Power sharing in nigeria

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Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country in Africa. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Since 1991, its capital has been the centrally-located city of Abuja; previously, the Nigerian government was headquartered in the coastal city Lagos.

On October 1, 1960, Nigeria gained its independence from the United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule, and, at present consists of 36 states and the federal capital territory. Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a sixteen-year interruption; from 1966 until 1999, Nigeria had been ruled (except the short-lived second republic, 1979-1983) by military dictators who seized power in coups d'état and counter-coups during the Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998.

the 1999 democracy Government was manned by the elected president OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, and he was formerly a military Head of State in the 1970s.

Nigeria is a multi-Lingua Country with so many ethnic groups, out of which the majorly recognised ones are; YORUBA, IBO,HAUSA and after which the minor languages may be mentioned.

Due to its multitude of diverse, sometimes competing ethno-linguistic groups, Nigeria has been beset since prior to independence with sectarian tensions and violence. This is particularly true in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, where both state and civilian forces employ varying methods of coercion in attempts gain control over regional petroleum resources. The civilian population, and especially certain ethnic groups like the Ogoni, have experienced severe environmental degradation due to petroleum extraction, but when these groups have attempted to protest these injustices, they have been met with repressive measures by Nigerian government and military forces. As a result, strife and deterioration in this region continues as of 2006.

There are also significant tensions on a national scale, especially between the primarily Muslim, highly conservative northern population and the Christian population from the Southeastern part of the country.

Since the end of the civil war in 1970, ethnic and religious violence has continued. Violence between Muslims and Christians occurred until early 2004. There has subsequently been a period of relative harmony since the Federal Government introduced tough new measures against religious violence in all affected parts of the country.

In 2002, organizers of the Miss World Pageant announced that they would move the pageant from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to London in the wake of violent protests in the Northern part of the country that left more than 100 people dead and over 500 injured. The rioting erupted after a newspaper suggested Muhammad would have approved of the Miss World beauty contest for personal reasons. Muslim rioters in Kaduna killed an estimated 105 men, women, and children with a further 521 injured taken to hospital. Angry mobs in the mainly Muslim city 600 kilometres (375 miles) northwest of Lagos burnt churches and rampaged through the streets, stabbing, bludgeoning, and burning bystanders to death.

During the years, from 2003, Nigeria has been facing so many trials and been confronted with problems of diverse natures from it's own born states, not only state but also problems from the so called rulers of the country.

Some of the leader of the sate who surposes to be fortune maker of the country has made it a heap of corruption, some launds the country money to overseas, some been prosecuted for abuse of office, and even the President and His Vice are having feud over what the damn they refer to as PTDF.

All this the country has been facing for the past years. But the entire citizenry is looking unto God and praying for a better days. Praying unto god that the glory of this country that has been soiled should be restored.