Will Nigeria break up? By Muhammad Abdullahi Sani Yes, Nigeria will someday break up. It may not be in ourlifetime, but that is very likely to happen. It's a matter oftime before the bomb explodes. Our disunity is more deeplyentrenched than many people imagine. No country canprogress while its people harbour hatred of this magnitudetowards one another.The only way to avoid the above is to launch a massive yetwell-crafted societal reorientation programme nationwide.Nigerians of all walks of life need reeducation onpatriotism. We need to place our Nigerian identity aboveand beyond any other ethnic profile. We need to see andregard our neighbours as humans as we are.As things stand, our future is doomed. Call me a pessimist,alarmist or anything you want. Unfortunately, it's our sadreality. Look around you. Every accident and incident isviewed via an ethno-religious and regional prism. It's alsotreated as such. Why, for God's sake?Many of our so-called leaders and several educatedcitizens think, write and speak like illiterate touts. Theycovertly or overtly call for more disunity, water prejudiceand dehumanise others from different ethno-religious andlinguistic groups. What a people! What a country!I love Nigeria and wish to come back later, in sha Allah.However, the pathetic situation on the ground is everythingbut encouraging. While we, of course, pray, we need towake up and do better. Think, please.PS: I used to think differently about this topic. I was wrong.