Nigeria at 65: Is amalgamation over?

‘Amalgamation a continua!’ This coinage could as well have been the befitting mantra for Nigeria’s march to nationhood, right from the amalgamation exercise in 1914 under the auspices of Frederick Lugard, who moulded hitherto disparate, autonomous, ethnic nation states into one political entity, to the present. In its basic meaning, the word amalgamation is the

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