The situational irony of Nigeria’s inter-regional political and economic struggles.
Nigeria boasts of three BIGS. First, being the biggest democracy in Africa; second, being the leading producer of oil in Africa and third of being the largest economy on the African continent. But sceptics and critics of the nation’s economic progress often point to a catastrophically bad number: Nigeria is deemed the world’s home to the highest population of poor people on the planet. But within the country, one region is being blamed for driving up the poverty population.
Geographically, the country is evenly split into six geo-political zones: three in the north and three in the south. For decades, the nation’s heterogeneity – across geography, ethnicity, and religion – has been at the fulcrum of the debate on the distribution of political power and economic opportunities, thus vindicating the need for the rotation of the…
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