Gaddafi calls for partition of Nigeria.

[Twin Towers]

Do you have a point?

Perhaps it would be better broken up. Cramming ethnic groups together that really do not want to be crammed together is a bad idea.

[liamfoley]

Perhaps it would be better broken up. Cramming ethnic groups together that really do not want to be crammed together is a bad idea.

So who gets the natural resources?

[FutureTaoiseach]

Great to see Nigeria being 'enriched' by multiculturalism.

[Gadjodilo]

Interesting, what's his game? Then again his sanity has been in question for a long time.

In theory at least, it's not a totally off the wall idea. Nigeria was created by the British - there was no Nigerian nation before they came along. Its borders really only demarcate where the British zone of influence ended and the French one began.

However, splitting it north/south doesn't address this issue. To give each ethnic group (funny how so many people call them tribes if they're African) its own country, there'd need to be a six way split.

Gaddafi refers to the partition of Pakistan and India and says that this saved millions of Hindu and Muslim lives. But look at how many died during the population transfer.

[liamfoley]

Great to see Nigeria being 'enriched' by multiculturalism.

Send some Irish welfare frauds?

[Gadjodilo]

Great to see Nigeria being 'enriched' by multiculturalism.

Why the perennial fetish for this smilie >>>> ?

[Panopticon]

Why the perennial fetish for this smilie >>>> ?

It's the visual equivalent of "You couldn't make it up" or "I don't even recognise my own country any more" or some other Richard Littlejohn-esque exclamation.

[FutureTaoiseach]

Nigeria underlines how a country needs a common culture to remain cohesive. Before the British left, the should have partitioned it on ethnocultural lines. There is a tendency for Northern Nigerian states to impose Sharia law - often foisting it even on Christians. This has led to years of sectarian strife in regions such as Kano. Nigeria -unlike Ireland - is a colonial-creation with no history as a state or even a proto-state before the Scramble for Africa by European colonial-powers.

[Panopticon]

Nigeria underlines how a country needs a common culture to remain cohesive. Before the British left, the should have partitioned it on ethnocultural lines. There is a tendency for Northern Nigerian states to impose Sharia law - often foisting it even on Christians. This has led to years of sectarian strife in regions such as Kano. Nigeria -unlike Ireland - is a colonial-creation with no history as a state or even a proto-state before the Scramble for Africa by European colonial-powers.

Partition worked in British India because there was a reasonable geographic spread of resources - indeed it was the minority partner that called for partition and in the end everyone got behind it. Partition in Nigeria would have been totally unacceptable to the northerners, who wanted a share in future economic growth, because they were already behind the south. Even if partition would have protected the rich Christians, there's no way that this proves your chauvinistic opinions about multiculturalism.

[FutureTaoiseach]

Partition worked in British India because there was a reasonable geographic spread of resources - indeed it was the minority partner that called for partition and in the end everyone got behind it. Partition in Nigeria would have been totally unacceptable to the northerners, who wanted a share in future economic growth, because they were already behind the south. Even if partition would have protected the rich Christians, there's no way that this proves your chauvinistic opinions about multiculturalism.

It's not chauvinism - it's realism. Look at what happened in the UK and Holland. Facts cannot be racist because they are static. This is not about attacking an ethnicity, but rather attacking a failed ideology that has failed all concerned wherever it has been tried.