I have had the opportunity of reading Prince Charles Dickson's ''Fairly Used Bombs for Sale in Nigeria'' and the question of our unity or lack of it is in question - it appears we are now practising pacifism - a suituation where each region can get what it wants by unleashing fear in the heart of the sitdan-look government passive and never proactive govt at the centre. MEND now figures in the budget, maybe Boko too in a supplementary budget perhaps Massob later and then OPC in no particular order. It seems aslong as there is enough to dole out to various reional factions and still keep a reasonable loot this emerging trend is here to stay. Please read the below.

I would start my admonition in this essay qouting a very unlikely source, speaking recently in Geneva, former Nigerian President, Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo had the following to say,

“When I was growing up and I had to go to university, there was only one university in Nigeria. Today, 120; there are other tertiary institutions; polytechnics, colleges of education, when you take all of them together they are more than 200, much more than 200.

“If you count that they are graduating about 3000 every year and some are doing more than that for one tertiary institution. You have well over 600, 000. We are not creating 100, 000 jobs every year for graduates of our tertiary institutions; that is a tinder box on which we are all sitting and the fuse can be ignited anytime,” he said

“can we really have social justice with 50 percent of citizens of a country being unemployed or being under employed? Can you really have social justice in a situation where democracy, rule of law and popular participation are absent? Obviously the answer will be no.”

I do not whether Obasanjo said this at the 100th Session the International Labour Organisation (ILO) holding in Geneva, Switzerland, if he meant it, or it was just a honest speechwriter at work. Either way its good see these individual institutions in the Nigerian polity ringing the alarm bells.
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