Ethnic Conflict and the Issue of Secession in Nigeria: The Way Out

Peace is the costliest commodity that one can have in a lifetime. The word peace is what brings development, progress and success. Why some countries are under developed with a low level of political and economic productivity is because of absence of peace as no meaningful achievement can take place in the presence of conflict. If we know all these, why then do we engage in conflict in Nigeria? What is the cause of secession among the different ethnic groups in Nigeria? What can we do to curb it? These are the major concerns of this paper. This paper establishes that for conflict and secession to be drastically reduced to a barest minimum in Nigeria, her leaders should do away with injustice, marginalization, inequality, bad leadership, disobedience to court orders and mismanagement of natural resources. Keywords: Conflict, Secession, Violence, Ethnicity