Problems Of Ethnicity In The Nigeria Federal System Of Government

INTRODUCTIONSince Nigeria had political independence in 1960 certain key problems have played dominant roles in determining the nature, character and direction of government and politics in the country.  Most of these issues have been described by scholars and commentators on Nigeria politics as the legacies of the country’s colonial experience, whose origins can be traced back to the almost one hundred years of colonial domination.One of the issues or fall-outs of the Nigerian federal system is ethnicity.  Ethnicity in Nigeria derives from the multifarious and diverse nature of the Nigerian t…