BEWARE OF EMPTY OXYMORONS SUCH AS "UNITY IN DIVERSITY"*
By Ifa Dare

There are no tribes in Nigeria. Rather, there are nations of people, competing for resources and struggling to break free from the colonial plantation called Nigeria.

Nigeria's fundamental problem is neither corruption nor elitism. Rather, Nigeria's fundamental problem is its growth retarding parasitic unitary system. Practicing a unitary system in a multi-ethnic country without a dominant ethnic group is a recipe for disaster.

[b]Beware of empty oxymorons, "there's unity in diversity." There can never be unity in diversity in any ethnolinguistic heterogeneous society without a dominant ethnic group. [/b]There are those who try to compare Nigeria, in terms of diversity, to China, USA and India and hinge their hope for a progressive Nigeria on Nigeria's seemingly diversity. Don't fall for their false hope, Nigeria is not China, USA and even India.

First off, let's compare Nigeria and China!
1. NGR is ethnolinguistic heterogeneous, whereas China is ethnolinguistic homogeneous.
2. NGR has no dominant ethnic group, but China has a dominant ethnic group, the Hans, who are 92% of the Chinese population.
3. NGR operates under a parasitic unitary system, whereas China operates under an optimized regional system - "one nation, many regions." (Mainland China, HongKong, Macau etc).

Secondly, let's compare Nigeria and the US.
1. NGR has no dominant ethnic group, but USA has a dominant racial group, the whites, who are 70% of the American population.
2. NGR operates under a parasitic unitary system, whereas the US operates under an optimized federal system, where each state operates as an autonomous region.
3. In NGR, the federal government illegally created the states; whereas, in the US, the states came together as independent entities to form a union and create the federal government.

Thirdly, in the interest of space and time, I would say, the same arguments, above, apply to India.

There are 2 ways out for Nigeria:
1. Balkanize Nigeria into independent micro-states.
2. Develop an optimized regional principle of "one nation, twelve autonomous regions."
Support the Oodua nation. There's no future in the colonial plantation called Nigeria!!!

I agree

Unity in diversity? Since when?

spearman:
BEWARE OF EMPTY OXYMORONS SUCH AS "UNITY IN DIVERSITY"*
By Ifa Dare

There are no tribes in Nigeria. Rather, there are nations of people, competing for resources and struggling to break free from the colonial plantation called Nigeria.

Nigeria's fundamental problem is neither corruption nor elitism. Rather, Nigeria's fundamental problem is its growth retarding parasitic unitary system. Practicing a unitary system in a multi-ethnic country without a dominant ethnic group is a recipe for disaster.

[b]Beware of empty oxymorons, "there's unity in diversity." There can never be unity in diversity in any ethnolinguistic heterogeneous society without a dominant ethnic group. [/b]There are those who try to compare Nigeria, in terms of diversity, to China, USA and India and hinge their hope for a progressive Nigeria on Nigeria's seemingly diversity. Don't fall for their false hope, Nigeria is not China, USA and even India.

First off, let's compare Nigeria and China!
1. NGR is ethnolinguistic heterogeneous, whereas China is ethnolinguistic homogeneous.
2. NGR has no dominant ethnic group, but China has a dominant ethnic group, the Hans, who are 92% of the Chinese population.
3. NGR operates under a parasitic unitary system, whereas China operates under an optimized regional system - "one nation, many regions." (Mainland China, HongKong, Macau etc).

Secondly, let's compare Nigeria and the US.
1. NGR has no dominant ethnic group, but USA has a dominant racial group, the whites, who are 70% of the American population.
2. NGR operates under a parasitic unitary system, whereas the US operates under an optimized federal system, where each state operates as an autonomous region.
3. In NGR, the federal government illegally created the states; whereas, in the US, the states came together as independent entities to form a union and create the federal government.

Thirdly, in the interest of space and time, I would say, the same arguments, above, apply to India.

There are 2 ways out for Nigeria:
1. Balkanize Nigeria into independent micro-states.
2. Develop an optimized regional principle of "one nation, twelve autonomous regions."
Support the Oodua nation. There's no future in the colonial plantation called Nigeria!!!

Kudos to you, op!

These are the core reasons why i don't believe in One Nigeria.

"One Nigeria" is another useless and empty oxymoron, as a country that's as diversed and as heterogeneous in culture, language, religion, etc, can't be one at the same time. We're naturally many! We are not and can't be one.

Unity in diversity, like One Nigeria, is an illusion and a stupid oxymoron!