PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONHOOD AND NATION BUILDING IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND THREATS

Abstract

Since the dawn of history, mankind and entities have tried and strived toward attaining true nationhood and one level of development or the other. This struggle has remained endless in Nigeria and other clans. Efforts aimed at this, i.e. bringing about peace, development, unity and progress as an indivisible entity has generated lots of policy formulations and implementations to some degree. Despite these efforts, the issue of true nationhood remains a mirage to Nigeria as an entity. This work relied on authoritative secondary sources aimed at bringing to fore issues in true nation hood and the struggles for national development which are in continuum, coupled with the struggle for true egalitarian society which has assured an endless phenomena in Nigeria. This could be traced to a number of factors. These factors act as actors of determinant to the “Nigeria question†and Nigeria’s way of emerging.