The amalgamation of Nigeria was a FRAUD - Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN (Nigeria's former Attorney General and MInister of Justice)

The amalgamation of Nigeria was a FRAUD -  Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN (Nigeria's former Attorney General and MInister of Justice)

(Being excerpts from the speech of Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), first and second Republic Minister, at the public presentation of the book “Fellow Country Men- the story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria by Richard Akinnola, June 2000)

Nigeria’s problems started with the 1914 Amalgamation— US Ambassador

Nigeria’s problems started with the 1914 Amalgamation— US Ambassador

A former United States of America ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, in an interview with the Punch Newspaper says that Nigeria's problem started with the amalgamation of the various ethnic nationalities in the present geographic region know as Nigeria. In his words "It began a hundred years ago (1914) when Lord Lugard, with no regard for the different cultural traditions of the people who inhabited the territories, amalgamated the North and South into one administrative unit to which his wife gave the name, Nigeria". He opined that Nigeria will face major instability if it fails to conduct free and fair elections in 2015.