Title: Policies And Programmes Aimed At Promoting National Unity Since The Colonial Period
Authors: Adegbaike B. Adebisi & Adekunle, A. Abayomi
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Pages: 199-203
Publication Date: 2025/02/28
Abstract:
The evolutionarily process of the country has witnessed tension and tranquility. In time of tension, such as that of 1967 and 1993 it was as if the entire nation would collapse and cease to exist. But it survived and has continued to wax stronger. Of course, agitators from different sections of the country flooded the streets protesting for the carving out of nations within Nigeria, but their protestations are gradually ebbing. Attempts at balkanizing the nation on several occasions have not succeeded due to the labour of our heroes past who worked tirelessly day and night to ensure the unity of the nation in the colonial through the post - colonial phase. Using the historical method of approach and review of extant literature, the author examines programmes and policies put in place since the colonial period aim at promoting the unity of the country and concludes that if not for the series of efforts made by some patriotic elements at ensuring the nation's unity, Nigeria would have gone the way of Russia, Sudan, Czechoslovakia, etc. while Russia disintegrated and about fifteen nations rose from its ashes, on the other hand, after a prolonged internal strife, Sudan was eventually divided into North and South Sudan. Czechoslovakia was once and indivisible entity until 1993 when it split into two sovereign state of Czech Republic and Slovakia.