doctor,  or pay for your kids college, or participate in any of those good things of life. Down to the peon level, the pursuit of happiness sounds like a bad joke.

The critical mass of our people is kept in peonage. All its vitality spent in the trenches of day-to-day survival with scant or no opportunity to develop the full range of its faculties. That's why I'm miffed by the numbed-out, dumbed-down, make belief Nigerians who still believe that Nigeria could be saved from falling apart. This is deceptive and uncharitable given our past political history and the present political realities of our nation. Those who see future or unity in one Nigeria are deluded, ignorant, unrealistic. They don't know what's real, what's possible, and can't differentiate fact from fiction.

How can the proponents of one Nigeria explain the humiliation and insult heaped on Vice President Osinbajo when the Chief of Thief Abba Kyari referred to him as “Coordinator of National Affairs” instead of Vice President? The freest and fairest presidential election in our history was won by MKO Abiola. The election was annulled by a northerner. He was robbed of the presidency and he was killed.  If Osinbajo and Abiola were Hausas, nothing of such would have happened to them. Examples of such second class treatment abound. We need not bury our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich as if all is well with a troubled and traumatized nation suffering from history of division and disunity.

Nigeria is a country divided against itself and cannot stand. Nigeria is virtually bankrupt. The clamor for separation is the manifestation of a nation grounded as it were, without hope of moving forward after 58 years. I believe it's too late to save Nigeria from disintegration. Our union for the past 58 years has produced no peace, no progress, and no prosperity for the poor majority. The only beneficiaries and the loudest advocates of one Nigeria are those profiteers from the miseries of the pulverized poor – the ruling class.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/06/13/too-late-save-divided-hostile-unequal-nigeria-bayo-oluwa[/s]sanmi

Nigerian Elites and political jobbers were preparing fire that will engulf them!
Nigeria nurtured them to higher height they looted Nigeria nation to zero and when nothing left to loot, or to say time of looting ended Nothing interested them any more in Nigeria ,So the balkanization is their option but for who to rule? the balkanized left?
Is Nigeria your personal heritage you write will on it?
This time No way for running away to Europe and America when trouble started, if Nigeria collapsed it will collapsed on all of us!

QueenOfNepal:
This country is no longer working.

yah
it's not walking!
but who chain her legs down!

yang:
The zoo called Nigeria is a criminal enterpise

Wait for them, they will be here to sing One zoo

but the same zoo that evict the wild beast that but refused to go!

agaba77:
A house built on a bad foundation will eventually collapse, Nigeria was built on a bad rickety foundation.

by the time you elite realize the reality it will be too ate for you. if all the federal institutions scrap out today which region have the financial capacity to employ their own indigene sacked?

...It's a pity that only the poor masses that have nothing to gain or lose that still hold on to Nigeria and still hope on the survival of Nigeria!
Elites balkanize Nigeria at your peril!

Everything that was written is true.

Why deny the inevitable?

oladeebo:
[s]
Nigerian Elites and political jobbers were preparing fire that will engulf them!
Nigeria nurtured them to higher height they looted Nigeria nation to zero and when nothing left to loot, or to say time of looting ended Nothing interested them any more in Nigeria ,So the balkanization is their option but for who to rule? the balkanized left?
Is Nigeria your personal heritage you write will on it?
This time No way for running away to Europe and America when trouble started, if Nigeria collapsed it will collapsed on all of us!

Good point

Let nigeria separate. I as a yoruba support it.

AromePeter:
Some people really think they have an opinion to share even though it's from a misinformed state of mind. One of the advantages of the Internet is, it has afforded this kinda people a platform to air their views... School in Nigeria with a malfunction institutions, you need to be an outlier & think outside the box to talk and do differently... We have example of nations that were more diverse and populated than Nigeria and still went on to use this as a strength to build a great nation. Things sometimes gets wrong to get right. All foundations are builds differently. If ours wasn't well laid, we are not too old to rebuild, reform and restructure... No great nation had it easily. Do your research and prove me wrong! The problem is everybody wants it sharp sharp in Nigeria. That's why we have the yahoo boys, kidnappers, cases of armed robbery and all manner of social vices I the country... Nobody wants to do due diligence and be patient to start a business or a movement and be patient to watch it grow and flourish. But people, businesses and even nations that has endured, tolerated, and worked diligently has been proven to be great and successful

Mention the countries. You dont know what you are saying. There is nothing like "diverse nations".
Correct yourself

oladeebo:
...It's a pity that only the poor masses that have nothing to gain or lose that still hold on to Nigeria and still hope on the survival of Nigeria!
Elites balkanize Nigeria at your peril!

I hope you are not yoruba. If there is anything that make me regret that i was born a yoruba, it will be because of our ignorance. Yoruba people are the most ignorant people i have ever known. We see the truth, but choose to ignore it. Many yoruba people are naturally stupid and ignorant. It is only a yoruba person that will read this article, and still pretend the man is wrong, even though deep down, he knows the man speaks the truth. I wont want to insult yoruba people simply because i am one, but i feel irritated by their ignorance.
SMH!

oladeebo:

by the time you elite realize the reality it will be too ate for you. if all the federal institutions scrap out today which region have the financial capacity to employ their own indigene sacked?

You cant patch a bad foundation, the best thing is to tear it down and start afresh.

I am glad a Yoruba wrote it.

If an Igbo wrote this, this thread would be 10 pages by now.

If Nigeria does disentegrate, it will be the North that is truly landlocked.

Igboland is not that far from the sea. But the North would resemble Niger and Chad.

EzeUche:
I am glad a Yoruba wrote it.

If an Igbo wrote this, this thread would be 10 pages by now.

...a yoruba or biafra apologist!

oladeebo:
[s]
Nigerian Elites and political jobbers were preparing fire that will engulf them!
Nigeria nurtured them to higher height they looted Nigeria nation to zero and when nothing left to loot, or to say time of looting ended Nothing interested them any more in Nigeria ,So the balkanization is their option but for who to rule? the balkanized left?
Is Nigeria your personal heritage you write will on it?
This time No way for running away to Europe and America when trouble started, if Nigeria collapsed it will collapsed on all of us!

What is your suggested solution to cure Nigeria from her deadly deceases?

How can we live together with people are bent on wiping us out?
Just come to Benue state and see things for yourself.

deedeedee1:

I hope you are not yoruba. If there is anything that make me regret that i was born a yoruba, it will be because of our ignorance. Yoruba people are the most ignorant people i have ever known. We see the truth, but choose to ignore it. Many yoruba people are naturally stupid and ignorant. It is only a yoruba person that will read this article, and still pretend the man is wrong, even though deep down, he knows the man speaks the truth. I wont want to insult yoruba people simply because i am one, but i feel irritated by their ignorance.
SMH!

You are obviously not a Yoruba man