New Nigeria Vanguard

It is appalling to observe social media and see some of the most spiteful people who cannot even broker peace within their own families call serving Presidents all manner of names and insinuate all manner of conspiracies committed by these figure head leaders for all the insecurity and killings in the land. From examining the criminality trends, it is clear Nigerians are losing their morality on a daily basis as the drag the country from a civilized state to a Hobbesian state of nature where life is nasty, short and brutish after inheriting a peaceful country after the exit of former colonial masters, Britain.  Barely six years after Britain left, Nigeria descended into a bloody civil war after a section of the country, went on a state sanctioned reprisal killing spree and ethnic cleansing to avenge political murders committed by a few. The tragic events prior, during and after the war played havoc with individual moral codes and instituted moral laxity in the execution of state po...

Nigeria is a confederation of nations amalgamated into Nigeria by former colonial master, Britain, without regard for cultural, historical, or linguistic harmony. It was a union that was tested six years after independence by a bloody civil war in which other confederating units banded together to restrain and stop the Igbo from succeeding from Nigeria for over 30 months.  Since then a United Nigeria supported by its confederating units have suppressed other uprisings from other confederating national units like the Ogoni and Boko Harem trying to break away from Nigeria. Nigeria inherited a regional parliamentary based system from the British which it has over the years tweaked to a presidential system of government with supreme authority vested at the center. No longer do regions or states control their mineral resources, all royalties and monies accrued from the sale of their mineral like oil are payable to the center and disbursed to the confederating units, previously regions, ...