Many Nigerians in their political ignorance, myopic thinking and religious insanity believe that the formation of the Nigerian nation in 1914 through the amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern protectorates together to become a British colony by Britain without holding a national referendum for all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the religious groups in that new colony was God's supernatural creation.
Many Nigerians in their shallow minds also believe that Nigeria can never fail as a nation nor can she ever break-up or even disintegrate into smaller pieces of nations in the future, no matter the type of the external or the internal crises that we face today as a country because we have survived major internal crises and turbulent moments in our history as a nation including the brutal Biafran war that claimed millions of Nigerians mainly the Igbos and almost tore us apart as a country.
Nigeria as a nation in my own judgement cannot continue to defile the credible accounts and the natural trends of the recorded human history. Historically speaking, many bigger nations have emerged in the past from the political unions of many smaller nations, and side by side also, many other bigger nations in the past have also broken-up into small nations due to their enormous internal and external crises that they faced and were unable to resolve them peaceful or overcame them amicably.
Nigeria as a nation in my own judgement cannot continue to defile the credible accounts and the natural trends of the recorded human history. Historically speaking, many bigger nations have emerged in the past from the political unions of many smaller nations, and side by side also, many other bigger nations in the past have also broken-up into small nations due to their enormous internal and external crises that they faced and were unable to resolve them peaceful or overcame them amicably.
The newest African nation of South Sudan is a recent and also a very relevant political example of this type of human possibility in Nigeria today. The whole human race went into shocked in 1990 when one of the two super-power nations that was known at that time as the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) suddenly collapsed like a pack of playing cards and broke up overnight into 15 smaller countries.
If those internal crises that are going on at the moment in Nigeria that started since 1914 to the present day are left unaddressed, they could point us to the same similar fate that had befallen other nations in the past, such as the nations of the former Sudan and India respectively that were all direct products of the same British colonization. These two former British colonies went through many different and many similar internal and external crises like Nigeria that were never solved amicably and those huge problems led to their final disintegrations into the smaller monolithic nations of the present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh from India. The two nations of Sudan and South Sudan also came out of the former Sudan respectively.
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