Nigerian Government and Resurgence of Biafra Agitation: A Systemic Analysis

The Nigeria state is currently embroiled in crisis of insurrectional campaigns by separatist movements. The resurgent agitation for Biafra state five decades after Nigerian civil war has remained loud, fervent and torrential. From this indication, this study examined issues and events underlying recent campaign of regional resentment in systemic perspective of Nigerian government dispositions. The methodology of the study is qualitative design which relied on documentary and observational sources of data collection as scholarly submissions and observed events were textually analyzed to embellish conceptual, theoretical and empirical imperatives in re-secession drive for eastern Nigeria. It is the argument of this discourse that systemic failures of Nigerian government amid other factors informed the resurgent agitation for Biafra state. In a suggestive sense, this study explored more plausible and engaging options for national integration-a clarion call for Nigerian governmentto stem the tides of agitation for self-determination in eastern Nigeria.