By Monica Emmanuel
Nigeria is a made from the 1914 amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates by means of the British Colonialists. The amalgamation of those protectorates used to be the singular fundamental explanation for the Nigeria’s political challenge because it didn't consider the implications of bringing jointly peoples with disparate tradition and faith. The secondary reason used to be the shortcoming of political will of Nigeria’s political management to emplace institutional framework, to wit, the political method, political management, political constitution and proper structure, which had promoted peaceable coexistence and tolerance in plural societies elsewhere.
These shortcomings current Nigeria with offerings particularly, preserving the constitution as bequeathed to Nigeria with all its inner contradictions and endeavouring to make the 1914 amalgamation, paintings via political cum constitutional engineering that may tinker with structural deficiency to accomplish political stability.
The examine derives its pursuits from the previous, which success it considers because the highway map for making sure Nigeria’s balance, progress and development.
The chronicled ethnic and spiritual conflicts recommend the absence of a really federal structure that incorporates financial federalism and secularism. therefore many of the ethnic and spiritual conflicts together with the 3-year civil warfare and the Boko Haram insurgency have been exemplifications of Nigeria’s defective constitutional framework or the politicisation of religion.
The assessment of extant literature and clash theories exhibits that ethnicity and faith are identity-based and may hence spawn conflicts whereas Human/Basic wishes; Realist; Frustration-Aggression, Scapegoat and Structural theories are enough instruments for explaining ethnic and non secular conflicts.
The paintings considers the concord build as enough framework for facing Nigeria’s inner conflicts.
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To answer these questions, the study will look far and wide for nations where heterogeneity does not constitute a clog in the wheels of political stability and development. This is to afford the researcher the rare insights into the mechanisms put in place by these countries that make them work in spite of their plurality. Meanwhile, the study will work on the basis of an assumption that sustainable political stability and development in a diverse society is a function of institutional frameworks, to wit, the political system, political leadership and relevant constitution.
5 Dealing with the realities of US National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Centre for Strategy and Technology (CSAT) Reports Although Nigeria never engaged in warfare to gain independence, nothing has so heinously threatened its process of nationhood like the violence which has characterized post-independence Nigeria. These skirmishes, unfortunately, have continued unabated, and are feared to likely constitute the potential for outright collapse of Nigeria as indicated in the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) report (2005) entitled “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” which discussed “other potential developments that might accelerate decline in Africa and reduce even our limited optimism”.
Nigerian nation) determines its durability, strength and sustainability; if the structure is erected on a faulty foundation, unless and until the faulty foundation is corrected by political leadership through socio-political engineering ingenuity and constitutional mechanism, the structure is bound to collapse eventually. • the search for ways and means of ensuring harmonious relationships amongst the over 250 ethnic groups and Nigeria’s continued existence. • the need to acknowledge the fact that one of the serious challenges facing Nigeria today, is how to harness its diversities to achieve political stability, which is inexorably linked to its economic growth and development, and • the necessity for Nigeria to transit from the negative impression about the 1914 amalgamation to conscious efforts to make the union work.