Nigerian Government and Resurgence of Biafra Agitation: A Systemic Analysis

Abstract

The Nigeria state is currently embroiled in crisis of
insurrectional campaigns by separatist movements. The
resurgent agitation for Biafra state five decades after
Nigerian civil war has remained loud, fervent and
torrential. From this indication, this study examined
issues and events underlying recent campaign of
regional resentment in systemic perspective of Nigerian
government dispositions. The methodology of the study
is qualitative design which relied on documentary and
observational sources of data collection as scholarly
submissions and observed events were textually
analyzed to embellish conceptual, theoretical and
empirical imperatives in re-secession drive for eastern
Nigeria. It is the argument of this discourse that systemic
failures of Nigerian government amid other factors informed
the resurgent agitation for Biafra state. In a suggestive sense,
this study explored more plausible and engaging options for
national integration-a clarion call for Nigerian government
to stem the tides of agitation for self-determination in
eastern Nigeria.