There are many reasons of writing this book, THE MAKING AND MAKERS OF NIGERIA @ 60, but most importantly is to chronologically educate and inform Nigerians especially the youths who were denied to learn the history of Nigeria, about the happenings before the discovery of Nigeria through the amalgamation of North and South protectorates in 1914, the formation of political parties before the Independence, after Independence and The Military Rules in Nigeria. The book is published by a revered firm of Public and Government Relation Advisors, Probe Communication Ltd.
Nigeria is a very complex country; our problem did not start yesterday, it started about 1894. Between 1894 and 1914, a number of dispatches were sent to London which led to the amalgamation of 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things which are the root causes of yesterday's and today's problems in Nigeria. The British needed the railway from North to the coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British interest. He said the North was poor and they had no resources to run the protectorate of the North. That they had no access to the sea, that the South had resources and they had educated people. But what the British Amalgamated was the Administration of the North and South. That is one of the root causes of the problem of Nigeria and Nigerians.
