Nigeria is in the intensive care unit of a critical live-or-die uncertainty. Some deny it; many are indifferent; some are trapped in needless debates about the country's origins. But the condition of a patient in intensive care is not improved through emotional public debate and abusive slogans. It demands the careful examination and interrogation of history.
Among the debaters, two claims recur with stubborn persistence: that Nigeria was "created" in 1914, and that it carried an impl
Nigeria is in the intensive care unit of a critical live-or-die uncertainty. Some deny it; many are indifferent; some are trapped in needless debates about the country's origins. But the condition of a patient in intensive care is not improved through emotional public debate and abusive slogans. It demands the careful examination and interrogation of history.
Among the debaters, two claims recur with stubborn persistence: that Nigeria was "created" in 1914, and that it carried an impl
