Authors : Femi U. Balogun and Otti Victor Uzoma
Abstract: This study is an expository one. It is believed that, Nigeria is the only country in the world with about 480 ethnic nationalities. Nigeria has a unique problem not experienced by any state in the world, past or present. The problem is that of achieving solidarity in action and purpose in the midst of hundreds of ethnic nationalities, each exerting both centrifugal and centripetal forces on the central issues of one nation, bound in freedom, peace and unity where justice reigns. This study will attempt to demonstrate that, sociologically, Nigeria has a hyper multi-ethnic nationality society and structurally suffers from a major chronic malady of instability syndrome at the political level. This study concludes that, the solution to this chronic malady is the problem that will always task democratic governance in Nigeria.
Femi U. Balogun and Otti Victor Uzoma , 2007. Peaceful Co-Existence of the Peoples of Nigeria: The Contending Issues . The Social Sciences, 2: 226-230.