In Rivers State, a republic of anomaly renews its methods

In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described Nigeria as an “anomaly.... of a country with aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line [...]The post In Rivers State, a republic of anomaly renews its methods appeared first on National Daily Newspaper.

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